CHAPTER 14

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"So there in love?" Karen asks Haley as they are standing at the foot of Peyton's bed "yeah, apparently it was love at first sight for the both of them, they hid it at first trying to get to know each other without the whole arrangement looming over their heads, but they fell in love You should see them Karen they are so happy, I have never seen Lucas this happy before.

(SOMEWHERE IN THE UNCONSIOUS MIND OF LUCAS AND PEYTON)

They are in New York at Lucas and Peyton's home, just the two of them, its 2am and they are lying in each other's arms after making love. Lucas has his hand resting on Peyton's 8 month baby bump, "oh my Luke, can you feel it kick?" "Peyton puts her hand on top of Luke's, "that's our baby Luke. Boy or girl?" "Girl, what do you think?" Luke replies "Boy says Peyton" "wanna bet?" replies Luke "ok I'm putting $20 on a boy" Peyton says as they shake hands "ok your on Mrs. Scott" as they lean in for a kiss they hear their eighteen month old daughter over the monitor "daadda, dada" "She wants you Luke" Lucas then leans in the distance and places a kiss on his wife's lips, as he gets out of bed to retrieve their little girl Sawyer Elizabeth Scott.

"Hey baby girl, what are u doing up?" "cud" Sawyer says with her hands in the air "baby you just want one of daddies cuddles?" with that Lucas picks up his little girl and holds her close, knowing that his wife is listening, "now I won't tell your mother that you like my cuddles best if you don't" Lucas says whilst blowing raspberries into his daughter neck and making her erupt in a fit of giggles whilst walking to the bedroom he shares with his wife.

"What's so funny?" Peyton asks as she reaches for her daughter "Like you weren't ears dropping" Lucas says with a mock glare, "Ok, ok, I know she's a daddy's girl, but she likes my hugs too." Peyton says whilst tickling the laughing baby's sides "sure she does" Lucas mocks "well be nice Lucas Scott, because I know you like my hugs very much and if you're not careful you won't get one for a very LONG time" Peyton says with an eyebrow raise and emphasizing LONG. At this point Sawyer has fallen back to sleep, Lucas leans over and kisses Peyton and says "I do love your hugs, but I love you, our daughter and our soon to be something a whole lot more," Peyton gives Lucas a small smile and places a gentle kiss to his lips.

"How are we going to tell her... how are we going to tell her that her that her mother died in a car accident when she was only 6 weeks old, her 15 year old mother. How are we going to tell her that her family didn't want her and" Lucas stops her ramblings with a kiss.

"We will tell her that when she was six weeks old she went for a drive with her mummy, and there was a car accident between the car her mum was in and our car. We will tell her that her mother died on the spot, and that she was fine, just a little scared, and crying. We will tell her that we had to go to the hospital, but we all got better.

We will tell her how much we loved her from the moment we saw her and how it was fate, because her name is Sawyer Elizabeth, and your name is Peyton Elizabeth Sawyer.

We will tell her that her birth mothers family was not able to look after her and that when we asked what was happening with her, we asked if we could be your new parents because we already love that little girl more than anything.

We will tell her that three short months later that Sawyer Elizabeth became Sawyer Elizabeth Scott our beautiful Daughter."

Peyton has tears running down her face, crying for the little girl in her arms who will never know her mother, Lucas wipes her tear stained face and kisses her forehead "I love you" he then whispers as he pulls both of his girls into his arms and they drift off to sleep.

(BACK TO REAL LIFE IN THE HOSPITAL)

It has been three hours since Peyton was bought out of surgery and into her room, three hours and they have heard nothing on Lucas, three hours of waiting around and freaking out.

Peyton is still unconscious she's hooked up to machines, she's pale and she has cuts and bruises all over her face. But she's breathing on her own, and that is a really good sign. Her parents haven't arrived yet, though they should be here soon. Brooke is sitting by her bed side holding tightly onto one hand, and Haley is on the other side trying to give her the strength she knows her best friend would give her.

