Dan put his hand over his mouth, afraid of him being herd. Of course Lucas wouldn't be able to hear him he was a full mile away. But Dan could feel tears streaming down his face he was laughing so hard.

He could see how afraid Lucas was, how he was acting like such a baby. He was near tears over his uncle who was lying there unconscious and limp. One would think that Dan being the father of Lucas, and brother of Keith would be fear stricken of seeing this site, however he was rather enjoying it.

"Die, Die, Die!" Dan was quietly chanting hoping his brother would finally role over and breathe his last breath.

However his happiness drowned when the ambulance showed up and took Keith away. He was angered that they hadn't pronounced he was dead, but in fact put him on the stretcher and hurried to the hospital. He started up the car and drove away looking at himself in the mirror. How different he looked. He know longer had the dark black hair he once had. His hair was now a light brown and his peach fuzz was growing in more. He decided to grow himself a beard, with a nice mustache to match. He was proud of himself for thinking of it, not only did he think he looked rather stunning, but it is a great way of hiding.

He thought about his day and how he was pleased of it. He had a small car that he was able to take from the "junk yard" part of the dealership before he left for hiding without anyone noticing. The "junk yard" part of the dealer ship was where they put all the cars that were used and people traded in for new pricy Dan Scott cars. They would put them in the "junk yard" and sell them for money to get new parts for the good cars.

After finding out Keith was alive and rushed to the hospital after he shot him. Dan stole one that he knew people would not notice would be gone, and he would be safe from police trying to detect it. He traveled about and hour or so away from Tree Hill and parked himself way back in the woods and fell asleep. He found himself doing this every night since he had to leave the motel that he found Lucas at.

Dan was an all around crook he plotted things, and always made it so that he wouldn't be found, and he somehow always felt safe and secure even with him being on the Wanted signs all over town. Dan Scott knew he wasn't going anywhere soon. Not until he got what he wanted. Revenge. Answers. and Blood.

- - - – - - - - - - -- - - - - -

"So explain this to me again." Karen asked the doctor.

It was only her and Lucas in the waiting room. As soon as Lucas was in the ambulance he called Karen. It was only right before the doctor came out that he called Nathan and asked him to tell Brooke for him.

"It's nothing serious ma'am. Mr. Scott's blood pressure just dropped really low and him being out in the sun all day-"

Lucas stopped listening. He didn't get up or walk away he just simply stopped listening. He zoned him out. The image of Keith just being so limp and lying there in pain from falling on his bad shoulder made Lucas have a chill up and down his spine. He knew he shouldn't of, but Lucas couldn't help but feel really guilty. He knew he shouldn't of kept him out that long.

"Lucas?" Karen interrupted him. "You should go home."

"Huh?" Lucas broke his thought.

"Keith is asleep of the rest of the night. I'll stay with him tonight, and we can take him home tomorrow."

"Um yeah okay. Tell him I said feel better."

Karen agreed and walked into the room. Lucas slowly walked out and walked home. Angry at himself for keeping Keith out so long. Complaining about his own problems, when Keith was still so weak from the shooting.

Lucas kept walking but realized he had something else to do, someone else he had to see.

- - - -

Lucas knocked on the door, but of course no answer. He walked in and walked up the stairs to find his blonde haired friend fast asleep on her bed, and his girlfriend no where to be found. He didn't want to wake her so he tried to quietly walked out when his shoulder knocked into a box causing some CD's to fall to the ground and Peyton to jump out of her sleep.

"Jesus-what the-Lucas?" She yawned rubbing her eyes.

"Hi to you to." he laughed cleaning up the mess he just made. "Sorry I woke you up, I'll just go."

"No, no its okay, I'm awake now. Um Brooke is shopping right now, want me to tell her you stopped by?"

"Yeah, but I actually came to see you."

"Oh?"

"Yeah, im really sorry Peyton." He sat on the edge of her bed. " I mean I should of come by a lot sooner and a lot more but with this whole Keith and Dan thing-"

"Lucas its okay. I understand."

Lucas took a deep breathe. "So how is your leg."

"Fine, I mean I've been resting it a lot and that's about all I can do."

Lucas nodded.

"So um about the library." Lucas mumbled.

Peyton sighed. She knew this was a subject that was going to come up, even though she dreaded it. She didn't know what she was going to say to him, or what he was going to say to her.

"Um yeah. So thanks for saving me." Peyton smiled.

Lucas gave a little chuckle but looked at Peyton. "That's not what I meant."

"Yeah I know."

There was an awkward silence before Peyton decided to speak up.

"Lucas im sorry, I just, I don't know I thought I was going to die and I just started talking. I guess I can really say that my feelings for you never really went away. I just wanted to get them all off my chest before I-"

"Died?" Lucas finished it for her.

"Yeah."

"Peyton you know I love you." Lucas started. "Your such a good friend"

"You just are in love with Brooke."

"Well..yeah. I am Peyton, I really am."

"I know that, and I should of kept my mouth shut, and im sorry Lucas I really am."

"Look Peyton, I don't want things to be weird between us."

"Please don't tell Brooke." Peyton didn't mean to say it like that, it just sort of slipped out. She was so afraid her best friend would never forgive her, she didn't want her to think she tried to steal Lucas away, again. She didn't want to loose her.

Lucas smiled.

"It will be our secret." Lucas said calmly. "Feel better Peyton, I'll see you soon."

With that Lucas got up and walked out the door. Peyton listened carefully to make sure he was gone. Then she sat there and rolled over and closed her eyes.

- - - - --

2 weeks later...

"So its official, I know longer live here." Brooke put her hands on her hip and looked around her old apartment. "Its kinda sad, tutor girl and I had some great memories in this place."

"Brooke you've been living with Peyton for two weeks already." Lucas laughed.

"Yeah but I mean this is the very last of my stuff, so its official now." Brooke reached into her purse and put her key on the table.

"Here lets go I'll buy you some ice cream." he grabbed her hand as they walked out the door.

"Ice cream." she smiled.

"Yeah, for being such a wonderful person." he kissed the top of her head as they continued to walk.

- - - - - -

Keith herd the door knocking at the door and remembered Karen saying she was out shopping, and Lucas was out with Brooke. He forced himself out of bed and walked to the door and was surprised to see who was standing on the outside.

"Deb?"

"Keith, how are you!" she yelled and hugged him.

"Ow." Keith groaned accidentally.

"Oh I'm sorry." She gently grabbed his bad shoulder. "I'm sorry I took so long to see you, but I've been so busy since I got back. This is just-"

"Wait, how long have you been in town?"

"Karen didn't tell you? It was right around with Lucas was attacked by Dan. I called her but she didn't really want to talk."

"No, Karen didn't tell me that."

"Oh." Deb seemed disappointed.

Just like it was on cue, the front door opened and in walked Karen with two bags of groceries in her hand. She smiled at Keith but it quickly faded when she saw who sitting across from him. Deb looked at her but could tell Karen was angry. Karen was glaring right at Deb.

"Oh, look who decided to come back into town? Try to light anyone on fire lately?" Karen snapped.

"Karen, its good to see you too."