Hey guys! So have I mentioned how much I hate computers lately? Especially ones that die on you for no reason leaving you computer less for like a week? Yea… well I hate them! My computer died last week and I haven't been able to access ANY of my writing until today… I'm SOO sorry for the long wait. Anyone who would like to volunteer to hurt my computer for me… your more than welcome too! Anyway… here is Chapter 37! Enjoy… Thanks for the reviews and dealing with my stupid computer issues! I love you guys!

"Hi turkey" Brooke giggled walking into the dining room carrying Karen's huge turkey like whatever for dinner.

"Please tell me you didn't just call me Turkey"

"I did… although you're right… I should call you ham since you're sooooo funny!"

"Anyone ever told you, you need therapy?" Lucas laughed rolling his eyes at Brooke. She sounded like she had gotten into some of Deb's liquor. But then that was just Brooke on Holidays… way more cheery than usual…

"After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes. He said, 'No hablo ingles."

"It's a wonder he didn't commit suicide"

"Actually his wife killed him" Brooke sighed shrugging her shoulders and sitting down next to Lucas. She loved Holidays… mostly because she got to spend them with Lucas and Karen… and whoever else decided to show up at the café that day… it was fun and random and she felt so at home… so much more than when she was with her parents.

"That sucks"

"Ok… lets not talk about this on Easter… Brooke, I'm so glad you're here, it's been lonely without you around" Karen smiled giving Brooke a hug like she hadn't seen her in years. Lucas could have sworn he saw tears in her eyes…

"Mom… she's here like everyday"

"Well…you know what I mean"

"I only invited her because I thought she was going to show up in one of those skimpy bunny costumes" Lucas laughed raising his eyebrows at Brooke. She had been totally flirting with him all day… so why couldn't he flirt back?

"Ha ha… turkey, I only came because I wanted to see the look on your face when I kick your ass at the Easter Egg hunt! I am the Easter Egg Master…" Brooke smiled sticking her tongue out at Lucas.

"I'm not sticking my tongue out at you…"

"Its ok… We both know I'd had enough experience with that tongue of yours… I don't think my tonsils will ever recover…"

"Brooke…" Karen gasped not expecting that comment. She forgot a lot of times that Brooke and Lucas were the same teenagers that had dated last year… they were both so different, so much more mature than they had been.

"Sorry…"

"I'm going to have to start treating you 2 like 3 year olds again… what have you learned today?"

"Lucas has a long tongue" Brooke laughed sticking her tongue out at Lucas again.

"Brooke has a big mouth"

"Hey… you didn't mind the…"

"Brooke!" Karen gasped louder this time. She saw where that comment was going from the get go and she really didn't need to hear about what Brooke and Lucas used to do with their sex lives together.

"Sorry… I'm shutting up now"

"I try to forget that the 2 of you were so…"

"Sexual?" Lucas asked shocking both Brooke and Karen with his response.

"His words…not mine"

"Are you 2 trying to give me gray hair? One day when you both have kids I'm going to remind you of this day… having a sex conversation at Easter Brunch"

"We'll probably still be having them then too… only we'll be making our husband and wife very jealous, but of course we'll be having an affair… I'll probably be convincing my husband that our kids are husband not Luke's…even though they're basketball stars" Brooke sighed shrugging her shoulders as if she were totally serious… the sad thing was that Karen didn't doubt it.

"I'll have to tell my wife you're my cousin… this is North Carolina after all"

"Oh well… we'll always have the hot tube"

"And the back seat" Lucas added

"And the closet…"

"And the bookstore"

"And the locker room!" Brooke giggled. Now that she thought about it that's all she and Lucas did it seemed like, have sex and make out in random places.

"Poor Tim… didn't know what hit him"

"I give up…and to think I was wondering how you were having a pregnancy scare after only dating a month"

"Yea… Lucas gave it away the night after our first date" Brooke sighed patting Lucas on the shoulder.

"Lucas!"

