Disclaimers: We don't own One Tree Hill. If we did season 9 would happen without question.

A.N 1: It's othlvr16 here and I'm teaming up with a friend (peyton13sawyer) to bring you a new story. Get this, it's not a Brooke and Sam story…We changed things up a lot. Enjoy.

A.N 2: Hello, thanks for taking the time to read our story. Please review. Hopefully, you will enjoy. We will try to keep the updates coming, but you know how it is with co-writing. ; ) peace.

Prologue

Her whole life growing up, Peyton Sawyer had always loved music. It didn't matter what kind of music, all it had to do was evoke emotions in her and she was instantly hooked.

At eighteen, Peyton ran away from home in search of a life in the music business. Her desire was to become a producer, and to find bands that have the ability to take your mind away from your problems, even if it's only for a few minutes.

Unfortunately being from the small town of Wilmington, Peyton knew she wasn't going to get anywhere. Peyton hitch hiked her way to LA. She was lucky enough to get picked up by a caring man or so she had thought.

Rick Walker was twenty-four years old. He claimed to be rich from an inheritance, and he also had told Peyton that he was running away to LA for reasons he didn't want to share.

Their relationship started quickly. Rick treated Peyton like a princess…at least for the first six months of their relationship. Then the beatings started. When Rick had Peyton believing that the beatings were her fault, he started to use her for his own sexual pleasure.

It took a few weeks of him forcing himself on her before Peyton ended up pregnant. Despite the conception, Peyton loved the thought of giving life to someone else. Rick was also excited to be a father. He had always wanted a little boy.

Seven months into the pregnancy, Peyton discovered she was going to have a baby girl. Peyton was thrilled, but she couldn't tell rick. She had to protect her baby from him. The plan didn't work out too well because Rick had found out anyway. He found Peyton's pregnancy scrap book and discovered that Peyton not only wasn't having a boy, she was lying to him as well.

Rick's anger got so out of control that the next time that he had beaten Peyton, while pregnant no less, he had thought he had killed her. Rick had called an ambulance.

The doctor's had no choice, but to deliver the baby early. Peyton had fallen into a coma. Samantha Walker was born on July 23rd, 1996. After Sam was cleared to leave the hospital, Rick took her and never came back, not caring that Peyton was in a coma.

It took two years for Peyton to come out of it and when she did the first thing she asked about was her baby. The doctors and nurses didn't know what to do or say. They did however tell Peyton her daughter's name and had given her the baby picture that Rick had left behind in his hurry to finally take his baby and run.

Peyton searched and searched, but never could find her little girl.

Eventually she went back to Wilmington.

Peyton had stuck to herself and worked two full time jobs for the next couple of years, but when her daughter's birthday came back around she had to get out.

Tree Hill was her next step.

Her first night in town Peyton heard of a club called Tric. During her first vist to Tric, she noticed a large unused room at the back, large enough to be a recording studio. Peyton spoke to the owner who agreed to let her rent the room to start Red Bedroom Records. That very same owner turned out to be the one and only Haley James.

Peyton's first signed singer was Haley James as well. Everyone said they had chemistry. Peyton signed a second singer shortly after signing Haley. Mia Catalano was the next artist. She even turned out to be a great friend. It was Mia's meddling that got Peyton and Haley together in the first place.

Peyton made a lot of friends after she moved to Tree Hill, none of them got close to her though. She let them in to an extent, just not about her past. She wouldn't talk about it. She couldn't talk about it. She missed the daughter she never got to know. She had made friends with Brooke and Nathan Scott quickly.

-Satan's Hitchhiker-

Brooke is the owner of Clothes over Bros and her husband Nathan, was a former professional basketball player, but due to a back injury he had to retire early. Nathan found a suitable job as the coach of the Tree Hill Ravens.

Brooke and Nathan have a son named James Lucas Scott, but everybody calls him Jamie. He is seven years old and the smartest kid anyone would ever meet. He was so smart that the school board had wanted him to skip a few grades, but being the kind of kid he was, Jamie didn't want to leave his friend Chuck behind.

-Satan's Hitchhiker-

Haley James was a musician and a teacher. When she was sixteen she had married Nathan Scott. When the opportunity to go on tour came up she decided to go. The six month tour changed her life. Nathan hadn't wanted her to go on tour, but Haley couldn't pass up her dream.

When Nathan had said he wanted a divorce, Haley began to think she had made a wrong choice. One night a fan of hers happened to be in the same bar as her and tried to cheer up Haley. They were the same age, both had fake ID's. Haley and Rachel ended up sleeping together that night. The morning after she realized that she was gay and she tried her best to hide her feelings. When the tour ended, Haley had told Nathan that she was confused so she granted Nathan's decision for a divorce. Brooke and Nathan started dating shortly after.

Haley had spent her time after the divorce with her best friend Lucas Scott, Nathan's older half brother.

Lucas died during senior year of high school. He hid his heart condition, HCM. He died minutes after making the winning basket for the boy's basketball team. They had won the state championship that night, but at the loss of their co-captain and friend. It was hard on Haley.

A few months after Lucas died, Haley's baby sister, Taylor was born. When Taylor was ten she was placed in Haley's custody after their parents died.

-Satan's Hitchhiker-

Rick took his daughter to live in Calgary Alberta Canada. He had enough money from his drug dealing so he never had to work really hard. He didn't change his behavior though. Rick continued to believe it was his way or no way. He did however put his daughter into the best schools in the city.

Samantha excelled in school. She was very smart. Sam's routine was simple in Rick's eyes. She was forced to go to school, come home, do homework, cook dinner, clean, do more homework and go to bed. Weekends were all homework and cleaning. They did have TV, but Samantha wasn't allowed to touch it. Sam had never played video games or gone to the movies. Her life was sheltered and that's the way Rick wanted it.

One of Sam's teachers had given her an iPod with a bunch of pre-downloaded music. Sam came to like Haley James and Mia Catalano as her favorite singers.

When Samantha was ten, her dad told her of her mom. He had told her that her mom had run away when she was born, not that Sam could blame her.

The day Rick told Sam about her mother was the day he made his first mistake, Rick told Samantha, her mother's real name, Peyton Sawyer.

One day at school, Sam had heard the kids talking about a small record label that was producing Haley James and having her put out a duet album with Mia Catalano. The owner of the record label was Peyton Sawyer.

Sam asked her teacher to locate Red Bedroom Records.

It didn't take Sam long to decide whether or not to find her mother.