Unexpected Occurrences

By: B. Davis FTW

Summary: He's a film student at NYU. She's a fashion design student at FIT. They've been dating for years and they're about to be hit with a whole mess of surprises. Brucas/Naley.

28 weeks.

"Well, well, what do we have here?" Lucas walked into his and Brooke's bedroom, Italian food in hand as per her request. "I thought the doctor said no over-exertion pretty girl" He raised an eyebrow, helping his pregnant girlfriend to her feet before leading her back to the bed.

"Ugh, Luke. I'm just putting the bassinet together because you haven't done it yet. I'm not stressed or anything, I promise!" The young brunette flashed her boyfriend a cute pout, to which he laughed.

"Brooke, the doctor said your blood pressure's getting way too high and you need to calm down." He put the to-go bag of food at the edge of the bed and began rubbing her feet. "It's my job to make sure you're not stressing yourself out too much."

"Well maybe if you finished the bassinet I'd be fine," Brooke mumbled, crossing her arms over her chest. Knowing she was just frustrated, Lucas chuckled and shook his head, handing her the chicken parmesan he had brought home from her favorite Italian place and took over putting together the bassinet. "Good boyfriend." Brooke smiled triumphantly and happily dug into her food.

Lucas moved back onto the bed, dipping his head close to Brooke's ever-growing belly. "Do you see how your mom treats me Jade?" He moved his eyes back up to her face, where he could see the adoration for him and his son's fledgling relationship. He turned his head back to her belly, placing a small kiss on it. "I'll let you in on a little secret though." He moved closer, cupping his mouth against her stomach "I still love her." He left her side, getting back to the instructions he had left on the floor.

"So guess what happened today." Brooke asked, sounding frustrated. Lucas looked up at her and raised his eyebrows, motioning for her to continue. "I was told I have to scrap everything I have in my portfolio and start over if I want to include any baby designs in it. They said that it would be inconsistent. They didn't even listen when I suggested that it could show me developing as a designer and being versatile!"

"I'm sorry babe. Look, I'm getting some money from this editing job I've got for one of my professors. We can use that money to buy the baby's clothes so that you don't have to worry about making any, alright?" He had originally planned on using that money to buy Brooke something special, but there were more pressing matters to attend to. He and Brooke had decided they would pool their savings together to pay hospital bills that would inevitably come, which left them with little money for spending on big ticket items. The two had gotten clothes from Lucas's uncle Keith, who was more than willing to help with clothes and diapers. The only problem was Lucas didn't want to depend on his uncle to support his family. It was because of that he had been taking on more editing jobs. It wasn't exactly his forte or what he wanted to be doing, but it was what he had to do. Though he only mentioned one to Brooke in this particular instance, he had three editing jobs occurring simultaneously in order to ease their financial troubles a bit.

Brooke could see that Lucas was tired. She had gone to bed alone more times in the past month than during their entire time living together. What pained her most wasn't that he was burdening himself with all this stress, but that he was doing so without even the slightest hint to her on how overworked he really was. As she chowed down on her penne, she watched Lucas and how tired he really seemed. "Luke, stop. You don't have to do that right now. Come sit with me and eat something." She saw that he had bought his own dinner as well and felt bad that she had guilted him into putting together the bassinet so soon when they still had at least two months to go.

"Nah babe, it's alright I'll just get it done and have it be off you r mind." He continued working on his task at hand while Brooke stewed in her own guilt.

"Luke, I hope you're not spreading yourself too thin." He looked up at her and gave her a small smile and finished up the bassinet. After finishing, he pulled out his own dinner from the take-out bag and sat next to her. "Looks great babe. Do you have a lot of work to do tonight?"

"Unfortunately," Lucas replied, cutting a part of his meatball and feeding it to a waiting Brooke. "The movie I'm editing is really rough and is looking like it's going to be a serious project." Brooke sighed, visibly upset by her answer. Lucas put his food down and leaned back against the headboard of the bed. Brooke curled into his side and rested her head against his shoulder. "I've gotta do this stuff Brooke, we need the money." He rubbed her belly affectionately. "I want this little guy to have everything he wants."

