Everyone is 21, except Jamie, in this story.

The school shooting didn't happen and Keith is still alive.

Karen never got pregnant but Keith and her got married and moved away.

Dan went to jail for stealing money from his store.

Also some important facts for the story

Jamie (4)

Jake and Nathan play basketball

Haley is a teacher

Peyton and Rachel own Tric

Mouth and Clay are newscasters

Tim is on the radio

Lucas is a writer

Chase is a bar manager at Tric

Quinn is a photographer and is married to Clay

Alex works at Tric

Owen is a bar tender at Tric

Welcome to Tree Hill

Brooke Davis took a deep breath. Staring at the sign, she almost regretted coming back. She isn't sure if anyone is still here or even would want to see her.

Brooke thinks back to her last night in her home town…

Flashback

"Okay. We're not gonna do this. We're not gonna get sad. Nothing's gonna change now. We'll all be friends forever. I know it," Brooke promised.

"Look, in four years, we're gonna be right back here. You know, done with college or wherever we go. Right?" Everyone agrees with Lucas.

"Yeah," Haley speaks.

"Hey. Ready for a rematch, or you afraid you're gonna get worked?" Nathan challenges his older brother.

"Do you really want to end your night with a loss?" Lucas retorts.

With Mouth announcing the game and everyone else cheering for the brothers, it is an end to a great night. They fully believe nothing would ever change between them.

Flashback ended

Brooke wishes with all her heart she could go back to that moment. Everything seemed possible and it was perfect.

Everything changed that night. The hopeful, happy, girl in that memory has all but vanished. The young Davis prays that she could one day go back to the girl in the memory. The girl who was the most popular girl in school. The girl who could get anybody to do whatever she wanted. The girl who believed in anything and who dreamed of being whom she wanted and was well on her way to becoming her. The girl who had friends she could count on and wasn't afraid of anything. A girl who trusted and opened her heart to everyone.

A girl who was naïve to the pain and truly horrible world that was beyond her safe and loving town.

Brooke was truly happy in that moment and since then, she lost sight of herself and of everything she once knew. Everything changed the same night when she walked in at the wrong time and was therefore brutally thrust into the world she has lived in for the past three years. The world where she does whatever she can to survive and to live until the next day where it would all begin again.

Brooke hugs her worn out clothes tighter to herself at the awful thoughts that haunt her. By some miracle Brooke escaped that life and ever since has been trying to come home.

With what was left in the wallet, she stole from the horrible man, Brooke bought a train ticket home and prays that someone would still be here to help her. She begins moving again and once again ignores the pain radiating off the injures she knows her body had. She has to get to someone she knew that might be able to help.

An hour later, Brooke was barely able to move and she can feel her body begin to shut down and her mind begin to fade in and out as she starts to see red dots in front of her and becomes even more dizzy than before. She notices that she arrived at the house that Brooke remembered them buying before she was taken. She summons up whatever remaining strength she has and knocks on the door.

As she hears footsteps inside, indicating that someone was home, Brooke's legs collapse and she harshly falls to the ground.

She hears someone open the door and call her name, but before she can look up everything fades into black.

Nathan and Haley Scott are cuddling on the couch after tucking in their four year old son, Jamie into bed.

"A few years ago, did you ever imagine that we would be where we are today?" Nathan asks his wife as he thinks back.

"You mean, when you never even knew my name and Lucas was still my only friend, no." Haley responds back to her husband.

"Well to be fair, back then all I could think about was basketball and partying," Nathan defends with a smile. "What made you decide to give me a chance?" Nathan asks.

Haley smiles, "I think I decided to give you a chance when you kissed me right after I told you that you could never surprise me anymore. I think that was when I knew you were different. What about you?"

"I think it was when we went on our first date and at a lingerie store, you bought me socks," Both of them laugh at the memory.

Haley drops her smile as a thought comes to her. "I can't believe that Brooke took all that time to set everything up. It was ridiculous but just like her to do something like that."

Noticing the change in his wife, Nathan kisses her head in a loving gesture.

Everyone was thrown for a loop, when they discovered their friend, Brooke, was missing and nobody could get a hold of her. They all tried as best as they could to find her, but it seemed to them that Brooke Davis disappeared off the face of the earth. Eventually they all had to move on and except she was gone but even now everyone still held out hope that she would return home.

"I miss her," Haley states. Brooke was her best friend and nobody could replace her in Haley's heart.

"I know I do too."

Before they can continue, there is a knock on the door and Haley gets up to answer the door. It was late at night and they can't imagine who could be coming over this late.

As Haley opens the door she gasps and blinks a few times to make sure what she is seeing is actually there. Realizing that what she is seeing is actually true she rushes over to the fallen body of her friend.

"Brooke?" Haley calls out.

When she sees that her friend isn't conscious and sees the state she is in Haley knew she has to do something. "Nathan? Get over here. Hurry!"

Nathan springs up off the couch at Haley's panicked tone and rushes over to the door. At the door, Nathan assesses the situation and quickly but gently lifts his friend off the ground and carries her into the house with Haley following closely behind. Nathan gently lays Brooke down on the couch as his wife keeps calling Brooke's name to wake her up.

"Haley." Nathan sternly calls to his wife who turns to look at him. "She's in a really bad state. I'm not comfortable moving her but I don't think we have a choice. I'm going to take her to the hospital but I need you to stay with Jamie, okay?" Nathan can barely keep down his panic but he knows that someone had to be thinking rational and his wife isn't in the place to do so.

"No. I'll call Quinn and have her come over. I want to be with her."

"Hales, you won't be able to do anything for her now." Nathan gently reminds his wife.

"Nathan, I'm coming."

Nathan wants to object more but knows he doesn't have time to argue and has to get Brooke to the hospital. "Okay. Meet us at the hospital after Quinn comes over." Nathan quickly rushes over to Brooke and carefully picks her up and rushes to the car and after getting Brooke seated gets into the driver's seat and races off to the hospital.

Arriving at the hospital a few minutes later Nathan quickly parks and runs into the emergency entrance with Brooke.

"I need help." Nurses quickly comes over to him and takes Brooke out of his hands to put on a gurney before they roll off.

Nathan is left to sit and wait as he prays his friend will be okay. Nathan doesn't know what is happening. An hour earlier he was putting his son to bed with his wife and now he is in the hospital begging that his friend, who disappeared years ago, will be okay.

Nathan knows that Brooke wouldn't want or need to be crowded around after she wakes up but Nathan still knows that he has to call one person who has been struggling without her.

Nathan gets up and goes outside to call his brother who would want to be here. After dialing and hearing the ringing, Nathan hopes he is doing the right thing for both Lucas and Brooke.

"Hey, Bro. What's up?"

"Lucas, listen. Something happened." Nathan isn't sure how to tell him but knew it needed to be done.

"What's wrong? Is Haley okay? Jamie?"

Hearing the panic in his voice Nathan has to tell him, "Brooke's back. And it's bad. We're at the hospital."

Silence is heard on the other end until, "I'm on my way."

Nathan puts his phone away and goes back to the waiting room.

A few minutes later, Lucas and Haley show up but after greeting each other everyone sits down in silence.

A couple of hours later, a doctor comes out, "Is anyone here for Brooke Davis?"

The three of them stand up and rush over to the doctor who holds a grim face.

"What is it?" Lucas blurts he doesn't have the patience to wait any longer.

"Well…Mrs. Davis's injuries are severe and there are some complications…"

To be continued… Please let me know what you think or even if you are interested in reading more.