Title: Slipping Away
Author: tjmack
Category: Romance, Angst
Spoilers: All episodes (mainly after Songs To Love and Die For)
Summary: Haley is in the hospital they're baby's life hangs in the balance, and Nathan knows who is to blame will he seek redemption
Notes: This is only my fourth overall fic, and only my second OTH fic, so if i get anything wrong please let me know...none of the names belong to me except the nurse's Michelle Johnson...please R&R
Chapter One: Why Did It Have To Be Her
Nathan sat in the uncomfortable chair, beside Haley's hospital bed. The doctors words still ringing in his head. He couldn't believe he could lose his wife, he was only eighteen years old. That wasn't even the worst part, Haley was a few months pregnant. All he could think was that this was all his fault, if it wasn't for him Haley would be fine, and so would they're baby. A boy, his boy, was dying and there was nothing he could do about it, except wish it had been him instead.
Lucas sat up in his hospital bed, still recoperating from his heart attack. He needed to know how Haley was doing, he hadn't seen her or heard anything about her, since he woke up. The nurse came into his room, and shut off the nurse light above his bed.
"What can I get you, Mr. Scott," the nice nurse asked.
"I need to know any information on my sister-in-law Haley Scott," Lucas asked.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Scott, I'm not authriozed to give out that information," the nurse said.
"Okay, I don't mean to sound rude, but can I ask your name," Lucas asked.
"Of course, my name is Michelle Johnson," Nurse Johnson answered sweetly.
"Okay, Ms. Johnson, if you had a sister-in-law or brother-in-law, that you were very close to, in the hospital, wouldn't you want to know how they were," Lucas asked, trying to get her to feel for him.
"I understand how your feeling, but I can't give out that information," Nurse Johnson answered again.
"All I want to know is if she is alive or dead," Lucas screamed at her.
"I will go and find your brother, and he will give you the information you are seeking," Nurse Johnson said.
With that the nurse left Lucas's room in search for Haley Scott's husband. She found Haley's information at the nurses station, and saw which room she was in. She was still in ICU, which meant she wasn't in good shape. Nathan Scott she thought to herself. She had to find him, she had to keep Lucas, calmer, even if that meant giving him some bad news.
Nathan had gotten up and was walking over to the table, on the other side of Haley's room. He grabbed the water pitcher they had left for him, and poured himself a glass of water. He turned around when he heard someone walk into the room. It was a nurse, but it wasn't any of the ones he had seen around the ICU.
"Are you Nathan Scott," Nurse Johnson asked.
"Yeah, why," Nathan said, with a little agitation in his voice.
"You have a brother named, Lucas Scott, right," she asked.
"Yeah," he answered, thinking of the horrible news she could be giving him about his brother.
"He's asking about Haley," she said.
"Yeah, so," Nathan asked.
"Well, I'm not authriozed to give out information on patients," she said.
"So you mean to tell me, you want me to leave my wife's side, to go tell my brother something that you could tell him, but aren't aloud to," Nathan asked, sounding very agitated.
"Look, I'm sorry sir, but my job right now, is to keep your brother calm, much of any elevation in his heart rate or blood pressure, could cause him to have another cardiac episode," she said.
Nathan didn't want Luke to be any worse than he already was, so he agreed to talk to his brother. On the walk back to his brother's room, he remembered the accident so vividly, to vividly. He and Haley were dancing in the streets, and the next thing he knew was, she was pushing him out of the way of a moving car. He had to know who was driving that damn car. Before he could think about it any longer they had arrived to Lucas's room.