Thanks once again you lovelies for taking the time to read this fic and leave me reviews. The reactions to the last chapter I totally understand. Most of you were confused by the ending, hopefully this will clear it up. Only two more chapters left after this one...
Lucas hung up his phone and sighed, his main focus at the moment was fixing things with Peyton, not saving his brothers ass at the cop shop, but he knew he didn't have much choice, Nathan sounded desperate for him to get there so he grabbed his car keys and headed down to the station. He wasn't sure what it was his brother could have done to land himself in trouble, he'd stopped being a jerk and punching people years ago, but it was when Luke parked his Mustang up at the station that he got a surprise and also a slight shock. The car he'd parked up by wasn't just any car, it was the Comet, Peyton's Comet! It wasn't Nathan that was in trouble after all, it was Peyton!
Rushing out of his Mustang and into the police station, Lucas quickly found his brother who'd been sat down waiting. "What's happened, where is she?" He asked in panic and Nathan got to his feet and told him to calm down before explaining.
"We were just driving down the road by the lake, we got to some lights and she froze." He started, but Luke interrupted him.
"You were in the car with her?" He asked and Nathan nodded.
"She called me, said you two had got into a fight and that she wanted me to drive her home." He told him, already knowing what his brother's next question was going to be and how he was going to have to break his promise to Peyton.
"So you were driving and she just froze? Was it a flashback, you said you were at lights right, that's what triggered it?" He asked and Nathan sighed.
"It was more than that...she remembered everything, even told me her memory loss had gone! She totally zoned out and when she finally did come out of it, it was like looking at a different person, it was like looking at her before she crashed her car!" He explained and Lucas felt the colour drain from his face.
She remembered everything, her memory loss had gone. It was meant to be a good thing and it was a good thing, but if she remembered it all, then she remembered that night, him 'proposing' to Lindsey, telling him she never wanted to see or speak to him ever again!
"Wait...wait. Why...why are we here then? I thought it was you that needed your ass saving when you called, where's Peyton?" He asked and Nathan closed his eyes and let out a sigh.
"She drove here." He admitted and then opened his eyes to see his brothers widening. "I know ok, I know that you didn't want her driving, but we were on a quiet road and I didn't think it would hurt." He said.
"Hurt?!" He asked in frustration. "Hang on, you said she zoned out, was this when you were driving or she was driving?" Lucas questioned, his voice sounding more and more angry by the second.
"Well she looked a little out of it when I was driving, but it was when she was driving that she zoned out. We stopped at some lights and I just couldn't get through to her. When they changed, I had to lean over and drive for her." He admitted and Lucas just looked at him and shook his head and then sat down and sighed.
"I should have been there...I shouldn't have argued with her earlier." He said and Nathan sighed and then took a seat next to him.
"In all honesty, for what she ended up remembering, it's probably good that you weren't there." Nathan told him and Luke just closed his eyes, thinking the worst.
It had been a long time since Peyton's last words to him that night had been invading his mind, but now they'd come right back and he couldn't stop them.
"So why'd she drive here?" Lucas asked in confusion. "And where is she now?" He added, looking around.
"She turned herself in! She just walked in and said she'd caused an accident a few months ago and before I could jump in, some officer took her into that room." Nathan explained, nodding his head in the direction of where Peyton was.
While all of that was going on in the main reception area of the station, Peyton herself was talking to an officer, but she wasn't getting very far with him.
"Why don't you believe me? I'm telling you, I was driving dangerously that night! There must be CCTV footage somewhere?!" She ranted, but the officer let out another sigh.
"Miss Sawyer, I keep telling you. We do have on record that your car had been involved in a collision that night, but the owner of the other vehicle never pressed charges. I'm afraid without them doing so, there really is no case here." He told her.
"But you told me they went to the hospital with injuries. Those were injuries that I caused!" She cried.
"Whiplash, a broken arm and a touch of concussion." The officer read from his file and then looked up only to see Peyton nodding.
"Right well there you go! It's more than a grazed knee isn't it?! I need to be punished! I could have killed them!" She told the officer.
"I appreciate your honesty and full acceptance of the blame Miss Sawyer and I'm sure the owner of the other car would too if they were here, but like I said before, they haven't pressed charges." He explained and Peyton just got up from where she was sitting and pulled at her hair in frustration!
"Well can't you press charges? Can't you press charges on me? A woman that's caused an accident like that shouldn't be allowed on the road, surely there's something you can arrest me with?" She ranted.
