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Chapter 8 Promises

Nathan walked Carrie to her door and then took the few steps to his. He opened the door and looked around. No one their. He listened. Not a sound. He was starting to get use to this. It's not the first time he screwed things up with Haley. This was the third time she's left him. He walked in to notice the letter from her he never read yet. He picked it up in his right hand. As he sat on the stool as he read.

"There's still a chance." He whispered to him self.

FASTFORWARD (one month, three weeks, two days)

Nathan continued to write Haley everyday for a month like she asked of him, Carrie was officially moved in and Rachel's baby is getting closer to having a father. Everything was perfect except that Haley was on her way to the apartment to surprise Nathan. The thing Haley didn't know is that Rachel is six months pregnant, and Carrie who she never meat before was three months pregnant.

"So I have some great news!" Chirped the excited Carrie.

"What is it this time?" Nathan asked with a grin on his face.

"We're having a baby boy." Nathan turned to look at her. His stomach turned and knotted. Him and Haley were having a boy. Rachel was having a boy. He was having three sons. Nathan felt sick, so he went to lye down on the bed. He herd the doorbell ring.

"I'll get it sweaty!" Called Carrie. She stepped to the door and opened it with a smile. She saw a girl, pregnant, with brown eyes, and Brown hair.

"Hello."

"Hi is Nathan around?"

"He just went to lye down."

"Oh. Then may I ask why you are still here?"

"I live here."

"what the hell do you mean you live here?" Haley yelled.

"I mean that I live here because Nathan is the father of my unborn son." Haley was shocked. She didn't know what to say or what to do.

"So little Miss. Bitchy you can be leaving now." Carrie madly told her. Haley was turning to leave when she collapsed. Carrie had no idea of what to do.

"Nathan!" She yelled franticly. Nathan came dashing out of the bedroom, but stooped when he saw Haley.

"Oh God. Haley!" He yelled.

"What should we do?"

"Call 911." He told Carrie.

"Oh Haley, baby." Nathan whispered to his wife.

"Baby! Nathan what's going on?" Carrie started to Question him.

"She's my wife." He replied.

"She can't be! Nathan I would never sleep with a married man, but wait nether of you have your ring on!?"

"We were going through a hard time, but it is better. That is unless you told her. Did you tell her?"

"Hints the fainting."

Nathan and Carrie were in the waiting room doing nothing other then wait for news from the doctor. Brooke and Lucas were there once again, but they kept mostly to each other.

"Hey, Luke who is that girl by Nathan?" Brooke wondered.

"That's that skank I caught him with about four months ago."

"Well, well the old Nathan has returned, and what a bad timing on his part."

"I know. Hey does something seem strange about hr or is it just me?"

"No it's not just you. It looks as if she might just have a baby bump too."

"Damn it Nathan!" Lucas yelled under his breathe.

"I know. Nathan use to be an ass, but thought he changed. Now what….three kids?"

"Wait! Haley's having twins?" Lucas asked Confused as always.

"No. Rachel. She is positive the baby is his."

"How?"

"Well before Nathan she wasn't active for a month and after Nathan she didn't sleep with anyone."

Nathan sat thee quit watching Luke and Brooke talk.

"Nathan we have to talk about this." Carrie snapped him out of it.

"There's nothing to talk about. My pregnant wife is laying in a hospital bed. Her worse enemy is giving birth to my son and so are you."

"That's what we need to talk about."

"Don't worry I said I was going to be there for you and I will." Nathan looked at her with reassuring eyes.

They all heard foot steps coming down the hall and they all looked down the hall. Here came the doctor.

"Miss. Scott will be fine, or at least she is staying steady right now. She had a cesor and it attacked her stomach, liver, and kidney."

"It's Mrs. Scott, and what about the baby?" Nathan could not believe he was asking this for the secant time.

"We'll just have to wait and see. She is in intensive care. Only family visitors. Room 112." The doctor walked away to talk to yet another family.

Nathan walked towards the room leaving Brooke, Luke, and Carrie in the waiting room together. Brooke walked over to Carrie.

"So you're the skank I heard about, no?" Brooke asked.

"The names Carrie not Skank bitch."

"Well what a nasty mouth you have there. No wonder Nathan screwed you, but wait then why did he screw Haley and Rachel?"

"Who's Rachel?"

"Just another girl carrying yet another son of Nathan. See you're the third one giving him a son."

"How did you know I'm having his son?"

"Please… you see that man over there?"

"Yes."

"That's Nathan's brother so he gets the brother card, and since I'm that man's girlfriend I get the girlfriend card. Are you caught up now?"

"Yes."

"Well good, and oh by the way try not to think about his other two children or his wife or his father in jail for killing his own brother for that matter."

"I wouldn't dream of it hoe!"

"Oh getting a little defensive are we?"

"You know what I'm going home. Tall Nathan I'm waiting for him so we con talk about it."

"Don't count on it you little home wrecker!" Brooke called after her.

"Brooke don't you think you could ease up a little?" Lucas asked.

"Anything for you."

Nathan walked down that same hall. The same hall as last time he lost Haley. He could not go through it again. I have to tell her the truth. Everything. Nathan thought. That's what I'm going to do.

He walked into the room seeing that once again his wife was hocked up to a monitor. Seeing her lying there he had a flashback.

FLASHBACK

Nathan opened the door and walked into his new apartment. He stopped seeing his new wife sitting on the floor crying.

"Haley what's wrong?"

""Oh I was just alphabetizing our CDs, and we don't have any doubles, not a one." Nathan looks down at the table and sees Haley's wedding ring on a CD case. He steps toward her.

"So what?"

"So. Natalie merchant after Naz and Wilko before the Woe Tang Clan."

"So you listen to crappie music I can live with that."

"We made a mistake Nathan."

"Haley."

" I'm not ready for this I just… I just really wont to go home to my room." Nathan moves in for a hug and Haley backs away.

"No I'm not a wife. I'm not even a senior."

"Haley this is not a mistake."

"How can you be sure? There is no body that thinks this could work." She sobbed

"I do. I promise you Haley I will always be there for you. I will always protect you. Always. You hear me? I will always protect you. Always."

FLASHBSCK OVER

Nathan fell to his knees on the door way of her room. He stayed there crying. He promised her he would always be there for her and always protect her. Wear were you when she got hit by the car? Wear were you when she collapsed? Nathan asked himself.

He didn't keep his promise to her. That just added even more to his pile of guilt. Nathan heard footsteps and voices coming towards him. He could tell it was Brooke and Lucas. Then the nose started to blur and so did his sight.

Like and Brooke were walking toward Haley's room when they heard a big thump.

"What was that?" Brooke asked.

"I don't know. Come on we'll go see." Lucas answered. They walked down the hall. They stopped at Haley's room and turned their heads.

"Nathan!" Brooke yelled as she watched him lying on the floor.

"Help! We need a doctor now!" Luke yelled out the door. The doctor came rushing by Nathan's side.

"Our heart condition." Lucas whispered in Brooke's ear.

"You mean he had a heart attack?" she asked Luke.

"Correct." Answered the doctor for him.