One Last Kiss

Disclaimer: I don't own anything or anyone from One Tree Hill!

A/N: Just a quick answer to someone's question, someone asked where Rachel was; well Rachel doesn't really have any family ties to Dan and Deb, since her parents don't live in Tree Hill, they didn't go to the wedding. The only reason Peyton is there is because she is Jake's date and like I mentioned in the previous chapter, Jake was pretty much forced to go because his parents were invited.


Lucas stood frozen and looked at Nathan in shock, he was confused, how was that even possible? But overhearing Dan's conversation with Deb the night before made him believe it, if Nathan believed that his own father murdered his own son then it shouldn't be to hard for him to believe it too. This couldn't be real though…but what the hell would happen if it was?

He was speechless, he didn't know what to do or say and he felt a growing churn in his stomach that wouldn't go away. Before he even had time to respond and think about the consequences of him knowing this vital information, Nathan was out the door.

Lucas blinked hard for a moment, unsure if all of this was real, but then he realized the state of Nathan's anger and was out the door and hot on his tail in a second.

"Nathan!" he shouted after him as he chased him down the stairs "Nathan!" he followed him quickly but Nathan was to fast.

Nathan ignored him as he continued to run through the huge Lee household, his fists clenched tight by his sides, jaw tensed and face reddening with anger. Lucas's shouts were barely heard as he made his way through the conservatory and out into the garden where Dan was standing giving a toast.

"I fucking hate you!" Nathan's voice screamed with anger causing Dan to pause and look towards him, the guests also followed his gaze and gasped loudly as Nathan lunged himself into Dan, causing them both to go flying onto the grass. Nathan raised his arm and sent his fist flying into Dan's face, again, again and again. "I'm going to kill you! I'm going to fucking kill you!" he shouted.

"Nathan!" Lucas shouted and ran towards them and tried to pull Nathan off of him. As he was doing so he wondered why the hell nobody was helping him. Maybe they were all stunned at the way Nathan stormed out of the house like a mad man and attacked his father. Even Deb stood shocked at her son's violent attack. "Nathan!" he shouted again and eventually pulled Nathan away.

Dan was quick on his toes, blood dripping from his nose and his lip and he was sure his nose was broken, his jaw hurt and his left eye was burning like hell but that didn't stop him from reacting. He went to grab a hold of Nathan but Lucas stepped in his way. "Get out of my way, boy!" he shouted at him angrily.

"You sick bastard!" Lucas hissed at him coldly before raising his own arm and punching Dan square across the face causing more gasps and stunned faces through the crowd of guests that were gathered around in the garden.

As soon as Lucas hit Dan, Keith was up there in a second to stop his son from during something he regretted. "Lucas!" Keith's stern voice caused Lucas's attention to turn to his father. "Get inside now!" he ordered strictly.

Lucas looked back at Dan who was cradled on the floor, holding his face in pain. He looked over at Nathan who had tears glistening in his eyes as he looked down at his own blooded hands.

"You too, Nathan!" Keith said also in a stern voice that both boys knew was not to be questioned. Lucas nodded his head and grabbed Nathan's arm motioning him to come inside too. This wasn't really a conversation they wanted to have in front of half of Tree Hill's finest.


"You think you're clever? Do you?" David asked in a hiss as he pulled on the strap of Brooke's dress, Brooke clinging onto it tight to try and stop him. "You want to play this game rough? Well then let's play it rough!" he growled into her face.

Brooke let out a small sob as she struggled to push him off of her. He was so strong. Too strong. "Please" she sobbed "Get off of me!"

"Stop crying!" David demanded as he roughly pressed his lips against hers.

Brooke flinched and cringed and closed her eyes tight as his rough lips wouldn't move from her face, she opened her mouth and bit down on his lip hard causing David to gasp and pull away.

"You bitch!" David grunted and raised his hand and slapped her hard across the face. Brooke wailed in pain and tears ran down her face as David ripped the straps off her dress furiously causing it to fall down slightly. "So you do like it rough, huh? I thought you would!" he whispered into her ear and pressed his lips hard against her neck.

Brooke's sobs escalated. "Please…just get off of me!" however her cries went unheard as David only placed his spare hand over her mouth hard and his other furiously roamed her body.


