Innamorato Con Te Chapter 14: Sudden Alchemy Has Got Me Holding On, an one tree hill fanfic

A/N: Song used in this chapter (the title has absolutely nothing to do with what the song's about I assure you )

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"You know Nathan, you have to calm down. Pacing is not going to help your situation."

Keith was sitting on the cold floor of the jail cell that he and Nathan were confined to. It was nearly dawn and Nathan hadn't slept for literally 28 hours, worrying about Haley and whether or not she was okay. He hadn't or heard from her for over a week and was beginning to wonder if something had happened between her and Victoria. With that woman there was no predicting what could occur. He stopped at the sound of Keith's voice and sighed walking to the opposite end of Keith and placing his hands firmly on the bars of the cell

"I know Keith… I just-"

Nathan put all of his force into palm-striking the bars that made up the hole of a cell that he was trapped behind.

"HEY! Do that again and I'll have your ass thrown into a place where you won't even be able to see the light!"

Nathan spat at the cop in his mind. He sighed, trying to keep himself as calm as he could not knowing what to expect if he did lose his temper. Clutching the bars as hard as he was had his knuckles turning white.

Keith took one look at his son and shook his head.

"They're not going to dissolve in your hands Nate."

"I know that Keith. I just…I hate being away from her. I've had so many visions, I-I think I'm going insane, okay? My mind is completely focused on her and I am so lost Keith. I'm so lost and-and-and…sick of wondering why she hasn't come to see me."

"So in other words, you're crazy-sick in love with a girl you've only known for what 2 months?"

"It's been a bit longer than that…"

Keith chuckled.

"Don't tell me that you've been counting the days that you've known her."

Nathan shook his head.

"No…since the day that she walked into my life."

Keith chuckled once again and shook his head.

"Oh my God. Kiddo you've got it bad."

Nathan turned his head and looked at Keith as he continued to chuckle.

"Did you just use the phrase 'you got it bad' Keith?"

"Yeah, I guess I did."

Nathan shook his head and then realized something.

"What are you doing in here Keith?"

Keith kept chuckling.

"Apparently, I'm planning to overthrow Jimmy James' company," he said sarcastically. "The idiots those people have as cops and security guards. Why in God's name would I want to overthrow Jimmy James? That man has helped me out more times than I can count with the car dealership. I am in nothing but debt to that man and they have absolutely no evidence on me. Something else is up Nate."

"Lights out!"

The lights turned out in the jail and left Keith and Nathan in the dark. Groaning, Nathan let go of the bars of the cell and walked over to his cot, sitting down he rubbed his eyes and yawned. Still consumed in his thoughts as to why Haley hadn't been by in nearly a week and a half.

He shifted his body to try to get comfortable. He expected another restless night to come upon him. Nathan placed his hands behind his head staring through the small skylight staring at the moon.

"Nathan?"

Nathan shot up and turned his head in the direction of the voice. It was so familiar and soft. There was no mistaking whose voice this was to Nathan. Haley James. He shifted his body to the right to the empty space in the cell and there stood his Haley. Nathan shot upwards and rubbed his eyes. When he opened them, she was nowhere to be found. Nathan sat upright on his cot and rested his head in his hands, which lay on knees. Curling his hands into fists, he cracked his knuckles and lay back down. His head on his firm, uncomfortable pillow, he prayed that these hallucinations wouldn't continue as they had been for the past 9 days.

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Haley James stood in her bedroom facing full body mirror. As well with her were Brooke, Victoria, Lisa and a dressmaker that Haley had completely ignored the name of. She looked at herself in the mirror and didn't even recognize herself. She hadn't seen Nathan in nine days and Haley had never felt emptier. Every time that she had made an attempt to sneak out of the house, Rollo had always stopped her at the gate and escorted her back to her room.

"No!"

Haley snapped back to reality at the sound of her stepmother's voice.

There should be a bow at the back! Not the front! My goodness, are you people incompetent? And those diamonds need to be around her neck and rest in between-"

"HOLD ON!"

Haley snapped. Her head and heart were aching and all she wanted was to be able to leave the house. Was that too much to ask? She shrugged the horde of hands that were on her body trying to keep certain materials in place. Haley turned to face Victoria and grabbed one of the dressmaker's hands, her face exasperated.

