Hey Guy's, sorry for the late update, i went through a slight stage of writers block, anyway hope you like the new chapters, please let me know what you think, Thanks xx
As rage and revenge ran through his body, Lucas went back into the hospital, taking a seat in the waiting area outside Peyton's room. He sat there motionless with his head in his hands, only flashbacks of the accident and Peyton to keep him company, it was during these past moments that he realised the greatness of his fear of losing Peyton, this consumed him and the thoughts of how close he came to this was too much to handle. Lucas was never a bitter or angry man, he avoided it at all costs for fear of becoming his father, but now Lucas found himself on the boarder of wanting revenge.
Lucas had been sat with his thoughts for an hour before a familiar hand rested on his shoulder, looking up he saw the face of his best friend Haley, immediately the feeling of defeat hit him hard, getting to his feet he feel into his friends arms, just longing to feel safe, Haley held him for a few moments keeping him safe, while Lucas regained his focus of the matter in hand.
"Luke...I think you should go see her" Haley whispered.
"I can't...I don't want to lose her again" Upon hearing these words Haley took a step back from Lucas cupping his face with her hands and forcing him to look at her.
"Look at me...she is still here and she isn't going anywhere...because she has you!" Lucas fell back into his friends' arms, hugging her tight.
"Now just go and sit with her." Begged Haley as Lucas pulled away from her, leaving a kiss on her forehead and making his way over to Peyton's room.
The walk to Peyton's room was a long one for Lucas, as he reached her door, he admired her sleeping form, he never noticed how beautiful she was when she slept and it brought a tear and smile to him, from that moment the realisation of how lucky he was to have her was overwhelming, as he walked up to her as fast as he could taking her hand in his and sitting beside her, he kissed her hand gently and looked at her delicate face.
"I'm so sorry Peyt...I should have been there, I should of saved you...I love you so much and I promise I will make this right." Lucas whispered, bowing his head and resting it on the bed in front of him.
"You're always saving me..." a faint voice came from the bed. Lucas immediately looked up to be greeted by deep green eyes.
"Hey, you should be sleeping." Lucas lifted his body on to her bed and sat next to her, while he held onto her hand for security.
"So should you." She said sarcastically, with a gentle laugh.
"I couldn't sleep, I needed to see your beautiful face one more time" He was mesmerized by her eyes and he brought his hand to her face gently stroking to stray curl aside, feeling the warmth in her cheeks.
"Oh shut up." She said in embarrassment as her checks flushed bright red.
"I love you" He whispered as he laid a precious kiss on her forehead, before turning to get up. Peyton immediately reached out for Lucas, not letting go of his hand.
"Luke, can you lay with me?" Lucas didn't need to be asked, he laid next to Peyton and wrapped his arms around her fragile body, her head rested on his chest, they found themselves both in peace.
"Luke...your saving me right now...I love you" Peyton whispered in response to his earlier comment, those words had broken his defences once again, as he held her firmly he took in the moment and watched his sleeping beauty.
A week had passed and Peyton was due to be released from hospital. As she waited patiently on her bed for Lucas to arrive, she was surprised and somewhat disappointed when Brooke appeared in the room with wheelchair in tow. Peyton had hoped Lucas would come to pick her up, as they hadn't spent much time together recently, Peyton felt he was being distant lately and it hurt her that he hadn't showed up today of all days.
"Brooke" Peyton greeted her friend with surprise, but the disappointment was clear in her expression.
"Hey P. Sawyer, look I know Luke was meant to be picking you up, but he kind of got held up at school and called me to come and get you, I hope that's ok." Brooke tried reassuring her friend of Lucas' absence as she slowly walked into her room.
"Yea that's fine, Hey come here" Peyton motioned for her friend to come over, as Brooke walked up to her friend, they greeted each other with a welcoming hug. "I've missed you Brooke."
"I've missed you , now hop in and lets get you outta here!" Brooke pulled away from her friend and brought the wheelchair closer to Peyton, motioning for her to get in with a smile on her face.
"Brooke, I can walk you know" Peyton said with a raised eyebrow.
"Yea I know...but what fun would that be" Brooke laughed and Peyton gave in her friends' wishes, Peyton laughed to herself as she looked back on the room she had spent the last week in.
On the journey home Brooke couldn't help but notice Peyton wasn't her usual chirpy self, she was quiet and appeared to have something on her mind. Upon noticing this Brooke reached out and put a comforting arm around her friend. Peyton merely said nothing, she just leant in closer to her friend, resting her head on Brooke's shoulder.
"What's going on ?" Brooke asked, while comforting her friend.
"Oh nothing, sorry" Peyton whispered, lying to her friend and trying to hide her true feelings.
"Peyton, talk to me." Brooke pleaded, and Peyton soon fell to her friends' pleas with tears starting to swell in her eyes.
"It's Lucas...he's just been so distant lately, I just feel something is going on and he isn't telling me, I know it's stupid, but it's really getting to me." Peyton spoke through her tears, stopping every so often to wipe a tear from her eyes.
"It's ok to feel like that, but you need to talk to him Hun. But I do know he loves you so much and he wouldn't do anything to mess that up." Brooke looked at her friend and pulled her in closer reassuring her that she was there. Peyton wiped the remaining tears away and quickly turned in her seat to face Brooke.
"Speaking ok talking to people, what's going on with you and Chase?" Peyton asked with a smile on her face.
"Oh nothing, I haven't seen him since, well since he told me how he felt" Brooke looked embarrassed and tried to avoid talking about it by looking out her window.
