AUTHOR'S NOTE: It's been over a month since I've posted a new chapter and I apologize for that! I'm doing a time jump for this story only because I didn't want to follow the story of One Tree Hill exactly. Either you will hate me or love me for this! Hope you love this chapter!

Previously on With Tired Eyes, Tired Minds, Tired Souls, We Slept…

"I have HCM and…I haven't been taking my medication because it slows me down and I would be playing horribly if I slow down." Lucas said guilty dripping from his tone.

Nathan walked over to his brother and wrapped an arm around his shoulder. "Game can only change you if you have a life to change right?"

"I'm real sick mama." He whispered looking down at his feet.

"Lucas, what is it?"

"I have…HCM."

"Are you asking me out on a date, Jake Jagelski?" Brooke asked with a laugh.

"Yeah, I guess I am." Jake said realizing he kind of was asking her out on a date.

"You have a little bit of sauce on your mouth." He said and he reached forward. "I got it." He said and he took his thumb and he grazed it over her bottom lip wiping the sauce off her lips.

"Is it gone?" Brooke asked a little shakily noticing how close they have become.

"I think there is a little more." He said and he reached forward giving her lips a small kiss. After the short moment ended, he retracted himself. "I think I got it all."

"Luke…" Peyton started but he shook his head silencing her.

"I have HCM. The genetic heart condition that Dan has, I have it." Lucas said.

"Don't ever leave me." Peyton whispered laying her head on his chest.

"I'm not going anywhere." Lucas said and he kissed her forehead softly.

"I love you Lucas Scott." Peyton said softly.

"I love you too Peyton Sawyer."

"I think he lied to everyone, Haley. I think he even lied to himself." Nathan said giving her a simple shrug.

"Is he going to be okay?" Haley asked.

"We'll make sure he's ok, right?" Nathan asked.

"Right," Haley nodded her head.

CHAPTER TEN: Flash Forward

"Can I have your autograph, Mr. Scott?" A young girl asked while he was standing at the counter of his mother's café.

22 year old Lucas Scott turned towards the teen girl and saw her holding his first novel, the first one that he had ever written.

"Sure, that's not a problem." Lucas said calmly. Most people that had the fame that he did would be bothered by pesky fans asking for their autographs every other second. Lucas opened the cover of the book 'The Unkindness of Ravens'. "What's your name?"

"Heather Jamison." The teenage girl replied.

"To Heather Jamison, follow your heart and be happy. Love, Lucas Scott." Lucas said as he was writing and he gave the pen and the book back.

"Thank you!" Heather said and she left the café.

"Does that ever get old?" An older woman's voice said appearing from the back of the café and behind the counter.

"Nope, at least my work is still appreciated." Lucas said with a smile. He reached over the counter and gave his mom the best hug he could muster up.

"My baby boy is so grown. So, how long are you in town for?" Karen asked used to his visits every few months.

"I'm actually thinking about staying in Tree Hill for good. I heard that they needed a new coach at Tree Hill for the varsity boys' basketball team."

"They do. After Whitey left, the team just whirled into a black hole; maybe you'll get the job and give us something to celebrate again on Friday nights." Karen laughed.

"I'll head over there after I'm done here." Lucas said nodding his head.

"How's Peyton?" Karen asked after a few seconds of silence. She prepared her son a coffee.

"She's good. It was her idea to move back here." Lucas said with a smile.

"Any wedding bells in the future?" Karen asked.

"Ma, hold your horses." Lucas said and he looked at the clock. "I got to start heading over there before school gets out. See you later ma." Lucas said grabbing his coffee and walking out of the café.

[O][T][H]

"Did my paperwork go through?" Peyton Sawyer, independent music label owner, asked her former boss at one of the shallow record labels in Los Angeles.

"Yeah, I suppose so." He said and he went back to sniffing the last line of coke that was on his notebook.

"I see, and then I'm out of here." Peyton said and she turned around. She walked out of his office.

"Get back here Sawyer!" The boss shouted. Peyton rolled her eyes knowing exactly what he was going to ask her to do.

"Yes, John?" Peyton asked.

"Drop two buttons, then you can leave." The cynical middle aged man said. Peyton just wanted to get out of there, so she did what she was told. She practically could see the excitement growing inside of the man.

Peyton didn't say anything then, and she disappeared out of his office. She grabbed her box off her desk and she headed to the elevator. She pushed the button and the elevator took her to the lobby. She walked out to her car and set the box in the passenger seat. She leaned back in the driver's side and she checked her cell phone. Time to head home…she thought to her, and she drove off towards LAX.

[O][T][H]

"Daddy, wake up, wake up!" 4 year old Jamie Scott shouted as he bounced on his daddy's bed.

"No, it's not time to wake up." Nathan grumbled putting the pillow on top of his bed. Jamie continued to jump and then Nathan pulled him down and started to tickle him.

"NO! Don't do that daddy! No!" Jamie shouted, giggling uncontrollably. Jamie managed to squirm away from him. "Mommy told me to wake you up, so we can go see Uncle Lucas!"