"First of all, have you seen this woman's hands? They're bleeding from having to change the smallest things that I certainly couldn't care less about. Second of all, I thought this was my wedding dress and day. And finally, this dress is becoming more and more hideous-"

"Amen sister-" interrupted Brooke.

"It is your day and dress. I just want it to be perfect."

"Oh, you 'want it to be perfect?' Okay then how about this? I don't want to get married. Not to Chris Keller, got that?"

Haley turned to the dressmaker and apologized to her for Victoria's actions before Victoria's shock wore off. Lifting the mass of material on her body, she stepped off of the platform and headed behind a curtain to remove it. Placing her regular clothes back on herself and left the room in huff, leaving Victoria with her mouth still open from shock.

Victoria had always pegged Haley to be a quiet and passive girl. Seeing this new side of Haley had upset Victoria in ways that she couldn't describe. And seeing this side of Haley did not agree with Victoria in the slightest. Haley had suddenly become an obstacle in Victoria's scheme, an obstacle that needed to be taken care of.

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Haley paced in her bedroom and kept glancing at the clock and she became increasingly nervous as it got closer and closer to 9:00. Haley knew from previous knowledge that visiting hours at the jail ran at different times and lasted an hour. The final time was from 9:00 to 10:00 and just the thought of being able to see Nathan was enough to excite her. She was to sneak out of her room as soon as 9:00 rolled around because that was when Rollo no longer guarded the gates and she would be able to make a quick escape for the 60 seconds that the gate was vacant.

There was a soft knock at her door. Her head turned in a jolt when Brooke entered her room. Haley sighed in relief.

"Okay you have exactly a minute and 47 seconds until the new night guard comes. Go!"

Haley sighed and nervously made her way to the window with only Nathan on her mind.

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Nathan sat underneath the small skylight watching the dim light from the quarter moon making it's way in between the clouds. His head was positioned on the cold bars and all he did was watch the thin clouds roam across the velvet dark violet sky covered in stars. He closed his eyes and thought of Haley and how he longed to hold her or to just lay his eyes on her. His thoughts still were occupied with why she had yet to come and see him. He thought of all the days he had spent without her. Today would be the tenth. He looked at the clock on the wall above the police officer keeping an eye on him and Keith. It was nearly 9:45 and the lights would go out within the next 45 minutes. He had prayed so hard that Haley would somehow see him today. He had the feeling in the pit of his gut that she would somehow make it. He looked off to the opposite corner and saw that Keith was half-asleep. Tearing his eyes away from Keith, Nathan continued to lean on the bars and began to peel the chipped paint on the uncomfortable bench he sat on.

You make me feel like,
A shooting star
You make me feel like,
A porno star
You hold me closer still,
When I get paranoid
You give your hand to hold,
When I lose control

The rummaging and yelling in the distance brought Nathan to a halt on his minor activity jerking him upwards and pressing his body up against the bars to see if he could get a better look at the commotion.

"Let me through!"

"You cannot come in here miss."

Nathan knew that voice.

"The hell I can't! My father owns this place! Let me through! Visiting hours is still running!"

Nathan knew that voice. Haley.

He rested his forehead against his forearm and scrunched his eyes together hard, a look of pain on his face and kept repeating a mantra to himself. Go away. You're not real. Go away. You're not real. Seeing visions of her every night had him doubting what was happening.

You're like my compass and
We always find our way
You bring your smile and wipe
Away my shitty day
This sudden alchemy
Has got me holding on
Stand-by auxiliary
Signals holding strong

"Nathan!"

Nathan shot his head upwards and realized that this was no dream as Haley tried to pry her way through the arms of the two officers trying to keep her sealed off from Nathan.

"Miss Haley, you'll have to turn around and leave. Victoria said that Nathan isn't allowed visitors."

"VICTORIA CONTROLS NOTHING! MY FATHER OWNS THIS PLACE AND WHEN OR IF HE NO LONGER WANTS OR CAN'T OWN IT, I GET WHAT'S HIS! NOT VICTORIA! NOW MOVE!"

Haley had finally broken through the threshold and at the sight of her, Nathan nearly fainted.

