Hey everyone, sorry I wasn't able to get this up before the weekend. I decided that the Meeting Baby James update was more imporant since I hadn't updated it in forever. Anyway, thank you soooo much to all of the awsome people reviewed. You are what motivate me and I don't think I can say that enough. I love you all. So here's the next chapter, I hope you enjoy it. :-)

Disclaimer: I do not own One Tree Hill or any of its characters.

Summary: After 4 years, Nathan, Haley, Brooke, Lucas, Peyton, and Tim are heading back to the beach for another summer of fun. Some hold secrets, some have suffered through heartbreaks, and some are their same old selves. They will encounter a few familiar faces and unimaginable surprises as they return to the past in this sequel to "A Summer to Remember."

Return to the Past

Chapter 28

"Thank you so much, Lisa," Haley smiled as she looked at the gift she had just opened. There were only about 15 minutes left before the shower was over and Haley was finishing opening her presents. So far she had gotten multiple packages of baby bottles and onesies, a few pacifiers and stuffed animals, and as a joint gift from all of her sisters she got a stroller and a car seat. The only gift left now was Brooke and Peyton's.

Noticing that her gift was last, Brooke hurriedly got up and delivered the box to Haley. "You have to read the card first," she warned.

Haley smiled; of course she would read the card first. Who did Brooke think she was? She grabbed the card on the top of the box and slowly tore it open, revealing the white sparkly card from within. As Haley read the card, her eyes started to fill with tears at the words that Peyton and Brooke had written about her friendship. When her eyes got to the last line, she thought they were going to pop out of her head. "No you didn't."

"Yes we did," Brooke smiled. She knew that Haley had just read the last line of the card and was probably blown away by the fact that it said that they bought her a baby crib. "You can pick it up whenever at Babies R Us."

"Oh my gosh, thank you so much!" Haley smiled as she stood up and gave both of her friends a hug.

"Aw, you're welcome. But you still have to open the rest of the present," Brooke chided playfully as she guided Haley back to the chair.

Haley did as she was told and gently started to unwrap the beautiful paper that covered her last gift. As the paper came off, she was able to recognize the box as a top of the line breast pump. "Brooke, Peyton, thank you so much."

"No problem, can you believe that Lucas didn't even know what that was until we were at the store?" Brooke laughed out loud as the rest of the women in the room joined her.

"I can believe it since Nathan didn't know until I told him," Haley laughed. Just then she felt a small tugging at her shirt and looked down to see her two nieces and Jenny staring up at her. "Hi girls, are you having fun?"

They all three nodded their heads before the oldest, Vivian's daughter Caroline, spoke up. "My mommy told us to give you this."

"Ok, thank you," Haley smiled as she put the bag in her lap and waved as the girls ran off to the open area of the room. During most of the shower the three girls had been running around and playing games in the area of the room that was just open space and Haley had often found herself content at just watching them run around crazily. "It looks like I have one more, girlies."

The ladies in the room al watched attentively as Haley removed the tissue paper from the bag and subsequently, the gift. A chorus of "oohs" and "ahs" was heard when Haley pulled out the light purple pregnancy lingerie. Brooke instantly started clapping in approval and Haley giggled as she fingered the lacy material. "I thought Nathan might like that," Vivian laughed from her seat.

"Oh, I'm sure he will," Haley laughed as she folded it up and gently laid it in the bag. "Thank you Viv."

"Ok, gifts are done!" Brooke yelled excitedly. "Now, we only have a few more minutes, but we actually have something else for you Haley."

"What else could you possibly have for me?" Haley laughed. They had already given her a wonderful shower with her friends and some of her family as well as wonderful gifts that would help her out tremendously.

"You'll see," Brooke smiled playfully as she handed three envelopes to her friend as watched as she looked at them questioningly. She was so happy to be able to do something like this for Haley and she felt so good that she was the one of the reasons for the smile on her friend's face. "Listen up everyone, since guys were not invited to our little party, three guys in Haley's life decided to write something for her."

Haley became insanely curious as to what was written in each envelope and who wrote them after hearing Brooke's words. She had a feeling that one of them had to be from Lucas but the other two were a mystery. One of them could be from Nathan, but the last one baffled her. She supposed that the last one could have been from one of her brothers, but she had just gotten e-mails from all of them not too long ago saying how proud they were of her and all that, she doubted any of them would want to say those things twice.

