Brooke had a pretty good life going for her as of now. She had a beautiful four month old daughter, a boyfriend who had known her all her life, and a pretty great best friend. The only glitch happened to be the one who gave her her daughter. And that glitch went away for a while, but recently came back, and tomorrow, Brooke would have to face him, and hand over her daughter to him for a full 24 hours. She knew how much she would worry and how sad she would be for those 24 hours, so she asked Nathan to stay with her for the night, and he gladly accepted.
So there they were, Nathan with Bean on his chest and Brooke's head on his shoulder, smiling at the little baby. "She's only four months old" Brooke whispered
"What?" Nathan turned his head to face his brunette girlfriend
"She's only four months old. She doesn't know what he's done. She shouldn't have to go see him. He didn't even think of coming to see her when he found out about her. Who's to say he's not going to turn her against us all these years?" She propped herself up on her elbow and faced Nathan, looking into his deep blue eyes.
"Brooke, it's once a week. She'll see you the other six days. It'll be fine. And plus, I'm pretty sure no one could ever hate you" He leaned forward and kissed the top of her head lightly. "Stop worrying so much. He's a bastard. You and I both know it, and it's not fair to her for us to try and change the way she thinks." He said, taking the baby off his chest and putting her down on the baby as he turned on his side to look at Brooke better. "She'll know what you think of him, and she'll know what he thinks of you and me, and that's it. She can make her own decisions on what to think of him"
"So we're just going to leave it at that? And never tell her what he did?" She couldn't believe what she was hearing. Her own boyfriend telling her that they weren't going to tell her daughter what her asshole of a father did to them.
"Yes. Because Brooke, you have to let her make her own decision about him. If she asks, then we'll tell her. But just leave it at that. She might not like it when and if we tell her because we didn't before, but you can blame it all on me, okay?" He smiled a little, putting his hand on Brooke's cheek.
"That's just what I'll do" She smiled a little "But I guess you're right. That doesn't mean he and I have to be civil does it?" There was no way she could ever be civil to Lucas Scott. Not even if he was dead. Too much had happened.
"No, not at all. If you don't want to see him, I can take her tomorrow if it makes it better" Nathan was willing to do whatever Brooke wanted to make her happy. And it wasn't even that he was whipped. He just loved seeing that smile of hers. It lit up his world.
"It's fine Nate. I'll go alone. I just wanted you to be here tonight so I wouldn't chicken out" She laughed a little, tucking a small piece of hair behind her ear.
"It's only a day babe. Like you said, he could've asked for more if he wanted to" Brooke nodded, and sat up, bringing the baby into her arms.
"You're gonna have to cause a rukus for daddy tomorrow, okay? Keep him up all night and cry as loudly as you can all the time" She smiled, kissing Bean's nose.
"I hear he's going out with Rachel, so that should be entertaining" Nathan smirked, still laying down and putting his arms behind his head. Everyone knew Rachel and Lucas's relationship was purely sex, but who really cared about them anyway?
"I wish we could videotape that. I think it would be hilarious" Brooke laughed "Rachel would pull that red hair right off her head because of this girl's cries" Bean was normally a good baby, but when she wasn't around Brooke or Peyton, she would scream loudly. She started to get used to having Nathan near her instead of Brooke and Peyton, but she would still whimper.
"Luke is in for a hell of a day tomorrow" Nathan sat up, kissing Brooke's lips lightly. "Let's go to bed babe."
Brooke nodded, getting off the bed and going into Bean's room. She changed her diaper, then put her into her PJ's, sitting down in the rocking chair. "Okay Bean. Tomorrow you're going to go with your daddy. And I guess Nathan's right when it comes to telling you about what he did, but I want you to make your own decisions about your life, okay? Don't let other people dictate who you want to become. Not me, or Nathan, or your dad, or Peyton, or anyone who isn't you." While Brooke was on this rant, she looked down to see her daughter asleep in her arms. She chuckled softly to herself. "I guess I'll have to tell you this later, when you can stay awake for longer than a couple hours, huh?" She smiled, and stood up, kissing Bean's forehead as she laid her down in her crib and pulled the blanket over her. "I love you so much Jillian Erica Davis" She a small smile came onto her face as she kissed her hand, then rested it down on the handlebar of the crib as she walked out of the nursery and closed the door.
Nathan was sitting in her bed, shirt off, stripped down to his boxers with the blanket over him when Brooke came back to her room. Brooke, in her sweatpants and cami, quickly put her hair up in a messy bun, and crawled into bed with her boyfriend. Nathan leaned back against the headboard, and Brooke put her head down on his chest, her hand tracing his abs. "Thank you for being so amazing to me and Bean this past month. I know it hasn't been easy for you to do" She tilted her head upwards to look at Nathan.
"You don't need to thank me. I love that little girl so much. I just want you and her to be happy, you know?" He shrugged his broad shoulders, lacing his fingers with hers and putting them on his lap.
She nodded, the smile not leaving her face. "I know. I just wanted to thank you for doing it. And for being a pretty amazing boyfriend" She smiled wider, her teeth showing now, and her dimples coming into view. The smile that lit up Nathan's world.