"Dude… look at her"

"Ok… this is more than I ever needed to know about my son's sex life… lets just, eat"

The most pointless conversation in history, at least that's what Karen had thought it was… For some reason now it flashed through her head… maybe since Easter was just a few days away. For years after that, every Easter she thought of Brooke and Lucas. Of course very unpleasant thoughts followed… she couldn't believe she hadn't seen it sooner… What Brooke and Lucas had, maybe she had seen it and ignored it. Over that year she had come to love Brooke so much she hated the thought of Lucas hurting her, or Brooke hurting Lucas. Now here they were and it wasn't the worry of hurting each other… they were just doing everything in their power to keep the other one safe.

"Hey…" Karen whispered sitting down next to Lucas. He looked so drained dazed sitting there with the girls. She wished so much that there was something that she could so for him… he wasn't ever supposed to have to feel like this.

"Hey"

"What are you guys doing?"

"They were 'reading' to me until the fell asleep" Lucas said quietly pointing to a book beside him.

"I can take them home if you want…"

"No… I'd rather have my girls here with me right now…"

"Those girls look more and more like Brooke everyday… some boys are going to be in trouble in about 15 years, they wont stand a chance… you didn't" Karen smiled looking at her son with his 2 babies. The more she thought about it the harder it was for her to believe her son, her Lucas was a father of 3 now.

"I know…the second I kissed her everything you had ever told me about not having sex was out the door, I would have done anything she said"

"You did…and you still do… and she does for you too, only now it's not because of the way the other ones looks"

"She did this for me, she's in there right now like that because I didn't want to listen when she said she didn't want a baby" Lucas sighed. There it was, Karen knew he was going to say it at some point… she had seen it in his eyes for hours.

"This isn't your fault Lucas, she wanted that baby just as much as you… you know how excited she was Lucas! Last week when I took her shopping that's all she talked about"

"That's how Brooke is though, she adapts… she never wanted kids in the first place, part of me thinks maybe there's a reason"

"I'm going to tell you a story Luke. Remember your senior year? You, and Peyton and Nathan and Haley and Brooke were all in the living room talking about kids. I think maybe one of Haley's sisters had just had a baby…" Karen whispered putting her hand on Lucas's shoulder. She could tell by the look on his face he didn't want to hear this, he was the kind to wallow and blame himself when bad things happened.

"Yea… we were talking and Peyton, Haley, Nathan and I were talking about how many kids we wanted and stuff… and Brooke said she was never having kids"

"Yea she did… but you know why she said that? Because earlier that day when she and Haley were talking in the café Brooke mentioned something about one day when she had kids and Haley laughed for 10 minutes at Brooke, and then told her the day she saw Brooke Davis with a baby was the day hell froze over. Brooke laughed but you could see it in her face. Later that night I found Brooke on the front porch crying. She couldn't understand what was so wrong with her that she couldn't have kids, that she couldn't have a family. Just because she was her… Look at her now. Its funny how between the 2 of you… the 2 kids with the most torn up, screwed over families… have made one of the best families for their kids. Then look at Nathan and Haley? They had both a mom and a dad growing up, and now they're struggling. I know Brooke and if she really hadn't wanted kids… you wouldn't be sitting here right now. She just needed someone to tell her it was ok… and it is and it will be"

"I don't know what I would do if something happened to her" Lucas sighed looking down at the floor. He just felt numb, not like crying, or yelling or anything for that matter… this was the worst he had ever felt. At least when Allie and Chloë he had had Brooke there, between the 2 of them they handled it. Now he just felt alone.

"Nothing… because she's going to be fine, and you're going to take your children home, and have the family you 2 never had growing up… ok?"

"Ok"

"Now… I am going to go take pictures of my grandson" Karen smiled deciding to leave Lucas with the girls to get some sleep.

Lucas waited until Karen was gone before he laid his head back to try and get some rest. With the girls asleep it was too quiet, and he really didn't want to talk to Dan. It was impossible to get comfortable with Allie in one arm and Chloë in the other snuggled up to his chest. He wasn't sure how much longer he could hold them steady without his arms giving out… how Brooke carried them everywhere he'd never know. Luckily Chloë sneezed and woke them both up so Lucas could finally move.

