Hey OMG I am soooo sorry it took me so long to update... I have been so busy. Plus it is taking me a lot longer to type because my spacebar is messed up every time I want to make a space I have to hit the space bar hard... I am writing this chapter in a different format than the last ones so maybe it will be easier to read. Sorry it is taking me so long to update... Between school and the Olympics I just don't have the time... Thank you guys SOOOOOOOOO much for all the great reviews! I love reviews! Hope you like this chapter and PLEASE REVIEW!

"Lucas... Help" Karen yelled from the den. Lucas and Brooke jumped out of bed. Brooke looked at the clock. It was 3:13.

"Great" Brooke said putting her bathrobe on. It figured that tonight would be the night that Karen had issues. They were supposed to bring Austin home tomorrow and everything was going wrong. Emma had a cold and had been coughing all night, Bella was spending the night at the vet getting surgery on her knees and now there was no telling what was going to be wrong with Karen.

"Hey... The sooner she has the kid the sooner she is out of our house" Lucas comforted.

He had a point. The second that she dropped that baby she was out of there. Then she could find out who the father was and he could deal with her neediness. They both walked into the den to find Karen sitting up on the couch looking down at the floor. She didn't look like she was in any sort of pain. Brooke knew pain and this was not it.

"Thank god you guys are here... Could you bring me some water?" Both Lucas and Brooke's jaws dropped. All of that for water?

"Mom... You cant do that! You really had us worried" Lucas said walking into the kitchen.

"More like excited" Brooke spouted off. Karen didn't look amused. With her luck Karen would end up like Haley and be over due. Then they would have to deal with her for god only knows how long.

"Well I'm going to check on Emma then I am going back to bed" Brooke said stomping down the hall ranting to her self the whole way down.

"That girl has more of an attitude than a 13 year old hitting puberty... That's why I have to say I am very thankful that this one is a boy." Karen said lying back down and rubbing her stomach.

"Mom, give it a rest... You did call us down here at 3 in the morning to get you some water..." Lucas complained walking over to the couch handing her, her water. It was just like her to try and pick a fight with him about Brooke at this time of night. He just hoped that she would be too tired to keep it up.

"I'm just kidding... I had a nice little talk with Haley yesterday about Brooke and I think she may have shown me the light" Karen was smiling as she said this.

"So what is with the whole attitude thing?" He asked putting his arm around her.

"Old habits die hard... Plus she can't know that I like her... What fun would that be?"

"Well it would be a lot easier on me!" Lucas said standing up and running his fingers through his messy blonde hair.

"Do you have to go?" Karen asked trying to sound as pathetic as possible hoping that he would consider staying with her.

"Mom... You go to sleep. I am going to go get in my bed with my soon to be wife and do the same thing... Goodnight" Lucas walked back down the hall almost running into the doorframe their bedroom. Brooke was already in the bed hogging all of the covers.

"Hey... How about sharing the wealth?" He asked crawling in next to Brooke who was now snoring. He waited but there was no answer. Just snoring.

"Brooke... Me, covers" He said one last time reaching over trying to pull them away from her.

"No, Luke I'm warm like this... get your own" She finally mumbled groggily not even looking up.

Lucas decided that it would probably be a lot faster for him to just walk to the closet and get his own blanket rather than argue with Brooke. It was after all 3:00 in the morning and he really didn't feel like making Brooke mad. He climbed out of bed for the second time to get his blanket when he heard Karen yell again but this time there was something different about it.

"Lucas" She shrilled then there was the sound of something falling.

"I swear to god Lucas... I am going to kill that woman!" Brooke groaned turning over to look at him.

"I'll go see what the problem is" Lucas started towards the hall when he heard Emma start to yell for Mommy. What a night this was turning out to be. At this rate they were never going to get to sleep. Brooke met him half way down the hall to check on Emma.

"Lucas" Karen yelled again

"I'm coming..." He walked into the den to see Karen lying on the floor grasping at her stomach moaning.

"Lucas... I think its time," she said as Lucas reached down to help her up.