"Ok, Haley. Open the first one," Peyton instructed. Haley had to laugh at how perfectly this whole party had been planned out. Everything from the games to the food to the gifts had run smoothly and everyone there seemed to be having a good time. Leave it to Brooke to plan and run a perfect party.

Haley did as instructed and opened the first envelope with an eager smile on her face. This day just kept getting better. She pulled out a piece of paper with neatly typed words spanning down most of the page. Her eyes quickly scanned to the bottom and her smile grew at seeing it was from Lucas. "Should I read it out loud?"

"Of course!" Brooke yelled as the rest of the women laughed at her behavior.

"Ok, ok," Haley smiled as she started to read the long letter. A minute or two later there were tears coming from every woman's eyes as she finished reading the kind words. "Haley, you're my best friend and nothing will ever change that. I guess what I'm trying to tell you with this letter is that I love you and I love my little nephew. No matter how I my have acted when you first told me, never doubt that I am happy for you and Nathan and that I already love the little guy and am prepared to spoil him senseless. I'll always be here for you, even when Nathan Junior has you at your last nerve. Just remember that best friends stick together, and so do brothers and sisters. I hope you have a great shower, sister in law. You deserve it. Lucas."

A stream of tears was visible now on Haley's face as well as most of the other women in the room. Many of them were looking at Brooke as if to tell her how jealous they were of her at the moment. "Why is everyone looking at me? Haley, read the next letter," she commanded as she swatted at the tears in her own eyes in an attempt to dissipate them.

Haley slowly took out the next letter; not really knowing whom it could be from. Her delicate hands shook slightly from reading the beautiful letter before as she pulled the next letter out and gently unfolded it. Here eyes scanned to the bottom of the page and she almost laughed out loud at seeing the signature. This would be interesting. "Dear Haley, I know we're not like friends, well, we are, but not like great friends or whatever. So Peyton asked me to write this letter to you and I didn't know what to write about…I still don't know what to write about."

The group laughed as Haley read the letter from Tim who had obviously been uncomfortable when writing it. "I'm a little afraid to even write that you're cool because when Nathan reads this he's going to kick my ass. Unless I tell him that Peyton made me, which would be totally true. So, it sucks that you can't drink anymore. I really do feel bad for you. But look on the bright side, at least you'll have a kid to chase around in like, I don't know, a few months or something. I wouldn't be able to do it. You know, give up beer to have a kid. That just doesn't make sense to me. Ok, my hand hurts from writing this, so I guess I'll just talk to you at home. See ya later. Tim."

All of the women in the room including Haley were just laughing by the end. It was so like Tim to write her a letter that was only about a fourth of a page long even when it was handwritten. He had probably been on the way out the door as he wrote it. As she thought about it, she hadn't even seen Tim for almost 3 days. Their schedules were always opposite. When Haley was asleep, Tim was awake and when Tim was asleep, Haley was awake.

"Peyton, I knew it was a bad idea to ask Tim to write a letter!" Brooke scolded playfully.

"No, I love it. I needed a good laugh after Lucas's tearjerker," Haley giggled as she folded the letter back up and stuffed it into the envelope. Now she was incredibly excited to see whom the last letter was from. She had a gut feeling that it was from Nathan and as she ran her finger along the "3" written in the center she became more sure. After receiving a go ahead look from Brooke, she opened the final envelope and pulled out the handwritten letter. She immediately recognized the handwriting as that of her husband and her face broke into a large grin. He had been gone for only about 7 hours and she already missed him like crazy. "It's from Nathan."

"Read it out loud," one of the girls squealed as the others agreed.

"Ok, it says, Haley, do not read this out loud." The room erupted into protesting groans and laughs. Haley smiled at the first line; she knew that Nathan wouldn't care if the letter was read out loud but that she probably would. He had written that because he knew she wouldn't want it read out loud. "Sorry ladies," she smiled.

"Haley, come on. We want to hear it!" Vivian smiled playfully. She knew her sister and she knew that if Nathan thought she wouldn't want the letter read for every one to hear, then she probably wouldn't.

Haley only shook her head as she began to read the letter to herself. Many smiles, quite a few giggles, some blushes, and even some shed tears later, she was finished and the party was over.

