BrucasEqlsluv: Thanks for the review.

Gigga: I agree about the last episode. This season has been completely disappointing. Not since The Sopranos have I felt so let down by a television show. I might have to stop watching it soon which sucks because I have been a loyal fan since the very beginning. On a happier note, I'm glad you are enjoying my story. I miss Brucas, although now I really don't want Brucas on the show. I actually just wrote an AU fanfic and the relationships are going to be somewhat different… So maybe I'll get some good buzz about that story as well.

Brucas224: Thanks for the review. Glad you love the group storylines, that's what I miss most from the show.

Brucasfan23: Thanks for the review… I love hearing from the new readers.

Ravencheerleader: I know he wrote it… He's the perfect example of when actors should just do what they know instead of trying to branch out into other things. I agree 100%... It's hard to watch, Brooke is my favorite character and she has the most god awful storylines. I mean she's 22 and she "adopted a teenager" that does not happen in reality. At this point I would be happy with just Brucas friendship like we had last season… This season just sucks…

Janelle 1002: I know that was the worst part. Peyton isn't Lucas's pretty girl. Leyton fans can say all they want about boys recycle the same pet names… If my boyfriend called me something I knew he called someone else it would hurt my feelings and I would be pretty pissed off.

Toddntan: Well let me start by saying you remain my most faithful reviewer. This chapter was difficult because I used some of my personal experiences. Having a boyfriend who is still friendly with his ex can be tiresome. But Brooke isn't completely over the Leyton stuff… It might actually cause a mini break-up. I haven't decided yet. The show is really bothering me right now so I find it hard to keep Brooke with Lucas, because on the show he is such a tool.

Thanks again to all of the reviewers and the people who set up story alerts… You all inspire me to keep writing… Thanks!

Chapter 12

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"Lucas! Lucas!" Brooke yelled, "Don't stop please."

Lucas became more and more aroused by Brooke's pleas and felt himself thrust harder and harder, feeling her body tense beneath him, one last thrust took him over the edge himself. He fell down on the bed next to Brooke, mesmerized by the rise and fall of her glistening chest, "Do we still have to go back to Tree Hill? I mean you aren't going to lose you're position any longer and Peyton is most likely still staying in my house." Lucas nuzzled next to her, "Can't we stay here and do some more of that."

Brooke rolled her eyes, "We just made love and you want to talk about Peyton," Brooke got up and walked towards the bathroom, "What away to spoil the mood."

"I wasn't talking about Peyton," Lucas said with a hint of attitude, "I was talking about Tree Hill."

"No," Brooke said, "You weren't you said you didn't want to see Peyton because she is still at your house. Well you can just stay here if you want but tomorrow afternoon I'm going to Tree Hill." She turned on the shower, "With or without you."

"What is wrong with you?" Lucas said coming into the bathroom to talk, "I told you I was sorry I went to Peyton why isn't that enough for you. I mean I called off my wedding to be with you that should mean something."

Brooke turned off the water, "What!?" she yelled opening the shower curtain, "I never asked you not to marry Peyton. I never asked you to come over to my house in the middle of the night, I never asked you for any of it Lucas so stop trying to put this all on me."

"But you are the one that told me you still had feelings for me." Lucas was confused, "So umm yeah this is all because of you."

Brooke couldn't believe she was hearing this, "I told you I never felt we had closure, I never once said that I still had feelings for you Lucas. Not once, I was trying to figure out a way to design Peyton's wedding dress. That's the only reason I said anything to you."

"Well even if that's how you want to remember it, we still ended up sleeping together and that was because you made me come back to your house." Lucas said trying to hand Brooke a towel, "What does it matter, we're together now and Peyton Sawyer is the furthest thing from my mind why can't they be enough for you."

Brooke stormed out of the bathroom and walked into her closet sopping wet. "I can't be around you right now Lucas. I am not going to be your scapegoat. Your relationship with Peyton was messed up way before you came to my house that night and if you can't see it then you're an even bigger idiot than the sappy bastards you put in your book." Brooke said buttoning her top and pulling on a pair of jeans.