"Brooke Davis" Peyton scolded.
"Ok ok, I know I should have seen him, but my best friend needed me" Peyton started laughing at her friends' excuses. "And I guess I've been avoiding him" Brooke finally admitted the truth to her friend, and Peyton reached out and held her hand in support.
"Ok turn left here!" Demanded Peyton.
"What?" Brooke looked at her friend with confusion.
"Just do it." Brooke took the left turning and was still unaware of where they were. "Ok Now stop here!" Peyton asked as Brooke stopped, she looked at her friend trying to figure out what she was up to.
"Peyton what are we doing?" Brooke looked around at her surrounding and it became all to familiar as to where she was.
"Chase lives her and your gonna go and talk to him." Peyton pointed to the houses opposite, as Brooke looked out of her window with a scared expression on her face.
"Peyton" Brooke shouted.
"Look I'm gonna wait here, now just go and see him...what have you got to lose?" Pleaded Peyton in one final last attempt to get her friend out of the car.
"Ok but I'm doing this for you." Said Brooke as she shot Peyton a glare and got out of the car.
Across town Lucas needed to clear his head, but most importantly he needed to talk to someone, but most people wouldn't understand how he was feeling at this present time, so he took a drive and ended up at the cemetery, as he walked past all of the gravestones, he knelt down at Keith's grave, resting a small bunch of flowers next to him.
"Hey Keith, sorry I haven't been here lately, things have been kind of hectic, but I expect you already know that." Lucas laughs to himself. "I wish you were here, I really need to talk to you...Me and Peyton are back together, I finally figured out what I wanted and I'm so in love with her...but I've sort of been avoiding her recently, just so much has happened. I need to sort things out and make things better, but the only way I can do that is through revenge. It's just I can't handle the fact that someone hurt her and I wasn't there to protect her, but this seems like the only answer...I wish you could tell me what to do." Lucas rose to his feet resting a hand on top of the gravestone.
"I miss you Keith" Lucas whispered before walking back to his car.
Meanwhile as Brooke waited patiently, Chase opened the door to find a bewildered Brooke stood in front of him.
"Hey" She mumbled
"Hey...Um do you want to come in?" Chase asked trying to lighten the situation.
"No it's ok I have to be quick" Brooke replied. While Chase stood there rejected by her answer.
"Ok what's up?" He asked.
"Chase...I love you and I know I didn't say anything before, but I am now, because I love you, I'm in love with you." There was silence between the two as Brooke let out the contents of her heart, she began to grow uncomfortable and wanted to run.
"I guess that's my queue to go" She said while turning to walk away.
"Brooke" Chase shouted, as he ran up to her taking her by the arm and spinning her round into his arms. Chase pulls Brooke close and kisses her passionately, before pulling back to see Brooke's reaction.
"I love you too" he whispered as Brooke let her lips reach his once again, while his hands rested on her hips, her tongue passed over his bottom lip and he granted her request to deepen the kiss. It was a kiss that was filled with all the want and desire they had both felt for each other for so long.
"Get a room!" Shouted Peyton from the car window breaking the romantic atmosphere, as the two lovers parted from each other and looked over at their friend in the car and smiled.
"Ok well I really should be going, but come over later, ok?" Brooke asked, before leaving Chase with one final last kiss on his cheek.
"I'll be there." Chase shouted as Brooke ran back to her car where she found an extremely excited Peyton.
With an eventful afternoon, Peyton was relieved to have a quiet night in with Lucas, as the two of them snuggled down together on the couch in front of the fire, they were talking and laughing once again. Around the room were lit candles and they were each wrapped in blankets in front of the TV.
"So what do you want to watch?" Asked Peyton.
"You...actually I take that back." Lucas said playfully, while Peyton punched him in the arm.
"How about Pirates of the Caribbean?" Lucas suggested, trying to recover from his comment earlier.
"Oh yea, I love Captain Jack Sparrow, he is so sexy." After her comment Peyton had realised what she had said and that she wasn't in the company of Brooke, who she normally watched it with.
"Uh hum" Lucas looked at her raising an eyebrow, at his hurt feelings.
"Well your sexy too Babe, just not as sexy as him." She laughed.
"That's ok because Keira Knightly is pretty fine." He said sarcastically, while Peyton stared at him with surprise.
"Oh really?" She said before leaning into him and kissing him gently on the lips, letting it linger before biting his lip and leaning back only slightly remaining close to him, she watches as his eyes are still closed from the sensation of the kiss.
"And Now?" She asks.
"Ok you win" He whispers, before kissing her more fiercely, letting his tongue trace her bottom lip until he is granted access, their tongues dancing passionately, savouring the moment.
However the moment was soon interrupted by the lingering noise of the phone, as Lucas pulled back unwillingly he stood up and grabbed the phone recognising the callers I.D. he walked of into the kitchen with the phone.
"Nate, Hi" Lucas whispered.
"It's sorted Luke, River Court at 10"
"I'll see you there" Lucas quickly ended the call, before walking back into the lounge to see Peyton.
"What was that about?" Peyton asks.
"Nothing, look I've got to go sort something out, will you be ok?" He says while kissing her forehead and grabbing his car keys.
"Yea I will be fine" Peyton replied, she wasn't going to ask questions although she knew something was going on, because Lucas began to act suspiciously again.
"Love you" He whispered before leaving.
Peyton quickly rose to her feet and looked out of the window and saw Lucas drive off, she grew more suspicious and remained by the window for a few moments.