What was, What is, and What Will Be
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Lucas sat in the emergency room waiting room. As soon as Karen had gotten there to watch Emma he had rushed Brooke as fast as he could to the hospital. She was so pale and hot. She was burning up with a fever and shook with chills the whole drive here, unconscious the whole time. Lucas had no idea what was wrong with her. They doctors weren't telling him anything. They wouldn't even let him stay with her. Brooke hated hospitals. She had even considered a having Emma at home but changed her mind because she wanted the pain meds. He needed to be with her. She needed him and they didn't understand that. Why hadn't he noticed that she was looking pale? Why hadn't she told him she felt bad? After all they had been through why was this happening to them? Lucas couldn't wait anymore... He had to know how she was doing. He stood up and walked over to the front desk where a short skinny lady was eating a Twinkie. "Yesir... can I help you?" Lucas found it hard to speak. "Umm yes I brought my girlfriend in over an hour ago... Can someone please tell me how she is doing? Her name is Brooke Davis" The lady looked up at him with an annoyed look on her face "Sir I am sorry if you are not immediate family or her husband then I can not give you any medical information without her permission now please sit down and I will see if I can get someone to talk to you" Lucas was getting really mad "Look Lady! She might as well be my wife! Just tell me how she is doing!" The lady was getting mad too "Sir, sit down now! Someone will be with you in a moment!" Lucas couldn't take this anymore. He was glad it was a woman sitting at that desk because if it had been a man then he would have punched him. Lucas walked back to his seat and waited. It was all he could do. 2 more hours passed. He called his mom a couple of times to check on Emma. Hoping that it would help pass the time. Finally at 3:23 what looked like a doctor came out to talk to him. "Are you Lucas Scott?" Lucas nodded eagerly "Yes Miss Davis has been asking for you." This had to be a good sign Lucas thought. She was talking. "Now Mr. Scott... I need to prepare you before you go into see her" He motioned at the chair for Lucas to sit down and Lucas did. "I understand that the two of you just had a baby?" The doctor had a very serious look on his face "Yes...about 3 weeks ago" Lucas's voice was raspy and his throat was dry. "Yes well as it turns out Brooke had an infection from the delivery. There was nothing either of you could have don't to prevent this. But we did have to do surgery and from the looks of things..." he paused looking at Lucas's concern on his face "I'm sorry... but it looks like you two aren't going to be able to have anymore children." Lucas was dumbfounded and speechless. There was a long pause before Lucas spoke again "So there's no chance?" The doctor looked sadly at Lucas. "There is always a chance... It is just not very likely... I am sorry" Lucas looked at the doctor's face as he spoke. He looked as if he had given this same news 100 times before. "So she is going to be ok?" The doctor looked up from the floor "She is going to be just fine...I haven't told her yet. I thought she might do better if you were in there with her" Lucas nodded. He was probably right. Brooke was not going to take this well. He followed the doctor into her room where she was resting. "Hey Broody... Why so grim?" Brooke asked in her usual cheeriness. From the way she spoke you would have never known anything was wrong. "Hey Cheery..." Lucas said as he kissed her on the forehead "How are you feeling?" Brooke looked up at him "Like someone just cut my stomach open... Where's Emma?" The doctor was standing in the corner apparently ready to talk. "Brooke we need to talk...Apparently you had an infection." Lucas paused. He didn't know how he was going to tell her this. Thankfully the doctor broke in. "Brooke... We had to do a lot of work in there... and to stop the infection we had to cut some important tubes in your uterus. So as of right now it looks like you may never have children again... I'm sorry" Lucas saw a tear run down Brookes cheek and then she quickly wiped it away. "So you mean like never?" She asked quietly. "I'm sorry" The doctor said and then left the room. Lucas and Brooke both sat there for a long time, neither of them speaking. It reminded Lucas of the day they found out they were having Emma. Brooke was crying but trying to hide it. Lucas was trying to be strong and not doing a very good job. Why had this happened to Brooke? She was only 17, 17 years old and having to deal with this, all of this. They were both so young...
