Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters except the ones I have made up for the story.

Note: This story takes place 17 and a half years after Broke leaves town. It may include some flash backs to explain the story.

IT had been a long day; she was tired, and exhausted. All she wanted to do was to find a hotel and take a nap. But that couldn't happen, not yet; she still had almost an hour's drive ahead of her before she could stop. She had left Bostic early that morning, and had been driving for almost 4 hours now. She wasn't use to driving for long periods of time, that was her brother's job or her fiancés job, not hers.

Lucy loved her life; she grew up in the small town of Bostic North Carolina with her twin brother Lucas. They both played basketball and they were both on the Varsity team for their school. They both had dreams of playing pro basketball one day. Her fiancé Blake was also on the Varsity team, he was the same age.

They were all seniors at Bostic High School, their life was easy and carefree, and that was until 2 years ago, when her and Blake found out that she was pregnant. She wasn't the statistical teenage mother, she had lots of friends, did what her mom asked for the most part, got good grades played on the Varsity team.

"Mommy!" Brooke screamed from the back seat.

Lucy looked in the rear view mirror to see the 1 and a half-year old holding her sippy-cup upside down to indicate that it was empty. "Ok sweetie, just a sec." Lucy replied as she pulled the car to the side of the road and put it in park. She opened the car door and got into the back where the lunch box was. She opened it and got out the big bottle of juice for Brooke. "Here you go princess." She replied twisting the lid back on the cup and handing it to her daughter. "Lets hurry up, its time for your nap." She told her as she got back into the drivers seat and started driving again down the highway.

Brooke started laughing as she heard the cell phone ring in the familiar Wiggles theme song that Lucy had gotten since Brooke laughed whenever she heard it.

"Hello?" Lucy said as she turned the phone on.

"Hey Lucy, ya there yet?"

"No Lucas, I'm not there yet, I had to stop a couple times to change Brooke and then to grab something to eat." Lucy replied into the phone.

"Lucy you should have left Brooke here with me like I suggested, it's going to take longer with her along." Lucas stated.

"Lucas she's my daughter, she goes where I go, I wasn't about to just leaver her while I leave."

"She's my niece, and you wouldn't just be taking off your going to get some answers." Luca replied.

"I know Lucas, but I would miss her terribly if I left her, anyways I better go I need to stop and get some gas." Lucy said pulling into a gas station.

"Ok Lucy, just call me when you get there ok?" Lucas stated.

"Bye Lucas," Lucy said turning the phone off.

She got out of the car and filled the car with gas. She then opened the back and unbuckled Brooke's car seat, "Come on sweetie, mommy needs to go pay for the gas," she told her as they walked towards the front door.

After another hour of driving she was finally there. She pulled into the parking lot of the local hotel and went inside to check in.

"Hello may I help you?" asked a guy that looked no older then her.

"Yes I would like to check in," Lucy said switching Brooke to her other hip.

"Name please?" The guy asked.

"Lucy Scott."

"Oh, my name is Nathan Scott, isn't that funny," he said laughing,

"Yeah not too many Scott's out there," he replied.

"Well of course you got the basket ball players Lucas and Nathan Scott," she replied.

"Oh do you like the NBA?" he asked.

"Yeah I love basket ball, so does my twin brother Lucas, we both play for on our Varsity team, so does my fiancé." She replied now switching Brooke back to her other hip. "That's cool, I play for my Varsity team too, actually it's a big deal in my family, my dad is Nathan Scott." He said showing the famous Scott smile.

"Your dad is Nathan Scott?!?!" she asked.

"Yeah, I'm Nathan Scott Jr. and my uncle is Lucas Scott."

"That's neat, I would love if someone in my family played in the NBA,"

"Well your room is 216, would you like help with your luggage?" he asked.

"Oh yes, thank you. Its hard carrying suitcases with her in my arms." She replied gesturing to the very squirming Brooke she was holding.

"Of course, she's cute, is she your sister?" he asked as they walked to her car to grab her suitcases.

"Daughter actually," she replied expecting the same reaction from him as she got from everyone else when they found out she had a daughter.

"Oh, don't worry my mom had me when she was 17, and my grandma had my dad when she was in collage, I'm use to people having kids young." He replied as he opened her room door for her.

"Yeah my mom had my brother and me when she was 16, but I'm not sure about the rest of my family, I don't know any of my family besides my mom, my brother, my step dad and my twin half sisters."

"How come?" he asked.

"It's a long story, but basically my mom left town when she became pregnant with me, so I don't know any of my family."

