A/N: Thank you all sooooo much for the wonderful replies. There's only a few pre written chapters left and after that the wait between updates is going to be longer. right now i'm dealing with some writers block along with trying to find a job. But as I said I'm going on a roadtrip in a couple of hours so I'll post some chapters before then and when I get back on Monday or late Sunday I'll start up again.

Keep the replies coming!

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Debbie

Peyton drove the brothers to the apartment where they'd be meeting again with Brooke and Haley, the two girls arriving home first.

"So you bounced back fast." Brooke commented as Haley located her first aid kit, bringing it into the kitchen.

"I'm kind of in robot mode right now. I don't really feel anything. I'm just doing." Haley explained as Peyton and Lucas entered, followed by a slower and more injured Nathan. Finally making to the kitchen island Nathan painfully sat down on the bar stool. Brooke was quick to get to him as she smacked the back of his head.

"What the hell?" Nathan winced, his hand instinctively going to where she had hit.

"Dumbass." Brooke scoffed as she took some of the first aid supplies and tended to Lucas.

"You know you left him unconscious." Haley told Nathan as she took his face in her hands and began to wipe away the blood coming from lesions around his eye, along his jaw and his lower lip.

"He deserves a lot worse."

"He deserves jail." Lucas spoke up.

"Yea and he'll get there. But I don't want you two in there first." Haley scolded as Nathan winced.

"Shit Hales, that's not water."

"No it's an antiseptic so you don't get an infection." She explained. "Hands."

"What?"

"Your knuckles are bruised and bleeding, give em." Haley commanded as she held out her own hands for him to place his. Haley quickly cleansed his knuckles before wrapping them with a fabric bandage. "Alright what else hurts?"

"Nothing hurts. I'm fine."

"He was limping." Peyton voiced, she was the only one not tending to the Scotts and was vegged out on the couch watching a Prison Break rerun.

"Thanks." He smirked. "It's nothing."

"Right, let's see it."

"What? No."

"Everyone here has seen you in the buff Nate. And since when are you shy about it?" Peyton again spoke up. Meanwhile Haley had left then returned with a pair of Nathan's basketball shorts in hand.

"Change into these." She told him then watched him limp away to the bathroom.

"You're really good at the whole first aid thing tutorgirl." Brooke exclaimed as she and Lucas rested on the couch, Lucas not being as roughed up as Nathan.

"I was always the one to help my brothers when they got hurt and of course being best friends with this one taught me a few things." Haley explained as Nathan returned from the washroom, still in his pants. "Nathan!"

"What? It's not bad. It's the knee I banged up in the crash and its just acting up."

"I don't believe you but whatever. Go and sit and rest you foot on the table." Haley told Nathan, to which he obliged as she retrieved an ice pack. Walking over to Nathan she placed the ice pack on his knee and watched as he involuntary winced.

"I'm fine." He grumbled not removing his eyes from the television in attempt to avoid Haley's glare.

"So is everyone crashing here?" Brooke asked the group avoiding Nathan's stubbornness.

"If it's up for grabs I'm in." Peyton responded as Lucas nodded in agreement.

"It's up then. And Nate can't move so I'm going to assume yes from him too." Brooke noted out loud as Nathan smirked at her.

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"Haley! Haley wake up." Nathan called quietly as he held a shaking Haley in his arms. The 5 were spread out in the living room. They started out with Haley between Brooke and Peyton as she was still weary of the boys, who were sleeping on the couches. That was until Haley started to tremble, toss, turn and then mumble screams in her sleep. Peyton and Brooke had subconsciously moved themselves away from their friend and Nathan had woken up and moved to hold her.
"Hales!" He called a bit louder in a last attempt to wake her without waking anyone else. This attempt worked as Haley was jolted from her slumber, fear present in her eyes.

"Hey, it's okay. You're safe okay?" Nathan cooed as he rocked Haley in his arms.

"What?" Haley pulled back from his embrace and scanned the room.

"You were having a bad dream." Nathan explained, looking in her eyes.

"No, it was real." She replied solemnly as she stood up and made her way to the bathroom.