"Brooke... Its for real this time" Lucas yelled scrambling to help Karen on the couch and get everything ready.

Brooke came walking into the den carrying Emma on one hip and suite case around the other shoulder. Lucas watched as she came more into view. She had on a tight Carolina blue tank top and purple short shorts. Her hair was a mess and she had on absolutely no make up but at that very moment the only in Lucas's head was how beautiful she was.

"Alright Broody... Lets get this show on the road... Like you said the sooner that kid is out the sooner we can live our lives again." Brooke said calmly picking up the keys and walking towards the front door. It surprised her that this was Lucas's third time dealing with this and he still wasn't ready. And yet this was her first time and she was feeling so calm.

"Alright... We'll be out in a second... Can you call Haley and Keith from the cell and let them know what is going on?" He asked still rushing around trying to get everything they needed.

"I'm on it" Brooke said walking out and shutting the door behind her.

After what seemed like forever Lucas finally got everything together and started to help a groaning Karen out to the car. As they walked down the stairs to meet Brooke they had to stop every few steps to let Karen scream. Lucas had never seen his mother in this much pain and it was very uncomforting. The fact that Brooke was beeping the horn every 5 seconds wasn't helping.

Finally they made it to the end of the staircase and he loaded Karen in the car. By this point the neighbors were starting to wake up and get annoyed yelling things out their windows like "Shut that woman up or I'll do it for you" and "Didn't anyone tell you when you moved him here that cows weren't aloud!" They needed to get out of their fast before someone decided to pull out their shotgun.

As soon as Lucas climbed in the seat beside her Brooke hit the gas... only forgot to put the car in reverse, which caused them all to go flying forward when she hit the breaks to keep them from smashing into the apartment in front of them.

"Brooke! Are you trying to kill us?" Lucas yelled jerking back to his seat.

"Sorry... I'm just kind of nervous... I have never been on this side of the baby having train before!" She put the car in reverse and just missed hitting the dumpster by a foot.

"Maybe we should let Emma drive... We might get there safer... Ahhhh!" Karen yelled in pain.

"Look... I don't have to get us there at all... For all I care you can have that baby in some strangers house!" Brooke said getting madder and madder.

"Shut up! Brooke, you drive... Mom you shut up... Your both scaring Emma" Lucas finally said. He was not in the mood to listen to them fight the whole way there... There were way to many out of whack hormones in the car.

"Fine" Both Karen and Brooke said at the same time. Now both of them were apparently mad at Lucas. That figured... At least they might be quiet now.

"Daddy, where we going?" Emma asked about half way to the hospital. She was wiping her eyes and staring at a screaming Karen.

"We are going to the hospital so that Meme can feel better" Lucas said reaching back and grabbing her hand to comfort her.

"We have a sumber paree?" She asked playing with Lucas's fingers trying to make them bend in ways that no ones fingers should ever bend.

"Sure... and then you and mommy are going to go and bring Austin home tomorrow

morning" Lucas responded trying to pull his fingers away.

"Meme not using her inside voice... Meme that's too loud for da car" Emma said pointing her little finger at Karen making a mean face.

"Its okay today baby... Since we are having a slumber party you can sing as loud as you want" Brooke said breaking in on the conversation seeing that Lucas obviously needed some back up.

Emma stared confused looking from Karen to Lucas and then Brooke then back to Karen. She did this for about 10 seconds and then realizing that they were letting her do something that she had never gotten to do, she broke out into a very out of tune version of the Dawson's Creek theme song. Brooke decided to join her hoping that if they sang louder than Karen screamed than Emma wouldn't be too freaked out by this whole situation.

"You have to be kidding me... Brooke I am not singing" Lucas said once he realized what Brooke was doing.

"Come on Lucas... this could scar Emma for life... SING!" Brooke demanded and Lucas didn't argue.

They sand until they reached the hospital entrance about 4:00. Lucas helped Karen out while Brooke ran in to get a doctor. She came back with a short chubby orange-headed lady. She couldn't have been any taller than 4'9 but probably weighed about 200 pounds.