"Well I better go, but I get off in an hour would you like to grab some lunch and I could show you around town? Just as friends, since your engaged." He replied so she didn't think he was hitting on her.

"Sure that sounds great." She replied.

Lucy used the hour to get settled and put Brooke down for a nap, of course Brooke didn't have the same idea as Lucy did, she just sat up in the play pin laughing and occasionally crying until Lucy would give in and pick her up.

Lucy heard a knock at the door and opened it.

"Hey you ready?" Nathan asked.

"Yeah just a second, I couldn't get Brooke to take a nap so she might be fussy if that's ok?" she asked.

"Yeah its fine, I'm use to it, I have 9 brothers and sisters." He said laughing as they walked outside and started walking down the sidewalk.

"Nine brothers and sisters?!?!" she said.

"Yeah, my parents are crazy, believe me." He said laughing again.

"How do you deal with nine siblings?" she asked.

"No I mean I have nine brothers, and nine sisters." He corrected her.

"You mean 16 siblings!!!" she said not believing how someone could have that many kids.

"Yep, 17 kids including me."

"How old are all of them?" she asked.

"Well let me go down the list: Me, Nathan and my twin Nick 17, Haley and Hannah 15, Carrie and Connie 13, Shane and Steve 11, Michael and Mark 9, Mindy and Michelle 7, Natalie and Nina 5, Chris and Carl 3, and then Bailey, Bryson, and Ben 1." He said all in one breath.

"Wow, so you mean that all of you are twins?" she asked.

"Yep, well except the triplets of course," he replied.

"I've never heard of something like that before." She repleied astonished by his family.

"Well my parents are still a ways off of the record of 27 sets of multiples by one women." He said laughing.

"I still can't believe you have that many siblings, you must have a big house." She stated.

"Well I guess you could say its big, but we share rooms, I share with my twin and then there is 2 sets of twins in each room, of course Bailey shares with Bryson and Ben until she gets a little older and moves out of the nursery, then she'll move in with Natalie, Nina, Mindy and Michelle."

They walked down the main street of tree hill occasionally pointing to some hinges and telling a story or tow about them.

"Here is my grandma's café, we could have lunch here," he said pointing to Karen's Café.

"Sounds good, I actually needed to come here," she said as he opened the door for her.

"Oh what for?" he asked.

"Well it's a long story," she replied setting Brooke in the High Chair Nathan had pulled up to the table.

"Well I've got lots of time," he said sitting across the table from her.

"Well my mom was in a car accident over a year ago, actually the day before Brooke was born, she was hurt badly and went into a coma, she still hasn't woken up. I went into labor early because I was so stressed about my mom, they didn't think she would make it through the night, so when Brooke was born I decided to name her after my mom. My mom never told me or my brother anything about our past, but when she went into the coma my step dad gave us a box of pictures and things that my mom had kept for us, to give us when she died. He thought that we should have it then since we were going through a lot. There was a letter, telling me that this is where she grew up, in the small town of Tree Hill, North Carolina. She never mentioned who my father was but did have a couple pictures, of course he was ripped out of every photo she had left for us. But you could see the Café in the back of a couple photos and I was hoping that maybe a couple people would know my mom here." She explained.

"Oh wow, you should ask my grandma or even my parents they went to high school here, they may have gone with your mom. They might even know of who your father may be. My grandma also started the café so she might know." He said trying to be helpful.

"That would be great help, I don't really know where to start, and I know that my dad doesn't even know that Lucas and I exist or that my mom is in a coma. I know my mom loved my dad and I thought he has a right to know about my mom and us." She replied.

"Hey Nathan who's this?" His mom asked as she walked into the café pushing a triple stroller with the triplets in it.

"Oh hey mom, this is a friend of mine, Lucy." He said pointing to her, "and this is her daughter." He said gesturing towards Brooke.

Lucy turned around since her back was facing the lady that just walked in. When she turned around, Haley just looked at her, she looked so familiar, she couldn't believe it. The auburn hair, and the bog smile she had. The little girl looked just like her, only her hair was lighter.

"Wow," Haley said she couldn't believe how much she looked like her. Just looking at her she knew who she was.

"Huh?" Nathan asked confused by him mother remark.

"You look just like her," she said.

"Like who?" Nathan asked.

"An old friend of your fathers and your uncles and mine. She went to school with us, her name was..."

"Brooke Davis." Payton said walking up behind Haley and looking at Lucy.

"You knew my mom?" Lucy asked surprised.

"Yeah really well." Payton replied. "Actually we were best friends until she just left one day," she said.

"Payton Sawyer right?" Lucy asked.

"Actually Payton Jagielsky now." She replied. "She told you about me?" she asked.

