So I thought I would jump on the bandwagon of what I think could happen in season nine. This is a three part POV from Lucas, Nathan and Haley, All mistakes are mine as my beta reader is an evil Caskett fan and won't beta anything One Tree Hill which is probably way its taken me so long to post anything One Tree Hill. Gracie if you are going to read this I will make you a Naley fan and addicted to One Tree Hill then I might follow you on tumblr again.
-Lucas-
It had been four years since I had seen anyone from Tree Hill the place in which I had been born, grown up, met my best friend, fought with my brother, fell in love with my wife then out of it only to fall for her best friend. That was only the cliff notes version. I didn't include that my father killed my uncle, that my best friend became my sister in law, or that Brooke Davis created a clothing label called Clothes Over Bro's after we yet again broke up. A lot of memories were tied to Tree Hill good and bad but I hadn't been back in four years. Peyton, our daughter Sawyer and I left not long after Sawyer was born. Sure being Haley's best friend as well as her brother in law kept us in the loop not to mention my talented sister was partner at Red Bedroom the record label my wife had started when she moved back to Tree Hill after college well for her trying to work in the music industry in LA.
Finding out over Skype that Haley was pregnant again wasn't the same as having her walk into my childhood home with this I know something you don't smirk on her face, or have her walk into my bedroom and sit down on my bed till I asked her what was going on. I would have loved to have been there to see the look on my nephew's face when he found out he was going to be a big brother. I know Hales and Nate too well they are the King and Queen of the understated I could just see them mentioning it casually and Jamie's jaw dropping before saying he couldn't wait for a little brother. He would have been 8 at the time so yeah a brother would have all that was on his mind.
Then there was Brooke Davis, well Brooke Davis-Baker now as she had married Julian, Peyton was so crushed when she couldn't go to the wedding and when we got the photos from both Brooke and Haley she had cried for days at how beautiful her two best friends looked. How Haley was glowing and looked stunning even at 7 months pregnant and how Jamie looked so grown up in his tux. We had left not only the state and country but the hemisphere we lived half a world away in New Zealand. So little did I expect that four years later I would be making the trip to Tree Hill.
It all started with a Skype call I got from my nephew one night. I had been sitting at my desk in my study trying to come up with my next book, I must admit I wasn't trying very hard, when a Skype call came up on my screen from .Scott checking the time on the clock beside me that kept the time back in Tree Hill I noticed it was well after midnight. Accepting the call my screen was soon filled with the face of my nine year old nephew. He wore an old basketball jersey of his dads and his hair was ruffled like he had just gotten out of bed.
"Kiddo I love you but it's well past your bed time your mother will kill me if she knows you're up this late" I had said smirking I could see the crack of his bedroom door behind him. Haley would fly down here and kill me if she knew he was up this late.
"I know, Uncle Lucas I just- I really" Jamie got me worried when he didn't finish what he was saying and took a sharp intake of breath turning to look behind him. I could see Haley pass his bedroom door as Jamie bit his lip. When she had gone he turned back around.
"Call her please Uncle Lucas, just call her. The sooner the better, I love you and Aunt Peyton I have to go now or she'll come in here after checking on Lydia and kill me just call her" he said and as quickly as he had appeared he was gone. Scratching my head I wondered what he was going on about. Knowing Haley would kill me for it later I couldn't shake the bad feeling Jamie had given me. I picked up the phone beside me and dialled the Scott house in Tree Hill. When Haley answered I knew straight away something was wrong. She didn't get up me for calling that late all she said was hello. When I asked her what was going on she lied to me said nothing that Lydia was having trouble sleeping that was all. As much as I didn't want to I dumped my nephew right in it.
Saying that if that was all then why the hell had my nine year old nephew Skyped me this late when he was meant to be in bed asleep. That's when Haley had broken down and told me what happened. That Nathan was missing and had been for almost three weeks now. When I asked her why she hadn't called me she said that with us being half a world away there was nothing we could do. It was then that I decided she needed me there, standing up I pulled out my wallet and my credit card. I was typing away booking a flight to Tree Hill as I listened to my little sister sob about how the last time she had seen Nathan they had been arguing. She wouldn't tell me what about but she said that when he left he had walked through the airport security without so much as a word.
I knew then it wasn't a normal fight, Nathan and Haley are the most sickeningly loved up married couple you will ever come across they have been married for a decade and if you didn't know that you would think they were newlyweds with how much PDA those two do. Always holding hands, always kissing each other seriously it was sickening how much my little brother and best friend loved each other, they made the rest of us look bad. So for Nathan to not do anything it was bad, I listened with my heart breaking as I heard Haley crying saying she was trying to be strong for Jamie and Lydia but she didn't know how much more she could take. I told her to stay strong and I would be there soon. Normally she would have argued this time she didn't. Hanging up on her dam near killed me but not as much as it killed me to tell Peyton that I was leaving and why. But as usual my wife shocked me and said to make sure that Naley was fine or I'd be sleeping on the couch at my mother's place. I gave her a kiss before I headed off.
That was a week ago, now I sat here in an unmarked car, in a very dark alley somewhere in the state of North Carolina where I wasn't sure. All I knew was that whoever had my brother was in the warehouse across the road and had no idea what was coming for them least of all who. I might have been sitting here with police ready to get my little brother back to his family but I knew somewhere in this darkness hid my father. There were many things wrong with Dan Scott. But if there was one thing that was honourable and probably the only reason he was in Jamie and Lydia's lives was that he loved his family and he would do anything for them. Sure he had screwed Nathan and I over thousands of times but I wouldn't be here today if he hadn't of saved me way back when I was 16 and in a car accident. He'd been ready to take the fall for Nathan when they thought Nathan had killed Dante for running Haley over when we were 17, and he had saved Jamie from his crazy Nanny who kidnapped him from my wedding that never happened. Dan loved all of us in his strange and weird way that Nathan and I had never once figured out.
For once in my life I was actually hopping Dan found these guys first. For it was no secret Dan Scott had murdered two people. One was my Uncle Keith Nathan nor I had ever forgiven him for that, the other was Carrie the crazy Nanny who had kidnapped him in order to try and kill Haley and steal Jamie. That had put Nathan in a tight spot one he didn't know what do with. Dan had saved Jamie twice but those two things couldn't undo the life time of pain he had caused and I guess if he saved Nathan tonight my brother would be right back there again. Sighing I looked at the guy beside me who gave me a tight smile.
"As soon as we find out if your brother is there we'll get him out ok" I nodded knowing that I was just lucky they let me come. Looking out the window I waited, I was tired, I was hungry and all I wanted was to see my girls again. But Nathan needed me, Haley needed me, and my niece and nephew needed me so there I sat waiting.