Chapter Eleven: Just Tonight

The Hospital

Nathan was sitting in the waiting room. He was a nervous wreck, and the worst thing about it that Rachel was still looming around. She was driving him crazy. He had almost wished that he didn't save her from the limo. His head suddenly filled with memories of that day, the happiest day of his life, or it was suppose to be. Once again Rachel had done something to screw it up. A face popped into his mind, Keith. How Nathan missed his Uncle Keith. But did Keith really save him from the water. Nathan couldn't have. He was trapped with Coop and Rachel in the limo, so it must have been. His thoughts were broken by a voice, "…alright Nathan."

"Huh." Nathan looked up to see Karen standing over him with a hot cup of coffee.

"I said are you feel alright Nathan, you are looking a little pale." Nathan had told everyone what had happened with Haley as soon as he got back to the waiting room and were handed the papers to fill out. He still remembered the voice of the nurse who called him up to the nurses' station after they had looked at his paperwork. "I'm sorry but your insurance had been declined. Do you have another insurance provider that we could check?" Nathan jus shook his head, "No just bill our house." Nathan took the coffee off of Karen thanking her as he should his head. Nathan just held the cup for a while before taking a long sip. God it tasted horrible but Nathan didn't care. It was free and that was good in his eyes. "You know that I had a complication with Lucas?" Karen said in a motherly tone. Nathan looked over at Karen and shook his head. He wanted to talk, but the words just weren't coming out. "When I was about as pregnant as I am now with Lucas; the doctor told me that it looked as if Lucas wasn't growing at the rate that he should be. They suggested that I take small amounts of growth hormone just to speed up his growth rate. I told them no and that he was just fine and a few months later Lucas was born, healthy as could be. You don't need to worry about Haley and the baby, I am sure that everything is going to be fine." Karen smiled at Nathan and squeezed his shoulder.

That had comforted Nathan. It was good to know that he had amazing family and friends whenever he needed them. Karen got up and walked back over to talk to Brooke. Nathan took another long sip of his coffee, which he had been holding so long that it was getting cold, and then walked over to the trash can to throw it away. As soon as he went back to the place he had been sitting a red hair was there. Nathan looked away at then looked down at Rachel. "Anything else you wanna do to ruin my life?"

"How was I supposed to know that your wife was sick? This is so not my fault." Rachel smirked up at him. Nathan clinched he teeth and made a fist.

"Dammit Rachel, how is this not your fault. I have asked you, Haley has asked you. Why won't you just leave me alone? I am married and pregnant, plus I don't want you. I swear to god if anything happens to my baby, you will pay." Nathan kicked the chair next to where Rachel was sitting as he walked away. Rachel curled herself before he kicked the chair as if not to get hurt.

Brooke walked over to where Brooke was sitting, "What the hell did I tell you? Leave Nathan and Haley alone. They have enough on their plate without Haley having to worry about you seducing her husband. Plus now Haley is in the hospital too. I swear you are the biggest insensitive bitch I have ever met. No wonder Uncle Coop broke it off with you." A hand came and hit Brooke across the face. Rachel stood up and looked Brooke straight in the eyes,

"Don't' you ever talk about my and Cooper's relationship. It was something special."

"That's not what he says;" Brooke spat, "Why don't you just leave and go home and get some lipo or something. Nobody wants you or needs you here." Rachel huffed but didn't say anything as the nurses around them were already staring at her. Instead, she got up from her seat and stormed out of the hospital. A few minutes later a doctor came walking down the hall with a clipboard in his hand.

"Mr. Scott?" Nathan stood up, "Come with me."

Nathan and the doctor walked down a long corridor into a room where Haley laid sleeping on a hospital bed. "We gave your wife a sedative to help her sleep. Don't worry it won't hurt your baby in anyway, the baby should be sleeping soundly too." Nathan had a worried look on his face. Looking at Haley, she looked peaceful but she new that something wasn't right.

"So Doc, what exactly is wrong with Haley and our child?" Nathan took a deep breathe.

"Well Nathan, your baby heart rate was extremely high which almost a "mini" heart attack in the fetus, thus affecting your wife's body as pain." The doctor looked down at the chart, everything is fine now, like I said we gave your wife a sedative that brought down the fetus' heart rate and both mother and child are sleeping peacefully." Nathan was shocked.

"But what brought up the child's heart rate so high?"

"We found high amounts of caffeine in your wife's bloodstream.

"Well that makes sense, she works in a Café."

"The amount found was more than a couple cups of coffee could supply. We believe that your wife was taking caffeine pills."

Lucas and Peyton held that kiss for as long as they could. Their lips moving in unison, it was unlike anything either of them had ever felt before. Finally Peyton broke the kiss and lay back down on her pillow. "Are you okay Peyton?" Lucas examined her.

"Yeah, I am fine. That was amazing, Luke I have never had a kiss like that ever." Lucas smiled and lifted Peyton hand.

"That was pretty amazing, wasn't it?" They both smiled and finally pressed the call button on the remote for the nurse. It took a while.

"Lucas, back at the hotel, did you kiss me, because it as all kind of hazy." Lucas thought back to that kiss.

"Was it like this?" Lucas leaned down and gently kissed Peyton's lips and came back up. Peyton smiled. Finally a voice through a box sounded.

"Can I help you?"

Lucas leaned over to the box, "Peyton woke up." And with those words three nurses rushed into the room.

"You are going to have to leave sir until the doctor can get a look at her and run some test." Peyton and Lucas smiled at each other.

"We'll finish this later." Lucas walked out of the room and back into the waiting room and told Karen and Brooke the news. Brooke ran over and hugged Lucas followed by Karen who whispered, that's my boy, into his ear.

"When can we see her?" Brooke asked anxiously.

"After the doctor sees her and gives her some test. But I'm not done with my turn yet Brooke so you will just have to wait.

The celebration of Peyton's awakening was about to be hulled to a stop when a police office walked into the waiting room with some horrifying news…

Up Next: a confrontation and some news that will shock Peyton and Lucas to the core…