A/N: So there is a reason why I did not update last week and that was because I spent Easter in Chicago. I had no computer and no internet because I was traveling with a friend. But I am here now and I hope that this chapter will be good enough to everyone's liking.

If anyone who has seen One Tree Hill Tonight…can I just say YES! I won't give anything away, but OMG I am so happy for Brulian right now!

Chapter Ten: News

"Do you ever wonder why the hospital calls this place the waiting room?"

All eyes go to Aria O'Malley.

"I mean couldn't they come up with a better name for it. I hate waiting."

"We all do Aria," Brooke says honestly. "But when you have a connection to us or our families, this waiting room, in this hospital becomes our second home."

Peyton closes her eyes tightly. She had arrived an hour ago and was instantly at Brooke's side. Haley snuggled closer to her husband.

"How many times have you all been here?"

"A lot."

"I was here when my mom died. That's the first time for me," Peyton says honestly. "Lucas has been in here twice, once for a car accident and then the other time for a heart attack. I was here when I gave birth to Sawyer. I was knocked out for a couple of days."

Brooke grabs a hold of Peyton's hand in comfort. It didn't matter that they weren't speaking. They needed each other right now.

"It was my junior year and I had taken drugs to up my game," Aria glances at Nathan with a raised eyebrow. She hadn't known that. "I was admitted when I crashed my Uncle Cooper's race car into the wall on purpose."

"I was run over by a car and then I had Jamie," Haley puts in.

"What about you Brooke?" Aria asks gently as she watches Brooke's every move.

"I was never admitted. All of my friends were and now my daughter."

"It will be okay, Brooke, everything will be okay."

"You don't know that Peyton. You don't know anything."

"Sam said the same thing to me once. It was our first real hangout and it was nice. Sam's not hard to like."

"This place is kind of cool."

Peyton chuckles as Sam looks around Red Bedroom Records.

"Yeah, I kind of like it. I actually love it. It took me awhile to get here."

Sam takes a seat in Peyton's chair and place her feet on Peyton's desk. Peyton raises an eyebrow.

"Tell me all about the infamous Peyton Sawyer."

"I will as soon as you get your feet off of my desk."

Sam frowns and does as she is told. Peyton moves a chair closer to Sam.

"I don't think you want to know about Peyton Sawyer."

"Why do you love music so much?"

Peyton smiles when Sam changes the subject.

"There's a song for every occasion. There's a song for a broken heart, for a death in the family, for happiness, for sadness. Any emotion you can think of, there's a song for it."

"Broken by Seether would be the song of my life."

"I wouldn't say that."

"You don't know that!"

"I could understand it," Aria comments after Peyton finishes her story. "Sam and I are similar and I could understand it."

"I'm sick of waiting," Brooke complains.

"Brooke, you have to be patient…I know what I'm saying is different coming from me, but you can't give up hope."

Brooke looks at her best friend and eventually nods her head.

"I'm just worried."

"We all are," Haley says as she sits up in her chair. "Did I ever tell you guys the time where Sam and I had an argument about a paper she had written?"

Everyone shakes their head.

"It was funny because it was really pointless fight, but she said something that I wouldn't ever forget."

"Haley, I can't write about this crap."

"Samantha, it's just an essay, it's not that hard."

Sam scoffs and places her pencil on the desk.

"It is extremely hard when you don't know what to write about."

"Sam, it's really simple. Where do you see yourself in ten years?"

"That's the problem. I don't know."

Haley places a hand on Sam's arm.

"Calm down, okay? Just close your eyes and think. Picture yourself at 25, what do you see?"

Sam closes her eyes and takes a breath.

"I see Brooke and me and we're extremely close, but she's still motherly. I see Jamie at eighteen with his girlfriend. You and Nathan are still together and have a daughter. Peyton and Sawyer and Lucas are still in Tree Hill. But Peyton is with Brooke and Lucas is a loner. Sawyer likes a sister to me."

Sam opens her eyes and smiles.

"Okay that's good, but nowhere did you mention anything about you except that Brooke is still motherly towards you."

"If everyone is alive and well in my future then I'm gonna be just fine."

"Sam doesn't worry about herself. That's just who she is," Brooke says with tears in her eyes.

"Even after everything she's been through she cares about everyone else and she comes second. That makes for a great parent."

All the girls look at Nathan with a bewildered look.

"That's not gonna happen at least not now," Aria says quietly.