"What the hell was that?" Keith asked angrily as he led Lucas and Nathan into the house. Nathan and Lucas stood silent, almost as if they were afraid to speak. Lucas had to admit, he hadn't seen his dad look as angry as he did right now. "Well? One of you care to explain?"

"He deserved it" Lucas spoke up, knowing Nathan wasn't really in the right state of mind to explain this. Judging from the look on the brunette's face, the reality of what this really meant was just sinking in for him. His eyes glistened with tears and his hands were shaking but he didn't know how to help him, how was he supposed to help him?

"What the hell is going on boys?" Keith asked seriously as he followed his sons gaze to Nathan who did not look good. "Nate, are you okay son?" he asked worriedly.

Nathan didn't reply, he just stood there, looking as cold as a rock and if it wasn't for the tears in his eyes then Keith wouldn't think there was any emotional bone in his body.

"Dad…please…I will explain this all to you, but now is not the right time" Lucas pleaded with his father.

Keith looked between the two boys and he had to admit that he was worried; he had never seen someone as angry as what Nathan looked like out there, he was like a man possessed, and he was sure that if Lucas hadn't pulled him off of Dan that he may could have ended up killing him.

"Nathan Lee! What the hell is wrong with you?"

Keith and Lucas snapped their heads towards an angry looking Deb who had just stormed into the room, however Nathan stood frozen in his spot, his eyes looking down at his blooded hands.

"Well?" she asked impatiently "What possible reason could you have to just attack your father like that!" she demanded an answer from him but there was no reply.

Keith was about to interrupt but Lucas beat him to it "Like you don't already know!" he spat coldly.

"Lucas" Keith scolded as his disrespecting tone but he still couldn't help but wonder what the hell was actually going on.

"Excuse me?" Deb asked towards him "This is a conversation between me and my son! Stay out of this!" she ordered "Although, you aren't exactly a saint yourself are you? How dare you come into our home and attack Dan like that, you may be Brooke's boyfriend but you have no right to disrespect him!"

Lucas was about to answer with a cold remark but he suddenly frowned. Brooke. Where was Brooke? He panicked slightly as he realized that she probably would have saw their attack on Dan outside and assumed it just had something to do with the wedding and was out there comforting Dan right now…he suddenly felt disgusted at the thought, he needed to get her away from him. "Is Brooke outside?" he asked although it pretty much was a demand.

"What?" Deb asked slightly taken aback at his sudden question.

"Is Brooke outside with him?" Lucas asked again more sternly this time.

Deb looked at him slightly confused "No…she's not…I saw her leave during the speeches" she explained.

Now it was Lucas who was confused. "Well where did she go?"

"I don't really think Brooke is the problem right now, do you?" Deb asked coldly.

"No I think the problem is that there is a murderer living in this house and you don't seem to give a damn"

Deb, Keith and Lucas snapped their heads towards Nathan who spoke for the first time since his attack on Dan. Deb looked like a deer caught in the headlights and Keith looked startled, confused and slightly scared. Lucas however was worried about the tone in Nathan's voice, it didn't hold any emotion, yet his eyes looked so angry and so cold, but despite all that…all he could think about was where Brooke was.


"Well that was…interesting" Peyton mumbled as she and Jake stood back and watched as a few people helped clean Dan up.

"Yeah" Jake replied distantly. Still stunned by what he saw, Nathan's behavior actually scared him, he had never seen someone look as angry as he did, never seen anyone continually punch somebody in the face the way Nathan had with his father, he didn't even know how Dan managed to stay conscious.

"And then Lucas joined in too…" Peyton trailed still confused over the events of what was going on.

"I know" Jake answered just as confused. Something seriously must be up, it was one thing for Nathan to go and attack Dan like a mad man and screaming that he was going to kill him, but for Lucas to join in too, it just didn't make sense. But then suddenly it did. "Maybe it has something to do with Brooke?"

"Brooke?" Peyton asked confused "How'd you work that one out?"

"Well…that's the only reason that I could think of for both Nathan and Lucas to hit Dan…and Brooke isn't around either so maybe Dan did something to her…" he trailed.

Peyton looked around and noticed that Brooke wasn't actually around; in fact she hadn't seen her since Dan and Deb started the first of their many speeches. "Maybe I should go and find her…see what's going on…"

"You think that's the best idea? Whatever is going on, I would be afraid to be around Nathan right now" Jake admitted.

