Ok so quite on the contrary of what I said last time, this chapter is actually kind of short but it's action packed and I hope you like it but it's an idea I've had since I started writing on this site, well I mean one thing that happens in it so just I hope to like feel free to tell me if you don't though. Thank you so much for your lovely reviews and please keep them coming ok please read and try to enjoy…
A month passed by, the same way that the last week had. Lucas started getting into his job more and the whole situation with his team was sort of… weird… still but he had control and they were winning games, hadn't lost one yet. Brooke went to work everyday, and she visited Carmen about once a week. The two of them had gotten sort of close but Carmen was still Carmen, and although she didn't say it Brooke thought that a bunch of emotions about her parents were building up inside of her and she was keeping them in, which wasn't such a good thing. Haley spent more and more time with Zach and less time with Nathan although she had expressed her feelings to him things were getting a little better. Nathan was just having trouble balancing his friends with his family, and this was driving Haley crazy.
Brooke and Haley were having lunch together on a Saturday afternoon at a café in the city.
"Haley." Brooke said trying to get her attention.
Haley who had been staring off into an imaginary world suddenly came back into reality.
"Everything ok in there?" Brooke asked her.
"It's fine. Yeah." Haley said taking a sip of her water.
"Nathan troubles?" Brooke asked her.
"Maybe." Haley said.
"Ok one syllable girl." Brooke said.
"Maybe is two syllables Brooke." Haley said.
"Shut up I'm pregnant I can't think straight." She said shaking her head and eating a piece of bread.
"Sorry, go on." Haley said.
"Well, you and Nathan are going to be fine. His basketball is just making him busy. Believe me Haley he is not cheating on you." Brooke said.
"I didn't think that he was." Haley said looking at Brooke like she had gone insane.
"Oh, well he wouldn't do that. He loves you Haley." Brooke said genuinely.
"I know, I just, we need to get past this. I don't want Zach to grow up without knowing his father." Haley said.
"That won't happen." Brooke said smiling. Haley's cell phone started to ring.
"Sorry it's my work." Haley said.
"Whatever, bitch." Brooke said quietly and then started laughing "kidding, I'm kidding." Brooke smiled.
"Hello… oh hi yeah wait what happened…. Oh my god are you serious, no I'll be right there. Call the police." Haley said into her phone, and hung it up starting to stand and gather her things.
"Haley what's going on?" Brooke said still remaining casual.
"Brooke, Carmen's gone." Haley said suddenly stopping her frantic getting ready to leave ritual.
"What do you mean she's gone, like someone took her or…"
"She ran away." Haley said "I have to go sorry." Haley said.
"No, wait I'm coming with you." Brooke said.
"Brooke, no, I mean just go home I'll call you when I find out more." Haley said.
"Haley, I'm coming with you." Brooke said strongly.
Haley paused and looked at her for a few seconds "alright fine." Haley said "let's go."
"Alright." Brooke said getting up. "Wait we have to pay." Brooke said.
"We'll do it on the way out, come on." Haley said.
Brooke and Haley met up with Lucas at Haley's offices and they were sitting in Haley's office waiting for the police to arrive and give them news of what was going on.
Haley picked up her phone and listened to a message on it from the front desk.
"Ok guys, the police are looking for her." Haley said.
"What, well she could be anywhere in the city, that's not a good place for a little girl to be walking around in by herself." Brooke said really worried. Lucas took her hand in his to try to comfort her.
"I'm going to drive around and look for her." Haley said.
"You know what; Lucas and I will look around here. Down the streets, I mean she might have just gone out the building and hid down an alley right next door for all we know." Brooke said.
"Ok, um call me if you find her, or the police, whatever." Haley said.
"Alright good luck," Brooke said.
"Yeah you too." Haley said and the three of them walked out of the office.
Brooke and Lucas got outside and started walking down the busy sidewalk.
"God I hope we find her." Brooke said running her hand through her hair, becoming very nervous.
"Hey, slow down Brooke." Lucas said grabbing her hand again to hold her back.
"Lucas this isn't some little neighborhood or something this is the streets of New York City and that girl could be in really big trouble." Brooke said.
"I know, but you just need to calm down." Lucas said.
"Can we just keep looking for her?" Brooke asked him.
"Yeah, of course." Lucas said.
"Carmen, Carmen!" Brooke yelled. Lucas and her quickened their pace Brooke still yelling out Carmen's name when all of the sudden Brooke stopped and leaned over.
"Lucas." Brooke said breathily.
"What? Brooke are you ok?" he asked her putting his hand on her back.
"No, Lucas! Oh my god!" Brooke was almost at the point of tears and almost down on her knees.
"Brooke, Brooke! What's wrong?" he asked her trying to move her over to the side of the crowd.
"Lucas, ahhh, I think there's something wrong with the baby." Brooke said holding her hands over her stomach.
"Alright, well we have to get you to the hospital." Lucas said trying to move her over to where their car was parked.
"No, stop!" she screamed "I can't it hurts to much." Tears were now streaming out of Brooke's eyes "Lucas oh my god I've never been in this much pain." Brooke said.
"Come on." Lucas said gently picking her up but still being urgent. He carried her all the way to the car and they drove to the hospital.
Lucas rushed Brooke to the hospital, and they got her into a room. Lucas called Nathan and Haley to come, and the three of them were waiting in a hallway of the hospital.
