Disclaimer: I don't own One Tree Hill or The Holiday

Note: Sorry this took so long!

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"I swear, I'm feeling fine." Brooke said again as Lucas tried to get her to drink another bottle of water. "It was a twenty four hour thing. I'm over it!"

"I'm just worried about you." He teased, placing a hand on her forehead to mockingly check her temperature.

"That's sweet-" Brooke in return faked a gag.

"Ha. Ha." Lucas rolled his eyes but also took her hand in his at the same time.

They walked in comfortable silence for a while before Lucas spoke up.

"Can I tell you something?" Lucas asked quietly, to which Brooke nodded. She had already told him everything about her, from her childhood with absent parents to her favorite episode of FRIENDS. No one knew more about her than Lucas. She was scared telling him so much at first, but as soon as she started talking she couldn't stop. It felt so good to be completely honest with someone.

"I don't really know how to say this, so I'm just going to come right out say it." Lucas struggled to get the words out. He wanted to be honest with Brooke like she had been with him.

Brooke felt her heart speed up, this could be really bad, or really good.

"I have HCM."

"You have a STD!" Brooke's eyes widened and she dropped his hand. "I can't believe that you wouldn't-"

Lucas busted out laughing. By the time he could calm himself down, he was basically crying.

"No, Brooke," he managed to get out before another outburst of laughter, "HCM isn't a STD, it is a heart condition."

Brooke was still wondering why he thought having an STD was funny and how many ways she could kill him without getting caught when he uttered those words.

"A…what?" Her tone showed that she was confused and worried at the same time.

"It's a heart condition. I have to take medication everyday to keep my heart from overworking itself." He said, not looking Brooke in the eyes anymore. The laughter was gone now.

"Lucas-" Brooke tried to say something, but her voice cracked.

"With the medication, I'm fine, I promise. I just wanted to be honest with you." He finally met her gaze.

Brooke still didn't know what to say, so she pulled him into a hug. Somehow she knew that she didn't really need to say anything. Her just accepting what he had said to say was enough. Her just being with him was enough.

Then, his phone rang.

Lucas said hello, but then was silent for a few minutes before speaking.

"Are you drunk?" Lucas questioned as he stopped walking. Brooke gave him a curious glance, but he wasn't looking at her.

"Lucas – I am not drunk." Haley urged, "I'm not on drugs, I haven't had any special mushrooms on my pizza…" She continued rambling on.

"Haley- how can I have a brother that I don't even know about." Lucas deadpanned.

"Lucas! Seriously? You've never met your father! He left. You can't tell me that you thought he just faded into oblivion? Of course he was going to go out and keep living."

Lucas rubbed his temples, "Actually, Haley – I did think that he faded into oblivion. I mean, like you said. I've never met him. For all I know, he's just a myth my mother created. Maybe I was really brought by a stork." Lucas remarked, although he was starting to think. Of course Dan Scott hadn't stopped living after he let him and his mother. It was just that Lucas had never thought about Dan as a regular man. Dan had always been the coward who couldn't handle responsibility. He had always been the guy who broke his mother's heart and left him growing up without a father. Thinking that he was out there in the world just living was…weird.

"Lucas? Are you listening to me?" Haley shouted through the phone.

"Sorry, I just…Haley, how can you be sure about this. I mean, this is the kind of thing you see in the movies. It doesn't really happen."

"Lucas, his father's name is Dan Scott. He left Nathan's mom right when he found out about his mother's pregnancy. It's too similar not to be related."

"Haley-" Lucas started, shooting a still confused Brooke and apologetic glance.

"Lucas- can you just email me a picture of him. Please? I know your mom or Keith must have one. Just so I can show Nathan. Then we will know, because Nathan's seen pictures too. Please."

"Alright Hales, I'll send a picture when I get home." He sighed, realizing that she wasn't going to give up anytime soon.

"Thank you!" Haley practically screamed into the receiver. "Send it as soon as you can!"

Lucas sighed again as he closed his phone. Brooke raised an eyebrow, something that made Lucas' heart jump every time.

"I think we need to sit down."

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Brooke couldn't believe the story either. Not because it sounded too much like a Josh Harnett movie, but because she knew Nathan and now she knew Lucas. They were nothing alike, absolutely nothing alike. Even given the fact that had never met, wouldn't there still be something similar between them?

"But…" Brooke started to ask another question.

"I know as much as you Brooke." Lucas shrugged, turning on the light.

"This is your old room?" Brooke changed the subject, sensing the stressed tone of Lucas' voice.