"Hey guys…" Lucas whispered to the yawning little girls.

"Hi daddy" Allie smiled patting Lucas's cheek with her tiny hand… something she had obviously picked up from Brooke.

"A book!"

"Dr. Seuss… Should we read?" Lucas asked figuring it might keep everyone's minds off of Brooke. Allie and Chloë were good when it came to that. They were always laughing and smiling and saying something funny to keep him from getting too serious.

"Yeahya!"

"I do not like green eggs and ham…" Lucas started but Chloë broke in

"Me either"

"You either?"

"Pink!" Allie giggled.

"Pink eggs… seems like mommy managed to make pink eggs one time"

"Again"

"I do not like them Sam I am" Lucas started again before this time Allie broke in. They were as bad as Brooke when it came to reading, ever since they had learned to talk they had to comment on every single line that he read.

"You not Sam!"

"I'm not? I really thought I was…"

"You're daddy!" Chloë giggled

"I didn't know that… then who are you?"

"Chloë!"

"I don't think I know a Chloë" Lucas sighed shaking his head. By now both Allie and Chloë were wired, laughing and giggling at everything he said.

"I Allie!"

"Allie? Do I know an Allie?"

"Yeahya! Member?" Allie asked getting worried.

"Ohhhhhh yea… wait? I think the Chloë and Allie I knew liked to be tickled? Did they?"

"Uh huh!"

"Me firs!" Chloë squealed laughing

"Ry-a-lin tickle too!"

"Poor baby Rylan… he's going to have 4 people tickling him"

"I help him" Allie offered once she had stopped laughing long enough to get her words out.

"That's nice of you Al"

"Me too!"

"You too Chlo" Lucas smiled hugging both his girls.

"Mr. Scott, I'm Dr. Prince… I was the one working on your wife"

"Girls hold on… how is she?" Lucas asked sitting the girls down so he could stand up and talk to the doctor.

"She's… alive. Mr. Scott you have to understand your wife lost a lot of blood, its touch and go right now, we have to worry about infection, more bleeding, she's got a long road ahead of her, the next 48 hours are critical"

"Is she awake? Can I see her?"

"She's kind of groggy because of the anesthesia, and pain meds, tomorrow might be better" The doctor said starting to walk off. Lucas was already pissed off as it was with these doctors… now to have them try and tell him to wait until tomorrow to see Brooke?

"She's my wife"

"I understand that but from what I can tell you have children to take care and you should rest"

"So you want me to leave her here" Lucas asked staring at the doctor like he was an idiot. There was no way in hell he was leaving Brooke here alone with these idiots! It was their fault she was in this position in the first place.

"She'll be just fine here with us"

"Right because that worked out so well last time when no one even asked her what medications she was on… where is my wife's room?"

"Mr. Scott…" The doctor started but Lucas cut him off. He was too mad to care if he sounded like an asshole.

"Where… is her room?"

"434"

"Thanks… mom can you?" Lucas asked pointing to the girls. Luckily Karen was back from her picture run.

"Sure… Girls tell daddy bye bye, we'll go home and color mommy and baby Rylan some pretty pictures"

"Pony's!"

"Anything you want" Karen smiled sending the little girls over to Lucas

"Bye girls… I love you" Lucas whispered kissing them both on the forehead and giving them each a hug. The thought of getting to go to 'Yaya's' house and play with Brandon thrilled them both so much they didn't care if they had to leave Brooke and Lucas or not.

"Love you"

Lucas walked quietly into Brooke's room. It was Dark and dreary… it made him glad she was out of it, if she was awake in this terrible room she'd just be depressed. He walked over to the chair beside her bed and sat down… she looked so frail lying there. So un-Brooke like. In fact he had never seen her like that… so tiny and weak looking. He just wanted to hold her and tell her it was all going to be ok, that she was going to be ok, and that before she knew it they were going to be home with their kids, in their house.

"Hey Broody" Brooke whispered scaring the hell out of Lucas. He hadn't expected her to be awake… much less talking.

