Disclaimer: I do not own One Tree Hill or any of the characters, I just enjoy writing for them. No Copyright infringement intended.

Hey! So, this story takes place during the sixth season after Haley gets fired. A Refresher? Haley is now full-time producing at Peyton's label and, like the beginning of season five, Jamie tags along with Haley to work. Nathan is mostly in Charleston and Deb is M.I.A. somewhere... it seems.

For all of those interested, there will be Naley. Also, I really hope I do the characters justice. Thanks for reading! Reviews are appreciated!

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"Jamie, sweetie, we're going to go with Peyton to get some quick food she's craving. It's not going to be McDonalds or anything; it'll just be healthy. Your Aunt Peyton is already waiting in the car. Are you ready?" Haley asked her son while holding up a box full of old baby toys that used to be Jamie's and were soon to be the next baby Scott's.

Jamie thought about the last time he was with his Aunt Peyton in the car and seemed to remember her being gassy and whiney from the hormones of pregnancy. As much as he loved his Aunt Peyton, he would much rather have a less pregnant woman to be around. "Um, can I stay and watch Mia sing?" He asked his mother with anticipation.

"Mia? Umm… sure, honey. If that's okay with her. She is a little busy right now working on some new music, but I'll go ask her if that's alright."

Haley quickly walked into the sound booth of the studio and through the window Jamie could see them talking and exchanging many smiles. When she came out, Mia followed.

"You're stuck with me, kid." Mia informed the boy. Relieved, Jamie gave a big smile because he would be able to stay in the cool looking studio with someone who likely was too busy to fully watch him. People never stopped watching him since the "Nanny Carrie Incident" and so he rarely got a chance to even risk being mischievous. Today would be a new and improved situation for him.

"Okay, honey, now you be good. I don't want to hear any little boys in the background of Mia's vocal recordings when I get back unless it's intentional by her." Haley winked at Mia and continued saying, "I should be back in about an hour. I love you!"

"I love you too, Mamma!"

Haley then gave Jamie a kiss on the top of his head and then left through the door, outside to the parking lot, and back to Peyton.

"So, do you play an instrument?" Asked Mia.

"Umm, well my mamma tries to get me to play guitar and piano, but I'm not very good at them. I can play basketball though!" he exclaimed.

"Well, there's not really a lot to play basketball with in the studio, but I have some things you could draw with. Would you like that?"

"Okay."

"Okay! Then I'll be right back. Just wait awhile while I get you something. It may take some time to find, so just sit tight."

She walked back into the sound booth and buried her head into some bags in a corner. The materials would be hard to find, seeing as Peyton was always too busy to draw anymore.

As Jamie looked around the room he saw the big comfy producers' chair that his mamma was always sitting in. He was never allowed to sit in it because it was a "grown-up chair". So, naturally, he went to sit on it because no one was watching. Once he sat down, he spotted another thing in the room, a basketball. "'… not really a lot to play basketball with,'" he remembered Mia saying. Oh well he thought. Attached to the basketball was a card in the shape of a heart with his mamma's writing on and it was addressed to his daddy with a whole bunch of words he didn't understand. He ripped the card off and tossed it aside. He would put it back on when he was done playing with it.

As he started dribbling while still in the chair, he heard a door creak open. Thinking it was Mia coming back, he tried to find a place to hide the ball quickly, but didn't find a place in time before he was interrupted.

"Well, well, if it isn't someone playing basketball in Tree Hill. Not even in a music studio can you find people who aren't playing basketball." Said a tall, spiky haired brunette from the doorway Jamie wasn't expecting a voice to come from.

"Who are you?" asked Jamie.

"Who am I? Dude, you don't recognize me?! What... you don't have any posters of me up here? As an acclaimed and successful Tree Hill musician, I'd think that in a Tree Hill studio I'd be up on the wall somewhere. No worries, I always bring my own posters just in case this happens."

