Thanks again for the reviews everyone! Here is Chapter 3. Just wrote it Today. Took me a good 2-3 hours.
Every time I read the reviews, I get so excited, So I feel like I have to get right on to another chapter.
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Disclaimer: Yeah, yeah, I don't own One Tree Hill. Unfortunately the only thing I own is Trucker. That nasty, old turd. Whatever. He's the one that made the story interesting.
Hope you guys enjoy!
PREVIOUSLY: Sam rested her head onto Brooke's chest and closed her eyes, Brookes voice was mesmerizing to Sam.
"Just wake me when it's morning." That's all Sam could say.
Feeling the gentle rubbing of her back, Sam closed her eyes, cleared her mind, and curled up into Brooke like a sleeping toddler.
She was spent, she was worn out, she was hurt, she was aching, she was embarrassed, she was depressed, but non the less she was in the arms of her protector, and knew that nothing could ever touch her or hurt her again. Samantha was once again, loved and saved by a fascinating being we all call Brooke Davis.
Return To Me
Brooke slept for maybe two hours. It was 6:30 in the morning and she couldn't believe last night was actually real. She still lay in the bed next to Sam, just staring at her, gently hovering her hand all over her cuts and silently crying. She then closed her eyes, pretended to believe that there wasn't anything wrong with her. For a few seconds, Brooke imagined she was at home on a Saturday morning, watching Sam sleep peacefully and unharmed, making breakfast, going shopping, laughing, and smiling. Brooke would kill to see Samantha's beautiful smile, but she now knows that it's going to take a while for her to ever see that. Who did this to you Sam? I need you to talk to me, please. I can't figure this out on my own, I need my girl. Brooke said to herself.
Jamie is sitting at the kitchen table throwing his crunch berries at his father, while Nathan launches grapes at Jamie's forehead. The awesome duo laughed and laughed until the wife and mother of the house, Haley walks in, sophisticated and beautiful, with a smile on her face and looks at Nathan.
"Wow, I thought I only had one child?" Haley said, showing her paint white teeth.
"Oh, come on honey, you only live once. At least I'm throwing the healthy stuff." Nathan said in all seriousness, but Haley doesn't buy it, obviously.
"Daddy, shouldn't I be throwing the unhealthy stuff? You should be eating the grapes, right?" Jamie said. Totally outsmarting his father.
"Your son has a point. Clean up this mess please. Jamie you have to be at school in 15 minutes and I have to get to the studio to pick some stuff up for Peyton." Haley said in mother tone.
Then the phone suddenly rang and Nathan looked at Haley strange.
"I GOT ITTTTT!" Jamie said loudly.
"Who could possibly be calling the house at 7 in the morning?" Nathan said, curiously.
"Hi Aunt Brooke!" Jamie continued on the phone.
Haley looked at Nathan with worry on her face, because Brooke has never called her house, not this early, she could feel like something wasn't right.
"Jamie say bye and give mommy the phone, please."
"Aw man, well Aunt Brooke, Mommy says I gotta get ready for school, so I'll talk to you later, bye! Love you!" Jamie said running 3 steps to his mother, handing her the phone, and running up the stairs. Nathan starts to clean up the mess him and Jamie made and cleans the dishes from breakfast, while he somewhat eavesdropped on Haley and Brooke's conversation.
"Brooke, hey, what's going on?"
Brooke started to tell Haley everything that had happened that night, she even told her that Sam had been raped. Brooke knew that Sam probably didn't want anyone to know about what had happened, but she had to tell someone. So, why not Haley, one of her best friends, and the one second closest to Sam. Nathan's face was locked in with Haley's. He knew that face, he knew that Haley was about to cry, but he knew she would hold it in so Jamie wouldn't notice anything was wrong.
"I'll be up there as soon as I can. Brooke everything's gonna be ok, I'll be there I promise." Haley said trying to gather her voice back together, and remove the lump she had in her throat. She then hung up the phone, luckily Jamie was still upstairs so he couldn't hear what Haley was about to tell Nathan. She wasn't obviously going to tell Nathan the whole truth only because Brooke said that Sam doesn't want anyone to know.
"Babe, what's goin on?" Nathan asked, worried.
"It's Sam, Nathan. She uhh.. she was in some kind of accident, I'm gonna head up to the hospital and be there with Brooke." Haley said trying to cover the cracks of the small lie.
