"Dad, don't leave okay?" Penelope asked as she was falling asleep in between him and Brooke, "Stay with us all night."

"Okay Pen. Go to sleep." He said kissing her cheek.

"Good night, mama." She yawned.

"Night baby."

Lucas and Brooke hadn't said a word to one another since they brought Penelope to Brooke's room.

"So." Lucas said softly once she was sleeping.

"Yeah." Brooke replied.

"We should probably talk… about what happened."

"Do we really have to Lucas?"

"Brooke," he started, "I was talking to Jenny today, and she asked me about when we broke up."

"That was a long time ago Luke." She said getting up.

"No, but I said- well back then I said the wrong thing."

"Lucas!" she interrupted, "It's done okay. Did it ever occur to you that the reason I don't talk about it is because it hurts? Because it is too damn hard Lucas. To think about how we were, especially how we separated. I can't do it okay?" she walked out of the room and down the hall.

Brooke passed Nathan and Haley making out on the couch and smiled. She then shook her head and went to Peyton and Jake's room.

"P. Sawyer-Jagelski?" she called knocking on the door.

"What's wrong, B. Davis-Scott?" Peyton asked opening the door to her best friend.

Brooke shook her head, "Do you wanna go for a walk?"

"On the pier?" Peyton asked one eyebrow raised.

"You don't mind? Even though it's like nine o'clock?"

"Brooke when we were fifteen you came to my door at two in the morning for a walk. We may be older but I think I can handle nine o'clock."

"Where are your mom's going?" Jamie asked looking out his window.

Jenny ran over to look, "I don't know. Should we follow?"

Keith shook his head, "Nah, they'd get mad if they caught us."

"True." Jamie said.

"Mom and dad aren't kissing on the couch anymore." Andrea said entering Jamie's room.

"Where are they?" Jamie asked.

"They went to go to sleep. Mom even closed the door so they must be tired." Keith and Jamie nodded, while Jenny, being the only one who actually knew about sex chocked back a laugh.

"Where are Nathan and Haley?" Jake asked the next morning around the breakfast table.

Penelope had made a miraculousrecovery when the kid's realized it wasn't working. Brooke and Peyton hadn't gotten back from their walk until past midnight when everyone else was already sleeping. Lucas had left Brooke's room before she woke in the morning. Jake and Peyton were more or less, to Jenny's dismay, the same. Pretending to be a happily married couple.

"Still in bed." Jenny replied.

"Looks like Tutor Girl and Boy Toy got lucky last night." Brooke said to her friends then added to the kids, "Cause they got a good nights sleep."

"Sure they did, Aunt Brooke." Jenny laughed.

"You shush." Peyton said holding in a chuckle.

"Hey uh Brooke," Lucas whispered in her ear, "Can we talk?"

Brooke froze momentarily, "Not right now, Luke. I have to wrap some last minute presents. Tomorrow's Christmas Eve."

"Brooke-"

"Not now." She said firmly, and loud enough for Jenny, Jamie, and Keith to hear.

Jenny sighed, "We seriously have our work cut out."

"We're gonna go build a snowman in the yard." Keith said, grabbing his sister's hand, and motioning for the other four to follow.

"Jenny take your sister." Peyton said.

"And Pen, honey are you sure you want to go out? You're just getting over whatever it was last night."

"I'm fine mommy." Penelope said before disappearing up the stairs to get her clothes.

"A whole afternoon to ourselves." Peyton said to Brooke.

"The two of you spent three hours together last night." Lucas pointed out. He really wanted to talk to Brooke

"Okay fine, Green-eyed Monster." Peyton said grabbing his arm, "Let's go talk."

"You wanna help me wrap the rest of my stuff Davis?" Jake asked as Peyton and Lucas disappeared in the same fashion as the kids had.

"By help do you mean do it for you?" she asked.

"Yes." He nodded.

"Then yes! I love wrapping presents."

"Good. Cause I hate it."

"So Peyt," Lucas started, "How are you?"

She gave him a weird look, "Fine Luke. But I've told you since we were 16, stop calling me Peyt."

"I know, but it's fun how much it bugs you."

Peyton shook her head, "What did I ever see in you?"

"I've got those soulful eyes." He said seriously, which made her laugh.

"Anyway, Luke, I didn't bring you up here to talk." Peyton said.

"Peyton, we're not in high school anymore. Just cause Brooke and I are divorced-"

"Lucas, for god sakes." She interrupted, pulling out Jake's guitar, " I wanted your opinion on Jake's present."

"Oh."

"I'm a married woman." She said rolling her eyes, and Lucas pretended not knowing Jake and Peyton were separated.

"Sorry."

"Where is everyone?" Haley asked walking into the kitchen.

"I don't know and I really don't care." Nathan said wrapping his arms around her waist and kissing her neck.

"Nathan," Haley giggled, "What about our children? They could be lying in a ditch somewhere for all we know."

"We can make new ones."

"So Jakey, what did you get Jen? God she is so grown-up." Brooke prattled on as she wrapped a Barbie dream house for Ellie, "It's so hard to believe she was once this little girl." Brooke added pulling her wallet out of her purse and showing Jake the Polaroid of Peyton, Brooke, and little baby Jenny from twelve years earlier.

"I know." Jake said, "Wow, this picture is ancient. What else do you have in here?" he added flipping through the photo part of her wallet.

"Just the kids mostly, and you guys."

"And Lucas." Jake added with a grin as he landed on a picture of Lucas from his and Brooke's wedding day, "What's going on with you two?"

