This is my story about what I think would happen at the end of last night's show.

Nathan brings Jamie back into the house and puts him into his bed. He pulls the covers up over his young son.

Jamie grabs hold of the stuffed bear that his daddy gave him for his last birthday. Nathan is gently pushing his sons hair around and tells him,"Jamie, I want you to understand something, I will always love you so much no matter what I say that will never change."

Jamie nods, "I love you too daddy."

"I love you too, son"

Nathan rolls out the door in his wheel chair turning off the lights as he goes. He wheels into his and Haley's bedroom to see that Haley is still in the bathroom, probably taking a warm bath. He gets ready for bed as he hears the water in the bathtub draining. He decides to show Haley that he is learning how to walk again.

He slowly moves his feet to the floor so that he can stand up he uses the dresser to help him stand up straight. He takes a deep breath and slowly begins to take small steps towards the bathroom.

Nathan finally gets to the closed bathroom door, extending his hand towards the knob he turns it and opens the door. Haley is standing in front of the sink brushing her teeth as she hears the door open.

When she turns to look she sees her husband standing tall with his hand holding tight to the door.

She looks behind him but doesn't see his wheel chair. She asks him, "Nathan, what are you doing?"

Nathan smiles and puts his hand on hers.

"I want to show you something" he tells her.

Nathan lets go of the door and walks over to her with no support of any kind taking small steps of course.

Haley covers her mouth with her hands as a few happy tears fall from her eyes. Nathan walks back to the door to see Haley smiling with tears in her eyes.

Haley goes over to Nathan in the door way, leans up on her toes and presses a passion filled kiss to Nathan's lips. Nathan wraps an arm around her as they stand making out in their bathroom.

Haley pulls back and leads him to their bed and helps him sit down on the edge of the bed before taking her spot beside him. She takes hold of his hand and looks him in the eye as she begins to ask him all the questions that have been swimming around in his head from previous events. "When did you start walking? How? "

Nathan smiles, "Last night after you and I yelled at each other when you told me that if I didn't change then you and Jamie would leave me. I knew I couldn't allow that to happen so I pushed myself into the pool and made myself move my legs; meanwhile, telling myself that I had too much to lose if I didn't try. I can't even begin to tell you how sorry I am for the way that I have been acting the last four months. I would like to try and make up for it, so I was thinking that the three of us could go out to dinner tomorrow night as a family."

Haley has a look of mixed emotions on her face. "Nathan, I forgive you but please don't do that again. That would be great to have dinner as a family at a real restaurant. I love you so much Nathan."

"I love you too." They lean in and kiss

They get into bed with Haley resting her head on Nathan's chest and their hands interlocked.

Nathan sighs staring at the ceiling, "Haley, I'm going to need a lot of help if I'm going to get back to the person I was before all of this happened and I'm going to make sure that I never turn into my father because I will be spending more time with my son encouraging him to do what is important to him. Which right now it seems to be that he wants to race in another soap box derby[is that what's called? just let me know when the next race is and I will be there in the front row cheering him on with you."

Haley looks at him smiling as she gently lays a hand on his face and whispers,"That's great honey! I'm seeing the Nathan I fell in-love coming through. It would be even better if you would shave off this beard and trip your hair a little. Just an idea."

Nathan laughs a little and tells her that he'll think about cutting his hair.

The two talk for a while longer before finally falling asleep.

7:30 a.m. the sound of small feet can be heard throughout the house as little Jamie Scott goes to the kitchen to find that neither of his parents are there. He passes by the living room to discover that his father is not there either. Jamie decides to check his parents bedroom knowing that it is his mission to get his sleepyhead mother and father out of bed.

The master bedroom door creeks open letting in the bright light from the hallway into the bedroom. Jamie runs towards the bed and jumps between his parents while being careful of his daddy's legs.

Haley groans as she rolls over facing Nathan and says, "Your son wants you"

Nathan responds to the shock of being awaken by his 4 year-old son by sitting up and tickling Jamie's tummy which makes the little boy laugh uncontrollably.

After Nathan takes his hand away from Jamie's belly Jamie tells his parents, "Time to get up and play!"

Haley laughs and places her hand on top of Jamie's and says, "Why don't you go get dressed while daddy and I get up and we'll meet you in the kitchen okay?"

Jamie nods his head saying, "Okay momma"

With that Jamie crawls over top of Haley and runs into his bedroom.

Chapter 2

Nathan's road to recovery with the help of his friends and family.

Deb, Karen, Lily, Lucas, and Haley's parents make an appearance