"Lucas!" Haley shouted as she noticed her best friend come in through the door and walk towards her. All of the guests were gone now and it was just her, Peyton, Jenny and Brooke aside from Lucas. "I read your letter, it was so sweet." Tears threatened to spill from her eyes all over again as she pulled her friend in for a hug.

"So you liked it?" he joked.

"Are you kidding me? I loved it," she smiled as she pulled away and came face to face with him. "Since Nathan's not going to be here until tomorrow, I guess you're the one who has to help me take all of this up to the condo."

Lucas remained silent, not sure which part of her statement to prove wrong first. "There's been a change of plan," he started as all three of the girls turned to look at him curiously. His voice was heavy and serious so they all assumed that this was a bad change of plans. "Nathan is on his way home right now and we're not going back to the condo."

"Why is Nathan coming home?" Haley asked worriedly.

"Why can't we go back to our condo?" Brooke questioned, mirroring Haley's voice.

Lucas racked his brain trying to think of the best way to tell them what Nathan had told him. "Nathan will be home in probably about 2 hours, or knowing the way he drives, closer to one, and when he gets here he'll explain."

"Lucas, you have to at least give us a reason," Peyton countered. Why wouldn't they be allowed back to their condo? This whole situation just didn't make sense.

"Nathan told me to tell you that the Chavez's did visit Dan," he said as he turned to Haley. She was the only one who would know what he was talking about. Brooke and Peyton had been excluded from all of the information that they had found about Nick and Nicki in the past few weeks. They had no idea that the neighbors had talked to a 'Mr. Scott' and they also had no idea that they were looking for something.

Haley wasn't extremely surprised by this information, she had suspected it, but the fact that Nathan was coming home and that he didn't want anyone returning to the condos was a little unsettling. Something he had found out from his father must have been really bad. "Are you sure he didn't tell you anything else?" she asked confusedly. It was not like Nathan to request a favor like this from Lucas without giving him some type of reason.

"Look, all he said was that Nick and Nicki are dangerous," he responded shortly. "I swear that's all I know."

"My mommy's name is Nicki," a little girl called from the other end of the room where she was examining the baby gifts Haley had received that day.

All four of them turned to look at Jenny and their hearts filled with sadness for her. She didn't know that her mother was some sort of criminal and if she was lucky she never would. Peyton slowly walked over to Jenny and brought her close in a hug before talking her into playing a game, obviously distracting her while the other three talked.

"Dangerous? What does he mean by dangerous?" Brooke scoffed. It got on her nerves how Nathan could be so vague at times.

"I don't know, he didn't say," he responded as he watched Haley's face. She was thinking about something, he could tell. "What is it, Hales?"

"Nothing," she responded quickly. "I just really want to know why they're dangerous, that's all," she lied. In truth she had been thinking about the knife that she had seen in their condo when she was in there with Nick. Sure, a lot of people had knives, but something about him made her feel that he didn't use it for opening boxes or other things along those lines. She had a feeling that when Nathan said they were dangerous, he meant really dangerous.

A little over an hour later they were all sitting around a picnic table in the park. Jenny had been dropped back off at Jake's and Peyton had decided to stay with him until they knew more about what was going on. After all, Nicki was Jenny's mom so whatever they were up to could have something to do with her.

Haley kept staring nervously down at her phone, both to see the time and count down to when Nathan would finally get here, and to see if she had a new text from him or even a missed call. She didn't know why she would just now notice if she had a missed call from him, but she couldn't keep her eyes off of it just in case. Ever since Lucas had said he was coming home early because of what he had found out, she had become increasingly anxious to see him. Whatever it was that he found out must be bad and she just wanted him to be safely here with her where she could keep an eye on him.

She had had feelings like this surface every now and then ever since the fire on the yacht four years ago. Whenever something big, stressful, or frightening happened, she always wanted him to be somewhere in her sight, somewhere where she could easily see that he was safe. She was suddenly brought out of her thoughts by a light kick on her abdomen. She smiled as she reached down to soothingly rub the place her son had just kicked and tried her hardest to stifle a giggle when he continued to kick right where hand was.

"Is that Nathan?" Brooke's voice brought Haley out of her daze and she looked up to see her husband stepping out of the car over in the parking lot.

