Thank you to deli41321, xSmile, krizue, lilmonkeygirl31, hybridwolf10 (who doesn't love Brooke and her schemes?), utterlylost1108, JeniRose (good question!), Duckygirl, and Lorilozz, for reviewing.

Thanks also to Stymied for reviewing every chapter. If anyone was wondering, that's my sister, and she's finally given in to my pressure to read my story! It took a long time, and many reminders. But now that she has (finally), I'm going to add a new chapter, even though I wasn't really intending to post yet tonight.

This chapter is mainly intended to provide insight into Nathan and Haley at this point in their relationship. Also you will get to see Faith and how she's doing.

Faith was really enjoying herself. Brooke was so funny! And Lucas was so nice. And Peyton was fun, and Jake knew a lot about little girls. And Jenny was fun to play with. She had lots of toys with her from home – apparently she lived in Los Angeles, like most of the others, except for Brooke.

In fact, Brooke had told Faith she was homeless, and Faith had been really worried. Weren't homeless people always alone, and sad, and dirty and sick?

But then Faith had seen Brooke's face, and realised she was joking. Apparently, Brooke just travelled around a lot so didn't have a house.

Despite all the fun time she was having with everyone, though, Faith was enjoying spending time with her parents most of all. They didn't seem to spend much time together, she didn't think, but they seemed to like being with her.

Faith was confused, though. Her brow wrinkled as she turned over in her bed. She was pretty certain her mommy and daddy didn't live together, but she couldn't understand why. Her other daddy had told her that mommies and daddies were always supposed to live together, and that it was wrong for them not to, and that those people would be punished.

Faith didn't want her nice new parents to be punished. Besides, she wanted to be with both of them.

Even as she was thinking this, Faith's mommy and daddy came into Faith's bedroom. Her mommy smiled at her and walked around the foot of the bed to sit at Faith's side as she lay there. Faith squeezed up a little and put her head on her mommy's lap. Her daddy sat on the other side, reaching out to stroke his daughter's hair. Faith smiled.

Her mommy and daddy smiled back, and then her mother's face smoothed, and she cleared her throat with a little cough.

"Now, Faith, we are going to go to Los Angeles, where mommy has an apartment, and we will live there. You will like it, baby. There's a garden on the roof, and a whole room just for you, and you can choose everything you want in it! And daddy lives in Los Angeles, too, so he will visit you lots!"

Faith frowned, slightly confused, as she moved restlessly in her mother's lap.

"But doesn't daddy live with us, mommy? Isn't he supposed to?"

Haley stopped.

"No, baby." She looked up at Nathan, standing beside the chair she and Faith were sitting in, silent. He knelt down so that he was on the same level as Faith, and turned her face to his with his large, but very gentle, hands.

"Faith, daddy loves you very much, but your mommy and I don't live together any more. So I won't be at the apartment with you, but I'll visit a lot, OK? And you can come to my house, too!"

Faith frowned. "With mommy?"

Nathan shrugged, uncertain. "Of course. If she wants to come."

Faith's frown deepened.

"No."

Haley was confused. "No, what, baby?"

Faith's voice was upset.

"No visiting. Want you and daddy to live together with me."

Haley was taken aback, as she stared at the small child whose head rested in her lap.

Her child.

Her child, demanding that her father – that Nathan – live with them.

She couldn't understand it. And she couldn't let it happen, either.

Living with Nathan? She had, once. And it had been perfect, for a while at least. And then there'd been music, and the betrayal, and she had known, then, that she could never live with Nathan again.

Even if she'd wanted to, she could never have lived with Nathan again.

But now, here lay her daughter, so damaged and alone and unsettled, and she wanted her father.

Haley wanted to give Faith what she wanted, but she wasn't certain she could survive this gift.

It wasn't even that she didn't trust Nathan to stay, or that she didn't approve of his influence on his child, or that she was afraid he'd try to steal her daughter from her. It wasn't any of these things, and yet it was all of them.

Most of all, Haley didn't want to live with Nathan because she knew that, despite it all, she still loved Nathan. She would always love Nathan, and no amount of time, or depth of betrayal, would change that. She had loved him since she was sixteen, and she had borne his child, and she had waited for him to realise the mistake he had made.

So, no, she could never take him back.

And she didn't want to live with him.

But she did love him.

And now, because of Faith, she'd have to put her determination to the test.

She would have to live with her husband.

For Faith.

Nathan was silent as he watched Haley process what their daughter had just demanded.

He knew that there was no way Haley would go along with it – and he didn't blame her – but still, it was a heady thought to know that, for a few seconds at least, she was considering the idea.

Nathan loved Haley. He had always loved Haley, ever since that moment, so many years earlier, that he'd looked at her and realised, as he stared into her laughing eyes, that she was everything he wanted in the world. Everything he needed. And that it would always be her, and nobody else, for the rest of his life.

Forever.

And yes, he'd lost the chance he had of being with her forever because of his lack of trust. But he'd never lost sight of that certainty, that sense of completion, that only came when he thought of her.

And even to know that she hadn't dismissed the idea of living with him out of hand meant something, if only to him. It meant that she didn't hate him, not anymore. Because even for Faith, Nathan couldn't believe that Haley would live with someone she hated.

Faith looked upward at both her parents, silenced by her demand. Her eyes wide, she looked so sweet and innocent and young that neither Nathan nor Haley would have believed the sudden insight that had burst into her mind.

Her mommy and her daddy loved each other.

Faith wasn't stupid. She knew her parents were completely against the demand that she had just made. She also knew that they'd probably give in, and that was why she'd demanded it. It was only right that her parents live together, and they were so guilty about what had happened to her that she knew they'd do anything to make her feel better. So why not use that guilt for the greater good?

And yes, initially her demand had just been about making certain that her parents were not punished for being bad. They didn't need to be punished – they didn't deserve to be punished. If anybody should be punished, it was Faith. She knew it.

But as soon as she had made that statement – want you and daddy to live together with me – she had known that something else was happening. Maybe it had always been happening, and she had just noticed it. Maybe nobody else knew. But whatever it was, it was about her mommy, and her daddy, and the way they looked at each other.

There was something there. And Faith couldn't be certain – she was only six years old – but she thought it was love.

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