"Hey babe, I didn't mean to wake you up, they said you were pretty out of it"

"Yea… we'll they're crack whores, besides I knew if I acted awake they'd just pump me full of crap… and then you couldn't come and tell me about our baby"

"I've got some pictures for you… want me to turn on the light?" Lucas asked pulling the Polaroid's he took earlier out of his pocket. It was amazing how much better just hearing Brooke's voice made him feel.

"Of course…"

"That's him with Allie, and then with Chloë."

"Oh god… he's already brooding and squinting…" Brooke smiled looking at the pictures of all her babies.

"Chloë thought it was funny to tickle his feet and watch him squirm and Allie kept trying to look in his mouth to see why he didn't have teeth"

"Poor kid… with 2 big sisters, he doesn't stand a chance, he's perfect though isn't he?"

"Yea he is" Lucas smiled. It was like one of those stupid cheesy moments on TV, but it was cute to see Lucas so smiley. He was always smiley with the girls, after all those were his girls and there was something about fathers and daughters… but this was his son and hearing Lucas talk about him made Brooke smile and forget that she was in pain.

"I mean how could he not be, look who his mother is"

"I thought you said you weren't that drugged"

"Ha… funny, how are the girls?" Brooke asked wishing she had been there when they got to see Rylan.

"Craving Pink eggs…"

"Wow… Hey didn't I make pink eggs once?"

"Yeah…" Lucas laughed shaking his head at her. She was smiling, but it was her strained smile, he could tell she was in pain and he hated it.

"So how long before I get out of this place… and tell the truth"

"Apparently you're a lot sicker than you're acting"

"I figured" Brooke sighed looking back at the pictures.

"You scared the hell out of me…"

"You can't get rid of me that easily…"

"Are you in any pain?" Lucas asked knowing her answer. Her face said it all. He wished she would just let the doctors know so they could give her something so she could rest… but not Brooke, no she had to be tough, scared she was going to miss something.

"Some… but I figure pain's good right? At least I'm here to feel it"

"I can get them to give you"

"No… I don't want it to be like when I had the girls… so drugged out I couldn't see straight." Brooke whispered giving Lucas a pleading look. She didn't want to relive that. She wanted to be able to see Rylan and the girls and talk to them… and then actually remember what she had said.

"K… you need anything?"

"Umm sex on the beach?"

"The drink?" Lucas laughed knowing what was coming next. Whoever said Brooke Davis Scott had a 1-track mind… was exactly right.

"That too…did the girls leave?"

"Mom took them… they went to draw you and Rylan pictures of ponies"

"My favorite… so you think you could go all James Bond on me and get our son in here?" Brooke whispered. He could tell the pain was getting worse and she was getting tired.

"They barely let me in here"

"Right…"

"Give me 10 minutes?" Lucas smiled kissing her forehead. If she wanted the baby he'd get him for her,.

"You got it…"

When Karen and the girls got to her house, Andy and Brandon were up playing baseball on the playstation and eating popcorn. As soon as she walked in the both stopped everything they were doing and gave Karen that look. She didn't know what to say… she didn't really know enough to tell them yes or no when it came to Brooke… so she just left them without saying a word and went into the kitchen. After sitting the girls at the table with a snack and some markers and crayons Karen sat with them and doodled as they worked hard on their pictures.

"How's Brooke" Andy asked sitting down next to Karen at the table. He looked pissed but Karen wasn't really in the mood to listen to what he had to say.

"So-so"

"So were you just going to leave Brandon and I hanging like that?"

"I was going to tell you" Karen sighed not bothering to look up. She was too tired to care really what he said or did.

"What? After she was home? We care about her too Karen! We're worried too"

"I know"

"Then start acting like you know… Lucas and Brooke are your family… I get that, but you do have more family Karen… like I don't know… our son" Andy whispered so Brandon wouldn't hear from the other room.

"What are you saying Andy"

"I'm saying that if you weren't going to give Brandon your all then why the hell did you even"

"I love both my sons Andy" Karen said gritting her teeth. She couldn't believe he was actually going there!

