None of these Characters are mine, Minus Lynn and Beau

Protective Services – A One Tree Hill FanFic

By: xxMedusaxx

Chapter One: Hellos and How Are You's

Haley James Scott was driving herself home form a tiring day of work, Jamie sat in the back seat, he had been rather quiet recently and it was understandable. Things had been tough for their family lately. Nathan had fallen into a depression when both his legs were broken, and he seemed so stuck in the past that he saw no hope in the future. Suddenly he was trying to bring their family back together, doing his therapy for his legs, everything seemed to be finally getting back on track, or so she had thought. She had caught Nathan with Nanny Carrie in the shower. Nathan was on his way back to the house to discuss some things with her, probably to ask if he could move back into the house. As Haley drove into her drive way she saw that the previously abandoned house next door seemed to be rather busy. Several moving vans were parked in the long drive way and several movers were going back and forth unloading their cargo.

"Look Jamie, looks like we're going to have new neighbors. Do you think they'll have a little friend for you to play with?" Haley asked attempting once again to make conversation with her son. Jamie merely looked over to the house

"Yea I guess." He responded sullenly. He had bonded nicely with Nanny Carrie, and loved his father. He was not taking the firing of the Nanny and the eviction of his father well. It probably didn't help that it all happened within the same hour. Haley frowned; she did not like how this situation was affecting her son. She freed Jamie from his car seat, and then directed him to go upstairs clean up and do his homework while she got dinner ready for them.

Nathan's timing had always been impeccable. Sure enough he came right in the middle of dinner; Jamie of course wanted him to join. Nathan knew how much she hated to disappoint Jamie. She quickly sent Jamie outside to play, disregarding his protests at his unfinished dinner. Jamie sullenly obeyed disappearing out the back door, after one somewhat longing, yet angst filled look back at his parents. Sure Haley felt guilty but she didn't want Jamie to see this fight. Once the door banged shut, Haley turned on Nathan going off like a nuclear bomb.

Jamie was playing with his basket ball, attempting to ignore the sounds of the argument brewing from the inside of the kitchen. He paused when he heard mention of Nanny Carrie, and in this pause his ball rebounded off the backboard of the net and into the pool. Jamie frowned, just his luck right in the deep end. He looked back to the kitchen, his mother was waving her arms around, and his father stood looking down to the ground much like Jamie did when he was being scolded. Jamie wanted nothing more then to have his family be a family again, maybe if he left them alone they would kiss and make up. Jamie saw that the ball had drifted towards his edge of the pool. He quickly got on his knees and leant forward, a hand outstretched hoping to get a hold of the ball, instead he fell into the pool. In his panic Jamie swallowed water, he tried to kick his way up to the surface but he had yet to learn how to swim. He managed to get his head up and began to cough only to have more water splash into his mouth. Jamie's attempts to stay up at the surface began to become tiring and futile. He was just about to give up when he began to hear strange sounds. A shrill voice was screaming something, and then a large splash and a wave washed over him. Jamie felt something grab the back of his shirt and then suddenly he could breathe again. Jamie's hands instinctively grabbed the nearest solid object, and found it to be rather furry. Opening his eyes, he found himself looking at a white coat. A dog was in his pool paddling him towards the shallow end.

"Are you alright?" A deep male voice asked. Jamie's head swirled around there was no one there, and his parents were still inside, so who had talked to him. He looked to the dog, could the dog have talked to him? Dogs couldn't talk, what a silly thing to think, maybe he was hearing things… maybe he wasn't. Jamie found his footing on the steps and quickly exited the pool with the dog following. Once out on the deck the dog attempted to shake the water free from his white fur. This dog was huge, a good few inches taller then Jamie. Jamie raised his hands up in defense against the assailing water droplets. Jamie looked the dog over, usually Jamie was scared of dogs this big, but this one couldn't be so bad.

"Hi, I'm Jamie. Thank you for saving me." Jamie whispered holding his hand out. He didn't care if the dog responded, for he was sure the dog at least understood him. The dog sat back on his hind quarters and then put his massive white paw into Jamie's small hand, making the shaking motion,

"Really it's no trouble at all Jamie, rescuing is what you might call my job. You may call me Beau."

Haley had seen Nathan and Nanny Carrie in the shower together, but they weren't doing much, no kissing, just naked, steaming, and together. But now Nathan was admitting that he had kissed her even before the shower incident. Never had Haley ever felt to hurt and betrayed, but her anger was getting the better of her. She was going off on another tangent on him, not caring if Jamie heard anymore, and not even bothering to keep herself from crying when the doorbell rang. Haley came out of her trance, almost dazed and confused, she did not want to answer the door, not looking like this anyways. She entered the hall fixing up her appearance, with Nathan following. She opened the door and saw a petite girl no more the 15. She had short black hair and emerald green eyes. A smile glittered on her pale face as she quickly introduced herself.

"Hello, my name's Lynn. I just moved in next door. My dog has kinda jumped your fence, and he's in your back yard right now."

Haley gasped, Jamie was scared of dogs.

