AN: So I've updated! YEY it's a MIRACLE LOL

anyway I can't remember how a five year old talks since I haven't seen my cousins in years and I haven't exactly been five for a long time. BUT I am pretty sure they have a lisp here and there so as people know Micca is overly intelligent but come on no five year old is perfect so my Micca has a lisp with the sounds 'th' and 'r'. Cause I gotta make the kid cute somehow! LOL

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I am not exactly one hundred percent happy with this chapter but I really wanted to put it up and not make you guys wait even longer so here goes:

Chapter 20

It had been a month since Haley's amnesia and things at the Scott house couldn't be any better.

Haley had spent the past month getting to know JJ and Micca. To her, they were the most amazing sons that life could have given her. They were polite and genuinely kind. JJ reminded her of Jake and Lucas so much that it shook her very core in mirth.

He had the brightest smile she had ever seen on a seven year old kid and the brightest blue eyes. He reserved a certain smile just for her, which never failed him when he wanted something. He would give her the cheekiest, most adorable grin she had ever seen.

She loved hearing every little detail about him and he was just like Nathan, in the way that he loved to talk about himself and he loved getting compliments. But he also loved making sure he complimented everyone else. It was the most random thing Haley had ever seen. They would be watching a movie and all of the sudden he'd turn to her and say she was 'really pretty' or he'd turn to Nathan and tell him he was 'awesome at basketball' and sometimes he'd even turn to Micca when he was feeling extra nice and he'd tell his older brother that he "looked good today' and that's as nice as he'd get.

Micca on the other hand was everything Haley dreamed he'd be when he grew up. He had his mother's intelligence and his father's wits. He had both their talents, the musical and athletic type. And he looked exactly like his father with his charcoal black hair, bright blue eyes and height. He shared his father's temper but where he lacked in patience he exceeded in kindness and understanding.

She was happy. In fact she was deliriously happy. She had it all, the American dream, which is everything she's ever dreamed of when she thought of the future. The love of her life, two amazing sons and a daughter on the way, success, and loyal friends.

She was absolutely fascinated with the fact that her friends were right. Whenever life kicked her when she was down they always used to say that it would all get better. That all the hardships that she's been through, would all be worth it when life started treating her better.

And here she was life was finally treating her better. Sure she couldn't remember every last detail of the past ten years of her life, but when she thought about it, she looked at it as though she travelled into the future and she couldn't be happier with the end result.

She was ecstatic.

At least she was until she started hearing voices.

It started in her sleep. The voices were familiar ones. Voices that she was positive she had heard before, but whenever she tried to pin point it, she'd get a massive headache or the voice would disappear altogether. It was the clearest in her sleep though. Voices kept on saying to wake up and when she did there was nothing special in the environment surrounding her. Her husband would be sleeping peacefully with his arms wrapped around her.

Usually she would ignore them but today she decided to investigate.

So here she was, walking step by step with a baseball bat, she found in JJ's room, in her hand. Slowly she walked into the kitchen, investigated and then moved on to the living room.

"You don't belong here Haley." She heard from behind her.

Jumping a one-eighty, Haley felt the breathe catch in her throat. "Michael." She gasped out, looking at her dead brother.

"Hey Hales." He greeted softly, with a casual, kind smile.

"No, no." she repeated stepping away from her brother. "You're dead!" she accused.

"I am." He confirmed lightly.

"Oh God! I have finally snapped haven't I? Brooke was right! Being calm about everything finally made me snap. And now I am hearing voices and chatting with dead brothers. Oh God what's next? Will I start talking to God?" She exclaimed hysterically causing her brother to laugh.

"You're laughing at me?" She asked in disbelieve. "Oh great! Now my MIND is laughing at me!"

"Are you done freaking out?" he asked calmly.

"Oh please, brain-made-manifestation-of-my-dead-brother, please continue!" she sneered sarcastically.

"As I was saying, you don't belong here Haley." He said indignantly.

"Oh? And where exactly do I belong? Tim-bak-tu?" she asked sarcastically.

"You have to wake up." He explained.

"I am awake!" she exclaimed in confusion.

"No! You're not."

"I don't understand!" she admitted, crunching her nose in confusion. "Is this a dream? Is that it?"

"You're in a coma, Haley." He stated calmly, ignoring her question.

"What? No I am not. I am standing here talking to my dead brother. See! Big difference! I am not in a coma I am just going crazy." She said laughing sarcastically.

"Well? Aren't you going to say anything?" she asked anxiously after a minute of silence.

"Nope!" he said popping the 'p' and shaking his head.

"Why not? You're hunting me aren't you? The least you could do is talk to me while haunting me."

"I am waiting until you calm down." He stated casually.

"I am calm!" she exclaimed.

"No you're not."

"Yes I am." She stated which got her no response. Rolling her eyes she stood in front of her dead brother and waited for him to start talking.

"You named your first son after me." He stated randomly with a glint of happiness in his eyes.

"I did." She confirmed smiling softly.

"You kept you're promise. Thank you!" He said genuinely.

"I miss you." Haley replied brokenly.

"Aw Hales, I miss you too." He said softly and Haley sniffled.