Brooke and Peyton raise an eyebrow at Aria who blushes and looks away. After a few moments of silence, Aria speaks again.

"I told her to never go back there. She should have listened to me. Why didn't she listen to me?"

"She tends not to listen to a lot of people."

Aria looks at Brooke with a scared look.

"If everything goes well, how do you think she'll be?"

"I've been debating that. She's going to have a lot of emotional problems I think. I might have her see someone, maybe."

"Therapy never hurt anybody," Aria replies honestly. "I go once a week."

"The one thing Sam doesn't talk about is feelings."

"That's where you are wrong."

"What are you talking about Nathan?" Brooke asks.

"She talked a lot with Jamie and me."

"When was this?" Brooke questions.

"The last good pool weather day."

"Sam you have to jump in with me," Jamie says excitedly. "It will be really fun."

"I don't know Jamie. I'm not much of a swimmer."

Nathan walks up to his son and places a hand on his shoulder.

"Why don't you jump in Jamie and Sam and I will join you later."

"Okay, daddy," Jamie says with a grin.

Nathan sits down next to Sam and puts his feet in the water.

"Jamie drowned once."

"That sucks."

"Yeah it does. Have you ever drowned before Sam?"

Sam bites her lips and shakes her head.

"I never really swam before. Nobody cared enough to teach me."

"I can teach you Sam. If you are worried about drowning, I won't let you."

"I'm scared Nathan," Sam admits. "I'm scared about a lot of things. There are a lot of things I've never learned."

"Like what?"

"I've never learned to ride a bike. I never learned to play basketball…there's just a lot that I never learned how to do."

"Stand up," Nathan orders with a smile.

Sam gets her feet out of the water and Nathan does as well. Nathan grabs Sam's hand and holds tight.

"We're going to jump in."

"Nathan, I can't!"

"Yes you can and I won't let go of your hand. You have to get over your fear before you can conquer the learning aspect."

"Okay, I'm ready."

"1, 2, 3."

"I taught her to swim that day. The smile on her face was priceless to me."

"I didn't know that. I didn't know Sam couldn't swim."

"It's okay Brooke."

"She's got to be okay. I need to know more about her."

Peyton wraps her arm around Brooke's shoulder and Brooke rests her head on Peyton's shoulder.

"Tell us what you know."

Brooke looks around the room and smiles slightly despite the situation they were in.

"Sam can be hard to deal with. When she first met me she called me a bitch," Brooke says with a laugh. "I wanted to hate her, but I envied her. She seemed so free. She was stealing from my store and it was like she didn't even care and I envied her."

"Brooke, are you okay?" Haley asks in concern.

Brooke wasn't looking at anyone directly while she was speaking. She was looking anywhere, but at the people around her. Her eyes were mostly trained at the doors that the families weren't supposed to go passed, the restricted area.

"Then Haley told me that Sam needed somewhere to stay, so I give her a place to stay and I didn't want to like her, but she got into my heart and she never left. I mean she wouldn't leave. One day I saw her as a spunky teenage girl and the next I see her as my daughter."

"I need her to be my daughter again," Brooke says before getting up from her chair and walking away.

-Complications of the Heart-

Peyton had been the one to try and find Brooke. It didn't take long. Peyton had found Brooke looking at the babies in the maternity ward. Brooke had her hand against the window. Peyton could see tears in her eyes.

"Brooke."

"They're so young…so innocent. They don't know the cruel in the world. They don't know that there are evil people in the world. Murderers, rapists, child beaters, so much evil," Brooke cries out. "They're so much evil."

"Brooke, you have got to stop this."

"NO!" Brooke yells as she turns around and faces her best friend. "You don't get to do that. Sawyer isn't the one in that operating room. It's Sam. It's my daughter, not yours. You don't get to stand there in front of me and tell me I have to stop. You just don't get to."

Peyton grabs Brooke's arm and drags her into a random room.

"I know its Sam and I know you are hurting. I get that. Trust me I do, but I think of Sam as my kid. Brooke, I think of her as my kid. And you are broken right now and I just want to help you and I don't know how to help you. Tell me how to help you," Peyton pleads desperately.

Brooke sniffles and wipes away her tears.

"I love you Peyton. I always have, but you went to Lucas and you broke my heart," Brooke wails. "You broke my heart. You can't fix it because you broke it. Sam was all I had. She is all I have. But you don't get to fix it," Brooke sniffles. "Because you broke it."

