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This cchapter is a bit rushed but I wanted go get i dore I work for the next seven straight days. So I hope you enjoy. For most of you not familiar with Only One Tree Hill this the sequel. I will try to wwrite it where you won't have to read if but sadly it is nearly impossible.
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I nearly abandoned it but I got so many reviews I couldn't do that to the fana I have and I love you all so much.
First thing is first. This chapter picks up three and a half months later.
And this is a bit of a game changer.
It was the perfect August morning. The sun sat high in the North Carolina sky and the light breeze took away most of the extreme heat everyone was used to.
A small sun dress and flip flops with her long dark hair pulled up into a braid was just right for Breyton Baker. Not a drop of sweat on the newly seventeen year old teenager.
She stood alone in the large crowd. When they clapped she clapped. When they smiled she joined them. Maybe her happiness wasn't as genuine as everyone else's but she was proud of her best friend that much was certain.
At the end of ceremony everyone ran to their loved one and she was no different.
"Hey there marine" Keith Scott heard and turned around to see his life long friend standing inches behind him.
Honestly? He wasn't surprised she was the only person that made it. But, then again he was shocked that even she did.
Keith didn't hesitate before running and wrapping her up in his arms and swinging her around.
"I missed you so much" Breyton said lifting her feet off the ground burying her head in the crook of his neck.
"I missed you too" he told her as he finally sat her back on his feet only because he was getting dizzy.
"Three months" Breyton said looking up at the military man in front of her. "Far to long to go without seeing you".
"God I know" he agreed.
His eyes couldn't help but wonder and they found a mark on her neck. It was healing but it hadn't yet.
It brought a tear to his eye. A real tear.
He took his hand and traced over it. And he found another on her arm. And four more on her leg.
Breyton took her hands pressed them against each side of his face and used her small thumbs to wipe the tears away from his eyes.
"Do they hurt"? He asked looking at her.
"No" she said honestly. "Not anymore. And if that's all I have is a few scars for the rest of my life from what happened then I can deal with that. I can live with a couple of scars when I am lucky that I even walked away at all".
"You'll have those forever"?
"I don't know" Breyton answered Keith honestly. "The doctors seem to think they will go away with time. I was covered in third degree burns and look at me now".
"I am" he said.
Keith kissed the top of Breytons forehead and smiled against her.
"The last time I seen you... You was... Lying in a hospital bed covered in casts and burns... You don't know how thankful I am to have you standing here in front of me".
Breyton wrapped leaned up on her tip toes and wrapped her fragile arms around his neck.
"I love you Keith".
"I love you too Brey".
"So" Breyton asked leaning away "are you ready to go back to Tree Hill? At least for ten days?"
"As I'll ever be" he told her.
He wrapped his arm around her shoulder as the two headed towards her car.
"So" Keith finally brought himself to ask "how is everyone else"?
Peyton rolled over and came face to face with L.J who was crouched down next to her bed.
"I wish you would quit doing that" she told him as she sat up shaking her head.
"Guess what today is"? He asked her with a grin knowing how excited she would be.
"Keith is coming home" she told him kicking the covers off of her.
Peyton ran to her closet and began searching for something to wear.
"Told you he is the favorite" L.J said.
"I don't have a favorite" Peyton told her son as he crashed down on her over sized bed.
"Everyone has a favorite" L.J told his mother with a wide grin. "Like your my favorite parent".
"Your father will be thrilled".
"Speaking of dad... Whats he going to say about Keith being back"?
"I forgot about that" she told him her face dropping instantly.
"I haven't".
"What am I going to do"?
"I mean its dad... He will come around right"?
"I... I would... God I hope so".
A cry echoed through the James-Scott household. Haley shot up off the couch where she found herself falling asleep more often these days.
She darted up the stairs and into her granddaughters room.
But, no surprise that Nathan had beat her.
"She just needs a change" he told her as he laid the small baby on the changing table.
"Oh" Haley told him nodding.
Nathan changed her diaper in less than a minuet. It was routine for him.
"Does it make me a bad person to have trouble looking at her" Haley asked Nathan as he picked her up. "When I do all I see is Jamie and I can't... Bear to think of never seeing him again and I just...".
"It doesn't make you a bad person" Nathan told her. "If it does then I am right there with you but I just have to remind myself that she is missing her father too so I try not to be to selfish about it".
Haley ran her hands through her hair as Nathan sat in the rocking chair.
"I talked to a lawyer the other day" Nathan told his ex wife.
"About what"?
"Gracie" he explained. "I ran into Madison's father and he said Madison should have her but she took off and Jamie got full custody by court order and he left her in our custody. But, they could order visitation I'm just worried she would take off with her".
