WARNING: GRAPHIC CHAPTER!!!
Disclaimer: The Hitcher doesn't belong to me; neither do the characters of OTH. The only thing that belongs to me are the made up characters and the made up stuff.
Chapter 9
Previously on the Hitcher
She was sleeping peacefully when she felt a hand creeping up her leg. She opened her eye and saw a Hostess Twinkie on the night stand. She felt the hand creep higher and she giggled.
"Stop it, you're making me horny." Haley said.
She gasped when she was forcefully grabbed and made to lie on her back. She was now face to face with Derek. He put his hand over her mouth; he got on top of her and slapped her.
"I'm fucking horny too!" Derek said.
Haley tried to fight him but he kept pushing her head back down on the pillow, she was scared, she honestly didn't know where Nathan was and she knew that Derek was dangerous, she had so many thoughts going through her mind as she continued trying to fight Derek. She wondered if she and Nathan would get married and have children, she wondered if they would get out of this alive.
She bit his wrist, causing him to scream. He slapped her again, which caused her to turn somewhat, she grabbed the phone and hit him in the head. She scrambled out of the bed, he grabbed her foot and she tried to get free. She grabbed the lamp which had fallen during the struggle and knocked him with it in the neck, shocking him a little. She got up and ran to the bathroom. She tried to close the door but he was pushing on the door. She reached for the gun which was on the bathroom sink and picked it up.
"I have a gun!" she told him as she continued to struggle against him, trying to close the door. Finally, he let go and she was able to close the door and lock it. She moved away from the door and leaned against the wall next to the shower. She grabbed her skirt off of the top of the toilet seat, she put it on as she kept an eye on the door and then she put on her boots one foot at a time. She slowly walked towards the door with the gun pointing at the door. She unlocked the door and slowly turned the knob, and opened the door. She cautiously opened the door and walked out with the gun in her hands pointing in front of her.
She made her way over to the door and peeked out when she opened it, she stepped outside, a trailer truck was passing by and she hid the gun behind her back, until it passed by.
"Nathan?" she yelled as she looked around, and continued walking.
"Nathan!" she screamed.
She continued walking around the motel parking lot looking for Nathan.
"Nathan!" she yelled again.
"Nathan?" she said.
The hotel manager looked out the window and noticed her; he picked up the phone to call the police.
She looked between trailer trucks that were parked looking for Nathan. One of the trucks revved up, and that's when Haley noticed Nathan and screamed his name. "Nathan!"
He was chained by his hands and feet between two trucks, she ran over to him and removed the gag from around his mouth.
"Ok, I'll get you." she told him.
"Haley! Help me!" he said.
"I'm here and I'm going to get you down." She said.
"I'm going to get you down." She said again as she tried to get the chains off from around his hands.
"You've got to get me out of here," Nathan said. "It really hurts!"
"I know baby. Just hold still. Just hold still." Haley said.
"Please stop him. Please!" Nathan pleaded.
"Wait, wait, wait." Haley said.
Derek was in the front truck and he began to revv the engine again, and moved the truck forward stretching Nathan a bit, causing him to scream.
"No!" Haley screamed. "Stop it! You're killing him!"
She ran up to the passenger side door and opened it, she pointed the gun at him.
"Turn it off!" she said.
"No." Derek said.
"Turn the truck off!" Haley shouted.
"These clutches are tricky things. Touchy you know." He said as he moved his foot up and down causing the truck to roll and stretch Nathan even more.
Nathan screamed in pain and Haley let the tears fall even more, as she heard him scream.
"One little slip, and…" Derek said.
"I will shoot you." Haley said.
"You shoot me; my foot comes off the clutch. Now, get in. Get in!" Derek yelled.
"Okay." Haley said.
He revved the engine again and Nathan screamed. Haley stepped up into the truck with the gun still pointing at Derek.
"Close the door." Derek said and Haley closed the door.
"Turn it off. Stop! Stop the truck! Turn it off!" Haley said as she continued pointing the gun at him.
"I can't." He said.
"Yes, you can. Just turn it off." Haley said as she sobbed.