"I do too babe," she looked down smiling at her burgeoning belly. "This is how I know you'll be a great dad. You already care so much about him and he's not even here yet. It's kinda sexy, babe." She turned over as much as she could with her stomach in the way and ran her hand against his chest and pushed up against it, bringing herself eye to eye with her boyfriend. She pressed her lips against his, moving her body so that she could straddle him the best she could, but it was no use; her huge belly was in the way. "Ugh, this isn't working. I'm too big." She rolled off of him and leaned against the headboard again, crossing her arms with a pout on her face.

"It's so weird that mindblowing sex makes such a big cockblock." Lucas joked, causing a smile from his girlfriend. "Hey, you know we could have fun other ways" He leaned over, unbuttoning her jeans before she swatted his hand away.

"No, no, no. This is from me to you babe" she ran her hands across his belt, undoing it in the front before pulling his khakis down.

36 weeks.

"I'm done! I'm finally done! Get this baby out of here because this bun has been cooking long enough!" Brooke called through the apartment after she had gotten ready for their day with Nathan and Haley. Lucas laughed at her as she walked into the living room where he was talking to his brother and sister-in-law.

"Babe, you do know that just because you're nine months now doesn't necessarily mean that you're done right? Jay's gotta come out on his own." He put his arm around her as she joined him on the sofa.

"Ugh, Hales you're so lucky little Brooke is out already." She pouted, looking at her best friend with her baby in her arms. Emilia Brooke Scott was the cutest baby had seen as of yet. She only thought that because she hasn't seen her baby yet, and she was sure he would give baby Brooke a run for her money.

"Wait, so since you always call my kid baby Brooke, does that mean I can call yours baby Nathan?" Nathan raised his eyebrow from his place on the couch. Brooke rolled her eyes, burying her head into Lucas's side. "Aww, little Brooke's getting sensitive in her pregnancy."

"Luke!"

"Leave my girl alone, Nate," Lucas laughed as he rubbed Brooke's arm comfortingly "or we might have to figure out a new name for our son."

Nathan raised his hands in surrender "alright, alright I'll back off. Just wait though, this kid will end up liking his middle name more than his first. It's the name of champions." His cocky smile flashed across his face, making all three others in the room roll their eyes.

"Do you see how silly your daddy is Emmy? Do you?" Haley gushed to her daughter, who after eating was now sleeping peacefully in her mother's arms. The new mother looked up at Brooke and leaned back on the couch, adjusting the baby so she was resting against Haley's shoulder. "Just wait Brooke. You think it's bad now, but wait until you have to start worrying about surviving your day on an hour of sleep and losing all the nasty baby weight." Haley remarked jokingly, in all seriousness the young brunette loved being a mother and being at the beck and call of her and Nathan's daughter. The best part was seeing Nathan as a father, but she would let Brooke experience that with Lucas on her own.

"Well thankfully I've finished up my portfolio so I won't have to worry about finishing that and the baby at the same time." Although her mentor was doubtful of her ability to finish the portfolio on time for her graduation, Brooke was able to finish well before her mid-May graduation date. "Because God knows this little guy will need all my attention for a while." She rubbed her stomach affectionately. "But I think Luke has some good news to share too, huh Luke?" She looked to her boyfriend with raised eyebrows.

"Uh, yeah. Professor Irving has given me a chance to be his assistant while he's producing a movie." Lucas smiled shyly as Brooke pushed up against his chest to kiss his cheek. "I'll be working on film and production with him for the whole year while they get ready to release this mobster movie with Ryan Gosling and Robert De Niro." Lucas adjusted himself on the couch so that he could support Brooke's weight against him on the couch. "Irving said depending on how I do with this job, he would consider taking me on as a more permanent production assistant."

"Woah little brother, that's awesome!" Nathan congratulated his brother, shaking his hand. "Look at you, star pupil getting recognized." Nathan was truly proud of his brother.

