Chapter 2
Somebody's Hero
Lucas and Nathan went running into the school. They walked through the door that had the glass shot out of it.
"Look, there's blood." Lucas had a bad thought in his mind that it was Brooke's.
"Just relax," Nathan could see the fear in Lucas's eyes, "I'm sure it's not Brooke's."
"Yeah but it's someone's."
They followed the blood through the hallway where they figured the shooter was standing because there were three bullet holes in the ceiling and of course the bullet that went through the door. They went off track a little bit to go into Whitey's office to get something to protect them.
"What are you doing?" Nathan asked his brother who he thought was half nuts to have the idea to go into a school that was shot up.
"I'm going to find Brooke, and then Peyton." Lucas pulled a baseball bat out of a basket.
"And you think that you're going to stop a speeding bulled with a bat? Don't go trying to be a hero Lucas. The hero always dies."
"I have too." Lucas left the room and went back to following the blood. Nathan followed but wasn't too happy about it.
The blood led them to the library. They quietly opened the doors and stood on the steps looking down to see if they could see anyone.
"Stay up here. Then we both can't be shot at the same time." Lucas was quick to assume the worst.
"Lucas, don't say that!" Nathan was getting very aggravated.
Lucas went down the steps and heard a noise coming from behind a bookshelf. He looked up a Nathan whose eyes widened.
He walked over to where he heard a noise and got ready to swing his bat. All of a sudden he saw Brooke sitting there with blood running down her leg.
"Oh my god! Brooke, are you ok?!" He knelt down and put is hand on her leg. Brooke winced and Lucas took his hand off.
"I got glass in my leg!" Brooke was balling at this point. "I am so glad to see you Luke."
"You too pretty girl" Lucas was just happy Brooke was alive.
Nathan came running down the stairs to see what was going on.
"Brooke, are you ok?"
"I got glass in my leg" Brooke winced at the pain.
"Luke, it's not safe here. The doors don't lock and there is nothing big enough to put in front of them that we could actually lift." Nathan was trying to think of a place that was near here that locked so that they didn't have to carry her far considering that she was in so much pain.
"How about the Tutor Center? Those doors lock, right?" That is the only place Lucas could think of that was close.
"Yeah, but I don't think I can make it that far. Anything that barely touches my leg makes it hurt worse." Brooke was trying to get if out between sobs.
Lucas picked her up as gently as possible and walked up the steps and out of the library.
As they were walking out of the library, Nathan saw Mouth walking. He ran up behind him and through him against a wall and covered his mouth.
"What are you doing in here?" Nathan whispered to Mouth.
"I came out of the editing room and it looked like Dawn of the Dead." Mouth was confused.
"Don't say dead. Someone has a gun in the school." Nathan just wanted to get somewhere safe.
Mouth suddenly saw Brooke and ran over to her.
"Brooke, are you ok?" Mouth has had a secret crush on her for as long as he could remember.
"Yeah, I have some glass in my leg and I just want to sit down because it is really starting to hurt badly." Her pain got worse the longer Lucas was carrying her.
When they got to the Tutor Center Nathan knocked on the door and everyone inside the room jumped and got up in surprise. Eric moved in front of the girls.
"Its Nathan, Lucas, and Mouth. Let us in." Nathan was just hoping they would let them in as soon as possible.
"We don't believe you!" Eric yelled through the door.
Nathan threw his driver's license under the door along with Lucas's and Mouth's.
"It's them! Let them in!" Peyton yelled at Eric.
"How do you know someone didn't kill them and take there IDs?" Eric yelled back at Peyton.
"Just open it." Peyton yelled.
"No, don't!" Abby yelled.
Peyton walked over to where Eric was standing, pushed him out of the way, and opened the door. Nathan, Mouth, and Lucas who was carrying Brooke all walked in the room.
"Brooke!" Peyton ran over to her best friend.
"I'm ok Peyton, I just need to rest and then we can get out of here."
"NO ONE IS GOING ANYWHERE!" Jimmy yelled as he held the gun in his hand.