"Mommy's here? Uncle Lucas is here?" Nathan asked raising his head with a confused expression on his face.

Jamie ran out of the room shouting, "Mommy! Daddy is up!"

Nathan grabbed a pair of basketball shorts and a tee and he headed downstairs. He saw Brooke Davis standing in the kitchen of his house.

"Brooke, what's up?" He asked yawning softly reaching for the cup of coffee that was sitting waiting for him.

"I heard that Lucas was back in town, and figured we'd go see him."

"Jamie told me that…but how did you get in?" Nathan asked looking towards his front door then back at the brunette that was standing in front of him.

"Jamie opened the door for me and then he told me where the spare key is."

"Remind me to hide that when you're not around." He said towards Jamie.

"Oh Daddy, I still know where you hide it." Jamie laughed and Brooke shook her head at the father son interaction.

"We also need to talk." Brooke said.

"Jamie, why don't you go watches some TV?" Nathan asked and Brooke nodded her head.

"I know that's just signal for Jamie go away so Mommy and I can talk." Jamie said in a sarcastic but cute voice and left the room leaving a shocked Brooke and Nathan.

"That kid is a pure genius sometimes." Brooke laughed and then turned towards Nathan.

"So what do you need to talk to me about?" Nathan asked.

"Haley's coming to town on her last show of her current tour." Brooke said pulling out the piece of paper that she printed from the internet.

"What?" Nathan asked and he looked down at the piece of paper restraining him from spitting out his coffee.

"So either we have to face the music, or we can run away like she did."

"The grown up thing would be to face the music…" Nathan said and he looked at Jamie enjoying whatever was on the television.

"I don't blame her for running away." Brooke said.

Nathan sighed deeply and he ran his hand over his forehead, rubbing his temples.

[O][T][H]

Lucas sat down in the chair behind the wooden desk inside of the coach's office. "Congratulations Lucas, you start tomorrow." Mr. Turner said and Lucas stood up to shake his former principal's hand.

"Thank you so much, Mr. Turner." Lucas said and he watched as the older African-American man left his sight.

Lucas turned around and he looked at the office that was officially his. Lucas turned out the lights and locked up his new office. While he was walking out to his car, he saw someone sitting on the hood of his car.

"Excuse me, why are you sitting on my car?" Lucas asked and then when he arrived up closer he saw that it was Peyton. "Peyton, you're here." Lucas said a large smile growing on his face.

He watched as she slid off the car and he put the keys in his pocket. He wrapped his arms around his girlfriend and he picked her up slightly. He put her down and he cradled her face in his hands and he kissed her gently on the lips. When their kiss ended, he pressed his forehead to hers looking into her beautiful green eyes.

"Man, it's been a long 3 weeks without you." He said and she agreed with a nod. "I love you."

"I love you too." Peyton giggled softly and she kissed him again.

[O][T][H]

"Get a room!" Brooke shouted walking onto the River Court with Nathan and Jamie, spotting Lucas and Peyton sharing a kiss on the bench. Peyton shrieked jumping off the bench and running towards her best friend.

"B. Davis!"

"P. Sawyer!"

Brooke and Peyton hugged each other. Brooke then broke apart from her best friend. "Oh hey Luke, sorry about that," She giggled and Peyton laughed with her.

"Uncle Lucas!" Jamie said running over to Lucas and attacking him. Lucas stumbled a little bit and then picked his nephew up.

"Is that James?" Peyton asked shocked at how much the little baby boy had grown since Peyton had last seen her.

"My pride and joy," Brooke responded watching Lucas and Jamie bond. "What about me?" Nathan cut in.

"Oh yeah…" Brooke said with a laugh. "It's nice to see you Nate." Peyton said giving the taller but younger of the two Scott brothers a hug.

Nathan then went to join Jamie and Lucas in what they were doing at the other end of the court. "You never told me how that happened…" Peyton said walking with Brooke over to the bench her and her beau had formerly been sitting on.

"It was after Nathan and Haley's second wedding. I had just finished fighting with Jake which is another long painful story, and I was just putting back those drinks, and Nathan was there to comfort me. I guess I acted on my drunken desires and we…" Brooke said making a gesture with her hands signaling that they had slept together without having to say incase Jamie was using his big listening ears to be nosy. "It wasn't supposed to happen, it just kind of did, and nine months later I had Jamie. It was strange how he came out with blonde hair and blue eyes though, so Haley had no suspicion, till the guilt started to eat us both alive and I realized I couldn't raise him on my own. We both told her, she ran off and found fame. She never looked back. Not that I blame her for running away."

"Damn…" Peyton said and she shook her head. "Do you have feelings for Nate?"

Brooke bit back her lip. "Lately I've started to feel something for him. But then I found out that Haley is coming back to town for her last show of her tour."

"So that's scaring you off from ever really feeling anything for him…" Peyton said and she nodded her head.

"Very much so…" Brooke said looking over at Nathan and then her son. "Maybe Jamie is all we will have in common."

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