Keys clacked as Lucas typed furiously with one hand, his other wrapped securely around Miles' waist. "When are you going to start sleeping at normal hours?" Lucas asked of the baby. "I mean I love these quality hours we spend together, but you sleep most of the day which is the only time you get to spend with your mother. I think she wants to spend more time with you awake. I know I wish I could spend more time with her. So I'll make you a deal. How about the two of us start sleeping when she sleeps so that we can be awake and spend time with her?"

"Hey," a raspy voice called. Lucas jumped and spun around in his chair. A tousled Brooke stood in the doorway.

"Sorry did I wake you?"

"Nope I couldn't sleep so I came down to check on my boys." Lucas smiled, she had called him her boy. Brooke walked over and took Miles in her arms. "Hey baby." She shifted him to one hip and leaned over to read what Lucas was typing on the computer. "New book?"

"Yeah," he confirmed and then quickly closed the document.

"What I can't read it?" A grin broke across Brooke's face. "Is it dirty? Has sweet little Lucas finally started writing about more adult topics?"

"It's not dirty, it's just not finished." Nodding, Brooke sank into a nearby chair.

"So what's it about?" She leaned her head back so that it rested on the back of the chair.

"It's about a guy," Lucas spoke, avoiding true explanation.

"Isn't it always?" Brooke's eyes fluttered closed a bit.

"It's about a guy in love with a girl. She has a kid with another guy and gradually the main character falls in love with the kid." Brooke's eyes had remained closed.

"So do they end up together?" Lucas knew that if she was fully awake she would be a little more uncomfortable about the plot.

"I don't know," Lucas spoke. "I don't know." Deep breathing told Lucas that Brooke had fallen asleep. Shaking his head, he stood up and took Miles from Brooke's arms. He gently tucked a blanket over Brooke's sleeping form. "Mommy's sleeping huh?" Lucas baby talked. That was another thing, Lucas never baby talked to any of Haley's kids or Peyton's baby but as soon as Brooke has a kid, all of Lucas's self respect goes out the window. "I'm going to miss you buddy. When your…when David finally gives up on LA and moves here. I don't know how he's stayed away so long." Lucas looked at Brooke. "This big old house will be too empty."

"Lucas," Brooke grumbled sleepily.

"Yeah Brooke."

"They should end up together." Lucas smiled.

"Yeah they should." Her opinion put in, Brooke snuggled down under the blanket and went back to sleep.

Brooke shifted uncomfortably, the sun shone through her eye lids. She opened her eyes and looked around. Her pains were explained, she had slept in the chair. Rubbing the sleep from her eyes, Brooke walked into the kitchen where Lucas was feeding Miles. "Cute picture," Brooke commented. Turning, Lucas laughed.

"Yeah well a night awake always makes the two of us hungry so I thought I'd feed him." Brooke sat down in the chair, pulling her legs into her chest.

"Mama," Miles cooed as he reached a chubby fist towards Brooke. Brooke smiled.

"Hey baby."

"Dada," Miles continued. Brooke and Lucas both stared at the baby who was reaching a hand towards Lucas. "Dada," Miles repeated.

"Wow," Lucas said. Brooke stood up and moved to behind Lucas.

"I mean I guess you've spent all this time with him that he just assumed."

"Can babies assume?" Brooke shrugged her shoulders.

"Well I need to get to work, so I'm going to go hop in the shower." Brooke kissed her son's head. "I never get to spend time with him," she commented.

Freshly showered Brooke walked down the stairs, shoving more things into her bag and double checking her briefcase to make sure that she had all her designs. In the living room Lucas was sitting in the armchair, a sleeping Miles in his arms. "I should really start carrying a camera around," Brooke joked.

"Miles and I've got it around here. We'll hold down the fort and have dinner ready for you when you get home."

"The two of you are so good to me." Brooke kissed Miles' forehead and then hesitantly pecked Lucas's forehead.

"Lucy I'm home!" Brooke called as she entered the house. "And boy am I tired. A whole new line that I'm trying to get out by next Friday. And I missed my little boy." Brooke entered the kitchen to see Lucas pulling things out of the oven. "Did you lose the baby?" She asked as she looked around the room.

"He's sleeping in the living room." After she grabbed a carrot stick, Brooke walked into the living room. She picked up her sleeping son and then sat down on the couch with him in her arms. "Ok Brooke everything's on the table, so what do you want to dri…" Lucas stopped as he entered the living room to see Brooke and Miles sleeping on the couch. "Wow she wasn't joking about that long day." Lucas smiled and placed a blanket over Brooke, making sure that Miles' head was exposed. Then after a quick yawn, Lucas sat down beside Brooke. Sensing the movement, Brooke moved a bit. After a bit of adjustment her head rested on Lucas's shoulder. With a smile, Lucas settled down to sleep.

"What the hell is this?!" a voice roared. The dog barked near Lucas's feet. Lucas opened his eyes and checked the clock, he had been asleep for an hour. Brooke stirred next to him. The two looked up to see David standing in the doorway. "I come home to find my wife sleeping with some other man?"

"David calm down. That's all we were doing, sleeping." Trying not to wake her son, Brooke stood up. "It was a long day and we were both tired." With a crash, David threw his things down.

"No." Shaking his head, David brandished a finger. "I've tried to ignore it but the way he looks at you and the way you look at him. There's something going on, I know there is."

"There is nothing going on." Brooke walked towards her husband.

"I promise," Lucas confirmed. But David continued to shake his head.

"Don't lie to me!" David made a move towards Brooke but Lucas intervened. He pulled a stern face as he stood between the two. "I wasn't going to hit her," David explained, frustrated.

