Title: To Be Loved 10/?
Author: Christen (purplehaysc@hotmail.com) but if you want a response back from during the week email me at (cha005@latech.edu)
Disclaimer: these characters belong to One Tree Hill except for Margaret or any other characters you don't recognize.
Distribution: Take it, but let me know. If you have any of my other fics, go ahead.
Comments: This is my first One Tree Hill Fic but email me if have any comments please email them to me. Ok someone was a little confused and they couldn't understand how Lucas could have kids but still be in high school. Ok when Lucas, Nathan, Haley etc are in high school in the past and when they have kids that's in the future. Remember how Dan has a date of death that's not current? That's evidence that at the time that was the future. any other questions just email me. Hey I'm looking for a beta reader? Anyone want to help?
(To Be Loved by Curtis Stigers)
"Be a hero
Be a star
Anything but what you are
Find a girl to possess
Always pay, pursue, protect
Be a master
Be a slave
Work your ass into an early grave"
Margaret woke up with a jolt. She was having a nightmare about Dan. She looked around and realized she was in Jake's room. She tired to get up with out waking up either Jake or Grace. As she got up, she turned around and looked at them and smiled. They looked adorable. She started to look for a sheet of paper. When she found one, she wrote. "Jake, I headed home. At least where ever home is for now. I'll see you at school. Don't worry about Grace, I won't tell anyone. I promise. ~Margaret~"
"You might as well take this." Peyton said throwing a pillow at him.
"Peyton come on look I'm sorry ok?"
"I bet you are but Luke I can't sleep in the same bed with you knowing what I know now."
"Ok, Peyton I'll sleep in the guest room if that's what you want."
"That's what I want."
"Peyton I just I need to know if we're ok."
"And I need to get you of my face before I do something that I will regret."
"Ok, but Peyton don't forget I love you."
"You know Luke right now that's just a little to hard to believe." Peyton said as she got back into bed crying.
Lucas grabbed his pillow and headed downstairs. He passed Chad's room and heard some talking. Curiously he opened the door and all he saw was his eldest son sleeping. He closed the door quietly and he headed to the guest room.
"Great, another Scott brother. I just hope you're in a better mood then your brother was." Karen said sarcastically as she came into the house.
"Have a bad run in with Dan?"
"Yeah, he came to the café to demand that I send Margaret home." Karen said as she sat down on to the couch next to Keith.
"Well the good news is I'm nicer than Dan." Keith said smiling.
"I know that. Why do you think I've stayed friends with you for so long?" Karen said smiling.
"For free babysitting and free car repair."
Karen laughed. "Well that too. So did my son actually come home by himself tonight?"
"Yeah a little while ago and apparently he had his own run in with Dan."
"Why?"
"I assume when he went to pick up Margaret's things."
"I should go talk to him." Karen said getting up.
"I wouldn't recommend it. Let him cool off first. He'll probably tell you all about it in the morning."
"You're probably right." Karen said sitting back down.
"I'm always right." Keith said smiling.
"Chad? What happened? Chad?" Lori asked panicked.
"Sorry my dad just came in and I had to act like I was asleep."
"You should be asleep! But no you have to get another crazy plan in your head."
"If you think it's that crazy then don't come."
"And you let you run wild? No, there's no telling what you'll do without me."
"So you're coming?"
"Yeah who cares if I ever get to see the light of day again!" Lori said sarcastically.
"Ok meet me at the gate of the graveyard."
"The graveyard? Are you crazy? Scratch that of course you are crazy."
Haley put the phone down and started to get ready for bed. Nathan and her had talked for two hours straight. Neither one of them really wanted to get off the phone but her dad had warned her that if she didn't get off the phone with in the hour she wouldn't be able to use it for a long time. That got her off the phone quickly. She didn't really want to stop talking to Nathan though. She could tell something was wrong with him and she was afraid if they stopped talking he'd get worse. But he promised her that first thing in the morning he'd meet her at the dock for tutoring and he'd be ok. She could tell in his voice he was lying about being ok but she figured he needed to believe that himself. So she had hung up and decided she just see him in the morning and realized that she was looking forward to that.
