601 – Long, long way to go
Before to read, I'm French so my English won't be perfect, I'm sorry.
The scene takes place just after in the same time that the 518 just before the end with Lucas' call. Lindsey is in the Airport and Lucas too. Lucas comes in the Airport to convince Lindsey to stay and give them an other chance after she called him to tell him the truth about the man she was suppose to date someone else but she wasn't.
In the Airport, Lucas runs in…
Lucas – Lindsey! Lindsey! Lindsey!
Custom officer – Mister, you can't go out if you don't have a ticket.
Lucas – My wife is here, I need to see her, please, I don't want to go, I just want to see her, please? Please?
Custom officer – What's her name?
Lucas – Lindsey. Lindsey Strauss. She supposes to go to New-York.
Custom officer read the list of the passenger – The flight isn't gone now, It has 2 hours of delay, so she's still in the waiting room or going to find a new flight at the reception.
Lucas – Thank you so much.
Lucas runs in the opposite direction of the reception…
Custom officer – Mister, it's there (showing the opposite place).
Lucas stops and looks back – Oh! Thanks. (He goes to the good place)
Lucas arrives in the waiting room, looking for Lindsey. He walks into, doesn't see her. He goes to the reception and sees her. He feels relieved. He comes to her.
Lucas – Lindsey?
Lindsey turns around, surprise – Luke!
Lucas – I was looking for you everywhere in this crap Airport.
Lindsey fails – I was suppose to go since an hour but the flight is late. I try to change my ticket.
Lucas – Why did you lie to me?
Lindsey doesn't know how answer to this question – I don't know.
Lucas – I love you but you let me down, why?
Lindsey – I don't know.
Lucas – Linds!
Lindsey – I don't know. I think the fact that she came back change everything and the fact you start write again thanks to her, scared me. I love you Lucas but I'm scared that you will always love her more than me.
Lucas – She was my first love and she was important for me. But you're more important than her. I love you. I want to spend my life with you. I want for us to have a big family, a lot of babies Lindsey and Lucas Scott. I want us to be happy like Nathan and Haley.
Lindsey – Haley is a good friend and I was so disappointed not to be here when Jamie was kidnapped and…I think I fell guilty about that. She was always there when I doubt about us, she told me a lot of time that you love me and I wasn't there.
Lucas – Lindsey, Haley won't judge you, she never did that with me, she wont' do for you either.
Lindsey – She could. Because of our wedding and my doubt, she couldn't watch her son, either to Nathan. How could they forgive me.
Lucas – You should talk to them. They don't have to forgive you something but you need to talk to them. Come home with me, Linds? I need you. I miss you just a new start for us.
Lindsey – I don't promise you everything but I need to talk to them to start living again.
Lucas – That's a start.
Lindsey – Can you take me to their home?
Lucas – They're not. Nathan is in the gym with Q and Jamie and Hales record her new album.
Lindsey – Oh!
Lucas – Come home and you're going to talk to her tomorrow.
Lindsey – No, I need it now. Put me down the recording studio. I'll see you later.
Lucas decides to let her make her own choice and he goes to the recording studio.
Lucas – Call when you want that I bring you back home.
Lindsey – We'll see. Bye.
Lindsey arrives in the recording studio, she looks at Haley singing for the first time. She feels good and safe. Haley looks up and sees her behind the window.
Haley – Lindsey! You're here!
Lindsey comes into the studio – Hey, the song looks really good. I already heard you but you're better than I ever imagine.
Haley – Thank you. What are you doing here? Lucas told me that you're gone.
Lindsey – I was in the Airport but my flight was late and Lucas found me, he asked me to stay again, we talked and I decided to come to see you. We were friends and…
Haley – Were? We're friends that's not because you're not with Lucas yet, that our friendship is over.
Lindsey – But because of me, you couldn't watch Jamie and he was kidnapped.
Haley – That wasn't your fault and neither to Skills. That's because of the bitch nanny. You are not guilty. You make a choice, marriage is important and married someone is important. I don't blame you and no one else. You're my friend and Lucas is my best friend. I like you, you know that, we through a lot together, you help me when Nathan was hurt so I'll thank you for that.
Lindsey – You don't blame me??
Haley – No, I don't.
Lindsey hugs Haley – You're the best friends that I ever have. I'm so lucky to have you.