"The only thing at the moment would be wasting police team Miss Sawyer and as we're aware, you've never had a road traffic accident before or been in much if little trouble with the law at all. There really is nothing we can do here." He told her and then got up himself, about to show her to the door.
"Ok...Ok." She said finally admitting defeat. "But could you at least give me the details about the person I crashed into. An address or phone number? I need to see them and apologise." She explained and although it wasn't information he'd usually be allowed to give out, the officer could see how much this meant to her and wrote down some details for her to take home.
The boys saw the door of the room open and Lucas instantly saw the look of surprise on Peyton's face when she noticed that he was there. "I called him." Nathan told her and she just nodded.
Lucas didn't really know what to do? They'd argued earlier which already made things awkward, but now she'd got her memory back and the last thing she told him was that she never wanted to see or speak to him ever again.
Getting up, with those words still spinning around in his head just like they had been a few months ago, Lucas decided to make it easier for her. "I'll erm...I'll be going." He said with a nod of his head, indicating a goodbye to her and his brother.
There was pure silence as he walked to the door and he hated it. For the last few months, he'd had her back, granted she wasn't totally herself and if he was honest, he now actually felt like he'd taken advantage of her, but she'd been his Peyton again. They'd had their rows, they'd had their make up's, everything that had happened in the last four years when they'd been together and when they'd not, had been brought out into the open and they'd talked about it all, they'd gotten closer in the last few days and now...well now it felt like it was back to how it was before.
"I didn't mean it!" He suddenly heard just as he went to push the door open and he slowly looked around to see Peyton stood there with tears in her eyes. "I didn't mean it Lucas." She cried and then ran to him and just hugged him tighter than he'd ever known her to. "I'm so sorry." She sobbed and she was sobbing uncontrollably.
"Alright, alright...shhh...it's ok." He told her, hugging her back as hard as she was hugging him.
"No it's not!" He heard her say through tears. "I should never have said that you." She added, still shaking hard in his arms and Luke just held her tighter and looked over at Nathan who was just watching on in the distance.
"Yes you should! You had every right to Peyt! I'd been such a bastard to you." He told her and then he felt her shake her head against him.
"Nobody deserves words like that though, no matter what they've done." She replied.
"You should have heard what Brooke told him when she found out what happened that night." Nathan said as he walked over, wanting to lighten the mood a little, but Lucas glared at him.
"What?" Peyton questioned. "What did she say?" She asked, pulling herself away from Luke who then noticed the state she'd gotten herself into, yet she still looked nothing less than beautiful to him.
"She told him not to go in and see you and then she told him to go home." Nathan answered and as she looked at Luke, she felt her heart break for him.
"It wasn't your fault though. It was mine!" She said and Lucas just shrugged, still feeling partly responsible for what had happened that night.
"So what's going on now, are they arresting you?" Nathan then asked and she turned to face him and shook her head.
"As much as I wanted them to and tried to convince them to, they told me they couldn't. The other driver never pressed charges." She explained and Nathan nodded.
"I know, I could have told you that in the car if you'd given me the chance." He replied and Peyton just rolled her eyes.
"I did get their address though so I thought I'd go over tomorrow and offer them money for any repair work they had done on their car, maybe get them some flowers or something too?" She said and Luke and Nathan both nodded, thinking it sounded like a good idea.
"Home now then?" Luke asked.
"Yeah, but I'm going to go to Brooke's. I've got a lot to fill her in on." She replied and then looked at Nathan. "Thanks for earlier, coming to meet me at the garage and stuff. Tell Haley I'm sorry for taking her husband away for a few hours." She told him and he just laughed.
"Don't worry about it, I'm sure she was glad of the peace." He replied as they made their way out to the car park.
"Want a lift man?" Luke asked knowing that Peyton would be driving her car to Brooke's and Nathan nodded, thanking him.
"I'll call you tomorrow ok?" Peyton told Luke and he just nodded before cupping her face in his hands and wiping her mascara stains away.
"I love you." He told her before placing a kiss on her nose and then her lips.
"I love you too." She replied with a smile and then walked over to her car and got in, giving both Scott brothers a wave as she drove off.
Lucas and Nathan then got in the Mustang and Luke let out an emotional sigh. "You ok?" Nathan asked and Lucas just nodded, feeling his eyes glaze over a little.
"I'm just glad she's back." He said and Nathan nodded with a smile.