So when watching this last episode of OTH Peyton tells Julian that Brooke
"tends to deal with the big things all on her own". This quote made me think about how Brooke would deal with losing Peyton. I have an idea for a fic that I would love to see written. I would write it on my own but a) I think that there are some FAR more talented writers on here that would do a better job b) I don't have a plan for the rest of the story beyond the summary below and c) between working, taking human biology in summer school, studying for the GRE, training for a half marathon and traveling this summer I have NO time to do this story justice. So here is the summary and a part of the first chapter (which you can use or not)
Summary: After the death of Peyton and her daughter Anna, Lucas runs away leaving the rest of the gang to deal with the losses on their own. Brooke has an especially difficult time dealing with it. After several months of keeping up a charade that she is fine, she attempts (and is not successful) to take her own life. She is found on the floor of her bathroom, (by either Haley or Nathan) surrounded by pill and alcohol bottles and rushed to the hospital. From there Naley and the rest of the gang (excluding Lucas…unless you want to add him in later) try to help Brooke deal with the loss of her friend and get back to the Brooke they all know and love.
You can change some of the details if you want, but basically just keep Brooke tries to kill herself after Peyton's death, and is unsuccessful.
So I have the first two paragraphs written out, you are welcome to use them or not:
It had been two months. Two months since Peyton and Lucas had been married by the lake where they first spoke. Two months since Julian had returned to Brooke's life-and then left again. Two months since Peyton had collapsed, still in her wedding dress, stained red with blood. Two months since she delivered (by cesarean) her daughter Anna Elizabeth Scott. A daughter who was pronounced dead mere minutes after coming into the world. Two months since Peyton had died on the operating table after her daughter was born. Two months since Lucas ran out of the hospital, and out of Tree Hill, to God knows where after learning about his wife and daughters passing. Two months since Brooke, Haley and Nathan had buried one of their best friends and niece six feet under the ground.
It had been two months and Brooke had not shed a tear. But she hadn't smiled or laughed in that long either. At least not really. In the limited time she was able to bring her self to be around Naley and Jamie she had plastered on fake smiles and fake laughs in a feeble attempt to show the world that she was okay. So it was there, at the Naley household, that Brooke found herself, eight weeks to the day after her best friends death, trying desperately to not let her friends see that she was slowly breaking down.
Please review if you want to write this story. You can just take the first two paragraphs and go from there (or start all over…whatever). And I don't mind if multiple people want to take this idea…I would love to read different interpretations. Happy writing.