"But the older one comes first"

"His wife's sick! She could die!"

"I know! And I understand you have to be there for him! But remember who you have at home! I love you Karen, and so does Brandon but you're hurting him… he asked me the other day why you don't treat him like Lucas? Why you don't treat him like Brooke treats him or her girls! Karen… I know you want a daughter and I know its hard having to handle all of this, but you do still have a husband and son at home who love you and who would do anything for you! You don't have to keep it all to yourself" Andy yelled trying to get his point across. He didn't know what else to do. Lately Karen had been so distant he wasn't sure she was even listening to him.

"Andy… I'm sorry; it's not just Lucas. Brooke's like my child too… and I'm scared of loosing her"

"I know… I know"

Lucas walked quietly in the nursery with all the screaming babies. What kind of hospital was this? Then again it was Tree Hill… He wasn't exactly sure how to do this. With Allie and Chloë he had never been aloud to even touch them without permission… much less somehow manage to get them to Brooke's room. But since Rylan was healthy, and it wasn't like he was hooked up to any tubes or anything… Lucas didn't see why it would be a problem. After making his way past all of the screaming babies Lucas finally found Rylan. He seemed to be the only one who wasn't crying… just laying there staring up at the ceiling. After finally tracking down and basically flirting with a nurse he finally made it out with Rylan. Brooke would be proud, that was if he could ever get Rylan back to the room without someone stopping him.

"Hey man, we made it" Lucas whispered to Rylan as they walked into Brooke's room. Poor Brooke looked totally dazed.

"10 minutes?"

"Sorry… All those damn nurses wanted a piece of me…"

"Did you flirt your way out of there with that baby! Lucas Scott! I have never been prouder" Brooke giggled winking at him.

"I told you us men could hold our own"

"There's my baby boy… Hi buddy! Long time no see…" Brooke whispered to the baby. He was even cuter than she remembered with his blue eyes and blonde hair.

"You want him?"

"You better, that damn nurse just came in here with god only knows what and have it too me, I might drop him or something… he looks like you"

"Are you lying?" Lucas laughed looking down at the little baby who obviously was all Brooke except for the hair and eyes.

"A little…"

"See man, first rule about women, they lie to get whatever they want, then they suck up"

"Don't corrupt my baby into that evil guy thinking yet! Rylan don't listen! It's a trick, girls never lie and you should always listen to us… always" Brooke whispered playing with the babies little fingers. She could feel the drugs starting to work and it was enough to make her want to cry. She'd probably be totally out of it before long.

"You're right… poor dude has no hope living with all you women"

"He's so quiet… he may have gotten my good looks, but he got your blonde hair, blue eyes and personality, some girl is going to rock his world one day…"

"Not this…" Lucas sighed not wanting to think about any of his babies growing up. Especially Allie and Chloë. The thought of his girls dating gave him chills up his spine…

"Don't worry… he has too big sisters to beat the little slut bag up! And then I'll kill her if she hurts my baby… I'm starting to see why your mom kinda hated me at first, I hate the girl he marries and he's not even 12 hours old yet"

"Its ok… I hate Allie and Chloë's future husbands already too… We should just keep all 3 of them locked in the house until they're like…"

"40?" Brooke asked figuring by then they should look old enough to keep the creeps away.

"Works for me…"

"Rylan… stop squinting buddy! Ok that's it… you've been around you're daddy wayyyy too much, next comes the brooding, then head scratching thing and wow…" Brooke giggled feeling the room start to spin.

"Feeling the medicine?"

"I CANT fly right?"

"No…" Lucas laughed

"Ok… just double checking before I stood up and tried"

"I'm going to tell you what I told your sisters after they were born… something you always need to remember, and I'll remind you of this everyday"

"Father son advice" Brooke sighed rolling her eyes at him. He was such a guy.

"Your mother is crazy"

"You're going to die for that, you're lucky I can't get up!"

"We did good babe"

"What are you talking about? We always do good?" Brooke smiled before finally giving into the drugs and closing her eyes.