I Say A Little Prayer For You

Thanks for all the reviews for the last chapter, seriously they make me smile! So anyway new chapter, sorry for the wait but anyway here you go.

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The things that take 7 minutes: the Oasis song Champagne Supernova, being locked in a closet playing Seven Minutes in Heaven, it also takes 7 minutes to get from Tree Hill High to Tree Hill Hospital. In those 7 minutes, 1 life hung in the balance. For the rest of us there was nothing to do but wait. I guess that's why they call it the waiting room.

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For as long as Peyton could remember she hated hospitals. The way you could walk in with hope and prayers for loved ones and walk out with an empty feeling in the pit of your stomach. The feeling of your heart being shattered with just a few small words. Your whole world is in the hands of a few doctors. The lucky ones leave with smiles and a future of brand new memories. But the other not so lucky people leave with crushed hearts and the feeling that your life is over. All the memories of the waiting that she had done in a room similar to this came flooding back to her. When the doctor walked and uttered the words 'I'm sorry Mr. Sawyer' her world broke down in front of her own eyes. No amount of crying or shouting or screaming would bring her mother back after she was lost that day and a piece of Peyton's heart was permanently shattered. Peyton prayed with all her heart and soul that that feeling wouldn't apply to the people surrounding her waiting for the news of Lucas Scott's condition.

Brooke sat silently in her chair not speaking or even looking at anyone. It was almost as if she was in trance, while she stared at the off coloured white walls in the Tree Hill Hospital waiting room. She gave nothing away as to how she was coping with what had happened and if it wasn't for the silent tears slowly rolling down her paled face you could have mistook her for a statue, she was so still. Brooke held one hand protectively over her stomach and the other was grasped to the arm of the plastic chair she was seated in. Her hand was gripped so firmly to the arm of the chair you could see the whiteness on her knuckles.

'Luke!' Brooke screamed as she saw Lucas clutch his chest and fall motionless to the fall. For one split second there eyes met and in an instant it was over. Brooke dropped the pompoms that she was cheering with to the floor and ran over to Luke's side. She fell to her knees and screamed his name while the tears poured down her face. Brooke was oblivious to scene around her; all she could see was Lucas. She prayed to god that he would just open his beautiful eyes and he would be okay. But as she looked up and saw the worried and concerned faces surrounding her and Lucas, she knew he wasn't just gonna open his eyes.

'Brooke.' Hayley whispered softly to her friend as she sat in the chair next to Brooke. Brooke made no movement to show that she acknowledged her friends presence next to her, and stayed staring at the wall. Hayley sighed softly to herself and she knew that there would be no getting through to Brooke right now and that it was best to leave her alone to deal with this in her own way.

'I'm here Brooke, when you're ready, we're all here.' Hayley said softly, and with that she got up from the seat next to Brooke and sat back down in the one she occupied before next to Nathan.

Nathan sat with his head in his hands silently processing the night's events into his head over and over again. He couldn't understand what had happened, why his fit and healthy older brother had collapsed playing the game he loved. Nothing could come close to the pain he felt right now, his big brother's life hang in the balance and there was nothing he could do to make this alright. There were no words or no actions that could make him or anyone else in this room feel better, none at all. He briefly heard someone walking near him and looked up to see his beautiful girlfriend sit back down next to him. She stared forward towards the doors where Lucas had been rushed down. Her eyes were red and puffy from all her tears she had cried and as she sat next to him he could see the tears threatening to spill again.

'He's gonna be okay right.' Hayley whispered, it wasn't so much a question to Nathan but a statement to herself, willing her mind to believe that her best friend was gonna be alright.

'Of course, this is Lucas we're talking about. He's one of the strongest people I know.' Nathan whispered back trying to reassure himself as well as Hayley. Hayley nodded as confidently as she could manage and rested her head on Nathans shoulder and closed her eyes, Nathan took Hayley's hand and laced their fingers together and softly traced patterns using his thumb on her palm.

As the waiting room fell silent once more the only sound was the soft but heartbreaking sobs coming from Karen Roe. She was sobbing her heart out in Keith's arms while he tried to sooth her and calm her down. Karen had been like that ever since she had got in the waiting room after they took Lucas through the doors over two hours ago and they hadn't heard any news on Lucas's condition since then. Karen had not had the strength to talk to anyone she just broke down in Keith's arms and cried for her only son and his life. Karen couldn't put what she was feeling right now into words, and she felt like a piece of her heart had been ripped out and stomped on. She remember the last time they spoke to each other and wished she could go back to the memory again just to tell him that she loved him. She silently prayed that it wouldn't be the last time she ever spoke to her son and she would have a chance to tell him that she was so proud of the person that he had become and that she loved him dearly. But right now all she could do was have faith.

The doors to the waiting room swung open and a doctor walked through them, slowly making her way into the room.

'Who's here for Lucas Scott?'

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