"Oh don't worry, he's perfectly tame, he won't hurt a fly, I'd just like to go get him before he poops somewhere." Lynn responded. Haley nodded and let her in.

"Sorry about the mess, I was just about to come over and welcome you into the neighborhood." Haley mumbled following Lynn as she hastily made her way through to the kitchen. Lynn however didn't respond, she was now in the kitchen staring at something in front of her. Her hand folded across her arms, her foot tapping and a scowl on her face. Haley and Nathan joined her and were alarmed by the sight in front of them.

There just a few steps away from the back door stood Jamie, and a huge dog. This massive column of white stood towering above Jamie, with a proud stature and a muscular looking chest. This was the type of dog you'd think a police man would have. However both the boy and the dog were dripping wet and that was the more pressing issue.

"Jamie?! What happened?!" Haley cried rushing forward to hug her son. Jamie had been clinging to the dog's collar. Haley watched as Jamie let go of the dog to hug her back, the dog then sat back and began to cower in the harsh gaze of his owner. Haley looked back, Lynn hadn't said anything, she was merely standing there looking at this dog with a disapproving look. She must have had some control over this dog.

"I fell into the pool and Beau saved me." Jamie responded from somewhere in his mother's shoulder.

"You what?!" Haley cried, only she was interrupted.

"OUTSIDE! Right Now! Go!" Lynn suddenly cried, the dog merely responded and moved back through the still open door his tail between his legs. Jamie looked up at the girl who was still not smiling.

"Jamie, this is Lynn, she's Beau's Owner, and she's going to take him home now." Haley whispered noticing that Jamie was more interested in the dog.

"But Beau said he could chase away any monsters in my room." Jamie cried pouting, from outside the dog barked. Haley looked back at Lynn, her eyes had bulged and her face had gone white.

"How could Beau have said that hunny? Dog's don't talk sweetie." Haley whispered.

"Beau does!" Jamie cried in protest. Haley frowned, it wasn't like Jamie to make something like that up. She turned back to Lynn for help after all it was her dog.

"Look Jamie, Beau doesn't talk, he's just a dog. But that doesn't mean you can't come and visit him whenever you want ok?" She waited for Jamie to nod before continueing. "Anyways it's really late, and I should be going, I'm sorry my dog jumped over your fence… and into your pool. Oh and you should take Jamie to the doctor just to make sure he's ok." Lynn whispered, and then she walked past Haley and Jamie and walked out through the back door. Before the door closed however Haley heard her cry out quite angrily

"I thought we agreed that you WOULDN'T be performing any rescues anymore?!" she didn't hear the rest when the door banged shut, but she saw that Lynn scolded the dog all the way out of their back yard.

Haley turned back to her son, Jamie had left her grasp to go hug Nathan, who was now helping him dry off. Haley turned back to the now closed gate realizing that she didn't thank Lynn or Beau for saving Jamie, and that was quite rude.

She called the doctor and scheduled an appointment for Jamie the next morning, and then waited for Nathan to come back downstairs after tucking Jamie into bed.

"He's really convinced that that dog talked to him." Nathan whispered to Haley. Haley nodded, maybe Jamie was making this up for some reason due to their family's sudden break up.

"Nathan I want a divorce." Haley whispered. Nathan didn't respond. He looked up at the banister and saw Jamie looking down, Haley followed Nathan's gaze and saw Jamie the hurt in Jamie's eyes and then watched him run off. Nathan went to go talk to Jamie but Haley stopped him.

"I think you should leave now." Haley whispered. She opened the door and ushered him out and then went up to Jamie's room after locking the door.

Jamie sat holding his brown bunny Chester, with tears in his eyes.

"Hey Jamie! How are you feeling?" Haley asked. Jamie looked up at her and Haley felt her heart sink to the floor.

"I want DADDY!" He suddenly cried. Haley went to hug Jamie and felt his sobbing shake her body.

"You can see Daddy tomorrow." Haley whispered, but that didn't seem to console Jamie.

"And if you're extra special, we can go visit Beau too. But for tonight would you like it if Mommy checked for monsters in your room?" Haley whispered. Jamie nodded.

Once tucked in bed, completely sure that his room was monster free, Haley herself decided to tuck herself into bed. She looked out her window over to the pool, then over to the fence the dog had jumped over. She looked at the house and saw that one light was on, so that meant that Lynn was still up. She looked down to the back yard and saw that Beau was outside playing around in the grass with what seemed to be some sort of wild animal. There was no barking or biting in fact it looked like they were just playing, maybe it was another pet. She saw Lynn emerge from the back door and put a silver whistle to her mouth, she blew but no sound came out – a dog whistle. Beau turned immediately and ran to her, followed by two red foxes.

What an odd selection of pets Haley thought. It was also kind of strange that Beau was trained to obey whistles, almost like a police dog. Haley pushed the thought out of her mind, what would a 15 year old be doing with a police dog. Come to think about it, what was a 15 year old doing living alone? Haley turned back to her bed, thinking that she might just ask Lynn all of these questions tomorrow.

Ok guys that's the first chapter

Please Review, I know it's kinda suckie but hey just be honest.

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xxMedusaxx