"Hi I am Dr. Bradshaw. We are going to get you inside and see how far you have progressed." She said running her fingers through her curly hair. Brooke stared her for a minute but when she realized that she obviously wasn't going to help Lucas with Karen she went and did it herself.

Brooke, Lucas and Dr. Bradshaw rushed Karen into the emergency room. She was screaming louder than ever when Brooke realized she had left Emma in the car.

"Damn it! Emma" She said leaving Lucas's side rushing back to the car. Emma was sitting in her car seat crying and struggling to get out. Her face was red and tear stained. This sight broke Brooke's heart.

"Baby... I am so sorry...Mommy didn't mean to leave you here..." she comforted as she walked over to the door and pulled Emma out.

"You... You l-leave me a-alone" Emma whaled latching onto Brooke. Hearing Emma cry like this made Brooke want to cry too. She remembered the countless nights when here parents would just up and leave her alone and how she would cry not knowing if they were ever going to some back. Sure this was a lot different because she would never just up and leave Emma but the feeling was still the same.

"Baby...I will never leave you... Ever... I will always come back...Okay" Brooke said hugging her and shutting the door.

"Okay" Emma choked out and left it at that.

Brooke carried Emma into the emergency room and started looking for Lucas. This place was so big and crowded there was no telling where he was so she decided to wait in chairs and let him come and find her. She found a chair close to the front so that Lucas could see her and sat down. There were so many screaming children here it was hard for her to think.

"What wrong?" She heard Emma ask over her shoulder. She didn't have a clue who she was talking too until she looked over and saw a little boy sitting beside them. He had blonde hair and big blue eyes and from what Brooke could tell he couldn't have been more than 5.

"Hey there... where's your mommy and daddy?" She asked the little boy.

"I don't know... The truck hit our car and the people came and took them" He said looking down at the floor.

"What's your name?" She thought she had better change the subject considering there was no telling what kind of condition his parents were in.

"Tanner...Tanner Manning." He said looking up at Brooke. His face had a few cuts and scrapes on it but for a truck to have smashed his car Brooke thought he looked pretty ok.

"Hey Tanner... My name is Brooke and this is Emma" She said patting him on the head.

"What are your mommy and daddy's names? If you tell me than I might be able to find them for you"

Tanner's whole face lit up after Brooke said this.

"My moms name is Ashley and my dads name is Parker" He said smiling.

"Mommy's name is Brooke and daddy's name is Broody" Emma said patting Tanners head just as Brooke had. Only she didn't under stand the concept and was now almost hitting him.

"Come on we will go ask a nurse to help us" Brooke stood up and grabbed Tanner's hand. They walked over to the nurse's station and rang the little bell.

"What can I help you with?" a young blonde nurse asked with a paper clip in her mouth. She was shuffling through what looked like charts and note pads."

"Right...I am looking for this little boys parents... Their names are Parker and Ashley Manning."

The nurse frowned putting down her papers and pulling Brooke to the side.

"His parents were in a car accident... It was their fault; the father was drunk and high. He slammed into a truck on the interstate killing both the driver of the truck and a person we think may have been their drug dealer. The mother is critical and the father only had a few scrapes... They were no more than 20 years old. Thank you for watching him... we didn't know he was out there. We will take it from here... we need to explain about his mother and see if he has any other family members." The nurse explained.

Brooke couldn't believe what she was hearing. Tanner didn't look like a druggies son. He was polite and sweet.

"Yea... Look he is really scared... what if you don't find any family members?"

"Then we will find him a nice home in DCFS... Its no big deal we do it all the time... Now I have to get back to work...Come on Tanner... Lets go talk about your mom and dad" The nurse called and Tanner walked over.

"Are Brooke and Emma going to come with me?" He asked grabbing Brookes free hand.

"No sweetie they have a family of their own they have to get back too... Come on"

Tanner looked really unsure of what to do. He stood there holding Brooke's hand until she knelt down next to him and pulled a pen and paper out of her pocket book.