"Yep," He smiled, remembering all the memories he had of the room. Brooke promised herself that if she never remembered anything else about Lucas, she would remember that smile.

"So- we are looking for a picture of your father?" Brooke stated the obvious, afraid to help Lucas start looking around his room. This, after all, was his private space. That's not why Brooke stopped herself from snooping though – it was almost as if the room were locked in a certain point of time, as if it were untouchable, or as if you had to have permission to be a part of it.

"I don't think I'd have on in here," Lucas frowned, "But maybe my mom would have one in her room. I'll go look and you can wait in here." Lucas retreated from the room and Brooke let out a long breath.

Her eye caught a line of pictures taped to his mirror. Walking over, she took in all the happy faces. Most of them were of Haley and Lucas at all different ages. Some were of Lucas playing basketball with a couple guys she recognized. The basketball pictures brought back their earlier discussion about his HCM. There as a split instance were Brooke thought that she could loose him and she had never felt more scared than in that one second. It was a strange feeling that about another person. Especially about a guy she just met.

Then there was one corner full of Lucas and Peyton, the blond from TRIC. In all of the pictures they were touching in some way, either Lucas' hand was wrapped around his waist or she was kissing his cheek. Brooke was surprised by the jealousy that flooded through her. Brooke Davis was never jealous of anyone. People were jealous of her.

She was even more surprised when Lucas wrapped his arms around her from behind, much like one of the pictures she was looking at. Brooke jumped, "You scared me!" She said loudly, more because she was embarrassed about what she had just been feeling than because she was scared.

"I got a picture." He held it in front of Brooke so she could see.

"So you going to send it to Haley?"

"Yeah, I have to go to Peyton's – she has a scanner." He grabbed his keys off the bed where he had thrown them, "Ready?"

Brooke suddenly felt very upset by the fact that Lucas new Peyton had a scanner – which was probably the most absurd thing she could feel.

"Why don't I just take a picture of the picture with my phone? It would be much quicker." She suggested, pulling out her phone.

"I never thought of that. You're a genius."

Brooke shrugged, "I know."

Lucas laughed, giving her a quick kiss. He couldn't help himself.

They quickly took the picture and sent it to Haley's phone. Neither knew what to do next. Was Haley going to call right back? What if they were brothers? What would happen next?

Lucas' phone rang almost instantly. He took a deep breath.

"Hello?"

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"What do I do now?" Lucas asked, shaking his head in disbelief.

Brooke bit her lip, and took his hand, "It's up to you and Nathan I guess. This is a lot to take in. But Luke, he's a really good guy. A lot different than you," Brooke let out a small laugh, "but a good guy all the same."

Lucas shook his head again, "My mom freaked."

Brooke took in a deep breath. Karen had freaked, along with Lucas' uncle Keith. She yelled a lot about how Dan should have learned his lesson. Then she yelled about how Dan could have at least told them that Lucas had a brother. Then she calmed down, telling Lucas that it was up to him – he could meet Nathan or he could keep on going like he never knew.

"I think I want to meet him. I mean, I have to meet him. Now that I know…Do you think he wants to meet me?" Lucas asked all in one breath.

"I know he does." Brooke urged Lucas on, rubbing the hollow spot in his back.

"It's a small world isn't it?" Lucas finally let out a laugh, relieving some of his stress.

"That it is." Brooke giggled, giving him a quick kiss.

"So, want to go to TRIC or just skip the "do a little dance part" and go straight to the "make a little love" part?" Brooke smirked evilly, biting her lip seductively.

Lucas laughed loudly, and Brooke cherished the moment. She loved making him laugh. "I love you." He laughed some more, not realizing that Brooke had frozen.

"What-" She whispered, ignoring the fact that the wind was blowing her bangs in her face. They had been sitting on an old picnic table at the River court, watching the ferries pass since Lucas' talk with his mom. He had said that he needed some time to breath, and he had automatically led them to his favorite place.

Lucas' mouth dropped open, "I didn't mean, I'm sorry, I don't want to freak you out-"

"I love you too." Brooke whispered again, cutting him off. "It's so weird that I do, I mean, we barely know each other. We are so different, I've never even been in lo-"

It was Lucas' turn to cut Brooke off, this time with a kiss.

Brooke let herself get lost, moving closing into Lucas' chest as the boats all around passed them by. Right now, it didn't matter that she was about to go back to New York. It didn't matter that this moment couldn't last forever. For all Brooke cared, the world could keeping going on as it pleased because for a moment, if only for a moment, she was completely happy and completely in love for the first time in her life.

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A/N: THREE CHAPTERS LEFT!!!