Chapter 3

"Hey Kidd, I have to run. My wife's harping about how I'm never home on time again." Getting up from his desk, their boss heads for the door. "Just get your work done, and make sure you don't leave her here alone."
"Her…?"
"Yeah, she's not stupid either so don't go giving her any wise ideas. Oh, and treat her well otherwise I'll have to use what I know. She's sitting over there at the worktable."
"Alright," he says watching as his boss takes off. Looking over at where Haley's sitting writing he studies her. Seeing her blonde hair falling down along her back he starts to feel nervous. This was the first time that their boss had ever allowed any strangers stay around the shop for any length of time without having a good solid reason.
Walking over towards her he takes his time. Anxious, which for him wasn't necessarily usual, he slowly comes up to the worktable. Slowly leaning up against it to get a better look at her he's half startled to find out who it is.
"Hales…?"
Looking up from her writing, Haley is shocked to see who it is. Speechless, she just sits there studying him. How could this be? Lucas was supposed to be dead, but instead he stood there looking down at her.
"So Kidd? That's a new one," she says after awhile.
"Yeah, I don't know why they insist on comparing me to him."
"You're good. I don't know if you're as good as him though. Jason's one of your favorite players, but I suppose they don't know that."
"You're going to Stanford," Lucas says pulling up a stool. "That's the last thing I would expect considering…"
"It's complicated, trust me it's not completely how it seems."
"Are you and Nate together?"
"No," Haley says looking down at her hands. "Not much is how it was then."
"I gather that. I just can't believe he would leave you like that… this." Looking down at her huge belly he realizes that she's still very much pregnant.

"Okay, I can't believe I'm saying this, but stop staring at me. Besides, shouldn't he be back by now, it's been hours?"
"I just can't wrap my mind around the idea that you and Nate aren't together."
"Look," Haley says getting up from her stool. "After you weren't around anymore a lot of things changed. One of them being that me and Nate aren't together anymore. Just incase you need to know, it has a lot to do with you."
"Hales...!"
"What…?"
"Your water," Lucas says looking down at the floor. "Your water, it broke."
"Oh my gosh. Luke I'm not ready. I don't have any of my stuff with me."
"Let's just focus on getting you to the hospital for right now. Okay…?"
"What if…"
Picking her up and scooping her up into his arms before she can finish asking him the question Lucas carries her out to his car. Opening the back door, he lays her down in the back seat. Going back in the shop, after he closes the car door, he hurries to lock up the shop.
"Well that was one way to shut a girl up," she says as he gets into the driver's seat. "You didn't hurt yourself did you?"
"You're pregnant and you're asking me if I hurt my shoulder?"
"Yes, I don't want you hurting yourself because of me. Besides you were shot."
"That was months ago," he says as he fires up the car and pulls out of the parking lot. "I'm feeling a lot better nowadays."

"Shouldn't you be going back to work?"
"You're having contractions Hales, I'm staying here with you. I can work on that car tomorrow."
"Luke you don't have to stay," Haley says looking away from him. "I don't need you to stay."
"I'm your best friend. I should be here."

"Brendan," Claire yells coming into the shop. "You're somewhere in here right?"
"Yeah, I'm in here."
"There you are. I checked the house, but you two weren't there and then I thought I'd come by here to check to see if you were here."
"Well I'm here," he says looking coming over to her. "Haley on the other hand isn't."
"What do you mean she's not here?"
"I mean, I went out on a call and when I came back she wasn't here."
"I didn't think it was that hard for you to keep an eye on her for part of a day." Yelling at him she gives him a slight smack up side the head. "No, you have to go and mess it up."
"I get it you're upset. The boss was here when I left, so I thought it'd be okay to leave her here while I went out on my call."
"Well do you have any idea where she might be?"
"I don't know really, but Kidd's car isn't here and it was when I left." Brendan says looking out front at where their cars are. "How far along was she? That seems like a better question."
"Um, it was getting close to the time that she was due."
"Maybe someone took her to the hospital then."
"She must be horrified then," Claire says looking even more worried then before. "I mean she doesn't even really know either one of those guys."

"Ugh," Haley screams as she gives a push. Holding her as he sits behind her Lucas holds her hands in his. As she squeezes his hands he winces slightly, but at the same time he's also smiling. At first he found the whole situation strange, he thought Nathan should be there. Now he found that it just felt right for him to be there with her during this moment in her life.
"Come on just another push."
Giving another push Haley feels relieved as she sees the doctor holding the baby. Smiling she looks over at Lucas as he leans up against her, hugging her. Leaning forward slightly to allow for Lucas to get out from behind her Haley watches him as he gets off of the hospital bed.
"How is he?"
"He may be slightly early coming out, but he's healthy." Cleaning the baby up the doctor looks over at Lucas and then over at Haley. "He's going to be a looker that's for sure."
"That isn't surprising."
Coming over to her the doctor carefully hands her the baby. Looking down at her newborn son, Haley smiles down at him a gigantic smile. Sitting down on the bed next to her as the doctor starts to head towards the foot of the bed Lucas starts to study the baby.
"Now there's a picture for the family photo album," the doctor says as she takes a picture of the three of them.