A/N Sorry that chapter was so short but I hoped u liked it!
Flashbacks are in Italics
Chapter 10: The Greatest Thanksgiving
Lucas couldn't believe it, his little boy was alright. "Haley wake up Brooke!" He yelled to his friend. "Daddy's here now buddy." He said carefully lifting his son into his arms. "I am so happy that you're okay little guy."
"Where mommy?" Austin asked anxiously, he remembered the mean lady hurting him and mommy.
Lucas smiled, "Mommy and the baby and Seth are okay, she's going to be so happy that you're alright."
Haley brought Brooke in in the wheelchair, "Mommy!" Austin said happily. Brooke had waited until her tears had stopped before she'd come in.
"Hey baby boy, you feeling better?" Austin nodded and blew her a kiss since his daddy had laid him back in bed because of the IV in his arm and his stitches.
Nathan came in and smiled holding Seth, "Luke you're mom just called they're checking into a hotel and then they'll be here with Thanksgiving dinner."
"Hey Austin!" Seth said happily as Nathan put him in his mom's lap next to Austin's bed. Two boys talked for a while until it was time to go and let Austin sleep. Lucas told Brooke he'd stay with Austin through the night until he could talk to the doctor about moving her bed in or discharging her.
After Lucas kissed Brooke and Haley took her back to her room he told Austin a bedtime story and smiled when he soon fell asleep. Lucas fell asleep in the chair next to the bed, he dreamed about life before Rachel had come back into their lives. Some how he'd make her pay for what she'd done to his wife and kids.
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Keith, Karen, Deb, Peyton, Jake, and Jenny walked into the hospital early on the morning of Thanksgiving. They saw Nathan asleep on some chairs with Haley and Karen peeked into Brooke's room, her daughter in law was sound asleep with Seth lying next to her on the bed.
When they went to Austin's room they found him wide awake and rubbing his daddy's hair whose head was lying on the side of the bed. "Shhh Grammy…daddy sleeping." Austin whispered. Karen smiled and walked over gave her grandson a kiss.
"I am so happy you're alright, Happy Thanksgiving sweetheart." Austin smiled and gave her a kiss.
Lucas heard his mother's voice and woke up, "Hey daddy!" Lucas smiled hearing his son's voice, he'd missed it so much and being called daddy.
"Good morning champ." He stood up and stretched the kinks out of his back and neck, "Hey mom how long have you guys been here?"
Karen gave her son a kiss, "We just arrived everyone else is still asleep."
"Yeah last night was kinda busy, Austin woke up and Brooke's doing alright. They're going to discharge her soon. Probably today but she won't leave until Austin does." Karen nodded, she remembered when Lucas had been sick as a child and she'd stay awake with him all night just watching him sleep.
Haley, Nathan, Brooke, and Seth came in a few minutes later. "Karen you're here!" Brooke said smiling. The family talked happily for a while until the doctor came in to check on Austin.
"He's doing good, providing he takes it easy and gets plenty of rest he can go home in a couple days. You Mrs. Scott just need to sign these forms and you can be discharged. Happy Thanksgiving folks."
Lucas went home and got Brooke's clothes that she was adamant to wear for their makeshift Thanksgiving Dinner in her son's room. Brooke was thrilled that their family was there, it would make it easier for her to go home and take a shower knowing that someone she trusted would stay with her son.
Seth was playing happily with Jenny while Peyton and Brooke talked, "I never imagined spending Thanksgiving here." Brooke said softly, "I don't even want to think what could've happened if Nathan and Haley hadn't shown up."
"Yeah but they did and you, the baby, and Austin are all going home soon." When Haley had called her and told her what had happened she'd been terrified.
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Lucas and Nathan pulled into the driveway, "Luke…no one's been here…since the day we brought them in. There's a lot of blood." Lucas nodded, but when he saw the blood he felt his heart lurch.
"I need to get the clothes out of the bedroom." He went into the bathroom and got Brooke's toothbrush and her brush. He noticed the water from her bath was still there, so he unplugged it up and let the water run out.
He got the boys' clothes and Brooke's and he quickly changed himself, "Alright Nate we can go, could you do me one more favor before Brooke gets home?"