"Oh you are such a smart little baby," she cooed softly to her stomach. "I bet you kicked because you knew Daddy was here. You're going to be such a genius."

Brooke laughed at Haley's antics before watching her friend get out of her seat and make her way quickly towards her husband. She turned to Lucas who seemed to be deeply engrossed in his thoughts and she had to wonder what they were about. She was still a little confused about this whole Nick and Nicki thing. What exactly was going on with them?

"Nathan, you're home," Haley smiled excitedly as she made her way over to him as fast as she possibly could. When she finally reached him, she grabbed his face between the palms of her hands and before he could utter a word her lips were on his in a desperate kiss. Nathan was taken a little of guard by the sudden kiss and the desperation he could feel in it, but returned it nonetheless. He knew that Lucas had probably told her about Nick and Nicki visiting Dan and he also knew that she wasn't stupid. She obviously knew that the situation was more serious than he had initially let on. Haley had a way of becoming extra clingy when she was scared or worried about something, not that he minded.

He wrapped his arms tightly around her in hopes of reassuring her that everything was fine and smiled slightly against her lips when he felt her swollen stomach pressing into him. At the feel of his smile, she slowly broke the kiss and rested her forehead against his. She looked into his intense blue eyes searching for answers to the many questions she had, unable to find any. "What's going on?" she asked in a soft voice, her forehead never leaving his.

Nathan looked into her chocolate brown eyes, hoping that he was misreading the worry in them and that she was fine. He hated seeing her worried or nervous about anything. "Everything's going to be fine," he assured her as he moved to kiss her forehead and then took her hand. "Come on, I'll tell you all at the same time."

They made their way back over to the table that their friends were sitting at hand in hand. After taking their seats, Brooke immediately gave Nathan a look that said he had better explain now if he knew what was good for him.

"Ok, so I saw the records and Nick and Nicki did go visit Dan in jail," he started, earning nods of understanding from Haley and Lucas and a bewildered face from Brooke.

"What the hell? Nick and Nicki visited your dad in jail? How do you know? What did they want? How come I'm the only one who doesn't understand this?" she questioned in frustration. She hated being left out and now she felt like some kind of fourth wheel in their conversation.

"Chris said something about overhearing Nick and Nicki talking about a 'Mr. Scott', so I went to the prison that Dan's at and looked at the records to see if he was the one that they were talking about," Nathan explained quickly, wanting to get on with the story so they could get far away from here. The last thing he wanted was to be in the same city as the Chavez's.

"They let you just look at the records?" Brooke asked with wide eyes. If Nathan could just walk into a jail and look at the visitation records, then something was seriously wrong with the world.

"No, they had to run a background check, which reminds me, Haley, you have level 2 clearance," he smiled over at her as she rolled her eyes and then laughed. "Anyway, I saw on the records that Nick and Nicki visited Dan, so went to talk to him."

"Oh no," Haley said sympathetically as she leaned over to rest her head on his shoulder. Seeing Dan was definitely not something to calm him down or keep him level-headed. "How did that go?"

Nathan looked over at her. Telling her that Dan actually said he wished she would be murdered was something she just didn't need to know. It would only upset her and make him even madder in the process. "About as good as it always goes," he stated sullenly.

"But what did he say? Was it important?" Lucas questioned impatiently.

"Would I have asked you guys to stay away from the condos if it wasn't?" Nathan said crossly. Lucas could be really annoying at times. Sure, maybe his own frustration and anger towards the situation was making his temper a little short, but Lucas didn't have to ask dumb questions all the time.

"Nathan," Haley scolded. "He was just asking."

"Sorry," Nathan said in a low voice. "I guess I'm just a little on edge about this whole thing." That was an understatement, he was furious, annoyed, anxious, and a little confused all at the same time.

"Can you tell us what Dan said?" Haley asked softly as she started to run her hand soothingly up and down his arm. She had a feeling that the reason he was so tense had something to do with Dan, and she also knew that what he needed right now was time to cool off, time that they really didn't have if Nick and Nicki were as dangerous as he made them out to be.

"Yeah, Nick and Nicki wanted some information from him, construction codes or something," He said carefully. He wasn't sure how to put this without completely freaking them out. One thing that could not happen was the rest of them getting freaked out and not being able to think clearly. He could handle taking care of Haley if she was scared about the whole thing and maybe Brooke too, but Lucas was on his own. "They're definitely looking for something, something in a safe."

