Chapter 3 – Thoughts, Fights and Trust

As much as I would like to own One Tree Hill and its characters, I don't.....

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Haley sat at home alone, Nathan had gone to work at Scott Motors, even though his dad was back, he had to make money somehow. He wasn't going to let his pride get in the way; he was going to stick to working here, because Haley and he needed money in order to get by. She sat there on the bed she shared with Nathan, thinking about the horrible fight they had, had the other day, over Chris. When she had finally come home, she found Nathan sitting at the table waiting for her, he looked really disappointed, and one look around the room told her the reason why. He had planned a surprise dinner for her, and she hadn't shown, up until now, but it was too late. Haley walked over to him, fear coursing through her body, not the fear that he may hurt her physically, but the fear that she had hurt him emotionally. Deep down in her heart, she knew that she had, but she was too afraid, and ignorant to admit it. She put her hand on his, but he just shrugged it off. That simple action, cut through her, it cut deep. It finally hit her how badly she had hurt Nathan. In her vows, she had promised him so much, but when it came down to it, she had broken those vows in an instant. She was a horrible wife, a horrible person, who wasn't capable of keeping her vows, vows that she wrote and swore to herself and Nathan that she would keep. How stupid could she have been all this time? How could she have not realised what she was doing to Nathan? These were just a few of the thoughts that were quickly running through Haley's head. She had to think of something to say quickly, because this silence was too much for her to handle.

"Nathan could you talk to me, say something, anything, just don't leave...if you leave this time, I don't know what I'd do with myself, knowing how badly I've hurt you, you have no idea how sorry I am...I only went to tell Chris that this was it, we weren't going to see each other anymore, and he kissed me, and then I pulled away. I told him no when he offered me a bus ticket to New York, to go with him, to get in the music business. Then for some stupid reason I went down to the bus station, but I couldn't leave you...Nathan I knew you were everything to me the day I married you, and I just needed something to remind me...I just want for us to be happy, to be together, to be the way we used to be or at least something like that..." Haley said starting to cry.

"Haley, we can't go back. We just can't. You have no idea what you've been putting me through Haley, I don't even want to be around you anymore, but you're my wife...and I made a promise to you, that I would make us work, and I plan on doing just that. It will take me a very long time to forgive you Haley, but I will eventually...I don't know anymore Haley, maybe getting married was too big of a step..."Nathan told Haley with a pained look on his face, tears threatening to fall.

"No, Nathan, please don't say that, this was the best thing I've ever done, getting married to you. Your my everything Nathan, if I didn't have you, I would be living a very empty and boring life, where everything is organized...every step I took before, I would see the pro's and con's Nathan, but when it came to marrying you, there were only pro's. There's only so much I can say to you to make you hate me less, but in the end it's your decision, but I want you to know, that I love you with all my heart, I think somewhere along the line I started taking you for granted, and that's where I fell, and as they say sometimes falling can be simple, it's realising that you have that takes time. It took me some time Nathan, and I hope it didn't take too much time, because it would kill me inside to think that I've ruined us...Nathan...I'm...Just...So...Sorry...I took...You...For...Granted...And I know...that I...Shouldn't have...I hope...That it's not...Too late to...Fix what...I've so quickly...Destroyed...Because...I learned the...Hard way...That I just can't live without you Nathan, I just can't..."Haley said between tears, as she wiped at them furiously with the sleeve of her sweater.

It killed Nathan to see how broken his wife seemed to have become, but in a way, she brought it upon herself. As bad as that sounded, it was true, if she had thought carefully about her actions, if she had thought about Nathan when things like this was happening, then they wouldn't have been in this situation. He always thought that maybe, just maybe he would be the one to hurt Haley emotionally like this, always thought that she would be the strong one, the one who kept them together, but now the tables were turned he thought. Who would've thought that this day would ever come, the day that Haley James -Scott, would be the deceitful one? He quickly rid himself of these horrible thoughts, it pained him too much, thinking such horrible things about the woman he loved. He knew he still loved her even if this happened. No matter how hard either of them tried, nothing in their marriage would ever be easy, nothing in life is easy, and it would probably take a lot of work, for them to be as close as they were before. But it would happen, it had to happen, he didn't quite know how yet, but he did know that no matter what happened he wouldn't let Haley slip away from him, he loved her and he needed her too much to let that happen.

