A/N: Yep, another 2fer. I hope ya'll are enjoying all these updates. I would know since I'm barely getting reviews. But I must say I am enjoying writing everything again. Please let me know what y'all think.

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At approximately 11:37am, Brooke and Charlie were having a grand old time at the River court playing basketball. Charlie was getting to meet some of Brooke's friends named Nathan, Skills, and Mouth and she was pretty excited about that. Charlie seemed to take a strong liking to Skills, but she was very weary of Nathan, though no one could figure out why exactly. She didn't really pay any attention to Mouth. "Skills, Skills, pass to me! I want to score in Nafan!" Charlie cheered as Skills handed her the ball and picked her up so she could dunk it. The small child promptly squealed in excitement as Skills set her back on the ground. The young raven haired girl, who actually looked shockingly similar to Nathan, then ran over to Brooke who had planted herself next to Mouth on the picnic table. "Auntie Bwookie, why don't you want to pway wif me? This is so much fun! Maybe Skills can let you score too!"

Brooke grinned as she gave her reply, "Because I'm too big for Skills to pick up. Besides, I'm terribly awful at basketball. You go play with the boys and I'll watch you beat them. How about that?"

Charlie looked at Brooke with her stunning blue eyes, and asked her the most innocent question, "Will you protect me?" Charlie had been in a weird mood all day and had asked several questions like this once since they had left the apartment. It was like she was afraid something was going to happen today. But when they met up with the boys, it multiplied by ten. Especially whenever Nathan would address her or talk to her. She would run and hide behind Brooke and Skills just to get away from the young basketball player.

Brooke smiled reassuringly and responded, "Always Charlie. And these guys will too. We won't let anything happen to you. I promise."

Skills came up behind Charlie and picked her up playfully, "Yeah Shawty, you safe and sound wit us." After Charlie seemed satisfied with this answer, she allowed Skills to take her back onto the court to play more basketball.

After the other were on the court, Mouth turned to Brooke to ask her some questions. "Okay, so I understand that this is the new girl's kid, but you haven't really explained why she calls you Auntie Brookie and why you're so attached to her. The last time I checked, Brooke Davis was too fond of kids," Mouth ended with a slight chuckle.

Brooke turned to look at Mouth to address his inquiries, "Well, first of all, her name is Haley, not 'that new girl.' And second of all, I guess with that the shit going on with Peyton and Lucas, I needed another girl to lean on. You guys are great, but I needed another girlfriend. Well, Peyton was really me only other friend that didn't have a penis, so I had to find someone. That's when Haley came into my life. She was there for me and I was there for her through some stuff too. As far as Charlie goes, as you can see, she's not your normal three year old. She's smart, cute, perfect, and all around adorable. And besides, how could you not love those beautiful blue eyes. She easily wormed her way into my heart to stay."

Just as Brooke was about to continue, she was interrupted by her cell phone ringing. She looked at the screen to see it was Karen calling her. She thought it was slightly weird because Karen never called when the café was open unless it was important. At this realization, Brooke immediately thought something was wrong so she answered the phone. She wasn't surprised to find that she was worried about Haley, "Hey Karen, what's up? Everything ok?"

The response she got was not one she was wanting to hear, "Well, actually, no. Haley hasn't showed up to work yet and the lunch crowd is about to hit. She isn't answering her cell phone so I was just calling to see if you knew what was up or where she was. I'm kind of worried. She doesn't seem like the kind of girl who would just not show up to work."

Brooke quickly sprang from her seat and began pacing with one hand holding the phone and the other on her forehead. She began chewing her bottom lip then she answered, "That's weird. I spent the night there last night. I actually have Charlie with me right now. When we left her this morning, she was getting ready to come on for her shift. Look, I'll get Charlie and we'll run by the apartment and see what's going on. I'll call when I know anything," Brooke replied while still pacing.

"Okay, I knew I could count on you Brooke. I'll be waiting to hear from you," Karen replied

"Okay, bye Karen," Brooke hung up the phone and turned to the river court and quickly called for Charlie, "Hey ladybug, we have to go."

"But I want to stay wif Skills and pway bastetball. Pweast Auntie Bwookie. Pwetty Pwease," Charlie pleaded as she looked up at Brooke with big, teary blue eyes.

Brooke, almost not being able to deny those piercing blue eyes, knew that at the moment, Haley was more important. "Maybe later sweetie. Right now we have to go find your Mommy," Brooke said as she walked up to Charlie and got down on eye level with the child.

"Is mommy otay?"

Brooke, not really knowing how Haley was, didn't know how to respond to the simple question, "I don't know sweetie. That's why we have to go find her. Just to make sure everything is ok," Brooke said as she decided to go with the honest answer.

Charlie seemed to ponder this answer in her head for a while. After a few seconds, she came to her conclusion, "Then we should huwwy. We might have to save my mommy. Huwwy Auntie Bwookie, huwwy!" Charlie said as she pulled at Brooke's hand leading her over to the convertible bug with the top down.

Before taking off, Brooke waived a goodbye to the trio of boys. Although no verbal goodbyes were said, they understood what was going on. The knew that Brooke's relationship with this Haley girl and her daughter was special, and they could tell Brooke was worried about her and about her apparent disappearance. The boys all waived back as they watched Brooke's bug drive down the road with the two girl's hair flying in the wind. They all had the common thought that Brooke was most probably on her way to be Haley's knight in shining Gucci.

What Brooke didn't know was what was waiting for her at Haley's apartment. What lay ahead was something that would test the budding relationship between the two girls. It had the potential to either make or break them. But what Brooke did know was that no matter what, she and Haley would make it. Fate was on their side. It almost seemed to be written in the stars.

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A/N: Well, I hope you guys enjoyed the this chapter and chapter 12. I enjoyed writing both of them. I am working on chapter 14 now and it should be up in a few days. Plz R&R with any suggestions or ideas…I'm running out.