He opened up the guitar case he was carrying and pulled out a poster of himself and some tape to hang it up on the wall. As he hung it up, Jamie was more interested in the pictures he had stuck on the inside of his guitar case. In quite a few of them, he saw a woman who looked strikingly like his mother, but because of the blonde hair, and in a few pictures light brown hair, he was unable to tell if it was her for certain because the entire time he's remembered his mamma she has always had dark brown hair. Before he had time to ask the stranger about the woman, Mia stepped back into the room because, although she was heavily concentrated on the task of finding Peyton's old art supplies, she was not completely oblivious to the fact that, with the Scott family, anything could happen at any time. Mia had made sure to make frequent glances through the studio window and into the room where Jamie was seated. Yes, she saw everything he was doing. In her opinion, he was probably one of the easiest kids to look after. Minus, of course, the kidnappings by his former dead nanny. Jamie meeting a stranger in the studio while he was alone, but under her supervision, wasn't something she thought would make Haley happy. She knew she needed to intervene on Jamie and this man's conversation.

"Chris Keller! You're here earlier than I thought you'd be. Jamie, this is Tree Hill's own Chris Keller. I invited him to do a collaboration with me… which means we're singing a song together. What brings you here early?" Mia asked Chris.

"Well, Chris Keller was interested in seeing the producer before he started working, but he found this boy sitting in the chair he thought he'd find Haley James. Not only did you not have a poster of me, but you've also got little kids working here? I-"

"Haley James Scott!" Jamie exclaimed.

"-what? Oh, yea, Nathan. Last time I saw him he was with Haley, his annoying brother, Brooke, that angry chick Peyton, and two other guys in my tour bus on some road trip to Texas. Haley probably could have taken up half of it because she was so preg- Oh," he looked at the boy before him. "you know, you sort of look like Haley. I didn't know she slept with Nathan's brother though. Let's see, you must be around six or seven, right?"

Confused, and having no idea what he was talking about, Jamie simply answered, "I'm six." And held up six fingers.

"Wow! So then Haley was pregnant with you while she was still with Nathan? Wow, when Haley and Lucas slept in the same bed of our hotel room in New York City near the end of our tour, I didn't realize what kind of freaky stuff was happening in that room. They always seemed platonic towards each other, but I guess-"

"What are you talking about?" Asked Mia, who was as confused as Jamie.

"Lucas and Haley. The kid. Who knew the Haley-Chris-Nathan triangle also included the Lucas?"

"Oh yea, you're that person she was talking about…" Mia said quietly and not to be heard by the others in the room. Speaking louder now she said, "Well, for all I know Haley's always been madly in love with Nathan and Lucas has nothing to do with Jamie's existence."

"Oh." Said Chris. "Well, Chris Keller may not have good judgment in this situation, but he assures you, the music he's been working on has much thought put into it. We should just get started."

"Yea, we should. I'm a fan of your music and so I trust that what we will get will be good." Mia stated. Truthfully, she usually only listened to "When The Stars Go Blue" because her good friend, producer, and mother of the child she was babysitting Haley was on it, but she knew that working with Chris Keller was good to treat the people of Tree Hill and it was also good for her music.

Mia went back into the sound booth, but Chris stayed behind to use the guitar tuner he had in his case. He could have just used Mia's or brought his own inside the other room, but the little boy before him was so intriguing and had so many noticeable similarities to his mother that he decided he'd need to get to know him better.

"So," Chris said, "Now that you know I'm kind of big around here, what do you want to know about the Chris Keller?"

Jamie kept wondering whether or not the Chris in front of him was the "Chris Keller" or if he was referring to a completely different person he hadn't heard of. He had met some pretty confusing people, but never any as confusing as this. By this time, he had remembered of the old box of newspaper articles about his mamma on tour that his daddy once showed him. In many of those articles, pictures of his mamma and this stranger before him were included. Usually from that time in his mamma's life, all of the pictures taken of her with other people were of her really close friends that he now mostly called is uncles and aunts. "Are you my Uncle Chris?" he asked.

"Uhh, well I don't think so. Not unless your mother was also sleeping with my brother. Hey, that rhymes. Kid, you give me some inspiration. I've been needing some new song lyrics."