"Like hell if she thinks she will just waltz in here and take Gracie. Where has she been? Grace is seven months old".
"I know" he told her. "And you know she would only want her because of Graces inheritance it would have nothing to do with her. Which just pisses me off even more. This is her child you'd think she would care enough... To at least call and check on her".
"I know."
The nursery was silent. Dead silent. It stayed like that for a few minuets.
"So" Nathan said. "How is Jenny"?
Sawyer Scott followed the man in front of her for what felt like miles. For all she knew he could've been taking her in circles it wouldn't have made a difference. Everything looked the same. The halls where all white and every single one had someone by the last name Moore.
"You have thrirty minuets" he told her.
"Thanks" she told him.
Sawyer opened the door and walked through only to find Jenny sitting on the small bed by herself.
"Hey" Sawyer told her friend.
"What are you doing here"? Jenny asked her.
"I came to see you and make sure you was ok".
"Oh please cut the act".
"What act"?
"The caring act" Jenny told her. "Like you give a damn about me. I don't see why you would."
"Because your my best friend"!
"I'm your best friend that killed people".
"Would you stop saying that Jenny. You didn't kill no one. That freak did. He pulled the trigger and he pressed the button this is not your fault".
"Yes it is" Jenny said. "If I had just went with him... No one would've got hurt. No one would've died. Jamie and my dad... They'd be right here and... I deserved to die to".
"No you didn't" Sawyer told her. "That's why I called this place. I want to help you".
"No this is your revenge. You lost someone and you put me in the crazy house for it".
"No I put you in here because I couldn't lose you too. I came home and you was nearly dead. Three times. You want to hate me then go ahead but your going to believe me when I say this is not your fault at some point".
Logan Evans sat in the quite of his home although it didn't feel like his home. Nothing about it felt familiar. He threw the sandwich he was eating on down unable to finish it.
He walked to the door he had yet to open and worked up the courage.
Logan pushed the door open and stepped foot in Jamie's old bedroom. Even though no one had set foot in it he had expected it to change but wasn't shocked when it hadn't. The bed was still unmade.
Typical Jamie.
But, there was nothing typical about this. There was nothing typical about the emptiness of the room. Or the house.
"Hey" Logan heard and turned around to see Sawyer standing in the door way.
"Hey" he replied back to her.
"What are you doing in here"? she asked.
"I don't know" he told her.
It was the truth.
"How is Jenny"? He asked.
"The same she still thinks that everything is her fault. I don't know what else to do for her or how to make her believe that it isn't her fault".
"Jamie would've helped her" Logan said. "He was good at that. She'd believe him".
"I know" Sawyer told him nodding. "Have... Have you thought about cleaning out his room"?
"No" he interrupted her instantly. "Why the hell would you even suggest something like that"?
"No Logan I just meant that maybe Nathan and Haley would want his things"?
"Well you know what they have things of his. Ok? This is his home and I'm not touching nothing. Ok"?
"Logan I didn't mean it like that I just-".
"I don't care what you meant Sawyer everything stays right where it is ok"?
He pushed past his girlfriend followed by a door slam moments later.
"I miss you Jamie" Sawyer said picking up a photo frame of Jamie and Logan.
L.J Scott sat at the counter in his parents kitchen watching as his mother cooked. And cooked. And then cooked a little bit more.
"I bet this is what the inside of a Betty crocker book smells like" L.J told his mother.
"Who knows what Keith has been eating for the past three months. I want him to come home and have the best meal so I have cooked all of his favorite things".
"He was in training not prison I know he wasn't eating five star but it wasn't donkey food either".
"Oh you'd be suprised. Hand me that knife sweetie".
L.J did as he was told.
"So how is Breyton? You two are pretty serious".
"She is amazing... I mean she is great. If I tell you something promise not to laugh"?
"Scouts honor".
"Maybe its stupid because we are so young but mom... I think she is the one".
The one.
The words sunk in and Petuon smiled at her son.
"Actually that doesn't seem stupid at all" she told him.
They both stopped when they heard the door open and close followed by Lucas walking into the kitchen. He didn't pay attention to either one instead he just headed straight for the fridge and grabbed a beer.
"You know there are other beverages in there" Peyton said as he went to leave then kitchen.
"I seen. I chose the beer" he told his wife coking his head to the side. "What is all this anyways"?
"Well, Keith graduated training today and he has a ten day leave so-".
"He isn't coming here" Lucas told her firmly slamming his beer down.
"His our son. You can't just leave him out in the cold".
"His your son. I don't have a faggot for a son".
"Lucas I get that everything is hard right now with Jamie and-".
