Ok everyone well its finally done. This staying up till 4am is going to have to stop if I'm ever going to be able to go back to work. This latest chapter was a bit of a difficult one to write so I hope it meets your standards. Thank goodness for Writers911. Any of you writing enthusiasts out there I would definitely recommend getting involved. If you want any info just let me know. Ok well enjoy.

Chapter Forty-seven

Lucas gripped Brooke's hand terrified of what the doctor would say. He had been waiting so anxiously for her to wake up and now it had finally happened and instead of leaving him with a feeling of elation he was more terrified than ever.

When he and Nathan had arrived at the hospital he had been excited, beyond excited he had been so sure that he, Brooke and Cory were finally about to start their life together as a family. But nothing had been as he expected, he had entered the room to find Brooke furious and surrounded by doctor's and nurses trying to calm her.

Nathan had taken him immediately to be by Brooke but she had barely glanced at him as she continued her tirade. He could not remember the last time he had seen her so angry, he was sure that had she been standing up she would have been stamping her foot like a petulant child. He had thought she would be so happy to be awake perhaps there would be tears of relief and joy but not this. Her face was flushed and her eyes were flashing. He had never seen her like this.

"Broody," she wailed when she finally turned her attention away from the hospital staff gathered around her bed "oh Broody. What is going on? I woke up in this hospital bed and you weren't here and nobody will tell me what the hell is going on."

"Brooke its ok," Lucas tried to reassure her but she refused to be placated.

"How can you say that it's ok Lucas? Look at you, you're in a wheelchair and there's something wrong with your arm."

"I'm ok," he tried once again to tell her "I'm only in this chair because I can't use crutches with my other injuries but before you know it I'm going to back to normal."

Brooke attempted to smile at him through her tears. "I'm just so confused Lucas, why am I in this hospital? What happened? As for normal I'm not even sure what that is, everything is so fuzzy at the moment."

Lucas looked at her stunned not knowing what to say. "Brooke don't you remember the accident?"

"Accident?" she asked "what accident? Someone better tell me what the hell is going on."

"Brooke, you need to calm down, I'll explain things but you need to be calm. You've already been through so much."

"What Lucas, what have I been through and why is everyone walking around on eggshells around me? There's something major going on and I want to know what it is and I want to know now," she finished angrily. She tried to sit up and grimaced in pain. "Ow," she grumbled "what's with all the pain?" She glanced down at herself before looking up at Lucas accusingly "Damn Broody what the hell? Did you have them give me a boob job?"

"Of course not?" he replied incredulously. "You know I don't want to change anything about you."

"Well then do you mind explaining to me why my breasts seem to have increased in size and are so damn sore?"

Lucas answered his mouth to speak but then closed it again unsure what to say. Surely she remembered what they had learnt reading all those damn pregnancy books, how her breasts would be all sore and swollen after the birth. Enough time had passed now that she would no longer be producing milk but that didn't mean that they were completely back to normal.

As he watched she cupped them in her hands lifting them slightly almost as if she was weighing them uncaring of the doctors and nurses still in the room who were now shuffling their feet nervously. Lucas glanced around sending death glares in all of their directions until his gaze came to rest on his brother. Nathan was looking at Brooke openly a slight smile on his face. Lucas glared at him but Nathan it appeared was completely unaware of his brother at that moment. Lucas cleared his throat loudly and Nathan reluctantly tore his eyes away from Brooke and her newly improved assets.

"Nate do you think maybe you could go get me some coffee? I'd kind of like to have a chat with Brooke and her doctor if that's ok with you."

"Uh yeah sure," Nathan answered trying to act as if he hadn't just been caught checking out his brothers wife's breasts by the man himself. He shrugged to himself well maybe if Haley wasn't driving him half insane lately and making him so horny he could barely see straight, he wouldn't be so sexually starved that he would actually notice his sister in law.

After Nathan left Lucas turned back to Brooke preparing to answer her inevitable questions but apparently her outburst had drained what little energy she had. Lucas looked at the doctor in surprise she had seemed so alert only minutes before. He also couldn't quite contain the fear that if she went back to sleep again that she could slip back into a coma. He didn't think he could deal with the thought of not knowing again if or when she would wake up.

The unvoiced concerns were obviously something that the doctor could anticipate through being faced with them many times before. "Don't worry Mr Scott," she told him "it's perfectly normal for her to sleep a lot in the next few days. You need to know though that it is fairly unlikely that she will slip back into a coma, not likely but a possibility nonetheless. I also ordered her a sedative when she started getting so upset before so that combined with the pain medication she is on and the trauma her body has been through recently is going to make her very drowsy for most of the day. In fact you really shouldn't expect her to be awake for long periods for the next couple of weeks at least. She will slowly regain her strength and we'll be able to reduce her meds which should result in her being more alert."

Lucas smiled to himself. "You don't know Brooke," he muttered under his breath.

"Sorry?" the doctor asked hearing Lucas speak but not catching the words.

"Nothing," Lucas said still with his grin in place.

"Mr Scott there is something else that you should know, your wife doesn't seem to want to think about it but we have discovered something that is rather concerning for us. We have to run more tests to be sure but it appears that there is a small possibility that your wife may be suffering from some form of paralysis. Now like I said we don't know anything for sure yet but we should after we run some tests tomorrow and evaluate the results."

Before Lucas could speak or even process the information he heard a noise behind him and craned his neck around to see Nathan frantically trying to mop up spilled coffee with a handful of napkins.

A nurse rushed to his side "why don't you let me do that?"

