"Mom where is Dad?" Nathan asked again staring right at Deb. She didn't know what to do. Should she just suck it up and tell him or let it be. He has enough on his mind right now with Haley, he didn't need even more but she also didn't want to lie to him.
"Umm Nathan they are still looking for Dad. They haven't been able to find him after the explosion, but you know how much of a fighter he is and he will be ok I am sure of it." Deb reassured him. He just sat there and shook his head. "This day just keeps getting worse, and to think the biggest thing on my mind this morning was the basketball game tonight. Now I am worrying whether my wife and child are still alive and now my father is missing.." He winced in pain when he moved in the bed.
"You ok?" Deb. asked seeing that he was obviously in pain.
"I am ok…just in a little pain. Can you go see if they heard anything about Haley yet please?" Nathan asked. Deb. nodded her head and got up and left Nathan alone. When she walked out of the room everyone was in the hallway waiting for her to see how Nathan made out.
"How is he?" Lucas asked
"He is doing good, in a little bit of pain but he is mostly driving himself crazy waiting for news on Haley. Have we heard anything yet on her?"
"Not yet they said it would be awhile before we heard any news anyway." Karen informed her. They all sat down and were waiting when Lucas saw two officers walking toward them.
"Mrs. Scott" they said to Deb.
"Yes" she said standing up. Lucas walked over and stood next to Deb.
"Mrs. Scott we found Mayor Scott, unfortunately we found his body. The impact from the explosion and the collapse of the building was too much for him his body to handle. We have the paramedics bringing him into the hospital shortly. We will need you to go and ID his body though. I am very sorry for your loss." The officer explained. Deb just stood there and took in everything that the police officer was saying and just nodded. Lucas couldn't believe what he was hearing his eyes were welling up and he couldn't control it. Its not like he was close to Dan or even remotely liked him too much, but he was still his father. The police officer walked away.
"Well I guess I need to go down to the morgue. This can't be happening! I don't even know what I am going to say to Nathan. He is so worried about Haley, and he needs to relax I don't know how I am going to tell him" Deb said with tears streaming down her face.
"You don't I will tell him" Lucas said getting it together, he knew he should be the one to tell Nathan. He wasn't going to say anything until Haley came out of surgery and we got news on her.
"I am not going to tell him until we hear about Haley though" he explained to Deb. Deb agreed with him that they should wait. Keith and Karen came walking up to them and noticed that something wasn't right
"What happened?" Keith asked
"Umm they found Dan. He didn't make it" Deb gently told them.
"Oh my god" Karen said grabbing Keith's shoulder. Keith stood there in shock not believing that his brother was actually gone. He knew that they didn't get along lately but he never wished him dead. They worked together to get those kids out and they all should have gotten out of there. He looked over at Deb
"Do you want me go with you to ID his body, you shouldn't have to go do this by yourself" Keith said trying to hold emotions together for everybody. He couldn't fall apart with Nathan just getting out of surgery and Haley still in surgery fighting for her life. Deb nodded her head and the two of them walked off together down to the morgue. Lucas and Karen just sat and waited.
Peyton and Jake walked out of the hospital chapel and were getting ready to walk back to the waiting area when they met Brooke in the hallway.
"Hey Brooke any news on Haley or Nathan?" Peyton asked. Brooke nodded her head.
"Nathan is out of surgery and is doing well, no news on Haley yet I was just going back to check you guys coming?" she motioned for them to walk with her. They all left and started walking back to the waiting area where Lucas and Karen were waiting.
Lucas and Karen were waiting quietly. They had not said anything since Deb and Keith left to go and ID Dans body.
"Lucas are you ok?" Karen asked him
"Nothing about this day is ok…. I mean I was never close with Dan, but if it were not for him I would be dead right now. Plus now I have to tell Nathan that are father is gone. How am I going to do that? I don't know if I can…"
"Lucas I know Dan was not really a father figure for you but he was still your father and you cannot change that. The fact remains that you are still a Scott, you have the name and everything that comes with it just as much as Nathan. I know that you're going to be fine, and you have your brother to help eachother get through it. You two will lean on each other and will be fine…if I know anything I know that Scott's are strong and if you got anything from your father it was his strength. He wasn't the best man but he was strong and even though he didn't show it he did love you Lucas." Karen said rubbing his back. Tears streamed down Lucas's face he just couldn't believe that his father was gone, Jimmy had flipped out and tried to kill all of them, his brother was in recovery, and his best friend was a mess. Brooke, Peyton, and Jake all came to the waiting area and they saw how upset Lucas was.
"Oh my god Luke is it Haley?" Brooke said getting hysterical thinking that Haley must have not made it.
"No, No we have not heard anything about Haley yet…and Nathan is ok I saw him he is in recovery. We heard news about Dan…he didn't make it." Lucas explained to all of them
"What? Oh my god Luke I am sorry man" Jake said walking over to him and putting his hand on his shoulder in a comforting way.
"Thanks" Luke said looking up at Jake. They all looked up and saw the doctor walking over to them.
"Mr. Scott, Haley is out of surgery we are going to go talk to your brother now if you would like to be in the room with him". Lucas nodded his head got up and walked with him into Nathan's room. Lucas thought to himself this was going to be the longest moment of his life.