Summary: When the stress became of being teenaged parents and college students too much for Lucas and Brooke, Karen offered to take care of their daughter during the week and they'll have her back on weekends till after graduation. Now graduation is over with and they want their daughter back, how will Karen react?

Disclaimer: I own nothing at all. I wished I owned something from OTH besides memorabilia.

So this came to me out of the blue and I just had to write and write some more till this chapter came to be. I hope you all like this idea! I tried to do something different. Enjoy it! I'm trying to get into the flow of writing as a stress reliever. It's semi working right now.

PS: I got their daughter's name from two places. One, Fifty Shades of Gray as I patiently wait to see how the movie turns out (February 13th can't come fast enough). Two, from the Disney movie Anastasia as I blasted music from it since my roommates at her boyfriend's for the night.


To Get To You
.Chapter One.

"I want her back." She laid in bed and spoke out loud; rolling on her side she turned to the one person who knew how she felt more than anyone else in the world. "It's time to get her back."

"Brooke, you know what my mom said." A level of doubt was heard in his voice. "We can have her when things calm down a bit. We just moved back here. Let's get settle in and then we'll get her back."

"We shouldn't have to try and get her back. She should be here." Tears were building in her eyes. It was killing her inside. "I don't want to wait anymore, I want her back here."

"Later." He kissed her forehead softly as a way of support. "We'll go there later and get her back. I promise you that."

"We should've never agreed to give her up in the first place." She regretted everything. Seeing her only on weekends was killing her slowly as it ripped out her heart to say goodbye each and every time.

"We didn't give her up, Brooke." Lucas defended their choice. At the moment, it was the best option for them.

"If Nathan and Haley did it, we could've." Brooke pointed out.

"Brooke, Pretty Girl, we are not them. We were pushed too thin. We decided what was best for her. We both needed to finish school. My mom was not going to let us drop out. Do you remember how stressed you were?"

"Baby Girl, please stop crying. Mommy has designs to do and I can't do it if you don't calm down." Brooke was practically in tears.

Her trying to stay calm did nothing. Her sweet baby girl cried even harder. She didn't know what to do.

Brooke already had to drop one class in order to keep her focus on her baby girl. Lucas took some of the stress off, switching feedings and taking her the moment he walked through the door so she could accomplish some work without a distraction.

"Brooke?" Lucas entered at the best possible time before she had a meltdown. "Hey, Pretty Girl, no tears."

"I can't do it Lucas. I can't do school and be a mom. I can't." Brooke fell into tears. She wrapped her arms protectively over her legs and started rocking back and forth.

"You've done so well for the past three months baby, you can do this." Lucas's reassuring words fell useless to her.

"I'm failing two out of my four classes. Annie won't stop crying. I can't, I'm not fit out for this. My parents were right."

"Brooke," Lucas didn't know exactly what to say. "She's a baby, of course she's going to cry. She loves you and you are doing well with her. You need to breathe baby."

"Maybe we should take your mom up on her offer."

Brooke loved her baby girl, it was that love that was pushing the offer Karen stated to them over and over again. Karen wanted both teens to get a college education, both deserved it the most. She offered to keep their baby girl during the week and then every weekend they could have her back. Lucas thought his mother was nuts when she offered that but Brooke was so stressed and sleep deprived that she'd take any offer.

"You can't be sure..."

"I love Anastasia, Lucas. I know I'd regret not finishing school and after your mom helped me so much to get into it I don't think I can just quit. I want Annie to have all the attention she needs and we can't do that."

"I'll talk to my mom." He kissed her forehead softly. It broke his heart completely to see Brooke like this and everything he tried to do to make it better was not helping. He quit the basketball team, only took four classes three days a week to help out, along with working two to three days and it wasn't helping. "But this has to be what you want, Pretty Girl."

"I need her safe and I don't think she'll be safe around here. I can't do it, Luke." Brooke's tears started to fall again.

"Let me put Annie down and we can talk more, okay?" Lucas quickly moved around the studio apartment. "Okay, Brooke. We need to make sure this is what you want. I love you both and I just want you happy again."

"I think we need this, Luke. I really think so."

"So you want to give up on Annie?"

"No!" She yelled. "Gosh, Luke. I don't want to do that at all. I just need help. I can't focus on school and her at once. I feel like I'm failing miserably at both things. She cries all the time and I try so hard. I try the hardest I've ever tried."