"Haley, I love you, I love you with every ounce of me. Like I said, I'm sure that I'll forgive you, I'm not quite sure when, but it'll happen...I take back what I said about marriage being too big a step, the truth is that I don't think I would've made it this far in the past year, if I didn't have you. Just listen please," he said know that she was about to say something. "I couldn't possibly imagine my life without you in it, but Haley you have to promise me that you won't lie to me about anything anymore. You have to promise me that, you won't take me for granted; promise me that you won't stop loving me not ever, and you promise me this Haley, that no matter how bad our marriage seems to be, no matter how hard life seems to be at that time, we'll stick together." Nathan finished with pleading eyes.

"Nathan, of course I promise to love you, not take you for granted, I promise not to lie to you anymore, and I promise that no matter what we'll stick together. Oh Nathan, I love you so much!" Haley said, crying once again.

This time, Nathan took her in his arms, and gave her a warm hug, and he kissed the top of her head. She took in his scent, thinking how stupid she was, never again, would she EVER let anyone get in the way of her marriage with Nathan. She realised that he was the only man, next to Lucas that really mattered to her. Nathan knew that at least for now, everything would be better; they'd just have to take things one day at a time for now. That's all they could do.

Haley snapped back to reality at the sound of a knock on the door. Quickly wiping away the tears, that had fallen while she had thought about her a Nathan's fight, she walked to the door. She opened it, only to find Lucas standing there, with a black - eye, bleeding nose, and swollen lip and to make matters worst, he was limping.

"Oh Luke, what happened?" Haley asked it hurt her to see Lucas like this.

"Felix that idiot, he saw me walk Brooke home, and then after she had gone inside her house, I started walking down the stairs, only to find Felix that son of a bitch, standing there with a baseball bat. He hit my knee, punched me a lot as you can tell, and then he kicked the life out of my stomach. I just sort of lay there for a while, I couldn't even move...But I didn't want to let Brooke see me like this, so I took a cab and came here...When I see Felix, I swear I'll kill him!" Luke raged.

"Lucas you're not killing anyone. Why didn't you go home? Why'd you come here?" Haley questioned in a motherly tone, concern filling her voice.

"Hales, do you know my mom? She'll probably think that I started the whole fight! So I just came here, I was hoping to stay over here tonight, and I'll face my mom tomorrow...please Hales?" Lucas silently begged with his eyes.

"Fine, but you'll have to face your mom at some point. Now let's get you cleaned up, wait here while I go get the first aid kit." Haley quickly went to the bathroom, and returned with a first aid kit. She quickly cleaned up his cuts, put a stop to the nose bleed, gave him some ice for his swollen lip, cleaned and bandaged the horrid bruise from the baseball bat on his knee.

"Thanks Hales, if you don't mind I'm gonna get some sleep now." Lucas said quickly drifting of to sleep.

Haley made dinner, which consisted of spaghetti and meatballs, and of course a delicious salad. Just as she finished Nathan walked in the door, as he made his way over to his wife to give her a kiss, he spotted Lucas, and saw how literally beat he look.

"What happened to him?" Nathan asked concerned.

"Felix that little bum, he totally beat the crap out of Lucas, just because he walked Brooke home, Felix is just jealous because he thinks that Lucas is trying to take Brooke from him. It's not like Felix and Brooke have been going out that long, and he's already so jealous that he beats the crap out of a guy who just walks Brooke home! I HOPE TO GOD, FOR HIS SAKE THAT HE DOESN'T DECIDE TO COME ON THIS TRIP, OTHERWISE I THINK THAT I MIGHT JUST KILL FELIX!" Haley yelled, furiously.

"Five more minutes mom..." Lucas said suddenly, making both Haley and Nathan laugh. "What?" said Lucas a bit disoriented, when he finally came around.

"Nothing, okay go wash up, and then come eat, that goes for both of you!" Haley said in her motherly tone again.

Meanwhile, over at Brooke's...