The Hospital room door opens and everyone inside Brooke, Haley, Karen, Keith and Jake all hold their breaths thinking, and hoping it will be Lucas or his doctor. It was only Nathan "hey guys, any change?" He asks as he hands coffees around to everyone "no nothing's changed, and there's No news on Lucas and I don't know" Haley says on the verge of tears. Nathan approaches her and pulls her into a hug; he then hands the CD in his hand to Jake and says "is there a CD player or something? It's one of Peyton's CDs, she gave it to us for the ride home, and it might help bring her back" Jake pulls out his Laptop because there is no CD player and puts the CD in, and Paris by La Rocca starts playing in the room.

It's been another half an hour and no one has heard anything, the room is silent except for the music playing softly in the background. Karen gets up from her seat and says "that's it, I can't wait any longer, I need to know if my son is ok" Karen says with tears in her eyes, Keith pulls his wife into a hug just as the door opens- they all hold a bated breath "hi, I'm DR. Jacobson, I know your all waiting on Miss Sawyer to wake up, and Doctor Michaels will be down shortly to talk to you about MR. Scott.

I am here because there was a six week old baby girl involved in the accident, in the other car, and her 15 year old mother died on the spot. We have reason to believe that she caused this accident on purpose, not to harm her daughter, but herself. We have tried contacting her family, and they want nothing to do with the little girl or her mother"

"What's the baby's name", Karen interrupts "Sawyer Elizabeth" Dr. Jacobson replies, the room full of people look straight to the blonde girl lying in the bed and Brooke whispers "Peyton Elizabeth Sawyer" the Doctor gives her a small smile before continuing "I just thought I would let you know the situation before child services arrive in the morning."

Karen goes to speak again "Is she all alone" the Doctor nods at that "you should bring her in here; she can stay with us while we wait... Please" "ok the doctor nods, we will bring her in."

With that Doctor Jacobson leaves the room, just as Larry, and Anna Sawyer enter the room, "Oh my baby" Anna Screams as she approaches the limp figure of Peyton, Larry follows suit. Keith and Karen, then approach their best friends, and business partners and soon to be in laws- "Anna," Karen says as she pulls her into a hug, and both women break down, Larry and Keith also share a hug, and Larry speaks for the first time "how's Lucas?" with this Keith takes a deep breath, "they haven't told us anything, they had to cut him out of the car, he had a heart attack at the scene and he's been in surgery for the past 4 hours" "Keith, I'm so sorry." The room door opens, and Dr Jacobson comes in with the little girl –"what's this?" Anna asks, Brooke then answers, "her mother... her mother crashed the car, and died on impact, the family abandoned the little girl, so Karen told the Doctor that she can stay here until something gets sorted out for her." Anna nods her head slowly and approaches the little girl with little tuffs of blonde curls, and blue eyes "what's her name?" at this Jake answers "Sawyer Elizabeth; we thought it was a sign" Anna nods her head with tears in her eyes.

A little while later the hospital door opens and in comes a doctor, some nurses, and a bed carrying a banged up Lucas. At the sight of her baby boy Karen breaks down, only for Keith to catch her. After they set him up and attach all the machines the Doctor approaches Karen and Keith "how's my boy?" Keith questions

"I'm Dr. Michaels, your son has broken his ribs, a broken arm, he needs a knee reconstruction but we can't do that until he is stronger, he had internal bleeding, and as you know he suffered from a heart attack on at the scene of the accident. He also suffered another on whilst we were operating on him, and we lost him for a few minutes. We managed to bring him back. Right now he isn't breathing on his own, and it's hard to tell if he will make it, the next 48 hours are crucial to his survival."

There is not a dry eye in the room, the whole family is broken and praying that the two blondes that are so in love will wake up, so they can just be together and happy again.

Karen goes and takes a seat at Lucas' bed side and Haley follows suit. It's quiet for a while, the music is playing softly in the background, and the heart monitors are beeping in sync with each other, and that puts a smile on Karen's face, she then says "ok Haley, Brooke, tell me about the love birds"

Haley starts with a laugh "So Nathan and I arrived down at the beach and we saw Lucas pick up a blonde girl with curly hair, and carry her to the water. I couldn't help but smile, because I've never seen Lucas that happy before" Haley says whilst tearing up. "Then Brooke noticed us staring with small smiles and she came up to us and" at this point Brooke joins in

"I said, do you know them? And I pointed to the two Blondes in a compromising position in the water", every one lets out a laugh "and Haley says yeah, that's Lucas Scott, and I guess Peyton Sawyer.