"Nothing. We're divorced. He's the father of my children and I still care about him."

"Uh huh." He said.

"Jake." Brooke said, "Look nothing can happen with me and Lucas again. God, you and Peyton are so lucky you have each other. I was always routing for you ya know?"

"Yeah. Togetherness is great." Jake said quickly, "So what did you get the kids for Christmas?" he asked changing the subject.

"Okay so my parents are unbelievably stubborn, even more so than Brooke and Lucas." Jenny said.

"Jenny, chill, for a second." Keith said, "We got Nathan and Haley back together, just enjoy that victory for a minute before you rush into more plans."

"Mom and dad were arguing last night." Penelope said.

"Yeah, but that's like foreplay for them." A voice said standing above them.

"Mom!"

"Aunt Haley!"

"What's foreplay?" Andrea asked.

"Not important. What is important is that you five tell me what's going on right now. And what is Elizabeth doing?"

"Making a snow fort." Jenny said like it wasn't important.

"Right." Haley nodded, "Now explanations anyone?"

"We were- well I mean… " Keith started but kept trailing off.

"We're trying to get Brooke and Lucas and Jake and Peyton back together." Jamie said.

"You guys," Haley sighed, folding her arms, "you're just kids what makes you think you can put them back together?"

"We fixed you and dad." Jamie said.

"What?" she asked surprised, "Jake and Peyton aren't together anymore?" she added after a minute.

"No, Aunt Haley, they love each other. But like you and Uncle Nathan they just seem to have let their problems get in the way of that."

"You- you kids… I've been paying a marriage counselor a hundred bucks an hour when all I had to do was consult my own children?" she asked, more to herself than them, but Jamie piped up anyway.

"Yep. Now come on mom. These are your best friends who are ready to give up and throw it all away. We can't let them do that right?"

Haley thought about it for a minute before nodding, "Right. But don't tell your dad, cause he has a big mouth."

"Deal." The kids said.

"You know, you guys, Nathan and I can take care of the littler kids tonight." Haley said conversationally over dinner, "I feel like I haven't spent enough time with Ellie or Tyler, and I am god mother to them both."

"Co-god mother to Ellie." Brooke coughed.

"Keith is also your god-son." Lucas pointed out.

"Keith and I have spent plenty of time together. Right Keith?"

"Oh yeah. Definitely." Keith nodded.

"So you want to watch our most attention needing kids tonight?" Lucas asked looking for the catch.

Haley nodded, while Nathan interjected, "Wait we're doing what?"

"Too late!" Brooke said, "Haley offered, ha!"

"What exactly are we supposed to be doing while you guys watch our kids?" Jake asked, being the only one to see the other side of this.

"Sleep." Brooke said happily.

"Whatever you want. Consider this part of your Christmas presents." Haley said.

"But you still got us like a real gift right?" Peyton asked.

"Yes, now all of you out of my sight." Haley said getting tired.

The four adults got up while Keith whispered, "Nice one Aunt Haley."

"Nathan clear the table." Haley said getting up to pick up Tyler.

"So far you're tied with the progress that Jamie and I have made and you've only been part of the team for a few hours." Jenny said.

"Should've come to me sooner." Haley grinned.

Brooke was reading a magazine on her bed when she heard a knock on the door, "No take backs Hales, I don't care how much of your hair he's pulled out."

"It's not Haley." Lucas said, opening the door.

"Lucas. What do you want?" she asked a lot harsher than she intended.

"I don't want anything Brooke. I need to talk to you."

"What about?" she asked tiredly, "If this is about the other night-"

"It's not. Well only partly. Look I talked to Jenny yesterday and well she wanted to know about when we broke up-"

"Lucas!" she said angrily, "I already said I didn't want to talk about that."

"But we need to!" he insisted.

"Why? God why do we need to talk about it Lucas? We broke up! We're not married anymore, remember?"

"Of course I remember! That's why we need to talk."

"Did you ever love me?" she said it so quickly that he wasn't sure he'd heard her right. But when he looked up at her with her hands clasped over her mouth he knew he had.

"Brooke." he started softly.

"Mama!" Tyler called from down the hall.

"I gotta go." she said wiping her eyes, though they both heard Haley call back, "I got him."

"He's fine, Brooke, just talk to me."

She pulled her blanket tighter around herself, "I can't Luke."

"No, Brooke." he said grabbing both her shoulders, "I- I still tell Penelope the story of how we met before she goes to sleep. When Keith looks through our yearbook and asks me about high school, I tell him how happy you made me those years. How stupid I was to screw it up- I said then, but I meant now. Brooke," Tears were flowing down her cheeks as she shook her head, "Yes, when I put Tyler to bed at night- the nights he's with me- he calls for you and I tell him I know I miss her too. When I'm upset about Dan, you're the only one who can make me feel better. No, not just about Dan, about everything. Brooke, I love you. I have loved you since I was sixteen. Please just-"

Brooke threw her arms around his neck and pulled his lips down on her own.

"That wasn't a mistake." Brooke said burying her smiling face in the crook of his neck.

Please review. Okay there was Brooke and Lucas; they were kind of the easiest to piece back together I guess. Cause their split was over Brooke thinking Lucas didn't really love her. That's why she so easily believed he'd cheat on her again, and well I hope you guys liked it.

One more left. Let's hope the kids and now Haley (What did you guys think about that? I just had Haley help them on a whim. I wasn't sure if I would even keep it in while writing it but I kind of liked it) can fix Jake and Peyton.

-Em