"It's nothing in comparison to you, Nate. Hot shot at J.P. Morgan Chase? You really know how to heat up the competition, huh?" Lucas laughed softly at his brother. "But I'm really excited to start filming and everything in June plus it'll be nice to have a constant stream of money that doesn't leave me up 18 hours a day editing."

Haley placed her hand on Emilia's back, rubbing I softly "So you'll be working on set for a couple months?"

"Well my professor wants me to get exposure with basically every part of the industry with this project so I'll be there when they're editing the script in the beginning, then filming/direction, and then editing and marketing and all of that" Lucas knew it would be a long project with long nights and days away for filming and it would probably stretch Brooke and himself thin during the baby's first year.

38 weeks.

Brooke was two weeks overdue and miserable. She was waddling all over the place for the short amount of time she could bear to stay on her feet. Her ankles had swollen to an immeasurable size and no amount of massaging from Lucas could ease her pain like being a bum did. So, that's exactly what she did. Her doctor had told her some babies were just stubborn when it came to actually wanting to come out. Lucas mumbled under his breath that he was already taking after his mother and Brooke gave him a nice slap to the chest. They said if the baby didn't come out by the time she reached forty weeks, they would induce labor. At this particular moment, Brooke was sorting through the baby clothes Lucas's mother and uncle had given them.

"You are going to look adorable in these clothes, Jay. I can't wait to see you." She rubbed her belly affectionately as she folded the small clothing. "So, any chance you'd be willing to come out anytime soon? I promise it's not so bad out here." Lucas stood against the doorframe, watching Brooke talk to their unborn baby and he felt his heart swell by the minute. "Oh," she said suddenly, taking a hold of her lower stomach and back, "so you've decided to come out, huh?" She whispered to herself. "Luke! It's time!"

He was immediately at her side, helping her stand. "Okay, okay go wait by the door I'll get your bag and call a cab." He hurriedly got his phone out of his pocket and walked briskly over to their closet where Brooke had a suitcase for the hospital packed. He brought the suitcase out to the front and grabbed his apartment keys. "Okay, uh. Oh wow. This is a high stress situation." Brooke laughed through the pain searing through her lower back. "Oh man, you're in pain. Holy shit. Okay, we need to get to the hospital, where is that damn cab?"

When they finally got to the hospital and were settled into a room, the doctor came and told Brooke it wouldn't be much longer before she had to push. "Luke, can you call Nathan and Haley and your mom?"

"Already did babe, Nathan and Haley are on their way and my mom and Keith will be here in two days to visit." Lucas took her hand in his as another contraction hit and rubbed his thumb along the back of her hand. "You sure there's no one else you want me to call?" When met with two narrowed eyes, Lucas knew he had to tread carefully "like, uh, you know, uh your parents?" he was clearly really good at treading carefully.

"No." was her only reply. Short, but angry. He knew he would probably pay for that question later when they weren't just about to have a baby.

Brooke's labor was extremely long and extremely difficult, which showed in the fracture she caused in Lucas's hand. She apologized profusely afterward when Lucas had to go get a cast wrapped around his left hand.

"You, Jayden Scott, are the most beautiful baby I have ever seen in my life. Yes you are." Brooke couldn't stop kissing the baby in her arms. Lucas was still gone getting a cast for his hand, and Brooke was getting used to having her baby here.

"Hey family," Lucas walked through the doorway, placing a kiss on Brookes forehead. "Look at him, he's all you babe." The blond remarked, running his hand against his son's cheek.

"Not those eyes though, they're all you." She was referring to their baby's bluish-gray eyes. "Wanna hold your son, Luke?" She offered up the baby to her boyfriend, but he hesitated.

"I don't know, Brooke they've got me on some painkillers for my hand and I won't want to drop him or anything." Brooke moved over on the bed so that he could sit next to her.

"Here, now you can't drop him." She carefully transferred the baby into Lucas's arms and watched as her boyfriend's eyes widened.

