Haley stood next to their bed, packing some things in her suitcase. She had gotten home from the hospital a few hours ago and she hadn't seen Nathan since yesterday. Bear had driven her home and when she questioned him why Nathan couldn't do it, he simply answered that he had something important to do.

She heard someone shut open the bedroom door and walk in. She continued to pack as they walked closer to her. "What are you doing?" she heard Nathan's voice quietly ask.

"I'm packing some things to go to my brother's house."

"Why?"

"Because he wants to keep me overnight for observation. And I told him that I was ok and that everything was fine, but he still wants to see me. So I don't really wanna take any chances."

"You seem nervous." Nathan noted.

"Yea, I'm just worried about a friend."

"Who?"

"Peyton just…something happened and I have a lot going on right now."

Nathan waved his hand in front of her face. Haley blinked. "Wow. It's amazing. Your eyesight seems to have improved."

"Yea, it comes and goes. That's why I'm so scared right now."

Nathan suddenly knocked the bag she was packing on the ground. He stepped closer. "I think you're lying, Haley. There is nothing wrong with your eyes. You're just looking for an excuse to get away from here, aren't you?"

Haley turned looked Nathan straight in the eyes. "I don't know why you would say that."

"No? You have no idea?"

"Nathan, there's something wrong with my eyes. I'm going to my brother's because he needs to be there in case something happens. I'm scared about this. I thought you understood that."

"You wanna know something scary, Haley? Do you? If I hadn't taken you to the hospital last night, I would've been arrested."

"Arrested?"

"The FBI was waiting at the docks for that little shipment I told you about. My mother seems to think that you had something to do with it."

"What?"

"No one else knew about that shipment, Haley."

"Well, someone had to know besides me, Nathan."

"It was the first time that I ever told you anything about the family business."

"And so your mother told you that I went to the FBI with the information! That's great. She must be really desperate to get rid of me."

"She is looking for answers, Haley."

"Why would I do something so stupid? Why would I do something so stupid the first time you confided in me? I can't even believe that you're accusing me of this."

"Let me tell you something." Nathan put his hands on the side of her neck. "If you did do anything so stupid, Haley…I don't know if I could ever forgive you."

Nathan let go of her and walked over to one of the chairs in their room. He sat down and looked at the ground. He was trying to get hold of his anger.

Haley sighed as she walked over to him. "Nathan, I could never hurt you. You need to understand that. You need to trust your feelings about me. Come on." Haley began rubbing her hand over the back of his head.

Nathan lifted his arm and slightly pushed her hand off of his head. "Right now, I don't know how I feel about you."

"Really?" Haley stepped back and leaned against the footboard of their bed. "I overheard something that I didn't mean to when you were talking with your grandmother the other day."

"What? What'd you hear?" He was suddenly nervous that she knew about the test.

"I heard you tell her that you…that you cared about me. Honestly, it made me feel really, really good. Because it made me feel like you understood me, even if I've done things that I don't like."

"What? What things? Tell me."

"Look, I'm in this strange place, I'm scared, I've been scared, I've been trying to hide it. But I do believe in trusting your instincts about people. And what I'm trying to say through all of this is that I want you to trust how you feel about me. I need you to trust your instincts about me."

"Sit down." Nathan said. He got up and let her sit in the seat he was sitting in. He stood behind the chair as he spoke, with his hands resting on her shoulders. "Haley, I'm glad you're being honest with me." He placed both of his hands around her neck, a little too tight for Haley's liking. "I had no idea that you were scared to be here. I know how my mother can be."

Her eyes went wide as he held onto her neck. Haley brought one of her hands up and placed it on his hand, loosing his grip. "Yea. She hates me, Nathan. She hates me. It doesn't matter what I do."

Nathan kneeled down in front of her. He brought both of his hands down and rested them on her thighs. "No, it does. It matters what you do, very much."

"She told you that I called the FBI. She's accused me of all sorts of other things. It's not going to end."

"Haley, you are my wife. It doesn't matter what you've done or what you haven't done. I can protect you. Don't you know that? I will take care of you, if you will just let me."

"I just don't wanna have to deal with your mother anymore." Haley stood up and slightly stepped away from him. "It's gonna be ok. " Haley sighed. "Nathan."

"What?" He stood up and looked at her.

"I just wanted to tell you that I'm really glad you ended up with me last night and that nothing happened to you. It was pretty lucky."

"Yea, it was lucky."

"I should get going." Haley smiled and then walked over to the bed and picked up the bag that Nathan had shoved on the floor earlier. She placed it on the bed and then grabbed her jacket and put it on.

