Ok here's chapter 22, 22 is my favorite and lucky number, anyways ok so please keep reviewing, and Mony19 you were right on with your guess, I read your review and was like Whoa anyways thanks for the reviews everyone, and I also did some research for this chapter on what Jenny has so, just thought you might like to know. Ok enjoy…
Previously the doctor had just walked in and said "I have some bad news..."
"Well what is it?" Jake said stepping away from Peyton.
"Jenny has a bad case of pneumonia." The doctor said.
"Ok, well what do we do about this?"
"Well in this case it's a viral infection so meds won't really work. I want to take her to the hospital."
"Oh my god." Peyton mumbled under her breath. Brooke walked over to Peyton and put her arm around her.
"Wait doctor Florence, why do we have to take her to the hospital, is this really that serious?" Jake asked him putting a hand to his head out of his apprehension.
"We need to give Jenny time to rest, and make sure she has plenty of fluids." Doctor Florence said trying to make everyone calm down.
"So why does she need to go to the hospital?" Peyton asked him.
"One it's all around a safer place in case Jenny takes a turn for the worst." He said emphasizing the in case "and until then we can make it easier for her to breath by hooking her up to a breathing tube." He said.
"Well is she going to be ok?" Jake asked him.
"look right now she's not doing very well, we need to hook her up to a breathing tube, and we'll take things from there, there's really no way to know. She could get better or she could develop a bacterial infection as well. It's common since its flu season."
"Well what would happen then?" Jake said.
"In that case we could give her some antibiotics. Look right now I'd just like to get her to the hospital."
"Alright." Jake said, finally giving up on all of his questioning.
"Ok, would you like to bring her to the hospital?"
"yes, I would." Jake said.
"I'll go get her." Doctor Florence said walking away.
"Jake" Peyton said in a barely audible whisper. Jake turned to her; Brooke quickly moved out of the way and walked over to Nathan as Jake hugged Peyton. The doctor came back out with Jenny in his hands. Jake quickly walked over to him and took Jenny into his arms.
"Hey Jenny, aw, it's okay, your going to be ok, daddy's here now." Jake said to Jenny and then turned to the doctor. "So what should we do when we get to the hospital?" Jake asked him.
"I'm going to go too, so I'll take care of it when we get there." Doctor Florence.
"Ok thank you Doctor." Jake said taking Jenny and walking towards the door.
"I'll go with you Jake." Peyton said.
"We'll follow you there." Brooke added in.
'oh no, you guys should go, you too Peyton it's late." Jake said.
"No Jake, I'm coming, I don't care what you say." Peyton said.
"Yeah me too." Brooke said.
"Alright, if you guys insist. Lets go then." He said walking out of the Doctors office.
Everyone got to the Hospital and some other doctors took Jenny to do some more tests, and then hook her up to the breathing machine. Jake, Peyton, Brooke, and Nathan were all sitting in the waiting room. Jake and Peyton were holding hands, Nathan was staring off into space, and Brooke was reading a Seventeen magazine, but she wasn't really reading it just flipping through the pages. She really wanted Jenny to be ok, even though she barely even knew the little girl; she was just a little baby who had barely even lived in the world. Plus she was already getting attached to her, and she knew how important Jenny was to Jake and Peyton, the thought of loosing her was enough to make Brooke sick to her stomach. Brooke was thinking a million miles a minute about all of this stuff that she didn't even notice that she had started flipping through the passed a million miles a minute. Nathan reached out and took her hand.
"Hey… you might want to chill on that page flipping thereBrooke." Nathan said.
"Oh." She said snapping back to reality, and seeing Nathan, Jake, and Peyton all looking at her. "I was just, umm you know what I think I'm going to get some coffee, anyone want any?"
"Yes please." Peyton said like it was what she needed to keep alive.
"Sure." Jake mumbled.
"I'll go with you." Nathan said getting up and taking her hand as they walked down the hall, they had been walking around for a few minutes.
