Nathan took a deep breathe and wiped the sweat from his head face and walked inside.
"Go for a run?" Haley asked.
"Yeah." Nathan said getting a drink of water.
"Nathan, can I talk to you?"
Nathan looked at Haley and could see she was angry.
"What's up?"
Without saying anything she turned around and pulled out a small object. Nathan recognized it immediately. It was his tiny silver gun. She slammed it on the table staring at him with anger burning in her eyes.
"Where did you get that." Nathan asked.
"What the hell does it matter." she snapped. "You had a gun in our house and you didn't tell me?"
"Haley I had it just in case."
"Nathan why do you get like this?"
"Get like what?"
"LIKE THIS! You get angry or sad or upset and you bottle up your emotions and do something stupid. Why can't you ever just say what you feel."
"Haley I'm doing this to protect you okay? I'm protecting you." Nathan shouted.
"No I don't need a gun to protect me. I need my husband who is smart enough not to go down the alley's of Tree Hill and buy a gun illegally."
Nathan froze. He thought about what she just said. How could she of known where he got it? He should of known before.
"Lucas."
Haley hesitated.
"What?" she asked.
"Lucas told you about the gun right?" he asked angrily.
"What does it matter, the fact is you didn't."
"Lucas needs to learn his own damn business." he snapped walking to the door.
"Nathan don't you leave we are not done talking." she yelled.
"Yes we are." He snapped.
"Nathan! If you leave I wont be here when you get back tonight." she shouted.
"What."
" If you walk out that door I wont want to talk to you. I'll find somewhere else to sleep."
"Call up your best friend Lucas. You two like to talk so damn much."
Haley was fuming with anger. Nathan looked at her walked up and grabbed the gun, stuck it in his pocket and walked out the door.
- - -
Lucas was dribbling around shooting the ball at the river court when a surprising face walked up.
"Hey Deb." he smiled.
"Hi Lucas sorry to bother you." she said.
"Yeah no problem, can I help you with something." he asked walking to the bench and them two taking a seat.
"I'm sorry." she spatted out.
Lucas looked at her. She looked away.
"I'm sorry for everything. I'm sorry about Dan, Keith, you. Everything."
"Deb I know."
"I just handle things wrong. I don't think and I'm sorry. People could of died for my actions and that is something I will always remember and regret. And I promise you, I will never do anything, anything that stupid again."
Deb looked at Lucas and he surprised her. He got up and gave her a hug. A nice warm hug. Deb felt tears fall from her eyes.
"Well um, I'll let you get back to your game. Thanks for listening to me."
She started to walk away.
"Deb." Lucas called to her.
She turned to look at him.
"You are a good person. Always remember that okay?"
She smiled and nodded. Walking to her car and driving away.
- - -
Brooke and Peyton were talking in her room, Peyton making sure to cover her arm. Brooke was explaining about her night with Lucas and Peyton was laughing at their story when Haley stormed in
"Problem tutor girl?" Brooke laughed looking up and the angry Haley.
"I knocked you didn't answer." She said.
"Well my music is pretty loud, sorry." Peyton told her.
"What's wrong?" Brooke asked.
"Nathan. We just, we just had a fight and I don't really feel like going home can I stay here?"
"Yeah of course." Peyton assured her.
"Maybe even sleep here?" Haley said plopping on the bed.
"Wow big fight?" Brooke asked.
" He's just so stubborn, he needs to know I'm mad."
"Stay as long as you like." Peyton smiled sitting next to her on the bed.
"What did you fight about?" Brooke asked, joining them on the bed.
"Nothing big, just stupid little things. Like I said, he's just stubborn." Haley lied. She didn't want to tell her friends the whole thing. She wanted to keep the whole gun situation on the down low for a while. Until her and Nathan actually talked.
"Man why are boys so complicated." Peyton sighed.
"Oh my god P- Sawyer!" Brooke yelled jumping up.
"What?" she asked, confused at Brooke's reaction.
"I totally forgot to ask you about the site that I saw the other night!"
Peyton didn't say anything.
"You and Jake?"
"Oh god you saw that?"
"Wait, Jake? As in Jake, the one with the baby Jake?" Haley asked.
"How many other Jake's do you know?" Brooke laughed.
"Well what the hell happened? How the hell did it happen?"