"I'm gonna miss you." He said, looking at the ground.

"I'll miss you too."

"It won't be the same without you."

"Nathan, I'm only going to my brother's for a few days. Just until my eyes get better."

"Yea."

"Why do you look so sad?" She asked walking toward him.

Nathan pulled her into a hug. "I don't wanna say goodbye to you."

"Nathan, you don't have to. I'm just gonna be a few miles away and you can come see me anytime you want to."

"Haley, are you sure you don't wanna reconsider anything? Huh?"

"You know I have to go."

"Yea, ok." Nathan finally let her go. "You do. Look, I'll drive you over to your brother's so I'll just get the car pulled around."

"No, I'm just gonna take a cab."

"No, you're not. You're my wife and I have to take care of you." Nathan reached for her face and began stroking her cheek with his thumb. "I wish none of this had happened."

"Nathan, I'm gonna be ok. I'm gonna be at my brother's just until my eyes get better."

"Yea, ok." Nathan looked at her for a few more seconds before he turned and grabbed her bag off of the bed and headed for the door.

Nathan walked down the hallway and then stopped. He had to sit down. He couldn't believe he had to do this. Nathan sat down on the ground, just to catch his breath. He pinched the bridge of his nose and tried to get a hold on his emotions.

Deb came out of one of the rooms and noticed him sitting on the ground. "Nathan, I'm sorry that Haley's lies have made you suffer this way. But I have to know, can you do this? Can you protect this family?"

Nathan stood up, but didn't look at her. "I'll do what I have to do, mom." He didn't give her a chance to respond. He kept walking down the hall.

Deb sighed and turned to walk to Nathan and Haley's room. She was about to knock, but Haley walked out. "I was just leaving." Haley said, not in the mood to talk to her.

"I know. I just thought I'd just come by and we could chat." Deb walked past her into the room. Haley took in a deep breath and followed her into the room. "I think there should be some peace between us, Haley."

"Really?"

"I feel like it's my fault that you're leaving."

"Well, I'll be at my brother's a few days until my eyesight gets better."

"Oh, yes your eyesight. It must have been terrifying for you."

"Yes, it was."

"Are you feeling better now?" Deb asked.

"Yes, I am. It gets better and worse and it comes and goes. That's why I'm going to stay with my brother."

"It's fortunate that you weren't driving when your eyesight got bad. You might have had a terrible accident."

"Yea, that would've really broken your heart." Haley responded sarcastically.

"Excuse me?"

"Why are you here, Deb? You don't like me, you don't want me in your house, you don't want me with your son. Why did you come here?"

"I don't see the point of keeping up this animosity. Life is too short."


Nathan walked back into the house. He stopped when he heard Bear on the phone with someone. He heard him say Haley's name and hid behind the wall to hear what he was saying.

"Everything went great, Kelly. I told Deb you'd come through for her and you came through big time. I mean pretending to be Nathan's wife when you called the feds went great. You took care of everything. And now I'm in big time with the boss."

Nathan closed his eyes and leaned his head back against the wall. He took a deep breath and clinched his fists. She was telling the truth.


"Ok, I'll bite. What inspired this sudden change?" Haley asked. "Especially since you're trying to convince your son that I'm an informant for the FBI."

"Did my son tell you this?"

"We just had a long conversation about it, actually."

"I wish Nathan had mentioned it to me."

"And I wish you hadn't lied to him about me, but apparently this is the way it is."

"I was concerned for my son. I was speaking in anger."

"Oh, well that makes it ok." Haley said sarcastically.

"Look, obviously you're not gonna believe anything I say, but I'm gonna say it anyway. I do hope for my son's sake that you two begin to get along, try to understand each other."

"I'm Nathan's wife. Maybe there's a few things I understand about him better than you do."

"Is that so? I doubt it."

The bedroom door opened and Nathan walked through it. "Haley?" He called. He walked toward the two of them and smiled. "Well, I should've known you'd be here." He said, looking at Deb.

"I was just leaving."

"That's alright. Don't leave, mom. Haley, can you excuse us for a minute. I need to talk with my mother."

"Sure." Haley said as she walked out of the bedroom.

Deb smiled and placed her hand on his cheek. "What's this all about, Nathan?"

Nathan smacked her hand away. "What kind of monster are you? You set me up to kill my own wife?! I just overheard Bear talking on the phone with some girl, mom. He was thanking her for a job well done for the boss. How could you do this to me? How? I have been going through hell. I have been trying to shut down all of my feelings for Haley, every bit of humanity so that I could do what's best for this family and get rid of her."

