Sorry this chapter is so late! I have had power issues! Our power was out all day today and part of yesterday so I got nothing done! Ok you guys… from now on I am writing shorter chapters because 1 its easier on me, and 2 it seems like I get more reviews when they are shorter! LOL. Also I know I have been leaving Emma out some lately! BAD Jordan LOL… but its usually only because I have so much other stuff going on I don't have time or room to add her…But I am going to make sure I get her and Austin in here more… I just feel like I am beating this poor story to death lately LOL, even though I pretty much know where I cant it to go from here I am trying to add a lot of excitement as I go… but its hard since these characters have been through almost everything! LOL I got wanna get but so soap operaish on you guys! LOL Thank you so much as usual for all the reviews! With them I know what you guys like and don't like, and that way I can be a people pleaser!

I am also working on my other 2 stories! So as soon as this one is finished I will put one of those up! Most likely Sugar and Spice… which I think you guys are really going to like! Its fresh and has different characters in it… including Felix, Anna, Andy, ect so it's a lot of fun and not so tired out! LOL

"Emmy I'm scared" Maddie cried clinging tight to Emma's neck in the waiting room

"Its ok Lula…"

"I don't like hospitals"

"Neither does Carter apparently, he's cutting off the circulation in my leg" Emma laughed pointing to Carter who was sitting on her shoe hugging her leg

"Did you get in touch with mom or dad yet?" Austin asked in his usual I'm bored tone

"No… they have to keep their phones off there, but I left a message at the front desk place. What about Nathan and Haley?"

"Still no answer"

"They are probably treating this like a vacation" Emma laughed handing Maddie to Austin so she could pull Carter up off the floor

"And Jake?"

"He's on his way but wont be here for another 2 hours"

"What is with the people in this town? They can leave their doors wide open but they cant answer a phone!" Austin asked rolling his eyes. The longer he lived here the more the people just seemed strange to him.

"I know…"

"Maybe their phones are brokded" Maddie said clinging now to Austin's neck

"Where's Amber?"

"Riding the elevator up and down"

"Go get her!" Emma laughed taking Maddie back. That was the last thing they need for Amber to get stuck in an elevator

"I wanna ride!" Maddie shrieked

"No Lula you are Carter stay here with me ok?"

"Austin always gets to do the fun stuff!"

"Should we call Dan?" Emma asked before Austin got too far away

"Dan?"

"I mean what other choice to we have, If we call Karen is could go all crazy and try and use this against mom, Keith well… you know, who else?"

"I guess we can't keep Maddie and Carter here all day" Austin whispered

"Go bye bye" Carter yawned leaning against Emma

"I'll call Dan"

"Wait… are we sure about this? Is this what mom and dad would want us to do?"

"Well they wouldn't want us just sitting here in a crowded waiting room with sick people where they cant even give us any info on Peyton because we aren't related" Emma said pulling out her cell phone. This was their only option

"I guess your right, this sucks"

"Hey you guys! I just saw someone pass out!"

"Hey Amber we're calling Dan do you have any change?" Emma asked seeing the sign NO CELL PHONES

"Yea, right" Amber laughed rolling her eyes at Emma

"Amber"

"Can't we stay here?"

"Well if we can at least get Dan here he is old enough and devious enough to claim he is related to Peyton and ask what's wrong" Emma smiled holding her hand out for the change she knew Amber had

"I guess… here"

"Emmy" Maddie whispered tugging on her shirt

"What?"

"I have to go potty"

"You guys take Maddie and Carter to the bathroom" Emma laughed

"You better not comes in with me Austin!"

"Don't worry…"

"Or you could go to JAIL" Maddie giggled taking Amber's hand glaring at Austin

"Maddie…"

"And then mommy and daddy would sell you"

"Emma cant you take her?" Austin asked shooting evil looks at the 4 year old

"Lula… be nice ok?"

