Chapter 9: Silence is golden...sometimes
"Just about now actually." Nathan said as he walked down the hall towards Haley's hospital room door. He looked and saw the correct door number and slowly turned the knob.
As he entered he scanned his surrounding. He saw a couple of chairs, a window, and then he looked over at the bed. There was haley, looking more helpless than ever, attached to a machine that was monitering her heard beat.
Nathan went and sat down in the chair that was next to haley. He slowly scooped her hand into his and started his monologue on what he was feeling, hoping that deep down she could hear him and that she would wake up
"Haley, baby. I'm really sorry and scared. I am to blame for this whole thing. Dan is my father and a jerk. I love you more now than ever. The thing is that we all need you to wake up. Brooke, Luke, Karen, and especially me. You are my life. I have never been close to my family. I have that screwy thing going on with Lucas. But now I have one thing, you. The way we got together was kind of weird and maybe even wrong, but now it feels right. You are who I want to be with. I could propose right now and know that this is the way that I want to be for forever. This feeling in my heart, it just tells me that you are who I want to be with. I-I could love you forever. You just need to wake up so I can love you forever because if you wake up….I will. You are my first love and my only love, I hope, and I just need you to wake up for me so that we can live our lives together. I need you and love you and that's all that matters."
Nathan finished his long 'speech' and kissed Haley's forehead and her hand before exiting the room. He walked out to the waiting room to find everyone waiting for Haley.
"Someone else can go. But the doctor says only one at a time." Nathan said this and sat down in a chair and buried his head
"Brooke. Why don't you go." Lucas suggested and everyone agreed
Brooke walked into the room and scanned the room, much like Nathan had done. She sat in the chair and looked at her friend Haley and burst into tears.
"Haley, I'm sorry. All I can think about is how I betrayed your trust and was with Lucas. I know you said that is was ok and that it led to you being with Nathan but I am such a horrible person. What kind of person does this to their best friend? I don't know but I feel worse than you could ever imagine. I will never ever betray your trust as long as you wake up. Please please please just wake up for me. I need you and so does Nathan. He needs you to know that he loves you more now than ever and than he will always be there for you. Please, tutor girl, just wake up for me. I love you, Haley."
Brooke exited the room and the next person up was Lucas.
He sat down and held her hand "Hey best bud. I can't believe this happened. My own father did this to you. I just want to—well that doesn't matter. What matters is that all these people are out there waiting for you to get better. You have no idea how many people care about you until a tragedy happens. Nathan, Brooke, me, Peyton, Jake, Karen, Deb, whitey the list is endless. We all need you to wake up. If you can just do that for us, we will be able to put our faith in god again. He can't take such a great person like you off this world. You bring such life and love to all of us and without you all of our lives wouldn't be worth living. Especially Nathan's. You have no idea how much he needs you. I can see it in his eyes. All he can do is sit here or out there and worry about you. He can't eat or sleep. He just needs you to wake up. Please just wake up Haley. Please. If I could get just one wish right now it would be to see you and Nathan smiling and kissing again, even though it is weirder than weird for me to see. I want to see you up and happy again, same goes for Nathan. Please, hales, just wake up for him and me and everyone. I love you.
And with that Lucas left the room. Everyone went inside one by one. People would say how much they loved her and missed her and how much Nathan needed her. Not one person came in and didn't mention her. Finally it was the coach's turn to enter the room.
"Hi there darlin'. I know you are wondering why I'm visiting you. Well, I know that you don't think that I know you but I do. You are the smart you lady who has captured my star player's heart. You need to wake up for poor Nathan. He keeps blaming himself for this and if you don't wake up then that will continue. Wake up, darlin', for Nathan Scott. He needs a miracle in that life of his.
Everyone kept trying to convince Nathan to go home but he wouldn't hear anything of it. The only people left were him, Lucas, and whitey (who was talking to Haley).
"Man, you need to go home. Get some sleep and come back tomorrow."
"No. I'm staying by her side until she wakes. Then I will go to school and home, but not until then. You should head home though."
"Ok. See you tomorrow."
"Yeah."
Whitey slowly walked out of the room and back towards the waiting room where Nathan was the only one left
"Thanks for coming coach. It means a lot to me and to her."
"Ok. Just don't give up home. Keep wishing for that miracle of yours. It might just come." Whitey left the hospital and Nathan was the only one left. He had already talked to the doctor and the nurses and told them that he couldn't leave her and they said that was ok and that he could stay in her room in one of the many chairs.