"Here Tanner... This is my cell phone number... if you get scared just call me ok?" Brooke said handing him the paper. It surprised her how nice she was being to this kid. If this had happen 3 years ago she probably wouldn't have even spoken to him... Much less given him her number. Being a mother had changed her more than she ever imagined.

"Okay..." Was all he said and then he gave Brooke and Emma a quick hug and followed the nurse eager to find out about his parents.

"Bye Tayner!" Emma yelled down the hall after him.

"Alright Emmy... Lets go find daddy and Meme... Cool?" Brooke asked tickling Emma stomach.

"Coowl"

Lucas paced around the room that they put Karen in. Partly because he was so anxious about what was getting ready to happen and partly because he had no idea where Brooke and Emma were. It had been 30 minutes since they had gotten a room and she was nowhere to be found.

"Alright Karen... Are you ready to have this baby?" He heard Dr. Bradshaw ask.

"Lucas..." she yelled.

Lucas walked over to his mom and held her hand. This was probably the most awkward situation he had ever been in. With Brooke it had always been easier because she was well Brooke and it was his child... But this baby was going to be his brother or sister and this was his mother. He shouldn't be the one here, Dan or whoever this babies father should.

"Alright Karen push" Dr. Bradshaw coaxed.

This went on for about an hour. There was a lot of screaming and yelling. He was sure that his hand was fractured from all the squeezing that Karen was doing. Then he heard it.

"It's a Boy!" Dr. Bradshaw yelled holding the baby up for Karen to see. She cut the babies cord and dried him off and then handed him to Karen.

"What's his name?" Lucas asked looking down at the baby. He was so much bigger than Austin or Emma had been put together and he was as bald as Whitey.

"Nicolas Robert... Nick for short" Karen cooed at the baby.

"He's so big and bald... are you sure that Whitey isn't the father?" Lucas asked laughing.

"Very funny... But no Whitey isn't the father" She said looking up from Nick.

"Then who is?"

Before Karen could answer Brooke came busting in with Emma in her arms

"So... Is it baby time yet?" Brooke asked in her usual cheeriness.

"Baby time has already passed" Karen smiled looking down at Nick.

"And you let me miss it!" Brooke complained. Not that she really cared either way. Childbirth wasn't exactly her idea of fun. Whether she was having the baby or she was watching someone else do it.

"Well am I going to at least get details?" She whined carrying Emma over to see the baby.

"I will get you all the details weight, height, all that fun stuff right now" the nurse said taking Nick from Karen and laying him on a table.

"So back to that conversation we were having" Lucas said sitting down next to his mother.

Karen had that look on her face telling Lucas that this wasn't the best time but he ignored it. Whoever the father of this baby deserved to know that he had a child.

"Conversation! I love conversations... is it a good one with nice juicy gossip?" Brooke asked plopping down next to Lucas. This was her element. She wasn't quite sure what the conversation was about but she could tell by both of their faces that it was something that would probably interest her.

"8 pounds 8 ounces and he is 22 inches long." The nurse said smiling bringing Nick over to Karen.

"Damn! That is one big baby!" Brooke spouted off.

Emma giggled at the sound of Brooke cussing and walked over to look at the baby.

"That's no Awson" She said when Brooke lifted her to look at him.

"No that's your... wow that's your uncle... Creepy" Brooke said looking at the baby.

"Now mom I think there is a important phone call you need to make to a certain man..." Lucas said giving her "the" look. Since he became a father he couldn't stand even the thought of having a child that he didn't know about and unless this guy was Dan he was pretty sure that they would feel the same way.

"It's" Karen started but was interrupted by Brooke's cell phone.

"Hello... Oh my god, are you serious! Congratulations! You could have at least called! I miss everything... Yes I know that the whole world isn't about me... Shut up Nathan! Tell Haley I will be over there in like 2 minutes! YAY! Ok toodles!" Brooke hung up the phone and smiled.

"Haley finally had the baby! It's a girl and it weighed 12 pounds 7 ounces and she is 21 inches long. She had to have her by C-section because she was so big... Nathan said he didn't want to call and excite everyone until he knew everything was ok. Oh and they named her Amber Marie Scott" Brooke said all of this so fast she didn't even understand what she had said when she was finished.

