Nothings bigger than love- chapter seven

Peyton was awoken by the ringing of the phone, she was startled and didn't really understand what had woken her up, she didn't open her eyes, she knew that the second that she opened her eyes and was exposed to even the slightest bit of light that she would be awake for hours, she heard her husband mumble next to her and realised that he was woken too meaning that she wasn't imagining anything. "Is it Sawyer?" Peyton asked opening only one eye to check the time before shutting them both again as Lucas practically incoherently mumbled "no". They soon came to the conclusion together that what had woken them up was the phone.

"Who calls someone at four forty in the morning?" Lucas asked with a pouting and tired tone, her husband's remark made her come to a sudden realisation, and jumping out of bed "Who is it?" he asked after her

"Brooke" Peyton said as she bolted up the hall to the kitchen and picked up the phone all panicked and flustered "Brooke what's wrong?"

"How did you know it was me P. Sawyer?" a tired and emotional voice said into the receiver

"Because when we were little and we were sad and your mum would come and pick you up from my house or my mum and dad picked me up from yours, we would tell each other that it was a best friends duty to always make the other happy and that meant that if we were feeling sad we just had to call each other, remember? On our very sophisticated walkie talkies, no matter the time, even if it was…"

"Four forty six in the morning" she smiled instantly reminded of those moments in her life and realising how late it actually was.

"So what's up buttercup? Because it is four forty seven in the morning and it is my duty to cheer you up" she said feeling herself get cheerier just talking to her friend, even if it was a ridiculous time in the morning, she thought that maybe they should have made it more of a convenient time but that wasn't the point.

"I can't have babies" she said sobbing into the receiver, Peyton assumed so that Julian couldn't hear her

"Oh B. Davis" Peyton said, a tear running down her cheek as she slid down into the couch, crossing her legs and getting herself into a 'ready to listen' frame of mind, the second she heard her best friend begin to sob she had to fight the urge to throw on her beanie and ugboots and run out of the house and go straight to the airport just to fly back to Tree Hill and provide a shoulder to cry on for her friend, but she knew that she couldn't and that Brooke wouldn't expect her to, the best thing she could do right now was sit and listen as long as Brooke needed her to.

The world continued around her for hours as she sat teary eyed listening to her best friends intense pain, since they moved back to Tree Hill together that had been Brooke's one and only extensive dream, to become a mother. At five thirty her husband came to see where she had gotten to, the last thing he remembered before going back to sleep was Peyton running up the hallway and when he woke again she still wasn't back. Lucas sat down on the coffee table across from her; he simply and caringly leaned forward and wiped a tear from her face before sitting with her for at least half an hour just sitting holding her hand. At six Lucas stood up and told Peyton via miming that he was going to take a shower, if it hadn't been such a heart wrenching conversation and moment in time she would have laughed at how ridiculous he looked even though she knew that he was trying to be as caring as he possibly could to her, Sawyer walked into the living room moments after her father had left, she rubbed her sleepy eyes, they had gotten Sawyer her first bed recently and she had taken to getting herself out of bed in the mornings. As Sawyer saw her mum this broad smile grew upon her face and she jumped up on the opposite end of the couch, Peyton smiled back at her and put a finger to her own mouth indicating that the little girl be quite, while Brooke poured her heart out and Sawyer snuggled up against her mother, falling asleep before her shirtless father re-entered the room and lifted her up in an attempt to put her back into bed.

"I have to go now Julian is awake and I'm sure that you have a massive day ahead of you! I wish I could have a big P. Sawyer hug" just Brooke's words made Peyton's heart hurt and feel so incredibly guilty for not being in Tree Hill just for Brooke's own moral support, her eyes lit up as she thought of a solution to her problem

"Why don't you have one?" she asked

"What?" Brooke asked confused, not sure if the early morning had affected her hearing

"You said that you needed a break from it all, so just for a day or so come stay with me, we'll just spend some time together, talk!" she said the last word with such enthusiasm "Because B. Davis I miss you like crazy"

"I don't know…" she asked with clear reluctance in her voice, but Peyton was determined to do her best to convince her.

"Julian's going away isn't he? For that work thing" she asked remaining persistent in her goal

"Yeah" she wasn't exactly budging or jumping at the idea.

"Then catch a flight sweetie, I'll have ice-cream!" she thought that would be the selling point.

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Peyton stood in front of the comet sipping her coffee, probably her third one of the day, her early morning wake up had proven to be exhausting. She had sent Lucas out on a father/daughter day in the hopes of tiring the little girl out and so she got some alone time with her best friend. Peyton with her sunglasses on looked up to the sky watching as an airplane came down and as it disappeared behind the small airport that sat about an hour out of where they were living. Her gaze drifted back to what was right in front of her, as she looked out she caught the gaze of the gorgeous woman standing at the crossing across the road from where Peyton stood. They smiled at each other as she walked out, Brooke threw her bag on the ground and they hugged incredibly tightly neither of them willing to let go. Last time they had seen each other in the flesh was on Sawyer's first birthday and just the month previously Sawyer had turned three, it was well and truly a hug that they both had looked forward to.

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On the drive back to their house Peyton decided to stop and take Brooke for a walk on a beach about half an hour into the journey back to their isolated beach house, they simply just walked across the beach not talking just walking in this comfortable silence, as though presence alone was company enough.