"I wasn't going to chance it," Lucas said without emotion.

"She's the mother of my son," David continued as an explanation.

"Unbelievable," Brooke mumbled as she rolled her eyes.

"What's that?" David asked. Lucas turned to Brooke.

"Your son huh?" Brooke shifted Miles onto her shoulder. "Where were you when he got that huge fever that they never figured out what it was? Where were you for his first word or his first step?"

"I have a job Brooke. In LA! You know that."

"Oh I do know that, but I have a job too and so does Lucas, but we're both here for Miles. In fact Lucas is here for your son more than you are! Did you know that he called Lucas dada this morning?"

Confused, David began to plead. "Brooke I thought that this was what you wanted? I thought you wanted to move here and have me continue to work?"

Tears blurring her vision, Brooke looked away from her husband and then back towards David. "No. I wanted you to move here permanently. I wanted you to give it all up permanently for me and your son. I wanted you to say that you couldn't be away from me or Miles for long periods of time."

"Well how was I supposed to know that?" David rubbed his forehead.

"If you truly loved me you would have," Brooke said quietly.

And then it broke, something inside David cracked. "Fine Brooke! Fine! I don't love you is that what you wanted to hear? Lucas is a better father to Miles than I am, is that what you wanted to hear?" Brooke shook her head.

"That's not what I wanted to…"

"Well you know what fine! You seem to be happy here so you stay here with Lucas." David picked up his bags. "He can be a better husband to you and a better father to Miles than I ever was! So Lucas she's all yours, he's all yours! You be happy with them because I'm out!" With a slam of the door, David made his exit.

Rachel sighed as she rinsed out her coffee cup. "Are those the papers?" she asked of Brooke. A straight faced Brooke nodded. "Good. Because you know I love you…
Brooke smiled, she knew that. Her red haired friend had dropped everything and moved into the house with Brooke as soon as she heard of the argument with David, forcing Lucas onto the couch."…and I'm happy to be here as long as you need me, but I'm not really ready to move back here."

"And I'm not ready to make the living room my permanent bedroom either," Lucas joked.

"So as soon as it's final and I make sure you're all right I've got to go." Brooke nodded. "Good I'm glad we had this talk." Without another word, Rachel left the room. With a sigh, Brooke signed yet another paper. "Well it's official," she grumbled. "I'm a divorcee and a single mother." She sealed the envelope and put her head down on the table. Lucas stroked her hair.

"You know I've been thinking about that."

"About my divorce?" Brooke looked up, confused.

"No about your single motherhood." Lucas sipped his coffee as the two looked towards the high chair where Miles was happily sucking his thumb. "Miles needs a father." Brooke looked up as her eyes locked with his.

"What are you saying?"

"I want to adopt him. I love this boy." Lucas put his hand on Miles' head. "And I want to be there for him. I…" Brooke had stood up and left the room. "You know you could have just said no." Brooke reentered the room and placed a box on the table, the same one that used to be in her bedroom. "What's that?"

"It's the box where I keep the things that are important to me, pictures from high school, ultrasounds, other things. And this." She pulled a piece of paper from the box. "It's Miles' birth certificate." With misty eyes, Brooke looked down at the paper.

"You know you should really keep that in a fireproof box or something." Brooke handed him the paper. "It's his birth certificate," a confused Lucas stated.

"Read it. Look at his parents." Brooke put her hand on Miles' table and he grabbed her finger as Lucas read.

"He…I mean the father…you mean that he's mine?" Avoiding eye contact, Brooke nodded. "Well why didn't you tell me?" Finally Brooke looked up.

"I don't think I really wanted to admit it to myself. I was married and I didn't want to admit that I had a baby with the man who I really wanted to be with." This statement made Lucas smile.

"The man you really wanted to be with?" Lucas grinned.

"Don't let it go to your head." Lucas stood up and kissed Miles' head and then took Brooke's hand. He pulled her to his feet and then kissed her. Brooke felt the sparks, the sparks that she never felt with David, the sparks that always belonged with Lucas. Brooke pulled back, breathing heavily. Their foreheads pressed into each other.

"Marry me," Lucas said in a whisper.

"You had to ruin the moment." Brooke pulled back. "I just got out of a marriage, I don't want to rush into another one." Lucas grabbed her hand and pulled her back to him.

"We have a beautiful son together and besides did you pine for David forever?"

"I didn't pine for you forever," Brooke groaned. His eyes still on Brooke's, Lucas reached into the box and pulled out a small ring box. He held it up to Brooke, a pointed look on his face. "What's in this box?"

"That? Oh that's…well that's the ring that you gave me and promised me that you would make…an engagement ring."

"So are you ready?" Lucas locked eyes with her.

"Say yes," Rachel spoke from the doorway. Lucas and Brooke turned. "Finally get your happy ending," Rachel explained. Brooke turned back to Lucas.

"Yes. Yes I'll marry you." Lucas took the ring from the box and placed it on her finger.

"Until I can get a real one," he explained. He pulled Brooke to him and kissed her long and hard.

"All you Tree Hill girls getting married before your twenty seventh birthday," Rachel pointed out. "I guess this makes me the least slutty of the group. Who'dve thunk it?" Brooke grinned and then kissed Lucas again. After breaking apart Lucas walked over and picked up his son.

"You hear that your dad and mom are getting married." He held Miles up in the air and he squealed in delight. Brooke smiled. This really was her fairy tale ending, the man who always had her heart and the boy who would always have both of theirs. Tomorrow she would have to go back to reality, work and now wedding plans, but for now she was content to just be here with her two boys. Smiling, she ran over and joined the play. And the three lived happily ever after.