"I know" Peyton sighed "But Brooke is my best friend, and if there is a chance that this has something to do with her then I need to be there for her" she said and looked over at Dan who was getting checked out by one of the guests who was a doctor.

Jake nodded and smiled slightly at Peyton's dedication towards Brooke, the blonde had really stepped up for her friend after the whole Felix crap, he honestly could say that a year ago he would have said that Peyton Sawyer was the worst friend ever, and maybe she was, but she had obviously changed and grown up a lot since then.


David grabbed Brooke forcefully and pushed her towards the couch that was placed in the corner of the room. Brooke tried to fight him but he was too big and strong for her. She was close to giving up, her sobs wouldn't stop but she was becoming tired, she was losing her energy and she had never felt so scared in her life. Even on her 14th birthday, David had never gone this far with her, Peyton had stopped it before he could have, and she just wished that somebody would come in and stop it this time.

"Don't fight it, Brooke. You know you want this just as much as I do" David breathed into her ear and Brooke sobbed loudly. David was now lying on top of her and he had pretty much pulled her dress down to her stomach and now he was trying to pull the bottom up too causing Brooke to cringe and try and flinch away. "Don't move Brooke" he whispered.

"Please" Brooke sobbed "Why are you doing this to me!"

"Because you're beautiful, Brooke" he chuckled "And I need to appreciate you"

"Just stop" Brooke cried "Please just stop it!"


"What are you talking about, Nathan?" Keith asked confused and fearfully as he looked between everyone else in the room. Why was he the only one that looked shocked by this? Deb looked stunned but not in the way he did, more like she was caught out on some big lie. Lucas looked concerned but distracted and Nathan just looked…cold.

"Cooper" Nathan breathed out, his gaze firm on Deb's and no one else's. "Why did he do it?"

Deb didn't know what to say, that was one of the last things she was expecting to come out of her sons mouth. She knew she told him in California, but he didn't believe her then so what exactly had changed now. "Nathan…" she trailed softly unsure of what to say to her son.

"I'm right, aren't I? It's true" Nathan asked and Deb stayed silent.

Lucas shook his head, half in anger and half in disappointment; he couldn't believe that it was Dan that shot Cooper that day. His own son, how could someone do that to their own family? Was this man even human?

"Lucas, what's he talking about?" Keith asked confused.

Lucas looked at Keith then back at Nathan and Deb who were still looking at each. He sighed and motioned for Keith to follow him out of the room, deciding to give the mother and son some space.


"You know…you have always been a beautiful girl, ever since you were a little girl" David commented in an agitated tone as he pressed his lips hard against her neck, he pulled away and lightly pushed some of Brooke's hair from her eyes. "I don't understand how your father never appreciated your beauty, he was too busy trying to live his dreams through Cooper and Nathan that he never paid any attention to you, he has always disregarded you, Brooke. But not me…I have always noticed, always."

Brooke stayed silent, her sobs died down slightly turning it into a silent cry, the tears were still there and she flinched even more as David pushed more of her hair away.

"Don't cry…your beautiful, beautiful girls don't cry" he hushed in such a patronizing that made Brooke want to throw up, hell the whole thing made her want to vomit and she was pretty sure that if it wasn't for the fact that she was so scared right now then she probably already would have.

Brooke opened her eyes and glared at him with so much anger "I hate you" she hissed and David's earlier sickly smirk was replaced by an annoyed and angry look.

"Just when things were starting get easier between us, Brooke, you go and ruin it!" he hissed into her face and placed one of his hands around her throat tightly, causing her to gasp for air. "I gave you another chance but since you insist on playing this game rough, then you're going to learn the hard way!"


"Nathan…you don't understand the full story" Deb tried to explain but she knew her words weren't getting through to him, she could see it in his eyes that he could only listen and hear one thing, and that was that his father murdered his brother.

"How could you know that, and live with him…marry him! How can you be okay with this?!" Nathan screamed angrily and Deb jumped in fright at his icy and loud tone.

"Nathan…of course I wasn't okay with this, Cooper was my son!" Deb argued.

Nathan was quick to raise his hand and slap his mother across the face. Deb gasped in pain and in shock; did her son just hit her?

