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"Come on Haley, keep your eyes open for me," Nathan said desperately. He held her shaking body close as blood flecks were at the corner of her mouth.

"I can't," she moaned quietly. "Ow…" Nathan hated how everyone was just standing there and looking at Haley, speechless.

"Somebody do something!" he yelled. Mouth had tears in his eyes but no one moved.

"Nathan…" Haley sputtered. "I love you."

"Don't you dare," he said fiercely. "You are not dying, do you hear me?" But her eyes had closed. Nathan put a hand on her neck, feeling for her pulse. It was there and it was steady. "Mouth, stay with her. I'm going to see whether the coast is clear." Nathan got up from Haley's immobile form and opened the door. He saw straight away what he was looking for. The knowledge that no one else would be shot today.

Jimmy Edwards was lying on the floor in a pool of blood. From his position it was clear that he had shot himself. Only waiting the two seconds it took to confirm that he was dead, he ran back to Haley and picked her up. She moaned slightly as her body moved against her will and Nathan thought he had never heard a sweeter noise. It meant she was still alive. He walked out of the school, not knowing that his footsteps were treading along those Lucas had walked, minutes before.

Lucas was allowed to ride in the ambulance with Brooke, once he had explained that her parents didn't live there. She was hooked up to all kinds of horrible machines and they were speaking horrible things like kidney damage, liver failure and emergency surgery. He held her hand tightly. She hadn't come out of her slumbering state for many minutes now and it terrified him.

"Come on, wake up. Please, for me, just open your eyes." His words had no effect. He was unaware that Nathan was saying exactly the same thing to his wife in the ambulance behind him.

Brooke's life was dripping away from her second by second and no one was doing anything. They were desperately trying to contact her parents to get permission for her surgery. She was a minor so without her parents permission, she would die, simply by waiting. This was driving Lucas insane and he was pacing up and down when Peyton came into view.

"How is she?"

"Bad," Lucas said. He couldn't bring himself to voice anymore. He didn't want to make self fulfilling prophecies.

"She's tough," Peyton said trying to hide her fear. "She'll get through this. What about everyone else?"

"I hear there's an ambulance with one other casualty coming but I don't know who," Lucas said. As he spoke the double doors at the other end of the corridor flew open and a stretcher flew by. When Lucas saw Nathan running alongside the trolley Lucas slipped to the floor. "Haley…" he whispered seeing her hair fanning out on the pillow, her tiny body on the stretcher as Nathan saw him. The doctors stopped wheeling her for a second and Nathan kissed her hand.

"Hold on for me," he whispered. The doctors nodded at him and took her into surgery straight away. Nathan collapsed onto the floor next to Lucas.

"Is she…" Luke asked.

"I don't know," Nathan said. "Is Brooke…?"

"I don't know either," Luke said. Peyton felt like a spare part. She stormed out of the hospital and picked up her mobile phone. She was going to get through to Victoria if it was the last thing she ever did.

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