Chapter 10
A/N - So I hope you all liked the last chapter. This chapter is going to be a lot more exciting because I know the last few chapters weren't that exciting or anything but I had to set the background and everything on these chapters. So I hope you enjoy this one. Also I want you to remember the story is ending soon so if you want the second part review and let me know. I'd really love to do a second part and I have it all planned out so tell me. Enjoy!!
Haley was startled when Lucas walked into the café. Nathan was just about to drop the phone again. "Lucas..." Haley said in a whisper. They stood in an awkward silence while Haley and Nathan both debated on what to tell him. At that moment Haley wanted to crawl into a hole and die. Peyton had only partially heard Luke's voice and she was scared that he might find out about the baby. She knew if Nathan or Haley told him then the secret was over. "Tell me what? Nathan...Haley...what do you have to tell me?"
This was all Peyton needed to hear. She began to freak out and didn't know what to tell Nathan to tell Lucas. "Oh my god" was all that ran through Peyton's head for a minute. Memories flooded into her mind and overcame her for a few minutes more. Painful memories and sweet ones. All of the time she'd spent with Luke. The one that especially stood out was New Year's Eve which seemed like it was years ago. The only time she felt safe and secure and ready to live life with someone who loved her. It was only Luke and her existing in the world for those few hours. Then it all went wrong and Peyton snapped back into reality. She looked down at her stomach and saw what that one night had gotten her and remembered why she wasn't with the man she loved. "Nathan..." she'd said just loud enough for Luke to catch a female's voice on the phone.
"Nathan, who's on the phone?" Nathan heard two people calling his name at that point. He chose to talk to the girl on his phone. "Ok, gotta go but good luck." He flipped the phone shut which Peyton took as a little rude, but if it was going to save her secret then she was all for it. Nathan looked at his older brother who looked very confused at the whole situation unfolding in front of him. "Nathan, was it someone I know?" Lucas was becoming very suspicious and he had this feeling that he should've been talking to whoever was on that phone. "No, no one good. Just some girl who wanted me bad" Nathan said all of this playfully which even made Haley giggle. Lucas wasn't in the mood for any jokes.
Haley decided to try to change the subject. "So, Luke what are you doing home so early?" "Haley, we are not avoiding the subject. Nathan was on the phone with someone and I want to know why you all got so quiet when I walked in here. And any other day I get home early no one cares. I want answers. So I'm going to get them. Nathan give me your phone." Nathan looked at Haley who was very worried. "Great she has no answers." was what Nathan was thinking at the moment."No, it's none of your business." Nathan was lying and he knew the whole thing was Luke's business and that he probably owed his brother a chance to know his own baby. Luke was letting anger take over him and he slowly walked to Nathan and put his face only inches from his brother's. "Nathan, give me your damn phone or you'll be sorry you were ever born." Lucas was feeling anger boil up from within him. "Lucas, calm down." Haley said trying to interfere. She walked out from behind the counter and stood in between Nathan and Lucas. "Back off, Haley!" Lucas yelled pushing her from between them. She fell to the floor and was very hurt that her best friend would do that. "Don't push her, Lucas!" Nathan got in Luke's face this time. "You wanna push her? I'll make you sorry you were even a thought in anyone's mind. I could make your life a living hell again if you wanna push your "best friend". Go ahead Lucas try it again!" Lucas felt a little bit intimidated from this but he didn't back down. "Give me the phone and we'll just forget the whole thing" Luke stammered. "NO!" Nathan was apparently not backing down either. Lucas was angered and he frustrated so the whole moment made him raise his fist. He punched Nathan square in the nose. Then he used all the energy he had in him and punched him in the stomach. Nathan had the wind knocked out of him and fell to the ground. Haley was witnessing this whole scene and was a little shocked. Lucas scrambled to Nathan's side and grabbed the phone from him.
He flipped the cell phone open and went into incoming calls. There was where Luke felt the color drain from him. He scrolled down and the first call was PEYTON'S CELL. He let himself sit in a chair and he looked from the phone to his brother. He had tears silently streaming. Nathan was just beginning to sit up and he was mad about what his brother had just done to him. Then when he looked at Luke's face he saw the hurt and the pain and all the anger that was there disappeared. "Luke, I was gonna tell you...it's just I promised her a-" Luke cut Nathan off before he could finish. "Ok, I get it. But you've known the whole time and you couldn't tell me why she left or anything? I think I deserve to know...don't you think?" "Lucas, I still want to tell you where she is...I just don't want to hurt her and I don't want you to hurt her." "Me?! How the hell would I hurt her?! Nathan I love her! I never gave up on her and all those nights you saw me in pain and neither one of you could tell me just to help me a little. Just tell me that she was ok. God! Whatever reason she left would've never made me mad. I never would've hurt her and I thought you guys knew me better than that!" They both suddenly felt very guilty about not letting Luke know where she was. "He's right. He did deserve to know where she was." was spinning through Haley's mind.