Nathan blinked in shock from his actions, but before he could even think about what he had just done, his anger boiled over him. "He was not your fucking son! You didn't love him! You don't love anyone but yourself!" he screamed angrily into her face.

Deb soon found tears running down her cheeks but she wasn't sure if that had something to do with the truth coming out and the emotions of the situation or the pain that was throbbing under her eye from where Nathan had just backhanded her.

"You don't understand" She let out in a shaky voice. "You don't understand any of it" her voice cracked as she spoke but Nathan didn't care, all he cared about was the fact that Dan had killed his own son and Deb seemed to be okay with that.


Meanwhile, Keith shook his head and blinked hard at the realization "I…Are you sure?" he stuttered unsure of what to think.

"I wasn't at first…but, after seeing Deb's reaction I know that its true…I think I knew the moment Nathan told me" Lucas admitted and shook his head in disbelief at the craziness of it all "I don't understand, Dad, how could somebody do that to anyone, especially their own family…his son!"

Keith looked down on the floor and also shook his head "I don't know son, but we need to go to the cops about this, if it is true then they are going to have to question Dan"

"There are no ifs about this! Dan killed Cooper!" Lucas argued getting angry that Keith was starting to question that.

"You don't know all the facts, Lucas. This could all be some big misunderstanding" Keith reasoned, he wasn't trying to defended Dan but two teenage boys couldn't just go around claiming that the mayor of Tree Hill killed his own son in a school shooting.

"How the hell is that? Damn it Dad! The evidence pretty much writes itself! How can you defend that bastard?"

"I'm not but you need to think rationally about this, Luke, how did Dan even get inside the school anyway? And you were there too! You saw Max and Jimmy with the guns"

Lucas shook his hand "But I left to find Brooke…I didn't see them shoot Cooper, I didn't see any of it"

"Lucas!"

Lucas and Keith quickly turned around to see Peyton approaching them. "Have you seen Brooke?"

Lucas frowned confused "No…why?"

This time it was Peyton who was confused "I just figured something must have happened to her since both you and Nathan lashed out at Dan like that, speaking of which…What the hell was that about?"

Lucas looked at Peyton but didn't answer the question, instead asking, "Wait, when was the last time you saw Brooke?"

"She came back inside like nearly an hour ago, maybe longer…" Peyton trailed confused "I thought that something would have happened to her and Dan…"

"No" Lucas shook his head "I haven't spoken or seen Brooke in a while" he admitted and for a moment he thought he saw worry and fear cross into Peyton's eyes.

Peyton rubbed her hands together nervously and looked at Keith who didn't seem to be paying attention too much; unbeknownst to her, he had his own thoughts about Dan killing Cooper running through his head. "Um…Keith…do you think that you could give Lucas and I a minute?" she asked as politely as she could. Keith nodded and left the room, and unlike Lucas, didn't pick up on the urgency in her voice as she spoke.

"What's up Peyton?" he asked confused but also a little worried at the fact that Peyton seemed to know something about his girlfriend that he didn't.

"Do you know if David Lee is here?"

"David Lee?" Lucas questioned confused. Again it came back to David, and he could see by the look of fear in Peyton's eye that he was right to assume that something was up between Brooke and her uncle, ever since David came into town, Lucas noticed that their behavior towards each other wasn't exactly friendly.

"Is he here or not, Lucas?" she asked urgently.

"I don't know, why? What the hell is going on?" he asked impatiently.

"You need to call Brooke, like right now" she ordered and Lucas frowned puzzled but did as he was told anyway.

"It's ringing" Lucas mumbled as he held his cell phone by his ear "But she's not picking up" he told her and grew more worried now, and for some reason the churn in his stomach wouldn't go away.

"Ring it again!" Peyton commanded and Lucas quickly obeyed, the urgency in her voice scaring him as his concerns over his girlfriend only grew bigger as the seconds went by.


Keith walked out into the garden and noticed that there were still a lot of guests hanging around, probably dying to find out what was going on between Dan and Nathan. As soon as he stepped out, most of their eyes landed on his. He rolled his eyes slightly at the Tree Hill gossip circle, at had always been like this and he was pretty sure that it was never going to change.

He slowly made his way over to Dan who was sitting on a chair, a bag of frozen peas placed against his face and a doctor who was invited to the wedding was cleaning up the blood from his face. "Can I have a word with you, Dan?"