Brooke came home 1 week later. She was really happy to get home to her little girl. Brooke found it hard to believe that she had grown since the last time she saw her, but she had. Haley and Nathan were of course there when she got home, Haley fussing over everything and Nathan complaining. Karen had gone home once Haley and Nathan had gotten Lucas's message and Lucas had tried to call her but there was no answer. Brooke was lying in her bed with Emma and Nathan (Who had hurt his ankle in a game of basketball with Lucas). "No... No! Damn you Maria... How dare you cheat on Kevin with Paul!"? Nathan yelled at the soap opera on TV. "He really loved you" He like Brooke had been confined to bed and they had both gotten a chance to catch up on their soap operas. "Nathan... it's like wrestling... Its not real" Nathan looked at Brooke with a truly shocked face. "What...Wrestling isn't real? What next? Are you going to try and tell me that reality TV is scripted?" Brooke couldn't believe how a man so good at sports could be such an idiot. "Nathan... It is!" Nathan had an irritated look on his face. Brooke loved to push his buttons. She had nothing better to do these days. She could wait until Emma could talk. She would sit there sometimes drowning out the sound of Nathan's yelling and wonder what her first words would be. She hoped it would be mama but someone how she didn't think so. "Hey Nathan... What was your first word?" Brooke asked as she looked over at Nathan who was giving the finger to the TV. "I don't know... Probably dada. Mom was working too much" That's what Brooke had figured. She didn't know what her first word was. She didn't even remember a time when her parents had been there for a birthday, or Christmas. Work had always meant more to them than she did.
Months passed since Brooke's surgery. It had taken some time but they had both gotten use to the idea that Emma would be their only child. She was 8 months old now and had developed he own personality. She was crawling everywhere and getting into everything. She learned that the camera meant smile so whenever she saw one on TV or anywhere else she put on a big smile. Even though Brooke and Lucas both spoiled her rotten she was a sweet child as long as she was getting a good amount of attention. She loved to shop with Brooke. Her first word hadn't been Mama or Dada like both Lucas and Brooke had hoped. It was "go". One day Lucas and Brooke were watching TV in the den and Emma crawled up, grabbed onto the table, stood up and yelled, "Go". After that everything was "go" according to Emma. She also loved it when Lucas read to her. Her favorite book was "No, No Bunny" about a little bunny who was trying to take things from his friends. Brooke always told Lucas that that wasn't a very good sign, that she was going to grow up to be a pickpocket. Brooke was sitting on the couch watching Teletubbies with Emma. Emma loved Teletubbies. Brooke thought they were gay. She had tried to get Emma to watch a cool show like "Young and the Restless" or even "Dawson's Creek" in the mornings saying to Emma "Baby... Teletubbies are gay... James Van Der Beek is a hottie... Don't you want to watch the hottie instead of the gay Teletubbie?" Emma would just stare up at her with a confused look on her face so Brooke had given up. Brooke stood up and walked to the kitchen where Lucas was trying to figure out their new blender. "Hey handsome..." Brooke said grinning "You don't think she is going to be one of those babies who is addicted to Barney and Teletubbies until she is like 6 do you?" Lucas laughed... "With you as her mother I seriously doubt it. She will probably be the only 6 year old that knows what gay means though" Brooke giggled. "She will wont she. Are you finished with that thing yet? I want a margarita." Lucas was trying his best to make it work. "Maybe we should just take my mom out to eat... I mean whatever she has to tell us she can probably do it just as well at Chili's right?" Brooke had accomplished what she had come in there to do. She hated to cook for Karen. Something was always wrong. Then after she insulted her food she talked for an hour about how they ruined their lives. Being a mother Brooke understood part of where she was coming from and she was pretty sure Lucas did too. But she couldn't imagine ever talking to Emma like that. She looked at the clock... It was already 4:00. "I'm gonna go call Haley and Nathan and see if they can watch Emma." She turned and walked out of the kitchen, then called Haley. "Great Ok... We'll see you guys in about 30 minutes"
Brooke and Lucas waited at the entrance of Chili's. "If we can get here on time with a 8 month old at home you would think that she could too" Brooke shot off "Calm down Tallulah." Brooke hated it when he did that. Finally Karen pulled up "Who's that in the car with her" Lucas asked looking at Brooke. Before Brooke could answer Dan stepped out. "Dan!" They both said at the same time... "What the hell!" Lucas started but shut up was Karen got closer. "Karen, How are you?" Brooke said with a fake smile "Brooke, I am fine" Karen said with her teeth gritted. Dan was looking all of them with a smug look on his face. Brooke always thought it was interesting that when Dan Smiled he looked like The Grinch. She had even told him that one time. "Well let's eat" Dan said and walked ahead with Karen. "What the..." Lucas started but Brooke stopped him. "He's not worth it. Maybe he is going to tell us he is on death row!" Brooke loved making jokes about Dan like that. Plus it seemed to make Lucas a little less tense. They got to their booth and sat down. It was quiet until Dan decided to break the silence. "So how is my granddaughter?" He had his Grinch smile on his face. Lucas lost it "Well you see to be Emma's grandfather you would have had to have been my father and well... You weren't that so you have no claim to her as your granddaughter." Brooke could tell Lucas was really mad now. Karen must have known too because she chose that very moment to tell Lucas the news that would shatter his world... "Lucas... Dan and I well we are going to have a baby"
Spoilers- More about Dan and Karen, Brucas and their child issues, Naley and Maybe Laney will be back!
