Chapter Twenty-Two – Monumental Heights

6 weeks later, Rachel and Brooke were walking through the hospital corridors. Brooke hadn't taken her eyes off her phone all morning, but Rachel was too preoccupied to ask why. They were in their final year of residency and people were beginning to fall at the last hurdle. The pressure of fellowships and board exams were getting to them and four people in their year had been either booted off the course or had dramatically quit.

Brooke's phone beeped as Brooke's eyes widened in surprise "Oh my god…"

"What?"

"Nothing." Brooke quickly said as she smirked and began typing a reply.

"Everyone's leaving Brooke." Rachel said sadly. "They're all fading, imagine going through 4 years of residency only to drop out now. This is also bad news for us, they're going to work us to death because they're short staffed and we are going to be the next ones to fall."

"Rachel, think about it. We are going to get all the surgeries." Brooke said with a smirk, finally looking up from her phone. "I mean, I feel bad that all these people are having to leave, but we're going to run this place." She said happily. It was in a surgeon's DNA to want to be in control of everything. Her phone beeped again as she looked down at it and her mouth fell open. "Holy—"

"What is going on?" Rachel asked exacerbated as she snatched the phone from Brooke's hand.

Brooke quickly tried to take it back, but Rachel stopped her.

"Hey! Rachel, you do not want to—"

"Oh my god. You're sexting Lucas?!" Rachel asked as her eyes widened at the texts. "What are you? 15 years old?"

"We can't have sex right now so—we're—finding alternative methods to keep the spark alive…" Brooke reminded her. It had been over a month of nothing and it was both starting to get to them. They were both physical people and to not be able to use it to express how they felt was hard. There were certain things they could do, but it just wasn't the same.

Rachel laughed; "That is so dirty." She said as she kept scrolling.

Brooke snatched the phone back and sighed; "I know… I call my mother on this thing." She said, almost a little ashamed at her antics.

"I can't do it Lucas. I can't go on bed rest." Brooke said she sat down beside him in the lab while he worked.

"No one is saying you're going on bed rest." Lucas reminded her as he looked through his microscope.

"I know that's what Johnson is going to tell me when we go in there and I can't do it. Doing nothing is torture." Brooke had another ultrasound today and to say she was nervous would be an understatement. She just wanted to get back into the OR before she was really too big to be in the OR.

Lucas sighed; "You are so stubborn, if you do end up on bed rest, I'm going to need to get someone to watch you—"

"I am not 5 years old Scott." Brooke said with a glare.

"Then stop acting like it."

"Asshole…"

Lucas finally looked up from his work and at her; "I'm an asshole who loves you and our baby. Please listen to me and everyone else who is telling you the same thing. Even if you do end up on bed rest, you won't be alone all day. I'll get a list of people to come visit you, plus, all the boxsets of your favourite TV shows." he said persuasively as he kissed her jaw.

Brooke thought about it for a moment; "… maybe it wouldn't be so bad…"

Lucas chuckled, sitting back in his stool "No it wouldn't."

"But I can't afford to fall behind in this program—"

"You're already miles ahead of the other residents, you'll be ok, and this is completely hypothetical! You're not going on bedrest." He said confidently. He hoped for his own sanity that she wouldn't be in all honesty.

"Ok…" Brooke finally conceded. It wasn't doing her any good to assume the worst before it had even happened. She let a smile grace her face; "It's going to be pretty awesome when our baby gets here, huh?"

"Oh yeah. Incredibly awesome. You know what else will be awesome?" he said as he leant over and whispered in her ear.

Brooke's mouth fell open into a smiling shock as he whispered the naughty words into her ear; "You watch your mouth Scott." She said with a laugh.

"Count on it."

After lunch, Brooke made her way into the resident's lounge and was immediately greeted by Rachel.

"Hey, how's the sexting going? Filthy as ever?" she asked with a smirk as Brooke simply handed her the phone. She would no doubt snatch it out of her hand anyway. "Damn… and creative."

"I know I've got to step up my game… though, I have an ultrasound later, so it could go really well and this sexting business will be over, or it could go terribly and I'll be stuck in a bed for the foreseeable future." Brooke informed her.

"You've been up on your feet this whole time, if you were going to be on bed rest you would already be on bed rest." Rachel replied.

"I guess… though a part of me also doesn't want to give this up…" she said as she wiggled her eyebrows and smirked.