"I can't. I can't." Derek said.
"You're sick. What do you want?" she screamed.
He revved the engine again.
"Point it in my face. Right here." He said as he pointed to his forehead.
He grabs the tip of the gun and puts it in the center of his forehead.
"Do it," He said. "It's your chance, Haley, your chance to kill a man who's going to kill your whiny fucking boyfriend.
"No! Don't you say that! Don't say that to me!" she said.
"I want to die. Now pull the fucking trigger." He said.
The police pull up and she looks at them as the cars pull up then she looks back at Derek.
"State police!" an officer yells as he gets out of the car, and sees Nathan between the two trucks.
"Put the gun down!" another officer yells.
"This is the police! Drop the gun now!"
"Don't listen to them." Derek tells Haley.
The police now have the truck surrounded.
"No. Stop. Please." He says as he revvs the truck again.
OFFICER: Put the gun down!
"Go ahead. You can do it!" Derek said.
"Put it down! Put the gun down!" an officer yells.
"Put the gun down now!" another officer yells.
"Put that gun down, God damn it!" another officer yells.
Through her tears Haley says "I can't."
Derek revvs the truck again causing Nathan to scream.
"Please. Please, don't tease him. Please. Please, just stop hurting him. Please!" Haley begs as she sobs.
"This is the police! Put the gun down now!"
"No!" she says.
"You useless waste!" Derek says as he puts the truck in drive.
"No! No!" Haley screams as she tries to stop him.
She is too late and the truck moves forward the last thing that Haley hears is Nathan's piercing scream. The only thing that comes to mind is the fact that her boyfriend has been split in half with his top piece hanging on the back of the truck she is in and his bottom part left on the truck behind. She wondered how she would be able to face his parents; she knew they would be heartbroken. She couldn't believe that her boyfriend was gone, she had so many emotions she wanted to express, but she couldn't because she was numb.
"No!" Haley screamed.
"No! Get your hands off of me!" Haley screamed as she sobbed.
As Haley is being checked out, she kept replaying in her head what had happened. She couldn't believe that Nathan was gone.
"Haley do you know who this man is?" Whitey asked as he showed her a picture of the real Derek.
She turns and looks at the picture and she shakes her head.
"That's the real Derek Sommers he's been missing since Tuesday." Whitey said.
"Then who…" she wondered.
"We don't know who he is, he's like a ghost." Whitey said.
Haley sat there rocking back and forth as she kept replaying in her mind what happened to Nathan. Meanwhile they were moving Derek to be questioned.
"Open cell F." the prison guard yelled.
"I need you to stand up, put your hands behind your back." He told Derek as he cuffed him and then walked him to an interrogation room.
"Where are you from?" Whitey asked.
"All over." Derek responded.
"Is this so?" Whitey asked.
Derek nodded as Whitey continued.
"You're a sick fuck aren't you? The way you tortured that young man, I mean why did you do it?" Whitey asked.
"Why not?" Derek asked.
"How many others have you killed?" Whitey asked.
"Hard to say." Derek said.
"You see here in the great state of New Mexico we do have the death penalty. You don't seem too worried." Whitey said.
"Should I be?" Derek asked.
"You comfy down there Derek? Are those cuffs a little too tight?" he asked.
"Yeah, a little tight." Derek said.
"Yeah, you see, those are the new ones. They stretch out after you wear them for a while. Let me see." Whitey said as he walked up to Derek and tightens them causing Derek to exclaim in pain.
"Look at me. You have yourself a nice trip. We'll chat again real soon. Maybe next time, you'll be better company." Whitey said as he let go of Derek's hands and begins to walk out.
Derek is being escorted out of the building by two guards. Whitey is signing out Haley at the same time.
"Where are we going?" Haley asks.
"I'm taking you to Albuquerque for trauma support. And then I can release you to your parents there." Whitey says as he hands the clipboard over to an officer.