"Why do you keep saying my mamma is 'sleeping with' people? What does that mean? My Mamma only sleeps with daddy and sometimes me when I'm scared."

"Hey kid, I thought you'd want to know about, like, maybe Chris Keller's girlfriends? Wouldn't you rather want to know how I slept with them?" He continued tuning his B string and then panicked, "I mean, uh, umm-"

"I don't know what that means. Is Uncle Lucas my daddy?"

"Dude, you sure got his looks. I'd do a paternity test one day just to make sure. In all honesty though man, nah, I doubt it. I'm sure your parents can only be meddled with by one person and that's Chris Keller himself."

Jamie was now finding all of this new information very interesting. He didn't know exactly how to respond to what he was saying about him meddling with his parents, so he just asked Chris, with much struggle to say the word paternity right, what the test was.

"Pat-er-nit-y. It's what they make those shows like Maury out of, you ever watch that? To find out if you really are biologically belonging to your parents or whatever."

Chris had just finished tuning his last string and he could see Mia impatiently waving to him and wondering why he didn't follow her when he suggested they go to work. Just then, through the door Chris Keller entered in, entered another.

"Mamma!" Jamie yelled a little too excitedly because he was relieved to be done having a conversation with "Chris Keller" or whoever he really was. As much as the conversation was educational, ever since Nanny Carrie, Jamie had been a little more cautious about who he opened up to.

His mamma was once again carrying a box. This time it was full of snacks for the studio so that they wouldn't have to leave to pick them up the next time Peyton was craving them. "Heeeey Baby!" she replied. "Peyton, can you help me put this down? … Peyton? … Hello, Peyton? … PEYTON?!"

"Haley, turn around and put the boxes in my car. I think I'd rather have more food around the house because Lucas- well, um… just please?" Said a pregnant and stunned Peyton staring at the familiar man in the room.

"What? Peyton, Lucas said he just bought enough food to feed a small nation for you yesterday."

"Haley-"

"What?"

Jamie was confused by the sudden tension. "What, Aunt Peyton?"

Rolling his eyes at the situation, Chris finally piped up, "Hey, guys. Did you miss me?"

At the word "did" there was a sudden crash of groceries to the floor. Everyone looked to see Haley's face that was in complete shock. Mia heard it too, wondering if Jamie wasn't so angelic after all and she would be responsible for something breaking, and came into the room with the others.

"I was afraid this might happen." Said Mia. "Haley, I'm sorry. I forgot what you had said before, I-"

"No, it's okay. Chris and I used to be close when all I had was him to talk to. Chris, I respect you, but I can't stay if you're here. I'll talk to you later under better circumstances. Jamie, come on, I'll take you home." Haley would not talk about everything here in front of her friends, her son and in the state of complete shock. She did still want to talk about his life, however. She was not completely jealous of him the way she was when he had first offered for her to join him on tour and she rejected, but that was not to say she didn't still stay updated on his success. She couldn't help but wonder where she would be if she had chosen to stay with music instead of staying with Nathan, but one thing is for sure, she wouldn't have Jamie and she wouldn't have Nathan, the loves of her life and all that she needed.

On the car ride home, Jamie sat in the back seat while a frustrated Haley drove and fiddled with the radio stations. Once she finally found a song she liked, she settled on the station. Jamie was busy wondering about this new Chris person and why he got his mamma to act the way she did. He was taken out of his thoughts when "… and from Tree Hill, our very own Chris Keller and his new song 'Tore the Line' playing now on 81.9, The Ro-ock Station of today!" could be heard from the radio.

Sighing agitatedly while stopped at a red light, Haley intentionally tapped her head on the steering wheel before changing the channel. She was dreading the conversation she would have to have with Nathan about, once again, Chris Keller. She was hoping that they had grown strong enough to not have to worry about fighting over it, but she was still worried. She knew he would be stressed about the situation.

"Mamma, who is 'Chris Keller'?" asked Jamie.

"Chris Keller is the stranger you met today, sweetie. You don't talk to him unless Daddy or I tell you it's okay, okay?"

Confused, he still agreed to what his mamma told him. "Okay." He said.