Her phone began buzzing incessantly as Rachel handed it back to her.

"Wow, Lucas is chatty today…"

"No, it's Kate, she wants the labs back on—oh no. No, no, no, no, no!" Brooke exclaimed as horror fell over her face.

"What?"

"I just sent something very filthy to Kate Grant." Brooke said quickly.

Rachel's eyes widened, "Oh crap, undo!"

"There's no undo!"

"Do something!"

"I can't!" Brooke shouted as she quickly rushed out of the room to find Kate and do some damage control.

Brooke soon found Kate standing outside one of the patient's room and cautiously walked towards her.

"There you are" Kate greeted, she'd been looking for Brooke everywhere so they could round on their latest patient.

"I know. Kate, I am so, so sorry—"

"You should be. Did you get Melissa's labs?" she asked, apparently oblivious to why Brooke was so apologetic.

Brooke eyed her quizzically; "Kate…"

"What?" Kate asked as she took the tablet from Brooke.

"Nothing… or… thanks? You're taking this well..." Brooke rambled as they walked into their patient's room. How could she be so calm about what she had sent her? Stern, straight Kate Grant wasn't batting an eyelash at an incredibly dirty text.

"Good morning Melissa,. This is Dr. Davis. She will be assisting me in surgery this afternoon." Kate introduced as Brooke said hello.

"Could you hand me my purse? I think my hairbrush is in there." Melissa said, just as Brooke was about to explain the procedure to her.

"Uh, sure." Brooke said as she handed her purse. "You trying to look good for surgery?"

"Graham is coming today." Melissa said happily.

"Oh, great!" Kate replied with a smile.

"Graham?" Brooke asked as she looked between Kate and Melissa.

"My boyfriend. Sort of. I'm finally meeting him today and I look like this…" she said with an awkward laugh.

"You haven't met your boyfriend?" Brooke asked with raised eyebrows.

"We met online a year ago and it's been the most amazing year. Only over messages. Then I told him about my surgery and he insisted on finally coming to see me" Melissa said with a wide smile.

Brooke smiled back at her; "That's really sweet."

"I know it sounds crazy…"

Kate smirked; "You can get a lot done in a text, isn't that right Dr. Davis?" she asked Brooke as Brooke's mouth fell open. "Dr. Davis understands the importance of looking your best, it's a very important day for her. A big one. Huge apparently."

Brooke was stunned into silence. She had seen the text after all and apparently she was ready to embarrass Brooke at every available opportunity.

"Aw, that's so nice!" Melissa said to Brooke who snapped out of her shock to reply to Melissa.

"It's unconfirmed right now." Brooke said, knowing that by the end of the day she could be in her bed for the foreseeable future. This surgery was almost like a last hurrah.

"Well, we will be back to prep you for surgery. Let's go Dr. Davis." Kate said as Brooke sheepishly followed her out of the room and down the corridor.

"So. You got my text."

"Oh yeah. I got it good." Kate teased with a laugh.

"Obviously that was not meant for you… My sex ban may be getting lifted today and the sexting with Lucas has reached its peak-" Brooke awkwardly explained with a little laugh.

"So I see."

"I—I should really be more careful…"

"You should be careful in this surgery - you don't want to waste energy cause by the look of things you're going to need it for late..." Kate teased further.

Brooke sighed; "Can we skip to the part where this joke gets old?"

Kate got her phone out and read the message again; "Did you really do this?"

"I ha—I have not. I was just… I'm going to go to my appointment now." Brooke said, quickly walking away to stop herself from digging into an even deeper hole.

After her appointment, Brooke quickly rushed round the hospital looking for Lucas. It didn't take long for her to find him in the surgical wing at one of the nurses' stations.

"Hey! I'm free!" she said happily as she wrapped her arms around his waist.

"Free from what?"

"The placenta previa is cleared! No more worrying."

"That's amazing!" he said as he hugged her tightly and kissed her head.

"This is weird." Brooke commented as she released herself from the hug.

"What's weird?"

"I haven't had a string of good news like this in a long time. I don't remember the last time my life was so happy and normal—surely something's going to go wrong." She dramatically stated.

"You can't think like that."

"Considering my track record, I can, and I will. Though, this morning… I accidentally sexted Kate" Brooke confessed as she scrunched up her nose and Lucas's eyes widened.