Thank you all for the reviews! I am trying to update fast... I am on a role! This chapter should be longer. Please send me more reviews! I need some more ideas and suggestions on what can make the story better! (
Lucas sat in the emergency room waiting room. As soon as Karen had gotten there to watch Emma he had rushed Brooke as fast as he could to the hospital. She was so pale and hot. She was burning up with a fever and shook with chills the whole drive here, unconscious the whole time. Lucas had no idea what was wrong with her. They doctors weren't telling him anything. They wouldn't even let him stay with her. Brooke hated hospitals. She had even considered a having Emma at home but changed her mind because she wanted the pain meds. He needed to be with her. She needed him and they didn't understand that. Why hadn't he noticed that she was looking pale? Why hadn't she told him she felt bad? After all they had been through why was this happening to them? Lucas couldn't wait anymore... He had to know how she was doing. He stood up and walked over to the front desk where a short skinny lady was eating a Twinkie. "Yesir... can I help you?" Lucas found it hard to speak. "Umm yes I brought my girlfriend in over an hour ago... Can someone please tell me how she is doing? Her name is Brooke Davis" The lady looked up at him with an annoyed look on her face "Sir I am sorry if you are not immediate family or her husband then I can not give you any medical information without her permission now please sit down and I will see if I can get someone to talk to you" Lucas was getting really mad "Look Lady! She might as well be my wife! Just tell me how she is doing!" The lady was getting mad too "Sir, sit down now! Someone will be with you in a moment!" Lucas couldn't take this anymore. He was glad it was a woman sitting at that desk because if it had been a man then he would have punched him. Lucas walked back to his seat and waited. It was all he could do. 2 more hours passed. He called his mom a couple of times to check on Emma. Hoping that it would help pass the time. Finally at 3:23 what looked like a doctor came out to talk to him. "Are you Lucas Scott?" Lucas nodded eagerly "Yes Miss Davis has been asking for you." This had to be a good sign Lucas thought. She was talking. "Now Mr. Scott... I need to prepare you before you go into see her" He motioned at the chair for Lucas to sit down and Lucas did. "I understand that the two of you just had a baby?" The doctor had a very serious look on his face "Yes...about 3 weeks ago" Lucas's voice was raspy and his throat was dry. "Yes well as it turns out Brooke had an infection from the delivery. There was nothing either of you could have don't to prevent this. But we did have to do surgery and from the looks of things..." he paused looking at Lucas's concern on his face "I'm sorry... but it looks like you two aren't going to be able to have anymore children." Lucas was dumbfounded and speechless. There was a long pause before Lucas spoke again "So there's no chance?" The doctor looked sadly at Lucas. "There is always a chance... It is just not very likely... I am sorry" Lucas looked at the doctor's face as he spoke. He looked as if he had given this same news 100 times before. "So she is going to be ok?" The doctor looked up from the floor "She is going to be just fine...I haven't told her yet. I thought she might do better if you were in there with her" Lucas nodded. He was probably right. Brooke was not going to take this well. He followed the doctor into her room where she was resting. "Hey Broody... Why so grim?" Brooke asked in her usual cheeriness. From the way she spoke you would have never known anything was wrong. "Hey Cheery..." Lucas said as he kissed her on the forehead "How are you feeling?" Brooke looked up at him "Like someone just cut my stomach open... Where's Emma?" The doctor was standing in the corner apparently ready to talk. "Brooke we need to talk...Apparently you had an infection." Lucas paused. He didn't know how he was going to tell her this. Thankfully the doctor broke in. "Brooke... We had to do a lot of work in there... and to stop the infection we had to cut some important tubes in your uterus. So as of right now it looks like you may never have children again... I'm sorry" Lucas saw a tear run down Brookes cheek and then she quickly wiped it away. "So you mean like never?" She asked quietly. "I'm sorry" The doctor said and then left the room. Lucas and Brooke both sat there for a long time, neither of them speaking. It reminded Lucas of the day they found out they were having Emma. Brooke was crying but trying to hide it. Lucas was trying to be strong and not doing a very good job. Why had this happened to Brooke? She was only 17, 17 years old and having to deal with this, all of this. They were both so young...
