Chapter One Hundred: I'd Do Anything For You

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Nathan smiled as Eve ran into the room and climbed onto his lap, in between his body and the desk. She settled comfortably on his knee and looked with interest at the spreadsheet open on the desktop.

"What're you doing, Daddy?" she asked. She swayed slightly and rested on his strong arm.

"It's for work. It's not that interesting. Shouldn't you be in bed?" he asked, faux sternly.

"Nope," she said, giggling softly. He kissed her dark brown hair.

Neither noticed as Haley entered the room. She stood in the doorway for a moment, watching her husband and her daughter bond. She remembered the days that Nathan had had all the time in the world for her. When he'd loved her powerfully.

"Baby, what are you doing in here?" asked Haley. Both dark heads looked up in surprise.

"Daddy said he needed to show me something," said Eve, her eyes honest.

"Fibber. Get to it," said Haley. Eve slid reluctantly off her father's knee and ran out the door, her curls flying behind her. Haley moved to go after her, but paused when she saw Nathan still staring at the pair of them. She walked toward him.

"She came in here. I didn't…" said Nathan awkwardly.

"I know. She's a manipulative little thing," said Haley. Nathan smiled as she sat across his knees and linked her hands around his neck.

"Hey," he said softly. Leaning in toward him, she softly kissed his lips. Surprised at the rare initiation of intimacy, he took his hands from the computer to hold her around the waist. Nathan pulled her closer into him and opened his mouth. Haley's eyes fluttered closed as she welcomed the taste of his tongue and the feel off his hardness against her hip.

With one arm still clamped around her waist, holding her close, Nathan lifted his other hand to the buttons of her shirt, and began to unbutton them, his hand slipping in to touch her smooth skin as he did so. Haley let out a quiet moan as he reached her breast.

"Am I supposed to put myself to bed?" demanded Eve, coming into the room again, wrinkling her nose in disgust at her parents.

Nathan instantly loosened his hands and Haley moved hers to rebutton her shirt.

"Of course not. I'm coming baby," she said.

"I'm not a baby," said Eve. Nathan turned from his daughter, toward his wife.

"HELI!" he yelled over their conversation.

"No, it's okay, I'll go," said Haley, moving to slip off his lap. Nathan moved his hands to anchor her on his lap.

"You're not going anywhere," he said. She rolled her eyes and slipped between his hands, evading them as he reached for her.

"I'll be right back," she said, running after their daughter.

Haley checked on Nina before running back to Nathan in his study.

He looked up in surprise as she entered and sat down on his lap again. He put his arms around her as they began to kiss. They stood and he gripped her ass, lifting her into the air. The stumbled to the leather couch and fell on to it.

Haley smiled later, as they lay sprawled out on the couch. Her head was resting on his upper arm, his hand was roaming through her blonde hair.

"Heli's gone home, right?" she asked guiltily.

"God I hope so."

"She's a nice kid," said Haley.

"She's like your age, but she is. Eve seems to like her," said Nathan.

"Should I feel guilty about not being able to take care of my own kids?" she asked.

"Nothing wrong with needing help, baby."

Haley was silent for a moment.

"I haven't seen Ryan for a while," she said.

"I guess they're busy? I'm sort of surprised she hasn't been around, she is on holiday after all."

"Forever, if she opts for it. She's done school. She's a big girl now," said Haley wistfully.

"So, speaking of crazy unresolved love triangles, heard from Peyton?" he asked.

"I've barely spoken to her in years. Poor thing. I hope she's happy. She's been gone a year now," said Haley.

"The thing is, Jake will never be happy without Peyton, but he can't have Ryan if he has Peyton, and he needs Ryan. And Peyton loves Jake but Ryan does too, and Ryan is definitely more deserving."

"Logic doesn't come in to love very often," she said.

"If it had, I'd never have gotten you."

Once upon a time, Haley would have argued this. Argued that he hadn't won her out of love, but of something else entirely.

Now it wasn't worth it. She loved him, he loved her. Daily she had to remind herself that it was this that was most important.

"Tell me you love me," she said abruptly. Nathan remembered when she'd used his words for her own ends.

"I love you," he said.

Haley remained silent, but stirred slightly.

"Do you think you're pregnant?" he asked.

"Not yet. Maybe, I'm not sure. I'll take a test in a few days. Hopefully we'll get a boy, then we can have some of each and then stop," she said. Nathan silently pondered why she was so unwilling to go for her goal, but he said nothing.

"I'd like that. Lucas and me could teach him to play ball, and Nina and Eve would teach him how to deal with girls," said Nathan.

"Hmm. Maybe if Leigh and Ryan were older than you, you'd know how," joked Haley. He gently tickled the bare expanse of her chest and she squirmed in response.

"Minx," he said. He rolled on top of her and began to tickle her in earnest, reaching his hands up under her shirt. She screamed, giggling again.

"Nathan, stop. Nate, noo..." she said, laughing.

"Tell me you love me," he teased.

"I love you..."

"Uh, give me anything I want," he said, as his fingers sought the back of her neck and her thigh, enjoying her activity beneath him. She glared at him before laughing again.

"Anything," she promised. She slapped him across the arm as he got off her.

"Bastard. Male chauvenist."

"Hmm, wonder what I can get you to do? This might be fun," he said, winking. She blushed. "Sorry, am I harming your virgin ears? Was Seamus nicer to you than I am?"

"I wish you'd stop comparing yourself to him. Seamus was my Dean. Or my Riley," explained Haley.

"And I'm what, your Rhett?"

"Shut up. I'm going to bed," she said.

"Fine, spoil my fun. Let us away, Mrs. Scott," he said.

"Let's."

Haley linked her hand with Nathan's and sighed happily before exiting the room and heading up the stairs.