"You're kidding" he said with a little laugh.

"Nope. And she's probably never going to let me live it down."

Lucas nodded; "That's fair, I wouldn't either."

"At least we can now stop the sex fast" Brooke said as she bit her lip and smiled.

"Yeah, that's been rough, but the sexting thing was surprisingly hot—" Lucas said as he bent down to kiss her, but a cough interrupted them.

They looked up and saw Peyton standing there, tapping her foot. "Could I get a plastic's consult in the pit? Please?" she added in, a little too forcefully at the end.

Lucas cleared his throat; "Sure thing…" he said as he followed Peyton away, but not before turning around and sending Brooke a smirk and a wink.

When Melissa's boyfriend Graham arrived at the hospital, it was soon evident that she had in fact been catfished. He looked nothing like his picture and Melissa was enraged. As Brooke and Kate wheeled Melissa to surgery, they were getting an earful about it.

"I gave everything to that man and what did he give me in return? Lies. I can't believe I let this happen, I told him that I loved him!" Melissa exclaimed, beyond frustrated with herself.

"You thought he was the one for you, he seemed real." Kate reasoned with her.

"And sometimes someone can seem really good on screen. Almost too good." Brooke mumbled. This whole thing had hit a nerve with her and made her think about her sexcapades with Lucas. They had really built it up over text—what if it was a let-down? What if she was a let-down?

Melissa frowned; "He was really good on screen."

At that moment, Lucas walked over and immediately smirked at Brooke.

"Hey" he greeted, happy to see her.

Brooke returned his smirk; "Hey yourself."

"Dr. Scott" Kate told him as she too smirked.

Lucas's smile fell, knowing exactly why she was smirking at him like that. "Don't look at me like that."

"I don't know how to look at you, now that I know what I know." Kate grumbled.

Melissa looked up at Brooke; "Is he your something unconfirmed tonight?"

"Something unconfirmed? Damn, way to tease Davis…" Lucas joked.

"He is my now confirmed tonight…" Brooke told her.

Melissa turned in her bed slightly and eyed Lucas up and down. "Great. You get the hot blonde, and I get Graham? I mean come on…." she grumbled as Lucas looked confused, having no idea what situation he had just walked in on.

"Dr. Scott you can go away now." Brooke said through her teeth as she felt her cheeks getting redder and redder.

"Why would I want to do that?" Lucas asked as Kate chuckled, seeing how nervous this was making Brooke.

"Yeah, you two can go and catch up if need be…" Kate insisted as Brooke glared right at her.

"I see him every day and every night, there's nothing to catch up on." Brooke said through her teeth.

"Doesn't sound that way…" Melissa said as Brooke closed her eyes in embarrassment.

"You guys are in for one hell of a night." Kate teased further.

"Goodbye Lucas." Brooke said quickly as Lucas finally stopped walking with them.

"Dr. Davis…" he finished with before smirking and walking away.

Brooke stopped and turned to Kate; "I hate you."

"I know."

They soon made it into the OR and were in the early stages of the surgery when Kate decided to get to the bottom of Brooke's awkwardness in the hallway. She had been incredibly open about the whole sex thing this morning and then suddenly, she had completely closed off. She could barely look at Lucas back there without looking like she was going to scream.

"So, what's your deal?" Kate asked as they worked.

"I'll establish vascular control, then I'll—"

"No, I meant with Lucas. You're being weird about not being on a sex ban anymore."

Brooke shrugged. "There's no deal. What's your deal?" she countered.

"What?"

"You're not supposed to tell me to take time to see a guy. You're supposed to tell me to hurry up and prep. Can you please do your job and make my life difficult?" Brooke asked. Attendings really weren't supposed to go easy on their residents and Kate was prepared to let Brooke go off and have sex rather than do her job? Family or not, Brooke did not want that kind of treatment.

"I'm just saying after all those texts and then you act like you don't want him near you when he can actually be near you?" Kate questioned. It seemed bizarre to her. Most of the time Brooke and Lucas couldn't keep their hands off each other and now Brooke had practically jumped when he came up to her in the corridor earlier.

Brooke sighed, realising she wasn't going to be getting out of giving her an answer any time soon.

"It's been over a month and we've built it up to monumental heights that I know it's just not going to live up to his expectations—"

"You think he has expectations?"