"It's my pleasure to introduce to everyone here Mr. and Mrs. Lucas Scott." Keith said happily.
Lucas smiled. "You look beautiful, you know that."
"Stop saying that or I'm going to start to blush." Peyton said smiling.
"Sorry to break the news to you but your already are." Lucas said ushering her to their table.
"Ok quiet everyone it's time for the brother to give his best man speech." Nathan said.
"Oh this should be interesting." Peyton said laughing.
"Ok everyone here knows that my brother and I haven't always gotten along."
"Oh really." Lucas said sarcastically.
"Oh shut up! It's my turn to talk you got your chance at my wedding. Ok now as I was saying. We may not have always gotten along but we've always have had good taste in women. Sometimes it was the even same women."
"Oh don't remind me." Peyton said.
"But we were always looking for love. We both were lucky enough to find it. Of course my brother found it twice, once in my sister and then in Peyton. I've got to say that I think that Lucas finally found that true love that he's been looking for when he found Peyton. I'm so glad to say that for once all my siblings have found true love. Just like with Margaret and Jake, I've got to say that I believe that nothing will ever tear Peyton and Lucas apart. As corny as this sounds I really believe that Lucas and Peyton are meant for each other and I hope that they're love last as long as my wife and I have. To Lucas and Peyton." Nathan said.
"To Lucas and Peyton." Everyone said raising his or her glasses.
"Ok it's the maid of honor's turn." Haley said getting up with Nathan's help. "Now I don't think I can top that speech my husband just gave but I can try. See I've been Lucas's best friend since the day we both met in kindergarten all that time ago. This whole time I wished that Lucas would meet the girl of his dreams despite the fact that Lucas keep denying that he even wanted or believed in love. I knew that one of these days he was going to have to meet someone else because I wouldn't always been there for him to fall back on those date nights."
"I only did that because I felt sorry for you because you didn't have a date." Lucas said.
"And there he goes lying again. But when he met Peyton well they argued a lot. But even a nonbeliever like Lucas couldn't deny the feelings he felt for Peyton and vise versa. But I was even happier like everyone else when he finally asked him to marry her after what seemed like forever. And now looking at the happy couple I know that my best friend and his wife will be happy for the rest of their lives. So again to Lucas and Peyton."
"To Lucas and Peyton." Everyone said raising his or her glasses again.
"Ok well now that you two fools are done. I want to say something to my wife. Peyton, marrying you was probably the smartest thing I've ever done. You bring out the best in me even when I don't want to believe that it's there. You even got my son to like you and that's a miracle in it's self."
"Hey!" Chad said.
"You're the women I've always wanted to marry and the women I've always wanted to raise my children with. You're the women that I love and I will always love. I promise you that."
Peyton woke up with a start and looked at her and Lucas's wedding picture. Her tears started to come again.
Margaret opened the front door quietly hoping to not wake up anyone. As she walked through the living room she noticed Keith and Karen asleep on the couch. She kept walking towards Lucas's room. She opened the door and noticed him asleep on the bed. "I guess I have the floor tonight." She said sarcastically.
"Margaret, you're home." Lucas said waking up and then he looked at the clock. "It's three in the morning. Where have you been?"
"At Jake's we accidentally fell asleep talking. By the way did you now your Uncle and mother are sleeping on the couch together?"
"Doesn't surprise me. They're pretty good friends. Margaret are you feeling ok? You don't look so good."
"I'm not." Margaret said as she ran to the bathroom. She came back a few minutes later.
"Are you ok?"
"Yeah I'm fine. I've just had this bug for a few months. Actually I swear I got it when I was here three months ago."
"You were here three months ago?"
"Yeah only for a few weeks and then my mother sent me packing."
"You ever see a doctor while you were at school?"
"No, it's not like they can send me home if I am sick and the sick ward is well full of sick people. So no."
"Why don't you see a doctor while you're here?"
"If I do that will you stoop bothering me?"
"Yes."
"Good now can I go to sleep?"
"Not so fast. You promised me an explanation to why you here."
Margaret sighed. "Ok but scoot over. This will take a long time and I'm not sitting on the floor the whole time."
Margaret sat down on the bed next to him. "You sure you want to hear this? Because I promise you after you will hate your father even more."