Dan looked up and removed the peas from his face and Keith cringed at the blue/purple/green colour that his right eye looked like…not to mention the red colour that shone from his cheekbone. "Come to apologize on that son of yours behalf have you?" Dan asked coldly.

Keith shook his head and looked towards the curious doctor who was still, just like everybody else, trying to figure out what was going on. "Can you give us a moment please?" he asked politely.

The doctor guest looked disappointed for a moment before reluctantly nodding and walked away.

"Actually" Keith continued "Nathan and Lucas have just told me some things…some things that I hope to god for Nathan and Brooke's sake that they aren't true"

Dan looked up at Keith and suddenly felt his palms go sweaty. What the hell had they told him? However, never one to show his nerves and let his game face down he turned to Keith and glared at him "And what would that be exactly?"

"It's about your son…Cooper…they are claiming that you did something very disturbing" Keith told him in a suspicious tone and Dan suddenly began finding himself struggling to breath.


"Can't you shut that thing up!" David hissed angrily as he looked across the room to see Brooke's phone vibrating against the table.

Brooke looked over in hope and tried to push David off her once again but he wouldn't budge. "Please David; can't you just let me go? I won't tell anyone about this!" she pleaded with him desperately.

"Shut up!" David growled into her face angrily as he contemplated whether or not to get up off of Brooke to turn the damn cell off. And like the third time he thought it had stopped, it rang again. "You aren't going anywhere!"

"Why are you doing this to me?" Brooke screamed into his face "Just leave me alone! You're my uncle! This isn't right!"

"Shut up!" David growled and ripped the bottom of her dress. Brooke struggled to push him off from her yet again but he wouldn't move, his hands firmly pinning her down underneath him.


Keith frowned confused as he noticed Dan's face turn pale. Was it that it was true? Did Dan really kill Cooper? So why did he look in so much pain if that's all what it is about.

"Dan? Are you okay?" Keith asked and followed Dan's gaze down to his wrist. "Dan?"

Dan looked up to Keith and squinted his eyes tight, suddenly he found himself gasping for air and as he tried to stand up he collapsed straight to the floor.

"Whoa!" Keith quickly led Dan onto the floor carefully before turning around "Can I get some help here please!" he shouted towards the doctor and he was quick to run over.

The doctor leant down and examined Dan who was panting on ground, his eyes closing slowly. "He's having a heart attack!" the doctor called out much to the horror and gasps of the other guests. Keith's eyes widened. A heart attack?

"Someone call an ambulance!" Keith shouted and someone quickly followed his orders. He looked back down at Dan who looked almost unconscious right now and he couldn't help but wonder about all the bad events that were happening on this wedding.


"She's not answering!" Lucas grunted in frustration "Why isn't she answering?" he asked in a commanding tone.

Peyton bit on her fingernails nervously as she wondered where Brooke could be. It could be something completely innocent, maybe she went to Rachel's or something, but why did she have this nervous feeling in her stomach when she found out that David was here.

"Peyton…do you know something?"

"No" Peyton lied.

"Peyton!" Lucas said sternly "You do, don't you?"

"No…"

"Brooke's my girlfriend; I have a right to know! Damn it just tell me!" he asked raising his voice.

"Look Lucas…I don't know anything okay! I don't know where Brooke is! So can you just drop it?" Peyton snapped annoyed and Lucas glared at her before ringing Brooke's cell phone once again.

"Wait…did you hear that?" Peyton asked coming to a halt.

"Hear what?" Lucas asked confused.

"Music…I heard Brooke's ringtone" Peyton told him and was quick to follow the sound.

"Are you sure?" Lucas asked as he followed behind her.

"Yes!" Peyton snapped at him and came towards the door. "It's coming from in here" she mumbled and opened the door. Gasping at the sight she saw.

Lucas followed her in and his eyes widened in shock and also confused and slammed his cell phone shut. He looked before him to see his girlfriend lying down on the couch with her uncle on top of her. What the fuck?


Nathan walked quickly out of the house and into the garden and looked confused as he saw all the guests gathered around together. He quickly walked towards them and pushed his way through, not caring about that and stood still at the sight of his father before him. He was lying on the grass, his body seemed tensed and his eyes were clenched shut and he was gasping for air. Yet he didn't feel concerned or scared, all he felt was anger, angry that he wasn't suffering more.