Felix knocked on Brooke's door a while later, after putting away his bat, and cleaning himself up. When the door opened, a raging Brooke stood there. He stepped into Brooke's house and just stood there listening to her scream at him.

"FELIX WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!?!?!? ARE YOU THAT STUPID! WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT TO LUCAS! I KNOW THAT LUCAS DIDN'T PROVOKE YOU TO DO THAT TO HIM! WHAT THE HELL WAS I THINKING GETTING INVOLVED WITH A PRICK LIKE YOU! THAT'S IT FELIX WERE DONE! GET THE HELL OUT OF MY HOUSE, STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM ME, LUCAS, MY FRIENDS, AND MY FAMILY! DON'T JUST STAND THERE AND LOOK AT ME, GO!" Brooke screamed at the top of her lungs, absolutely furious, she just wanted to strangle Felix he was so stupid! Boy did he make her blood boil. She had seen the whole thing through the window, of her front door, what was Felix's problem, why'd he go after Lucas like that?

"Whatever Brooke, you're nothing to me anyways, you stupid ho..." and with that he left.

Brooke didn't even pay attention to his last comment, she was too upset.

When Felix walked out of Brooke's room, the seriousness of what he had just done to Lucas had finally hit him, with full force. How could he have been so stupid? He just ruined things with Brooke; he had only hoped to make it clear to Lucas that Brooke was his, so he had better stay away. But instead he not only attacked Lucas, so to speak, but he had ruined things with Brooke. That was by far, the shortest relationship he had ever had, it had lasted a grand total of three days, and he had messed it up. Good job Felix, he thought to himself, Once again you've managed to ruin things. He had to think of something to get Brooke back, he didn't know what yet, but he'd think of something. He should've known that Brooke would've dumped him if he had done this to Lucas, but he did it anyways...I'm an ass, he thought to himself. Just then an idea struck him, he'd just have to make it up to Lucas, and that would have Brooke tripping all over herself to try to get back with him...right? Well he hoped so; otherwise why even bother to get along with someone you hate? As he walked to his house, he said aloud to himself in a sing-song voice, "Felix you are a genius, you fine, ass, cutie..."

At Peyton's...

"Jake what are you doing here?" Peyton asked opening the door, "Not that I mind but still," she said giving him a kiss.

"Well I thought you might want to see Jenny," he said pointing to Jenny's car seat, and bag. "And I came by to see if you needed any help with finding a band for TRIC. So do you?"

"Jenny! Oh I almost forgot how cute you were!" Peyton said picking the little girl up out of her car seat. "Oh, I think she's hungry Jake...Bottle please..." "And thanks for wanting to help me, but I've already found some bands to play for TRIC, and I found a few for next week too, so I think I'm good, Karen's gonna cover for me while were on the ski trip, which I'm so excited about!" Peyton stuck out her hand waiting for Jake to hand her the bottle. She quickly fed the little girl in her arms, which soon fell asleep after finishing her bottle and burping. Peyton held her in her arms for a while.

Jake just watched Peyton and Jenny together, wow he thought to himself, Peyton's so great with Jenny. Just then his cell phone rang, "Hello," "Okay mom, bye."

Peyton, who hadn't noticed Jake coming towards her, because she had been looking at Jenny, was surprised when Jake sat down beside her, and put his jacket around her. "Thanks, it's pretty chilly maybe we should go inside?"

"Yeah maybe we should," Jake picked up Jenny's things, and then walked inside after Peyton.

Peyton came back after laying Jenny down on her bed for a nap. Just minutes after sitting down with Jake to watch a movie, Jenny erupted in loud tears. Both Peyton and Jake ran to Peyton's room to see what was wrong. When Jake had picked Jenny up and felt her forehead, he was an even more worried because Jenny was burning up with a fever. They quickly ran out to Peyton's car, where Peyton drove Jake and Jenny to the hospital. Jake was so scared, that he was shaking while holding Jenny in his arms.