He leaned down and kissed her, "Well you're welcome Miss Davis" Brooke smiled contently and moved from Nathan's chest onto her pillow so they could sleep comfortably. Nathan slinked down onto the other pillow, grabbing a hold of Brooke's waist with his arm and pulling her toward him. He kissed the back of her head and laughed "Don't go killing anyone in your craziness without Bean"
"I'll try my hardest" She replied, her voice raspy from tiredness.
The next morning, it was time for Brooke to take Bean to Lucas's house, Nathan was just about to leave to go home. "Are you sure you don't want me to come with you?" He asked as Brooke had finished loading all Bean's stuff into the car, and was putting the baby into her car seat/carrier.
When she finished, she closed the door of her blue bug carefully, standing upright and walking over to Nathan. "For the thousandth time, yes" She laughed "Nathan, I love you for caring so much about me and Bean, but we'll be fine. I promise"
A big smile appeared on Nathan's face after she said that "You said I love you" He smirked
"Yeah? What are you gonna do about it Scott?" Brooke asked confidently, smirking as she did.
"This" Nathan replied, and before Brooke could respond, he grabbed her around her waist and pulled her towards him, kissing her deeply and letting his lips linger there for a while before pulling away. He walked back over to his car, and got in, a content smile on his face as he pulled out. "I love you too Brooke Davis!" He yelled out his window as he drove toward his house.
Brooke laughed as she went into her own car, then turned around to look at Bean, who laughed at her. "Love's a crazy thing baby" She smiled, turning her car on and driving over to Lucas's.
When Brooke got to her ex boyfriend's house, she got out of the car, pulling Bean's carrier, along with her baby bags out before walking up to the back door of the house considering Karen and Lily were out travelling the world with Andy. She knocked lightly on the door, narrowing her eyes at the redhead she saw behind Luke on his bed.
"I would prefer it if that skank wasn't around my daughter" Brooke said, holding Bean close to her
"First of all, she's not a skank. She's my girlfriend" Lucas started
"Or sextoy" Brooke muttered
Lucas shrugged it off and continued "Second of all, our daughter"
"No, no no. Until the day you stay awake with her for a week straight because she won't stop crying, then she's 'our' daughter. Until that day, she's mine." Brooke countered.
"Fine. But I would prefer it if Nathan wasn't around her, and I don't see you changing that, so as long as Nathan's there, Rachel is." He finished
"Whatever. Here, take her before I change my mind" Brooke said exasperatedly. "I wrote down everything you need to know, on this piece of paper" She pulled the small paper out of her back pocket and put it in his hand. He quickly looked it over and nodded.
"Sounds easy enough" He shrugged.
"Yeah, just wait until I leave" Brooke smirked, turning to leave. "I'll be back tomorrow morning for her. Try to keep her in one piece, okay?" The smirk was still on her face as she got into her car and began driving away. She stopped and rolled down her window as she heard Bean start to cry. "Oh yeah! I forgot to tell you, she cries bloody murder whenever Peyton, Nathan, or I am not around" She smiled, giving him one last wave. "Have fun!"
"That bitch. Of course she would 'forget' to tell me" Lucas muttered, shaking his head as he sat down on the recliner, trying to calm Bean down.
Rachel took the list from the bed and looked it over. "Well it says here you should put her over your shoulder, rub her back and sing to her" She offered.
"I'm so desparate I don't even care. And it's only been two minutes" He sighed, putting the baby over his shoulder and beginning to sing.
"Dear God!" Rachel screamed as he began singing "You'll deafen that child before you stop her crying!" She laughed
"You think you're so smart? Here. You take her. Use your supposed 'motherly' instincts" Lucas said, thrusting the baby into Rachel's arms. "I'm going out" He said, grabbing his jacket and leaving.
"Asshole" Rachel muttered, trying to calm down the baby.
A while later, after Bean had just cried herself to sleep and Rachel was napping in Lucas's bed, Lucas came home, slamming the door shut, waking the baby up, who just started screaming again. "Are you fucking kidding me Luke?!" Rachel screamed, smacking him in the back of the head. "The brat finally shut up and you had to go and wake her up! You idiot!" She shook her head, picking the baby up and bouncing her up and down again. "Jeez do I feel bad for you kid. Your dad's an idiot" She looked over at her boyfriend. "Why did you want her anyway. You hate kids"
"I want to piss Brooke off, that's it. I don't even care about the kid." He shrugged, sitting back down on the recliner in his room.
"You're an ass, you know that?" Rachel had her moments when she could be a bitch, but this was just way out of her league. "You're gonna use a defenseless BABY to get back at a girl who did NOTHING to you?!" Rachel shook her head, dropping the screaming baby into her father's arms and turning to leave.
"Where the hell are you going? I can't do this!" Lucas said, standing up quickly and running after her.
"You're a complete asshole Lucas Scott. And I'm done. So don't call me. We're over" She shook her head "The sex wasn't worth it"
AN: I tried to make your update extra long considering I promised it would be up the end of last week. Sorry about that. Review!
-Rohini