"Wait, Brooke is with her? I thought she left to stay with her mother?" Nathan said, with a somewhat confused face.
"Honey, I'll explain all of this later, Can you please drop Jamie off at school? Just tell him that I had to get to the studio quicker than I thought. Ok? I love you." Haley said wrapping her arms around her husband and kissing him.
"Alright, I will. Please be careful on your way there." Nathan said as Haley walked to the front door.
"Haley, whatever happened, Sam will be alright. She's always been a hard-ass. She'll be ok" Nathan said, trying calm Haley a bit, maybe hoping she would relax. Haley just smiled.
"Yeah I hope you're right."
Haley walked out of the door.
Sam was still sleeping peacefully in her hospital bed. Brooke was sitting on one of the chairs, flipping through the channels, bored out of her mind, but she couldn't leave. She promised Sam that when she woke up, she would be right there, by her side. But she then thought to herself... Sam is probably worn out, and knowing her sleeping schedule, she most likely won't wake up until 1 or 2pm. I need coffee. She walked quietly, but quickly out the door. Asking one of the nurses to stay in the room in case she wakes up to let her know that Brooke hadn't left her and she'd be back in 2 seconds.
Brooke was filling up her cup with coffee, when she heard a familiar voice.
"Brooke, hey, how is she, how's Sam?" It was Haley. Brooke put her cup down and the two hugged for a good 30 seconds. It was comforting for the both of them.
"She's still sleeping. Haley, it's bad. I don't know what to do, I feel so helpless, but I know, it's her, she's the one that's so helpless. Every time I look at her, I want to cry and then I want to hunt down the scumbag, creep that did this to her." Brooke said with anger in her voice as she spoke that last sentence. Haley put her hand on Brooke's shoulder.
"Have you tried talking to her about what's possible if she goes through with the examination?" Haley asked with curiosity.
"No, I didn't want to bombard her with questions last night. I just let her sleep and told her we would talk about all that stuff when she wakes up. Speaking of, we should really get back to the room cause I promised her I would be there when she opened her eyes." Brooke said grabbing her coffee and heading towards Sam's room with Haley.
"Brooke, are you sure it's a good idea that I'm in the room? What if she wakes up and get's mad that I'm here? I don't want her to get stressed because of me." Haley said nervously.
"Haley, you're her teacher, you're the one who discovered this girl, and you're the one who gave her to me. By all means, please stay. It's kind of boring around here when she's sleeping. Just stay for a little bit."
"Oh Brooke, You had me at 'Haley'." Haley said with a smirk on her face, hugging Brooke once more.
It was now almost 8:30am, Sam was still sleeping and Brooke and Haley were sitting down in the room having small talk. But, it then turned into a somewhat big talk.
"Haley, do you think I should call Julian?" Brooke asked.
"I don't know, I mean, do you think that Sam would want that?" Haley said back.
"It's just that... He cared so much about Sam and would never want to see anything happen to her. He loves her, you know, I just..." Brooke said as her words traveled in different directions.
"Maybe you should ask Sam that." Just as Haley spoke those words, Sam's eyes opened.
"Ask me what?" A still weak and sleep-eyed Sam had said quietly.
"Hi there sleepy head. I'm surprised you're awake. I was guessing maybe 3 more hours." Brooke said with a light, optimistic voice as she rubbed Sam's head, pulling the hair away from her face.
Sam smirked just a little bit, but not close enough to even be considered a smile, Brooke looked a little dissappointed. Sam then looked at Haley into her sympathetic eyes.
"Hi, Haley. I'm surprised to see you here." Sam said.
"Yeah, I hope you're okay with that" Haley said
"It's okay, I'm not the only person that needs comforting." Sam said while looking at Brooke.
Brooke smiled a little bit.
"Well, I'm gonna go get me some coffee, I'll leave you two alone so you can talk." Haley walked out of the room.
Brooke looked at Sam in silence and then knew that what Sam didn't want to talk about, had to be talked about.
"Sam, I know you don't want to talk about this, but we have to. It will all be over with soon, I promise. But there is a doctor here who would like to talk to you about a few things. She is a specialist in gathering evidence from victims of.." Brooke's reassuring, motherly tone was cut off by Sam.