"You saw the texts Kate…" Brooke said quietly.

"Lucas loves you Brooke. It'll be great no matter what because you're both in love."

"Can we not talk about this?" she groaned. It was started to get weird.

"I'm just being the supportive stepmother."

"Hell. I am in actual hell." Never in a million years did she think she would be standing in an OR talking about her sex life with her stepmother.

"Surely this conversation is better had with your stepmother than your actual mother." Kate reasoned. She couldn't imagine Victoria talking to Brooke about sex.

"Both are hell." Brooke made clear.

Kate laughed before deciding it was probably time to drop the subject, but not before she gave one more pearl of wisdom, "You're just over thinking it Brooke. Somethings tells me that boy is going to love every part of you until his dying day."

That evening, Lucas and Brooke left the hospital together as Brooke linked her arm through his.

"Well Dr. Scott, where to next?" she asked.

"I was thinking we could go on a date" he said as he smiled down at her.

"A date? We haven't been on many of those." Brooke said smiling back.

"I know, we really did do everything in reverse, huh?"

"Oh yeah." Brooke said as they both laughed.

"I got us reservations at your favourite restaurant, then I thought we could go for a walk downtown then back to your house for dessert." He said seductively as Brooke giggled.

"I like the way you think Scott."

"Though, in all honesty, we could go home, get into our comfiest clothes, eat junk food and fall asleep watching a trashy chick flick of your choice and I would content. As long as it was with you." He confessed sweetly as Brooke smiled.

"That sounds like the perfect 2nd date." She said as he leaned down and kissed her lightly, before walking on into the night.

A few weeks later, Brooke and Lucas were sitting in Tric waiting for Rachel and Nathan to join them from work. They had a pretty important question they wanted to ask their friends. While they waited, Brooke couldn't help but think of another important issue at hand.

"You know, we haven't thought of any names yet." She commented as she broke apart some nuts that sat on the table.

"No, we haven't..." Lucas said carefully. He had been secretly dreading this part of having a baby. He had a funny feeling he and Brooke would struggle to find any names they could agree upon.

"Brooke Penelope Davis is such an iconic name…" Brooke boasted. "Except when my parents used it to chastise me" she said with a grimace. She had been full named far too many times in her life.

"Well then our baby needs just an iconic a name that we can shout when we're angry" Lucas teased.

"Agreed. If I have to suffer then so does my kid." Brooke made clear.

"What names were you thinking?" Lucas asked.

"Something strong… but sweet. Bold… but gentle."

Lucas sighed; "Yeah this is going to be a nightmare to pick."

"Hey, no it's not…"

"If that's your criteria then yeah, it is." How could they possibly find a name that fit all of what Brooke wanted?

"Well I may not have any first names in mind, but I can tell you what the rest of their name will be."

"Oh yeah?"

"Well, if it's a girl… 'Baby' Victoria Karen Davis Scott."

"Oh, so we're going for the long ass names huh?" Lucas said with a chuckle. He just knew their kid was going to kill them one day for giving them ridiculous names. It was like an unusual form of torture.

"Well we can't exactly include one grandmother and not the other…" Brooke reasoned. She could only imagine the meltdown that would follow if Victoria or Karen didn't make it into the name.

"What if it's a boy?"

"If it's a boy… 'baby' Edward Kirk Davis Scott." Brooke said a little quieter. She wanted to include two men who meant a lot to her, but who she also knew meant a lot to Lucas.

"It's perfect." Lucas said sincerely as he held Brooke's hand.

"Hey love birds." Rachel greeted as she and Nathan came and sat opposite them. "Brooke Davis you are positively glowing!" Rachel complimented. "A beautiful, happy pregnancy flow."

"Well there is plenty to be happy about. I'm actually kind of enjoying being pregnant right now. Just savouring these last few months." Brooke said with a smile. She had hit the 6 month mark and it all felt like it was going by way too fast.

"So, what did you want to talk to us about?" Nathan asked as he snacked on the nuts at the table.

"We were talking about the baby and what we would do if anything happened to us and that led us to thinking about godparents." Lucas told them as their ears spiked.

"Oh really?" Rachel said with a smile, knowing where this was going.

"Uh huh… and we would really love it if you two could be our baby's godparents." Brooke said as she matched Rachel's wide smile.

"Really?" Nathan asked, wanting to make sure they were sure.

