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He has a feeling that this journey is going to be a magical pill. Hope and Peyton. That's what keeps him alive, gives him strength and helps him to fight through every day. But what does one hope for? A better tomorrow? The shear joy he experiences when he wakes up and knows that this is his forever.

That helps him to wake up every day. Maybe that's what hope is - a distant star shining in the darkest sky. Not enough to remove the darkness, but enough to make him believe there's thousand more stars somewhere and that he's found it. So he keeps fighting, ignoring the darkness that tries to stop him. But he can tell something is coming up ahead, he doesn't know what yet but his sure it's gonna happen soon. It's like a sixth sense.

Two months had passed since him and Peyton had moved into their new home, and they were still loving every minute of it, they were in pure bliss. Lucas had helped Peyton set up an area where she could draw in one of the spare rooms and together they had painted where the baby's room would be.

Lucas opened his eyes to the cool breeze that blew around him, making his body shudder slightly in anticipation. He looked down as he felt someone push into his side, a soft smile tugging at his angelic features.

He had forgotten where he was for a moment but when he saw Peyton it all came rushing back to him. They had were in their bed, in their beautiful home and were talking about what they wanted to do and how they wanted to tell everyone. After a while they fell asleep in the same position they were in now. Lucas smiled as Peyton curled her slender figure into him, burying her face in his chest and letting out a sigh in her sleep of appreciation. He kissed the top of her head gently. He didn't want to wake her up , he always loved watching her sleep. It made him feel at peace and was quite interesting to watch. "Peyton…" he shook her gently causing her eyes to flutter open slightly, but she quickly shut them again. Lucas laughed as he shook her again. 'Babe' She mumbled something he couldn't understand and then fell asleep again, not that she was ever really awake to begin with.

Lucas grinned as he moved from underneath her, letting her body laying her gently back down against the pillow. Peyton had been exhausted over the last couple of weeks, with the baby on the way and everything. She would lay in bed but she couldn't sleep and when she did finally close her eyes should would toss and turn like crazy. Lucas was glad she was sleeping soundly now, he knew she was going to need all the rest she could get over over the weeks to come before they welcomed their baby girl to the world. "Why do I get the feeling I'll be doing this a lot more often." He mumbled to himself as he rolled out of the bed and to his feet , careful not to wake her peaceful serene form.

He arched his back to stretch letting out a yawn as he rubbed at his face trying to rid the tiredness. He looked back at Peyton's sleeping and pregnant form before walking to her side of the bed and bending down to press a firm kiss to her exposed eight month pregnant stomach. And felt as the baby kicked in excitement, no matter how many times his unborn child did that it would never get old. He lent up to brush his lips against Peyton's forehead, smoothing a loose strand of gold out of her face.

He was caught of guard when his stomach begun snarling and howling and from it came the not-so-subtle undertone of pain. It came in waves and it seemed as though his stomach was slowly digesting itself. He clutched at it, pulling it this way and that in an attempt to silence it but to no avail. It cried even louder. It was a slow pain, eating away at his stomach and leaving him feeling drained and empty. Yep, he definitely needed to fix them some breakfast. He smiled back down at Peyton before walking out of the room, and downstairs to the kitchen where the fridge was calling him. He opens the fridge to see barely anything there and his face falls. His gotta go into town.

He opens his mouth to call her but then remembers she is sound asleep, so he snatches the nearby pad and pen on the counter top, ripping the paper out and scrawled 'Went to get breakfast be back soon. I love your Mrs Scott' on it before leaving it on the table. He would never ever get tired of hearing the name Peyton Scott, it made get butterflies every time he checked the post and of course every time he was around her and he knew it would never end. For as long as he lived.

He strolled out the front door slamming it shut behind him and jogged of to his red pick up truck fishing out his keys to open it.

The drive into town didn't take long. And before he knew it he was at the counter paying for breakfast to go at his mother's cafe. That he obviously didn't have to pay for. 'Hey mom do you want any help making the coffee for those customers?' he asked as his mother let out a huff before a beam spread across her features and she shook her head at him. 'No...Luke it's fine honey...go home to Peyton she's probably waiting for you' he was about to open his mouth to speak when the sound of a bell on the door met his ears and he turned around to see Haley and Nathan walking in.

'Hey guys' he spoke as they walked to the counter with smile etched onto their features. 'Hey Luke how are you? How's Peyton and the baby?' Haley spoke with eagerness. 'Yeah everything is going great...and what about you how are things with my little nephew?' he asked placing one of his large hands on her slight bulge of a stomach. 'Everything is fine...we had a scan this morning' Nathan utter as he pressed a kiss into Haley's dark mass of hair. 'That's good...I'm just picking up breakfast for me and Peyton you know how she is...with the hormones and everything she's lik-' He was cut off when he glanced out the glass window pass Nathan and Haley's confused features his face falling as fast as vomit when he see's an all to familiar face that he hadn't seen in too months.