"... Rape. I know, I don't want to do it." Sam had this dead tone in her voice, she said it with no feeling.
"Sweetheart, are you sure about this? Don't you want this guy to be put away for what he did?" Brooke said, with a worried, scared voice.
"It's not that I don't want to do it because I'm scared. I don't want to do it because I know who did this to me." As Sam said that, her eyes started to well. Brooke grabbed Sam's hand and squeezed it.
"Honey, If you're not comfortable telling the police, I can do it." Brooke said, trying to comfort Sam. But, Brooke could tell Sam was about snap. She had this rage in her face, and then soon in her voice.
"No, I want to do it, I want this guy to pay. I hate him. I hate him so much. I can still feel him on me, and I want it off. I want it go away, I want him to die! I WANT TO KILL HIM! HE DID THIS TO ME, BROOKE. I WILL NEVER FORGET WHAT HE DID!" Sam was officially scaring Brooke. She grabbed Sam to calm her down. At this point, Sam was crying hysterically, making Brooke cry. Brooke was like a magnet and Sam was like steal just flinging into her arms and holding on for dear life. Sam cried and cried. Brooke rubbed her back and soothed her and told her to relax, to rest, and told her everything was going to be ok.
"Breathe, honey, just breathe. Shhhh. Come on, baby. Look at me." Brooke said, still tears falling down her face. She grabbed Sam's face and made her look into Brooke's eyes.
"Samantha, I promise, I will never let anything happen to you, ever. You will always be mine. I will always be there for you. I'll never stop watching over you. Sam, you are the bravest girl I have ever known. I'll never stop loving you, sweetheart." Brooke said, with a stern, motherly tone to her voice.
Sam looked at Brooke, wide eyed. Her tears had stopped. She believed Brooke. She really did feel safe, whether she was in Brooke's arms or if she was just standing right next to her. She knew nothing could come between them. Sam loved Brooke for this. She knew she would never get heart ever again.
"I love you, Brooke. I'm so sorry that I left you. I never should have, I thought it was a good idea, but look what happend!" Sam said starting to cry.
"Sam, stop. Wipe those tears away. This isn't your fault, you don't need to apologize for anything, do you understand me?" Brooke said staring into Sam's big brown eyes.
"Okay. Is Rebecca going to be okay?" Sam asked with concern.
"I'm sure she's okay. I haven't talked to any doctors. Would you like me to ask?" Brooke said.
"Yes, that's if you don't mind. I just want to make sure she's okay, because I want to talk to her and tell her how sorry I am, and that I don't want to live with her anymore."
Brooke touched the side of Sam's face softly with a slight smile. "Okay."
Everything was said and done with and Haley had left to be with her family, she hugged Sam and told her that if she ever needed or wanted to talk that she will always be there for her. Sam then went and talked to Rebecca. They aplogized to eachother. Rebecca feeling the worst because she knows that this is all her fault. But, she understands. She didn't want to talk to Brooke. She knew that Sam would be safe and better off. They gave each other a hug and it ended there. As bad as Sam felt, she knew that moving back with Brooke was what was best for her. If she continued living with Rebecca, she knew that that house would give her nothing but nightmares.
Sam then went to the police, gave them his first name, she didn't know his last, but said that Rebecca would be more than happy to give them the rest of the information. Sam finally gave them a discription of what he looked like, and where you could find him. Hopefully they would. The cops told Sam how brave she was, had a talk with Brooke and finally, Sam could go home.
"Let's go home." Brooke said wrapping one arm around Sam, kissing the side of her face and walking out through the doors of the hospital.
Sam breathed in the cool, afternoon air slowly as she was walking with Brooke.
"Home, it sounds like a nice place, I think I've been there before." She smiled, rested her head on Brooke's shoulder and walked to the car. Brooke looked down at Sam.
"You smiled." Brooke said, making her smile even bigger.
"I'm just happy that I'm yours." Sam said smiling once again.
They get into the car and drive away.
"Can we please get some pizza when we get home, I'm starving." They both laughed and drove to the place they had been anticipating since that morning... home.
Samantha was happy, despite what happened. There will be obsiticles along the way and Brooke will be there to help her through all of the hurt she has been going through. She will forever feel safe, knowing that she now has her real mother back with open arms. Nothing else in this world sounded better than that.
