A/N: Okay so I know it took a while…sorry about that. Here is the next chapter…..i don't really have much else to say except for "please review. I beg you to review. No reviews equals no inspiration and no inspiration equals no updates"….you get my point

Chapter 5: How can you be sure?

It was an hour or so before they stopped crying. The people in the waiting room were told by Karen who, after they stopped throwing up from crying so hard, left Brooke and Peyton in front of the room that Haley's body was in…the hospital morgue.

"I can't believe she's gone. It's not possible. It's not her…can't be." Brooke stared at the body through the door bearing a teary-glare.

"As much as I don't want it to be her…it is." Peyton stood there with silent tears running down her cheeks.

"How can you be sure?" Brooke turned to Peyton.

"She's there! I can see her! You can see her!"

"Yea well… I want to make sure." Brooke pushed the door open and walked over to Haley's body. "What's something on Haley that would identify her?"

"I don't know Brooke. Let's go." Brooke stood there staring down at Haley's face. Slowly she brought her hand up to Haley's face and started to caress it with her thumb.

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"I can't believe you! You had nothing near the authorization to do what you did!" The chief of police was currently grilling one of his 'favorite' detectives.

"Sir, it was for the best." Detective Smith winced as he heard the Chiefs voice get louder.

"Bullshit! It wasn't needed!"

"Sir, I was worried about the well being of…." The Chief cut him off.

"We have him in custody!"

"Oh."

"Yea oh," The Chief started pacing around his office. "Now I want you to go and apologize." The Chief turned to see Detective Smith still standing in the same spot as before. "Now shit-head," The detective stumbled out of the office.

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"I…I can't believe she's gone." Lucas was in shock at what Karen had just told him. "Brooke needs me I'm gonna…" Lucas started to walk in the direction of the elevator but Karen stopped him.

"Lucas, listen to me. Brooke probably doesn't want to talk to you right now….And she doesn't need you, at least not like you want her to. So just leave her be. She's going through a really rough time right now and…" Karen was cut off by Lucas.

"Oh and I'm not! If anyone's going through a rough time it's me! She has been my best friend for years! And what's with all this Brooke crying shit anyways? She's never even been that close to Haley. She used to pick on her everyday for fuck's sake! She's nothing but an inconsiderate bitch! So why does everyone feel so horrible for her, huh? She doesn't deserve your fucking pity! All she wants to do is marry some rich jackass so she can shop for the rest of her life! So tell me why in the hell all of you think she deserves to have people that care about her!" Lucas scanned the waiting room waiting for someone to answer him and then looked back to Karen "Like I said, she's nothing but an incon…" Karen slapped Lucas.

"I never wanted to hit you, but I thought I raised you better. Now go home." Lucas started to protest. "I said now, Lucas."

"Hey everyone, how's my baby girl doing?" Haley and Peyton's mom walked in along with Scarlet and Taylor. Everyone froze, not a word was spoken. No one wanted to tell her what had happened to Haley. They knew it would break her into a million pieces when she found out, and no one wanted to speed up that process.

Scarlet was the next to speak. "Hello? Ain't cha gonna tell us what happened to Haley? How's she doin'?"

"Yea, is she okay? Tell me she's okay." Taylor looked around the room trying to get someone to meet her eyes.

Finally Tim looked at her as a tear slipped down his cheek. "She's gone."

And at that moment everyone in the room found out what it looked like when a person's world shattered. First there was the initial shock, kind of like when you twist your ankle and your brain hasn't yet registered the pain. Then there was the denial which is more like when you receive an F on your term paper even though you could have sworn you aced it. Then there was the break which is like when you find out you need to find a new best friend. Then there was the shatter, but nothing compares to that.

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Anna had slipped from the waiting room right after Lucas's outburst and went to see if Peyton and Brooke were okay….even though she knew it was a stupid reason. She saw Peyton's curly hair through the door of the morgue and walked in.

"Hey." Anna wasn't sure of what to say to two people who just lost someone they loved as much as they did. She noticed Brooke resume caressing Haley's face as she was before she walked in. She felt like her and Peyton shouldn't be there, like it was a private moment.

"Hey, Anna," Peyton smiled at her.

"It looks like her but something's not right." Brooke rubbed her forefinger and thumb together. "Something's not right."

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Detective Smith walked into the hospital. Everyone was crying. He dreaded having to apologize to such a large group of people. Chances were someone would be pissed.

"H-Hello...Hello?" No one was paying attention to him. "Excuse me!" Everyone looked at him. "Okay, thank you. Umm…I have come here to apologize for any trouble I may have caused you all. Haley James…is not dead."

"Excuse me?" Taylor walked up to the detective…it frightened him a bit.

"I thought Nathan Scott was still on the loose so I came up with a plan. I spoke to Haley earlier while Miss. Davis was still sleeping and told her to fake pain so that we could fake her death. We replaced her with a different girl and put make up on the girls face to make her look more like Miss. James. We wanted to make sure she was safe. I am deeply sorry and Haley is perfectly fine. She will be here in 10 minutes."

"You better run." Taylor's voice sounded deadly.

"Okay." Detective smith ran off with Taylor hot on his heels.

Everyone in the waiting room was hugging and smiling but then Tim remembered something. "Brooke and Peyton!"

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Tim ran to the elevator as fast as he could. When he got to the floor Karen said they were on he started looking around but couldn't find them. "Brooke! Peyton! Anna!"

They all heard him and rushed to go find him. Once they saw him it was Brooke who spoke. "Tim, what is it?"

"She's alive!" The next response was from all three girls.

"WHAT?"

"She's alive! Apparently some detective faked her death to keep her safe from Nathan because he didn't know he was already in custody." All three girls started crying again…only this time they cried tears of joy. Brooke jumped into Tim's arms and Anna…well Anna kissed Peyton…but it was cool 'cause Peyton kissed her back.

"Oh My God, I almost forgot! Haley will be here in like five minutes." Being told that they all ran to the elevator, and once they got off the elevator they ran to the exit doors.

Brooke saw Haley step out of a car in a pair of sweats and a big t-shirt and ran over to her. When she reached her, without thinking twice, she brought her hand up to Haley's face and kissed her. In that moment time stood still…just not for long enough.

"So this is why you dumped me?"

I know I'm soooo awesome right? I made Haley be not dead again! Anyways review please! I hope you enjoyed it. I wanted to make her 'death' last longer but I didn't feel like stretching it.

Much Love,

!Toxic!