"I don't want him here and that's final Peyton".
Nathan knocked on the door that lead into his former room and the room where Haley spent her nights. He waited a minuet. More than a minuet before Haley opened the door in nothing but a robe.
"Hey" she told him.
"Hey" he replied. "Can we talk"?
"Sure".
He walked into her room shutting the door behind him and sat down on the bed next to her.
"I think I am going to go back to the beach house" he finally told her.
"I mean if that's what you want" she said. "Your not a prisoner here".
"Its not that Haley. Trust me its not that at all. I love being here and being with you and Lydia and Danny and Gracie and that's why I have to leave".
"Nathan your confusing me".
"I'm sorry. Its like this... I love you and I love our family but you was with Jake and he died and as much as I want to be with you I could never force you to be with me especially with you having his baby".
"Whoa" Haley said. "Who the hell said that"?
"Well, Quinn".
"Oh she did"?
"Well, she said you told her you was law and Chase found this at Tric".
Nathan handed her a half burnt ultra sound picture.
"It has your name in the corner".
"I don't know what's more insulting that I look like I'm three months pregnant or that after all the years we spent together you don't know how to spell my name"?
"What"?
"I'm legally a James now so if I was pregnant it would say Haley James in the other corner not H-A-Y-L-E-E Scott as in Dr Haylee Scott who I went to when I was pregnant with Danny".
"So wait your... Your not+".
"This is not a Keith and Karen love story no I'm not pregnant. I lost Jake and I am upset about but no I'm not pregnant".
"Quinn said you was late".
"Yeah. Stress can do that to you... But after the past year I had do you blame me for being a little stressed out"?
Nathan chuckled a little.
She got him there.
"Nathan... I had chose you. Everyone kept pressuring me to make a choice and I picked you" Haley told him. "I was going to tell you and Jake both that night. Then everything happened. I loved Jake not as much as I love you but as of right now I don't I know where I stand with everything or you I just know I need to be a good mom to Lydia and Danny and make sure we are good grand parents to Gracie because she deserves that. But I do know that I need you here. With me. With your family".
Nathan nodded as he sat there with her.
"But" Nathan told her. "This was at Tric. We had a private party for Keith and they had just cleaned the place just before so... Whose is this"?
"Somebody is pregnant... Or was pregnant".
The former married couple sat together neither saying a word. Neither moving or speaking. Until the house phone rang.
"Hello" Nathan said picking it up and pressing it to his ear.
A smile creeped on his face slowly until it was a wide grin.
Lucas stumbled into his house falling with a loud crash. No surprise his wife came running down the stairs.
"What are you-" Peyton asked looking at him. "Are you drunk"?
"So what if I am" he said attemting to stand.
Failed.
"I've been calling you for hours. Jamie is out of his coma".
"Of course he is... He is the son of Nathan and Haley... While our son is in the ground right next to Keith and Jimmy and even Dan freaking Scott".
"What are you talking about"?
"Mom" Peyton heard and turned around to see L.J standing on the stair case.
"L.J go upstairs you don't need to see him like this".
"L.J" Lucas asked his wife. "What the hell are you talking about"?
"What"? Peyton asked him.
"L.J is dead Peyton" Lucas wasn't nice with his words either.
"Mom don't listen to him" L.J said behind her. "He is drunk. I'm right here".
"Your drunk" she repeated the words her son had just said.
Peyton turned around to follow her son up the stairs but Lucas pulled her back to him.
"L.J is gone. He is dead.".
"Stop saying things I like that" Peyton said shaking her head at him.
"His dead. He is gone and he is never coming back" .
Peyton didn't hesitate before using all her energy to take him and push him out the door and locking it once he was out.
Teas slid down her face and she crumbled to the floor where L.J came and joined his mother.
"Please don't leave me mama" he said crying. "I'm not ready for you to leave me. I'm scared".
"I'm not going anywhere".
Sawyer ran out of the beach house and down then pier until she reached Logans side.
"Don't even start" he warned her.
"Ok fine" she said throwing up her hands with a wide smile. "I won't tell you that Jamie is out of his coma".
And just like that he joined her smiling.
Breyton sat on the edge of Keith's new bed and she continued to watch as he unpacked his clothes.
"It was nice of your parents to give you this house" she told him.
"Oh trust me it isn't out of the kindness of their heart" Keith told her.
"This is the house your dad grew up in. Maybe its a graduation present"!
"No Breyton its not"he said. "He just doesn't want to face me and mom isn't going to let me live on the streets while I am here. This is their compromise Brey".
"You don't know that".