"Yes, really. There is no one else that we would want more than our two best friends." Brooke told them sincerely.

"Aw, Brooke!" Rachel said as she put her hand over her heart, feeling emotional that they would trust her with their baby.

"Is that a yes?" Lucas asked.

"That's a definite yes" Nathan said as Rachel excitedly jumped off her seat and hugged them both.

"We are going to spoil this baby rotten!"

"Oh, we don't doubt that –"

"LUCAS!" They suddenly heard a voice bellow at the door as the turned around and saw an unexpected face marching towards them. "Thank god, I have been looking everywhere for you!"

"Lily?" Lucas questioned as his sister launched herself into Lucas' arms. "What are you doing here?" he had no idea she was coming in from Boston, but she seemed a little distressed.

"Mom is being a total psycho!" she said as she slumped down at the table and Rachel and Nathan quickly slipped away, not wanting to get involved in this particular melt down. "She just can't seem to accept that maybe college isn't the path in life that I'm supposed to take and that is ok! There are so many other things I could be doing." Lily rambled.

"Hold on, back up… you don't want to stay at college?" Lucas asked. She'd already seen a year and a half of her college education through – why not just finish it?

Lily was about to answer when she turned and looked at Brooke, "Oh my god, Brooke!" she said as she walked round the table and hugged her dramatically. Lily had always been a firecracker and just a little over the top. "I am so happy you're here… but you didn't tell him about college?" she asked as Lucas raised an eyebrow and Brooke gulped.

"You knew she dropped out of college?" Lucas questioned, wondering how Brooke could have forgotten to tell him this kind of important thing about his sister.

"I knew she was thinking about it but I didn't know you'd actually dropped out." Brooke made clear. She and Lily had spoken on the phone a few weeks ago and Lily had expressed her concerns, but Brooke just thought she was being dramatic – seeing as that was normally the case. But here she was, in Raleigh, saying she was done, and that Karen was mad.

Lily stood tall, "I'm making a bold move. Lucas is all about making bold moves" Lily teased as Lucas rubbed his forehead, feeling a headache coming on. "Brooke, you are glowing by the way—"

"Can we stay on that matter at hand?" Lucas snapped.

Lily glared at her brother, "Lucas. What could be more important than telling the love of your life how beautiful she is?"

Brooke sighed, "Lily, you're deflecting…" she said quietly, knowing she needed to stick with Lucas on this one.

Lily gasped, "Brooke! You're supposed to be on my side…" she sulked.

"I am on your side Lily which is why we should talk about this" Brooke reasoned. Ever since she and Lucas had gotten back together, Brooke and Lily had become close and she was always willing to help Lily out whenever she needed it – even if that meant turning into a bit of a parent. She figured it was probably good practice for when their own baby came.

"God, I came here for some support, not to be nagged at. I get enough of that from mom and dad."

"Lily, we're not going to coddle you, you need to grow up and not avoid your problems." Lucas made clear.

"I'm sorry but you two are the king and queen of avoidance." Lily said with a scoff. She knew all about their emotional incapability and she wasn't about to take a hypocrite's advice.

"… maybe" Lucas said in awkward agreement, "but we started letting our feelings in and look at us now!" he reasoned. He'd like to think that they'd seriously matured over the past few months.

"Yeah thank god, your moping was getting so annoying Lucas." Lily said with an eye roll.

Brooke could see Lucas getting more and more frustrated, so figured it was time she tried to diffuse the situation. "How about we just go home and get some rest and then we can talk a little more about this tomorrow?" she suggested.

"There's nothing to talk about. I'm not going back to college." Lily said defiantly.

"What am I doing here Brooke?" Lily asked as she sulked around the hospital. "My parents are surgeons, I see more than enough of sick people."

"I thought that maybe doing some good today would make you a little more thankful for what you have and the opportunities that you have." Brooke said as they put some hand sanitzer on their hands and walked into the ICU. After taking Lily back to the house and getting her settled in one of the spare rooms, Brooke and Lucas determined that she was being dramatic and getting on like she was a little bit spoilt. They thought maybe a reality check would be of some use and decided to take her into the hospital and show her the importance of a good education.

"I'm not easily guilt tripped." Lily warned her as they stood outside of a patient's room.