"12 pounds... Wow" Was all Lucas said.

"Ok Emma and I are going to head down the hall to see her... You too talk or whatever you two don't want to do in front of me." Brooke said kissing Lucas on the head and walking out.

"Wow... That's a big baby" Karen said trying to change the subject.

"Mom..."

"Its Keith's. At first I thought it was Dan's because of the time frame but when I had the amnio to make sure that he didn't have Downs syndrome they did a paternity test and as it turns out it is Keith's. Its funny because I yelled at him for eve that day I was up here about how it wasn't his and he agreed that he wasn't ready for a baby yet...So I haven't told him" Karen said with tears forming in her eyes.

"Mom... You have to call him and tell him... Now." Lucas was shocked but he wasn't. He had suspected but Karen had done so well convincing him and Brooke that it was Dan's that he had pushed Keith out of his mind. Brooke on the other hand had sworn that it was Larry or Whitey and that was why she was being so secretive about the whole thing.

"I will... Just give it some time..."

Brooke pranced down the hall with Emma at her side until she reached Haley's room. Before she even had a chance to knock Nathan opened the door to let her in.

"Natan!" Emma squealed and jumped into his arms. Neither Brooke nor Lucas knew why Emma liked him so much and sometimes Brooke thought that it bothered Lucas. She just thought it meant that he was going to be an awesome father.

"Oh my god its Tutor girl junior!" Brooke shrieked when she saw Amber. She looked down at the sleeping baby. She was huge! But healthy and that's what counts.

"I am just glad she is finally out... How did you get here so fast?" Haley asked playing with her baby's chubby fingers.

"Oh right Karen had a boy...He was like 7 pounds or something and he looks just like Keith... Oh don't tell them I said that though, Karen is still playing the whole Dan is the father game." Brooke said pulling Emma up to the bed so she could see.

"Wow... That's a mouth full... What did she name him?" Haley asked showing Emma Amber.

"You know I have no idea... Probably something corny like Keith Junior" Brooke said not caring if she sounded mean or not.

"Too many babies" Emma said turning to Brooke and making a bad face.

"Speaking of babies we have to leave soon and go get Austin! Are you going come start some trouble with me partner in crime?" Brooke said tickling Emma. She and Emma could manage to get into more trouble than anyone she knew. It was hard to believe she was 2. It seemed like just yesterday she was lying in bed with Emma wondering when she would talk and what her first words would be. Now she didn't shut up.

"Yea" Emma said giggling and jumping off the bed to go ramble through the drawers.

"So Nathan how does it feel to be a daddy?" Brooke said standing up and walking over to where he was standing.

"Strange... I mean use to I thought it wouldn't effect me, that I would let my wife do all the work and I would just play basketball, now I cant even bring myself to leave the room... I thought Lucas was crazy when you guys had Emma because he didn't ever want to leave the house but now I know how he feels" Nathan said.

"Tell me how you really feel Nathan" Brooke joked. She had never heard Nathan talk so passionately about anything. She couldn't wait to ask him the same question again in about a month when he hadn't slept for days.

"Alright well you two bond or whatever... I am going to go take my baby home now" She couldn't wait to bring him home and put him in is bed. The funny was he was 9 weeks old and only weighed 5 pounds. She already knew he was going to be tall and skinny like Lucas, with big feet.

"All right Emmy lets go get into some trouble" Brooke said pulling Emma out from under the cabinet where she was pretending she was a princess.

"Ok is there anything you guys need because I will send Peyton out to get it" She said smiling.

"Nope I think we're good. Thanks for coming Brooke" Nathan said hugging her bye.

"They said I might get to go home tomorrow so I might be calling you at 3 in the morning when I cant get her to sleep" Haley said looking kind of worried.

"Well I will probably be awake... Bye Amber, you be good for your mommy and daddy. They don't have a clue what they are doing." Brooke said smiling and hugging Haley bye.

"Bye Emma..." Nathan said picking her up and blowing on her stomach making her scream and giggle.

