A/N: Okay so my daughter has imposed a 1000 word limit for the minimum of each chapter... I will warn you that this chapter will have no dialogue in it... I want to show what Nathan, Haley and Luke are all thinking and feeling... Hopefully I can stretch if to 1000 words but if not my daughter has assured me since I have doubled the 1000 words for each of the previous chapters that I could get away with a short chapter for one time... But I still want to see if I can do the 1000 words without dialogue so this should be interesting...
Disclaimer: I don't own OTH...
Nathan had a death grip on the steering wheel as he drove out of Tree Hill. In his head he kept replaying what the Doctor had said. He couldn't believe that Peyton was pregnant let alone that she was pregnant with triplets. He couldn't believe that Peyton hadn't told him that she was pregnant. He knew that she knew that he would have been by her side in a flash. He couldn't believe that Peyton very well could be fighting for her life with nobody there to help her.
As he drove his mind kept wandering to the different conversations that him and Peyton has had over the months. He didn't understand how Peyton could keep the fact that she was pregnant away from him. Then again the more he thought about it the more he wondered if Peyton had even known she was pregnant. He had wanted to fly out but the first available flight wasn't for six hours and he knew that they could get there quicker if they just drove.
His heart was thumping so hard in his chest as he thought about what could all go wrong before they got there. As those thoughts entered his head he pushed them out and thought positively. He knew that Peyton was a fighter and he knew that she wouldn't give up. He just didn't understand why she had yet to regain consciousness. He truly hoped that it was nothing bad and that it was just her body's way of making sure that she finally got the rest that she so desperately needed.
His eyes caught Lucas's eyes in the rear view mirror and his heart went out to his older brother. At this minute it didn't matter to him how much he was mad at Lucas for what he did and said to Peyton. He saw the pain and the fear in Lucas's eyes and that was all it took for the anger that he felt towards his brother to disappear. With one look he knew that Lucas was still in love with Peyton regardless if he admitted it or not. It was then that he vowed to himself that he would help the two people who loved find their way back to one another. He knew without a shadow of a doubt that Lucas wouldn't be complete without Peyton in his life and he knew without a shadow of a doubt that Peyton wouldn't be complete without Lucas in her life. He knew that it was going to be a long road but he would do whatever he had to do to ensure both Peyton and Lucas's happiness along with their unborn babies happiness.
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Haley stared out the passenger side window without really seeing anything. Her mind was going about a million miles a minute. She knew that there was stuff she should be doing but for the life of her she couldn't think what it was that she should be doing. She sighed and closed her eyes against the tears that were once again gathering in her eyes.
She couldn't help but wonder if Peyton was going to make it through this unscathed. She couldn't help but wonder what Peyton was feeling and thinking. She couldn't help but think about the fact that Peyton was all alone and that she should have tried harder to get Peyton to tell her where she was at so she could have at least went and visited her friend so that she wasn't alone. She couldn't help but blame herself for not being as good of a friend as she should have been.
She felt as if her heart was breaking into a thousand tiny pieces and she wasn't sure if it would ever be whole again. She felt as if she was having a hard time breathing and she knew that she wouldn't breathe easy again until she saw Peyton and saw with her own two eyes that Peyton was truly alright.
She turned her head and her eyes found Lucas. She felt her heart go out to him as she saw the tears in his eyes that he wasn't even trying to hide. She knew that it was going to hit him hard but she never suspected that it would hit him this hard. All the anger she held towards him from what he did to Peyton just drained away. She couldn't be angry at him anymore because she saw how much he still loved Peyton. As her eyes connected to his she vowed that no matter what she had to do she would find a way to help Lucas win Peyton back.
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Lucas felt as if he was in a different world ever since he heard the news that the Doctor told Nathan. He couldn't believe that his Peyton was pregnant and alone. He couldn't believe that his Peyton was unconscious and alone. He felt as if his world had spinned out of control around him and he wasn't sure if it would ever right itself.
His heart felt heavy in his chest as he thought about the woman he loved. He has loved her since he was fifteen years old and since then his love for her only grew. He just hoped that he could right the wrong that he did. He just hoped that he would even get the chance to right the wrong. He had never meant to make Peyton run. He had said what he did to her because he was still scared about how much he felt for her. He figured that if he stayed with Lindsey then his heart would be safe and free. He didn't once stop to think that just because he wasn't with Peyton that his love would just go away. He should have known better than that.
He closed his eyes on a fresh wave of pain. He wanted his Peyton to be alright. He needed his Peyton to be alright. He knew that if something happened to her and she took a turn for the worse and didn't make it for some reason that he wouldn't be able to live any longer. He couldn't see a life for himself that didn't have her in this world even if she wasn't beside him or with him.
As his eyes caught Nathan's eyes and then Haley's eyes he knew that they were feeling the same pain but yet different pain than what he was feeling. He knew that they were all hurting but his was ten times more stronger because he not only loved Peyton he was in love with her as well. He was still in shock about the fact that she was pregnant and he knew without even being told that the babies she was carrying were his. He vowed silently to himself that he would do whatever it took to get Peyton back in his life. He vowed that he would never leave her side as long as she came through this okay. He knew that without her alive that he wouldn't end up living he would just end up exisiting.