"Actually I have a picture," she said digging her hand into her purse and pulling out a picture of Brooke, Haley, Payton, but with half ripped off. "It has both of you in it, and on the back your names are on it. She would never talk about Tree hill even when we asked." Lucy replied.

"We?" Payton asked.

"Yeah me and my twin brother Lucas," she answered.

"Oh, where is your mom?" Haley asked seeing where Payton was taking the conversation, even though she wanted to find out more she thought she should change the subject since they did just meet.

"Um at Fairview Hospital in Bostic," Lucy replied and her smiled faded.

"Is she ok?" Payton asked concerned.

"No one knows, she was in a car accident a year and a half ago and has been in a coma ever since." She repleied.

"Oh my god," Payton replied in shock about hearing about her best friend from high school. "Will she wake up?" she asked.

"They don't know, I came here because my step-dad gave me a box that my mom had set aside for me and it told me that she was from Tree Hill, before the accident I had no idea where she grew up for all I knew she could have been from England, she did a great job if keeping her entire past a secret." Lucy answered.

"Your step dad?" Haley asked.

"Yeah my mom got married when we were two," she replied.

"What about your dad?" Payton asked.

"I have no idea," Lucy said picking Brooke up from the high chair and setting her in her lap. "That's why I'm here, to find out who my dad is, I was actually hoping that you could help me out. I have no idea where to start, I was hoping to find some of your from the pictures I have, but my dad is ripped out of every picture so I don't even know where to start. I don't have his name or anything." She rambled on.

"I know," is all Payton said.

"You do?" Lucy said looking up from Brooke and looking at Payton.

"Payton we don't know for sure," Haley objected.

"Haley look at her, she looks just like him, her name, her brothers name, and she looks what 17? 18? It's the perfect age, it has to be him." Payton replied.

"But we don't know for sure." Hailey continued.

"Your father is an old friend of ours, they dated during high school, the three of us had a huge fight a couple months before she left, they were High School Sweet hearts." Payton explained.

"Didn't uncle Lucas have a high school sweet heart that moved?" Nathan asked. He had been listening to the conversation the whole time, he grew up with his parents, in this town but knew none of this before, hearing stories of his mom's high school days was weird, he couldn't imagine her any other way then being his mom.

"Yeah, Lucy Lucas is your father," Haley said.

"You mean Lucas Scott the NBA player?" Lucy asked in shock.

"Yep, didn't you say your brothers name was Lucas?" Payton asked.

"Yeah but I thought that it was just a coincidence that he was named Lucas Scott and there was a basketball player with the same name." She replied still stunned by what she just heard.

"You mean you guys were given his last name?" Haley asked.

"I guess so, we didn't know where we got our last name from, we wondered if it could have been our fathers or just a name our mom picked from one of her many boyfriends, so we could have a guy's last name, but I didn't think we were named after him." She said.

"You must have, I mean Lucy and Lucas that is as close as you can get to Lucas for twins."

"I think I'm going to call my step dad and ask him about our birth certificates, maybe he was named Lucas Scott Jr. or maybe even she put our dads name on it. He wouldn't tell us about them before but now that I have an idea who my father is he just might cave in." Lucy said pulling out her cell phone.

After talking to her step dad for what felt like forever she finally shut it off and walked back over to the table where everyone was sitting. "It's Jr. alright, and Lucas's name is on the certificate but he didn't sign it, so it has a blank on both of ours for him to sign." Lucy said looking down at Brooke. "Wow she is tired, I think I better get her back to the hotel for a nap, she just got over an ear infection and is still a little cranky, I also better call my fiancé and Lucas since I promised to call both of them." Lucy said picking Brooke up.

"Fiancé?" Payton asked now sitting down next to Haley at the booth.

"Yeah we got engaged right before Brooke was born, we would have gotten married then but he won't let us marry until he has a ring for me, and he wants it to have a big diamond." Lucy said laughing at her fiancé Blake.

"Wow how old are you?" Payton asked.

"I'm just about to turn 18, I know I'm young but were in love and have Brooke together so we want to get married." Lucy said explaining the situation.

"I know all about that," Hailey said. "Nathan's father and I were 17 when I had him and we got married when he was a month old." Haley replied.

"Well Lucy if you would like to talk you can always talk to me, I don't live to far from here, and if you want to talk to Lucas..." Payton said.

"Thanks, I just might need someone to help me," Lucy said. "Well I better put her down for her nap. Thanks for all of your help." Lucy said getting up and walking out the door, and down the street towards the hotel where she was staying in Tree Hill.