Keith looked up and was surprised to see Nathan standing looking down on his father "Nathan…" he trailed unsure of what to say "Dan's…he is having a heart attack"

Nathan looked back down at Dan and frowned. A heart attack? Since when did middle age men have heart attacks? He looked back up at Keith who looked concerned before looking back down at his father.

"I hope he dies" he spat coldly much to the horror of the people around him; he looked down at his Dan before turning around and walking away without turning back.


Brooke let out a loud sob as she looked over to see Lucas and Peyton standing by the doorway. Peyton looked fearful and Lucas looked stunned and confused. "Luke" she cracked out and David was the one who actually stood up away from her.

Brooke was quick on her feet and practically ran into Lucas's arms, not caring anymore that her dress was falling down her shoulders.

Lucas wrapped his arms around his girlfriend confused, shocked and he soon found himself getting angry at the sound of her crying in his arms. Her body was literally shaking with sobs and he wondered what the hell he just walked in on.

David stood standing nervously, nobody was meant to walk in on them, that wasn't the plan. However, his typical Lee defenses came up and he found himself smirking "You didn't tell me how good your girlfriend tasted, Lucas"

Lucas blinked hard at what he had just said, his arms wrapped firmly against Brooke who was sobbing into his shoulder but his eyes looking directly at David. Cold and angry.

"You're sick!" Peyton hissed disgustedly and also found herself almost crying at the state of her best friend, whose crying still hadn't quieted down. "I can't believe you would try and do this to her again! You're disgusting."

Lucas gulped and looked at Peyton "What do you mean, again?" he asked, his voice cracking as he spoke. Tears glistening in his eyes.

Peyton bit her lip nervously and looked back at David who was still smirking. However Lucas had obviously figured it out and slowly unwrapped Brooke from him and pretty much passed her over to Peyton. He walked slowly towards David, his fists clenched by his side and his jaw tightening.

David chuckled "What are you going to do? Slap me?"

"Fuck you!" Lucas growled angrily and raised his arm before punching him in the face, and then again and again before he dived into him causing both him and David to go flying into the glass table, making the whole thing smash into pieces.

Brooke watched on with sobs as she watched her boyfriend continuously punch her uncle in the face…over and over again. Peyton was rubbing her arm soothingly yet she couldn't feel a thing. She stared, crying…yet feeling nothing as she continued to watch Lucas attack David.

"You fucking bastard!" Lucas screamed and wrapped one of his hands around David's neck tight before lifting his hand up and slamming David's head across the floor.

David gasped loudly in pain, the pain throughout his body taking over.

Lucas screamed with anger as he raised his fist and hit David once again…and again…and again. "You're sick!"

"Lucas stop it!" Peyton shouted fearing that he might take things too far, but Lucas didn't stop. He couldn't stop, the image of what he walked in on playing in his mind, the sound of his girlfriends sobs ringing in his ears and the feeling of her shaking in his arms wouldn't go away. "Lucas!" she shouted again, tears also running from her eyes.

"I'm going to kill you!" Lucas screamed furiously into David's face before punching him in the stomach.

"Brooke you need to stop him!" Peyton shouted fearfully but Brooke didn't reply. Just stood watching the scene before her. "Brooke!"

"No" Brooke said in barely a whisper. "No"

Peyton looked back at Lucas and David panicking, she looked back at Brooke then quickly ran out of the room to go and get some help.


"Jake!" Peyton shouted and ran into the garden "Jake!"

"Peyton" Jake replied confused then grew worried as he noticed the tears flowing from her eyes "Peyt, what's wrong?"

"You need to come with me, Jake! You need to stop him!"

"Stop what? Peyton what are you talking about?" Jake asked fearfully.

"Lucas! I think he is going to kill him" Peyton said and a small cry fell from her lips.

Jake looked at her panicked then looked back at the scene where Dan was, Peyton followed his gaze confused "Dan's having a heart attack" Jake told her and Peyton looked in horror. However that was not her top priority right now.

"You need to stop him!" Peyton said seriously and quickly ran back into the house, Jake quick on her tail.


Nathan stood outside in the front garden and watched as the ambulance pulled up, they asked him where the heart attack patient was but he just shrugged "I have no idea what you're talking about" he said in a calm and uninterested tone.