"Bye Natan... I wike your baby" Emma said grabbing Brookes hand following her out.

Brooke and Emma walked back into Karen's room to see Karen asleep and Lucas rocking a screaming nick back and forth trying to quiet him.

"Alright Broody... You ready to get our little baby?" Brooke asked smiling. She was getting anxious. It seemed like they had waited forever to bring him home and now they were actually getting too.

"Yes...Then I won't be out numbered by girls anymore... It's totally even. I will have a man on my side" Lucas said obviously very excited about going to get Austin.

"No... He's going to be a mommy's boy..." Brooke lied. He was a daddy's boy and they both knew it. She just liked to pick on him. It didn't bother her though... Lucas needed a boy so that he could do all of the boy scouts and basketball stuff. They both knew Emma was never going to want to do any kind of sport that involved sweating. She was way too much like Brooke. But Austin was more and more like Lucas everyday.

"Yea... You keep telling your self that Cheery, now lets get out of this place... Mom is going to call Keith when she wakes up and let him know about Nick. I will leave a note telling her we are gone and probably won't be back.

Lucas left the note beside Karen's bed and put Nick back in his basinet. The he Brooke and Emma headed down the hall and out to the car.

They left the hospital at 7:00 and were there to get Austin at 8:07. Since Brooke had driven it had cut 20 minutes off their trip. They walked into the nursery to find Austin all dressed and ready to go. The sign Brooke made still on his bed. After they talked to the nurse about instructions and other fun stuff like that they finally went back into the nursery.

"We are going to miss this one here, He's a sweet one." The nurse said taking them to Austin.

"He gets that from his daddy" Brooke said knowing that the nurse didn't like her.

"Yes... We can see that" She replied obviously not caring if she made Brooke mad or not.

The nurse handed Austin to Lucas and all of his stuff to Brooke. Austin was wide-awake starring down at Emma who didn't quite understand what was going on.

"What awre we doing?" She asked once they started walking down the hall to the car.

"We are taking Austin home" Brooke said trying to quiet a crying Austin.

"He going to live with us" She asked looking from Lucas to Brooke then to Austin obviously not understanding.

"Yes baby he is your brother" Brooke said seeing that Emma was getting upset. She hadn't even thought about how hard this was going to be on Emma. With Austin is the hospital they pretty much lived life like normal but now that he was going to be home things were going to be very different.

"But I fought he lived herwe" Emma was starting to get that look on her face like she was getting ready to cry.

Brooke handed Austin to Lucas and motioned for him to go to the car. She needed to talk to Emma about this alone. Sometimes she would forget that Emma was only two and didn't understand a lot of what went on, after all she was very mature for her age and Brooke treated her no different most of the time than she treated Peyton or Haley. She had become Brooke's best friend in a strange way.

"Look Emma here's the thing" Brooke said sitting down against the wall letting Emma crawl into her lap.

"You are my baby girl Emma... and you are the only baby girl mommy and daddy will ever have in the whole wide world and we love you more than anything! But Mommy and Daddy have to take Austin home now because he is our baby boy. And you know what? It is going to be really hard for mommy and daddy to take care of him so I am going to need lots and lots of help from you because you are a big girl now... I mean you are almost potty trained... Now that is a BIG girl. So can you be my really big helper at home and help me feed Austin and play with him and tell him how gay Tellietubbies are?" Brooke asked looking very seriously into her little girls eyes.

"Yea" Emma said grinning and giving Brooke a big hug.

"Good now lets go get into some trouble with daddy and Austin, kapeesh? Brooke said picking Emma up and carrying her down the hall.

"Kapeesh"

Spoilers: Ok next chapter is the last one! And it is the wedding. It will also tie up a lot of loose ends and will probably be REALLY long. I will start the sequel probably right after I have finished the next chapter and I will let you know what it is called then. PLEASE review and tell me what you think! Oh I need a Beta too by the way so if you are interested PLEASE let me know!  R&R!

Special Thanks to Rosie4299 (Katherine) I couldn't have done this without you! Thank you so much! You are awesome!