Summary: Nathan and Haley are now Mr. And Mrs. Scott. This is the story of how it happened and what happens now...

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters on the WB show One Tree Hill. Any characters that are not on the show are MINE!

Chapter 1: Airports, crazy leopard people and taxi cabs

Nathan and Haley are sitting in his apartment watching A Walk To Remember. Haley is crying and Nathan is bored...

"Nathan," sniff "if I were going to die from leukemia, would you marry me anyways?"

"Hales, I would marry you right now if I had the chance," said Nathan.

Haley turned to look at Nathan. "Do you mean that?"

"Of course I do. I love you," said Nathan with a smile.

"Well, I guess when the time is right, you'll ask me," said Haley. She turned around just as the movie was ending. "Oh... that was so good... What should we watch next? Will you watch Ever After with me, Nate? Pleeease?"

Nathan turned Haley's face towards his and stared deep into her eyes. "Haley, focus here babe. We need to have a conversation, OK?"

"Oh no. You're breaking up with me, aren't you? Just because I wanted to talk to you about marriage? Nathan, you are such an ass," Haley shouted and jumped off the couch.

"I can't believe I love you."

"Whoa! Haley! Calm down for just one little, tiny second. When did I say I was breaking up with you? I was going to..." with a sigh, Nathan got down on his right knee. "I don't have a ring or anything like that yet, but I do love you, Haley James and I want you to be my wife. Will you marry me?"

Haley can't believe what she just heard. "WHAT?!?! What happened to breaking up with me? Oh wait... you never said that, huh? Nathan, I don't know what to say! I'm just so... wow!" She just stands there staring at him with a silly grin on her face.

"Haley," Nathan whispered, "I want to marry you and be with you for the rest of my life. The question now is whether or not you're ready. So what's it gonna be? Yes or no?"

"YES YES YES YES YES!" Haley shouted and jumped up and down screaming. Nathan jumped up and wrapped his arms around her. He picked her up and spun her around, then set her back down.

"I love you so much," he whispered with tears of joy overfilling in his eyes. He smashed his lips into hers in one the most passionate kisses of their relationship. "So are you ready?"

"What do you mean, Nate?" Haley smiled while asking the question and wondering what Nathan had in mind.

"Well, if you're ready to go, let's get out of here. Let's go to Vegas and get married tonight. I have money, and we can hop a plane and be back in the morning. Come on, Haley! Let's do this! Let's go get married!"

Haley looked at him as if he were insane for a second, and then thought, Oh, what the hell? "OK, Nathan. I'm ready. Let's go. One condition, though."

"And what would that be, my lovely wife-to-be?"

Haley gave him a shy, mischievous smile. "We have to write our own vows and we can't hear each other's until the ceremony. Deal?"

"Uhh... OK, deal. I will warn you, though. I'm not a very good writer. They might sound kind of... rough draft-ish."

Haley laughed and then kissed the tip of Nathan's nose. "That's fine, baby. I will more than make up for it with my wonderful, beautiful and overly talented writing ability."

"Ok, sweets. Whatever you say..." Nathan wrapped his arms around Haley's waist again and started kissing her neck. They made and odd-looking couple walking into the bedroom with Haley going backwards and Nathan pushing her.

They packed some of Nathan's clothes into a suitcase and threw it into the taxi they called to drive them to the airport. They made a quick stop by Haley's house to grab some clothes for her. While she was grabbing clothes, Nathan called 411 on his cell phone. Once he got the number, he called and made reservations for the 7:29 flight from Tree Hill to Las Vegas.

When they got to the airport, they got their suitcases out of the taxi and put them on a trolley. They didn't really need the trolley, but they felt like using it anyways. Haley pushed while Nathan walked behind her with his arms locked around her weight. About halfway through the airport, Haley began to complain.

"Nate, honey, I love that you like to hold me. I really do. But all you're doing is making me push the trolley and pull you while trying to walk in a straight line."

Nathan pouted his lower lip and started to whine. "But Hales, I'm tired! My feet hurt, too! Will you carry me?"

Haley began to laugh. "Nate, if anyone were to be carrying anyone else, you should be carrying me! I am your soon-to-be wife, you know."

With that statement, Nathan scooped Haley up and threw her over his shoulder. With the other hand, he started to push the trolley.

"Nathan! You put me down right now! That is not funny! I meant give me a piggy back ride! NATHAN!!!" People had started staring at them as they walked through the terminal, but Nathan didn't care. Finally, his shoulder started to hurt, so he put her down.

"There now. Wasn't that fun? Here, jump on my back. I'll carry you. It's not very much farther." So Haley stepped back a little, then ran and jumped onto Nathan's back. Nathan, unfortunately, was not expecting her to crash so hard and they both went crashing to the ground.

While trying to control his laughing, Nathan managed to sputter, "OK, maybe the whole carrying idea is not so great after all. How's about we both walk and I'll push the trolley for a while?"