"What did you mean when you said I needed to wake up?" she asked after five minutes of him contently holding her. "Was that literal or metaphorical?"

"Literal. Haley you're not really awake!"

"What? That's impossible." She denied heatedly.

"I am sorry Hales."

"You're lying!" she accused taking a step back. "You can't stand there and tell me that the past month wasn't real, that my sons aren't real! That I am not really pregnant." She said hysterical while rubbing her belly.

"Hales, the sooner you wake up, the sooner you make this life you're dreaming of come true."

"I don't understand." She pleaded but it was too late because in the blink of an eye he was gone.

"Michael!" she screamed.

"Babe?" Nathan questioned coming down the stairs and startling Haley. "Everything okay?"

"Ummm... yea sweetie, everything is fine." Haley lied smoothly and walked towards Nathan.

"Are you sure, babe? You know you can tell me anything?" Nathan pressed.

"Yea. It just…I sa- I had a dream about Michael." She stuttered.

"Oh?" he asked, pulling her into a hug.

"Yea… it was… really weird." She stuttered again.

"What was it about?" he asked curiously pulling back from her embrace a little so he could look at her face.

"He was saying that I was in a coma and that I needed to wake up, it was so confusing." Haley said looking up at Nathan.

"You need to wake up Hales, Micca needs you to wake up, we all do." Nathan said quietly.

"What?" Haley asked, tensing in Nathan's arms.

"What?" he asked in confusion.

"you just said that I needed to wake up." She stated with a squeaky voice.

"ah, no I didn't." he denied strongly.

"yes, you did!" she retorted.

"No, I didn't."

"well then WHAT DID YOU SAY?" she asked in exasperation.

"I said we should head to bed." He said slowly.

"Oh."

"Sweetie, are you sure you're okay?" Nathan asked with a concerned expression.

"yea, yea I think I am just sleepy." Haley yawned.

"okay let's get you to bed then." Nathan said picking her up bridal style while she giggled and headed towards their bedroom.

"Look whose here!" Brooke exclaimed in faux cheerfulness, walking up to Nathan with Micca's hand in hers.

"Hey buddy," Nathan greeted, with genuine happiness at the sight of his son.

"Nadan!" Micca exclaimed happily and jumped into Nathan's open arms. "I am here to see mama." Nathan stated happily as he sat on Nathan's lap in the hospital waiting room.

"What are you doing out here, Nate?" Brooke asked nervously.

"Oh um the doctor is in there." Nathan stated calmly while Micca took his phone and started playing with it.

"Is everything okay?"

"Yea, they're just doing a checkup nothing too major." Nathan reassured her.

"That's good." Brooke replied happily.

"Yea… so where's Lucas?" Nathan asked curiously.

"oh um he went home to change but he'll be back soon." Brooke stated.

"Oh, okay."

"Can I go see mama now?" Micca asked looking at Brooke.

"Yea sweetie but why don't you let Nathan take you because aunt Brooke has to go check on uncle Lucas." Brooke suggested sweetly.

"SWEET!" Micca exclaimed in joy at seeing his mom with his new friend. "Let's go Nathan." He said getting off Nathan's lap.

"Are you sure Brooke?" Nathan asked with barely contained happiness at the notion of spending some time with his son.

"Yea," Brooke confirmed kissing Nathan lightly on the cheek. "I'll be back in half an hour, hour tops."

After genuinely thanking Brooke, Nathan and Micca started walking towards Haley's room with Micca basically dragging Nathan there in excitement.

Stopping outside Haley's hospital room, Nathan kneeled down and looked at Micca. "Now champ you know that you're mom is going to be sleeping right?" Nathan asked his five year old son.

"That's okay; I'll just wake her up." Micca said cheekily. "Mama always says that I can wake her up whenever I need her."

Taking a deep breath to calm his emotions, Nathan replied softy. "I know buddy but you remember how your mom fell yesterday?"

"yea" Micca nodded sullenly.

"Well in order for her to start feeling better she needs to stay asleep."

"so I can't talk to her?" Micca asked with wide fearful eyes.

"No, no of course you can. But you just can't wake her up." Nathan replied in a hurry to assure the little boy.

"Okay," Micca agreed sadly.

"Okay, let's go in."

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"Hey cheery," Lucas greeted his girlfriend and stepped aside letting her into his apartment.

"Hey Broody," she replied cheekily and kissed him lightly.

"What are you doing here? I thought you were taking Micca to the hospital." He asked curiously.

"I did."

"oh, where is the little guy? Did you take him back to moms?"

"No I didn't, he's at the hospital with Nathan." Brooke said carefully while making sure not to take her eyes off Lucas.

"okay," he said simply ignoring the little devil on his left shoulder screaming at him to have a go at Brooke.

"Okay?" she prompted.

"What do you want me to say Brooke?" he asked solemnly.

"Oh I don't know, I expected more along the lines of you complaining heatedly and me completely ignoring you." She sneered.

"Wow! Okay I defiantly did not deserve that." He stated looking at her with a kicked-puppy expression on his face.

Taking a deep breath she turned to look at him sheepishly. "I am sorry I just have a sea of thoughts going through my mind and I really need my best friend right about now."

