A/N: I have always thought that there could be more between Peyton and Brooke then there is. I have been reading some fics about them and decided to write one of my own.

Femslash: This is AU with the idea of some things that happen in season 5.

Life isn't going so well for Brooke in New York. She wants a family, love and to be home. She also misses her best friend more than life itself. Peyton decides that even though LA is finally looking up she's going home to help her best friend. What happens when somewhere along the line of helping your best friends she discovers that a key to her happiness lies with you? Breyton….

Realization

Chapter One: Home….

Peyton is standing in the Tree Hill Airport, still finding it weird that their little town houses an airport. Her flight landed last night and she stayed in the one hotel in town. She didn't call anyone or tell them that she was coming home. She really didn't want to see anyone else and she didn't plan on staying long. She had let go of the fact that she isn't with Lucas… She missed him but not that much any more and she loved the way her life was going in LA. She had finally took control of everything and she was dare she say it semi-happy. Brooke sounded so upset and weird on the phone. She knew she had to honor her best friend's request. The only reason she is there is for Brooke and once Brooke was ok she's was on the first plane back to LA. She just hoped Brooke was ok… She thinks back to the phone call just days ago…

Flashback:

Peyton is walking home from a kick ass recording session… She slept with her boss months ago and was rewarded greatly. Once she told Lucas someday and he left she decided that she was going to get her dream no matter what. She lost the love of her life to her dreams and she was going to make them come true. She walks past a magazine stand and see B. Davis magazine. She smiles and picks up a copy. As she is thumbing through the magazine on her walk home her phone rings.

Peyton: Hello?
Brooke: Peyton?

Peyton: (looking at her watch seeing that it's 1 in the morning in LA making it 4 in the morning in New York) Brooke?
Brooke: Yeah…

Peyton: (hearing the sadness in her voice) What's the matter? It's like 4 in the morning there

Brooke: Oh, I'm sorry. We're you sleeping?
Peyton: No, I'm on my way home. I just left a recording session with the hottest up and coming band

Brooke: So work is good then?
Peyton: Since I decided to take things into my own hands, yeah

Brooke: What does that mean?
Peyton: Promise you won't judge me?
Brooke: God, what did you do Peyton? You're not on drugs are you?

Peyton: No, not that bad. I just slept with my boss and I go to parties with him and let him grope me and…

Brooke: (cutting her off through the phone) So you're pimping yourself out to make it in the music business?
Peyton: Well when you say it that way it sounds kind of bad, B. Davis…

Brooke: P. Sawyer that is bad!
Peyton: I've only slept with him once…

Brooke: Peyton?
Peyton: Ok, maybe twice…

Brooke: P. Sawyer!

Peyton: Listen B. Davis, I love you and I'm sure this new information will roll around in that head of yours and you'll figure out a way to tell me how wrong I am but you didn't call me at 4 in the morning to lecture me on the fact that I slept with my boss to get ahead in a cut throat business so what's up?

Brooke: I miss you… I miss home and I want to go back

Peyton: I miss you too, B. Davis… You know I have some vacation time coming my way…

Brooke: (cutting her off) Oh did you sleep with your boss to get that too?
Peyton: Not funny but if I sleep with him again I bet I could get a good month off!


(Peyton smiles at her comment as she walks into her apartment building. Knowing full well that if she slept with John, her boss, she'd be able to get all the time in the world off. He's been trying to get back in her pants for weeks. She liked teasing him because he let's her sit in on my things. This wasn't the Peyton Sawyer she was proud of but it was who she was right now…)

Brooke: Peyton?
Peyton: (getting pulled out of her thoughts) Sorry, Brooke what were you saying?

Brooke: I wasn't saying anything you were saying that you have some vacation time and I thought you might be going somewhere with that…
Peyton: I was. I have about 2 weeks vacation time coming and I could come out to New York for a while if you'd like…
Brooke: As much as I'd love that (pausing…) I was hoping you'd go home with me

Peyton: (face dropping) To Tree Hill?!
Brooke: Yeah… Peyton I have to go home but I don't think I can go home without you. I haven't spoken to Haley, Nathan, or Lucas in years not since Lucas left you in LA. I mean I send Jamie cards and birthday presents and stuff but I don't talk to them
Peyton: Me either… You know Nathan was in an accident don't you?