Then I said your right, 'that's Lucas Scott but that's not Peyton Sawyer' -you should have seen the look on her face, even Nathan looked like he wanted to punch someone."
Haley jumps back in and says "Well if that's not Peyton Sawyer, then who the hell is that blonde tramp and where is Peyton,"

Brooke jumps back in and continues, "I don't know who the Blonde tramp is but I'm Peyton Sawyer" everyone in the room is laughing at this.

Then Nathan continues "Luke and Blondie come out of the water to find Hales and me glaring daggers at the two of them, and Haley screams

'What the hell is going on, and who is that tramp' and she points at the blonde on Luke's arm. Lucas gives her a confused look and says 'Haley this is Peyton, what the hell is wrong with you?' and then all you hear is Brooke start laughing like a hyena in the background" "hey, it was funny" Brooke says then Nathan continues "and Peyt then says 'that's my best friend Brooke Davis."

The group lets out a laugh, and then continues telling stories about the two blondes together, and apart trying to bring them out of their unconsciousness.

(SOMEWHERE IN THE UNCONSIOUS MIND OF LUCAS AND PEYTON again)

It's the next morning and Lucas wakes up to tiny hands playing with his face, he lets out a grunt and slowly opens his eyes, he can hear the giggles of his wife and daughter as they attack him in his sleep, as he opens his eyes he quickly reaches out grabs his little girl under the arms, lays her on her back and starts tickling her like crazing and she starts to giggle and say "dada stop, dada- mamma help" so Peyton leaps over to Lucas and start to tickle him and tries to pry his hands away from his daughter, and that works, but instead of him tickling Sawyer he starts to tickle Peyton

"Hey Lucas, baby doesn't like it" with that he is defeated he places his hands on Peyton's stomach and places a kiss to her belly then his little girl kisses her stomach to. "Daddy I'm hun, hunry" "Hungry baby" Lucas says as he places a kiss to her forehead then Peyton says "maybe daddy will make French toast?" "Ok ill go and make some food for my hungry girls" he then kisses both of them, and goes to the kitchen to cook.

They follow him in and they sit down and have French toast and Bacon, and little baby Sawyer gets mashed banana. After breakfast Peyton rises from the table picks up Sawyer and places a kiss to Lucas's lips "we've got to go now" Lucas looks on confused, "what" "we'll be there when you wake up." With that Peyton carries Sawyer out of the room.

(BACK TO REAL LIFE IN THE HOSPITAL)

The room is quiet once again, the laughter has died down, the music is still playing and the heart monitors are still beeping in sync.

Peyton slowly opens her eyes, and whispers "where am I?" everyone in the room jumps at the sound of her voice, "Peyton" Anna and Larry whisper as they embrace her, then Jake takes her hand "Peyton can you remember anything?" the room is quiet for a while and Peyton has her eyes closed once again, she takes a deep breath and says "there was an accident, where's Lucas" she starts panicking and her heart rate goes up Jake starts to stroke her hair and says "Peyton you need to relax ok, just breath, breath" she starts breathing and relaxes then Jake says he's still unconscious Peyt, he's in the bed, next to you, he's in pretty bad shape." Peyton starts to cry and tries to get out of the bed "I need to see him" "Peyton, stop, your leg is broken" "I don't care" "Peyton the doctor will check on you and we will ask him if you can get out of bed and hold his hand for a little bit ok?" Peyton Nods at this and looks around the room at their families, they all have tears in their eyes, but the only thing she can focus on is the broken boy in the bed next to her. She then looks down at her hand, her left hand, her empty left hand "where's my ring?" Peyton panics, it's the first time Brooke says anything, "It's right here Peyton" Brooke hands her the ring, and Peyton puts it back on her finger and Brooke pulls her into a hug, because she knows her heart is breaking for the blonde boy in the bed next to hers.

The Doctor comes into the room, clears everyone out and checks on Peyton, when she asks him is she can get out of bed to see Luke, he said maybe tomorrow, gives her a sad smile and leaves the room. Whilst the room is still empty Peyton says "Lucas Eugene Scott you better wake up because if you don't I don't know if I can survive it." She then whispers "I love you so much".

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