"This isn't a guilt trip Lily." Brooke made clear. "So. This is Austin Marmaduke." She said as she motioned to the young boy in the bed. "He's 17 years old, cystic fibrosis. He needs a lung transplant which is why he is up here, hooked to a monitor because his lungs have failed him. For the past few years, he hasn't been able to go to school because he is so sick and all he wants to do is write – but he can't." Brooke said as she walked on, but Lily lingered for a few seconds longer.

"This is Casey Young." Brooke said as the stopped by another patient's door. "26 years old. She was an Olympic athlete. 100m sprint, but she was in a really bad car accident the other day and lost both of her legs… now she can't compete in the way she once did. When she wakes up – her life is going to look completely different and it's going to be heart breaking for her as she tries to adapt to her new normal."

"Ok, ok, I get it." Lily conceded. "These people had their dreams taken away from them, but I don't have big dreams Brooke. I just want to live my life."

"You think going to college isn't living? It is the one time in your life when you can live to your fullest self." Brooke encouraged. "You can be as free as you want to be, you don't have job to go to or bills to pay. You can get a really good education and build the foundations of your future, while just allowing yourself to be young. I'm not saying you have to have aspirations like Austin or Casey or even me or Lucas or your parents by being a surgeon – but you have to give yourself a starting point and you can't take the opportunities that you've been given for granted. Maybe college isn't for you, but you can't leave it to be doing nothing. You're too smart and capable for that."

Lily gulped, for the first time realising that maybe the adult influences in her life had a point. Somehow, it was a little easier hearing it from Brooke and not her mother, who tended to just shout her concerns rather than take the time to rationally talk them through.

"Yeah, I guess –" Lily began, but before she could say anything else, there was a commotion at the end of the corridor and Brooke rushed down to see what was going on.

"Sir, I need you to calm down." Rachel said sternly to the man in front of her. He looked to be in complete hysterics and nothing Rachel was saying was making it better.

"You told me she would be fine! You told me she would get better!" he exclaimed through his tear filled eyes.

"Sir, as doctors we can make no such promises. We were hopeful, but sometimes there is nothing we can do and unfortunately this was one of those times." Rachel made clear.

"What's going on?" Brooke asked as she walked over and Lily hovered behind.

"You doctors think you can play god when you can't do shit!" the man exclaimed as he shoved Rachel.

"Sir, that is enough!" Brooke exclaimed as she stepped in between him and Rachel.

"My wife is dead! And all because of you!" he shouted just as Lucas and Nathan also came round the corner after hearing all the fuss.

Truth was, he and his wife had been involved in a car accident – caused by him – and now he was looking for anyone to blame in his grief as his wife lay brain dead in the room beside them. Brooke was about to say something else to try and calm him down, but he reached to the trolley next to him and ripped a scalpel from its packing, causing all the doctors and nurses around him to jump back a step.

"Sir, put the scalpel down." Lucas demanded as he held up his hand.

"NO!" he exclaimed as he moved forward. Lucas instinctively reacted and charged for the man in an attempt to grab the knife, but his reflexes were quick and he shoved Lucas aside. Brooke's instincts to protect Lucas then kicked in and she stepped forward, just as the man came in her direction. She bashed into him and let out a short gasp of air before stumbling back.

Everything seemed to move around them in slow motion in that moment. Brooke looked at her friends who looked shocked and watched as they looked down at her chest.

"Brooke" Rachel said in a quiet breath as Brooke looked down and saw the scalpel was plunged between her ribs and right beside her heart. The man who stabbed her looked panicked. He hadn't meant to do that, what the hell had he just done? He was desperate to help and did the one thing he shouldn't have done – he reached forward and pulled the scalpel out, causing Brooke to let out another raspy breath. She stayed upright for a few more seconds before she felt her consciousness go, just as Nathan lunged forward and he caught her before she hit the ground.

"Somebody get me a gurney!" Nathan exclaimed as he lay her on the ground beside him and reached to the trolley for a pair of gloves. He needed to see where the scalpel had penetrated. He needed to see if it had hit her heart.

Lucas had managed to stumble to his feet just as Nathan had caught Brooke. He stood back and watched the scene unfold before him, feeling helpless. He watched as Nathan put his finger inside the wound to plug the bleeding.

"Where did it hit?" Rachel desperately asked as she wrapped an oxygen mask around Brooke's head.

Nathan looked up in desperation, "It's her heart."