Brooke came home 1 week later. She was really happy to get home to her little girl. Brooke found it hard to believe that she had grown since the last time she saw her, but she had. Haley and Nathan were of course there when she got home, Haley fussing over everything and Nathan complaining. Karen had gone home once Haley and Nathan had gotten Lucas's message and Lucas had tried to call her but there was no answer. Brooke was lying in her bed with Emma and Nathan (Who had hurt his ankle in a game of basketball with Lucas). "No... No! Damn you Maria... How dare you cheat on Kevin with Paul!"? Nathan yelled at the soap opera on TV. "He really loved you" He like Brooke had been confined to bed and they had both gotten a chance to catch up on their soap operas. "Nathan... it's like wrestling... Its not real" Nathan looked at Brooke with a truly shocked face. "What...Wrestling isn't real? What next? Are you going to try and tell me that reality TV is scripted?" Brooke couldn't believe how a man so good at sports could be such an idiot. "Nathan... It is!" Nathan had an irritated look on his face. Brooke loved to push his buttons. She had nothing better to do these days. She could wait until Emma could talk. She would sit there sometimes drowning out the sound of Nathan's yelling and wonder what her first words would be. She hoped it would be mama but someone how she didn't think so. "Hey Nathan... What was your first word?" Brooke asked as she looked over at Nathan who was giving the finger to the TV. "I don't know... Probably dada. Mom was working too much" That's what Brooke had figured. She didn't know what her first word was. She didn't even remember a time when her parents had been there for a birthday, or Christmas. Work had always meant more to them than she did.
Months passed since Brooke's surgery. It had taken some time but they had both gotten use to the idea that Emma would be their only child. She was 8 months old now and had developed he own personality. She was crawling everywhere and getting into everything. She learned that the camera meant smile so whenever she saw one on TV or anywhere else she put on a big smile. Even though Brooke and Lucas both spoiled her rotten she was a sweet child as long as she was getting a good amount of attention. She loved to shop with Brooke. Her first word hadn't been Mama or Dada like both Lucas and Brooke had hoped. It was "go". One day Lucas and Brooke were watching TV in the den and Emma crawled up, grabbed onto the table, stood up and yelled, "Go". After that everything was "go" according to Emma. She also loved it when Lucas read to her. Her favorite book was "No, No Bunny" about a little bunny who was trying to take things from his friends. Brooke always told Lucas that that wasn't a very good sign, that she was going to grow up to be a pickpocket. Brooke was sitting on the couch watching Teletubbies with Emma. Emma loved Teletubbies. Brooke thought they were gay. She had tried to get Emma to watch a cool show like "Young and the Restless" or even "Dawson's Creek" in the mornings saying to Emma "Baby... Teletubbies are gay... James Van Der Beek is a hottie... Don't you want to watch the hottie instead of the gay Teletubbie?" Emma would just stare up at her with a confused look on her face so Brooke had given up. Brooke stood up and walked to the kitchen where Lucas was trying to figure out their new blender. "Hey handsome..." Brooke said grinning "You don't think she is going to be one of those babies who is addicted to Barney and Teletubbies until she is like 6 do you?" Lucas laughed... "With you as her mother I seriously doubt it. She will probably be the only 6 year old that knows what gay means though" Brooke giggled. "She will wont she. Are you finished with that thing yet? I want a margarita." Lucas was trying his best to make it work. "Maybe we should just take my mom out to eat... I mean whatever she has to tell us she can probably do it just as well at Chili's right?" Brooke had accomplished what she had come in there to do. She hated to cook for Karen. Something was always wrong. Then after she insulted her food she talked for an hour about how they ruined their lives. Being a mother Brooke understood part of where she was coming from and she was pretty sure Lucas did too. But she couldn't imagine ever talking to Emma like that. She looked at the clock... It was already 4:00. "I'm gonna go call Haley and Nathan and see if they can watch Emma." She turned and walked out of the kitchen, then called Haley. "Great Ok... We'll see you guys in about 30 minutes"
Brooke and Lucas waited at the entrance of Chili's. "If we can get here on time with a 8 month old at home you would think that she could too" Brooke shot off "Calm down Tallulah." Brooke hated it when he did that. Finally Karen pulled up "Who's that in the car with her" Lucas asked looking at Brooke. Before Brooke could answer Dan stepped out. "Dan!" They both said at the same time... "What the hell!" Lucas started but shut up was Karen got closer. "Karen, How are you?" Brooke said with a fake smile "Brooke, I am fine" Karen said with her teeth gritted. Dan was looking all of them with a smug look on his face. Brooke always thought it was interesting that when Dan Smiled he looked like The Grinch. She had even told him that one time. "Well let's eat" Dan said and walked ahead with Karen. "What the..." Lucas started but Brooke stopped him. "He's not worth it. Maybe he is going to tell us he is on death row!" Brooke loved making jokes about Dan like that. Plus it seemed to make Lucas a little less tense. They got to their booth and sat down. It was quiet until Dan decided to break the silence. "So how is my granddaughter?" He had his Grinch smile on his face. Lucas lost it "Well you see to be Emma's grandfather you would have had to have been my father and well... You weren't that so you have no claim to her as your granddaughter." Brooke could tell Lucas was really mad now. Karen must have known too because she chose that very moment to tell Lucas the news that would shatter his world... "Lucas... Dan and I well we are going to have a baby"
Spoilers- More about Dan and Karen, Brucas and their child issues, Naley and Maybe Laney will be back!