Thicker than Blood

Chapter 2

Okay, I was totally floored when I saw the amount of responses (care to give some of my other stories some love hehehe), I really did not expect that many and now I'm actually a little nervous about living up to the hype, I mean Angie Elle and Bindy417 (More than Anyone is my favorite story ever!!! And I took your advice on the thoughts) reviewed me, I seriously need to step up my game.

Responding to some of the reviews. I was sort of getting really tired while typing and the ending was just something completely random, I thought of (with the whole Mrs. Scott and Holly John Scott), I actually laughed really hard when I wrote that down. I remember Dan mispronouncing Haley's name on the show and thought that was the funniest thing ever. FYI, the questions Haley asking about sex is actually what they really ask when you donate blood. When I gave blood last week, I thought to myself, if I was Nathan and if I had Haley as a nurse, how would this go.

Want to live out the story, visit your local Red Cross, they could use all the help (and it doesn't hurt that my job gives me 4 hours of administrative leave to donate). So that's how the story started and like last chapter, I'm just going to let things flow.

Enjoy and please review !!!

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Nathan woke up with a huge headache. What the hell happened to me? Nathan stood up but immediately sat back down, he wasn't quite ready yet. Just then Lucas entered their dorm room and put his bag on the floor. He suddenly looked very angry and annoyed.

"What the hell is your problem?!"

"Geez, Luke I'm right here, no need to yell." Nathan's headache getting worse.

"I had to drag your ass back here and miss out on a perfectly good party."

"You're just mad cuz you didn't get ass...especially from Brooke." He added with a smirk. Lucas threw him a pillow at him.

Lucas instantly blushed. Nathan wondered how long it was going to be before he admitted that he likes Brooke.

"You know not everything is about sex."

"Then what's the point?"

A typical response from his brother,"You know next time, I'm going to leave your ass behind.. and speaking of next time, there won't be one.. what the hell was up with you binging?"

"I wasn't binging." Nathan said with an ounce of pain his voice, his head still throbbing.

"Did Dan…" The tone in Lucas voice started to get serious.

"Relax Mom." Nathan cut him off. "I only had one beer… okay maybe two."

"Was it a bottle of beer or did you mistake beer for vodka?"

"I donated blood you idiot and apparently you're not suppose to drink."

Lucas immediately started laughing, "I could've told you that."

"Gee thanks for the heads up." Nathan put his hands on his temples.

"Didn't they tell you that when you donated?" Lucas was still chuckling.

"Yeah, I sort of wasn't paying attention." Nathan started to remember why. Haley's lips were moving but he didn't hear a sound. All he wanted to do was kiss her. He immediately tried to shake that thought of his mind. What is it with that girl?

"Figures." Lucas said getting up. "At least you did something good… for once" He emphasized the last part.

"It was either that or fail a quiz."

Lucas scoffed. "To think I thought you were doing something nice."

"Oh, God forbid."

Lucas grabbed some clothes from his dresser, getting ready to take a shower. "Just please tell me you didn't hook up with some random chick last night.. God .. you were really out of it talking about some girl..(Lucas couldn't remember the name) or as you called .. 'the one'.." Lucas said laughing.

Nathan started to laugh too. Me settle down, right. Haley Scott.. what who said that?! God I must still be drunk.

"I hope it wasn't Rachel.. her voice erks me or Carrie, she just creeps me out.." Lucas added, gathering his things.

He remembered the last time he saw both of them and cringed. He remembered when some stalker girl Carrie from a rival high school tried to seduce him, even skinny dipping in his pool. That was enough to send Nathan over the edge. He immediately got up and ran into the bathroom before Lucas could get in, throwing up in the toilet.

"Daymmit Nate!!"

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Peyton walked up to Haley from behind and offered her a piece of paper.

"God Peyton, you almost scared me."

"Sorry."

"What is this?" Haley asked, opening the paper.

"Jake's number."

Haley gasped. "You didn't!"

"I did!"

"Wait, he gave you his number?"

"Well, not really."

"Peyton Sawyer! Patient info is strictly confidential!"

"Well not if he had an easy number to remember.. (Haley rolled her eyes) ..besides I'm sure you can go and find Nathan's number."

At the sound of his name, Haley immediately tensed up. "Gross, Peyt."

"What? I won't tell.. besides, I saw the way he was looking at you."

"Not my fault guys find me irresistible." She teased.

Peyton faked cough. "You wish.. but I saw you looking too?" She teased back.

"Me.. God you're seeing things."

Peyton started laughing, "Haha please, I was about to go in the back and hand you a condom!"

"Peyton!" Haley was in shock but Peyton kept laughing harder. Haley rolled her eyes again, "Look, this is my building.. BYE!"

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It had been two days since Nathan donated blood and he still couldn't get Haley James out of his mind. In fact, he started to think every 5'4 brown haired girl was her, until he came up to them and being quickly disappointed. He even started to hear things. He shuddered, trying to forget the embarrassing incident he had with Jake with yesterday.

