A/N: Yikes! It has been forever since I have updated this story and for that I am sorry! The good news is I am finally back with a new chapter for this story and my other One Tree Hill stories... I now have a schedule that I will be trying to keep to for updating so that I can update some stories in each fandom weekly... Enjoy this new chapter!
Disclaimer: I don't own OTH!
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Nathan sighed as he looked closely at Peyton after finally taking his eyes off of his brother. He could tell that she hadn't been sleeping or eating much. He didn't like how thin she was. He could only hope that she would get better because if she didn't he wasn't sure how she would be able to carry the babies to full term without any problems. He leaned down and kissed Peyton on the head as he gently rubbed a hand up and down her arm. "I am here, Peyt, and I am not going anywhere. You need to wake up so I can see those eyes of yours and know that you are on the mend. The doctor whose name is Doctor Smith has reassured Hailey, Lucas, and I that the three babies that you are carrying are doing just fine. I have no clue how scared you must have been because you were on your own but, I'm here now and I'll be damned if I let you out of my eye sight ever again. Jamie is excited that he will be getting baby cousins. You need to wake up, Sawyer. You need to keep fighting. I have missed you for these last three and a half months and without you around to keep me sane I have been driving everyone crazy."
He stopped talking to take in a couple of deep breaths and let them out. "I know how much Lucas hurt you and how much pain you must still be in but it will get better. He broke things off with Lyndsey and he has missed you so much. He regrets what he did and said, sweetheart. I know that you aren't going to forgive him right away if at all but damn it you need to wake up so that you can at least give him hell for what he has put you through. I hate that you left after I asked you not to. I hate that I wasn't able to protect you from any of this. I hate that you were so fucking hurt that you felt like you had to leave everyone who loved and loves you behind. Most of all I hate that I didn't press you to tell me where you were and are. If I had known this was where you were I would have come and spent the weekends with you so that you weren't alone. I know that life has been one fuck up after another for you but I know you, Sawyer, and I know that you can and will come through this. You may be a little broken but I swear I will put you back together. God I have missed you something fiercely, Peyton Elizabeth Sawyer, and once you are cleared to leave I'm bundling you into my car and taking you home with me and locking you in my bedroom so that you can't ever leave like this again."
He finally let the tears he had been holding back fall from eyes. He didn't see or hear Lucas usher Hailey and Jamie out of Peyton's hospital room as he kept talking to her. "I know that I have not always been the best guy when it comes to you, Peyton, but I have been trying to make up for it. I know that I hurt you in high school and if I could go back in time and change that I would but unfortunately I can't. I may not have been in love with you like I should have been but I never should have hurt you like I did. I should have made you see that it wasn't anything that you did but it was something in me. As much as we tried to make it work we could never get it right and that is because you were made for Lucas and I was made for Hailey even if neither of us knew it back then."
He had to stop talking again to take several breaths to calm down as he gently ran a hand through Peyton's hair and down her face. "The look you had in your eyes and on your face three and a half months ago has stayed with me and I don't know how to get rid of it. Anytime I sleep I dream of that look on your face and it kills me all over again. I never want to see that look again. You have to fight and come back to me, Peyton, because you have been and always will be my best friend. I don't even want to think of a world that doesn't have you in it. I hope that you can hear me because I mean everything that I am saying. I should have told you a long ass time ago just what you meant to me but I always assumed that you knew even if I never told you. I will never take that for granted ever again."
He stopped talking and just stared at Peyton for a few minutes as he got his thoughts in order because he still had so much that he wanted to say to her. "I punched Lucas for you. That is what I did when I left your house the day you left. I went straight to the high school and punched him in the face for even daring to hurt you like he did. There are still days that I want to punch him again because I hate that he is there and you aren't. If anyone should have left town it should have been him. You also missed Hales smacking the bitch Lyndsey across her face. I wish I would have gotten a picture of that just so I could show you because you would have laughed yourself silly. I love you, Peyton Sawyer, and you need to come back to me so that I can be the best friend I should have always been and be the uncle that I apparently am going to be."
Once he was finished talking he bent down and pressed a gently kiss to Peyton's lips. It wasn't a romantic kiss or anything like that. It was a kiss to comfort both her and him.
A/N 2: *grins* I loved writing this chapter! I wanted to show everyone what Nathan was thinking and feeling and just exactly how he felt about Peyton... Once again I am sorry for the long delay in updating... I hope you all liked the chapter... Click the button and let me know what you think!