Peyton took a deep breathe and explained exactly what happened. Jake coming back. Them having sex. Matt walking in. Her feeling guilty and upset.
"Wow." Brooke said.
"Sorry." Haley sighed.
"It's my own fault. I was just so happy Jake was finally back, I did it without thinking."
"But you love Jake." Brooke frowned.
"I don't think he wants to love me." Peyton sighed.
They were all silent until Brooke got up and went to her phone calling a number.
"What are you doing?" Haley asked.
"Boys are stupid." She smiled. "That is why tonight we are going out just us three."
"Oh and where too?" Peyton asked.
"Where none of us have been in like forever. With just us girls. No boys, just a girl night."
Peyton and Haley looked at each other and looked back at Brooke.
"Well where?" Haley laughed.
" We have all day to get ready, so we better make sure we look hot as hell because ladies were going to a party."
"Brooke we have school tomorrow." Haley told her.
"Please don't put a damper on it. Just don't drink, and we wont be home to late, we'll just have fun." She smiled.
"I'm in." Peyton laughed.
"What do you say Haley?" Brooke asked.
Haley took a deep breathe.
"I say hell yes." she giggled.
- - -
Karen walked up to her house around the afternoon smiling. She took an early day off because business was a little slow. She walked in to the smell of a wonderfully cooked meal. She saw Keith leaning under the sink fixing a pipe that had been leaking lately.
"Keith." She smiled.
He jumped out of fright. He didn't expect her to be home for at least two more hours.
"Karen what are you doing here." he asked getting up from the floor.
"What is all this?"
" I wanted to do something nice for you. I was making nice meal, cleaning the house. I wanted to celebrate us starting a family. Our wedding that should be coming soon. Our baby that is going to be here ." He smiled touching her stomach.
"I love you Keith." She kissed him.
He kissed her back and smiled.
"So what are you cooking?"
"Your favorite. Meat loaf."
Karen looked confused. "Keith? That's not my favorite."
He laughed.
"I know, it's the only thing I really know how to cook."
She smiled and kissed him back and slowly pushed him into her bedroom and shut the door.
- - -
Hours Later..
Nathan continued to stare at the water thinking. Haley was really upset. Really mad. He knew she was right.
He looked down and pulled out the gun.
He not only got in a fight with his wife about it, he got in a fight with his brother too. He felt awful. They were just worried.
He was wrong. He knew it.
Nathan stood up and threw the gun as hard and far as he could and watched it sink to the bottom of the water.
He walked around and found himself at Lucas's house. He knocked on his door. Lucas was surprised to see Nathan there.
"I got rid of it." Nathan told him.
"What?"
"The gun, its gone. You were right."
Lucas looked at his brother . "I guess Haley talked to you."
"More like yelled." he laughed.
"She pissed?"
"Yeah, she isn't going to be home when I get there. I called her, she's with Brooke and Peyton. She doesn't want to really talk to me."
"Can you blame her?"
"No." he said. "Well I don't want to stay in my apartment alone, I got a new play station game. Feel up for a game?"
"You're on. Mom I'm going to Nathan's house." he called out.
They were on there way to Nathan's house. Just talking and laughing about stupid stuff when they herd a car come up behind them.
They turned around but it was dark now and they had their high beams on, so they couldn't see the car or who was in it.
Just when Nathan was about to ask who it was two car doors opened and they saw two unfamiliar men running towards them.
"Shit, Nathan run." Lucas yelled.
Nathan was about to take off when he felt a blow to the head and then he was kicked in the stomach.
He cried out trying to break free.
Lucas quickly ran to his brother when he was hit in the back causing him to fall. He turned around quickly and punched the guy in the face and was about to crawl away when he was shoved hard to the ground when his mouth was covered with a cloth and it was drenched with some sort of liquid.
Nathan was in the same position. He tried to struggle free but couldn't even think. He felt himself feeling dizzy and slowly getting weaker. He looked over to see Lucas in the same situation as he was in.
Lucas gave one last attempt but with that, he passed out. Whatever that liquid was, it made him pass out.
They were dragged over to the car and put in the trunk when another man walked up.
"Good job." he said.
Nathan took a deep breath.
His last sight was Dan Scott's face appearing and giving him that sick grin before he closed the trunk and Nathan fell into unconsciousness.