Brooke: Yeah, I saw it on TV

Peyton: Me too…

Brooke: (with desperation in her voice) Peyton, please… I wouldn't ask if I didn't really need you to go with me
Peyton: (hesitating) I can be on a flight in a week

Brooke: (a little joy in her voice) Really? You'd go back and face those stupid people for me?
Peyton: (smiling) Brook, they are not stupid people… Well Lucas is but I'm not even that upset about that anymore… I've moved on and I know it's hard to believe but I think I'm ready and I'd do anything to help my best friend out…

Brooke: Thank you so much Peyton. I promise that I will be fine after the two weeks and you can head back to LA to sleep with your boss!
Peyton: (smiling) I'll have to sleep with him before I leave and I might even have to fly back to sleep with him while on vacation…

Brooke: I hope your joking!
Peyton: I am! I love you, B. Davis and I'll see you in a week and I promise everything's going to be ok…

(Peyton hung up the phone. She had a worried looking on her face. B. Davis was not ok and she knew she was going to need to spend more than two weeks in that dreadful town she once loved. She just hoped she was as together as she thought she was.)

Flashback ends

(So here she was a week later and so far so good. They just announced the landing of Brooke's plane. She was excited to see her best friend. She hadn't seen her in three years since her breakdown after her break up with Lucas. She sees Brooke walking through the gate and a huge smile covers both girls' faces. Brooke ran to Peyton and wraps her arms around her.)

Brooke: Thank you so much, Peyton! I couldn't have come home without you!

Peyton: (hugging her friend back) Anything for you B. Davis

Brooke: You're ass is so skinny you look sick!
Peyton: You don't look so hot yourself

Brooke: I'm not but now that we're here I know that I'm going to get better!
Peyton: (worriedly looking at her friend) Brooke, what's going on?

Brooke: Peyton, I promise all in good time but right now I just want to go to wherever the hell we're staying and order a pint of ice cream and a pizza and have movie night with my best friend!
Peyton: (not going to push the subject right now, grabs one of Brooke's bags) Ok, let's go B. Davis…

(They girls walk out of the airport with smiles on their faces. Even though Peyton didn't want to admit it it was nice to be home. Brooke already felt better. She knew seeing Peyton would help her she just didn't know how much… This was going to be harder than she thought because she was slowing realizing that her therapist might actually be onto something….)

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(Brooke and Peyton had been back in Tree Hill for a week. They had both completely cut themselves off from their lives in LA and New York. Peyton shut her phone off after being at the hotel for 20 minutes and John had called 17 times. Brooke never turned hers on after getting off the airplane. She hadn't said anything to Peyton about the real issues during the week they had spent together. They went to Charlotte for three days and spent so much money that Peyton would have to sign two bands to make it back. They shopped they went to night clubs and they just hung out. Peyton knew that something was really wrong with Brooke and that they'd have to talk about it and talk about it soon. Peyton had ordered room service and her best friend was still asleep in her twin bed. She walks over and opens the curtains. Brooke had had a week, time was up! She then walked over and grabbed the covers off of Brooke.)

Brooke: What the hell, Peyton?! I'm sleeping here!
Peyton: Well I want you to get your ass out of bed. Breakfast is on it's way up and we are going to talk this morning. Then we're going to get ready and go see Nathan and Haley!
Brooke: What? They turned on you when you told Lucas someday and you want to go see them?
Peyton: Nathan didn't. He called all the time at first then I just couldn't take it anymore so I stopped answering
Brooke: I didn't know that!
Peyton: Well after you left to go home you didn't really call that much either

Brooke: I know Peyt, and I'm so sorry
Peyton: Why? The phone goes both ways

Brooke: Are you ok? I mean we might run into Lucas if we go over there

Peyton: I'm fine. He's dating his editor and he's doing really great!
Brooke: How the hell do you know that?
Peyton: The internet. I googled him before I came home. I had to see what he was doing before I came back. I'm ok with everything

Brooke: You don't want him back?
Peyton: Honestly?
Brooke: Yeah, honesty would be great!
Peyton: I miss him I do but we just weren't meant to be… We tried and the fact that he walked out on me hurt like hell but it also made me realize that he wasn't the right person for me. If he loved me and he wanted to be with me he wouldn't have left me when I asked him for a year

Brooke: God, Peyton what the hell has happened to you? You are not the same P. Sawyer I left in LA three years ago

Peyton: I just realized that I wasn't going to go all emo over Lucas and if I lost him to my dream I was going to make sure that my dream came true and it has… Well it is

Brooke: I am so proud of you, Peyt. You are amazing! It's like we've switched places. I'm all down and emo and you're all happy and self-confident. I love it! Ok, well I love the new you. I'd like to get the old me back!
Peyton: I'd like to see that too!
Brooke: I can't believe we've been here a week already. When do you leave?
Peyton: Whenever you're ready to be alone again

Brooke: You only had two weeks of paid vacation so I know you can't stay forever… (Smiling slightly to see Peyton's reaction)

Peyton: Brooke… I

Brooke: I know. You're life is in LA and I respect that but I'm not going back to New York. I just can't. Peyton, it's too much. I'm moving home. I'm going to look for a place to open a small Clothes over Bros and I'm staying. It's going to take about 3 weeks to get everything up and running, do you think you can stay that long?
Peyton: Are you going to go and look for a building and a house starting today?
Brooke: Yes!
Peyton: Then I can stay and help you

Brooke: What about your job?
Peyton: Screw it! If John wants to fire me that's fine. I have 3 other job offers that I've been considering anyway.