Nathan looked at her for a moment almost as if she had spoken to him in some foreign language. He could hardly believe what he had just heard; the news was tearing him up inside but looking at Lucas he knew that he had to keep it together for his sake. So forcing a brave smile to his face he looked at Lucas doing his best to remain calm. Lucas was looking back and forth between him and the doctor his mouth gaping as he tried to formulate the questions that were swirling around in his head but no matter how he tried no words would come and eventually he just closed his mouth again looking towards his wife with tears in his eyes.

He leaned in closer to her clasping her hand in his and bringing it to his lips in a gentle kiss. He kept her hand there for several minutes all of his attention focused solely on the woman in front of him. He didn't know how much more bad news he could take. Ever since he had woken up in that hospital bed he felt as if he had been put through an emotional wringer. He had been through every possible emotion and now right when it seemed he needed to be stronger than ever he felt completely drained.

"Your wife will probably sleep for some time now Mr Scott so if you want to go home and get some rest…"

Before she could finish what she was going to say Lucas cut her off abruptly. "I'm not leaving her."

"Mr Scott," she tried to interject.

"No I'm not going anywhere."

"Luke you need your rest too." Nathan tried to tell him.

"I don't care," Lucas said. "I'll rest here but I'm not going anywhere."

"Well then I guess I'm staying too." Nathan said just as determinedly. There was no way he was going to leave his brother alone with everything that had happened. If Lucas was staying then so was he. He grabbed the chair from beside the bed pulling it slightly away from the bed so as not to intrude on the two of them and settled into it. The room had gradually emptied out and now it was just himself, Lucas and Brooke. It was going to be a long night. He briefly considered calling Haley but then decided against it after what had occurred between them just a couple of hours ago he didn't even know what he would say to her. He needed to get his head together before he attempted to talk to her otherwise who knew what he might say. Things were so different between them lately it was like Haley was this completely different person and he wasn't quite sure what to make of it. She had never been so sexually adventurous with him before even when they had been in Barbados she had still been holding something back but it was like whatever had been blocking her had now been released and he knew that things from now on were going to be very out of the ordinary between them.

Lucas knew that something was going on between Nathan and Haley. Although Nathan hadn't come out and said it in so many words Lucas suspected that the phone call from the hospital had interrupted something fairly intense between the two of them. Whether they had been in the middle of fighting or fucking he didn't know but he did know that there had been something. So sitting there in the silence of the darkened room watching his wife sleep Lucas finally got his brother to open up to him about everything that had been happening since Haley's return. Nathan had been reluctant to talk at first but then it had all come spilling out leaving Lucas overwhelmed with the sheer volume of emotions that his brother had been dealing with since his return. All the thoughts and feelings were unloaded and Lucas finally understood why Nathan had been acting the way he had. It was obvious that he was still in love with Haley but Lucas knew that he was also still reeling from everything that had happened in the past and the road back to each other was not necessarily going to be an easy one for his brother and the woman he cared so deeply about. Hell there was no guarantee that they would ever find their way back together but Lucas could only hope that perhaps this baby would provide them with the incentive they needed to forget about the past and concentrate on the future.

He had slept for a little while all the time conscious of the woman lying in the bed before him. What little sleep he had gotten had been fitful as he found himself constantly waking up just to reassure himself that she was still ok and nothing had happened to her in the short time that he had closed his eyes. When Brooke had awoken the next morning he had been hit with such a tremendous sense of relief that he had been almost giddy with happiness. That was until Haley and Cory had arrived and Brooke had failed to realise the child being held in his arms belonged to them.

Now he sat there with the doctor waiting to see what she would say about this latest turn of events. But for the moment at least she appeared unconcerned as she calmly asked Brooke a few questions trying to ascertain just how much of a memory loss she had sustained. When she had finished she turned to Lucas. "Mr Scott can I get you to come out into the hall with me I would like to discuss a few things with you." Lucas looked at Brooke expecting her to protest but instead found her once again on the verge of sleep.

"I'll be here when you wake up ok baby?" Lucas told her.

She smiled wearily as her eyes drifted closed. "Ok Broody."

The doctor wheeled Lucas out into the hall before walking around to the front of his chair to face him.

"What's wrong with her?" Lucas asked worriedly. "I mean has she got amnesia, I thought that was something that only happened in the movies and on daytime TV. I never thought that it would happen to anyone I know."

"We can't be sure yet Mr Scott but if I had to make a guess I would think that judging by the timeframe that your wife seems to be forgetting that this is only a temporary thing. It is most likely just some confusion brought about by her head trauma. I think if we just give her some time her memory will come back by itself. I do however still need to run the tests to establish the extent of her paralysis so if perhaps you could have the nurse page me when Mrs Davis-Scott wakes up then I could get started on them and hopefully be able to put both of your minds at ease."

"Thank-you Doctor, I just hope you're right."

The doctor had taken him back into the room and he had sat watching over her as she slept. She had woken a few hours later thirsty and irritable.

"Broody can you give me some water? I'm so dry."

Lucas had leaned forward holding the cup up for her to take a sip. She had begun to push herself to a sitting position grimacing and placing a hand on her lower abdomen as she did. Damn why am I so sore down here?" She froze for a moment as her hand came into contact with the stitches holding together the incision from her caesarean. "Oh my God," she said.

"Brooke what is it?" he asked his voice full of concern his hand already reaching for the call button that would summon the nurse ignoring the pain in his ribs.

"Broody is this what I think this is? Did I have a baby?"

As he watched he could see something flicker behind her eyes as the memory came flooding back. "Oh my God my baby, where's our baby?" She gripped his hand suddenly. "Oh it's Cory, Cory's our baby isn't he Luke?" tears of joy cascading down her face. But as quickly as they came they turned to tears of another kind. "My baby doesn't know me Luke; I'm missing out on so much."

As she sobbed Lucas gently stroked her arm making reassuring noises. "Shhh Brooke it's ok now. You're awake and you and Cory are going to have lots of time to get to know each other I promise."