"I know baby, I know." Lucas sighed. He looked between his daughter's crib and his girlfriend and he didn't know what to do. He loved them both and felt like he needed to pick between one or the other. How do you choose?

"I don't want to fail. I failed enough in life."

"Brooke, you're not a failure."

"I got knocked up in high school. My own parents disowned me when they found out. I'm going to be a failure in school if I don't get my grades up."

"The first thing is both of our faults, not just yours. Your parents are not anyone to want in your life. I've seen you with them, baby. They're not worth it. Your grades will come up. I'll make sure of that. I'll help you with anything you need."

He held her for the rest of the night. Not once letting go, even to go to bed he carried her there.

"Of course I remember." She shook the memory from her mind. She didn't want to think about that day. It hurt to much. She regretted giving Annie to Karen ever since than. Having her baby with her Thursdays to Sundays was not enough time. She missed her like crazy every day. "I think it was the worse thing for you to ever let me agree too."

"Brooke," Lucas heart broke the day he agreed to allow his mother to take his daughter. He knew it was right at the time. His mother reassured him that Annie would go back to them whenever they wanted her. That it was only temporary situation.

"No! Don't defend it Lucas! We both know it was a bad idea."

"Think about it, B. We are getting her back. My mom said when we graduated she'll be back to us. Well we graduated and both have jobs. She's going to be ours again. We just need to get through a couple of more hours and she'll be back home." Protectively, Lucas's arms wrapped around Brooke.

"I'm not waiting, I'm going now." Brooke threw the covers off of her body before searching through many boxes to find a change of clothes, before running off to the bathroom.

Lucas waited for the shower to run before he reached for his phone. The background melted his heart completely. Lucas snapped a quick picture of Brooke and Anastasia during graduation where Annie was kissing Brooke's cheek. He knew he should call his mother and inform her, but he didn't know if he should.

The last phone call with his mother did not end so well. Karen was set on keeping the arrangement they had already with Annie because it was what the little girl was use to it. He didn't inform Brooke of it because of the heartache she already feels because of her choices. He wasn't going to let her take the blame. It was a communal choice.

"Luke, you better be out of that bed or I'm going to get her without you." Brooke yelled from inside the small-attached bathroom. "

It took them an extra semester to graduate but they did it together. Now it was time to get back the one thing that meant the world to them.

-XO-OTH-XO-

"Mommy!" The minute Brooke and Lucas climbed out of the car, Annie- who was waiting by the window for them, ran right out the front door towards her mother's arms. "I missed you!"

"Oh Anna Banana, I missed you too. But guess what?" Brooke's smile grew across her whole face as her daughter hugged her tightly.

"Anastasia!" Karen stood at the doorway. "I told you not to run out here without me knowing. It's too cold to be out here without a jacket on, young lady.

"But Grammy, it's mommy and daddy!" Annie pushed her bottom lip out into a pout and ducked her head into Brooke's neck, hugging her tightly.

"Hey Ma." Lucas tried to lighten the mood. He nervously let out a wave and then guided Brooke and Annie into the house.

"What are you guys doing here?" Her voice trembled with nerves.

Lucas was confused. His mother knew this day was coming, everyone did. "You know why we are here."

"Lucas, we discussed this..."

"Grammy, be nice!" Annie jumped from Brooke's arms to Lucas's with a smith on her face. "Daddy and Mommy are home."

Anastasia Madeline Scott was a perfect combination of both of her parents. Her mother's dark brown hair and dimpled smile with her father's blue eyes and lanky body. At times Annie could be bubbly but yet other times you can find her curled up with a book pretending to read to herself. She was a perfect little girl.

"Anastasia, go to your room please." Karen stood sternly with her finger reached out pointing to Lucas's old blue bedroom, which is now covered in pink Barbie's and Princesses.

"No!" She held on tightly to her father. She was scared that they'd leave again. She was always scared they'd leave her. Annie just wanted them all the time, which was tough for her parents.

"Baby girl, we're not going anywhere." Lucas rubbed his hand softly over her back. When Annie was a baby it was the only thing that calmed her down enough, a simple back rub. "I promise."

"Really?" Annie lifted her head up high enough and Lucas brushed the tangled locks out of her eyes.