It couldn't be.

A dark haired teen his age, slumped against his rusty blue car, his windswept locks matted and dull. His skin so pale it has a waxy appearance and at first Lucas thinks he's dead. He burst out of the cafe without an explanation as to where he is going. And as he approaches he can hear the rattle of the boy's breathing, his air passing over mucus lined bronchi. Then the guy looks up and his met with a pair of cold blue eyes similar to his locking in an intense stare of with him.

Both guys filled with anger.

It was Axl fucking Zamora. He was back...This guy must have had a death wish or something. He hated this guy, frankly he wouldn't spit on him if he was on fire.

The anger churns and fizzles within him eroding the person he had become. And before he knows it his mouth is doing all the talking before his mind can register what his saying.

'So looks whose finally back after hauling ass outta here two months ago...' he spat the words out like venom his normally warm blue calm and collected eyes wide with an all new white hot rage. He hardly ever argued with his fists but his words packed a powerful punch. Carefully spoken, without drama, his words had an air of finality to them and no matter how hard anyone railed against them, nothing would change his mind.

'I'm in visiting' the other male spoke with such confidence in his voice that it made Lucas' fist clench tightly. So hard in fact that his knuckles were turning white from the pressure. 'Visiting who?' he challenged raising one of his perfect blond eyebrows.

He didn't answer, he didn't have to and Lucas knew who was here to see. He wasn't getting close to her, Peyton was his wife not the other way around. 'I just want to know how she's doing' Axl said folding his arms across his broad chest, his hair long brunette hair blowing in the autumn wind. 'She's fine actually she's better than fine, she's my wife' Lucas snarled inching closer to Axl who watched him indifferently seemingly finding humor in Lucas' rigid and pissed off form. He felt a hand on his shoulder and turned to see Nathan.

'Luke what's going on?' his younger brother asked, he turned around not answering but simply glaring at Axl. His cool and collected form beginning to make him all the more enraged. He seemed so sure of himself, so sure that he could have Peyton if he wanted her. Which was definitely not the case.

And like reading his mind that is exactly what Axl says. 'We both no I could have Peyton if I fucking wanted her' he wanted to scream as rage filled his belly. He felt his ears getting hot. And his icy eyes glared at him then spat out. "HOW DARE YOU?" He furrowed his brows as Axl simply sneers at him then laughs only adding fuel to his wrath. "You think this is funny?" he snaps. Watching as he glares at him with hatred in his cruel dull eyes.

An hour ago his stomach growled. Now it was silent. His past the growling point. Feeling a sinking emptiness, but strangely doesn't feel exactly hungry. He just feels empty and pissed off, like a part of him is gone and he needs to get it back.

'I know who you are...your that crackhead that was obsessed with Peyton' he heard his younger brother's deep voice say. 'I'm clean now and I just want to see her' he repeated his words from earlier.

Lucas inched closer until his face was centimeters away from his. 'Your not gonna touch her...your gonna stay the hell away from her and our baby, she doesn't love you' he snarled. Watching as Axl blue eyes lit up again with amusement and the final thing he said was the thing that Lucas needed to push him over the edge.

'Are you sure cause' last time I checked I had my tongue in her mouth' His fuse simmered and fizzed like a firework in the chill autumn breeze, then he exploded with unrestrained fury. There was stillness on both sides. If hatred was visible the air would have been scarlet. Then suddenly movement, so much force in every blow. Lucas rained blows onto Axl as if he meant to smash him into the very earth and Axl did the same. Each didn't just want the other dead, they wanted him smashed, obliterated, nothing left to bury. When it came to attacking no one ever played by 'the rules'.

'Lucas stop' he heard Nathan's voice say as his brother tried to pull him off Axl. But he was dead set on trying to kill him, literally. 'You sick son of a bitch' he rasped out throwing his fist down and crashing his fist so hard into Axl's face that he spat blood. 'LUCAS!' he heard the familiar voices of his best friend Haley and his mother cry in unison as him and Axl continued beating on each other. He was caught of guard when Axl threw himself forward with full force and pushed him into the open road.

'LUCAS WATCH OUT!' his brother's voice practically screamed frantically. And all he saw next was the a speeding shiny black ford heading his way. Shit. Was all he could think before his body was thrown onto the windshield violently. Pain erupting from the point of impact, and he hit the concrete his face contorting up in pain. And then everything faded into an all to familiar inky darkness.

A/N: Ohhh this is deep. Will Lucas be ok? I won't make him that hurt I promise...there has been a lot of drama in the recent chapters and I want things to be okay for a while. Read and Review I love knowing what you guys think.

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