Luke got out of his chair suddenly very angry again. He pulled Nathan up off the floor and grabbed his shirt. Nathan now had blood dripping from his nose. He pushed him up against the wall pressuring him for answers. "Nathan, I don't wanna hurt you. But you're gonna tell me where she is! I need her in my life Nate. Please just tell me where she is...please..." Nathan wasn't gonna tell Luke when he first started speaking but as Luke began to tear up again he gave in. Haley didn't expect Nathan to give into Luke, but she was surprised. "Ok, I'll tell you but you cannot go see her. I'll just tell you this. She's in South Carolina and she's happy there. Just leave her be." "Nathan, I can't do that. She's my life. I need her so bad. Please tell me what happened. Why did she leave?" "You know what? I'm gonna tell you this much. If you really want her just go to the Greenville hospital in South Carolina." Luke slowly released his brother and looked a bit confused. "Hospital?" "Go to her Lucas. If you need her I want you to go to her." "Right."
Lucas still had a tie on from work and it was loosened around his neck. The top button of his collared shirt was undone and he was still in dress pants. He jumped into his car and sped off to the Greenville hospital. He was worried and he had no idea why she was in the hospital. "Is something wrong? Is she hurt?" A million thoughts were running through his head. It was time for Luke to have his own memories of Peyton just the same as she had done when he was in the hospital. A million things flooded his mind until he was overcome with the memories of Peyton.
FLASHBACK
He met her the day her car broke down and his brother was being a jackass again. "Listen, are you sure you got a ride? I mean, I can wait if you want." "Yeah, that's what I want. Listen, have your dad call me with an estimate" she told him. "My uncle?" "If that's your story." "Can I ask you a question" he asked quizzically. "It's a free country." "Why are you a cheerleader? No offense or anything, but you're about the least cheery person I know" From then on he'd been intrigued by this girl who wanted nothing to do with him.
She'd asked him if he wanted to come in the night after their first varsity game and then shut the door on him. "If I say that I like it then I'm just another cheerleader, but if I say that I hate it then I'm either a liar or a fraud. Either way I lose... do you want to come in?" "What about Nathan?" "What about him?" he got out of his truck to go inside and all she had to ask him was "What are you doing?" He was confused. "Um you just said" "I didn't invite you to come in. I just asked if you wanted to." She turned the lights off on him and closed the door. She was different. Especially after he looked at her sketches that night.
The first smile he got from her was at the park. These were all milestones to their relationship. "Why do you stay with him, anyway?" he'd questioned her about Nathan. "Cause sometimes it's good. Sometimes there's no one else." "Hey, Peyton, that editor is wrong." He made the comment about the editor that wanted her to change her stuff. She smiled at him and drove away. He'd loved her smile from that day on.
Then he got hope. A hint she might like him. Not much but just enough to keep him hanging on for more. "Look, I don't need you defending me and my work. I don't need you analyzing it or interpreting me either. And in fact, I'm pretty sure I don't need you at all." "Pretty sure?" Then the conversation ended. It was just enough for Lucas.
It was now the anniversary of her mom's death. He wanted to help her and in a way he did. "Yeah. It's kind of ironic, huh? You know, I would gladly erase my dad if it would bring back your mom. I wish I could change it for you." "Thank you. I gotta go." He'd done just enough that day.
Then there was the night when emotion finally let go. It was just a dare that escalated. It was definitely an embarrassing dare for both. "What was that exactly? A game?" "Kind of. Not really. Want to play again?" And it was good for a while until he blew it. "You know? I want to be here. I want to have everything with you. I want it all. I want us, Peyton." "This isn't supposed to be that." He was left confused and she was scared.
From there he'd saved her from a date rape but this was what went wrong. He bonded with Brooke. "Lucas...I'm sorry." "For what?" "All sorts of things." She'd apologized. That didn't stop Brooke trying to get to him though. Even though Peyton still wanted him. He ran into her the next day at school and she hugged him. "I owe you" was all she said before she walked away with Brooke.
Then the real problem occurred. He lost Peyton. "Lucas, I made a mistake. When you said you wanted to be with me, I got, I got scared, but the truth is, I want all the same things that you want, I do. And I want them with you." Then she walked out of his house and out of his heart for a while.
