Flashback to an Alternate Universe - Chapter 1

Author's Note: This is my first Fan fiction so let me know what you think and if it's worth continuing! Thanks :*

"Hey Peyton" Lucas said walking through the kitchen door. He smiling greatly at the surprise he had for his new wife.

"or Mrs Scott " He said, he loved the way that sounded. He walked over to their bedroom to see drops of blood on the white petals he had, had scattered there earlier for their wedding night.

He saw a pool of blood surrounding her body.

"Peyton!" He shouted as he stood staring at her from the doorway for a few seconds.

"Oh God" He said as he darted down to her

"Oh my" he said barely audible, he started lifting her head into his arms. He started rocking her back and forth.

"Stay with me" He said as he cradled her in his arms

"PEYTON" he screamed

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Lucas Scott was sitting in his front room staring at a blank page on his Laptop. His editor, Mark, had been at him to write a new novel. Lucas had,had no inspiration for a while now, but if he was being totally honest he hadn't had any in over four years. His hand scratched his rough beard,it was more than his usual stubble, it looked like he hadn't shaved in months. He closed his blue eyes but that was worse as all he saw was her face. Just then a little blonde girl appeared at the door.

"Daddy" she said with such innocence, her green eyes looking at him. He felt such a pain in his heart. She was her mother's daughter. She had the green eyes and the corkscrew curly blonde hair. The only thing she had got from him was his infamous squint.

"Yes Anna, what is it." He said bluntly, he didn't want to be near her right now. It was too much for his heart to bare. But the little girl persisted.

"Well, dad today at kindergarten, we where making Mother's day cards." She said, this statement alone broke his heart even more.

"And the teacher asked me why i wasn't making one and i said 'I didn't have a mommy' to which she said 'Everyone has one' but I don't so i was wondering ... Where is my mom?" She said so honestly.

He looked at her, her face was confused, she needed an answer. Lucas knew this day would come. He just thought it would be later. He looked into his daughter's face, looked at it and thought of all the hurt she had caused him.

"Come here" he said patting on the spot beside him on the couch. She walked over cautiously as she was slightly worried about her dad. He had always been distant with her even when she was a baby. She sat down beside him and looked up at him.

"Well, you know your Grandma Anna and Granny Elizabeth?" He said as she nodded, "Well, they are in heaven because you see they died." Anna knew this as she knew she was named after both of these grandmother's. "Well, your mom died too." He said so bluntly. He stood up as it was hard for him to say those words out loud.

"But know this, Anna Elizabeth Peyton Scott, your mom loves you." He said choking up slightly as he stared out the window. He didn't want to see her face the face that reminded him of her. Anna's face was so confused, she had just accepted that everyone had no mom and when she knew that wasn't true she just assumed she never had one.

"How?" she asked. Lucas was slightly shocked, his little four-year old was wise beyond her years, but he couldn't tell her why. So he just kept silent.

"Was it like Grandma? Was there something wrong with her body? Did she die in a car? How dad?" She kept asking him and the more she asked the more he got annoyed. He didn't want to talk about it.

"Dad, please, how did mom die?"

"Because of you." he said quietly but bluntly. The little girl was shocked and even more confused

"What?"

"Your mom is dead, because of you." He said louder for her to hear. He turned to face her and saw in those eyes her whole world and heart was breaking.

"Your mom died, when she was pregnant with you." Lucas said with almost disgust in his voice.

"You are the reason why you don't have a mother, why I don't have a wife, Why I'm so GOD DAMN miserable all the time." He said getting louder as he spoke. He looked into her green eyes, the same colour of the ones that used to make him smile.

"It's all your fault."

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Lucas suddenly woke. He jolted upright in his bed. He was panting and was in a cold sweat. He breathed erratically at first but started to calm down. He couldn't believe what he had just been dreaming about. He started to panic that it was true but he looked to his left hand-side to see his beautiful wife sleeping soundly beside him. Her brown-blonde hair scattered across the pillow. He blew a sigh of relief. He got out of bed and walked into the hall down to Sawyer's room to check she was sleeping. He looked over to the cot to see his beautiful 18 week old baby sleeping. He stood in the hall for a while wondering whether or not to go back to bed. Instead he headed and sat down in the living room.

Lucas closed his eyes and flashbacks from his dream haunted his mind. He couldn't believe he was so hurtful to such a small girl, his 'daughter'. He felt a pair or arms wrap around his neck.

"Hey baby" was all she said but it was enough to make him get goosebumps. He turned and smiled at her.

"Sorry did i wake you? The doctor said you should be resting." Lucas said as he looked at Peyton's face but she just shook her head with a smile.

"Luke, honey, i wake up every time you leave the bed, you think i can't tell when my man leaves?! Your warmth leaves and the bed feel... empty. So yes you did wake me." She said smiling. Lucas let out a little chuckle. He should of known, he wakes up when she leaves the bed too. Lucas started to drift off back to the thoughts of his dream.

"Luke, Lucas" She said snapping him back.

"What's wrong?" she asked

"Nothing" he said looking into her eyes.

"I don't buy it, Luke this is the third time in two weeks you've been up in the night and probably the seventh in the last six weeks. What's bothering you?"

Lucas didn't know, and he wasn't going to let Peyton know about it, she needed a stress free living enviroment for the next few weeks according to her doctor.

"It's nothing really, I'm ... I'm just having a bit of writers block so it's keeping me up." Peyton nodded and took Lucas' hand.

"Come back to bed, things always seem better in the morning." She said as they walked back to bed, Lucas hoping that his dreams would stop.