"Yeah man, what is it?" Nathan wanted to help his big brother, for long they'd fought and hated each other but he'd always wanted a real relationship with his brother. In college they'd drifted apart and been busy with their own lives but he'd missed his brother
"Could…could you clean all this up before Brooke and the boys come on? I think it would really upset them." Nathan nodded as he got into the car.
"Yeah man, Haley and I will get this place spic and span." He told him smiling.
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Austin ate like he hadn't eaten in days, "Yummy Grammy." He told her happily. Karen smiled and gave him a kiss. He was still so pale but Nathan had told her that he actually looked a thousand times better then he did before.
"Lucas, Keith and I have been talking and we would like to stay here with you guys just until Brooke and Austin are better." Lucas nodded.
"I'll talk to Brooke about it, and it might be a good idea, she's going to have her hands full preparing for the baby and taking care of both Seth and Austin. I'm afraid that since all of this happened Seth might feel left out. I really need to spend time with just him for a while." Lucas hated feeling like one of his son's was left out, he'd always promised himself that no matter what his children would be loved and they'd know it.
Karen smiled, "Don't worry that child is not feeling left out. The doctors and nurses adore him and are constantly fussing over him. He plays trucks with Austin when he's awake and gets one on one time with his mommy every night when he sleeps with her."
"I never thought of that, but still I want to spend some alone with him. When I was coming back on that plane I thought about the boys and how much I loved and need them." He thought of the pain he felt and his heart broke again. "I'll go talk to Brooke about you guys staying."
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Rachel sat in the motel room, it was all over the news the wife of basketball star Lucas Scott had been attacked in her own home and one of their twin sons had been shot. "Damn they survived!" She yelled, she should've stayed and finished the job but she'd gotten scared and ran.
"This isn't over, I will make them pay…all of them!" She promised herself.
She dyed her hair brown for a disguise and because it was Brooke's hair color and it seemed that Lucas had a thing for Brunettes.
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Brooke was playing blocks with Seth when Lucas came in, "I was worried that we weren't spending enough time with him but I guess I was wrong."
"I was worried about it too which is why he and I are playing with the blocks, even when I get released and he has to back to the daycare I'm determined to spend time with him." She told him while placing another block on top of the other. "Oh Dr. Ryan checked on the baby and said that he or she is doing great."
Lucas smiled and kissed her and sat down on the floor next to Seth, "My mom and Keith want to stay just until Austin is better."
"I figured she would and I guess that it is a good idea but only until Austin is better, and I'm able to get out and do things on my own. I don't want her thinking that I can't take care of my own kids." Brooke said stubbornly and Lucas smiled.
"She knows that you're a great mom and yeah it's only until Austin's better and then she's going back home." Brooke nodded and laughed as Seth tore down the blocks.
"Crash!" He yelled happily, he clapped his hands and then started building again.
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While Brooke stayed at the hospital with Austin Nathan, Haley, Jake, and Peyton and Keith got the house looking spotless and ready for the owners to come home.
The next couple of days went by fast and soon Austin was home, he hated staying in bed, Brooke was ready to scream in frustration when he'd keep trying to get out of bed. "Karen I feel like I need to just stay with him all the time but Seth needs me too, I promised that I would take care of him."
"Lucas was the same way when he was sick, one time when he was six he and Haley decided it to be a good idea to try and be Superman, so he wrapped himself in my sheet and jumped off the roof! I was terrified, well he ended up with a broken leg and a broken arm and keeping him in bed was a nightmare. Austin is just like his daddy."
Brooke nodded, "It's just so hard and he's so stubborn." Lucas liked to say that it was a quality that he'd gotten from her but she was sure that it was the other way around.
Finally two weeks had passed, somehow Karen and Brooke had managed to get the house decorated for Christmas. Now it time to take Austin to his doctor to get the stitches out, and Brooke was thrilled her little boy could finally run around and play and life could somehow return to normal and they could prepare for the birth of their third child in April.
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Jake and Peyton had been home only a couple hours when the pain started, and then her water broke. "Jake…oh my gosh! It's too early!" She was crying when they'd pulled into the hospital.
A/N Sorry that's kinda short but I just found out that I have to baby-sit and I wanted to go ahead and get this chapter out