The guards are bringing Derek outside to the bus so that they can carry him to prison. At the same time Haley and Whitey are coming out and going to his expedition, as he opens the door and Haley walks toward the car to het in she can't help but stop and look at Derek, who is looking at her. She gets into the car and Whitey looks back and notices Derek looking, the guards close the doors shutting Derek from the outside world.
Whitey closes her door then gets into the drivers seat closing the door behind him.
The guards start up the vehicle and the gate is being lifted so that they can get out. And Whitey pulls out behind them.
Whitey picks up his radio "03 X-ray, we're about 20 minutes out."
Dispatcher: Copy that, 03 X-ray.
Meanwhile in the bus, the officers in the front are talking as Derek takes a look at the guard in the back with him.
"I get home, I look at my paycheck. It's so skinny. I decide to take another job. So now I'm delivering pizza." Fergie said.
"What are you getting your daughter for her birthday?" Junk asked.
"She's just turned five. She wants to take me… Go to the mall; get one of these big customized teddy bears." Fergie said.
"A customized teddy bear? Come on." Junk said.
"Yeah." Fergie said.
Derek continues to look at Mouth and he looks at Mouth's gun, he then takes his thumb and breaks it while keeping an eye on Mouth.
They continue driving and everything is still ok.
"Look Haley…I wish I could have stopped this before it got out of control. I know there's nothing that I can say that'll bring Nathan back, but I am sorry. I truly am." Whitey said and Haley just sighs and looks out the window.
Meanwhile, back in the bus Junk and Fergie are still talking up front as Mouth keeps an eye on Derek in the back.
Derek is sliding the handcuffs over his had and as he does this he continues to look at Mouth as he continues freeing his hand. Mouth gets suspicious and leans his head to the side a bit, as Junk and Fergie continue to talk.
"For real, you spent 100 bucks on a teddy bear?" Junk asked.
"Yeah, I know. It was hurting me." Fergie said as he turned to look in the back to make sure that everything was ok.
Derek finally gets his hand free and it's all bloody due to the fact that he forced the handcuffs down them.
"Stop moving." Mouth tells him then notices that he is moving his hands around.
"What the fuck?" Mouth yells as he reaches for his gun but it is too late as Derek swings his hand that still has the cuffs on it and hits Mouth in the throat slicing his neck.
Mouth falls to the floor and Fergie turns around, as he does this he comes face to face with a gun and Derek. Derek pulls the trigger shooting him in the head.
"Oh shit!" Junk says, as he swerves which causes them to turn over.
"Son of a bitch!" Whitey says as they see the bus turning over.
A car is coming down and runs into the bus, then swerves and runs up into Whitey's side of his vehicle. Haley is holding her head and making sure that it is not bleeding. Whitey groans in pain as he tries to move his leg.
"My legs stuck." He says as he gets on his radio to ask for backup.
"03 X-ray. I need a code 3 backup on Highway 19." Whitey says.
Dispatcher: 10-4, 03 X-ray.
Haley looks down at Whitey's gun and gets an idea.
"Haley, I want you to run up over that hill and wait there for help." Whitey said.
Haley shakes her head "I'm done running." She grabs his gun and opens the door and gets out.
Whitey tries to stop her "Haley! Haley! That's not the answer." He says as she looks at him. "You don't know what you're doing."
"Yes I do, he took something from me and I am going to make him pay." She says as she walks around the expedition and towards the prison van.
"Haley!" Whitey yells.
She walks up to the doors with the gun drawn and points it at the doors. She slowly walks closer and unlocks the latch; she opens the door pointing the gun inside. She is grabbed into the back of the van, Derek grabs the gun and jumps out closing the door and locks it. Whitey continues calling for backup to hurry up. Haley bangs on the door to try and get out.
"03 X-ray. Where the hell is my goddamn backup?" Whitey asks as Derek looks at him. "You better hurry up." Whitey tells them.
Haley bangs on the door again, but Derek bangs on it to shut her up, then he walks to the side of the van. Haley looks around and then notices the guard's gun through the window that separates the back from the front. She pulls back the window with all of her strength trying to bend it more. Derek shoots at the van where the gasoline is leaking from and walks away as the van catches on fire. Haley stretches her hand through the window opening but she cant reach the gun so she pushes down on the window some more, she is finally able to grab it and get it from the front.