Lucas's leaning over with his head in his hands, as if he had a headache which he probably did because of how worried he was.
"God, they've been in there forever I wish I knew what was going on." Lucas finally muttered.
"I know." Haley said sighing and anxiously rubbing her hands together, Nathan noticed this and he took her hands into his to try to make her calm down a little. She smiled at him.
The doctor came out of the room finally and saw Lucas, Haley and Nathan sitting down in the hallway. Lucas immediately saw him and sprang up walking over to him. The doctor had a solemn look on his face and he was running his hands through his hair as Lucas got to him. Haley and Nathan kept their distance and watched what was going on. The doctor was making hand motions and talking to Lucas and then he told Lucas that the baby was gone………
Lucas's world stopped for a moment before reality came back to him, he leaned against the wall not being able to support himself and Nathan walked over to find out what was wrong but when he got to Lucas, he pulled Lucas right into a hug realizing what was going on. Lucas didn't realize it but tears had formed in his eyes and he was actually crying. Nathan and Lucas pulled away and Haley stepped up putting her arms around Lucas. The loss of a child was unimaginable. The doctor offered his condolences and left Lucas with Haley and Nathan to be by himself. Lucas slowly sat down.
"I can't believe it." Lucas said with almost no emotion.
"Lucas…" Haley started to say but she couldn't think of anything to follow with so she sort of trailed off.
"Why'd it have to happen to Brooke? She didn't do anything." Lucas said, all monotone.
"It shouldn't have happened." Nathan said.
"Brooke doesn't deserve this." Lucas said. "She really grew to love that baby"
An hour passed, Brooke had been sleeping and she had know idea that the baby was gone.
The doctor came out and told Lucas that she was awake and he was welcome to see her.
Lucas looked from Haley to Nathan then braced himself for whatever might come his way. He walked into Brooke's room and she turned her head to look at him, smiling at the fact that he was there.
"Hey." Brooke said motioning for Lucas to come over and sit next to her.
Lucas did and sat down next to her on the bed taking her hands into his.
"So do they know what happened to me?" Brooke asked him, completely unknowing of what happened.
"Yeah." Lucas said very seriously.
"Jeez Lucas who died?" Brooke asked him, his face was ridiculously serious.
"Brooke." Lucas said quietly.
Brooke suddenly started to panic a little more.
"What's going on? Lucas?" Brooke asked him sitting up a little in her bed.
"I'm sorry, our baby's gone Brooke." Lucas said leaning in towards her trying to be her strength.
"Lucas why would you say something like that?" Brooke said not wanting to believe what she had just heard.
"I don't know I never planned on ever having to think something like that but it's true."
"No stop, shut up!" Brooke said leaning back in her bed breathing really hard trying to piece everything together. "You're lying, why would you lie like this Lucas?" Brooke asked him raising her voice.
"No Brooke I'm not lying." Lucas said "you have to trust me." He said trying to put a hand on her shoulder but she pushed it away.
"Get out, Lucas get out!" Brooke said, feeling the tears starting to form in her eyes.
"I'm sorry, god Brooke I'm so sorry." Lucas said.
Brooke didn't say anything for what seemed like hours and finally she started crying, the tears streaming out of her eyes and Lucas pulled her to him.
"No, Lucas no." Brooke screamed but still not letting go of him.
"shh, Brooke. I'm sorry." He said stroking her hair and holding her tighter then ever.
When Brooke pulled away from him she was very out of breath from all the screaming and crying she had been doing.
"I wanted that baby." She said wiping the tears away from her eyes.
"I know, I did too."
"I know I didn't want it in the beginning, am I being punished for that or something. I finally get something and learn to need it and then it gets taken away." Brooke said like this was incredibly ridiculous.
"This was not supposed to happen; we were going to raise that baby together." Lucas said.
"I guess I'm really not meant to be a mother." Brooke said staring out of the window.
"That's not true." Lucas said moving himself closer to her and rubbing her arms.
"I hate this." Brooke said.
"Me too." Lucas said.
Brooke let out a big sigh.
"Brooke I'm so glad your ok." Lucas said "when you were in the emergency room, it was the scariest time of my life." Lucas said.
"I'm fine Lucas, I just… I wish our baby was. But maybe it was for the best. I doubt I would have actually been a good mother." Brooke said.
"I just got you through this whole doubting yourself thing and now its back, you have to stop that Brooke." Lucas said changing positions so that he was lying down next to her in the bed and slipping his arm around her.
"You know I think we can get through this" Brooke said.
"We can, I know it." Lucas said.
"What would I do without you?" Brooke said almost smiling at him.
"Are you smiling?" he asked her.
"I just love you." She said.
"Oh Brooke, I love you too." Lucas said kissing her quickly before she rested her head against his chest and fell asleep again.
Aww I know it makes me so sad. But I just didn't; want Brooke to have a baby yet I didn't want to take the story in that direction and the baby kind of limits some possibilities.Um please review especially for this chapter, and if you have the song angel by Sarah Mclachlan then you should reread like the sad part and listen to it because it's a good song for setting the mood, kind of got that from General Hospital when Sam lost her baby but hey it was a good song. It like made me cry with the music, not really but it was sad. Anyway coming up…
Will Brooke ever be able to get pregnant again?
Carmen is back
Haley and Nathan rekindle their relationship,