"Where is the freaking coffee?" Brooke said not really to anyone in particular.
"Brooke, is everything ok?" Nathan asked her.
"uh no not really Nathan, jenny's really sick, Peyton and Jake are freaking out, we can't find the coffee and my feet are really starting to hurt from these damn heels." Brooke said all in one breath. Nathan hasn't expected to get that as an answer.
"Uh, ok, you sure Peyton and Jake aren't the only ones freaking out?" he said.
Brooke stopped and looked at Nathan, would he understand why she was so upset? It was worth a try,
"Ok so I barely even know Jenny, but I feel attached to her, plus she's so little she doesn't deserve this, and neither do Peyton and Jake."
"I know." Nathan said putting his arms around her.
"Nathan, I told Peyton everything would be all right, but what if it's not? What if Jenny's not ok?" Brooke mumbled into Nathan's chest.
"Brooke, you can't think about that, ok? Lets just get the coffee, and take things as they come ok?" he said looking down at her waiting for an answer or a nod, or for her to even look up at him, but she stayed buried in his chest.
"Brooke?" He said stroking her hair.
"Yeah?" she said still not looking up.
"Are you going to be ok?" he asked her.
"Yeah, I just I want to stay like this. I feel like nothings changing, so nothing will happen to Jenny if we stay like this." Brooke said.
"I wish we could stay like this." Nathan said kissing the top of her head, "but we need to be there for Peyton and Jake." He said. She stayed like that for a couple of seconds before looking up at him; tears were falling down her cheeks.
"Ok." She said.
"You know you're a really great person Brooke." Nathan said wiping the tears off of her cheeks.
"Let's just go find the coffee." Brooke said, unlatching herself from Nathan.
"Hey Brooke? You know that right?" he asked her seriously.
"I can be." She said.
"You are." He said not glancing away from her, he wanted her to know that for herself.
"Thanks." She said.
Brooke and Nathan walked back into the waiting room coffees in hand.
"Hey, it took you guys awhile." Peyton said kind of groggily.
"Yeah who would've thought that this hospital is really a maze, they probably try to make things confusing so people take more time getting lost then waiting here." Brooke said. Handing Jake and Peyton their coffee. "Anyway, here you go." She said and then sat down across from them next to Nathan. "So any news about Jenny?" she asked them.
Peyton finished taking a sip of her coffee and then said "no, I think they're still doing tests."
"You guys can go if you want; I know this must be boring." Jake said.
"Oh no, Jake, we'll stay as long as we need to." Brooke said.
"Thanks guys." Jake said, and then took a small sip of his coffee.
A doctor that no one knew came out about five minutes later.
"Hi I'm doctor waters." He said.
"Hi, I'm Jake, jenny's father." Jake said standing up.
"Ok, so we finished our tests on Jenny, and now she's in a room hooked up to a breathing tube."
"So, I mean what do we do?" Jake said.
"Well, I'm not sure if Doctor Florence told you this but it's a viral infection so antibiotics won't really affect it. Now this means we just have to wait and see what happens. We're going to wait about another hour to see if her fever goes down, and if it doesn't then we'll do some more tests." Doctor Waters said.
"Ok, what does it mean if her fever doesn't go down in the next hour?" Jake asked him.
"Basically that her body is fighting hard enough. We're not really sure, which is why we have to do some tests so that we will be sure."
"But is she in danger of… dying?" Jake said taking a few seconds to get that last word out, the thought of loosing Jenny was more then unbearable.
"It's very unlikely, but it is a possibility, as is with any young child's cough. These children's bodies aren't very strong so they can't fight off disease very easily, but I doubt this will be the case with Jenny. Ok?" he doctor said, looking directly at Jake.
"Yeah." Jake said softly, it really wasn't ok, Jenny had to be okay.
"Alright, I'll check back in an hour."
"Umm, doctor waters can I go and see her?" Jake asked him, before he left.
