As he walked up the path memories of the girl that lived behind the red door came rushing into his thoughts, a girl he never really had closure with. Before she came back to Tree Hill the previous day he hadn't really thought about her, well not since he left New York City two years ago. He came back to Tree Hill with Lindsey to make a life, a life that would not be in the shadows of his love for a certain dimpled brunette. He wasn't even sure why he was standing on her front porch, he just needed answers. Answers Nathan would not give him the night before, he needed closure, and the closure they never had. Lucas knew he would not be able to marry Lindsey, no matter how much he loved her, without talking to Brooke first. He should not need to talk to Brooke, but now she was here, which changed everything. As he knocked on the red door he considered turning around and leaving, but for some reason his feet would not move as the door opened.

"Mom?" Lucas was shocked that his mother was answering Brooke Davis' front door.

"Hey Luke, what are you doing here?" Karen looked puzzled; this was the last place she had expected her son to visit days before his wedding.

"Uh, I just came by to see Brooke I guess. Is she home?"

"Yeah, why don't you come in and make her some coffee while I go and pick up the girls from Nathan and Haley's?"

"Did you stay the night Mom?" Lucas was getting upset now. His mother spent the night at his ex-girlfriends house and she won't even give his fiancé a chance? Something wasn't adding up to him.

"Lucas don't even start with me!" Karen brushed passed Lucas and out to her car, she was not going to fight with her son about Brooke.

Now Lucas was even more confused then when he arrived at Brooke's, what was his mother doing here. He had already upset his mother with the tone he had chosen; he decided he should calm down before talking to Brooke. Lucas went into her kitchen as his mother had instructed him to do and made some coffee, he was hoping for a long talk.

Once the coffee was finished he poured two glasses and made himself comfortable in Brooke's kitchen while he waited for her to grace him with her presence. About twenty minutes later she finally came downstairs, at first she didn't notice she had company waiting.

"What the hell?" When Brooke finally did see Lucas sitting at the counter she was a little taken back by his presence.

"Good morning to you too!"

"Sorry… You know I'm not a morning person." Brooke was way too hung over to deal with Lucas Scott and all the drama that went with him.

"That's why I made coffee!" Lucas handed Brooke her cup and motioned her to take a seat next to him.

"Luke can we do this some other time?" Brooke tried to pout but she knew it wasn't going to work anymore.

"I think now is a good time." Lucas did not want to get too demanding but he needed to have this long over due conversation before Lindsey arrived back in Tree Hill, and she would be back tomorrow.

"So talk." Brooke did not want to have this conversation to begin with, so she was not going to be the one to start it.

"What made you come back Brooke?"

"I missed my family. Not my real family of course but my make believe one. I wanted Lucy to grow up here in Tree Hill not in downtown Manhattan." Brooke was sincere and partially honest; she just left out the part about Lucy's real family being in Tree Hill.

"Why didn't you tell me about Lucy? Actually I have a lot of questions about Lucy." With that statement Brooke wanted to crawl up and cry. She didn't want to explain herself or Lucy to Lucas, not now anyways. It was too soon she had only been in Tree Hill for a day and already Lucas wanted to know everything. She barely had Lucas back in her life and already she was about to lose him again, this time most likely forever. Brooke had to think long and hard about what she was going to say to Lucas. She needed to come up with something, anything, to keep him from getting mad at her about Lucy and her lack of honesty over the last three years.

"Lucas, I don't think I can even explain Lucy to you." Brooke began to cry, knowing if she told him the truth she would lose his forever, and if she didn't tell him the truth she would still lose him.

"Just try pretty girl." Lucas held Brooke as she cried into his crest, it felt so good just to hold her again, but it should not feel good. It should feel wrong, he is engaged to the woman he loves, and Brooke is his ex.

"She's yours Luke." Came out in a very raspy, low whimper, Lucas could barely hear Brooke. But he did hear her. At first he was shocked, angry, hurt, so many emotions where running through him, Lucas couldn't even gather his thoughts to say anything back to Brooke. He just stood up and left without a word, he didn't even look at Brooke. How could he look at her, how could she keep his daughter from him? As Lucas left he didn't even get into his car he just left it at Brooke's and began to run. He had to get his thoughts together. Some how he ended up at the River Court, Nathan was there with Jamie. When Lucas saw them his first instinct was to turn around and run home, but he needed to talk to someone, anyone.

"What's going on man?" Nathan asked, you could tell he was worried by the tone of his voice. Lucas looked lost and scared, he still had tears running down his face, and Nathan had never seen his older brother cry before.

"She told you, didn't she?" Lucas wanted to punch his brother in the face for the statement, but Jamie was there.

