Brooke Davis: Loves Tragic Encounters

Chapter Four: "Rescue Me"

Authors Note: Hey, everyone, I hope you are enjoying my story so far. If not, sorry…. LOL. This will be the last chapter in this story for Brooke and Jesse for a while; it will shift gears into a Brooke and Lucas… so all you BRUCAS lovers out there will really want to tune in to this now… ;) Anyways, here is chapter four, please enjoy.

Disclaimer: I sadly do not own the show One Tree Hill or its amazing characters…. Just borrowing them for my own dramatic entertainment… 3

All my Love,

Hope

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"I wanted you to know that I love the way you laugh

I wanna hold you high and steal you pain… away."

Lucas stepped foot into the house he had not set foot in for the past four years. He felt nervous, sick even not knowing how to approach them about the situation. He would just wing it after all they all cared and loved Brooke. "Lucas! Oh my god, I missed you! When did you get back?" "Last night. Well, early afternoon really. How are you, Hales?" "I'm doing well, thanks. I wish you could see Jamie and Nathan, but they are having a father son day at the River Court." "It's Okay; I will catch them another time. I was actually coming here to see you anyways…" "Lucas, you never really come here to talk to just me unless something is wrong… What is it? Are you Okay?" "I am fine, Hales, but our friend is well…. Not that Okay…""I assume, you are referring to Brooke?" "Yes, Hales, you are closer to her than Peyton… ever since she and Jake married and moved to LA." "I know… and I am worried about her, too, Luke." I know something is wrong… she is just not Brooke anymore… when I saw her…" "Wait, when did you see her? I have been trying to contact her for about three weeks now and I went to her house and she was not there…. She has not even been at the store and…." "Haley, calm down please…. We talked a lot; she has gotten skinny she is too skinny now. Brooke is in pain, Hales… she is in pain emotionally and physically. Hales, we have to help her we just have to…. I cannot lose her…" Lucas said as tears slipped down his cheeks once more it felt as though he has been crying for hours on end. He was not the crying type of guy but with the overwhelming helplessness he now felt inside of his heart crying seemed to be the only thing the blonde haired blue eyed man could do at this point. "I know, Luke… and we will. We will get through this together. She will be alright, she is Brooke Davis…. Brooke is a fighter. We have both had our fair share of seeing that side of Brooke over the years, huh?" Haley said making Lucas smile a little as well as chuckle at the thought. They pulled up to Brooke's house their hearts in their throats, shaking, not sure of what they might find… taking a deep breath, stepping forward towards the door knowing that whatever is happening or has happened in that house is better seeing than ignoring.

"Because I am broken when I'm lonesome

And I don't feel right when you're gone away…"

Brooke was lying on the floor, feeling nothing but numb; numbness that she has now become accustom to then numbness she craves. It is not the physical pain that hurts her now it is the emotional pain; the pain that is slowly killing her from the inside out. The guilt that keeps her distant from her friends the only TRUE family she has ever known. Her mother did not want anything to do with her until she started her company… her father was just an absentee father her whole life… Lucas, the only guy she let capture her heart and the only one she gave herself to. ..the only guy that it was not 'just sex' with or a random 'fling' in order to feel contact of another person… one night to make everything that she is struggling with in her life just disappear.

"…I'm broken when I'm open and

I don't feel like I am strong enough…"

Brooke was always a strong, beautiful, bubbly, independent person. … she made herself that way lord knows that her parents could not get any credit for the way she turned out… Brooke did not have them to teach her right from wrong, she did not have them to lean on, just being around her… to simply give a damn about her! Brooke let the tears fall from her eyes she could not hold her emotions in any longer; how stupid she was to let it get this far? How she let someone break her down so badly? Damn it she cursed herself and the world… she was better than this… she should be able to do this… to be that strong, independent soul that she once was… instead of this broken woman standing in the bathroom and horrified and disgusted at the scene before her eyes… her eyes were sunken in, dark circles outlined them from lack of sleep, battered and bruised from the fights she was defeated against. She had to stop this pain… but how? There was only one way… a way that no one ever thought she of all people would ever be capable of… Even shocking herself as going to such a low state of mind as this but she needed to feel something anything other than the pain she was feeling at this point in time. Brooke had to let it go to feel the calming, addiction of nothing but utter numbness. She felt that familiar numbness feel her entire body as the blood trickled down her arm from the small cuts that were made with the razor she dragged across her legs, her thighs that were always hidden, these days her whole body was hidden… she was a disgrace to herself… how could she ever seem to be a microscopic thought of being beautiful in someone's mind? There was just no way…. Brooke was embarrassed for anyone to see her. The person that she was now is the person who he made her become… the Brooke Penelope Davis that everyone knew and loved at one point in their lives will greatly miss her because she is gone… she has been gone for a few months now and no one but Brooke knew it… Brooke felt her body go weak, relaxing the tension in her slightly aching body eyes closing an imagining being anywhere but the hell she was in… a safe place… the word safe felt as though it was a foreign word to her… his arms securely around her love she NEEDED and desperately craved… the love he once told her that she deserves….

"I wanna hold you high and steal my pain… away

There's so much left to learn but no one left to fight…"

Lucas knocked frantically on the door but received no answer, he saw Brooke in the window… he saw her sway and hit the floor. His breath hitched and his heart was beating a mile a minute, his mid was racing as what to do… the only thing he could think of to do was bust the door down in order to get to her the fastest… Once inside the house he rushes to Brooke's side… "Oh my god, Brooke… Brooke, babe… can you hear me… I need you to wake up… open your eyes for me… come on, Brooke… I can't lose you… baby…. Please…" He pleaded with her as Haley called 911 the ambulance arrived five minutes later and rushed Brooke to the hospital.

Once at the hospital, it felt like Lucas had been there for an eternity which in reality he has only been there for a few hours. Brooke was finally in a room and Lucas by her bedside and never intending on living it. "Brooke, if you can hear me; it's Lucas… I am here Pretty Girl, I am so sorry all of this happened to you… that I was not there to protect you; to save you but I am here now, baby and I am not going anywhere… ""Luke…" Brooke whispered as her eyes fluttered open. "Brooke… I am here, baby, everything is going to be Okay…" "Broody…. I am so sorry…. I… the things I said the other day… I just…. I…" "Shh… It's over now… we will talk about everything later, but right now you just need to rest…. You need to sleep, Pretty Girl." "Can… could you just… um…. Hold me for a while… please?" "Of course, I would not want it any other way… "She smiled a small smile at him he climbed into bed next to her careful not to harm her he held her, her head resting on his chest; arms protectively around her waist. Brooke felt safe and protected something she had not felt in so long and at times thought she never would again… she felt like everything was going to be Okay, truly Okay.. . it had been so long since she felt so comfortable being in the arms of someone and in her own skin…. Felt as though nothing could harm her, calmness in her mind she loved every second of it… even if it was just mire second.

"T worst is over now

And we can breathe again…"

That is the end of chapter four… I hope you liked it and that it was not too graphic. I will hopefully start chapter five soon and have that up sooner rather than later… I hope that the chapters are getting better and making you more eager to read them as the story goes on… having as much fun reading it as I am writing it. The song used is: "Broken" by Seether ft. Amy Lee.

Hope