Hi again – hope you like this chapter.

Thanks a lot to all my reviewers, but especially LilAngel413 and jeytonlover – it's you two who have really spurred me on! If you haven't read them already, check out 9 Months: Project Baby and Just Friends by LilAngel413 (page 185 under 'L' in the directory)– they are great!

By the way, does anyone know whether I can use lines from One Tree Hill in a fanfic or is it breach of copyright or something? If you do, let me know. Thanks!

"Hello?" Lucas picked up his cellphone.

"Hi Luke, it's Nathan. Um, Haley's went into labour a couple of hours ago. She's only about three centimetres dilated, but she's been asking for you guys. Can you come up?"

"Sure. I'll see you soon." Lucas pressed the 'end call' button and went into the kitchen. "Brooke, Haley's having the baby and she wants us to go."

Brooke being at Lucas's when important things happened was starting to become a bit of a pattern – first Peyton and now this? It was weird, admittedly.

"Oh, ok. I'm just gonna go, you know, take a leak. Oh by the way, if you're gonna try Peyton, she said she was going over to Jake's." Brooke got up from the table.

"I'll ring her cell." Lucas dialled her number and got put straight through to voicemail.

"Hi, this is Peyton Sawyer, please leave a message."

"Hi, Peyton this is Luke. Haley's gone into labour and she's asking for you. Come to the hospital as soon as you can."

When Brooke came back from the bathroom, Lucas drove them both to the hospital. Nathan was waiting in reception.

"Guys, I'm so glad you could come. Haley's going crazy in there. She said she'd do this one with no pain meds but I don't think she's going to make it." He noticed the absence of one of his best friends. "Where's Peyton?"

"Her cell was off." Lucas explained.

"Right. Anyway, I think you can go in to see Haley now."

Haley was sitting upright in her bed, scribbling in a notebook.

"Watchya doing Hales?" Lucas asked.

"Writing a song." Came the reply. Lucas turned to Brooke.

"Even when in labour, Haley James Scott just can't stop working." He joked.

"Do you want some ice chips or something?" Brooke offered.

"I'm all set, thanks." Haley replied, holding up a plastic cup.

"How are you managing without the pain meds?" Brooke sat down at the side of the bed.

"Ok, at the moment."

"I tried with Tristan, but apparently I was making too much noise and I was disturbing the other patients, so the docs had no other choice but to give me them." Brooke sighed dramatically.

Lucas laughed.

"If I remember correctly, you were screaming out for an epidural after the first five minutes." He knew this was the way things really went.

"Shut up, liar." Brooke hit him playfully on the head.

Four hours later, five minutes after midnight, Haley gave birth to a beautiful baby girl.

Nathan went to the waiting room and woke Lucas, who, along with Brooke, had fallen asleep.

"What?" He murmured sleepily.

"Haley had a little girl. Do you wanna come see them?"

"Sure, I'll just get Brooke."

As Nathan walked back to the maternity ward, Lucas wrestled with himself as to whether to wake Brooke or not. She looked so beautiful when she was asleep. There was a stray hair placed across her face, and as he reached to move it, she stirred.

"Huh?" She blinked and opened her eyes.

"Haley had the baby, a girl. Nathan said we could see them if we wanted to.

"Oh, yeah." Brooke got her bag and she and Lucas went to find Haley's ward. For such a small town, Tree Hill sure had a complicated hospital.

After about fifteen minutes of walking round in circles, they realised that they were going in completely the wrong direction, turned round and walked the other way.

"Hey." Brooke said softly as she opened the door to Haley's room. There were two beds but the other was empty. Haley was sitting up in the bed and Nathan was holding a tiny baby in his arms. He offered her to Brooke.

"Oh she's lovely you guys. Well, with you two as parents, she's not exactly going to be ugly, is she?"

"So, have you named her yet?" Lucas asked as Brooke passed the baby to him.

"Not yet." Haley sighed. "I love Elise, but Nathan hates it, so we haven't decided as such."

"You know, you guys should go home and get some rest. I can hold the fort here." Nathan smiled.

Lucas and Brooke said their goodbyes and then got back into Lucas's car. They were almost back at Brooke and Ross's apartment when Brooke gasped.

"Oh my god."

"What? What is it?" Lucas pulled up at the side of the road.

"I think… I think my waters just broke."