"You knew?" Now Lucas went from sad to angry, yelling at his brother. "How could you keep that from me? For three freaking years Nate?" Lucas' whole world was falling apart around him, everyone he knew had lied to him, and he had a daughter he had no idea about.

"Luke man I wanted to tell you. I wanted to tell you that night in New York when we came to visit, but you were happy for the first time in over a year and I did not want to be the one to take that away from you!" Nathan kept trying to apologize for his actions but Lucas wasn't listening anymore.

"So you took the opportunity for me to have a family away instead? Nate listen to yourself!"

"I never wanted to take that away from you, Brooke was going to tell you herself. She even came to your place, but she saw you with Lindsey."

"What are you talking about?" Lucas was trying to put everything together in his head but his thoughts were scattered with new information every time he thought he knew what had happened.

"While she was pregnant she came to your apartment to tell you, that you were the one, getting pregnant made her realize you were the one. No matter how scared she was, she knew it was you. But you had already moved on, even though you told her you would wait forever!" Nathan had begun to yell back at his old brother now, Lucas was the one in the wrong not him. He abandoned his family; Nathan and Haley had nothing to do with that decision.

"She wouldn't answer my calls, return my emails, or see me, what was I supposed to do? Huh Nate? Wait around for someone who didn't want me?"

"No Lucas she did want you that's where you're wrong! She just couldn't trust you because of your hero complex!" Nathan looked around to make sure Jamie was still playing and hadn't heard any of their argument; he didn't want to upset his little boy. Lucas stormed off once Nathan was done yelling at him.

Brooke was still sitting in the exact spot where Lucas left her when Karen came in with the girls. Brooke tried to stop crying when she heard the door open, she didn't want Lucy to see her Mommy cry, but there was no stopping the tears that were falling from her eyes. She had lost the only boy she ever loved for good this time.

"Girls, why don't you go upstairs and play?" Karen pushed the girls towards the stairs once she saw Brooke.

"Sweetheart, what happened?" Karen pulled Brooke into her arms and sat down next to her, trying to console the devastated brunette.

"I told him." Brooke some how got out between sobs. Karen pulled out her cell phone and called Haley, she knew she was going to need assistance on this.

"Hales, can you come back over to Brooke's please?"

"Okay, see you in a few." Karen hung up the phone and started rocking Brooke again.

"Mom? Andy? Lily?" Lucas called out as he wondered through his mother's home.

"I'm back here Lucas!" A male voice said from the kitchen.

"Did something happen?" Andy could see the distress on Lucas' face as he walked into the kitchen and sat down at the table. Andy poured Lucas a cup of coffee and sat down with him.

"I have a daughter." Lucas was blunt about the situation trying to read if Andy also knew or not. The shocked look on Andy's face gave away that the news was new to him also.

"At least someone wasn't lying to me!" Lucas relaxed a bit once he knew he had someone to talk this out with that hadn't already taken Brooke's side.

"Who's the mother? How old is she? Are you happy about this or angry?" Andy had a lot of questions, questions Lucas didn't have the answers to.

"Brooke."

"Brooke's her name or Brooke's her mother?" Now Andy had a smile on his face, he liked Brooke and wanted her and Lucas to be together, even though Lucas had Lindsey.

"Brooke's her mother, Lucy's her name, and I guess she's two and a few months old." Lucas hadn't asked Brooke how old Lucy was but from his math she should have been born in February of 2008. "And I haven't decided if I'm happy, sad, or angry yet."

Lucas and Andy sat and talked about Lucy for a few hours, but even after their long talk Lucas still did not know how he was going to explain this to Lindsey.

Haley walked into Brooke's house with a bundle of groceries, knowing that just like the night before, it was going to be a long day. She walked into the kitchen to find Karen and Brooke sitting at the counter talking like nothing was wrong.

"What was with the urgent phone call?" Haley was confused; everything seemed just as it was when she left a few hours ago.

"I settled her down. Brooke told Lucas about Lucy this morning." Karen seemed very proud of what Brooke had done, Brooke was not as proud of herself.

"You did!" Haley screamed, and ran over and gave Brooke a huge hug. "I'm so proud of you Tigger!"

"Thanks Hales, but I don't think her father will ever speak to me again." Brooke looked as though she was going to cry again when Karen pulled her into another hug.

"He'll talk to you again, he's probably just scared. He did just find out he had a child, remember what Nathan was like when I told him I was pregnant?" Haley was trying to lighten up the mood, but it didn't seem to be helping.

"At least you told him before Jamie was two!" Haley wrapped her arm around Brooke's shoulders," You know Luke; he'll get over it. He's your Broody and you his Cheery!" Finally Brooke smiled, knowing eventually everything would work out. People that are meant to be together always find their way in the end.

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