a/n: There will be some spoilers for season 1 or 2 - I think - for One Tree Hill. The episode more specifically when Haley leaves Nathan to go on tour.
No One For Me
PROLOGUE
"You go with him and we're done, Haley!" Nathan threatened; he looked at her for a moment to show her how serious this was. Before he turned from her, and walked to the door, his hand pressing in the code to open the door with more force then necessary.
He walked down the hall briskly, his spine straight and his jaw clenched. How could Haley, his wife, do this? He knew that he had been spending more time in the Star Fleet Academy Library then he had been with her, but for her to do this? She could of just told him and he would have listened. Would have put his books and studies away, but instead she goes behind his back? Nathan had known that Haley was seeing Chris before, for her own studies and he had forgiven her. But to find out that they had kissed?
Nathan loved Haley with all his heart, his soul. He wasn't sure he would be able to forgive her for this, but he stopped short as he relieved where he was. It was the park where he and Haley had had their first date. It was where he had given her a bracelet, it may have been one he had won her at the carnival he had taken her to, but she had taken it with a smile.
Instantly, Nathan knew that he had made a mistake - he would forgive Haley for anything. He loved her and he didn't know what he would do without her. He turned and ran back to their room, this time he punched in the code frantically. So frantically that he kept hitting the wrong buttons and got the Access Denied. He took a deep breath to stop his shaking fingers. Finally, he got the code right and the door slid open.
He rushed in, frantically searching the rooms and calling her name. There was no answer and only silence met his calls. He stood in the middle of the room, his chest heaving with heavy, panicked breaths. He couldn't seem to focus on anything as he looked around the room uncomprehendingly, his vision a blur. Finally, he was able to focus on something.
On the end table, at the base of the lamp. It was the bracelet, the one that he had given Haley on their first date. And here it was, on the table instead of around her wrist. Nathan picked it up, clutching it in his hand, his knuckles turning white with the pressure. That was when he notice the single piece of blank white paper underneath.
On it where four simple words, six syllables in all. He stared at it, uncomprehending. The tears ran down his face even harder and he fell to his knees, the bracelet falling from his hand and skidding across the floor. His fists pounding against the hard floor, the force of it bloodying his knuckles.
I'm So Sorry, Nathan
Later, he found out that Haley had quit the Academy and had run off with Chris. His heart shattered, falling into little pieces that seemed to turn into dust. His soul fell from his body, having nothing left to hold it inside, to keep it alive. He didn't talk to anyone, when they talked to him he told them he was fine. He kept up with his studies in the Medical and Science field, still planning on going on the USS Enterprise as he always had. He knew that he would be put on the crew, being at the top of his class as he was. He pushed everything down, all of the anger, betrayal, sadness, brokenness, loneliness - everything, he wasn't going to let something as simple as feeling pity for himself hold him back. He slept, but just barely, instead keeping his mind occupied with his studies.
He was done with her and sick of this place.
ST09-OTH - NOFM-ce