Derek is walking towards Whitey's expedition, as the flames around the van explode, shooting through the windows causing Haley to duck.
"Haley!" Whitey yells.
Whitey is still trying to get his leg free as Derek gets closer to his window; Haley is finally able to kick the door off. Derek looks around as he finally gets to Whitey's car.
"Go fuck yourself!" Whitey tells him as Derek holds up the gun and shoots Whitey in the head.
Haley had jumped out of the truck and stood up slowly; Derek looked at her and then began to walk away. Haley starts to walk as well and cocks the shotgun she was holding. She points it at him shooting him in the back through the bullet proof vest he is wearing, he staggers a little bit but contains his composure, and he turns and looks at her. She cocks the shotgun as she continues walking towards him. She shoots again this time hitting him in the leg. She walks right up to him and he scoffs.
"Feels good, doesn't it?" he asks.
She looks at him with hate and anger and says "I don't feel a thing."
She points the gun at his head and shoots him, he falls back and she begins to cry. She is happy that he is dead and she wishes that Nathan is still alive. She moves back and drops the gun, she turns and walks away. She knew that there would be no more her and Nathan and she knew that she would always love him and he would always love her, and that he would always be in her heart. "Always and Forever!"
AN: OK SO I WAS GOING TO STOP IT HERE, BECAUSE THIS IS WHERE IT STOPPED IN THE MOVIE WITH HER WALKING AWAY, I JUST ADDED MORE WITH HER THOUGHTS, BUT THAT ISNT FAIR AND I REALLY DIDN'T LIKE HOW THEY ENDED THE MOVIE. SO HERE IS THE REST HOW I THINK IT SHOULD HAVE ENDED.
"Haley!"
"Mom, oh my god mom." Haley said as she ran to her mom and ran right into her mom's arms; she broke down sobbing as soon as her mom wrapped her arms around her.
"Honey I am so sorry." Lydia James said to her daughter.
"Where is dad?" Haley asked as she tried to avoid having to talk about the ordeal.
"He is with your siblings at the police station. Come on lets get you home." Lydia said.
They met up with her dad and siblings and then took off to the airport where they would return home to Tree Hill, North Carolina. On the plane Haley just sat to herself and looked outside the window, she couldn't believe that what was supposed to be a happy and fun trip had turned into a horrific and sad trip. She felt a silent tear roll down her cheek but she didn't care to wipe it away, she just let it continue to fall. She felt someone sit next to her but she just didn't have the strength to turn and acknowledge the person.
"How you doing Hales?" Her older sister Taylor asked her softly.
"How do you think I am doing Tay? I lost my boyfriend, I lost the person I was supposed to marry and have children with, now does that answer your question?" Haley asked coldly as she looked at her sister.
"I'm sorry Hales; I just was trying to see how you were doing." Taylor said softly.
Haley sighs, "I'm sorry Tay, I just want to be alone, and I don't mean to snap at you." she said as Taylor nodded and got up.
Haley sighs again and turns to look back out the window. She can't help but think about what could have been if Nathan was still alive. They landed in Tree Hill and Haley was bombarded with hugs from her friends, but she just smiled and moved away from them. She walked inside of her house and went straight up to her room and closed the door behind her. She stripped out of her clothes and took a shower, letting the hot water cascade down her body, she had hoped that it would soothe her but all it did was remind her of that time that she and Nathan spent in the shower in the motel. She cried as she remembered and quickly shut off the water and got out of the tub wrapping a towel around her body. She walked into her bedroom and threw on some underwear and threw on a t-shirt of Nathan's that he gave her when they had first confessed their love for each other.
Haley pulled back the covers on her bed and laid down, she let sleep overtake her and she couldn't help but dream about Nathan and what she thought would have been a happy time for them if he was still there. During the months to follow since Haley had been home, she had been walking around like a zombie and was not back to her usual happy self.
5 Months Later
"Haley lets go." Brooke yelled upstairs to her best friend.