"Where are you going?" Lucas asked finally noticing that she was practically dressed.

"I am too old to be dealing with your high school drama Lucas Scott. My heart can't take another 'I love you I just love her more' speeches." Brooke grabbed 2 pieces of Louis Vutton luggage out of her closet and began to pack, "I need some time. This whole tabloid thing really threw me, and I don't think you're over Peyton; you made that perfectly clear when you decided you needed to talk about her not even 2 minutes after you had been inside me." Brooke got right in Lucas's face, "I am too good for you Lucas and I think you have known that for years… I just figured it out. Goodbye Lucas," Brooke said picking up her purse and her bags. "Maybe we can try this again when you aren't attached to someone else."

Lucas was trying to process everything that was happening, "Brooke wait, you're being ridiculous. Where are you going?"

"I'm going to the airport. I'm going to catch an earlier flight, whenever you leave give the keys to Bernie downstairs." Brooke put her hand on Lucas's cheek and kissed him softly, "I hope we can get past Peyton Sawyer someday."

Lucas knew he had to say something great to make her stay but Lucas couldn't find the words, 'Damnit, you're a writer say something!' he thought to himself, "Brooke I love you. Please don't go."

Brooke turned to Lucas with tears in her eyes, "You wrote 2 books about your undying love for Peyton and all you can do is stand there and tell me you love me? Grow up Lucas," and before he could say anything else she was gone.

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Nathan awoke to hear his phone ringing, he glanced at the alarm clock on the night stand, '1:30 Jesus Christ someone better be dead,' "Hello."

Brooke was trying to talk between to sobs, "Hi Nate."

Nathan sat up quickly, "Brooke, what's the matter is everything all right?"

"Is Haley awake?" Brooke asked.

Nathan got out of bed, "No Brooke, tell me what's wrong. Is Lucas alright? Did something happen?"

"Don't wake Haley, stress isn't good for the baby, I'm at Tree Hill airport. I just broke up with Lucas." Brooke said looking at the few people left in the airport. A couple of them were staring at her.

"OK, I'm coming right now just let me find my keys." Nathan said as he threw on a pair of jeans and scribbled down a note for Haley.

"You don't have to come get me Nathan; I'll just call a cab. I just didn't want to go home by myself. And I know Haley wanted me to stay with you guys. This is all such a mess." Brooke said putting her head in her hands.

Nathan was already at the car when he realized he was on the house phone. "Brooke I'll call you right back," Nathan said, hanging up before she could protest.

"Hello," Brooke said.

"OK I'm on my way, and we can go somewhere and grab breakfast and you can tell me what happened." Nathan said, "Do you want to talk until I get there?"

Brooke let out a huge sigh, "Yes that would be wonderful."

Twenty minutes later Nathan pulled up to arrivals and spotted Brooke by the luggage terminal, "Hey Davis why so blue?"

Brooke smiled when she saw Nathan and threw her arms around him, "I'm so glad to see you Nate. Thank you for coming to get me."

Nathan picked up her suitcases, "Don't mention it I wasn't doing anything anyways." In the car Nathan looked at Brooke, "So are you going to tell me what happened between 4 when we last talked and now?"

"Well Lucas ran after Peyton after the whole tabloid thing, but you know that already. I was upset so I went to Clothes Over Bros to meet with the board of directors. It went well and Lucas showed up at the office and told me he loved me. Then everything was fine." Brooke paused, "We went home and had sex, and then he started talking about Peyton right after."

Nathan couldn't believe what he was hearing and almost ran his car into a tree, "What do you mean right after?"