"If I has too" Maddie whined

"Now to call Dan"

Brooke and Lucas sat totally still and shocked in the courtroom. Justine was getting visitation. No matter what Amanda told them that had to be a bad sign. Visitation meant the judge wanted Carter to get to know Justine and vice versa. Which meant there could b a greater plan mixed in there, at least in Brooke opinion. But she figured it was Lucas's too. He was brooding, as usual just like he always did in this room. Amanda was writing something down on her papers and humming some stupid song that was driving Brooke insane. How could she hum at a time like this? Brooke didn't even want to know the answer or what was going on in that woman's mind. She just wanted to get home to her children.

"So, I guess we go now?" Brooke asked taking Lucas's hand

"Oh, you 2 can go… sorry I am just doing a little paperwork" Amanda smiled

"That's all you have to say?" Lucas asked shaking his head and rolling his eyes at her

"Lucas"

"What the hell was that! You're our lawyer! You're supposed to be fighting for us!"

"Lucas" Brooke whispered

"Instead you sit there and just let him do that!"

"What was I supposed to do? Tell the judge no?"

"I don't know… maybe state our case! You sat there writing in your little notebook about god only knows what while Justine and her mother ran over you like a truck!" Lucas yelled

"You have to be careful in these cases"

"Careful? Yes you do… so why don't you start acting careful"

"Come on Luke, lets go home…" Brooke whispered trying to pull Lucas away.

"I'll be in contact with you about next week"

"Luke… come on"

"She is so damn lucky she is a woman" Lucas said once they were out of the court room

"Violent are we?"

"Just pissed off"

"You know…. She doesn't look like a woman in that outfit, so you could hit her and claim you didn't know" Brooke giggled trying to make him less tense. There was nothing they could so about anything now… so there really wasn't a reason to stay pissed off.

"Today sucks"

"Maybe the visitation isn't a terrible idea"

"What?" Lucas asked so shocked at what had just come out of Brooke's mouth he could barely speak

"Well for 2 reasons… 1 is maybe she will see how happy he is with us. If she loves him like she says she does she would care about that 1st and foremost"

"And 2?"

"If they do take him Luke, I don't want him going to some strangers house… at least this way things will be easier on him IF for some reason we do loose him" Brooke said making a huge point to really emphasize the word IF

"That's what worries me…"

"Me too…"

"Today sucks" Lucas sighed putting his arm around her

"Stop brooding…"

"Lets go out the back"

"Why?" Brooke asked

"Car's closer"

"Getting lazy with old age?"

"Ha Ha… I don't like the woman who works at the front desk" Lucas whispered pointing to the woman answering phones

"Didn't she go to high school with us?"

"Yea, she was the only person with a higher grade point average than Haley"

"And now she is taking messages at a court house… life is sweet" Brooke giggled

"Your mean"

"You were thinking it"

"Yes but you said it" Lucas laughed

"That's why we work so well you and I Broody! You think and I speak"

"Is that why?"

"Well other than the great sex" Brooke giggled. This was good for them… anything to help get their minds off of what was going to happen

"That of course"

"That's why you and Peyton didn't work" Brooke added

"I thought we didn't work because I was in love with you"

"That of course"

"Uh huh…" Lucas smiled

"And the fact that you 2 brood way too much… Damn that would be depressing"

"There could be worse"

"Like what?" Brooke giggled

"Like you and Mouth"

"Gross!"

"Or…Jake and Nikki" Lucas laughed

"Likki love! Aww! It sounds so, disturbing"

"Likki?"

"Maddie and I were bored one day" Brooke giggled walking out the door in front of Lucas

"God damn it Dan! He has to be kidding me"

"What the hell happened to your car!"

By the time Emma got in touch with Dan, Austin, and Amber were playing games and Maddie and Carter were asleep in the chairs warn out from all the hospital excitement. So Emma decided to figure out what was wrong with Peyton on her own. This floor was crawling with kids… how were they going to know if she was supposed to be in Peyton's room or not?