"Yes and I don't care about Dan so it doesn't matter if I hate him a little or a lot."
"Ok but I warned you. So where do you want me to start?"
"How about the very begging since I really don't know anything about you."
"Ok I moved in with my mom, Dan and Nathan when he was four, I was six."
"Where had you been living before that?"
"With my father Andrew and his wife Kelly. Kelly really wanted a little girl or so she thought until she became pregnant herself. Andrew demanded that my mother had passed me off on him and that if she didn't take me back he wouldn't even pay child support. My mom said she had the money to take him to court but I mattered more. So I moved in with her family. Things weren't actually that bad. Nathan and I got along really well. I loved spending time with my mom."
"And Dan?"
"Something was off about him. I mean I had to deal with him but my gut convinced me to stay away from him when I could."
"Well things sound pretty good."
"They were until my mom got a job working out of town. Nathan and I were left with Dan."
"How old were you when she got the job?
"Thirteen. And that's also when Nathan became "Mr. Popularity" because of his basketball and I was left with Dan."
"What happened?"
"Well Dan developed quite an interest in me which if it was normal then I would have been fine with it but nothing ever is normal with Dan." Margaret said as tears started to slide down her face.
Lucas put his arm with her. "I'm sorry."
Margaret sniffled. "So am I."
"Is that when you started to leave?"
"Well that's why I started to complain to my mother a lot about how unhappy I was and how much I hated Dan."
"Did you tell her what was going on?"
"At thirteen I wasn't really sure what to call it and Dan had convinced me that it was normal which I believed until we had "that talk" at school and I got a name for what was being done to me: rape. When I told Dan I was going to tell my mom. He convinced me that no one would believe me. I mean it's not like anyone wanted me not my dad or my mom. So I just asked my mom if I could leave instead. She sent me off to a school out of state for a few months but Dan got me kicked out and back home. I still don't know how. But this pattern when on till last night."
"What happened last night?"
"Nathan came in while… well Dan and I were in bed."
"Nathan had never realized it before?"
"No, I don't think he wanted to. I kept trying to get him to come up to my room for years but now he finally did."
"Since Nathan saw what happened last night can't you report it?"
"I'm 18 now, Lucas. It's not against the law anymore."
"Why did you come here?"
"I don't know. I guess I just for once saw something in you that I hadn't ever found in anyone else. Maybe it was your hatred for Dan."
"Yeah well my hatred for Dan is obvious. And it's all because I'm labeled his bastard son."
Margaret laughed. "That must mean that you don't know that Nathan wasn't exactly planned either. Actually all us: you, Nathan and me are all bastard children. And knowing the way my mother and Dan sleep around we're probably not the only ones. So don't let Dan or Nathan make you think less of yourself. Believe when I say you are the lucky one.
"Ok where are we going?" Lori asked.
"To my father's grave. We've got some unfinished business the two of us need to discuss." Chad said taking out his flashlight and looking for Dan's grave.
"What exactly do you have in that bag?"
"Some things to help me get through to him."
"Ok what's with all the cryptic talk?"
"Lori, please stop talking you're distracting me. Just help me find my dad's grave." He said handing her another flashlight.
Lori started to look for Dan's grave. "Um… Chad I found it."
He ran over to where she was. "Good, now I can get this over with like I've been wanting to do with for as long as I can remember." Chad said as he put down his bag and took out a hammer.
"What are you going to do with that?" Lori asked worried.
"Ruining the last piece of Dan there's left in the world." Chad said as he swung at the tombstone. A piece of it fell off. "This is for all the pain you've caused my mother!" He swung again. "For all the pain you've caused my brothers!" He said as he swung again. "This if all the pain you've caused Kendall. If it wasn't for you her father would still be here!" He swung again. "This is for all the pain you making me as caused everyone!" He swung again. "Why couldn't you just leave my mother alone! She didn't deserve to have to raise me!" Chad said crying.
"Chad, I think you've done enough damage." Lori said worried.
Chad sunk down on to the ground. He opened up his bag and took out a can, opened and took a gulp.
"Is that beer?" Lori asked.
"Want one?" He asked handing her another one.
