Author's Note: For those who are confused, here is what is going on. Peyton is dead, still has to be found by someone though. Lucas is stuck in the janitor's closet at the high school and is "sick". Haley is sick, she got whatever Nathan had, (think of it "the sickness" as a host jumping from body to body, the only way for it to survive). Brooke has temporary amnesia from being hit on the head by the janitor. There may be a possible switch of relationships in the upcoming chapters. Hopefully that explains it for those who are confused.

Nathan opened his eyes, sunlight shone through the window brightly piercing his eyes. He looked down at Brooke in his arms, she was fast asleep snuggled up against his chest. He thought of Haley stuck in a coma in his bed alone and his heart froze with guilt for a second.

Brooke opened her eyes and looked up at Nathan. "Hey," she said softly. She couldn't remember anything except this man, he was dear and near to her heart, she felt a connection to him, that she felt was special to her.

"Hi, I'm going to go get the doctor," Nathan said.

Brooke smiled sweetly at him, "Hurry back."

Nathan nodded. He rushed out of the room and down the hall, seeing a man in green scrubs, he grabbed him and dragged him to his room where Haley lay.

She was still pale and clammy to the touch.

"Please can you help her?" Nathan begged.

"I'll run some tests," the doctor reassured him as he pushed Haley's bed down the hall to the examination rooms.

"Please let her be okay." Nathan prayed for Haley.

Turning back to his thoughts of Brooke, he grabbed a nurse and dragged her to Brooke's room. A man was talking to Brooke and she was responding happily.

"Brooke, what's going on?" Nathan asked from the door.

"Well the doctor says I have temporary amnesia from being hit on the head and I should hopefully start remembering soon, but now that I have my boyfriend here with me, I'll be fine." She giggled cheerfully.

"We have to talk about that." Nathan sat down on her bed.

"What?" Brooke bounced on the bed over to him, wrapping her arms around him.

"Don't do that." Nathan pulled back from her.

"Aren't you my boyfriend? Aren't we in love?" Brooke looked deep into his eyes, her love for him shining in hers.

"No, I have a girlfriend and her name is Haley and she's your friend." Nathan said quietly.

"But I have a memory that you and I are sitting in a meadow under a tree and we were so close and so…." she trailed off, tears forming in her eyes. "Don't you feel anything for me?" her eyes blazed with hurt. "When I kissed you, was I only the one who felt something?" she challenged him.

"I did feel something. But I have a girlfriend and she's lying in a room down the hall in a coma, so I have to be there for her." Nathan stood up and looked down at her. "Brooke, I'm sorry if I hurt you, I do care for you, but I can't have feelings for you right now." He turned to exit the door, turning at the last second.

"By the way, that memory you talked about was not a memory, but a dream I know because I had the same one last night." Nathan closed the door softly behind him.

Brooke stared at her reflection in the mirror, "Great now I'm all alone." Slumping back on her bed, she blew out a breath of air and looked at the ceiling.

Dan paced the hall, "We've been here all night and they've told us nothing, it's 7:45 a.m. and we've heard nothing in the last 16 hours, this hospital is an abomination." Nathan turned the corner and Dan saw him as he finished his tirade.

"Son, are you okay?" Everyone turned at Dan's voice.

Nathan saw them all sitting there. "Yeah, I'm fine." He said to his parents and uncle and then turned to Haley's parents. "Haley's in a coma, she's sick with whatever I had."

"Look I gotta go, I have to find out what they're testing Haley for," Nathan strode off before they could utter a protest.

Haley's mom broke down in tears, her father comforted her. Deb uttered a prayer to the heavens thanking them for Nathan and hoping that Haley would make it.

Brooke stepped into a bathroom off the hallway, she walked over to the counter to look in the mirror, as she walked past a stall, she saw a body lying there, not moving.

She saw a mop of dirty blonde curls, a pale face and arty clothes covering a girl's body. Bending down, she touched the body. Jumping back at the frigid coldness of the body.

Her eyes widened in fear and she ran out of the bathroom screaming.

Nurses and doctors came running down the hallway towards her.

"There's a dead body in there," Brooke mumbled brokenly as she started to break down.

Nathan turned the corner and saw Brooke in the huddle of people, he ran down the hallway towards her.

"Brooke what's wrong?" he shouldered past the people towards Brooke and enveloped her in his arms.

"Nathan there's a dead girl in there," she pointed to the bathroom.

Nathan handed her over to a nurse and entered the bathroom, blood splattered one wall of the cubicle, Peyton lay on the floor. Nathan stumbled numbly against the wall, Peyton's dead. Who would've killed her, she was so full of life…. Horrified by what had happened to her, Nathan stumbled out of the bathroom.

"Her name is Peyton Sawyer, can you please call the police, her throat was slashed." Nathan pulled Brooke into his arms and embraced her tightly.

"Who's Peyton?" her small voice asked him.

The chaos of people faded as he led Brooke back to her hospital room. He sat her down on the bed, "She was your best friend."

"But I don't remember her." Brooke's face crumpled as she cried hysterically. Nathan hugged her, a cold rain and brutal wind battered at the windows as they grieved.

Peyton's found. Brooke and Nathan are bonding. Haley is being tested. Lucas will be in the next chapter. Plz R&R.