Borrowing the characters for my own purposes and nothing else.
My take on what happens with Dan and Karen after she admits to him that she's pregnant. NOT a romance. However, if you want one, voice your opinion.
Prologue
Seeing those words etched on the wall in red paint scared the hell out of me, was it real and someone knew my secret or was I merely hallucinating and it was Keith haunting me from the grave. I didn't know, nor did I want to find out?
How ironic that it is, that I've taken over my brother's role from eighteen years ago, I will now be there for Karen and her new baby if she'll let me. In some twisted way, I'll get to be there for her, help her, do whatever she needs, this will be my penance for what I did. I know what I did, it was wrong, I did it because I thought he had tried to kill me and yet if I'm honest, I also did it because I couldn't bear to see him so happy. He was finally getting everything he dreamt of and I was alone, without a wife or a son. Everyone hated me, I had all the power but no one to love or to share it with. I'm a cold lonely man with no love to bloom in my heart.
The first thing I'll be doing is going out to buy a can of paint and paintbrush to cover this up. I will spend the rest of my life repenting for my sins and see if I can truly change? Or if I am really a monster and will remain one for all time.
Dan turned to look back at the red words mocking him as he left the room to go out, find means of covering up his secret and hopefully find some kind of silence in the world.
What's wrong with me? People look at me as if I'm crazy, spending time with him, Keith is dead and all I can do is spend time with his evil brother. The mayor of Tree Hill, sure he has power, but he's done so many rotten and horrible things. I see them looking at me, wondering what the hell is wrong with me? They don't know yet, that I'm pregnant with Keith's child. Fate is cruel.
Pregnant with Dan's child, Keith helped me.
Pregnant with Keith's child, Dan will help me or so he says.
If he steps one toe out of line, he's gone. I won't tolerate anything but honesty. How honest can he be? He's been a monster in the past and I doubt that he'll change his spots, but who knows, only time will tell.
How can I possibly tell the whole town that I'm pregnant again, pity will soften their eyes as they look at me. This time however, loss of the father was caused by death and not reckless abandonment.
Where to go? Karen looks to the sky for a sign from heaven that Keith is watching and will help her.