Haley – So, you're gonna stay?
Lindsey – I don't know. I'm still afraid about the Lucas/Peyton story. Before the wedding, I saw Peyton's car and everybody around her to help her stand our wedding. Nobody likes me here. I'm not feeling well around.
Haley – Nathan and I like you. Brooke likes you. Jamie asks for his aunt Linds to come back. Lucas wants you back. So maybe Peyton is afraid by you but a lot of people need you there.
Lindsey - …
Haley – You'll see. Peyton is a good person. She's afraid by the fact that her and Luke never broke up really. But I hope, they'll talk and she's gonna find her way without him. She'll be your friend someday.
Lindsey laughs – You think?
Haley hesitates and laughs – Maybe not friend but you're gonna stand each other.
Lindsey – Maybe. You know, she came to see me in New York.
Haley – What?
Lindsey – She came to tell me that the book is a story and that Lucas loves me and that's why he said "I do" for me and not for her.
Haley – What did you say?
Lindsey – I asked her if she read the book and gave her ones.
Haley – Oh! And what did she said after?
Lindsey – I asked her to go because I was working.
Haley – Lindsey!
Lindsey – I was angry.
Haley – Well, you should be nice with her but you do what you want. So where do you sleep tonight? Lucas' home?
Lindsey – No, I'll go to a hotel.
Haley – You won't go to a hotel, come with me in home, we've got a lot of room and Nathan and I will be happy to have you back.
Lindsey – Thank you, Hales. But I don't want to disturb you.
Haley – You won't. I finish that and we'll come home together, right?
Lindsey – Okay.
During Haley and Lindsey talk, Lucas decides to go to see the guys in the gym. He arrives in the gym and sees his brother doing a dunk basketball.
Nathan – I can do this again. Oh my god! I never thought I could do it.
Quentin – That was not the plans. You were supposed to be worst than me until I recover.
Nathan – I think you're going to be too bad for me now, Q (Nathan gives him a little slap on the back)
Jamie – Uncle Lucas, did you see daddy?
Lucas – I see, God! Nate, it's so good to see you do that again.
Nathan – That's so good to do it again too, trust me. I never thought I could do it.
Jamie runs to be hug by his dad. Lucas gives him a slap on the back too.
Lucas – I'm glad you're back. BTW, Linds is back in town too. She's with your wife in the recording studio. She wanted to see Hales.
Nathan – Jamie, go play with Q, show him what's a Scott.
Jamie – Okay, dad.
Nathan to Lucas – She's back for good?
Lucas – I don't know but she fell guilty about the kidnapping.
Nathan doesn't understand – Why? She doesn't kidnap him.
Lucas – She thinks that's her fault that if she was kidnapped because she's gone and you doesn't realize he was missing because of her.
Nathan – That's not.
Lucas – I told her but she wanted Haley to forgive her so I let her do.
Nathan – That's great. She comes home with you or she stays in ours.
Lucas – If she could stay with you, that's could be perfect, I should not have any excuse to see her. I come to see my brother and his family and in the same time her…
Nathan laughs – Good plan.
Lucas, Jamie, Nathan go outside on the Rivercourt.
Jamie saw the draw – Who did that?
Nathan – I don't know.
Lucas take Jamie and Nathan in the back of the draw – Look here.
Nathan – Peyton.
Jamie – Peyton, that's aunt Brooke's friend?
Nathan – Yeah, that was an ex girlfriend to your uncle Lucas too.
Jamie – Before aunt Lindsey?
Lucas – A long time before her.
Nathan – That's look like unreal. I can't believe she did that. I understand why Lindsey freaked out.
Lucas – How can I say to Lindsey that she'll let us alone if she always do something wrong.
Nathan – She still loves you, Lucas. She tries to let you go but it's hard. She needs some times.
Lucas – Because of her, I lost Lindsey.
Nathan – You don't lose her. She's here with Haley. If you do right, she's gonna come back to you. I got Haley back so you can have her back to. You just have to be patient.
Lucas – Patient. I wait all my life for her and because she thought that I loved an other girl, she said no.
Nathan – Oh, calm down. That's not my fault. I try to help you and trust me. Saving a lost marriage, I got my own experience.
