Hey guys so I recently found this Leyton one-shot I wrote awhile back but never posted for some reason. Though I love Leyton and was happy that Peyton decided to meet up with Luke at the airport, I also thought it was kind of odd that she just forgave him so easily and everything between them was fine and dandy afterwards (Lucas was kind of a dick to her in many aspects that season). In my opinion she should have made him work for it a little lol, but then again we wouldn't have gotten all that fabulous Leyton fluff in season 6 if she had been a no show.

But anyway here's my take on it, enjoy!

"Hey it's me. Look I'm at the airport and I've got two tickets to Las Vegas. Do you wanna get married tonight?"

And that was it.

That was all he had said before the line went dead. And long after he had hung up Peyton still had the cell phone held up to her ear, practically frozen in place because she still couldn't believe what the hell had just happened.

Lucas hadn't waited for a reply. The answer would be in whether or not she showed up at the airport tonight.

Was he crazy? Had he completely lost it?

He had to be because honestly who does that? Just calls you out of the blue to elope, especially after the year they'd had. A year filled with longing looks, unresolved issues, unexpected declarations, heated arguments, and repeated betrayals.

There was still so much they needed to work out and he knew that, they both did. Yet here he was asking her to drop everything and hop on a plane with him.

Her heart was currently riding a rollercoaster of emotions. She was angry. She was sad. She was hurt. She was confused. She was scared. She was annoyed. Yet a small part of her was also excited, surprised and happy. And yes, she still loved him.

There was also the part about Lucas hating her. How she had ruined his life and he wished she had never come back. Peyton's response to that had been to stay up all night painting Cure lyrics over the river court. He might have hated her, but she loved him and she probably always would despite how much pain his harsh words had caused. He had already apologized for that of course, mere hours before, and she understood and forgave him, but the sting remained.

Peyton had spent the last three years dreaming over and over again about that night in that LA hotel room. The night she should have said yes, but had been too afraid to take that next step with him. And in that dream she always said yes, every single damn time.

So why was it so hard to say yes now? Why wasn't she racing back to the house she shared with Brooke to grab her passport and pack a bag?

Had he done this a few months before or hell even a year or two ago Peyton wouldn't have even hesitated. She wouldn't have questioned it. She would have said yes and eagerly rode off into the sunset with her man, the love of her life.

But that was then and this was now.

That was before he had said yes to another woman.

At that church Lucas had stood up in front of all their friends and agreed to marry someone who wasn't her. If Lindsey hadn't made the choice to walk away Lucas would be married right now. Lindsey might have said no, but he had said yes. There was no arguing that simple fact.

Once upon a time she had been his first choice and now it just felt like she was the runner up contestant in Lucas' heart. She wasn't Lucas' first choice anymore and for Peyton that was a tough pill to swallow. Was she the rebound now? Then again she was the one who had said no the first time around, well technically she'd never said no just some day instead, but that was a debate she was dead tired of having to defend herself on. At the end of the day it didn't matter because she had long realized that she had made a huge mistake. She should have said yes and perhaps this was her punishment now.

Why hadn't Lucas just called her to come over to his place so that they could talk and work things out? If he wanted to be with her why go about it like this? It made the blonde feel incredibly insecure and conflicted. Did he really want to marry her or was it just some pathetic attempt to completely push Lindsey out of his system?

Did he still love Lindsey? He must have. There was no way he didn't. Even after she had left him at the altar Lucas still wanted her back. For the past few weeks he had done nothing but fight to win her back. And Peyton had to admit that it did kind of hurt.

He hadn't done that for her.

He hadn't fought for her or their relationship. When she hadn't said yes Lucas had just simply walked out of her life and never looked back. He had decided to move on with his life, without her. And it made her angry that he hadn't fought for her and it made her even angrier that she hadn't fought to win him back either.

And in the end all those small little details held her back. Peyton didn't really know where she stood in his heart and that not knowing prevent her from moving all together. She never made it out of her office. She never made it home to pack. She never made it to the airport. Instead she sat at her desk for hours not knowing what to do next. Maybe it really was time to let Lucas go. If she truly didn't come first in his heart like he was in hers, then maybe she didn't want a place in his heart at all. Maybe it wasn't worth it no matter how much her heart ached for him. Everyone knows that being second best never feels quite as good as first place. She honestly didn't know if she could share a life with him with that kind of doubt in her head.

So she opted to stay behind and hide, and turned down his proposal for the second time by not meeting him at the airport. Lucas probably wouldn't talk to her after this, that much she knew. She had moved all the way back from LA for him, had quietly or really not so quietly yearned for him – because let's face it everyone knew she had come back for him – and now she had the nerve to say no. Again.

God she really was a bitch.

Peyton sat there in silence with a pen in her hand as she mindlessly traced it over a sheet of paper on her desk. The large metal door of her office screeched open halting her actions and forcing her to rip her eyes away from her drawing. Her face fell in shock. He was the last person she expected to see at her door, at least not this soon.

Lucas said nothing as he entered the room heading straight towards Peyton. The bag he had slung over his shoulder dropped to the floor with a loud thud as he made his way towards her. He looked flustered and out of breath. He must have ran over here the second he had parked his car outside. More noticeably he looked angry. And she really couldn't blame him, but hell she was upset with him too. That phone call was not the way to win her back. Lucas' approach had lacked consideration. It was a complete oversight on his part. A quick trip to Vegas wasn't the way to get their relationship back on track. How could he have expected it to be that easy?

When Lucas reached her desk, he leaned over it placing both his hands flat against the metal to balance his weight as he looked Peyton directly in the eyes. "You didn't come." He spoke rather bitterly. "And I want to know why." He wasn't requesting an explanation, he was demanding it. He needed to know why she insistently continued to mess with his head. Had she just not declared her love for him yet again with the words she had painted on the tarmac of the river court and then disclosing to him her dream of always saying yes to his proposal? What the fuck was wrong with her? He had just given her another shot and she had blown it. She might as well have had just spit in his face. It was the only thing missing from this trainwreck of relationship they shared.

Peyton fearfully stared into his eyes and swallowed hard. "You said yes." She said both softly and quietly.

Lucas frowned feeling lost. "Said yes to what?"

"I watched you stand up there and say yes to her." She spoke a little louder this time.

His face immediately fell.

"What am I supposed to do with that Luke?" The blonde shrugged sadly. "You ask me to marry you tonight and a few weeks ago you almost married someone else willingly. You weren't the one who walked away from Lindsey."

"Peyton. I…" He was stuck for words. Really what was there to say? It was the truth after all. He couldn't deny it.

"Where do we go from here?" Lucas finally spoke up. It was the only thing that he could come up with. The only real question that mattered at this point.

Peyton's eyes dropped back down to her desk as she began to fidget with her hands. "I don't know, maybe that's the whole point…maybe we don't."

Only time would tell.

Let me know what you guys think!