"A safe?" Lucas repeated. "Like money or something?"

"I don't know, but it's somewhere on the third floor, that's why I didn't want you all going back there. At least not yet," Nathan sighed. He still wasn't sure what to do about the whole situation. Bringing the police into the matter wouldn't really work because there was no proof against Nick and Nicki, but he knew that he would never feel safe until he knew Nick and Nicki were not a threat anymore.

"Maybe we should talk to Whitey?" Lucas suggested. "I mean, maybe he has some idea as to what they're looking for."

"That's probably a good idea," Brooke agreed.

"We can do that, but as long as Nick and Nicki are still staying there, Haley and I aren't," Nathan said firmly.

"Well, baby, where else are we supposed to go?" Haley laughed lightly. "All of our stuff is still at the condos."

Nathan thought about this for a moment. He supposed that the only places that they could really go were to a hotel, or back home. "We'll go back to out apartment. We need to finish the nursery anyway, and this is the perfect time."

"Ok…" Haley said slowly. That made sense; but finishing the nursery was only going to take a day or two. Then what were they going to do, just move back home permanently with almost a month of summer still to go? "Are we going to stay there for the rest of the summer?"

"No! Tutor Girl! You can't leave me yet!" Brooke yelled dramatically. "Summer's not over! I don't want to get ripped off and miss out on a whole month with you!"

"Maybe you won't have to," Nathan spoke up. "Ok, so here's my plan. We go home, we can pack what we need for a few days at home, and then we go talk to Whitey. If he decides to let Nick and Nicki stay, then we'll go pack up the rest of our stuff and get out for good, but if he sides with us and kicks Nick and Nicki to the curb, then we'll just go home, finish the nursery, and come back."

"That should work," Lucas agreed. "And Brooke, we can stay in a hotel for a few days and I'm sure Peyton can stay at Jake's."

"What about Tim?" Haley spoke up again. She hadn't even seen him for a couple of days, but she still wanted to make sure he wasn't forgotten in this chaos.

"He's been on some never ending party boat for the past three days," Nathan said with a brief laugh. Of course Tim would find a boat that where parties were held 24/7 and stay on there for a straight 72 hours. "We'll just call him and tell him to stay on for another couple of days."

"But, what if he doesn't want to stay on there for another couple of days? I mean, he has to get bored with partying at some point," she responded sympathetically.

"You do realize we're talking about Tim, don't you?" Brooke laughed. She was pretty sure that Tim Smith would never get tired of partying.

"True," Haley giggled back.


A little while later Nathan and Haley were on their way up to their condo to start packing up what they needed for their small trip back home. Brooke and Lucas were going to Jake's house to fill him and Peyton in on the situation, and Nathan and Haley had been tasked to talk to Whitey since they were the closest to him.

"How many days should I pack for?" Haley asked as she and Nathan started to ascend the last flight of stairs. Nathan had wanted to take the elevator so she didn't have to walk up them, her feet had recently started to swell a little, but it had been taking forever so she had insisted that they take the stairs.

"I don't know, a few," he shrugged. He had no idea how many days they would be away for and he really didn't know why it would matter.

"Nathan, you do realize that I'm a girl right?" She giggled as he gave her a funny look. "I need to know these things so I know what to pack."

"Ok, how about we plan on being up there for a week, just in case, but if Whitey tells Nick and Nicki to leave, then it will probably only be for a few days," he answered as they made it to the third floor and started walking towards their condo.

"Sounds like a plan," she smiled before stopping suddenly to stare at their condo door. "Nathan, why is it not closed?"

Nathan followed her eyes to see that the door was indeed open slightly. It looked almost as if someone had been leaving in a hurry and not noticed that it was still ajar when they left. "What the hell?" he mumbled. Tim couldn't have been the one to do it because he had a pet peeve about leaving doors open, but not open all the way. Even in his most drunken state Tim would have either left the door open or closed it completely. The only explanation was that someone else had done it.

Haley watched with wide eyes as Nathan stepped in front of her to slowly push the door open. She gasped when here eyes came across the sight inside, she was in no way prepared for what she saw.