"He's so little" Lucas whispered as he leaned down to place a small kiss on his son's forehead. He lingered a bit to inhale the sweet baby smell and give him another kiss. As he pulled back, the small bundle in his arms opened his eyes and looked up at both his parents. Brooke immediately smiled and said a soft 'hi baby' directed toward him and Lucas looked on proudly. This was his family.

The new parents watched in awe as Jayden wiggled both of his arms out and stretched as he yawned, his eyes closing as his mouth stretched wide and he cooed. "Look out world, there's a new Scott man in town." Lucas held the baby against his legs and raised the baby's hands above his head "And the crowd goes wild for Jayden Nathaniel Scott!" The baby yawned again during the show with his father.

"Oh, baby are you tired?" Brooke laughed at the interaction between father and son before taking him back into her arms when the nurse came in to take Jayden to the nursery. Brooke pouted, but kissed her son "We'll see you in the morning buddy." She passed him over to Luke, who also gave the baby a kiss and then put him into the bin, which the nurse rolled back to the nursery. "Babe," Brooke nudged her face into Lucas's side, "I miss him"

Lucas laughed and pulled Brooke in close to him "Brooke don't worry, we'll take him home tomorrow and then no one will be able to take him from you at the end of the day." He kissed the top of her head gingerly "Just get some rest babe, we've got a big day ahead of us tomorrow."

The next day, the new family of three arrived home. Brooke was in a lot of pain so she was resting in hers and Lucas's bed. Lucas was sitting on the couch with Jayden in his arms, watching television when he felt his phone buzzing in his pocket. He pulled it out and saw it was a text message from Haley saying she, Nathan and Emilia were outside. He put Jayden over his shoulder, keeping his hand on the baby's diaper-clad bottom as he went to open the door. "Hey guys, how's it going?" He spoke softly as to not wake the baby sleeping on his shoulder. He opened the door wider to let them in "I think Brooke might still be asleep, she's been in a lot of pain and they can't give her anything good for it because of the breastfeeding."

"I'll go check on her," Haley looked to her husband and offered him the baby "Nate, can you take her?" After leaving her daughter in her husband's arms, Haley made her way through the small apartment into Brooke and Lucas's room. As she opened the door, she saw Brooke wake up and immediately felt bad. "Oh, honey I'm sorry. Go back to sleep if you're tired."

"No way I'm not tired" Brooke said mid-yawn. "Come sit with me, I feel like I haven't seen you in forever." She sat up against the headboard, patting the bed space next to her. "There's too much testosterone around me these days." She let out a small laugh.

After sitting on the bed, Haley bumped her shoulder with Brooke's. "Whatever you love them both Tigger," Haley smiled as Brooke sighed with content and lay her head against Haley's shoulder. "So, how do you like motherhood so far?"

Brooke lifted her head from Haley's shoulder and shrugged, "Well, it's been a day and the kid's still alive so that's something." She smirked, then shook her head "But in all seriousness I love him more than I thought I could love anyone in the world. It's the strangest thing."

"But also the most normal thing; all mothers feel that way Tig. It's a strange thing to get used to, but if you stop overthinking it and just let it happen, you get to experience all these awesome things that you've never experienced before." Considering Haley had only begun this experience a couple weeks before Brooke, she didn't have much more to say beyond that. "Are you happy Brooke?"

"I'm graduating in a month, I have a beautiful son with the gorgeous man I love, and I have the best friends a girl could ask for." Brooke continued "I'm the happiest I could ever be Hales." She teared up a little bit, then laughed "Fucking hormones"

AN: Alright, I know it's shorter than the last chapter but it's almost been a week and I wanted to get this update out to you guys. I want to say thank you to OTH12, Brucas10, BrOoKe DaViS23, liz, VFBFan, Libby, and dianehermans for reviewing.

Brucas10-I know I've been searching for so long trying to find a good new Brucas fanfic but there's literally none out there because no one's making them. It's super sad but I figured I could do something about it :)

Libby-I agree I'm really over Brucas always having a girl first. It's cute and all, but over-done and super boring.