"Haley do you want some water? A blanket? Pillow?" Brooke asked Haley for what seemed about the hundredth time.
"Brooke, I'm fine, thank you." Haley said starting to get irritated.
"I'm sorry, I just want you to be comfortable I mean with you being," Brooke started and looked around making sure no one could hear and whispered. "Pregnant, you should be as comfortable as you can, especially at a time like this."
"Thank you Brooke, honestly." Haley hugged her friend and was so relieved that Brooke was here with her, helping her through this.
"So when did you find out?" Brooke asked Haley.
"About a week or so ago, I wanted to tell Nathan right away." Haley started. "But I wanted to tell him in a special romantic way. Lucas told me I should tell him hear, he actually gave me the picnic idea."
"Wait Lucas knows?" Brooke asked confused.
Haley smiled slightly. "Well I was home alone when I took three different pregnancy tests and when they were all positive and I was yelling oh my god over and over again, I didn't hear Lucas come in the house and he ran in the room , afraid something was wrong."
"Sounds like Lucas." Brooke said with a giggle.
"It was pretty obvious once he came in, he saw the pregnancy boxes on the bed and he looked at me and I told him." she explained to Brooke.
"We talked for a long time about the perfect way to tell Nathan, I was so afraid of how he would react but Lucas really made me more relaxed about the whole thing." she smiled missing her best friend all over again.
" Lucas sure can keep a secret." Brooke told her. "I'm really happy for you Haley. Nathan will be happy, and he will be back."
Haley smiled at her.
"How long was I out?" Peyton yawned. She was sleeping next to Brooke and Haley.
" An hour or two." Haley told her.
"Feel any better?" Brooke asked her.
"Are they back yet?" Peyton asked back.
The girls shook their head in disappointment.
"Then no, I still don't feel any better." Peyton's saddened voice told them.
Haley looked over and saw Whitey sitting down next to Dan and Deb and Karen standing alone, with worry, and tiredness all in her face. She got up and walked over to her.
"Hi Karen." she spoke softly.
A little startled Karen jumped out of her trance looked at the young face that she was so familiar with. " Hi Haley, how's you're wrist?"
"Oh this, it's fine." Haley told her. "Karen I think you should get some sleep, and I promise you if we hear anything, anything at all, I'll let you know."
"I can't." She told her bluntly. "I just can't."
Haley was about to speak but Karen started.
"How could I of not known?" she asked. "I'm his mother, and my son has a heart condition."
"Karen." Haley started.
"What kind of mother doesn't know her son is struggling with a heart condition. How stupid does one have to be." Karen cried.
Dan over herd their conversation and a new wave of guilt fell over him. He knew. All along that his son could just drop dead, and he never said a word. He stopped paying for his medicine, knowing how hard it would be for Lucas to do it on his own. And now Karen was feeling guilty for it. She was crying and he knew he had to tell her.
He got up and walked over to Haley and Karen. "Karen." he spoke kindly.
Both surprised girls looked over at Dan. "What?" Karen quickly asked.
Dan looked into her eyes and could feel himself saying it, all he had to say was that he knew in fact was the one person that knew about Lucas's heart condition, that he in fact stopped paying for his medicine, and even before he left for this camping trip Dan even made a slight joke about his heart.
However he couldn't find himself to do it. "I just, I just wanted to say, that I'm sure everything will be okay."
Dan turned around slowly and sat back down, angry at himself for not being able to say that truth.
Karen and Haley looked at each other, slightly confused.
"Well will you at least come and sit down with us?" Haley asked her.
Karen nodded and went to and joined Brooke and Peyton who were chatting and welcomed Karen over. They were all sitting together, talking, trying to make one another just maybe forget for a little.
Lucas lifted his head up and wiped his eyes. Looking down at his dead uncle he couldn't help but feel a wave of guilt. He felt responsible.
"This isn't fair." Nathan said.
Lucas looked up his brother was standing above him looking down, his eyes too, were red from crying.
"I didn't even know he was here." Lucas told him. Firing up with anger and hate for what had just happened.
Nathan helped up Lucas and they both looked around. There were dead bodies just laying around, blood was everywhere.
Lucas looked over at the man who shot Keith and walked up to him with hate burning in his eyes.
