"The Mistakes People Make"

What would happen if Keith survived when Dan shot him on that horrible day? Dan would have to go into hiding. The truth about the fire is revealed. Everyone must cope with the fact that dan is still out there, and he tried to kill Keith. what will happen, what will dan do? How will everyone deal with such disastrous news?

So basically everything happened how it normally did, except for the fact when Keith was found he was alive.

Italics are flashbacks

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"Why are they taking so long." Lucas asked, he was pacing up and down the hallway for the past half and hour.

"They will be done soon, Keith is tough Lucas." Haley tried to calm him down.

"Yeah Lucas, you know that." Nathan tried as well.

Lucas felt so weak. How could this of happened. How could he of let it happen. He was right there, and he left him. Left him in a deserted school with Jimmy, and that gun.

Lucas looked over and saw his mom, tears were streaming down her face and she was praying.

"Mom." He walked over to her.

She looked up and grabbed his hands and kissed them.

"Mom, I'm sorry." he started to say his eyes starting to fill with tears.

Karen looked at him and just hugged him. She continued to cry harder.

"Poor Karen." Haley said looking at Nathan. "This is so horrible Nathan."

"Yeah, this whole day has been nothing but a nightmare." he looked down and Haley and could see the fear hidden deep inside her eyes.

Haley clung on to Nathan after hearing the first shot.

"Oh my god." Mouth cried out

Nathan held onto Haley tight and Nathan could feel his shirt soaking through with warm tears.

"Nathan what if that's Lucas." Haley cried even harder.

"Haley please, you can't think like that okay?"

Nathan couldn't believe it, how could he of forgotten about Lucas? He was so worried about himself, about Haley, that he completely forgot about Lucas.

That's when the second shot went off.

"Oh my god" Rachel yelled. "What the hell is going on."

They all waited in there for about another hour, to afraid to move, to afraid of what was going to happen. When the door opened, and they felt such a sigh of relief, they saw the police.

"Who is here for Keith Scott." a doctor walked out.

Karen immediately jumped up, " We are. Is he going to be okay?"

The doctor looked around at all the unhappy faces. "Well he lost a lot of blood, and for that we almost lost him."

"Almost?" Karen asked

"Yes, almost. Mr. Scott is a fighter, and he certainly didn't want to die here today. He will be okay, with a lot of rest and physical therapy."

"Oh thank god." Karen cried out turning around and hugging Lucas. "Thank god."

Lucas was holding Brooke and watched Peyton's ambulance until it was completely out of sight.

"I really hope she is okay." Brooke told him.

Lucas shook his head in agreement, "she will be."

They were all looking around when they herd some of the police start to yell.

"A gun shot went off, a gun shot went off!" one yelled.

" Why they hell are you all just sitting around," the chief yelled.

Karen was looking around, "where the hell is Keith?"

"NO." Lucas whispered. He immediately thought about Keith, of his last words to him. How could he tell his mom that he was inside the school, where a gunshot had just went off.

It was then when they herd the second gun shot go off. It looked like all hell broke loose. There was yelling, crying, and the police started to enter carefully.

"Mrs. Roe?" An officer who she had been talking earlier came up to her.

"Yes?"

"I'm sorry to have to tell you this, but you are going to have to go to the hospital."

"What why?" she started to cry.

"Keith is being transmitted there right now, he was shot ."

Karen thought about that over and over again. She didn't even know he was in there, into that hell house and now he was lying a few feet away with a gun shot wound.

Brooke walked through the halls and met up with Lucas, Karen, Haley and Nathan.

"Hey you." she said to Lucas.

"He is going to be okay." he immediately told her.

"Oh thank god." she hugged him and kissed him on the cheek.. "Peyton is going to be okay too. Her dad just got here so I figured I would give them some time together."

"Oh good, I was really afraid about her. She lost a lot of blood Brooke."

Brooke nodded. "You saved her Lucas."

Lucas held her tightly and took a deep breathe, all of this was just to much for him.

Haley fell asleep on Nathan's shoulder and he was about to fall asleep when the doctor walked up again. He had a bad look on his face.

"What's wrong?" Lucas immediately asked.

"You're not going to be able to see Mr. Scott for a while."

"What why?" Lucas stood up.

" The police have to ask him some questions."

"About Jimmy? And what happened?" Karen asked.

"Mrs. Roe things are more complicated then we thought they were."

"Like?"

" Mr. Scott woke up and he said something, that is rather disturbing."

"What? What did he say?" Karen started to yell.

" Keith says Jimmy didn't shoot him Mrs. Scott."

Everyone looked around confused, Karen started to get even more angry.

"What the hell do you mean. Then who did he say did shot him?"

The doctor took a deep breathe. "Dan Scott."