Lucas Scott woke up in a cold sweat at 3 o'clock in the morning. He had had the dream again. The dream where he watched Brooke get into the accident and sees her go to the hospital but can't do anything to help her. All he can do is watch the love of his life go through the worst experience of her life. He had had the same dream every night since her accident and it was starting to wear on Lucas who was exhausted all the time.
Haley and Nathan had come by every day to try to get him to come out but he couldn't bring himelf to do it. He felt that if Brooke couldn't have fun than he shouldn't either. Every day he prayed that something would change, that she would wake up but it still hadn't happened so he continued to torture himself. He could think of only one thing to make it better. He had to go see Brooke.
When he got to the hospital he was not prepared for what she saw. Brooke looked so small lying there, not like the Brooke Davis he knew. There were tubes coming out of her leading to machines that he could only guess the purpose of. The Brooke he knew never would have been able to lie here like this she would have been up and asking Lucas what had taken him so long to get there, she would ask about all the gossip she had missed, and demand to go home. But the Brooke he was looking at could do nothing but lie there trapped in a world that he couldn't be a part of.
As he sat by her bedside all the memories came back. He remembered finding Brooke in his back seat and their "date" where he got his tattoo. How she nursed him back to health after his accident. How mad she was when she found out about him and Peyton. He relived their road trip to New York, the day she left and even better the day she came back. All these feelings came rushing through him and he missed her more than ever.
"Brooke, I never should have said those things to you because they weren't true. I was mad but I would have gotten over it. You're the love of my life and I need you. You have to wake up. Please, I can't do this without you." Lucas broke down then and for the first time since her accident he broke down and sobbed next to her bedside.
He fell asleep there and slept without the nightmare that had been plaguing him for weeks and instead dreamed about him and Brooke and the fantastic times they had shared together. He almost didn't want to wake up and ruin the dream but he was certainly glad he did because when he opened his eyes, Brooke Davis was staring back at him.