This chapter follows the episode a bit, but bear with me...


Nathan held the bat tightly as he heard someone behind him. He stopped walking and raised the bat, throwing the guy behind him to the wall. It was Mouth.

"What the hell are you doing here?" Nathan asked.

"Where is everyone?" Mouth asked. "What's going on?"

"Someone has a gun, you have to get out of here," Nathan said.

"What about you?" Mouth asked.

"I'm going to get Haley," he said simply. Mouth saw the look of deadly concentration on Nathans face and knew that even bullets wouldn't stop Nathan from trying to get to his wife.

"I'll stay with you," Mouth said firmly. Nathan didn't argue. He was clearly heading towards the tutor center and Mouth stayed as close to Nathan's shadow as possible.


Haley flicked the light off and the lock down in the tutor center. She was trapped in a room with half a dozen people, some of them she knew, some she didn't. Rachel, Skills and three people she didn't know. A quiet girl, a smartass guy who couldn't keep his mouth shut and a boy she vaguely recognised as Jimmy Edwards, a guy who used to be friends with Luke and Mouth.

She prayed to herself that Nathan hadn't got in to school yet. He was usually late so she hoped that meant he would be safe. God, if anything happened to Nathan she didn't know what she'd do. What about Lucas? Brooke, Peyton?

"We could break the window," the smart mouth guy said.

"It doesn't go anywhere, its enclosed. Its just for light," Haley told them. An argument started to ensue but she wasn't really paying attention. She had her eyes closed, hoping that everyone was safe. She heard something to her left and looked at the door. There was a scuffle and then a knock. Everyone froze.

"Haley it's me," Nathan's familiar voice said through the door. Haley rushed up to unlock it, ignoring everyone else's protests. As soon as the door was open she fell into his arms, barely paying attention to Mouth coming behind him. "We're getting out of here," Nathan said as Haley's head buried into his shoulder.

"I wouldn't do that." Everyone froze as Jimmy Edwards was pointing a gun at them. "Shut the door." Slowly Nathan did what Jimmy told him to, one hand tightly on Haley's arm.


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