"I'm coming." Haley says as she sighs and looks at her baby bump in the mirror and cant help but to run her hand over it.
Brooke had been persistent and always on Haley to get up and get out. She would always throw in her face that Nathan wouldn't want her to sit around and mope, so that's how Brooke got Haley to get up and go out. Haley was five months pregnant and the first time she found out she was so happy, because this was a piece of Nathan that she would always have. She pulled her top on over her head and searched for anything else she might need. She and Brooke were going to her doctor's appointment and then they were going shopping. As Haley found her shoes, the doorbell rang.
"Brooke, can you get that?" Haley asked as she yelled down the stairs.
"Sure, and hurry up." Brooke yelled back as Haley just rolled her eyes.
Brooke opened the door and was met by the handsome stranger standing at the door. She couldn't figure out why he seemed familiar but there was something about him that seemed familiar. She stopped with her staring and decided to find out who he was.
"Hi, can I help you?" Brooke asked.
"Yeah, is Haley here?" The person asked.
"Sure, come in." Brooke said as she let him in and closed the door.
"Brooke who is at the door?" Haley asked as she made her way downstairs.
"Someone who is here to see you." Brooke said.
As Haley made it to the last step she looked up and her breath caught in her throat and she could have sworn that she was dreaming, he couldn't be standing here in front of her, it just wasn't possible. She felt the tears begin to fall and she didn't care, she was sure her mind was playing tricks on her and this was just someone who looked like him.
"Hi, Hales." the person said.
That's all it took, Haley felt the darkness take over and she felt herself falling. The last thing she remembered was hearing Brooke scream her name.
She slowly awoke a few minutes later to hear Brooke questioning the person as to who he was, but before he could respond Haley jumped in.
"Brooke, it's ok." Haley said as she sat up. "It's not possible, they said you were dead, I heard you scream." She said as she stood in front of him and touched his face.
Brooke looked on confused but was prepared if she needed to kick this persons ass.
"I know, but the police got to me in time and got me down, they told me to continue screaming, so that it would seem that I was being stretched." Nathan said.
"Oh Nathan, I thought you were never coming back I thought I would have to raise my-our baby all on my own, why did you wait so long to come back to me?" Haley asked as she hit him.
Nathan grabbed Haley and hugged her as she sobbed against his chest her hits finally subsiding. He wrapped his arms around her, never wanting to let her go. They pulled apart after a while and looked each other in the eye.
"I'm sorry Hales; they told me that they wanted to keep me in custody, until they knew for sure that it was safe for me to come back. I wanted to get to you sooner, but I couldn't I'm sorry." Nathan said.
Haley nodded and leaned up to kiss him she whispered against his lips "It's ok, you're here now, and that's all that matters."
"Brooke this is my boyfriend Nathan, Nathan this is Brooke one of my best friends you were supposed to meet." Haley said as she introduced them.
"It's good to finally meet you I have heard so much about you and I am glad that I finally got to meet you." Brooke said.
"It's good to meet you too." Nathan said as they shook hands.
"Hales, we're home." Lydia said as she and Jimmy and the other James children walked through the door.
"In here mom." Haley shouted.
"I thought you were going shopping with…" Lydia started to say but stopped when she saw Nathan, and let the stuff fall out of her hands.
"Oh my God is that really you?" Lydia asked as she walked towards them.
Nathan and Haley nodded and Lydia embraced her daughter's boyfriend in a hug. That day the whole family welcomed Nathan back and he met the rest of Haley's friends.
He got to take Haley to her doctor's appointment and he was there for the rest of her pregnancy. They got married before the baby came and four weeks after their wedding and honeymoon, their daughter Tasha Holly Scott was born, and Nathan and Haley couldn't be happier. They lived happily ever after and added even more children to their little family. They learned that they would never pick up strangers again.
There it is the last chapter. Wow this took me twelve pages in word document; I think that is the most I have ever written. LOL! Please let me know what you thought about this chapter. And I want to thank everyone that has stuck with me throughout this story and that have reviewed or added it to their favorites and added me to their favorites.
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