"I really wouldn't recommend it, in terms of Jenny's health she really needs to rest right now, I think it would be best if she was left alone, but I can't stop you if you really want to see her." Doctor Waters nodded his head and walked away from the waiting room.
"Are you going to go see her?" Peyton asked him, as he walked back over to her and sat down.
"No, I don't want to do anything to endanger her health; I'll just wait, until they know more."
"Ok" Peyton said, taking his hand.
"We're all here with you Jake." Brooke said.
"Yeah." Nathan added in, but then felt kind of stupid.
Slowly, the minutes dragged on, and on… and on until finally it had been an hour. Brooke had fallen asleep on Nathan's shoulder, who was reading a magazine, but when he looked down at her he saw for the first time how much he really loved her, he had always known he'd loved her, but tonight something had changed, Brooke's compassion for other people and things, her personality, not to mention her good looks, but that didn't mean anything it was just an added bonus. Brooke was the love of his life. Nathan got lost in thoughts of Brooke Davis when doctor Waters walked back out to the four tired teenagers.
"Good news." Doctor Waters said. "Jenny doesn't have a fever anymore."
"Oh that's great." Peyton said. "I mean it is isn't it?" Peyton said, almost jumping out of her seat.
"Brooke? Wake up." Nathan said shaking her shoulder. Brooke opened her eyes, but then closed them because of the bright florescent lights; it took her a second to adjust to the light, but then she slowly looked up to see everyone excited.
"Yes, it is good news. Everything should be fine. We want to keep her here over night, but tomorrow she should be able to return home, for a lot of rest that is."
"That's great." Jake said.
"Alright, if you all want to go home you can, she should be fine and if anything were to happen we could just call you." Doctor Waters said.
"Oh no, I think I'd rather just stay here." Jake said.
"Well, suit yourself. Ok I just got paged I need to be somewhere else right now, we'll keep checking back on her." Doctor Waters said and then walked away.
"Oh Jake I'm so happy." Peyton said hugging him.
"I know me too. I knew she'd be alright." Jake said. Jake and Peyton were solely focused on one anther so Brooke and Nathan thought it would be a good time to leave.
"Hey guys, if you don't mind I think Nathan and I are going to go now. Unless you want us to stay, because we can, if you need us to." Brooke said.
"No that's ok, we'll call you tomorrow." Peyton said.
"Ok." Brooke said "have a good night." Brooke said hugging Jake and then Peyton.
"Bye." Brooke and Nathan said.
"Bye." Peyton and Jake said back to them.
Brooke and Nathan got back to their apartment, and both struggled to walk up the stairs because they were so tired. Half way up the stairs Brooke stopped and sat down where she was.
"ugghhh, Nathan I'm tired." Brooke sighed.
"I'm not carrying you, so you can forget about that little idea of yours." He said still walking up the stairs.
"Nathan, don't waste your energy arguing with me and come down here." Brooke said.
"No way, I'm already at the top of the stairs." He said.
"I'll give you something special." She said smiling.
"You always give something special." He said.
"Ok well, then if you don't come get me then I won't give you something special."
'Brooke, come on you're the one that's wasting their energy." Nathan said.
"Nathan… please." She said like a little kid.
"Fine." He sighed and rolled his eyes. Nathan walked down the stairs and picked Brooke up. She put her arms around his neck, and laid her head on his shoulder. Nathan walked with her up the stairs and into the apartment, he had a little trouble unlocking the door and opening it without dropping Brooke, but never the less he did it. He carried her to the bed room.
"Ok Brooke. I got you to the bed room." He said, but when he looked at her and got no answer he realized she had fallen asleep. He gently lied her down on the bed, and got in next to her, and put the covers over them, slipping his arm around her waste. It wasn't exactly the way he envisioned their first night together in the apartment, but it worked out well anyways.
Ok umm coming up
Tracey's back…
Haley wants to find someone to love, who will it be?