It didn't take long until they were swiftly becoming friends again. He gave her advice on her dad. "Hey! You okay? You just seemed kind of weird when your dad called me over." "He had just told me about this horrid job he's taken in New Zealand, so he's gonna be gone for like ever now." "Well, did you tell him not to?" "It's important to him." "Yeah but he doesn't know it's important to you. You've got to stop pretending everything's okay…he might surprise you." The advice only led to more than friendship.
Friendship wasn't even an option when they got down to it. In search of her dad things went through the roof. They'd only gone back for a bracelet and it went a little farther. "It has to be in here" then she found the bracelet they came for. "Got it?" she began to cry. "Hey, it's ok. Everything's ok now. Ok?" Then slowly they found each other. Then the kiss came to an end. For Brooke.
The last thing running through his mind was New Year's Eve when they finally did have it. Some of the last words they said to each other were right there on her bedroom floor. "Luke, last time we started this we stopped because you didn't want to hurt her. We stopped because of your commitment and your necklace not mine." "Peyton, give me your hand." She'd given it to him and broke his necklace. "I'm free Peyton, and I'm yours." Then they got what they wanted.
END OF FLASHBACK
Lucas snapped out of his memories and saw he was in the parking lot of the hospital. Somehow he'd gotten there. Only stopping once for directions and without any car crashes. He ran across the parking lot. Into the hospital he went and got to the front desk. "How may I help you?" the lady asked. "Uh...I'm looking for someone who I know is here somewhere. Can you check her name?" "Yes, what is it?" "Peyton Sawyer." The lady typed the name into the computer and looked up at Lucas. "Sir, she is located on the second floor. Maternity ward." Lucas felt his heart skip a beat. "Could you repeat that?" he said trying to find his voice. "Second floor, maternity ward. Room 312 if you want to see her." The only thing left to do was get in the elevator.
HOPE YOU LIKED IT!! I LOVED WRITING THIS CHAPTER. ALL THE FLASHBACKS ARE FROM THE TRANSCRIPTS EXCEPT FOR NEW YEAR'S EVE. THAT WAS FROM PRIOR CHAPTERS. IF YOU WANT A SEQUEL I'D REALLY LIKE TO KNOW. I'VE GOT IT PLANNED OUT AND EVERYTHING. SO REVIEW IF YOU WANT THE LAST FEW CHAPTERS. I HOPE YOU ENJOYED. .
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A/N - So I hope you all liked the last chapter. This chapter is going to be a lot more exciting because I know the last few chapters weren't that exciting or anything but I had to set the background and everything on these chapters. So I hope you enjoy this one. Also I want you to remember the story is ending soon so if you want the second part review and let me know. I'd really love to do a second part and I have it all planned out so tell me. Enjoy!!
Haley was startled when Lucas walked into the café. Nathan was just about to drop the phone again. "Lucas..." Haley said in a whisper. They stood in an awkward silence while Haley and Nathan both debated on what to tell him. At that moment Haley wanted to crawl into a hole and die. Peyton had only partially heard Luke's voice and she was scared that he might find out about the baby. She knew if Nathan or Haley told him then the secret was over. "Tell me what? Nathan...Haley...what do you have to tell me?"
This was all Peyton needed to hear. She began to freak out and didn't know what to tell Nathan to tell Lucas. "Oh my god" was all that ran through Peyton's head for a minute. Memories flooded into her mind and overcame her for a few minutes more. Painful memories and sweet ones. All of the time she'd spent with Luke. The one that especially stood out was New Year's Eve which seemed like it was years ago. The only time she felt safe and secure and ready to live life with someone who loved her. It was only Luke and her existing in the world for those few hours. Then it all went wrong and Peyton snapped back into reality. She looked down at her stomach and saw what that one night had gotten her and remembered why she wasn't with the man she loved. "Nathan..." she'd said just loud enough for Luke to catch a female's voice on the phone.
"Nathan, who's on the phone?" Nathan heard two people calling his name at that point. He chose to talk to the girl on his phone. "Ok, gotta go but good luck." He flipped the phone shut which Peyton took as a little rude, but if it was going to save her secret then she was all for it. Nathan looked at his older brother who looked very confused at the whole situation unfolding in front of him. "Nathan, was it someone I know?" Lucas was becoming very suspicious and he had this feeling that he should've been talking to whoever was on that phone. "No, no one good. Just some girl who wanted me bad" Nathan said all of this playfully which even made Haley giggle. Lucas wasn't in the mood for any jokes.
