She feels dirty. She feels exhausted. She aches all over. She feels distinctively unlike herself. Because he's taken something. She doesn't know what. But she's numb and she's broken and she doesn't know if there's any coming back from this. Because if there's a heaven, there's a hell and she's surely in it. A/U Peyton/Lucas WARNING- dark subject matter, M for a reason

Every girl is searching for that dream guy, the one person you just know you're meant to spend the rest of your life with. But time isn't always on our side. A fleeting encounter, and an unexplainable connection changes everything.

In this Leyton fic, Lucas and Peyton are facing another big hurdle in their relationship. Sawyer, now 6, and still living away from their friends and family in Tree Hill, we follow our favourite couple as they try to overcome their next obstacles. But we all know Leyton obstacles are never easy to face. Can Lucas save Peyton one more time?

Every place she had driven through had some memory or the other of them and it had ripped her apart. Somehow she had found herself in front of the church. She had sat there, not sure why, thinking about that fateful night that had changed their lives forever, wishing that she had said yes, so that it would be her he was marrying today not somebody else. EXPLORES THEMES OF ADULTERY.

A web of lies encroaches Peyton's life. Amidst her quest to seek answers from her past, a perplexing offering is made, forcing a struggling Peyton to make a choice. Run from the past or keep on fighting for the truth? AU L/P