--- Flashback ---

Nathan and Jake walked out of the gym after basketball practice. "You okay? You seemed off?" Jake asked.

"Oh yeah.. apparently you're not supposed to donate blood and then drink."

Jake giggled. "Geez, didn't they tell you that?"

Nathan laughed and shrugged his shoulders. With the blood donation topic brought back up, his mind once again drifted to Haley. The two continued to walk and Jake noticed someone from his class.

"Amy!" Jake called out.

"Haley?" Nathan looked around..

"Huh?" Jake asked, looking at his friend.

"Where?"

"Who?"

"What?"

"Huh?"

By this point, Jake was really confused and wondered what the hell was up with Nathan. Nathan looked nervous and tried not to look at Jake who just looked at him completely baffled.

"Jake!" Amy called out and took Jake back to reality. He ran over to her and pulled out a notebook from his bag. "Thanks for the notes.. I'll see you in class." Jake waved bye to her and then came back to Nathan who still looked really out of it.

"Jesus Nate.. I think they took out more than blood yesterday." Jake joked.

More like my heart.

-- End of Flashback --

Nathan shook his head as the scene replayed in his mind. He leaned against the railing and looked at his watch. What the hell is taking Lucas so long? He looked around again and saw the crowds of student moving in and out. A brown haired girl came out from the building. Great, I'm imagining things again… wait crap .. no I'm not.

Nathan quickly started walking to her. Haley looked up and saw Nathan walking right to her, her heart suddenly pounding a mile a minute. She tried to turn and walk the other way but it was too late. He stood in front of her, blocking her way.

"Great, are you stalking me now too?"

"Stalking? What? I can't say hi to a friend."

She started to laugh and Nathan couldn't help but melt at the sight of her smile. "Friend .. haha." She came out saying, his facial expression now changed.

"We're not friends Nathan."

"Yes we are, we dropped the pleasantries of 'Mr. Scott.' .. now we're on a first name basis, HALEY." He emphasized her name and she rolled her eyes.

"You're delusional."

"And that shirt looks really hot on you." He quickly added. She started to blush and put her books up against her chest. I knew this shirt showed too much cleavage.

"God.. you're soo.."

"Hot." He finished for her "I know it's a curse."

"You're definitely, a curse." She muttered. "Look, I don't have time for this."

"Well maybe you'll have time later.. we can discuss it over dinner .. 7 work for you?"

"Dinner?! Are you crazy?!"

"Fine.. we can just go skip to the sex.." Nathan threw his hands up. "I mean we both know that's what you want."

She was so mad that she was about to slap him but a voice stopped her.

"Haley?"

Nathan and Haley turned around, "Lucas." They said at the same time.

Then they quickly looked and pointed at each other. "You know Lucas?" They both said at the same time. Weird, Lucas thought to himself.

"Jinx!" Nathan quickly called out.

"What're you.. like 5!?" Haley couldn't believe it.

"Do you two know each other?" Lucas asked a bit confused.

"Yes." "No." They both responded at the same time.

"What do you mean you don't know me?! We're on a first name basis… it's like we're old high school sweethearts." Nathan came out saying.

"WHAT!? That makes no sense .. I just met you .. I don't even know you!"

"That's what dinners for, duh! Or you still wanna skip that part?"

"Still!? How dare you…" The two continued to argue.

Lucas watched in confusion, Did I miss something? Nathan couldn't stop grinning and Haley looked heated and flustered. Lucas smiled at himself. He saw something in his brother that he never thought he'd see. He looked over at Haley. Ahh yes..Haley James. And then it all made sense. He finally got to meet, Holly John Scott.

To Be Continued . . .

I have a few ideas for the next 2-3 chapters, again I'm mostly winging it. I wasn't going to update tonight but what hell, it is OTH day! Thank you guys and please review.

I have to get this out of my chest, do not read further if you haven't seen tonight's OTH.

-Lucas/Peyton fight, almost made me want to pull a Leyton on this story, it was the first time I seen chemistry between then since season 1, before brooke came along

-James is too cute for his own good

-Nathan was not gawking at Carrie at the end, I rewatched it on my dvr to make sure, he looks worried not at all turned on and for good reason, I think he knows something is up with her.

-Also I do not believe that she just happened to have a crush or whatever at Nathan, she's after someone either Nathan or Haley. I'm trying to think of any enemies Haley might have but the only one that comes close to is Rachel and Chris but doubtful they had anything to do with her. Dan could be plotting something from prison, but highly doubt that.

-I'm thinking she's an ex hook up of Nathan (pre season 1) looking for revenge or the fact that she was from Pontiac (the school the Ravens beat for the championship in s4) and since Nathan being captain and lead scorer for the ravens along with the point shaving, she might have some revenge thing going on, she did say she cried for a week after they lost, who knows, that's what I'm thinking because I'm pretty sure Mark is that dumb