Disclaimer: I do not own One Tree Hill or any of the characters in it.
Haley had never been more afraid in her whole entire life. She saw here bracelet, which she had only five minutes ago put onto Nathan's wrist, emerge at the top of the water. She couldn't lose him, not again, not after all they had been through in the past 2 years, not with the huge space in her heart meant only for him. She began to yell frantically.
"Nathan! Cooper! Nathan!1"
Her heart began beating a million miles a minute as she hurried back into the car to search for her phone.
"Shit" Haley cursed under her breath. She had taken the wrong bag from the wedding and it looked like she had taken Brooke's instead. Quickly she emptied the contents of Brooke's bag and looked through it. Her heart skipped a beat when she found Brooke's small silver phone. Quickly she flipped it open and dialed 911. A man's voice answered on the other end.
"911 emergency number. Ted speaking. What's the emergency."
"Quick, there's been a car accident and a car feel into the tree hill river at the bridge. There are two people in the car and my husband jumped in after them!" Haley's voice was quick and urgent.
"Ok miss, stay where you are an ambulance is on their way. Just stay put"
Haley hung up the phone and looked down into the water. Nathan's head still had not emerged from below the water. 'Just stay put'. How could she just stay put with her husband under the water, possibly unconscious? She had to do something. Just as she was about to take off her dress and jump in a car appeared. Dan stepped out of the car. He saw his daughter in law looking more distress then he was and spoke to her.
"Haley what's going on? Where's Nathan? Aren't you supposed to be heading to your honeymoon?"
Tears streamed down her face as she looked over at Dan. This man was her only hope. The man who she had so much hated not more then a few weeks ago. The man who had tried to destroy the relationship between her and Nathan. But if Haley knew one thing she did know that deep down inside Dan really cared for Nathan.
"Mr. Scott, Cooper and Rachel's car went into the water and, and , and...(sob) Nathan jumped in after them."
Dan looked as though he may have a heart attack for the second time in his life. He spoke so worriedly that it even shocked Haley.
"Nathan's down there!"
Haley swallowed back her tears and nodded slowly, unable to muster enough strength to reply words.
Seeing Haley's reply, without even thinking Dan threw off his jacket and ripped off his shirt. Then he went to the edge of the bridge and jumped in. Haley watched as Dan disappeared under the water, much in the same way Nathan had. Haley didn't know what to do now, all she could really do was wait for the ambulance to come or for someone to emerge from the water. Suddenly someone did emerge from the water. Cooper's head stuck out and he was dragging Rachel's unconscious body with him. Cooper came out of the water and climbed over to where Haley was, laying Rachel's unconscious body on the ground beside Haley. Cooper then turned Haley and spoke.
"Where's Nathan? We need to call an ambulance quick or Rachel will die!"
"C-c-cooper, Nathan went in after you guys. He's still down there!"
Cooper began to prepare himself to jump back in when Haley stopped him.
"Wait, Dan already went in after him."
"Dan?"
"Mhmm (Haley's voice trembled even as she uttered this)"
"So is an ambulance on the way?"
"Ye..yeah."
"Well, I guess all we can do is wait. I hope they come soon, especially with Rachel in the condition she's in."
But Haley wasn't listening to Cooper. She was staring at the crackerjack bracelet which was still floating on the surface of the water, down stream and away. That bracelet was a symbol of Nathan's love for Haley, yet there it was, floating away from her...
