A/N: The story takes places in season 1, when Lucas first cheated on Brooke with Peyton.
Here you have, the second chapter.
Chapter 7:
Brooke was having a nice calm evening at home after her doctor check up, she has just made her herself home cooked meal that taste great. She was really proud of herself after hours of watching cooking videos and a few cooking class with her maid Louisa, she could say for herself that she could cook and bake. Looking at her homemade cookies on the counter, she was just putting the table when the doorbell rang. She never really got any visitors without notice before.
"What are you doing here?" Brooke says angered by the person standing at her door. Angered that this person had the bulls to show up at her door and that he will be wasting her precious time that she could be spending eating. You shouldn't mess with a pregnant woman and her food.
"It's that the way to greet the grandfather of your unborn child?" the persons asks smirking when he sees the colour fade from Brooke's face upon hearing that someone else knew her secret. And especially Dan Scott who knows what he's going to do to her or her baby.
"Don't go fainting on me now," Dan says sarcastically with a smirk on his face when he walks by Brooke into the house.
"How?" Brooke asks while closing the door. It's only thing that she could find to say because she did everything with perfection, she never left a mark behind that could be traced back to her. The doctor at the free clinic was monitoring her knew by a fake name. Everything happened under a fake name.
Dan doesn't answer directly, he just walks into her kitchen and takes a plate fills it up with food. He does the same with the second plate and put them on the already set table. Brooke sits down at the table and Dan follow suits. They quietly begin to eat their dinner, the only noise is when Dan mumbles some kind of approval about her cooking skill. Knowing that Brooke is still waiting for an answer, Dan clears his throat as a sign that he's ready to talk.
"I already had seen you and Lucas at clinic a few months ago, but after that there was no havoc about you being pregnant or something. Everything just went back to normal and I knew there was something not right. So I went and asked an old friend for favour and she told me you were indeed pregnant. It's always good to have connections," Dan says smirking to Brooke's angered face.
"So much for doctor – patient confidently," Brooke says pouting while Dan smiles.
"Are you keeping it?" Dan asks cutting to the chase. Brooke nods positively to the question.
"So does Lucas know because for a guy who knows that he's going to be dad, he sure isn't acting like that with your blond friend? That's because he doesn't know, right? Are you ever going to tell?" Dan asks at Brooke who's looking like a child who got caught stealing candy.
"No, I'm never going to tell him about this pregnancy. It's not like he will believe me that it's his child."
"And how are you going to succeed in that if you both live here in Tree Hill?" enquires Dan.
"I'm going to move at the end of the school year to Brooklyn, NY. Nobody will notice that I'll be gone. They'll all think that I was sent off to boarding school and my parents are never here to notice that I'm gone," Brooke says with a sad tone.
"Well, I want to help you out."
"Why bother with this one if you never bothered with your own son?"
"People think that I never tried to be in Lucas' life, but that isn't how it happened. I tried to be in Lucas' life, even before he was born but Karen told me that my presence was stressing and that it wasn't good for the baby. So, I backed off and I tried again after he was born, but she would never let me. Saying things like Lucas is too young to travel back and forth between Tree Hill and Duke all the time. So, I backed of again not knowing that Karen was telling Lucas how I never wanted him, even though I always used to send her money to help her with Lucas. When Deb and I moved back here, people were treating me like this evil man who abandoned his oldest son and moved on with another woman. I was sick of how Karen was acting as the victim and Deb had been telling me for years that I should go to court for a custody battle. I never wanted to but then I found out that Karen never cashed the cheques that I have been sending her during the last six years. She was there making my son live in poverty, while she had money that she could've used to get them out of that situation. In the end, I took that money and I put it in a trust fund for Lucas. Every month, I would put the money that I used to send to Karen as alimentation there and on his sixteen birthday I put the money that I would've used to buy him a car on it. There is enough money in that fund, which Lucas could use to go to any college of his choice."
