Author's Note: Well, this is the last chapter of "Everything I Have". I hope you guys enjoyed the story as much as I enjoyed writing it. Thank you for all the great reviews!

Chapter Sixteen

Two hours later, Dr. Lopez comes in to check on me. "Lucas, Peyton isn't responding to the medication as we'd hoped. We can't give her a higher dosage because of her pregnancy. I want to get her prepped for surgery to do an emergency C section. Once the baby is out, we're gonna have a much better chance at helping Peyton." she tells him.

"How long will it take-" Lucas starts

"Once we get in there, I can have the baby out in less than a minute." Dr. Lopez tells him.

"I want to be there when you deliver the baby." he says.

Lucas goes out into the waiting room to tell everyone the latest news.

"Lucas, what's going on?" Keith asks as he sees my bed being wheeled down the hall.

"She's not responding to the medication, so they're going to deliver the baby now." Lucas tells him.

Karen hugs him tightly.

"Luke, she's gonna be okay" Haley says as she hugs him tightly.

He looks at Derek who looks just as scares as he is. "She'll be alright. You know Peyton, always fighting."

Karen and Keith go up into the gallery to watch the surgery as Lucas gets suited up. He walks into the operating room and sits down on the stool provided for him. He strokes my cheek. "Come on Peyton." he whispers.

As promised, less than a minute later, they lift the baby out of me and hold her up.

She's screaming and wiggling, but she's beautiful.

"Congratulations, Lucas. You have a daughter." Dr. Lopez tells him. He smiles and looks up to the gallery where his mom and dad are hugging.

The doctors finish closing me up while Lucas goes over and stays with the baby.

Twenty minutes later, I'm in a recovery room with Lucas and our new daughter. Lucas looks down at this perfect little person and tears form in his eyes. He opens the blanket and looks down at her perfect little fingers and toes and smiles. "You have your mommy's feet." he whispers.

Everyone comes in the room to see the baby. "Oh Luke, she's beautiful." Brooke says. Lucas smiles and hands her the baby. "How's she doing?" Haley asks. "Still unconcscious. The doctors started her on a more aggressive form of the antibiotic. They said it's just up to her when she wakes up." he tells her. When the baby gets to Keith, he holds her to him and smiles hugely. "The last time I held something this small is when you were born." he tells Lucas. The baby looks up at Keith and grabs his finger. "Welcome to the world Brooklyn Elizabeth Scott." he says.

Everyone goes back out in the waiting room to give Lucas some space, but Nathan stays. As he holds the baby, he can't help but wonder if Brooklyn will have to go through growing up without a mother, just like I did.

"She's like Peyton's mini me." Nathan laughs.

"Yeah, right down to her feet. She has my eyes, though." Lucas says, smiling. Brooklyn's eyes are the bluest he's ever seen.

The minutes tick by painfully slow, and finally Lucas falls asleep, letting Nathan keep an eye on me and the baby.

I struggle to open my eyes, and then shut them again because the lights are so bright. I open them again slowly, and see Lucas sleeping next to my bed. "Hey, you're awake." I turn my head and see Nathan sitting on the other side of me, holding a baby wrapped in a pink blanket. "Is that-?" I whisper. "This is your daughter." Nathan tells me, smiling. He hands her to me, and I hold her in my arms and start crying like a baby. She looks up at me and gurgles, as if to say "It's about time mom". "Lucas, wake up. Peyton's awake." Nathan says as he shakes Lucas. Lucas opens his eyes and sees me holding our daughter. He kisses me and holds me to him tightly. "Thank God." he whispers. "How do you feel?" "A little sore." I tell him. "They had to deliver the baby by ceserean. It was the only way to help you." Lucas tells me. I look at Lucas and then back down at our daughter and smile.

Everyone comes in to see me and see how I'm doing and to say congratulations.

I hug Nathan tightly. "You saved both of us, you know that right? I can't thank you enough." I tell him

"I just wanted both of you guys to be okay. I wanted you to be able to be there for your daughter." he whispers.

I smile and let a tear run down my cheek. "I wouldn't miss this for the world."

Later that night, Lucas slips into the hospital bed with me and he holds me. "I shouldn't have left you. I promise that from now on, I'm not going to leave either of you guys again." he tells me.

"Luke, this wasn't your fault. You had a job to do, and I told you to go and do it. All that matters is that I'm fine and the baby's fine. That's it." I assure him.

"I don't know what I would do if I lost either of you." Lucas says with tears in his eyes.

"You're not going to lose us. You're stuck with us forever."

"I'm good with that." he says as he kisses me.