A/N: Sorry about the delay, I lost my flash drive that had everything on it. Good news is I found it!

Alex sighs as he took Brookes vitals. It wasn't looking good. He turns towards Peyton and sees the tear in her eyes as she gentle strokes Brooke's hair and talks softly to her.

"She's losing a lot of blood. She needs a transfusion" Alex mutters to Peyton, trying to keep Brooke from hearing him.

Peyton looks down at her shivering girlfriend who looks much paler than a few minutes ago.

"I'll go" she mutters as she looked up and locked eyes with Alex. "I'll go get it, just tell me where to go"

"That's insane, I'll go" Alex whispers.

"No… I don't know what to do!" Peyton choked out as she gestured to her girlfriend, "I don't know what to do… you know what to do…I can't sit here and do nothing"

"Brooke… Brooke… Listen to me you can't die okay?" Peyton whispered with tears in her eyes. "It's me, it's Peyton okay and I'll be right back…I will be right back" she promised as she cupped Brooke's face with her hand. Peyton pressed a soft gently kiss to Brooke's lips before she lifter herself off the table grabs the instructions Alex wrote for her and headed for the door.

"You keep her alive… you hear me" she said without turning to look at Alex.

"Yeah, I got it" Alex muttered as he checked the chest tube to make sure everything was okay.

After Peyton had closed the door Brooke turned her head slightly and locked eyes with Alex.

"Hey Karev, try not to kill me" she whispered.

"I'll do my best"

"You gotta eat more bacon" Brooke said randomly.

"What?" Alex whispered with a confused look on his face.

"You stop yourself from doing a lot of crap that you want to do in life. I'm probably dying now and I'm telling you… you gotta eat more bacon….and have more sex" Brooke wheezed out.

"Okay" Alex nodded as he agreed to those terms "I will, I'll eat more bacon, hell I'll eat the whole god damn pig Brooke if you just hang on… just hang in there, she is going to be back any minute now" Alex reassured her as he grabbed for some more gauze.

Peyton was running through the halls of the hospital in the direction of the blood bank. She took another quick look at the instructions that Alex gave her. She reached the end of her journey and quickly entered the codes that Alex gave her and grabbed all the blood that she could and put it on a cart. As she began her walk back towards Brooke she runs into the shoot. He is standing in the middle of the hallway with the gun held limply in his hand down at his side. Peyton stops dead but the shooter turned towards her and raised his gun and pointed it right at her.

"I didn't mean to shoot all these people" he said.

"O-Of course you didn't" Peyton stuttered out just trying to remain calm.

"I only planned on shooting Dr. Sheppard… and Dr. Webber" he said with a sad look on his face.

Peyton can see in his eyes that he is probably going to shoot her so she just starts babbling "My name is Peyton Sawyer. I was born on July 12 in North Carolina. I'm from Tree Hill. My… My mom died when I was little and my Dad travels all the time. I have a brother. Older. Half-brother technically. I'm with the love of my life and I haven't had the chance to get married. And I really want to get married. Please I haven't… I've barely lived. I'm not finished yet. Please, please, someone is going to miss me. I'm a person. I'm a person" she said with tears rolling down her eyes as she says goodbye to Brooke in her mind, fully prepared for this man to shoot her.

Peyton saw the gun wavering and looked over his shoulder and saw a S.W.A.T. guy aiming his gun. Peyton immediately dropped to the floor and she heard a gunshot. She held her breathe but exhaled when she felt no pain. She slowly poked her head around the corner and saw that the shooter was gone and she could see a small puddle of blood on the floor. Not wanting to waste any more of Brooke time she felt a surge of adrenaline and ran the rest of the way but still being careful with her precious cargo.

Alex looked up as he heard the door open. His muscles tense ready to throw himself at the shooter if it was him returning, he left out a sigh of relief when Peyton came into sight.

"Is she dead" was the first thing that came out of Peyton's mouth as she entered the room.

"No but her vitals are tanking" Alex said before she started muttering about other medical things that were wrong with Brooke that Peyton cared little about. She pushed the cart towards Alex and then took up her spot right next to Brooke's head.

"Brooke, don't die… please don't die" she gasped out as soon as she saw how bad Brooke looked.

"I love you" she whispered as she stroked her hair. "Do you hear me… I love you" she said as tears ran down her face.

Alex looked down at what he was doing but even he was affected by Peyton's heartfelt plea for her girlfriend not to die. Listening Peyton beg Brooke not to die just strengthened his resolve to make sure this vivacious and bubbly brunette would walk out of this hospital.

Sometime later after Alex had done all he could do, he and Peyton were talking quietly in the corner hoping not to disrupt Brooke's rest.

"Peyton" Brooke whispered as her head rolled to the side.

"Brooke… I'm here Brooke" Peyton whispered as she rushed to the brunette's side.

"Peyton… I'm sorry… don't go… we have to get married… please don't go" Brooke pleaded

"I'm not going anywhere" promised a tearful Peyton.

"You came back for me" Brooke whispered in awe as she stared at her girlfriend with love filled eyes.

"I came back…"

"Don't ever leave me… don't ever leave me again" Brooke whispered as she fought the battle and let her eyes close.

"I won't" Peyton said as she tried to fight back the tears, "I won't ever leave you… we're always going to be together…always"

"Yeah" Brooke whispered before unconsciousness claimed her once more.

Peyton sat there crying over her girlfriend trying desperately to stop the sobs that were building in her chest. Alex stood in the corner in agony as he listened to the tearful conversation between the couple. Just as he was about to explode from the tension the door to the conference room burst open and two S.W.A.T. guy entered.

Alex let out a sigh of relief knowing that they could get Brooke out now. He looked towards the table and saw that Peyton was whispering into Brooke's ear, no doubt telling her they were rescued.