"Hey I'm going to the bathroom… don't move" Emma said giving Austin her I mean it look

"Ok"

"I'll be back, when Dan gets here tell him where I am"

"Ok" Austin said ignoring her

"And stay quiet so they stay asleep"

"Emma… we have done this before"

"Right… ok if Dan gets here tell him" Emma started but Austin broke in

"You'll be back… go"

Once Emma was sure they were ok alone she strolled down the hall towards the bathroom and as soon as she was sure they couldn't see her anymore she snuck down the next hall. There were kids everywhere, since it was the ER no one would really notice if she were a patient or not… The hardest part now was just trying to find where they had put Peyton. Trauma 1 definitely wasn't it considering there was a 300-pound man with huge tubes sticking out everywhere. Then the other rooms were pretty clear… but all those years of watching ER with Brooke weren't really helping her at all here. But finally after about 5 more minutes of looking she saw Peyton's curly hair through a window and went in.

"Peyton" Emma whispered sneaking into the room where Peyton was laying in a bed. She was hooked up to wires and tubes everywhere monitoring her and the baby

"Hey… I was wondering what happened to you guys"

"Are you ok?"

"I'm fine… you don't need to worry" Peyton smiled

"And you don't need to lie to me"

"What makes you think I'm lying?"

"You scrunch your forehead up and talk in a low tone" Emma giggled. She hated seeing Peyton like this. Other than Haley Peyton was the closet thing she had to an aunt and had always acted like one to her.

"That's what your mom says"

"What's really wrong Peyton?"

"I don't think they really know" Peyton whispered letting a tear slip down her cheek

"I called Jake"

"Thanks Em! The nurse actually just left to go do that, but I'm glad he heard it from you"

"He's really worried" Emma said quietly looking down at the floor

"What about you guys… whose coming to get you?"

"Dan…Mom and dad didn't answer and Haley and Nathan didn't either"

"Dan… that should be fun" Peyton laughed trying to make Emma smile

"Yea…it should be interesting"

"Did I totally freak everyone out?"

"Maddie still insists that you were just sleeping… that we were being "Dramaticy" as she put it" Emma smiled

"That's good… let her think that"

"But you know us… we've been in enough hospitals over the years, Amber is having a field day though"

"Thanks Emma" Peyton whispered taking her hand

"For what?"

"You did good today… there's no telling what would have happened if you hadn't have called when you did"

"I just hope everything's ok" Emma smiled hugging Peyton

"It will be… you better go, I think that's the nurse coming back"

"Feel better!"

"I will, good luck with Dan"

Brooke couldn't help but laugh seeing Lucas's hummer. All prettily decorated in Bobcats bumper stickers, flags, and everything else made. Then of course there was the painted windows saying "Lucas Scott, Bobcats hero" all over every single window. It was definitely Dan's work… there was no doubt about it… Why he had done it Brooke still had no idea.

"That man is so dead…" Lucas said glaring at his car

"We can give him another heart attack!"

"Or we can just kill him"

"Look at the paint though! Its so pretty!" Brooke giggled admiring Dan's handy work

"What does he think he is doing?"

"Being a supportive father?"

"Then why didn't he do it to his car!" Lucas asked pulling a sticker off the window

"Because he's Dan!"

"Or because he has some kind of deal with my coach… he gets something if I go back to work"

"Maybe they're lovers" Brooke giggled trying to put some sort of smile on Lucas's face

"Dan Scott Gay?"

"Your right… I always saw Keith as the gay one"

"He has to know doing this is just going to piss me off" Lucas said giving up on the car

"Maybe that's what he wants… to piss you off so you just leave"

"He's smarter than that"

"And he has really nice handwriting… look at that!" Brooke said admiring the words Bobcats and Lucas

"Brooke"

"Lucas… come on… we can go through a car wash"

"Today sucks" Lucas whined pulling Brooke to his chest.

"Give me your phone… I need to check the messages"

"I left it at home"

"Why?" Brooke asked. It wasn't like she was going to get an answer though. Lucas was way too pre occupied to listen

"Because I figured you have yours"

"I do, but my voicemail is dead again"

"Today sucks" Lucas whined again hugging Brooke

"I am going to hit you" Brooke giggled kissing him

"Never…"

"Come on… lets just go home and start corrupting Carter against Justine…"

"We have to ride through town like this?" Lucas asked squinting at the car

"Yes… oh and then beep the horn by every house and make it play tunes"

"Your crazy!"

