I know this one is short—and possbily a little confusing. I apologize for that. All will be told in the final chapter.

Chapter Fourteen

Lucas sighed a deep sigh, before motioning for Nathan to get of the car with him. Beofre shutting his door, he leaned and in softly pressed his lips to Peyton's, and Nathan followed suit, by pressing his to Haley's.

"You girls stay here. Call for help, we're gonna go get Jimmy-Jam back," Lucas offer a small smile, and Peyton tentiavtily smiled back.

"Come back to me Lucas Scott," Peyton sighed.

"I promise."

With that the boys took off slowly toward Nathan's house. Lucas cocked the gun, and turned off the safety. Walking slowly, and watching their steps to make sure that they didn't make any noise, they made their way around the side of the house toward the back. Once in the back of the house, they crouched down, and stayed in slience for a minute to see if they could hear Ian or Jamie.

"Here's what's going to happen," Lucas started, his voice barely a whisper, and Nathan had to lean in closer to hear him correctly. "I'm going in first, since I'm the only one armed. Once I'm inside, you will follow in close behind, and you will stay behind me. If I get him to where he's unarmed, then by all means take him down yourself. Although I have to warn you—I'm shooting to kill."

Nathan's eyes grew wide at his last statement, and knew that his brother wasn't joking around. He knew that Lucas would kill anyone that threatened Peyton. Nathan just shook his head in acknowledgement, as Lucas opened the screen door carefully trying to make as little noise as possible. He paused for a moment, turning back toward Nathan, a weird smile was on his lips.

"I guess it's a good thing that I went through that police training," he said softly.

Nathan had almost forgotten all about that. Mostly because he had to hide it from both Peyton and Haley, unless of course Lucas had suceeded in his training. They both knew that the girls would not have been happy with his sudden descion to change careers. He knew that the girls would protest his new career. Even though Tree Hill had one of the lowest crime rates in the whole state.

He watched Lucas take a deep breath before turning the doorknob, and carefully pushing the door open. He paused suddenly again, this time when he turned back toward Nathan, there were a few drops of tears that hit his cheeks, and Nathan knew he wouldn't like what Lucas was about to say.

"If I don't make it out of here—tell Peyton I love her—please."

Before Nathan could protest, Lucas took the first steps into the house, and Nathan followed suit. What happened next left Nathan in a blur. The next thing he knew cops were swarming around asking questions as his brother got loaded into the back of an ambluance.

Peyton's hands shook as she saw different verisons of what could happen, all of them involved one or both of the guys getting injuried—or worse.

"don't worry, when he promises to come back—he means it," Haley's words did nothing to calm Peyton's nerves, as she felt the first tears prick her eyelids and fall down her cheeks.

"What if he doesn't?" was all she could find in herself to say. She started to chant the words over and over to herself to try to keep the full on hysteria from coming out. The hysteria that would have her screaming out for Lucas to come back. The hysteria that would no doubt get each and everyone of them killed.

It wasn't long until the gunshots rang out. Haley could barely hear them over Peyton's sobbing. She looked at the front door, waiting for some proof that one of them made it through the seven shots that rang out. Hoping that all seven went into Ian's worthless body. Hoping that he was dead, and would leave them alone forever. In the distance sirens were blaring and Haley knew where they were headed. She got out of the car to meet them, and hoped that the boys were okay. All of them.

She didn't have to stand there for long before the first police car pulled up. One officer jogged toward her, while the other waited behind the car for their backup.

"What's going on ma'am?" the officer asked her.

"Some pyschopath was holding my son hostage in our house. My husband and his brother went in to get him back—we heard some gunshots--"

she trailed off unable to talk about her fears that all of her men were dead.

"We'll find out what's going on in there ma'am, I promise," he spoke softly, trying to calm Haley down'

She shook her head, before heading back toward the car to check on Peyton. She was still shuddering from whatever thoughts were going through her head, when Haley's hand touched her shoulder.

"Look," Peyton said through her chattering teeth.

Haley turned toward the house and watched as Nathan, holding Jamie in his arms came out. A small sigh escaped her lips, but in her mind she was wondering where Lucas was. Nathan jogged as quickly as he could to where the girls were, handing his son over to his wife who hugged him tightly to her chest.

"Where's Luke?" she asked over Jamie's head.

"He's alive--" his sentence broke off as his attention when to the gurney being pushed out of the house. "But he was shot twice--"

"Oh god!" Peyton sheriked.

"What about--"

"Ian's dead. Luke shot him from the ground—he's a hero. He got shot saving Jamie. If it wasn't for him—Jamie would--" Nathan didn't feel the need to finish his statement. Haley shook her head, Jamie in one arm, and her other hand was clasped tightly around Peyton's hand.

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