Jamie – Uncle Lucas, you're going to marry Lindsey again or not? Will I have to wear a smoking again? Lily will be there again too? Shall I be you're best man like Dad?
Lucas and Nathan laugh in front of Jamie excitement.
Lucas – I don't know if we're going to get married again but you'll be just next to your mom, I'm sure, she won't let you go out without her or your dad.
Nathan – She makes some effort to let him go but not without me, that's right.
Lucas – That's logical. So, can I go with you in your home. He will say that you wanted to celebrate your dunk.
Jamie – Will you play Wii with me?
Lucas – We will until your mom and Lindsey are going to come home.
Nathan, Lucas and Jamie come home waiting for Lindsey and Haley. Haley and Lindsey were talking until the home. They come into the living-room.
Lucas – Give me the ball, Nate?
Jamie – No, dad, give it to me.
Nathan – Wait a minutes, who's the dad and basketball player, here?
Lucas and Jamie in the same time – Me
Haley and Lindsey were thinking, looking for Jamie, Lucas and Nathan playing Wii but what do they see was really different. They're playing in the living room with Jamie's ball.
Haley – Scott!!
The 3 boys look back and so Haley looking angry.
Nathan, ball in his hand – We were just…
Jamie - …Uncle Lucas took my ball and Daddy tried to give it back to me.
Lucas – Plead guilty. All my fault. (He laughs)
Haley – That's not funny. Play in the living room. What's the hell with you?
Lindsey looks guilty and says nothing.
Haley still angry – You should wait for us before to play. Nate give me the ball. Dad, Jamie and I against You and Lindsey, that works for you, Luke?
Lindsey – Hales, I don't know how to play basketball in a living-room?
Haley laughs – And that's a good thing you don't married Luke, yet, you've the time to learn. Jamie, the ball.
Jamie – Thanks, mama.
Nathan hugs Haley and kiss her
Jamie – Mom, dad, that's not the moment for that. We play.
Everybody laugh and the rest of the evening was just play, talk and laugh.
The next morning, Haley awakes before the guys whose were sleeping in the living-room, she found Lindsey in the kitchen.
Haley – Look, they look like after drunk men. Oh! That's make me think, you don't see Lucas with his crest. God, that's was so damn good. (she laughs)
Lindsey – A crest?? OMG!!
Haley – That was just after that you told him you were dating someone else, he was a mess after that. He drunk and drunk and drunk…
Lindsey – Yeah, when I saw him to tell him the book is finish, he was looking like someone not really healthy.
Haley – Nathan pushed him to go out.
Lindsey – I'm glad that you were there.
Haley – Now, you need to fix everything with him including Peyton's stuff.
Lindsey – I know.
Haley joking – Before he come back with her if possible.
Lindsey – Haley!
Haley – I'm kidding.
Lindsey – I make some pancakes, you want one?
Haley – First, I'm going to awake the sleepy boys.
Lindsey – I put the table.
Haley – Thanks.
Everyone awake and come into the kitchen.
Lucas – How are you girls? You don't stay with us, last night?
Haley – I sleep in a bed not on the floor and Lindsey and I sleep together.
Nathan – What? You replace me so fast? I'm so disappointed.
Haley comes to Nathan and kisses him – I still love you and I don't do the same thing with you.
Lucas – Please, stop. I don't want to make nightmare tonight. Eurk, you and Nathan.
Jamie – What are you talking about?
Lindsey comes to him – We talk about the fact that I'll replace your dad last night in your parents' bed.
Jamie looks to his mom – You've a girlfriend now? But that's aunt Lindsey, she's with Uncle Lucas. So Dad will be with Uncle Lucas now. Mom, what happens here since yesterday?
Haley comes to Jamie – Nothing, we're joking but you're too young to understand.
Lucas – Lindsey, you'll come with me today, I want to show you something.
Nathan – The…?
Lucas – Yep.
Haley – Nathan, you're going to practice today?
Nathan – Yeah, but I want to go to see you after with Jamie in the recording studio, that's okay for you?
Haley – I'd like to.
Haley goes to the recording studio, Nathan to the practice with Jamie and Lucas and Lindsey go to Lucas' place. They'll go to see something strange but Lucas wants to be honest with Lindsey and tell her the truth about everything.
Fic written by Emeline
alias Schtroumphi