"No I do. Lucas Scott can't have a gay son. Had it been L.J... He'd get over it but-"
"It has nothing to do with you and you know it"!
"Breyton-".
"I've seen Lucas these past few months. A lot. He is hurting. He is just taking it out on you I mean... L.J is dead. He lost a son I couldn't imagine losing my child".
Breyton took a deep breathe in and looked at Keith.
"Which I almost did" Breyton finally said.
"What"? He asked looking at her.
"I'm pregnant" she said teats running down her face.
"Oh my god".
"Yeah I know. Shocked? So was me and L.J".
"He knew? He knew he was going to be a father"?
Breyton nodded.
"We had went to my first ultra sound that morning. We was weighing our options we talked about adoption but now... This baby is all that is left of him. I can't give it to someone else".
Keith sat down in utter disgust belief.
"How far are you? Who all knows"?
"I m four months today... And you and me. My parents don't even know. No one does. I tried to tell my mom but I couldn't. I just... I don't want her to hate me or my dad to be disappointed that-".
"Hey" Keith said cutting her off and touched her belly. "Your having a baby. My brothers baby".
"Keith I'm scared".
"Well, don't be. You got me".
He pulled her in and hugged her tightly.
"I'm here,... It will all be ok. I swear".
Nathan and Haley ran through the halls of the hospital. Despite the many nurses and doctors telling them not. Neither one dropped their pace until they reached their sons room and Nathan didn't stop before swinging then door open.
"Oh my god" Haley said tears running down her face.
"Hey" Jamie said with a small smile.
It was clear he was a tad confused.
Haley didn't care.
She ran to her sons side.
"Oh my god your ok".
"What happened"? He asked. "The doctor mentioned something about a bombing".
"You don't remember it"?
"Not uncommon" the doctor said walking in and joining them. "After the fall he had be glad he ever even woke back up".
"Here is somebody who missed you" Nathan smiled slowly handing Grace to him.
Jamie tilted his head but he took the baby anyways.
"You guys had another baby"?
"Us"? Haley asked looking at him. "Grace is... Well Jamie she is your daughter".
"Mine"? He asked. "I'm only seventeen".
Haley looked at the the doctor who let out a long deep sigh.
"Jamie what is the last thing you remember"? The doctor asked him.
"I was going to prom with... Madison. Where is she? I want to see Madison".
"Of course you do" Nathan muttered.
"How old are you Jamie"?
"Seventeen"?
"Who are your parents"?
"Nathan and Haley Scott".
"Actually your father and I are... We are divorced Jamie" Haley said.
By the face he was making that was news to him.
"Excuse me Nathan. Haley. Can we speak outside for a moment"?
The two followed him out of the room.
"Doctor what is going on with our son"?
"Well, with brain injury its not uncommon for memory loss".
"He doesn't remember the past Sox years of his life". Nathan nearly yelled.
"Its not his fault Nathan" Haley told her ex husband. "Will he ever get those memories back"?
"Its not impossible. But you don't want to overwhelm him either. He just spent six months in a coma due to a severe brain injury and we are lucky that he remembers anything at all so right now we don't want to bombard him with all these facts about his own life. The best thing you can do is be there for him and do as he asks. Treat him as you did when he was seventeen".
"Thank you" Nathan said and the doctor slowly walked away. "Do you remember Jamie at seventeen"?
"I tried to block it out" Haley admitted as she turned to face Nathan. "But, he is awake".
They might not be married and they might not be in a relationship but Nathan took her hand he kissed her lightly on the lips because no matter what they were in this together.
So Jake and L.J died
Sorry.
But for all you Naley fans they are on the road to being back together. But, afer Jake died I cant just throw her back into bed with Nathan. Haley has so much to love about her and her morals are part of eho she is.
Peyton isn't dealing with the death of L.J all to well! Or at all really.
Oh and Jamie? No memories of the past six years... And he still love Madison! (Seriously do not hate me) .
You kinda figured out that someone would have a baby did you think it would be Breyton? Keith and Karen the teeanged version. Sje was just so unexpected that I loved it. I couldnt help it. She has been the responsible on since the start that I liked that. It gave her flaws.
Lucas knows about Keith and I love Luke but we will all hate him for a bit. In a chapter or so Brooke gives him a hard talking to.
Let me clear this up jist cause we openee up here does not mean I will not write about what happened! When i am not sure but I WILL NOT LEAVE YOU HANGING WITH IT! PROMISE!
Most would say this is a sequel for them to pick up the pieces but I am going to say this is a start of something new. For everyone!
For all my lovelys you know the dreal. Leave a review and tell me what you like or hate and what you want to see or happen! Now all the new ones... You k ow.
Much love!