"Luke." Nathan called out to him, limping after him.
The man, to weak to move couldn't pick up the gun again. Lucas walked up to him grabbed his gun and stuck it to his head and grabbed his throat.
"Are there any more?" Lucas screamed in his face.
The man just smiled and laughed quietly.
Lucas got up and kicked him again and again. "Are there any more of you sick bustards!"
Lucas couldn't help but he kept kicking the man and yelling until Nathan pulled him away.
"Luke, calm down. Come on. Relax." Nathan told him taking the gun from his hand.
"Calm down!" Lucas screamed at him. "He killed Keith!"
Nathan looked at his brother and turned around at the man who shot his uncle, the man who killed his uncle and the man who tried to kill him and his brother. Nathan lifted his hand and pulled the trigger.
Lucas surprised at his brothers action. "What the hell?" he asked.
"He wasn't going to tell you if there were anymore Lucas, and even if he did, and there were, what are you going to do? Go after them? We need to get you do a hospital." Nathan told him.
"Nathan look around." Lucas told him waving his hands in the air. " There has to be more of them, there has to be. There are two of us and we don't know where the hell we are! They are going to find us, and kill us. So we better be prepared. I swear to god Nathan I'm going to kill them, every one of them! They think they can just do what the hell they want." Lucas looked away he couldn't help but start to cry again.
Nathan looked at his brother and his eyes watered up again too. This was all just so hard to deal with they were so physically and emotionally drained out. And such an important person to them both was just killed in front of them.
"Nathan, I..I just can't believe he is gone." Lucas cried. "He came to save us, he was such a good guy. He didn't deserve this." Lucas told him.
Nathan walked up to him and put his hand on his shoulder. "He didn't and its not fair, but we have to get out of here Lucas, we are still in danger here."
Lucas looked at him and saw a tear falling from Nathan's eye as well. He agreed he knew Nathan was right, they went around and looked at the dead men. Only four of them had guns on them and two had knifes. They collected them and after taking on last look at Keith, heartbroken that they just had to leave him there they started to walk off.
"Should we check inside the house?" Lucas asked.
"Last time I did that Luke, it exploded. Who knows how the rigged it. I say we just walk away." Nathan told him, and Lucas agreed.
"Are you feeling okay?" he asked. " If you feel dizzy or weak, please tell me Lucas. I'm not kidding."
Lucas looked at him and agreed.
"I'm sorry I lied to you." Lucas told him. "About my HCM."
Nathan looked at him. " I don't understand." He started. " How all this time you had it and nobody knew, no one of us."
Nathan looked at Lucas and saw the look in his eye. The look to show that someone in fact did know.
"Oh my god." Nathan yelled out. "DAN."
"He was paying for my medicine at first, when I was living with him. Then when we got into a big fight he just, stopped."
"So that bastard knew at any second you could just fall over and die, and he didn't care." Nathan was yelling now. "That is an all time low, even for him."
"I was paying it own my own for a little while now, but it's a lot of money." Lucas told him.
"You should of came to me Lucas." Nathan told him. "I would of helped you man."
"I know it's just that , I didn't want anyone to know." Lucas explained. "Now everyone does."
Nathan looked at his brother and realized how close he was to losing him so many times these past couple of days. He realized how they were never close until recently this past year or so and how you really can't take things for granite.
"This whole situation really makes you think about things." Nathan started a new conversation, seeing how talking about HCM really bothered Lucas.
"Yeah, it does." Lucas agreed.
"I never apologized to you." Nathan told him.
"For what?" Lucas asked with a puzzled look.
"For everything I did to you when you first joined to team. I was a really bad guy back then, and the things I did really were horrible. You never deserved it and I'm sorry." He told him.
Lucas stopped at looked and Nathan. "Thanks Nathan." He said to him. "You know you are really growing into a really great guy. I'm proud to say you are my brother." Lucas said with a smile.
Nathan smiled back, they started to walk again. "Same here man." They were walking for a couple of minutes when Lucas spoke up.
"Plus I knew at any minute if I wanted I just could beat your ass, again." Lucas laughed.
"Haha you wish!" Nathan laughed back.
The brothers continued to walk on, not knowing where they were going, or what was going to happen to them. All they could do was continue on, in hope that they would find someone, some help at all to save them.