"Even though I made that call, you don't know that she didn't call the FBI." Deb argued.

"I know that you lied to me! You went behind my back!"

"You're missing the point."

"You set me up! You manipulated this whole thing from the beginning!"

"Nathan, I know in my heart that this girl is lying one after the other."

"You are the one who could never be trusted! But that's never gonna happen again."

"What is going on? Is everything ok?" Haley asked, rushing into the room. She heard all the yelling from the hallway and hurried back in.

Nathan looked at Haley. "It's fine. My mother was just leaving. Weren't you? Goodbye, mom."

Deb sighed before angrily walking out of the room. She glared at Haley as she walked past her.

Haley walked over and stood in front of Nathan. She had never seen him look so angry before. "I am…I am so sorry." Nathan said, pulling her into a hug.

He suddenly let her go and headed for the closet. Haley watched as he pulled out a suitcase and placed it on their bed. "Nathan?"

"What?" He asked, starting to grab things from his dresser.

"Will you please tell me what is going on. What just happened with your mother? Why are you acting like this?"

"Because I was an idiot. That's all. But it's ok, because things are gonna be very different around here."

"Ok, what are you doing?"

Nathan looked up from the suitcase. "What does it look like? I'm packing. Don't worry I won't be long. I'm just gonna pack a few things."

"You're packing for what? Where are you going?"

"With you."

"Excuse me?"

"Yea. I'm not gonna leave you alone at your brother's." He placed the last thing in his suitcase and stood in front of her. He placed his hands on her cheeks. "Haley, I wanna be there for you. The same way that you'd be there for me."

He kissed her quickly before grabbing his bag and walking out of the room.


Nathan and Haley walked into the Tric with Jake and Abby. They had decided to go out for the night together, to get their minds off of Haley's eyesight. Nathan and Haley had been at Jake's for two days now and they all need a night out.

Jake and Abby sat down on one of the sofas in the back of Tric as Nathan and Haley sat across from them. "So, Jake, any idea of when you'll be getting Haley's test results back?" Nathan asked, grabbing Haley's hand and weaving his fingers through hers.

"We're still working on that."

"You are?''

"Yea, there's still a lot of questions that need to be answered."

"You know, I would really like to not talk about this tonight. I mean, that is the point of us going out, right? Getting my mind off of it and having fun?" Haley said.

"I know, but I'm worried about you and I wanna get to the bottom of this and find out why you're having these spells. Your blindness is coming back. Don't you think she should see a specialist?" Nathan asked, looking at Jake. "What about that guy-"

"You know, I love this song and I would love if you would dance with me." Haley interrupted. She stood up and pulled him away from Jake to dance.

The two began dancing and got closer to each other. Nathan wrapped his arms around her waist and Haley wrapped hers around his back. Haley placed her head on his chest as they danced.

They danced for about a minute before Nathan sighed. "How you feeling?"

Haley leaned back to look at his face. "Can't you tell?" she smiled.

"I mean your eyes. How are they?"

"They're fine now."

"Look, I know you don't wanna talk about it, but what do you think about seeing a specialist? Don't you think you should let them examine you?"

"Nathan, I would really like it if we could not talk about this right now."

"I know, but this is serious, Haley. You ended up in an emergency room. And no disrespect to your brother, but I'm not convinced that you're getting the best treatment. I'm not."

"Come on. I hate this. This is not…"

"What?"

"I hate that everybody is fussing over me."

"Fussing? We're talking about your eyesight. There could be something seriously wrong. I hope to God that there isn't, but if there were and I let it go, I'd never forgive myself. I want you to see a doctor that I know."

Haley stepped away from him. "No, I can't."

"Wait. Why don't you want anyone else to examine you? It would be good to have a second opinion."

"Because Jake knows what I need."

"Well, this guy is the best, Haley."

"How do you know that?"

"Because I know everything." Nathan smirked. "Because I made some calls and did some research."

"When?"

"Last night. I couldn't sleep so I checked out every medical webpage and chat room. And it turns out that this guy, Dr. Shulman, in Arizona is the best surgeon there is. So I called his office this morning and harassed his assistant. He's booked for months, but they will see you because I explained the situation. We can fly there tomorrow."

"I can't believe you did this for me."

"What? You thought I was just gonna sit on my ass and do nothing?" Nathan rubbed his thumb against her cheek. "No. I'm gonna do everything in my power to make sure that you get the best care. I wanna take care of you."

"I don't need a doctor, Nathan."

"Yea, you do."

"No, I don't."

"Haley, you do." Nathan argued.

Haley took a deep breath. "I faked my blindness, Nathan. I faked it."