"So how is the ice-queen?" Peyton said breaking the silence, Brooke turned to her and beyond her sunglasses Peyton could see the hint of a smile and took a breath of relief, since they had become friends so many years ago the job of buffing Brooke back up after a conversation with her mother was assigned to Peyton, and she dreaded the thought that Brooke's confidence was taking a battering and that she was doing nothing about it.

"She has actually been fantastic about this whole thing; she has got me seeing all these specialists"

"Go Victoria" Peyton said putting an enthusiastic fist in the air.

"So how is your little family?" Brooke asked continuing to look at Peyton as she looked ahead of them

"Fine" she kept it short and sweet, she really didn't think Brooke wanted to hear about her family when so much was going on in her own life; she just wanted to be there for Brooke

"Peyton, I love you but you don't have to worry about me breaking down over your happiness because you've been through so much and you deserve nothing but happiness." She said taking hold of Peyton's hand "As a matter of fact I want to see my god daughter" she said with a smile

"Come on then" Peyton said before turning Brooke around so they could both head back to the car.

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"AUNT BROOKEY" the little curly blonde girl said running towards the woman with her arms wide open as her puffed out father walked behind; Brooke elevated the little girl up and hugged her as tight as she could, the little girl eventually squirmed out of Brooke's arms and ran back into the playground but this time her mother chased after her after putting a supportive hand on Brooke's back. Lucas walked over to Brooke with his usual Lucas Scott smile and wrapped his arms right around her to engulf her in his own embrace; he then kissed the top of her head.

"How you doing?" he asked in the most sincere and lovely tone

"I'm okay" she said as he looked down on her with his 'are you sure' eyes, he was like the groups therapist, if you ever had a problem you just went and knocked on Lucas' door and if you didn't he would find you and attempt to talk out your problems with you anyway. "I promise" she said as he put a hand over her shoulder, they both walked forwards to the edge of the playground and watched as Peyton ran around manically with the laughing little girl.

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Peyton and Brooke lay in the bed that Peyton shared with Lucas, continuing to talk. It was a wonder that they had so much to talk about or that their jaws were still working but they hadn't seen each other in two years and for some reason every memory of the last two years that they had managed to miss in the last two years was flooding out of them, they even repeated stuff that they knew had to mentioned in some phone or Skype call but it didn't matter they were just loving being in each other's company, and for a moment they had forgotten what event had got them to this very social place and that made it nicer. They lay top to toe, Lucas came in after putting Sawyer to bed, and he placed the baby monitor on the nightstand and threw himself down on the torsos of both the women on his bed, which resulted in laughs from both of them. Before Lucas could even start talking the clear voice over the baby monitor bellow "Mama", Peyton stood up and vowed to be back momentarily, Lucas took her spot on the bed. They knew Peyton made it to Sawyer's room when they heard her voice over the baby monitor

"Quick turn it off before she starts singing" Brooke said as Lucas quickly jumped up and turned it off

"Hey Brooke" he said settling back down into the position that moments before he had taken

"Yeah" she said looking up at the roof

"I have no doubt that you are going to become a mum, and you are going to rock at it whether the kid if biologically yours or not, It is going to be the luckiest kid because it gets you for a mother and I know you so I know that you are going to absolutely dote on that kid"

"Thanks Luke" she said, tilting her head so that she could sort of see him, her eyes welled up "You know you aren't doing a horrible job on that gorgeous daughter of yours"

"I'm sure Julian won't be too bad" he said as a smile filled his face he looked up at her and a smile filled hers also.

"She is out" Peyton said walking back in; she looked down at the baby monitor "Why is that thing off?"

"We turned it off so that we didn't have to hear you sing" he said as she hit him and then shoved him so that he rolled off

"Did Lucas have his there are other ways to have children talk?" she said sitting down next to Brooke on the bed with her legs crossed

"Yeah he did and it was lovely" she said moving to a sitting position herself and Lucas got up off the floor and sat down on the end

"I taught it to him" she said as Brooke looked at her confused "We want another baby"

"Is that why we are in the bedroom?" she asked with a smile "I'm sorry but I can't have your baby, Please tell me you aren't going to try and get pregnant again"

"No I'm not, we are looking into surrogates" Peyton said with a smile that she sent over to Lucas who was doing the same thing "We haven't told anyone yet, because we haven't properly looked into it and we wouldn't do it for a couple more years now but we thought that you might like to know" she said, feeling awkward for even mentioning it

"That is an absolutely fantastic idea, Spread those genes around" she said with a smile as she brought Peyton in for a hug and then pulled her backwards so they were both lying down. Peyton and Lucas had decided that it couldn't hurt to tell Brooke what they had planned, they didn't want to rub the idea of more children when she had none in her face but Peyton knew that Brooke would make a fantastic mother and knew that the whole subject of surrogacy could be quite intimidating as it was for her, they weren't going to push it on her, they were just showing her an option, Brooke had to come to her own decision based upon what was right for her.

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It was four forty six when Peyton woke up, she was lying between Brooke and Lucas on their queen size bed, literally having to sit up and press down on Lucas to see the illumines numbers on the alarm clock that sat next to their bed, she saw the numbers and smiled before setting herself back down and shutting her eyes.

"You did a pretty good job of cheering me up P. Sawyer"

"So did you B. Baker" she said before opening her eyes as Brooke turned to her with this look on her face "Yeah it doesn't work, I was just trying it out! You'll always be my B. Davis"

"Right back at you P. Sawyer"

This chapter is finished but this story isn't quite there yet!