Hello everyone. This is Chapter 15. thanks to all my like regular reviewers for reviewing, but please others out there on this planet review as well. Just a little review. Something or anything. Alright never mind just enjoy this chapter.
The next day things were starting to calm over a little bit. Everyone had gone home except Nathan who had spent the night at the hospital in Brooke's room. Early in the morning a different doctor came in and woke Nathan up.
"Oh I'm sorry didn't mean to wake you." The doctor said.
"Oh no it's not a problem."
"I just came into check on her but you seem to have that covered."
"I just didn't want her to be alone." He said feeling kind of embarrassed.
"You her boyfriend?" she asked.
"Yeah."
"Well that's sweet of you. I'm Tracy."
"Nathan." He said
"Well you just buzz if you need anything."
"Alright thanks."
"Bye." She said walking out.
"Nathan?" Brooke said waking up.
"Brooke." He said quickly turning around to her.
"Hey, did you spend the night here?"
"Yeah, you said you didn't want to be left alone."
"Nathan that's too sweet of you."
"I'm just taking care of you."
"You know a long time ago that would probably annoy me, but now I'm so happy to have you protecting me."
"Anything for you Brooke."
Every time Nathan said this is it seemed to get sweeter and sweeter. It turned her heart inside out with happiness. Nathan was the greatest guy she had ever been with.
"You know I love you." She said
"I should hope so."
"Well I do."
"Well I do too."
"Come here." She said and Nathan did.
They shared a tender kiss, Nathan wasn't doing anything crazy, he wanted to make sure she was alright. But of course Officer Sherman walked in on their special moment yet again.
"This is getting pretty old." Nathan said sitting back down.
"Well maybe you shouldn't be making out with a girl in a hospital bed." Officer Sherman said walking over to the other side of Brooke.
"Maybe you should leave." Nathan said standing up getting ready to punch him.
"Whoa there calm down. I just came to check on Brooke, see if she remembered anything else about last night."
"At 6:30 in the morning." Nathan said checking his watch.
"I'm trying to get ahead on the case."
"Or you thought she would be alone so you could finish what you started earlier." Nathan said really defensively.
"excuse me?" what exactly do you mean by that?"
"Nothing, it's just this whole thing seems kind of weird, you getting assigned to this case and actually taking it considering what's happened in the past. Why don't I just go tell those other officers what you did right now." Nathan said turning to leave.
"You think they'll believe you. I'm one of the most respected police officers they have if not the best as well."
"Yeah right." Brooke said.
"Hey I'm just trying to help out here." Officer Sherman said.
"Yeah well it would help if you left." Brooke said.
"I can certainly do that, but I'm going to need to talk to your boyfriend in private first."
"Fine let's go." He said already walking out the door.
"Have a nice day beautiful." Officer Sherman said tipping his hat to Brooke. Once he left Brooke said "ew!"
"What do you want?" Nathan said back outside of Brooke's room.
"Look I really suggest you lay off of everything and just calm down Nathan."
"I don't think I'm going to do that."
"You're not helping with the case, always crowding Brooke when we try to ask her questions, I think you're a bit to involved."
"I think you're a bit to involved."
"Now Nathan I have to be involved."
"Take yourself off this case and put someone else on it."
"Do you actually think I did this to Brooke?"
"It wouldn't be surprising."
"Alright even if I did, which I promise you I didn't"
"Don't fucking promise me anything." Nathan said turning away.
"Alright but even if you did tell people that I did it why would they believe you?"
"Why wouldn't they believe me?"
"Think about it I'm an honored trusted police men. You're just a teenager who thinks he's in love with a pretty girl. And you can add in the fact that I was also working on the case about your father's murder and your mother has been convicted of his murder, there are just so many negative feelings that could be floating around there. Everyone would just think your trying to find someone to blame so you can sleep at night."
Nathan had just been staring at Officer Sherman throughout this whole speech not believing what he was hearing.
"You better hope Brooke doesn't remember anything else about this. And if we find proof that you did this you'll be…"
"Whoa don't threaten me Nathan that could land you somewhere you really don't want to be."
"You just better hope we don't find out that you did this. Now get out of here."
"Gladly." Officer Sherman started to walk away but then he turned around and said "say goodbye to Brooke for me." Nathan had to use everything he had to not walk over to the officer and punch him right then, but he didn't. He just stood there and let Officer Sherman walk away. After taking a few breaths Nathan walked back into Brooke's room.
"You have a nice conversation with officer shitman? Oh do you like his new name, it
took me like the whole time you were gone to think of it but I think it works."
"It definitely does. And no we didn't have a nice conversation."
"Do you really think it was him that did this to me?"
"Yeah actually I really do."
