Hey i realize that the past few chapters especially chapter 6 has been pretty confusing. If you'd go back n read it it should b pretty clear but anyway just to clear up some doubts...hope this is better!

Okay here goes. Summary:

Haley never came back until 3 tours later.

When Haley finally came back Nathan couldn't forgive her.

Lucas left after season 3 with Brooke because she was pregnant. Lucas left on bad terms with Nathan cos Nathan didn't want to take Haley back.

Some complications arose (more on that later) Lucas had to stay with Brooke for a long time, they moved around, lost contact with Peyton.

Brooke miscarried.

Haley left again for music when she couldn't gain Nathan's trust.

Nathan broke his leg and stumbled into depression.

Peyton and Nathan found each other, got married.

Lucas came back.

The Wedding (of Routh)

Peyton ignored Lucas for 3 months.

Lucas left Tree Hill again because of Peyton.

Peyton's pregnant.

Lucas came back after 4 years, sees Shane for the 1st time.

Argues with Peyton about Shane.

When Shane is 10, Peyton falls pregnant again with Nathan's child. (more on this chapter)

Lucas asks Nathan if he can see Shane.

Lucas decides to leave again because of Peyton and not being able to see Shane.

And so as they say... the rest is history...

aftermath of the wedding (part b)

Chapter 7

Timeframe: Approximately 10 years after Mouth & Rachel's wedding

'Ouch,' Peyton said allowing Nathan to bandage up her fingers.

'Careful...' Nathan comforted.

'Oh for goodness sake stop "ouching" you wimp!'

Peyton looked in front of her, there delicately balanced on the coffee table, swinging her legs lazily was...

Her alter-ego.

Or whatever.

Peyton gave her a withering look.

'What's the matter? Cat got your tongue?' she mocked. 'Or... we wouldn't want dear perfect hubby to think we're mad now would we?'

'Let me go get some more ointment,' Nathan said standing up. 'Gimme a sec.'

Peyton smiled as her husband exited the room.

'What are you doing here!' she hissed.

'The usual, tormenting you,' she drawled lazily. The annoying angel leaned back upon the glass coffee table. She rubbed her fingers over her own lips as if contemplating. 'So Lucas is leaving again huh? Ever think... maybe the reason he keeps leaving is 'cos of... you??'

Nathan hurried back in with a bottle of ointment and a pack of cotton wool. Coinciding with his entrance was the disappearance of the "angel".

'Thankfully,' Peyton breathed.

'What was that honey?' he asked, applying the ointment on the cotton wool.

'Thanks!' Peyton said brightly.

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director: cut! That was great. Thanks everybody. See you tomorrow.

'Thankfully!' Hilarie sighed. 'At last that's over!'

James laughed, putting down the fake ointment bottle and pulling off his extra hair side burn pieces. 'Is acting with me really such a drag?'

Hilarie giggled and pulled off the prosthetic belly piece. 'No way James, you're fun to mess around with! Makes a change anyway... I just hate having this.'

She threw the prosthetic belly aside on the sofa.

'I so do not suit playing a pregnant lady.'

'You can say that again,' Chad said walking in. He was dressed in a brown suit with a mustache, all ready to play "40 something Lucas". 'You look like you're uncomfortable with your pregnancy... like you don't fit in your own skin.'

'You try feeling like you fit into that!' Hilarie argued, pointing at the plastic piece in front of them. 'And besides Mr Chad, haven't you read the script?' She gave him a playful poke in the chest. 'I'm supposed to be uncomfortable in my pregnant skin since getting knocked up by you 10 years ago!'

'Okay okay,' Chad raised up his hands in mock surrender. 'You're the pro-actress here. I'm the guy with 2-facial-expression-acting remember?'

'Okay okay! I'm gonna leave the merry couple to fight it out alright?' James teased, more to Hilarie than Chad. He gave Chad a pat on the back. 'Don't kill each other.. See ya tomorrow guys.'

'See ya,' they echoed in unison.

Chad and Hilarie paused in silence for a moment, then they looked at each other and laughed.

Chad watched as she laughed, her pretty blonde curls shaking as her head moved. He kept reminding himself not to stare.

Stop staring.

Stop...

'What?!' Hilarie asked.

'Huh?' he said.

'You were staring at me.. have I got spinach in my teeth or something?' she said licking her teeth.

'No, no... I was just... nothing, nothing,' he said, turning around and running his fingers through his hair nervously.

Smooth Chad, real smooth.

How come he could be so confident with all the other girls and one shake of her pretty blonde head and he was all stuttering.

He didn't used to be like this.

He was fine in season 1, season 2, season 3...

Well maybe the last few episodes of season 3...

'Chad! Earth to Chad!' she said waving a hand vigorously in front of his face.

'Huh?' he said, shaken from his reminiscing.

'I was just saying... don't you think this storyline is so bad?' she demanded.

'Oh! Erm... yeah... yeah I guess?' he fumbled for the proper response.

'You guess??' she cried. 'Of course it is! I mean first of all they kill the Naley plot, which was the best plot in the whole show. I mean, they made us all believe in the possibility of true love!'

'Yeah...' he agreed.

'Secondly, they make Peyton pregnant – twice! Does she look like she can be a suitable mother figure? She's nice but she's not exactly got it all together! Haley would be so much better...even Brooke!'

'Yeah...'

'And thirdly..' she paused and stomped over to the costume department. After a few seconds of rummaging she pulled out a brown straight-haired wig raised it dramatically in the air.

'This is what they've got me for the next episode, episode 4 onwards.'

Chad chuckled quietly, more at her cuteness than her silly little rantings.

'You can laugh!' she said, throwing down the wig with vigor. 'You get to keep your hair.'