Peyton wipes away her own tears before speaking to Brooke.

"I hurt you. I know that. Usually it's me. Usually I'm the broken one and you've been the one to fix it, every single time. Now it's my turn. Let me help you."

Brooke shakes her head. Peyton grabs Brooke's face to stop the movement.

"Let. Me. Help. You."

Brooke closes her eyes and Peyton grumbles before pressing her lips to Brooke's. It didn't take long for Brooke to kiss back. After a few seconds when Brooke realized what was happening, Brooke moved her hands towards Peyton's shoulders and shoved her away.

"You don't get to do that," Brooke glares at Peyton. "I'm going back to the waiting room."

-Complications of the Heart-

"Are those two going to be okay?" Aria asks as she watched Peyton go after Brooke.

"Brooke and Peyton have issues. God help us, they need to fix it."

Nathan looks at his wife with a raised eyebrow. Haley shrugs her shoulders.

"It's true the Breyton drama has been there since high school."

"Did those two date when they were in high school?"

"Yeah, it was a secret or it was supposed to be," Nathan answers truthfully.

"Peyton's married to your brother right?" Aria questions, at Nathan's nod Aria continues. "Well who do you two think Peyton belongs with?"

Nathan and Haley look at each other before looking at Aria.

"Brooke."

"That's a whole lot of drama."

"Yep, high school relationships that travel to the adult world can get complicated," Haley replies in all honesty.

"I kissed Sam," Aria blurted out with wide eyes. "I-I-I d-don't know why I just said that."

Haley hides her smile while Nathan comments.

"I like you better than Jack."

Aria's eyes narrow.

"Who's Jack?"

-Complications of the Heart-

"Brooke, I'm sorry I kissed you."

"It is what it is Peyton. You're with Lucas. I don't cheat anymore. That's not who I am."

Brooke and Peyton make their way to the waiting room, but Peyton's words freeze Brooke's feet.

"We're getting a divorce."

At that moment Brooke felt like her heart skipped a beat. Brooke turned around.

"As glad as I am to hear that. I can't dwell on it. I have to go see if my daughter is okay."

-Complications of the Heart-

"I think it's my turn to talk about Sam," Brooke says as she sits down back in her chair. "Aria has heard from all of us except me and now it's my turn."

"Have we heard it before Brooke?" Haley asks kindly.

Brooke smiles and shakes her head.

"No, but it was one of those rare Saturday's. Sam and I had no plans with anybody and it was also the first time we could actually tolerate each other for more than a few hours."

"Sam, are you sure you don't have any plans?" Brooke asks as she sits down next to Sam on the couch.

"No, I don't. Jack's busy doing whatever he does on a Saturday."

"Sam, if you don't want to be here," Sam raises an eyebrow. "I mean if you don't want to hang with me today I can understand."

Sam laughs and shakes her head.

"No, I want to. I've just never done that with anyone of my foster parents"

"It's a good thing I'm not like anyone of them then."

Sam cracks a smile.

"Brooke, can I ask you a question?"

"Sure Sam," Brooke says with a smile.

"Why'd you take me in? I mean I stole from your store and called you a bitch, but you still took me in, why did you?"

"When I was in New York, I had money and I had fame, but a part of me was missing. I couldn't figure out what it was. I spent years there and I didn't have love I didn't have a family. Then I came back to Tree Hill looking for adoption because I didn't have the right person to be there with me. Then they turned me down. I can't adopt because I'm a single person."

"What changed?"

"I lost my company after fostering a baby who needed heart surgery. My mom took my company from me, but I knew I still wanted to be a mom. But mostly I wanted you to live with me was because I think I saw myself in you. I knew I needed help, but I didn't have my family. Everyone needs family."

"You can be my family, right Brooke?"

"Yeah Sam, I can be your family."

"She became my family. Just like all of my friends became my family and I'm sure at some point Aria, all of us will become family to you. Just hang in there."

"Sam's changed every one of you in some way or another hasn't she?" Aria asks.

"Yeah," Brooke answers for everyone else. "She changed all of us."

Everyone was so caught up in the conversation that they didn't see the doctor walk up to them or see the blood on his scrub shirt.

"Family of Samantha Walker?"

Brooke turns to the Doctor and everyone stands up.

"I'm her mom."

"There were some complications during the surgery…"