Two Days Later

"Haley! Haley what is this?" Nathan asked as he came into the kitchenette waving around a piece of paper with the hospital letterhead on it.

Haley looked up from her bowl of 'Captain Crunch'. I knew I should have shredded it. "Throw it out." She said as she continued to eat.

"Haley is this true? Have you been turning down counseling?" Nathan asked his wife.

Haley rolled her eyes and stood up. "It's none of your business." She said snatching the paper and crumpling it up and throwing it back in the trash. She turned back to the table, shoved past Nathan and picked up her plate.

"Yes it is Haley. I'm your husband." He argued.

Haley spun to face him in anger, she tossed the bowl into the sink, the hard glass practically breaking on impact. "Yes Nathan, my husband, NOT my keeper." She said before turning around and storming out the door, slamming it behind her.

Nathan just stood there, staring at the door, never had Haley ever been that angry with him before, he'd never spoken to her like that. Sighing he grabbed his phone from the counter and dialed Lucas' Cell.

"Hello?"

"Luke, we've got a problem." He said sighing as he flattened the piece of paper out.

Scott/Roe Residence

"So she's been saying NO to the counseling?" Lucas asked as he and Nathan sat at the kitchen table.

"Yeah. Every time I mention the accident and ask if she wants to talk, she say's NO and that she's fine." Nathan said running a frustrated hand through his hair.

Lucas just shook his head. "When I had my accident the doctors sent my mom a packet about counseling, about dealing with an accident, especially one like the one I was in. Haley's…she needs it more than I did. I mean she lost more than a spleen…she…" He didn't even want to say it.

"Yeah I know I just…I don't know what to do Luke."

"I'll call Peyton see if we can all meet at her place. We'll figure something out." He answered placing a reassuring hand on his brothers back.

Peyton's Bedroom

"I can't believe she's NOT going to go." Brooke said shaking her head.

"I'm just surprised it took me this long to realize something was wrong." Lucas said as he rubbed his hands over her face. "We're best friends. I should have seen it."

"You? How about me? I'm her husband. I just…I guess I've been trying to deal with it myself and didn't realize she hadn't yet." Nathan said sadly.

Peyton rubbed his back comfortingly. "It's okay Nate. Haley defiantly is an actress. She fooled us all."

"We'll help her now." Jake said to his friends.

"How? I've known Haley practically my whole life and not once have I been able to get her to do something she ABSOULTLY did not want to do. She's way too stubborn." Lucas asked. Then the preverbal light bulb went off. "What a second. There is someone more stubborn than Haley…" He said trailing off looking as his girlfriend.

"What are you looking at me for?" Brooke said slightly offended.

"Sorry babe, I just mean. We are, if we all band together we can out stubborn her. Pressure her until she cracks."

Nathan nodded her head. "Besides it's not like she can hide. I'm at home. Brooke and Peyton at cheerleading practice. We all have classes with her. She technically still my tutor, so she can't hide there."

"Her parents have left, the house was sold." Brooke jumped in.

"And when ever she is running, she always runs to my house. Just inform my mom and Keith and she'll have no where to run." Lucas said with a smile.

"Great, so we're stalking her now." Peyton said.

"What else are we going to do? This is for her own good." Jake said rubbing his hands along Peyton's.

"All we've got to do is tell the guys at the river court and we'll be set." Lucas said.

"Well then lets hope to it. Where is she?" Brooke asked Nathan.

"Don't know. When I confronted her about it earlier this morning she stormed out. Haven't seen her since."

"Oh well I guess we may have a problem if she's already hiding from us." Peyton said with a slight laugh.

Haley walked along the pier. She walked to the end and sat down at the table where she and Nathan had their first tutor session. She sighed before turning around and heading to the cemetery.

Haley hadn't been there in years. Not since she died, however the trail to her grave was permanently etched into her brain. She walked throw the rows of lovers, brothers, fathers, mothers, sisters, children, long gone. Finally she stopped at the one she hadn't visited in years. She wiped the dirt off the name.

R.I.P

Rose James

Wife, Mother, Grandmother Extraordinaire

Born 4/14/1919- Died 8/9/1990

Haley sat down cross legged in front of the grave. "Hey grandma, how are you?" She took a deep breath, but it didn't help and the tears that she'd so long tried to hold back, broke through and came down like the breaking of a damn. "God grandma, I don't…I don't know how much I can take this. I miss you so much and I…I know you wouldn't be proud of me if you were around but I need a favor. I need you to take care of him, or her, protect my baby until I can make it up there." She cried out. "Grandma, everything is so messed up. I…I snapped at Nathan, I lost our child. How can he forgive me? I don't know how to be around him anymore. I can't…every time we're together I feel like he's…like he's trying to get away from me. Like he's too mad at me for what happened, to even look at me." She sighed. "I know you always wanted Lucas and I to get married grandma, but I think you'd of like Nathan. Dad did and…well you know how he can be. I'm sure you would have liked him and I'm sure you guys would have gotten along great." Haley sighed and wiped the remaining tears from her cheeks. "Can you just take care of our baby, until we can get there be the parents we should have been." Haley brought her fingers to her lips and kissed them, then placed her fingers on her grandmother's name. "I love you grandma." She whispered before standing up and heading out of the grave yard.