Brooke: (getting up and walking over to the chair Peyton's sitting in and hugging her) Thank you so much P. Sawyer… I promise I'll get this going so you can go back to your life in LA

Peyton: B. I'm here for you…. As long as you need me but you have to talk to me because I know that something's going on and I can't help you if you don't tell me what the hell it is!
Brooke: I know… I'm just not sure I'm ready to talk about it…
Peyton: I'm your best friend, you can tell me anything!
Brooke: (sitting on the floor in front of Peyton, looking down at the floor) Peyton, I'm not happy. I'm miserable and I just want life to be back the way it was when we were in high school and we were all together. I need Tree Hill…. I need you and I know that's not fair to say because you have a great life in LA and I don't want to keep you from that but over the last 4 years there have been so many times that I needed my friends especially my best friend and I was alone with no one…

Peyton: Why didn't you call me Brooke? I would have been in New York in a heartbeat!
Brooke: I know but these events would happen in a heartbeat and then they were over… I just wish they would have happened here with all of you guys standing next to me

Peyton: Damn, you're really broody! Well I'm here now

Brooke: Peyton, I had a miscarriage

Peyton: What?
Brooke: (looking at Peyton with tears in her eyes) The night I called you… I was having a miscarriage…. That's when I decided I needed to come home and I needed you to come home with me

Peyton: I didn't know you were pregnant!

Brooke: I didn't know I was pregnant until three days before I called you and then it was too late… Peyton, it was so painful. I have wanted a baby for months now and then when I lost the one thing I thought could finally make me happy I snapped.
Peyton: Brooke?
Brooke: Don't say anything. Peyton, I want a family and I want the happy Tree Hill life. I want the white fence and the big backyard.

Peyton: I didn't know you were seeing anyone

Brooke: I'm not… You were sleeping with your boss and I was sleeping with my escorts to my red carpet appearances. I don't even know who the father was. I just stopped taking the pill and I didn't care if they wore protection or not. If you don't force a guy to put on a condom how often do they put one on?
Peyton: (laughing) they don't

Brooke: Exactly. I don't need a man to help me raise a baby I just need a man to give me a baby

Peyton: (looking shocked) Wow, I had no idea

Brooke: I know and I'm sorry to lay this all on you.

Peyton: So now what?
Brooke: I went to the doctor and she told me that there wasn't anything physically wrong with me and that I should be able to have a baby with no problems. She also told me that I should stop sleeping around and just go to a sperm bank because it's a lot safer.
Peyton: I agree with that!

Brooke: I'm not going to try to get pregnant anymore right now. I'm too scared… I'm thinking about adoption now. It costs the same amount as the sperm bank and I don't have to go through the pain of losing another baby….

Peyton: Ok, so you have a plan! Now you need to get a house because there is no way in hell they will give a baby to a woman living in a hotel room and then after a house you need a business so you can prove that you can support a baby and I need to make a phone call

Brooke: I just spilled my deepest problems to you and you're going to make a phone call?
Peyton: Shut up!

(Peyton walks over to her bed and picks her phone up off the night stand. She dials a number)

Peyton: Meg? (Pausing) I need to talk to John. (Pausing)
Brooke: What are you doing?
Peyton: (waiting for John to answer) don't worry about it… (Startled) Oh, hey John, it's Peyton. (Pausing) No, no I'm not ready to come back… (Pausing) Ok, ok well you're going to have to go to that alone. In fact, you're going to have to do all those events alone from now on… (Pausing) John, I quit!

(Peyton hangs up the phone and Brooke looks shocked)

Brooke: What the hell did you do that for?

Peyton: You sure in the hell can not start a new business and raise a baby by yourself! Could you use a shelf stocker at Clothes over Bros?
Brooke: You're staying?!
Peyton: I guess I am!
Brooke: Thank you Peyton!

Peyton: You're welcome. Now get your ass in the shower so we can go over and see our friends. If we're going to stay in Tree Hill we're going to have to face them sometime!
Brooke: (hugging Peyton) P. Sawyer I don't know what to say.
Peyton: don't say anything… That's what friends are for

(Brooke gets up and heads into the bathroom. She looks in the mirror and smiles. This was going to be ok…. Everything was going to be ok. Now the fact that Peyton just quit her job was probably not going to be ok but she's figure out a way to make it up to her. She needed Peyton… She didn't know why but she knew she'd be able to do anything now with Peyton by her side. Why was her stomach in knots at the thought of Peyton by her side? God, she was beginning to understand the reason… She just wasn't sure she was ready for it!)

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A/N: Let me know what you think. I have a lot of it done but if there's no interest I'll just stop. Reviews are always loved! Thanks.