Haley decided to try to change the subject. "So, Luke what are you doing home so early?" "Haley, we are not avoiding the subject. Nathan was on the phone with someone and I want to know why you all got so quiet when I walked in here. And any other day I get home early no one cares. I want answers. So I'm going to get them. Nathan give me your phone." Nathan looked at Haley who was very worried. "Great she has no answers." was what Nathan was thinking at the moment."No, it's none of your business." Nathan was lying and he knew the whole thing was Luke's business and that he probably owed his brother a chance to know his own baby. Luke was letting anger take over him and he slowly walked to Nathan and put his face only inches from his brother's. "Nathan, give me your damn phone or you'll be sorry you were ever born." Lucas was feeling anger boil up from within him. "Lucas, calm down." Haley said trying to interfere. She walked out from behind the counter and stood in between Nathan and Lucas. "Back off, Haley!" Lucas yelled pushing her from between them. She fell to the floor and was very hurt that her best friend would do that. "Don't push her, Lucas!" Nathan got in Luke's face this time. "You wanna push her? I'll make you sorry you were even a thought in anyone's mind. I could make your life a living hell again if you wanna push your "best friend". Go ahead Lucas try it again!" Lucas felt a little bit intimidated from this but he didn't back down. "Give me the phone and we'll just forget the whole thing" Luke stammered. "NO!" Nathan was apparently not backing down either. Lucas was angered and he frustrated so the whole moment made him raise his fist. He punched Nathan square in the nose. Then he used all the energy he had in him and punched him in the stomach. Nathan had the wind knocked out of him and fell to the ground. Haley was witnessing this whole scene and was a little shocked. Lucas scrambled to Nathan's side and grabbed the phone from him.
He flipped the cell phone open and went into incoming calls. There was where Luke felt the color drain from him. He scrolled down and the first call was PEYTON'S CELL. He let himself sit in a chair and he looked from the phone to his brother. He had tears silently streaming. Nathan was just beginning to sit up and he was mad about what his brother had just done to him. Then when he looked at Luke's face he saw the hurt and the pain and all the anger that was there disappeared. "Luke, I was gonna tell you...it's just I promised her a-" Luke cut Nathan off before he could finish. "Ok, I get it. But you've known the whole time and you couldn't tell me why she left or anything? I think I deserve to know...don't you think?" "Lucas, I still want to tell you where she is...I just don't want to hurt her and I don't want you to hurt her." "Me?! How the hell would I hurt her?! Nathan I love her! I never gave up on her and all those nights you saw me in pain and neither one of you could tell me just to help me a little. Just tell me that she was ok. God! Whatever reason she left would've never made me mad. I never would've hurt her and I thought you guys knew me better than that!" They both suddenly felt very guilty about not letting Luke know where she was. "He's right. He did deserve to know where she was." was spinning through Haley's mind.
Luke got out of his chair suddenly very angry again. He pulled Nathan up off the floor and grabbed his shirt. Nathan now had blood dripping from his nose. He pushed him up against the wall pressuring him for answers. "Nathan, I don't wanna hurt you. But you're gonna tell me where she is! I need her in my life Nate. Please just tell me where she is...please..." Nathan wasn't gonna tell Luke when he first started speaking but as Luke began to tear up again he gave in. Haley didn't expect Nathan to give into Luke, but she was surprised. "Ok, I'll tell you but you cannot go see her. I'll just tell you this. She's in South Carolina and she's happy there. Just leave her be." "Nathan, I can't do that. She's my life. I need her so bad. Please tell me what happened. Why did she leave?" "You know what? I'm gonna tell you this much. If you really want her just go to the Greenville hospital in South Carolina." Luke slowly released his brother and looked a bit confused. "Hospital?" "Go to her Lucas. If you need her I want you to go to her." "Right."
Lucas still had a tie on from work and it was loosened around his neck. The top button of his collared shirt was undone and he was still in dress pants. He jumped into his car and sped off to the Greenville hospital. He was worried and he had no idea why she was in the hospital. "Is something wrong? Is she hurt?" A million thoughts were running through his head. It was time for Luke to have his own memories of Peyton just the same as she had done when he was in the hospital. A million things flooded his mind until he was overcome with the memories of Peyton.
FLASHBACK
He met her the day her car broke down and his brother was being a jackass again. "Listen, are you sure you got a ride? I mean, I can wait if you want." "Yeah, that's what I want. Listen, have your dad call me with an estimate" she told him. "My uncle?" "If that's your story." "Can I ask you a question" he asked quizzically. "It's a free country." "Why are you a cheerleader? No offense or anything, but you're about the least cheery person I know" From then on he'd been intrigued by this girl who wanted nothing to do with him.