"And that's why you love me" Brooke giggled hopping in the front seat and beeping the horn

Emma rushed back to find the others waiting with Dan in the waiting room. From what she could tell they didn't look happy with her… at all. Dan looked the most upset. He apparently wasn't happy at all about coming all the way down here to get them. But at least he had come.

"And where have you been?" Dan asked tapping his foot at her

"Bathroom?"

"For 20 minutes?"

"I got lost" Emma lied picking up Carter who was thrilled to see her

"You're lying… I don't like liars"

"Your one to talk" Emma giggled

"Excuse me, you tell me everything you were doing"

"Ok I'm lying… I was in the bathroom doing girl stuff"

"Ok no more" Dan said shaking his head

"No… I mean you said you wanted to know everything I was doing"

"Emma…"

"See the tampon machine was broken so I had too" Emma started but both Dan and Austin broke in

"Stop! Stop…"

"What's wrong?"

"I don't want to hear this" Dan snorted

"Be careful what you ask for"

"All that hoping you wouldn't get your mothers genes"

"Its ok Grandpa Dan… you still have me" Amber laughed

"Oh brother…"

"Lets just go"

"Can Austin drive?" Maddie asked excitedly. She was apparently on better terms with Austin now since he had bought her a candy bar

"Your parents better never tell me I am not a good grandparent after this…"

"We has to ride with HIM!" Maddie asked letting her mouth hang open

"Its ok Maddie"

"Can we gets ice cream?"

"No…" Dan snapped

"Happy meals?"

"No…"

"Pepa gets me happy meals" Maddie whispered

"Does he?"

"Yes"

"Well I'm not your Pepa!" Dan laughed

"I loves you more than Pepa"

"This ones smart…"

"And hungry"

"Alright… only if none of you say a word from now on" Dan sighed

"Ok I wont"

"Good"

"So wheres are we going to eat?" Maddie asked no more then 2 seconds later

"Did you not just hear me?"

"I didn't say A WORD silly"

"Dan has competition… this is going to be a funny ride home" Austin laughed as they walked out

Brooke and Lucas drove into their driveway just as Dan did. Of course they had stopped off at the car wash first because Lucas refused to ride anywhere with his car looking like that. Brooke had tried to tell him it made him look like a pimp and she was his ho… but he didn't exactly go for it so he made her sit through the car wash 3 times while they waited for the paint to all come off. Now she was just ready to see what Lucas was going to say to Dan.

"Mommy!" Maddie shrieked running towards Brooke, followed by Carter

"Maddie! Why are you coming from his car?"

"We gotted to go to the hospitals! And I didn't has to get an ouch!"

"What?" Lucas asked

"Hey mom"

"Emmy what happened?"

"Peyton passed out" Emma said

"Oh My God is she ok!"

"As far as she knew"

"What about Jake is he?" Lucas asked

"He should be there now"

"Oh My God"

"Mama!" Carter giggled wanting attention

"Hey baby boy…. Your sticky"

"Ice cream" Dan whispered

"Thanks Dan"

"I only did it to I can prove that I am a better person than Keith"

"Uh huh…"

"Speaking of my big brother… I better be going, Karen had to give Nick to him for the weekend… I thought I would pay a little visit" Dan smiled winking at maddie

"Dan" Lucas said rollijng his eyes. There was no point in trying to stop him at this point. After what Karen and Keith were doing to poor Nick he wasn't sure Dan needed to be stopped

"You washed your car…"

"Yea… we'll talk about that later" Lucas said taking Carter from Brooke

"Can't wait"

"He is such an ass" Lucas said once he was out of earshot

"Lets go inside… we have some things we probably need to start explaining out children"

"You think its time?"

"Better now than Later" Brooke whispered. They had tried to keep all of the court drama to a minimum so it wouldn't scare Emma, Austin and Maddie but on the ride home it had hit her that things were going to be a lot worse in the long run if they didn't know.

"Today sucks"

Spoilers: 5 chapters left! The next 3 are drama filled dealing and closing up on everything to do with Carter, Dan, Peyton, Karen/Keith/Nick, and everyone else. Then Chapter 29 is Emma's birthday and 30 is the big finale! Please review!