Peyton grabbed Jake's hand, and held it not letting go, giving him a reassuring look before averting her eyes to the road. She didn't let go of his hand until they got to the hospital, where he got out of the car hurriedly while she looked for a park. Minutes later Peyton was in an elevator going to the second floor where there was a Paediatrician section. Jake was there, Jenny out of sight, probably with the doctors she thought. When Jake saw her, he walked over to her, she could see that he was hurting, he was hurting bad. He was scared, scared that he would lose Jenny. She wouldn't let it happen, she couldn't let it happen. She put her arms around him, giving him a warm hug, words weren't needed right now, and neither of them could string together two words let alone a sentence, that just showed how shook up they were.

With their hands joined, each silently praying that Jenny would be okay, they took seats in the waiting room, where the doctor came out a while later to tell the couple that Jenny would be fine, it was just a flu. A bad flu, but she would pull through. They could take her home anytime, but he strongly recommended her take some medicine, which he had written on a paper and given to Jake. At this the two teens let out a breath that neither knew they had been holding in.

"Thanks Peyt...I was just so scared, I mean what if I had lost her, and she's my daughter Peyt." Jake said to her his voice full of sadness and relief.

"Jake it's okay, she's still here, and I don't think she's going anywhere, Jake sweetie it's gonna be okay, I just know it..." Peyton said. "Here I'll go pick up the medicine, I'll be back okay?" Peyton left leaving Jake to his own thoughts.

Twenty minutes later, Jake, Jenny and Peyton were on their way over to Jake's house, where they were going to drop of Jenny to stay with Jake's parents who wanted to have Jenny back home because they were extremely worried about her, when Jake had called explaining what had happened, and then the couple were going to watch a movie, preferably, 'Titanic.'

"Peyton, of all the movies ever made you chose Titanic?" Jake asked with a disbelieving look on his face, when they had gotten back to her place.

"Yes...Please?" Peyton asked with an innocent look on her face.

"You know I couldn't say no to you...that's a good thing right?" Jake asked.

Peyton was all tears after the movie was over, she was crying into Jake's shoulder mumbling things about the movie. Jake couldn't help but laugh at her.

"What are you laughing for? That was such a sad movie, how dare you laugh..."Peyton said with a look on her face, that just made Jake laugh even harder. "MEAN!" Peyton said, hitting Jake on his head with a cushion.

"Hey, aren't we violent?" said Jake with a smirk. Then as he saw Peyton lying on the couch just staring at him, with red, puffy eyes, he launched his attack, he tickled her.

Between laughs, she uttered threats in hopes of making him stop but nothing worked. When he stopped, he lay down next to her on the couch, and placed a kiss on her lips, he put his hands around her waist pulling her closer to intensify the kiss, moans escaping there mouths. Their tongues were already exploring each others mouths, while one of Peyton's hands was around Jake's neck pulling him even closer if that was possible, and another hand was running through his hair. Soon after he was on top of her, and his hands had left her waist, and had gone down a bit, then moving up to the small of her back, while the other was in her hair. He nibbled affectionately on her neck, as she moaned with pleasure. After what seemed to be hours, which were really minutes of kissing, they let go of each other, each needing to breathe. Jake rolled off, of Peyton and propped himself up on his elbow, just starring at Peyton, taking in how beautiful she was, she noticed him starring, and returned his stare with her own. Love seemed to be seeping out of their eyes as they starred at each other, because by the way they were looking at each other, anyone could tell how much they really loved each other. Jake and Peyton headed down the hall a while later to Peyton's bed where they fell asleep together while talking, but nothing more than sleep occurred. A quick I love you was said before they finally fell asleep in each others arms, so this is what Haley meant that day at her bachelorette party, being in love was really great, especially when you have someone like Jake or in Haley's case Nathan. She thought about how she had thought that she hadn't needed anyone, because she was strong enough to handle it all on her own. Jake had proved her wrong other than Brooke of course, but it had been a long time since she had let in anyone other than Brooke and letting Jake in deep into her messed up life was a big step for her. She soon realised that she could really trust him, they had talked for hours upon hours about everything, giving each other advice, and poking fun here and there where appropriate. It had been a long, long time since she had been genuinely happy, and she hoped that a least for a while, she hoped that she stayed happy, it was a really good feeling.

Spoilers:

-Who's rooming with whom?

-Is Felix going to cause more trouble?

-What's going on with Brooke and Lucas?

-Trouble for Nathan and Haley?

-Trouble for Jake and Peyton?

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