Hey yall! How's life? Well hopefully it's good. And hopefully Lucas still gets to live life after he passed out. Does he live? I don't know, guess you have to read : ).

Here ya go.

Chapter 3

People experience some weird things as they go through life. But this is one weird thing Lucas had never expected to experience. Lucas Scott was standing next to his own unconscious body. Watching Nathan try to perform CPR on it- him. It was the most bizarre thing he'd ever seen. Nathan was beginning to panic and Lucas vaguely remembered Nathan once telling him that he'd always skipped health class and didn't know how to perform CPR or even the Heimlich Maneuver. An ambulance had pulled up on the bridge and paramedics were rushing down to the riverbank to help Rachel and Cooper. He watched as a paramedic gently pushed Nathan away from his motionless body and picked up where Nathan had left off. He moved closer and saw that the CPR attempt wasn't working, he still wasn't breathing. He wanted to wake up, but he didn't know how to get back into his own body.

Then something happened that was even more surreal than having an out of body experience. Lucas suddenly felt a sort of magnetic pull slowly tugging him backwards. He turned around and was nearly blinded by a bright, bright light. He put his arm over his face to shield his eyes and tried to see beyond the light. He felt the tug again and began walking towards the light. He sensed something about it, and it calmed him. Kept him from fearing it. Now what he felt was curiosity, and a little bit of longing. Then he remembered what was going on behind him. Turning his head, he saw the destruction that lay on the riverbank. Not physical, but an emotional destruction. He saw Haley looking at his body, then at the paramedic fruitlessly attempting to breathe life into him. Haley, already crying from almost losing Nathan, began sobbing desperately. She yelled something at his still form lying on the ground, but Lucas found he could not hear what she was saying. It was as if someone had hit the mute button. Nathan tried to comfort her, pulling her into his arms. She fought the embrace for a moment, and then collapsed against him and held on to him tightly.

Lucas's heart broke for her. He tried to walk towards her, but his feet wouldn't move. He looked to the light, and then back at Nathan and Haley. He was frustrated, he didn't know how to get back to them. He tried again to fight off what was pulling him. He concentrated on trying to move one foot. Just one foot. He looked down, willing his right foot to move back an inch. "Please" he said aloud desperately. "Please." It was no use. He couldn't move anywhere but towards the light. He looked into it once more, and immediately felt a calm wash over him again. Maybe whatever was beyond the light wouldn't be so bad. If it was what he thought it was, then maybe it wouldn't be so bad. He took another step towards the light, then another. He was about 2 feet away from it when someone else walked out of it. "Luke" said the figure. Lucas could only make out the shape of the person. "Who are you" he asked, confused. "Wow, have I really been gone that long?" The figure came closer and Lucas went cold. "Keith" he whispered. "Good to know you haven't forgotten me." Keith said smiling. "How did you?" Lucas asked. "Didn't the bright light tip you off? I assume you know where it leads?" Keith asked. "Yeah, I had an idea. But what are you doing here" Lucas answered. "Well, as usual, I'm stopping you from doing something stupid." Keith said with a laugh. Then he got serious "Luke, what are you doing?" he asked "You can't go there yet. It's not your time." "I'm not trying to. Keith I can't move away from it, I've already tried." Lucas said, a little annoyed at being scolded for something he couldn't control.

"Well try harder. They need you over there Lucas, can't you see?" Keith gestured at Nathan and Haley, and his mom. "They need you." Lucas tried again, unsuccessfully, to move towards them. "I..can't" He said again. "Luke, you've got to want to go back. A part of you wants to leave, and that's why you can't move. You have to want it." "I do!" Lucas insisted. But a nagging feeling in the back if his mind told him that it wasn't true, a part of him didn't want to go back. Tragedy had struck once again, and he didn't know if he could grieve for anyone else. Who knew if Rachel and Cooper would even make it. "There are people back there that need you for reasons that you don't even know about yet." Keith said, trying to make him understand the importance of going back. He looked at Lucas and realized what would make him want to go back. "Like Brooke. She needs you, and do you know why?" Lucas looked at him, "Why?" Keith walked closer to him. "She's pregnant Luke." Lucas closed his eyes. "Do you really want to do what Dan did to you? Do you really want to abandon your child? Because if you don't go back, you'll be just like Dan." Lucas opened his eyes and glared furiously at Keith "I..am not...Dan." He said through gritted teeth. "Then prove it" Keith said simply "Go back." Lucas thought about Brooke, pictured her face. Pictured his mom telling him she was pregnant. She had to raise that child without Keith. He wouldn't do that to Brooke, he wouldn't. He loved her too much. He gathered all his strength, ripped his gaze away from the brightness of the light, and then with a determination he had never had before, he painstakingly broke away from the pull and his world went black again.


Well? How'd you guys like me bringing Keith back for a little cameo? And now you know Brooke is the one pregnant. What would you guys like to see next? Review, review. Since I've never had an out of body experience, that chapter might have seemed a little off, with the bright light and such. Ya know because i've never even passed out before. But I did the best I could and I hope you liked it! And the chapter probably wasn't long enough, the next chapter will be longer.

-Hilary Christine James-