"That gross's me out so much."
"It piss's me off." Nathan said.
"Well so what are we going to do?"
"I have no idea."
The nurse Tracy that Nathan had met earlier walked in.
"Oh hi, sorry to interrupt, I just came to tell you that Brooke is going to be released today at around noon."
"That's great." Nathan said
"Yeah I can't wait to get out of this room." Brooke said.
"I know most people don't like these hospital rooms, I tried to mention maybe repainting them to make them more inviting, but apparently its just not in the budget. Anyways I'll leave you two alone. Call if you need anything."
"Thanks." Brooke and Nathan said as Tracy left.
"She seems nice." Brooke said.
"Yeah I met her earlier when you were still asleep."
"Well I'm so glad to get out of here, can I go to your apartment."
"If you want to?"
"Yeah I like it there, although I guess I should probably go see Karen. Has she been here at all?"
"Yeah she came last night for a little while, I think she has to work this morning, but she said something about taking the afternoon off or something."
"Well I'll just go to your apartment for a little while and then go home."
"Sounds good."
A little bit after 12 Brooke was indeed released from the hospital, and her and Nathan got in his car and drove to his apartment. Once they got there Brooke was getting ready to get out of the car when Nathan said "wait." He got out and ran to the other side of the car opening the door and then he carried her up to his apartment. They had a little trouble opening the door but once they got in Nathan slowly put her down on the couch.
"Oh why thank you sir." Brooke said in a sort of English accent.
"Not a problem." He said sitting down next to her.
"You know being locked up in that darn hospital room we never really got to, well be together."
"Yes we did."
"You know what I mean." She said seductively.
"Oh right, yes that is true."
"Well then come here." She said taking his arm and pulling him over her. They started kissing but then Brooke stopped abruptly.
"Oh my god." Brooke said pushing Nathan off of her.
"What? Did I do it wrong?" he said sort of laughing.
"No I just had a like a weird flash back thingy. I don't know what it was."
"Well what happened in it?"
"It was just a flash on the beach where the guy with the black mask grabbed my arm and then pushed me down and he said like sorry I think or something, but that was it."
"He said sorry?" Nathan said confused.
"I think so… yeah."
"Weird."
"I know." She said also confused.
"Well do you remember the sound of the voice?"
"You mean did it sound like Officer Sherman? I'm sorry shitman."
"Yeah."
"I couldn't tell. I'm not good with this kind of thing, not that this has ever happened before."
"Well maybe more stuff will come to you if we keep making out."
"Yeah maybe, come here." She said pulling him over to her.
The day started winding down and Brooke hadn't remembered anything else. This whole situation was starting to just get annoying. Everyone just wanted to know who did it so that things could move on. School was going to start back up soon and Brooke especially didn't want this whole thing to be hanging over her head for people to gossip about. Everyone just wanted to figure out who did it. But it turned out no one had to. Officer Sherman admitted to attempting to rape Brooke the next day. Everyone was shocked except for Brooke and Nathan but they were actually shocked as to why Officer Sherman admitted to it. Apparently the younger officer had been suspicious of Officer Sherman so he looked up his files and found a case along time ago somewhat the same along the lines of this one, and Officer Sherman just decided to turn himself in.
"I still can't believe he just turned himself in." Haley said to Lucas. They were in Karen's café drinking coffee.
"I know, I'm just glad it's over though, and we know that he never got around to actually raping Brooke."
"How do people like him become police officers?"
"I'm not quite sure the Tree Hill Police force is the best out of all of them so I don't maybe that had something to do with it."
"It's just crazy that an officer would ever do something like that, and then turn himself in."
"Yeah." Lucas said but his mind was somewhere else, staring off into space.
"uhh earth to Lucas?" Haley said waving her hand out.
"Oh sorry."
What are you thinking about?" Haley said like she'd asked the question a hundred times.
"Do you ever think Nathan and I could be friends again?" Lucas said
"Well I think it depends on Nathan, you obviously would be up for that."
"Yeah, see when we were in the hospital he apologized for what he had said earlier on the beach."
"He did?"
"Yeah, I just want things to be good again, where we are all friends you, me, Peyton, Jake, Nathan, and Brooke."
"I'm sure they will it just takes some time."
"Yeah I hope they do."
Okay so this is like my least favorite chapter I've ever written. I don't like how the rape storyline ended but I just wanted it to end, so I ended it in a weird way. I think I'm having like a writers block right now, my last few chapters haven't been that good, they've all been kinda sad too. Okay so I'll make the next one's better and happier. I just really wanted to end this crappy rape storyline. Please review anyways. I love it! Coming up
School and basketball start again
Haley and Lucas reconsider their relationship
Nathan runs into Tracy