"No, defiantly not. Look I know you're hurt but that's not going to help."
"How would you know? You have no clue what I'm feeling! And you have no clue what could help me or not help me." Chad said as he took another gulp.
"Look, shouldn't we go back home before someone finds us?"
"No one is going to be in the graveyard this late at night. So I think we're safe." Chad said as he finished the can, threw aside and opened another one.
"You know I'm so glad that I don't have this rebellious streak that you have because yours scares me."
"It scares me too. But hey my father must have given this to me. You want to thank him or should I?" He said looking at the hammer.
"No, you're not going any where near this hammer." Lori said as she picked it up.
"Fine, like I care!" Chad said as he took another big gulp.
"Wait, Chad did you hear that?" Lori said as she heard some footsteps coming this way.
"What?"
"I hear someone coming, come on we have to go now!" Lori said grabbing his hand, he grabbed his bag and they ran off.
"Good morning." Jake's dad said smiling as Jake came of his room.
Jake went to the fridge, took out a bottle and put it in the microwave. "Why are you so happy?"
"Why aren't you?"
"Well my daughter woke me up early this morning, that's why. Mom, why are you staring at me?"
"Where's Margaret?"
"Why exactly do you think Margaret would be here?"
"Well she was sleeping in your room last night."
"You know most parents especially after their son having a child would wake them up and be a little more upset about it."
"Well it didn't look like anything was going on in there and it's because of your daughter that we don't freak ok. We assume that you wouldn't make that same mistake again. We're right, right?" His mother asked.
"Yes you're right, mother." Jake said sarcastically. "I guess in a very weird way that makes since." Jake said as he started towards hi room.
"Wait where is she any way?" His father asked.
"She went home last night."
"Well I hope Dan's not mad that we didn't call him last night and tell him she was here."
Jake stopped walking. "She's sleeping at Karen Roe's house so please don't ever till Dan Scott anything about Margaret."
"Ok It's time for me to do the best man/big brother speech." Lucas said.
"By three months!" Nathan screamed.
"Still older!" Lucas said smiling. "Ok now this wedding means a lot to me because not only did my brother get married but so did my best friend. Though if you would of asked me two years ago if I would bet on them getting married. I promise you I would of bet against it. But since I've seen these two lovebirds fall hopelessly and sickly in love with each other. I've had to accept the evitable that they were going to be husband and wife at some point. And if my brother doesn't mess this up, this will be one of the happiest couples ever. To Nathan and Haley."
"To Nathan and Haley." Everyone said raising his or her glasses.
"Ok. I guess it's the older sister/ maid of honor's turn to speak. I look at the two of you and I just can't believe my little brother ever found someone so good. Haley you're the type of person that I've always hoped my brother would date but after seeing him with every other type of girl I had given up hope. But at last you came into his life and nothing has ever been the same and I mean that in a good way. You helped make his good traits that he had been trying to hide known; you finally helped make everyone see the good guy that I always knew was under all that "cool" exterior. My brother really is lucky to of found you. And I hope he never forgets it."
"I won't." Nathan said smiling.
"Haley, I may not know you as well as I would say Lucas or half of this town does but from what I do know about you, you seem like a great person and I just hope that my little brother doesn't mess this up because you two deserve only the best."
"Ok what is with you two assuming I'm going to be the one to mess this up?" Nathan asked.
Lucas, Margaret and Haley laughed.
"To Haley and Nathan." Margaret said.
"To Haley and Nathan." Everyone said raising his or her glasses.
"Ok, I know this is the time usually when the groom says something but I feel like I just have to speak up for my husband here. See Luke and Margaret make it sound like I'm Nathan's savior but they're wrong. He's mine before he came along I didn't really know about what I was like to be truly happy or to really have fun. Nathan opened my eyes to a new would and I'll never be able to repay him for that. I'd hate to think of what my life would be like if he hadn't walked into the torturing center that day." Haley said as she started to cry.
Nathan got up. "How about I finish this speech for my babbling wife."
Nathan woke up quickly and looked at his wedding ring. He got up and headed towards his bedroom. He walked in and saw Haley sleeping. He noticed she had been crying. He quietly got into bed with her and wrapped his arms around her.