"Like he rolled over and said 'do we have to go back to Tree Hill? Peyton will still be at my house,' when I confronted him on it he tried to tell me it was my fault his wedding was called off. At that point I just lost it, he broke up with Peyton I never asked him to, and he was going to stand there and make me feel guilty because I said we never had closure. I decided I couldn't fight with him anymore, so I got dressed, told him we needed a break and came home."

Nathan couldn't think of anything to say so he just shook his head, "Unbelievable, my brother is fucking unbelievable. I'm going to have to talk to him you know that right?"

Brooke was about to respond when her cell phone rang, "Hey tutor mom. Everything is fine we're right around the corner; I'll tell you all about it in the morning. I don't want you to stress about it right now. I'll see you in a few minutes, bye."

"Has he tried calling you at all since you left?" Nathan asked, signaling for the turn onto his street.

Brooke scrolled thru her call log, "Nope."

"Douche bag." Nathan said, shaking his head again.

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Peyton had driven practically all night to get to Raleigh. She wasn't entirely sure what she was going to do when she got there but first things first she needed to be in Raleigh. She got out of her car at a Motel 6, "I need to get a room please?"

"How many?" the clerk said thru the window.

"It's just me," Peyton said with a smile, "Is there internet access in the rooms?"

"Yes, but you have to put a credit card on hold to activate it."

"That's fine. I want the best room you got," Peyton said. The girl handed her the receipt, a parking sticker and her room key, "207," Peyton said aloud. When she found the room she went inside and got on the bed and drifted to sleep. 5 hours later Peyton woke up feeling refreshed. She pulled her laptop out of her bag and turned it on. She connected to the internet and went to people search. "Jake Jageleski," she said as she typed it in. She waited for the page to load and found 3 Jake's in Raleigh. Peyton wrote the street addresses on her hand and changed her clothes, "I need a plan," she said aloud.

Peyton drove to the first address and decided this one had to be Jake's house. There were hand shaped turkey drawings in the front window. Peyton got out of her car and after she walked up to the front she saw that the turkey drawings all said Jenny in the corner. She held her breath and knocked on the door.

A young woman answered the door, "Yes can I help you?"

"Ummm I'm looking for Jake Jageleski people search listed this as his address. I'm sorry I must have written it down wrong." Peyton turned to leave.

"Wait, Jake will be back in a few minutes he just went to take Jenny to school. You can wait inside if you want?" She said opening the door.

"I don't want to intrude; he didn't even know that I was coming by." Peyton said feeling uncomfortable.

"Look I don't know who you are but he'll be right back so it's fine if you wait inside."

"Alright I guess I could wait a few minutes." Peyton said coming inside.

"See that wasn't so hard," She put out her hand, "I'm Marley, Jenny's baby sitter. Sometimes I help Jake with the house work since he doesn't have any other help and raising Jenny on his known is hard enough."

Peyton nodded and looked at he pictures on the wall; she paused when she saw one of her and Jake with an infant Jenny in her arms. Peyton smiled, "I can't believe she's 9. I feel like we just took that picture."

Marley smiled, "I thought you looked familiar. You didn't tell me you were 'the' Peyton."

Peyton felt her cheeks flush, "Well I'm not the only Peyton I'm sure but yeah I'm the Peyton from that picture" and Peyton glanced over the others, "And that one too." Peyton was pulled from her thoughts when she heard the front door.

"What are you doing here Peyton? I told you I didn't want to see you." Jake said setting down his keys.

"How did you know I was here?" Peyton said.

"The comet is out front," Jake smiled, "You're never going to get rid of that car." Jake returned to reality, "I have to go to work. I don't have time for this today."

Peyton walked to him, "Jake I needed to see you. I went to see Brooke and she doesn't want to forgive me yet. But everything will work itself out. The only thing missing is you. I was mad at Brooke because of everything that happened with Lucas. But without all of that happening I wouldn't have come to Raleigh and we wouldn't have ran into each other. Don't you see all of this was a sign?"