Nathan was asleep holding Haley's hand. His face was on her bed and asleep. Haley woke up sometime in the middle of the night and began stroking his hair and face with her free hand.
"I love you too. I'm sorry I worried you. I will never leave you again."
Chapter 10: Wake up call
"I love you too. I'm sorry I worried you. I will never leave you again." Haley said as she lightly ran her hand through Nathan's hair. She had heard every word that everyone who had visited her said and felt horrible. This wasn't Nathan's fault or her own, it was dans and he should have been the only one to feel bad. Dan, who didn't come to see her. The hineyrumpus who did this to her.
"Hales?" Nathan woke up from Haley stroking his face lovingly
"Hi Nathan" she smiled
"Oh my god. You have no idea how glad I am to see you up. I vowed that I wouldn't leave your side until you woke."
"I was s-so scared. I felt awake but not able to talk or move or open my eyes. I saw everyone come in here and pour their hearts out and I just wanted to hug them or say something but I just couldn't. I felt like I was trapped beneath a rock but couldn't more. I was s-s-so scared I wasn't going to wake up."
"What? And miss out being with me, come on." Nathan said arrogantly "Everyone's been here to see you. I mean everyone. Karen, Lucas, broo-"
"I know, and I heard everything." Haley smiled from memory of what Nathan said
"Everything?" Nathan suddenly blushed
"Is Nathan Scott actually blushing?"
"Ha ha, very funny. No, I just. Uhh, how do you feel about what I said."
"Well you were right.." Haley paused "Dan is a jerk."
"You know that's not that part that I meant."
"Then what part did you mean?" Haley played dumb
"The ugh, you know the proposal part of it."
"Oh that, I feel the same way. I could marry you now. I am completely in love but I think it would be best if we waited for a while cuz I know, no matter what, that these feelings will not be going away."
Nathan smiled "Good, me too." He leaned in and kissed her lightly and short on her lips "I can't wait until you're out of here and better and we can make out. I miss it."
"We didn't make out for one day."
"And I almost died. So, what exactly did whitey say to you?" Nathan asked curiously
"Oh you know that even though I don't know it, he was pullin' for me and that I needed to wake up and be your miracle."
"You sure are my miracle." Nathan said, gazing into Haley's eyes "And I love you for it."
Nathan and Haley sat talking for hours until they both got tired. Nathan ended up lying down with Haley in her hospital bed with his arms around her protectively. Even if she had only been gone for a short amount of time, it felt like a lifetime to him and was incredibly happy to have her back.
"Your vibrating." Haley whispered to Nathan as she heard his phone, that was on the table right next to the bed, go off
"Can you answer it babe?" Nathan asked, still ½ sleeping
"Ok." Haley grabbed the phone and flipped it open, not bothering to see who was phoning Nathan "Hello?"
"Oh. It's you." Dan Scott said, disappointed
"Yeah. Me. The girl you almost killed." Haley was fuming
"Well, I guess you woke up."
"Yeah I woke up and I see that you didn't bother to come by and see me while I was asleep and apologize."
"I have nothing to apologize for. It's your fault, you jumped in." Dan answered calmly, not once raising his voice
"Yeah, to protect Nathan." Haley said, her volume rising every second "I didn't want him to get hurt. You know you are the worst father, no person to grace the earth and I'm going to let the world know it." Nathan woke up from the volume of Haley's voice "I am going to take this to court and try to prove what a sadistic son of a you really are." Dan was then left with nothing else to listen to other than a dial tone
"Nicely played." Nathan said, looking at Haley
"Oh, Nathan. I didn't mean to wake you." Haley said
"It's fine, and what is even better is what you just said, but Haley you don't have that kind of money."
"I know. I know. What will I do?"
"I don't know. We will have to see I guess."
"Yeah. We'll see." Nathan said, as he kissed the top of Haley's head
"That little ." Dan paused and went to look for his wife "Deb, we are going down to that hospital and bringing Nathan home."
"Ok, but why?" Deb asked
"Doesn't matter. Let's just go." Dan said as him and his wife walked out the door and climbed into his very expensive car. The drove and Dan was driving recklessly.
"Dan, be careful. I want to live through this drive."
"Ok. But I need to get my son away from—AHHHH" Dan yelled as a large Wal-Mart truck collided with his car, hitting the passenger side at full speed
