A/N-I decided that I wanted to try something new and write a story about Quinn. I am slowly starting to like her character. So, I have changed some things in the Tree Hill timeline so that it would fit with my story and it will all be explained at the end so I don't give anything away.
Chapter One: Pictures of Me
Taylor, Haley, Quinn and Lydia were sitting in Haley's living room going over old pictures, pictures from when Taylor, Haley and Quinn were little to adult.
Lydia turns to a picture and smiles. It was a picture of her first grandchild.
Quinn looks up at her mother.
"Mom, what are you looking at?"
Lydia smiles and hands the picture to Quinn. Haley and Taylor look on with her.
"A picture of my first grandbaby," Lydia says with a smile.
Quinn smiles at the picture as well. It was a picture of a 16 year old Quinn lying in the hospital bed with a baby in her arms, her daughter.
"How is Brittany?" Lydia asks her daughter.
Quinn wipes the tears that surfaced her face and she shrugs her shoulders.
"I don't know she won't talk to me."
Lydia sighs.
"She's fine," Taylor says.
Quinn, Haley, and Lydia look at her.
"She talks to you?" Quinn asks.
"Yeah," Taylor says with a shrug of her shoulders.
"Of course she does," Quinn states.
"Quinn, don't feel bad, she won't talk to me either," Haley says as she glares at Taylor.
"You two don't look at me like that and Quinn, maybe if you hadn't shipped her off to the middle of nowhere she would talk to you!"
"She's getting help!" Quinn argues.
"For 2 YEARS, come on!"
"Girls, that's enough!" Lydia screams. "You have to stop fighting. It's not worth it."
The girls end their argument and look towards their mother.
"Quinn, you have to make up with Brittany and I know she can be stubborn, but you have to try. Life is too short, trust me I know."
Lydia has tears in her eyes and she wipes them away.
"Mom, what's wrong?" Haley asks.
"I'm sick…I have cancer…Pancreatic cancer."
Quinn, Taylor and Haley suck in a breath and unshed tears are in their eyes.
"The doctors say that I don't have very long…a few months."
"You're giving up," Taylor states with anger.
"No I'm not. I just want to live the remaining time I have left with my family and not in suffering."
"There has to be something we can do," Haley pleads.
Lydia shakes her head.
"There isn't."
Taylor stands up and shakes her head.
"I have to get out of here," Taylor says before walking out of the house.
"TAYLOR!" Quinn yells out.
"Leave her be," Lydia says.
"Mom, you can't give up. We can't lose you," Quinn cries.
"It will be okay."
Lydia looks over at Quinn and grabs her hand.
"Quinn, honey?"
"Does she know?" Quinn whispers as she turns to face her mother. "Does Brittany know?"
Lydia shakes her head.
"No she doesn't, maybe you should tell her."
Quinn scoffs.
"She won't talk to me so how am I going to tell her."
"You're her mother make her listen."
A Few Days Later
In Beaufort, North Carolina, 15 year old Brittany James sat in her dorm with her roommate Natasha.
Brittany was sitting on her bed with ear buds in her ears listening to music. Her cell phone was ringing on the desk, but she never noticed, Natasha did.
"BRITT!" Natasha screams.
Brittany looks up at her friend with a smile. She removes the buds from her ears.
"What's up?" Brittany asks with a smile.
"Your phone has been going off nonstop. Are you going to answer it?" Natasha asks with a raised eyebrow.
Brittany sighs and walks over to her phone.
"It's probably just my mom."
"Then talk to her."
Brittany shakes her head.
"It's more complicated than that. I've barely talked to her in 2 years."
"How come?"
"There's not enough time to tell you that Tash."
Brittany looks through her phone at the many texts that she received.
Please talk to me-mom
Talk to your mother-Haley
Pick up the damn phone girl-Taylor
Baby please pick up-mom
Need 2 talk its important call me-Taylor
Brittany looks through her phone and dials Taylor's number.
"Hey Aunt Taylor what's up?"
"Mom's sick."
"My mom or your mom?"
"My mom…she has cancer."
"Is Grams going to be okay?" Brittany asks with tears in her eyes.
"She only has a few months Britt. Come home and spend time with her. It's about time you came back anyway despite what my sister says."
"I have to go Taylor someone's at the door."
Brittany shuts her phone and opens the door to come face to face with her Aunt Haley.
"What are you doing here?" Brittany asks.
"You need to talk to your mother," Haley states as she walks into the room.
"Come on in," Brittany states sarcastically.
Natasha quickly walks out knowing this was a family deal.
Haley sits down in the chair across the room.
"Your mother has to tell you something Brittany and you need to call her."
"I already know,'' Brittany says as she sits down on her bed. "I just called Taylor."
Haley rolls her eyes.
"I came here to get you."
Brittany shakes her head.
"I'm not leaving."
"Yes you are."
"Aunt Haley, I love you, but don't argue with me okay? Mom put me here and I don't want to see her."
"Then do it for your grandmother."
Brittany looks down at the floor.
"We all want to see you Britt, the whole family minus a few of my siblings. Jamie wants to see his cousin also."
Brittany remains silent.
Haley stands up from her chair and walks over to Brittany.
"If you change your mind you know where we live. I love you Brittany," Haley says before dropping a kiss on the younger girl's forehead before walking out of the dorm.
Natasha walks back into the room.
"What was that all about?"
"I'm not really sure. I have to go talk to someone," Brittany announces as she leaves the room.
A/N-There's the first chapter and I hope you enjoyed it as far…as for the story in general it's mainly about Naley w/Jamie and Quinn w/Brittany and Clay. There may or may not be appearances from other members of the Tree Hill family (If you want it let me know).
In my story Quinn is 6 years older than Haley making Quinn 31 and Haley 25.
Quinn had Brittany at 16 at the time, Haley was 10.
Brittany and Jamie are 8 years apart.
More will be revealed on why Brittany is where she is and so forth…REVIEW PLEASE!!!