"Yeah, mommy and me aren't going anywhere. Not anymore." Lucas placed her gently on the ground and Annie skipped off towards her room. Pausing slightly at the door before entering.

"Lucas call next time if you want to see her." Karen rested her hands on her hips. "Showing up randomly is not how this deal goes."

"Well the deal is off mom. We graduated; both have jobs, and have a house. We're taking her with us."

"I do not think that is best for Anastasia right now. She needs a routine and here she has one." Karen's face didn't show any emotions. She held firm at her beliefs in what should and shouldn't happen in relation to her granddaughter. At times it felt like Annie was her actual daughter. Having Lucas at age eighteen, and then Lucas becoming a father at eighteen made her thirty six and a grandmother.

"We can give her that Karen." Brooke hissed through her teeth. She deserved to finally be able to be a full time mother. It was her chance to shine at it like she shined every weekend with her baby girl. "She's my daughter and I want her back. We had a deal, Karen."

"Well things change over time, Brooke." Karen stood and walked over to her desk on the other side of the living room away from her son and his girlfriend. "I wanted to wait till after Christmas to give you two these, but I think it's best that it is out in the open now." She handed them a manila envelope and sat right back down. "Remember I'm doing this for Anastasia's sake. It's for the good for everyone."

Karen E. Roe vs. Brooke P. Davis & Lucas E. Scott

Plaintiff Karen E. Roe is seeking full custody of Anastasia Madeline Scott without visitation.

That was all Brooke and Lucas read before both breaking down. All the duo could see was red. Red with anger, red with disgust in the fact that Karen would do this to them after what she promised.

"You can't be serious, Karen. We made a deal!" The guilt started creeping into Brooke's mind and this time she could not shake it. "You can't take her away."

"I'm not taking her away from you two. I'm just doing what is best for Anastasia, Brooke. If you were around more you would know that this is for the best." Karen stated calmly as she watched her son and his girlfriend breakdown in front of her. "Seeing her only for the weekends is not enough to be a mother."

"I have her four days a week, Ma. You have her for three. She's with us more than you." Lucas voice rose. "There's no court order right now and since she's biologically mine, I'm taking her." Lucas stood and walked right past his mother towards his old room. "Annie, come on. You're coming with mommy and me." His voice lost the anger the minute he saw Annie.

"Where we going?" Annie questioned.

"We're going home, baby girl. You're coming to live with mommy and me. Is that okay?"

"Uh huh." A smile appeared on the cherubic face of his daughter. "Can I bring Princess Ana? We got the same name!"

"Yes you can, baby girl. Grab her and let's go." He wanted to hurry her up so his mother has no way of stopping them. He quickly put Annie into her jacket and walked out of the room. "Brooke come on."

"Lucas, put her down. You cannot take her. This is her home!" Karen started screaming now. Her voice was loud and was making Annie scared. "Put her down!"

"Ma, don't. She's my daughter. You want to fight me for her, bring it on. You won't win." Lucas grabbed a hold of a crying Brooke's hand and guided the two most important girls in his life before the door slammed behind him.

"You two aren't going to get away with this!" Karen screamed from her porch. She didn't bother coming down for the aspect of scaring Annie. She watched as Lucas ignored her and just drove off.

"What are we going to do, Luke?" Brooke was breaking down again. She couldn't handle it. The tears were falling and she didn't think they were going to stop.

"We'll figure it out. She won't get her. I won't let it happen. I'm not losing her." Lucas kissed Brooke's hand that he has been holding tightly since they got back into the car.

"Mommy? Daddy?" A soft voice from the back seat spoke. Annie was holding on to her doll tightly, along with her blanket looking terrified as can be. "What's going on?"

"Baby, Grammy's just not being too nice right now to daddy and I. Don't worry about it, okay? You're going to stay with us from now on. Is that okay with you?" Brooke looked back at Annie.

"Let's go then silly!" Annie's giggles calmed her parents slightly. Allowing a calming sense roll through the car but from the look of Brooke and Lucas it wouldn't last long. "I love you mommy and daddy."

"We love you too baby girl." Lucas spoke for them. He loved her more than anyone, even Brooke. He was going to protect his family, no matter what happens between his mother and him. It didn't matter unless his daughter was with him.


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