Summary: This is a songfic to expand on Nathan and Lucas' relationship as brothers. All of the friends are around 30 years old. The song is "If Something Should Happen" by Darryl Worley.
Disclaimer: I don't own the song or the characters. I own nothing.
Chapter Four
If something should happen
Oh, promise me you'll take that boy out campin'
Throw a line out in the water every now and then
Answer any questions that he has
Maybe once he gets older
You can sit and have that first cold beer together
And tell him a couple stories on his father
He's always known your my best friend
That's why I'm askin'
If something should happen
Waiting for Lucas to come out of surgery had become completely nerve-wracking for everyone in the waiting room. They had all said their final good-byes to him and were now just sitting and watching the clock. Nathan looked and saw that it was 6:45 PM. Lucas had been in surgery for almost six hours now. He looked over and saw Little Nathan sitting in the corner by himself and called him over.
"Nate, come here bud." Nate looked up and walked over to his uncle. "I know you're scared, but your daddy's going to be back in his room soon and waiting to see you, OK?
Nate nodded his head as tears started forming in his eyes again. Nathan sighed and pulled the little boy onto his lap. "Listen, I don't want you to start crying. Your daddy is going to be so much better after this. And even if he's not, which won't happen, you've always got me. You know, you are the last thing your daddy talked about before he went into surgery. He said that I had to take really good care of you if he couldn't. And that is exactly what I plan on doing. Along with your daddy. We're going to take you and Luke camping and fishing and hiking. And who knows, we may even be able to talk your mommy, Aunt Haley and Lizzy into going with us. What do you think?"
Nate laughed for the first time that day and shook his head. "No way. Mommy doesn't like nature."
"Yeah, neither does Aunt Haley." They sat there for a few minutes quietly. "You know I'm your daddy's best friend, right Nate?" Nate nodded. "And I'm also his brother. Do you know what that means?" Nate shook his head and looked confused. "It means that I am going to do everything in my power to take care of him. So if we wish really, really hard, I'm sure your daddy will be just fine. So let's wish really, really hard, OK?" They both closed their eyes and wished with all their might.
Everyone looked at them and smiled, then went back to their own thoughts. At 7:30 Nathan decided that he needed some coffee and went in search of some. He ended up wandering the halls of the hospital for almost an hour, thinking about Lucas and how much time they wasted growing up together. How much time HE had wasted being as ass to Lucas. What was he going to do if his brother, his only brother, the brother who is supposed to be protecting him because he's older, didn't make it out of the surgery. As he was thinking this, he had stopped outside the door to the OR. He saw a nurse and a doctor running down the hall and tuned into their conversation.
"We need more blood," said the doctor. "O negative. This guy has got some serious problems going on in his chest and if we don't get that blood in here within two minutes, he's gone."
Nathan let the words sink in. He didn't know if they were talking about Lucas, but what if they were? His knees gave out as he fell to the floor in tears. He sat that way for a long time, just crying gut-wrenching sobs, until Haley found him and brought him back to the waiting room. After he had calmed down some, he told Haley and Brooke what he had heard and they all started crying again. They were attempting to console each other when a doctor walked in and took off his scrub hat. "Family of Lucas Scott?" Everyone stood up ready for the worst.
Author's Note: OK, I know it's super short again, but I didn't really have a lot to put into this chapter. The next chapter will be the last one and it will be the longest, lots of flashbacks, things like that. Let me know if you liked it!