She sighed heavily and slumped in the nearest director's chair.

Chad watched her from a distance, hiding in the safety of the absence of camera lights. He was glad she was too immersed in her own "tragedy" to notice him. She was moping in a sweet manner, arms crossed, lips pursed, playing with her fringe. He swallowed deeply, put his hands in his pockets. Taking a deep breath, he stepped out of the darkness and spoke.

'I showed Mike my version for the ending..'

'You did!' she cut in. As quickly as she had saddened she was all a picture of jubilation and ecstacy again. 'That's great! Good on you buddy!' She gave him a hearty pat on the back.

Buddy? He thought miserably to himself.

'That's wonderful!' she continued. 'Haven't read the original version yet but...'

'Well we don't know if he'll take it yet...' he said hesitantly.

'He will, he will!' she said. She smiled mischievously. 'Oooh.. Chad-2-expression actor becomes deep scriptwriter...'

'Cut it out,' he said ruffling her hair.

'Do not, touch the hair,' she said with mock severity.

There was a cheeky twinkle in her eyes.

'Okay gotta go!' she said brightly. 'See ya!'

Chad watched her lithe figure skip merrily out of the studio. Her pleated skirt bounced as she ran, her hair flowing with the wind.

'See ya...'

season ?? episode 4

cast:

Nathan Scott as played by James

Peyton Scott as played by Hilarie

Shane Scott as played by (child actor)

Beth Scott as played by (infant)

Timeframe: Approximately 10 and a half years after Mouth & Rachel's wedding

'Peyton, Lucas sent you a letter today,' Nathan said walking into the dining room. He was holding up a crumpled letter and envelope in his left hand.

'I thought I told you to tell him not to bother us...' Peyton began putting away the dishes.

'It wasn't for us,' Nathan interrupted. 'It was for you.'

Peyton paused, she placed a dish carefully on the kitchen top. She turned her body around slowly to face her husband.

'I don't understand what you mean.'

'Shall I read it for you?' Nathan asked sarcastically. Opening up the crumpled piece of paper he cleared his throat dramatically. 'Dearest Peyton, I need to see you one more time before I leave. We need to sort things out...I need to see you again, not just like last time...'

Peyton threw the towel on the floor and walked past him roughly, 'I don't need to listen to this...'

Nathan reached over and grabbed her arm, 'Last time? Last time Peyton?'

'He means at the wedding, Nathan that hurts...' she said quickly trying to free herself.

Nathan held on tighter until her arm was red with his finger marks. 'Mouth and Rachel's wedding?? That was 10 years ago Peyton!! You expect me to believe...'

'That's all he means!' she cried. 'I haven't seen him ever. He just means at the wedding...at the wedding, and it was nothing... it doesn't... it didn't mean anything...'

Now she was crying, her voice coming out in heavy sobs. She pulled her arm away as Nathan let her go in a half-dazed fashion.

Peyton ran up the stairs into the nursery. Beth was crying, probably woken up by the noise. She picked her up and hushed her hugging her little body to her own.

'Peyton...' Nathan called.

'Nathan that's all he meant, if you don't believe what I said I have nothing to...'

'You expect me to believe you have no feelings for Lucas?' his voice boomed through the house. Beth's cries got louder as Peyton paced up and down the nursery. 'Hush baby, hush...' she soothed.

'Every single time there's the slightest mention of him you go berserk! Don't deny it. I can see it in your face,' he ranted. 'For 10 years Peyton 10 years!'

'Don't, don't...'

'Don't what!' he challenged. 'I've been understanding... all these years Peyton. I'm not a jealous man, but there's a limit to how much I can understand...'

'You don't!' she shrieked. Suddenly Beth went silent, as if she too was stunned by her usually collected Mother's outburst. Peyton's voice faltered to a whisper. 'You don't understand... you can't...you can't...'

'Why can't I...' Nathan said, crumbling. 'Teach me... teach me how to...'

'I can't,' she cried. 'I don't need you to... to understand. I just need you to not judge me. You haven't been where I've been... so don't judge me. Not you Nathan, not you.'

Peyton walked back and forth comforting Beth, letting her own tears drop as calmly as she could.

'You, you... you never had what I had Nathan. Haley left, and when she came back you and I weren't together! You didn't want her! When Lucas came back, I... I had to choose you. And I did, I chose you Nathan. I chose you. You haven't had that kind of choice! So you don't know!'

'I wanted to marry you... I could have lived alone but I chose you, I chose you too Peyton,' he argued.

There was a silence, except for Beth's heavy breathing.

'Not the way I did,' Peyton insisted.

Nathan paused as if contemplating the gravity of his wife's statement. He looked around at himself, his house. His wife comforting their crying baby and at the corner of the room's doorway, a small shadow of a figure. A blonde boy with watery green eyes, hanging timidly onto the door of the nursery, staring up at the man he looked up to more than anyone in the world.

'I'm sorry,' he said at last. He walked over and kissed his wife and baby on the forehead. He went to the doorway and knelt down to the ten year old, who suddenly looked much younger than his years.

'I'm sorry,' he repeated to Shane. Shane nodded and Nathan took his hand and led him back to his room to put him to bed.

Peyton held her daughter long after she had fallen asleep in her arms. She listened to the soothing sound of her husband's voice calming down her son, explaining to him and finally the sound of them both falling asleep.

Her daughter, her beautiful baby girl. The joy of her life.

Her children.

Her family.

At the corner of her eye she saw a black wing at the window panes.

'Not tonight,' she whispered turning her back to the window as she rocked her baby gently. 'Not tonight.'

hey! Did you see that one coming? The cast part. I hope I haven't offended anyone but it's a string of the story I wanna continue with. Please continue to give your honest feedback!