The paramedics looked at him confused and then to one another "But we got a call saying that Mayor Lee was having a heart attack"

"That's news to me" Nathan muttered and once again the paramedics looked to each other confused.

"Are you sure, son?" The male one asked joining into the conversation before looking down at Nathan's blooded hands. "Are they okay?"

Nathan looked down at his hands and back at them before stuffing them down into his pockets "They are fine"

"Look sir, we got a call about the Mayor saying that he is having a heart attack, are you sure you don't know anything about this?"

Nathan held their firm gaze before replying "How would I know? I just got here" he lied.

However before they could reply Deb ran out of the house "Dan is in the garden!" she explained hurriedly.

The paramedics looked over at Nathan and frowned at his uninterested behavior before quickly running around the side of the house towards the back garden. Deb looked over at her son and shook her head before following in the same direction as to where the paramedics ran off to.


"Lucas!" Jake shouted and struggled to pull Lucas off of David "Lucas, man come on!" he shouted even louder and had to tackle Lucas to the ground himself to get him off of the older man.

"Get off me man!" Lucas screamed angrily and stood up furiously but just as he was about to go down and hit David again he realized that he was unconscious. He looked down at his hands that were pouring of blood but he was sure that half of that belonged to David. His left hand was throbbing with pain yet it didn't seem to affect him as much as he thought it would, all he had to do was turn to look at Brooke and his pain became worse. He slowly walked towards her, stunned by his own actions, tears running down his face that matched the ones running from hers.

Brooke didn't say anything as she closed the gap between them and wrapped her arms around Lucas tightly.

"I'm so sorry" Lucas's voice cracked as he whispered into her ear and let his tears run down his face "I'm sorry Brooke, I should have stopped this earlier…he never should have hurt you, I'm so sorry"

"Don't, Luke" Brooke whispered and let out a shaky breath "Don't"

Jake kneeled down next to David and looked at up at Peyton urgently "Call an ambulance, Peyton! Now!" he ordered and Peyton nodded her head, and did what she was told.


Nathan stood outside and watched as the paramedics wheeled Dan off into the ambulance. His gaze was cold as he watched them drive away, and he couldn't even feel just the smallest bit of concern in his body.

"Nathan"

Nathan turned his head to see Deb slowly approach him. He grunted and looked away, not in the mood to talk to her again.

"Nathan" she said again "What are you going to do?" she asked.

Nathan scoffed and glared heavily at his mother "Why? You scared of what might happen when they find out you knew all along! That's a criminal offence you know! Being an accessory."

"Nathan, please just-" she started but got cut off by the sound of ambulance sirens. She looked confused as they pulled up into the drive.

"Uhm…there ambulance has already been to pick up Dan" Keith explained to the paramedics.

"No we got another call" The paramedic explained as he and his colleague rushed towards the house where they were met by a frantic looking Peyton. "He's inside!" she explained.

Moments later they were back out, David lying on the stretcher and being wheeled towards the ambulance. Nathan stood up straight, confused at what was going on.

"Whoa…what's going on?" Keith asked worriedly as he jogged beside the paramedics "What's wrong with him?"

"Lucas?" Nathan called out confused as his sister and her boyfriend slowly stepped outside, Lucas with blood all over his hands on some on his shirt. Brooke who's make up was smudged everywhere and her dress was ripped, tear stains down her cheek and also from what he could see was a red bruise.

Keith snapped his head towards his son and gasped in shock and also concern, however then he looked back at the state of David and frowned confused. Did Lucas do this?

Lucas and Brooke stood back, Lucas still feeling anger from what he walked in on. How could David do that to his own niece? The whole thing just didn't make sense…this whole family just didn't make sense. How the fuck could Dan kill Cooper and David try to rape Brooke? What was wrong with them! He didn't feel sympathy for beating David up the way he did, honestly…he couldn't give a damn if he died or not, he deserved too, both him and Dan deserved to die. What he didn't realize was that both brothers were actually close to being so.


A/N: I hope you all liked it, I enjoyed writing this chapter and the last so I hope you all enjoyed reading it. Please review and tell me what you thought of it, they always inspire me to write more.

And thank you to everyone who reviewed the last chapter too. They really mean a lot.

Sara x