"Beautiful," Nathan softly stated. He thought that he heard Keith groan behind him. Haley's heart melted and then froze back up again and then shattered into a million pieces when she saw the look of exhaustion on Nathan's angelic face. Falling in love with Nathan was something she knew to be mindless, but she couldn't help it anymore than her father could for her mother, Lydia. It was meant to be and she felt that every time he gave her his signature smirk or stared at her intensely. Placing a hand on her drumming heart and nearly in tears, she walked swiftly towards the cell that contained Nathan.

You make me so content
With everything I am
You bring me up and in
When I'm down and out
Heroine of confidence
When I'm strung out on doubt
If I'm not making sense
You sort the riddles out

"Are you alright Nathan?"

"I'm alright. I've got company. Keith's here with me."

Nathan motioned behind him at the already snoring Keith sleeping with his mouth wide open.

"What? Why?"

Nathan chuckled.

"Oh, didn't you hear? We're trying to take over your father's company," he said with sarcasm evident in his voice and a tamed smirk on his face. "Rollo went over with a warrant to arrest him even though they got nothing on him."

"…I'm so sorry about all of this Nathan."

You're like my compass and
We always find our way
You bring your smile and wipe
Away my shitty day
This sudden alchemy
Has got me holding on
Stand-by auxiliary
Signals holding strong

Haley began to tear.

"Hey c'mon. Don't do that. You know how much I hate to see you cry. This is not your fault. I wasn't careful enough and I knew Carrie was psychotic. This is all on me okay? None of this is you, got it?"

Haley nodded wiping away her tears and looking at Nathan with a sullen look trying to smile.

"Now come on beautiful, give me a smile."

Haley flashed her pearly whites at Nathan and chuckled a bit.

"Are you alright Hales?"

She nodded.

"I am now. Ha, you should see my wedding gown. You'd hate it."

"I'd hate anything you'd wear to be married to another man, especially Keller. Any man other than me."

Nathan fed his hand through the bars of the cell and touched her face. She looked into his eyes and nearly fainted. Her breath was caught in her throat and the butterflies rose in her stomach. She closed her eyes and leaned into his touch.

"I'm not going to marry him," she declared as she opened her eyes.

"You're not? Have you found a way out?" said Nathan, hope rising cautiously in his heart knowing that if she said otherwise, it would take a grand tumble.

"I dunno. I'm still just thinking. Hoping something will come to me soon. But for right now I don't care. I just want to be here with you and I wish I could be closer to you."

"I know…"

Suddenly, a rush came over Haley and being with him as she was right now just wasn't enough. It would never be enough. She wanted more. Turning her head and her hands leaving Nathan's momentarily, she motioned for the guard.

You're so my everyday
You're so my sweetest love
You're so the greatest change
I'm always dreaming of

"Open it."

"You know I can't do that Miss James."

"I said open it!"

"He raped you."

You're so my everyday
You're so my sweetest love
You're so the greatest change
I'm always dreaming of

A rage had come over Haley that she had never experienced in her entire life. It was the sort of rage that sent people into a state that when they would come out of it, there would be no remembrance of having been experienced. Any strength she could muster was put into her next move. Rage consuming the majority of her and love the small fraction that was leftover, her hands made their way to the police officers lapel and she pushed him up against Nathan's jail cell. Nathan backed off to the back part of the cell, impressed with Haley's sudden outburst. All she wanted to do was be in his arms and all he wanted to do was to hold her in his. Was that too much to ask?

"I'm through with being polite goddamn it! Now open it!"

Scared, the police officer held up his hands to signal his white flag, his eyes full of shock and terror. Haley backed off momentarily.

"I'm really sorry Miss James, I can't let you in there. You know that if it were up to me that I would, but we're being monitored. Victoria has cameras all over the place and where, I haven't a clue. I'm sorry," he states as he made his way back to his chair behind the desk.

You're like my compass and
We always find our way
You bring your smile and wipe
Away my shitty day
This sudden alchemy
Has got me holding on

Haley was shocked.

"You don't believe he did what Victoria says he did?"

The police officer looked up from his desk that sat at 25-degree angle to Nathan's cell. He shook his head calmly.