"Oh... ow... that sounds like a great idea to me, Nate. I think I broke my... something..."

"Oh yeah. That was convincing, Hales. Come on, get up. Let's get going before we miss our flight."

So off they went on their merry little way. When they got to the gate, they gave the flight attendant/stewardess person their tickets that they had gotten from the front counter.

Once she decided that their tickets were "valid", they went through the door into the passageway that would lead them to the plane.

"Haley, wait just a second, babe," Nathan said.

"What is it, Nate?"

"Well, you know how when you went to the bathroom I was looking around the gift shop?"

"Yeah..." said Haley, wondering what Nathan had done now and if they needed to run.

"Well, I bought you something. It's not much, but I think it will work for now." With that, he pulled out a black velvet ring box and once again got down on his right knee. "I know that before I told you I didn't have a ring, and that was true. But..." he opened the box to reveal a beautiful single-stone diamond engagement ring. "now I do. Haley James, I'm going to ask you again just for clarification. Will you marry me and make me the happiest man in the world?"

"Oh, Nathan... It's beautiful! And again, yes I will marry you. I love you with all my heart and soul."

"I love you, too, Hales." He pulled the ring out of the box and slipped it onto her finger.

"Perfect fit. I knew it." He stood up and gave her a quick kiss. "I bought one more thing, too."

"Nathan, how could you buy me anything else? This must have cost so much money!"

"Well, I had been saving up for a while for this very occasion... Well, maybe not proposing to you in the thing to get on an airplane, but you get my drift. So, my other gift is that I got us... WEDDING RINGS!!!" He pulled another, bigger box out from the gift store bag and opened it. Inside were two matching platinum wedding rings that were made to also match Haley's engagement ring.

Haley's eyes widened. "Oh, Nate, they're beautiful. Oh God, I love you so much! I can't wait to marry you!"

"Me either, Hales. I love you more than you'll ever know. Now, come on. Let's go get married."

They walked down the passageway and boarded the plane. IT WAS PACKED. There were people and kids and luggage everywhere! Nathan and Haley looked at each other and started to laugh. Finally, they found their seats and sat down. Haley was next to the window and Nathan was sitting next to her. There was an empty seat on the other side of Nathan that he hoped was still going to be empty when they started flying. Nathan turned towards Haley away from the empty seat.

"This is so exciting, Hales! Even if I do end up having to sit next to some weird strange person, I don't care. We're going to be married before midnight and then comes the honeymoon..." With that, Nathan wiggled his eyebrows and smiled at Haley.

Haley laughed and kissed Nathan quickly. "All right stud, calm down now. We still haven't even started flying. It'll be a little while still..." She kissed him again and then laid her head on his shoulder. "Wake me up when we get to Las Vegas..."

(5 hours later...)

"ATTENTION PASSENGERS. THIS IS YOUR CAPTAIN SPEAKING. WE ARE BEGINNING OUR FINAL DESCENT INTO LAS VEGAS, NEVADA. THE SEATBELT SIGN WILL BE TURNED ON MOMENTARILY. PLEASE PUT YOUR SEATBACKS AND TRAYS IN THE UPRIGHT AND LOCKED POSITION. THANK YOU."

Nathan slowly opened his eyes and tried to sit up. "Oh, man. I am stiff. That's what I get for falling asleep on a airplane, I guess. Hal..." He was about to wake Haley up when he looked over at her sleeping figure. She had her head on his shoulder and she looked so beautiful just sleeping. "Well, I guess I'll just have to carry her..." he thought.

When they landed, though, Haley started and slowly sat up with her eyes still closed.

"Did you have a good nap, baby," Nathan asked quietly, trying not to wake the smelly fat man that had somehow come to sit by him while he was sleeping.

Haley shut her eyes tighter and groaned. "Don't talk to me, Nathan. I hurt all over and I'm still tired."

"Come on, sweets. We've landed in Las Vegas and now we're going to go get married!"

Haley perked right up when she heard that. Her smile was huge as she looked at Nathan and said, "Of course we are. You don't have to remind me of that! I love you..."

Nathan laughed at Haley's sudden change of mood. "I love you too, Haley. You always have a way of making me laugh!"

They got their backpack full of games and other things to keep them busy that they hadn't used from the overhead compartment and waited to be let off the plane. When they finally got off about 10 minutes later, they walked slowly through the airport looking at all the lights and the crazy people that were dancing around in leopard suits and tu-tus.

Haley looked at Nathan. "Are you sure you want to get married here? What if one of these crazy people is our minister, or whatever it's called?"

Nathan laughed at put his arm around Haley's wait and hooked his thumb through the belt loop in her jeans. "I don't care where we get married or who marries us as long as I'm marrying you."

"Oh, that's so sweet! Hey look! There's our luggage and there's a taxi! Hurry up, Nate! Let's go get married!"