"Did Keith know that you tried to be there for Lucas? Because if he knew he wouldn't of let Karen do all that she did," Brooke says trying to comprehend the situation.
"Please, my dear brother has his head so far up in Karen' ass to notice anything. You have to understand that Keith has always been in love with Karen and playing daddy to Karen' son is like a dream come true for him. Keith isn't all that bad, he use to send me pictures of Lucas when he was younger."
"Why are you treating Lucas as a parasite, if it's Karen that handled the situation badly?"
"Because in my mind, I reason that if hurt Lucas by ignoring him then I will hurt Karen too and that she'll finally see what the consequence are of her actions. I'm paying everyday for what I did seventeen years ago in that gym by choosing college above Karen, but she hasn't also been a saint in the whole situation. But she never faced the consequences" Dan says while standing up with both their plates. He puts them in the sink, with Brooke standing behind him watching his every movement.
"Are you telling me this sob story, so that I reconsider not letting Lucas in my baby's life?" Brooke asks suspiciously, looking at the older man that is busy doing the dishes.
"First of all, it's our baby's life you're forgetting that it's also Lucas' child. And secondly, no, I'm telling you this because I want you to understand why I want to be in this child life. I never been part of anything that Lucas' life, so being part of his firstborn life would in some ways bring me closer to Lucas," Dan says while looking Brooke straight in the eyes.
"So, you need 'my' child to make yourself good about the fact that you never fought to be in Lucas' life. Sorry mister, but that is not going to happen. You come here tell me that you want to be in this child life but you can't even give me good reason to let you. My child deserves a wonderful life where he's surrounded by people, who love and support him or her not by people that are using him or her to fill a void. I'm sick of people using others to get their way, if you're forgetting someone always get hurts at the end. So help me God, I'll do anything to prevent my child from knowing that kind of pain," Brooke says glaring at Dan.
"That's not what I meant. I just want to help you because in case that you haven't noticed you're minor and you can expect to just leave Tree Hill without someone noticing even if your parents don't, I'm sure that your maid would notice and contact the authorities. Then they'll bring you back here and Lucas will find out that you lied," Dan says cautiously. Brooke looks at him thoughtfully and moves back to table where she sits down. Dan soon follows her taking the fact that she's not saying anything as a sign that she'll listen to him.
"Like you said that you're planning to leave town, I'm thinking of going with you. Before you protest let me explain, I have nothing left here. Deb and I are considering divorcing, Nathan lives alone and the business doing well. I have stores in the whole state and in other cities in the south, and old friend from college has been advising me for years that I expand in the east coast. You're thinking of leaving at end of this school year that to so soon for me to leave, because I have to take care of few things before I can follow you," Dan says, trying to explain his plan to Brooke.
"Okay, before I go along with your plan. I have a few conditions that I want you to follow," Brooke says.
"And what are those conditions?"
"First of all, you can never let anyone know that I'm pregnant. No one is allowed to know that information. Secondly, you can't leave town a few weeks after me, it would be better if you leave town after the summer vacation or in August. When you move to NY to help me, I'm not comfortable enough with you to live with you. Also, I already found a place up there to live."
The rest of the evening, was spent with Brooke and Dan talking about her pregnancy and her upcoming move to NY. Brooke telling Dan what her conditions were to Dan being part of her baby's life. They talked about how her pregnancy was going and how she was hiding her pregnancy from everyone. Dan told what his plan was to help her leave Tree Hill without anyone being suspicious. Dan told her more about his relationship with Karen and Brooke told him about her relationships with Lucas and Peyton. While talking about the two blonds, Brooke couldn't help but shed some tears and Dan was there consoling her by telling her that everything was going to be alright. And for some reason, Brooke Davis has fate in Dan Scott' words. She knew that there were acts done by him that she should show her that he wasn't trustworthy, but she had learned that the people that everyone considered to be trustworthy were often not. That evening, Brooke knew that the beginning of her new life was getting closer and that she had Dan Scott to thank for that.