"Aww babe." He walked towards her and took her in his arms.

"today is our anniversary." She mumbled against his shoulder.

"Worst. Anniversary. EVER." He stated softly.

"Amen to that." She said looking up into his eyes.

"I am sorry Cheery, I promise I'll make it up to you." He apologized.

"I know broody! We just have to make sure our best friend is okay first." She agreed kissing him lightly.

"You really think Micca is okay with Nathan?" he asked looking her straight in the eye.

"With all my heart." She stated, not faltering.

"Okay then," he started with a light smile. "you think we have an hour to go have a temporary anniversary lunch?"

"Really?" she asked eagerly.

"yea, I mean, Micca is fine with Nathan and we'll only be gone an hour tops."

"Okay then, I'll go give Nathan a call while you change that…. Shirt."

"What? What's wrong with my shirt?" he asked slightly offended.

"Come Luke you're dating a fashion designer and that shirt looks like something out of an eighties musical." She chuckled lightly at her boyfriends dead fashion sense.

"I take offence to that!" he exclaimed lightly.

"yea, you do that! I am going to go call Nathan." She said turning around to look for her phone.

"I am still not changing." He stated, not backing down even though Brooke wasn't the first person to have a negative comment on his shirt.

"okay then don't," she said and Lucas smiled triumphantly but the next thing out of her mouth immediately killed his smile. "but don't expect any sex out of me."

"you're bluffing!" he accused. "you like sex more than me." He finished suggestively.

"Maybe, but who needs men when I can just brooke myself." She said easily with a raised eye brow.

"Change the shirt, got it." Lucas said walking towards his closet in a hurry, making Brooke chuckle.

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"hey Mama," Micca greeted a sleeping Haley and jumped up onto her bed and lied down next to her. "Nathan says I should talk to you like when you're awake… I didn't have to go to school today, which is totally awesome! OHHH and I got to spend last night with Lily. I was so scawed

So aunt Karen let me have ice cream before I went to bed. I hope that's okay mama because I don't want you to be mad at me, aunt Karen said that it would be okay. Are you gonna talk to Mama, Nadan?" Micca asked looking at Nathan who had a soft smile on his face from watching his son talk to his mom.

"Yea buddy I do," he said walking towards the bed and petting his hair while keeping his eye on Haley's sleeping figure. "Hey Hales, I am pretty sure you're starting to get sick of the sound of my voice by now." He started making Micca chuckle. "anyway I just wanted to say that while… you're sleeping Micca is in good hands he spent the night with Karen and Keith last night and according to Brooke he's going to be spending tonight with her and maybe Lucas, I am not sure of the details yet. Anyway since Brooke just called and said she'd be back in about two hours I thought maybe me and the little man could go and have lunch at McDonalds. What do you think buddy? You up for it?" Nathan asked directing the question at his son.

"AWESOME!" He exclaimed joyfully. "Can I go to da badroom first?"

"Sure buddy," Nathan said taking Micca off of the hospital bed. "It's right through there. You okay alone? Okay then I'll just be out here." Nathan told him after directing him to the bathroom in the private room.

"I hope you don't mind Hales," Nathan started talking, moving closer to her bed. "I mean before all this happened we were starting to get along… He's pretty amazing. But I am pretty sure you already knew that though. I guess I just wanted to say that I Love You, I love you with all my heart and I will always be here! I promise you that. You are all that matters to me. I knew that six years ago and I sure as hell know it now. So I am not going anywhere…. And I promise that when you wake up I am going to do everything in my power to be the father I always wanted to Micca. I am going to make you proud Haley. But if I am going to do that I'll need you to wake up. You need to wake up Hales, Micca needs you to wake up, we all do. Brooke is falling apart by the minute. She's trying to hide it but if you take a minute to look into her eyes, you can see it clearly. I love you." He finished just as Micca was walking out of the bathroom. Kissing her lightly on the cheek he turned to Micca and was about to walk out when Haley's doctor came in."

"Nathan! I was wondering if we could talk outside for a minute?" she asked softly looking at Micca and back at Nathan with pointed eyes.

"Yea sure," Nathan replied getting the message. "hey buddy, why don't you go say bye to your mom while I talk to the doctor?" after getting the okay from Micca, Nathan walked outside and started talking to the doctor.

"Is she okay?" he asked cautiously.

"we got in the test results we did last night and the reason Haley fainted was just because she was dehydrated and with the apparent stress she was under. So medically speaking before the concussion there was absolutely nothing wrong with Haley medically." She finished with a stormy expression that stopped Nathan from feeling any relief.

"And after?" he asked carefully.

"well other than the coma, there is nothing wrong with her."

"do you have any idea how soon she'll wake up?" he asked anxiously.

"I am sorry but we still don't know yet. But, I did contact Dr. Peter Harrison –he's the neurosurgeon- I've already contacted him and he confirmed everything I told you last night. And he will be stopping by the hospital tomorrow to check on Haley's condition."

After happily thanking the doctor and deciding not to call Brooke, he and Micca went on their way to McDonalds.

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P.S. I had no time to edit it cauz my mom totally crashed my writing party, so excuse the mistakes.