Jake had pain in his eyes, "Peyton is can't take the chance that you're going to fall back in love with Lucas. My heart can't take it, and I certainly I won't put Jenny thru that either. I'm sorry Peyton but I just can't."

Peyton didn't notice she was crying, "But Jake don't you think we could try? Please. I'm not in high school anymore. I want to be with you. Please Jake."

Jake wiped his eyes, "No Peyton. I have to be a parent first."

"Ok. I tried." Peyton said, "I just want you to know one thing before I go."

"What's that?" Jake said lighting a cigarette.

Peyton kissed him, grabbed her keys and left.

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"Haley it's over. It was an incredible 2 weeks but obviously it wasn't meant to be." Brooke said hugging a pillow, "The worst part is that we just obliterated a 5 year friendship that's going to take us 10 years to get back."

Haley hugged her, "Oh Brooke, it will be ok. I know that Lucas loves you. He has been so happy recently. And I know that's because of you. Don't give up on him yet, I'm sure he's planning something great."

"I hope you're right Hales," Brooke stood up, "Enough about me. Isn't today the big appointment?"

"Yes it is," Haley said rubbing her stomach, "I'm glad you're here. It means I don't need to get a sitter."

"Oh I get it. I'm going to become live in help." Brooke said with a smile, "Perfect. Where is Jamie?"

"He should be with Nathan downstairs." Haley said, "My appointment is in like an hour so we can talk a little while longer…"

"Nope. Not going to happen. Today is all about Baby Scott. Go have lunch with your hot husband." Brooke said pushing Haley out the door, "We can talk later when we're picking out little girl names."

Haley smiled, "Are you sure Brooke, you haven't had to watch Jamie by yourself in…"

Brooke put her hand up to silence her, "I am perfectly capable of watching my god son for a few hours. Now get out of here before I change my mind." After Brooke said goodbye to Nathan and Haley she went in the living room with Jamie. "So handsome what are we going to do today?"

"Can we play Rock Band Aunt Brooke?" Jamie said with a smile.

"I guess. I don't really know how to play. So you'll have to show me." Brooke said grabbing the guitar.

"Aunt Brooke did you and Uncle Lucas get in a fight?"

"Now why would you ask a thing like that?" Brooke said kneeling to his level.

"Because you have been crying since you got here yesterday and I know Uncle Lucas still hasn't called you because I heard you tell Momma." Jamie said looking ashamed that he was eavesdropping.

"We just had a misunderstanding Jamie," Brooke said ruffling his hair, "Everything is fine. So how do I work this thing?" Brooke said pointing down to the guitar.

"You're holding it wrong," Jamie said with an eye roll. "Amateurs…"

Brooke laughed and said, "Well I'm a pretty good student. You will only have to show me once," Brooke raised her left hand, "Scouts honor."

When Nathan and Haley pulled back up to the house they were greeted to loud music. "What is all this?" Nathan said walking in the living room to find Brooke jumping off the sofa with a plastic guitar strapped to her chest.

Brooke quickly resumed acting like the adult, "Rock Band. Jamie was showing me how to rock out," Brooke said trying to catch her breath, "Oh Nathan don't look at me like that. I've seen you do a lot worse."

Haley walked in, "So is this what the new baby has to look forward to James Lucas Scott?"

Jamie ran over to his mother, "I'm sorry Momma."

"Are you under the impression that you're in trouble?" Haley said with a smile, "I'm just glad you'll be able to teach your little SISTER how to be cool."

Brooke heard Haley say 'sister' and she squealed, "I knew it. I knew you were having a girl. I can't wait to help with the nursery. Oh Hales we should totally do a Parisian theme complete with little poodles and an Eiffel Tower mural." Brooke hugged Haley, "We're having a girl! I didn't think Scott men made girls."

Haley just laughed, "Well this Scott could."

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OK there is chapter 12, I hope everyone enjoyed it. I know Brucas broke up. But I had to do it… It will all work itself out… Just have faith.

Please review…

Thanks!

Krystal