Time Stands Still

This starts with the episode let the reigns go loose. I pick up from the fight scene and then put my own spin on what I wanted to happen.

"Don't you dare talk about Brook that way!" yelled Lucas

"Why not it's true she is a slut. She slept with you and now she's sleeping with me." Felix countered

"The difference is that I loved her and still do and you have no right to talk about her like that."

Without realizing what he just said Lucas looked over at Anna and the hurt expression on her face.

"Anna!" Lucas yelled after her but she ran out of the club without looking back.

The next thing Lucas saw was Felix's fist heading straight for his face.

"That's for my sister!" said Felix. His blood boiling from the scene the scene that had just taken place. Lucas wiped the blood from his lip and countered with a punch of his own.

Keith and Nathan finally jumped in to break up the fight before it escalated. As Keith dragged Felix out of Tric he yelled back at Lucas "This ain't over!"

Lucas ignored him and turned to the bar where his mother was standing. The look of disgust on her face hurt Lucas. He didn't mean to ruin his mother's big night it was just something about Felix that rubbed him the wrong way.

As Lucas went to leave he bumped into Brooke who had seen the whole fight and now had a tiny smirk on her face.

"Hey Scott?"

"Yeah?"

"Thanks." Brooke said.

"It was nothing. I've never really liked him. He sort of bugs me."

There was a short pause before Brook spoke again, and when she did her face was more serious this time.

"Did you mean it?" she asked.

"What?"

"What you said?"

"You mean the part about not liking him, yeah I definitely meant it." He added cracking a smile. He knew what she meant but he wanted to make her work for it.

"Lucas Scott you know what I mean. Did you mean what you said about still loving me?"

"It depends."

"On what?" Brooke asked.

"On how you feel about me." He added.

Brooke smiled and revealed those dimples that Lucas loved so much. Before giving her a chance to reject him he decided he would keep talking.

"I know I screwed up with the whole Peyton thing, but I think it was all meant to be so that I could realize that you were the one that I really loved." Lucas said quickly trying to pick up on whether or not he was winning her over.

"I know what you mean." Brooke said

"What?" Lucas hadn't excepted that to be her response.

"I have thought about what happened a lot. It hurts to think about it, and I'm not saying that I'm glad you cheated on me. I definitely wish we had skipped that part of our relationship. I guess what I'm saying is that I think I always knew deep down that you still had feelings for Peyton even if neither of us could admit it, they were still there." Brooke took a deep breath. Dredging up the past was hurting more than she had thought it would.

"Maybe we should take this outside." Suggested Lucas.

"Good idea."

They stepped outside and sat on the sidewalk beside the club. Lucas could see the pain in Brooke's eyes and wondered if he should have never brought it up but before he could stop her she continued where she had left off.

"A part of me knew that there was something more between you two then just friendship but I didn't want to believe it. When I finally found out it hurt, A lot. It was more pain then I thought one person could ever feel. I never wanted to see you again. Every time I saw you with Peyton it killed me. I always sort of thought that you would beg for me to come back to you but when you never did I just figured that maybe I was better off without you."

At this point Lucas was at the lowest point he had ever been in his life. He always thought that the feeling he got when he thought about the past years events was a bad one but hearing Brooke rehash everything that happened made it seem more real. Brooke looked into Lucas' eyes for the first time since they had started talking. She got a tingling sensation that brought her back to the first time they kissed and the first time he had said I love you. She missed that. She missed being with him every minute of every day. She saw the sadness in his eyes and figured she should probably finish her thought before he got to deep into brooding.

"Hey broody, you still with me?" she asked.

"Yeah, sorry go on." He said with a smile. He hadn't heard that name in so long and it felt good.

"That night after the boy toy auction, when I told you that I thought I was pregnant. The love you showed me even after all the crap I put you through made me think that maybe you weren't lying to me when you said you were sorry. When you left for Charleston that is what finally proved it for me. The thought of never seeing you again hurt worse than seeing you with Peyton ever had." Brooke let out a sigh and tears started to roll down her face.

Now it was Lucas' turn to talk.

"I know I hurt you but what I didn't realize is how much I hurt myself by cheating on you. You were the best thing that ever happened to me Brooke. You made me happy. You made to crazy things that I never would have done if I hadn't met you. You made my life better and what kills me is that by the time I realized that I had already lost you. I know it's cliched but it's true when they say that you don't know what you've got until it's gone. Loosing you was the biggest mistake I have ever made an-...." Before Lucas could finish he was cut off by Brooke's lips on his. He felt the warmth of her body against his. He missed that smell, the feel of her face against his. This was something he had been missing. Something that he wanted more than anything else in the world. TBC.............