She'd asked him if he wanted to come in the night after their first varsity game and then shut the door on him. "If I say that I like it then I'm just another cheerleader, but if I say that I hate it then I'm either a liar or a fraud. Either way I lose... do you want to come in?" "What about Nathan?" "What about him?" he got out of his truck to go inside and all she had to ask him was "What are you doing?" He was confused. "Um you just said" "I didn't invite you to come in. I just asked if you wanted to." She turned the lights off on him and closed the door. She was different. Especially after he looked at her sketches that night.
The first smile he got from her was at the park. These were all milestones to their relationship. "Why do you stay with him, anyway?" he'd questioned her about Nathan. "Cause sometimes it's good. Sometimes there's no one else." "Hey, Peyton, that editor is wrong." He made the comment about the editor that wanted her to change her stuff. She smiled at him and drove away. He'd loved her smile from that day on.
Then he got hope. A hint she might like him. Not much but just enough to keep him hanging on for more. "Look, I don't need you defending me and my work. I don't need you analyzing it or interpreting me either. And in fact, I'm pretty sure I don't need you at all." "Pretty sure?" Then the conversation ended. It was just enough for Lucas.
It was now the anniversary of her mom's death. He wanted to help her and in a way he did. "Yeah. It's kind of ironic, huh? You know, I would gladly erase my dad if it would bring back your mom. I wish I could change it for you." "Thank you. I gotta go." He'd done just enough that day.
Then there was the night when emotion finally let go. It was just a dare that escalated. It was definitely an embarrassing dare for both. "What was that exactly? A game?" "Kind of. Not really. Want to play again?" And it was good for a while until he blew it. "You know? I want to be here. I want to have everything with you. I want it all. I want us, Peyton." "This isn't supposed to be that." He was left confused and she was scared.
From there he'd saved her from a date rape but this was what went wrong. He bonded with Brooke. "Lucas...I'm sorry." "For what?" "All sorts of things." She'd apologized. That didn't stop Brooke trying to get to him though. Even though Peyton still wanted him. He ran into her the next day at school and she hugged him. "I owe you" was all she said before she walked away with Brooke.
Then the real problem occurred. He lost Peyton. "Lucas, I made a mistake. When you said you wanted to be with me, I got, I got scared, but the truth is, I want all the same things that you want, I do. And I want them with you." Then she walked out of his house and out of his heart for a while.
It didn't take long until they were swiftly becoming friends again. He gave her advice on her dad. "Hey! You okay? You just seemed kind of weird when your dad called me over." "He had just told me about this horrid job he's taken in New Zealand, so he's gonna be gone for like ever now." "Well, did you tell him not to?" "It's important to him." "Yeah but he doesn't know it's important to you. You've got to stop pretending everything's okay…he might surprise you." The advice only led to more than friendship.
Friendship wasn't even an option when they got down to it. In search of her dad things went through the roof. They'd only gone back for a bracelet and it went a little farther. "It has to be in here" then she found the bracelet they came for. "Got it?" she began to cry. "Hey, it's ok. Everything's ok now. Ok?" Then slowly they found each other. Then the kiss came to an end. For Brooke.
The last thing running through his mind was New Year's Eve when they finally did have it. Some of the last words they said to each other were right there on her bedroom floor. "Luke, last time we started this we stopped because you didn't want to hurt her. We stopped because of your commitment and your necklace not mine." "Peyton, give me your hand." She'd given it to him and broke his necklace. "I'm free Peyton, and I'm yours." Then they got what they wanted.
END OF FLASHBACK
Lucas snapped out of his memories and saw he was in the parking lot of the hospital. Somehow he'd gotten there. Only stopping once for directions and without any car crashes. He ran across the parking lot. Into the hospital he went and got to the front desk. "How may I help you?" the lady asked. "Uh...I'm looking for someone who I know is here somewhere. Can you check her name?" "Yes, what is it?" "Peyton Sawyer." The lady typed the name into the computer and looked up at Lucas. "Sir, she is located on the second floor. Maternity ward." Lucas felt his heart skip a beat. "Could you repeat that?" he said trying to find his voice. "Second floor, maternity ward. Room 312 if you want to see her." The only thing left to do was get in the elevator.
HOPE YOU LIKED IT!! I LOVED WRITING THIS CHAPTER. ALL THE FLASHBACKS ARE FROM THE TRANSCRIPTS EXCEPT FOR NEW YEAR'S EVE. THAT WAS FROM PRIOR CHAPTERS. IF YOU WANT A SEQUEL I'D REALLY LIKE TO KNOW. I'VE GOT IT PLANNED OUT AND EVERYTHING. SO REVIEW IF YOU WANT THE LAST FEW CHAPTERS. I HOPE YOU ENJOYED. .
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