Title:

Passages Of Time
Rating: PG-13
Pairing/Characters: Haley James (Scott)/Sam Winchester, Brooke Davis
Fandom: One Tree Hill/Supernatural
Notes: Set AU One Tree Hill and pre- season one Supernatural up to Pilot episode.
Disclaimer: Again I don't own any of these characters or the shows they appear on. Kripke and Schwann people. Kripke and Schwann

Her first week at college isn't exactly how Haley imagined, and it's a shock to her system when she realises that even though she was class valedictorian and possibly the smartest student at Tree hill High, at Stanford she wasn't even a blip on the radar.

Her roommates a class A bitch, her classes are nothing like she expected and she feels more alone then she's ever felt in her entire life.

Stanford was her dream, but she can't shake the thought that maybe she was dreaming too big and it takes her best friend Brooke three hours over the phone to convince her to not pack everything in and return to Tree Hill with her tail between her legs.

She meets Sam Winchester her second week on campus. She sleeps through her alarm that morning and wakes up ten minutes before she's due in class for her American Lit lecture.

She races the whole way there, all the time dreading what Professor Thompson is going to say if she catches her slinking her way into the lecture room. Luckily she isn't caught and manages to slip unnoticed into a chair at the back of the room.

She doesn't even realise she's sitting next to anyone until ten minutes later when seeing her flustered searching through her bag he leans over and offers her a pen.

They go for coffee that afternoon and then dinner three nights after.

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He takes his coffee black, never celebrates Halloween and only has one sibling, she drinks her coffee with cream, dresses up every October 31st and has more brothers and sisters then she can count on one hand. There are a lot of differences between them but they're similar in all the ways that count and somehow they just seem to fit.

They spend thanksgiving together on campus and then Christmas with her family and friends back home. She introduces him as her boyfriend and he smiles at her like she hung the stars. He tells her he loves her new years eve and she says it back wondering what took him so long.

She never asks about his family, because she knows it's a touchy subject for him, all she knows is that his mother died when he was a baby and his father raised he and his brother. He's said his upbringing was unconventional and less then stable; she tries to offer the constancy he craves.

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They move in to a small apartment off campus in their second year and Haley can't even remember a time when she's been happier because one – no more bitchy roommate and two - she gets to wake up next to Sam every morning.

Brooke finally finds the time to visit six months later and surprises Haley by deciding to transfer in. Life is perfect and when she thinks back to the phone conversation she had with her best friend almost two years before, Haley's eternally grateful Brooke talked her into sticking around.

Before she knows it they're in their final year and making big plans for their future. Sam has an important interview coming up and even though he's all different kinds of nervous, Haley's sure he has it in the bag.

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She see's their lives mapped out for them in crystal clear clarity, the house in the suburbs with a white picket fence, two children and puppy in the yard. What Haley doesn't know is that he sees it too and has a ring nestled safely in his sock draw that Brooke's assured him Haley's going to love.

They go to a local bar, to celebrate Halloween because its Haley's favourite holiday and Sam will suffer through it just to see the smile on her face. Brooke is dressed as a naughty nurse and Haley's wearing her old cheerleading uniform. Sam doesn't dress up at all and Haley jokes that he should put a name tag on his sweater and call himself god.

Sam doesn't notice that Haley isn't drinking, and doesn't see Brooke sneakily down the shots he gets for his girlfriend, he does however marvel at her constitution when three hours later Brooke is passed out in their spare room but Haley is still stone cold sober.

A few hours later she wakes up to find Sam not in the bed next to her and hears a tussle down the stairs. She slips out of from beneath the covers and pads down softly, switches on the light and is greeted by the sight of Sam with a guy he introduces as his brother.

She suddenly feels grossly underdressed in her short boxer shorts and the Tigger and Pooh singlet Brooke brought her as a gag gift on her 18th birthday, when Dean rakes his eyes over her form Sam's hand on her shoulder tightens possessively and she's secretly thrilled when he stands a little in front of her to block his brother's view.

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Their father is missing and Sam needs to help look for him, so she helps him pack an overnight bag and he promises to be back in time for his interview the following Monday. The kiss he gives her before he leaves is so mind blowingly perfect that she forgets about the unsettled feeling she has in the pit of her stomach.

She spends the next few days awaiting his return and driving Brooke crazy with all her worries. The night he's due home she can't sleep, so she tries to tire herself out, first by catching up on some of her course work and then when that fails by baking him a treat for when he gets home.

She places a plate full of cookies on the table by the door and passes one of two photos of his family on the way up the stairs. She stops for a second and gazes at the picture on the wall, two young boys sitting on the hood of a car with their arms wrapped around each other, her hand rests on her lower stomach, stroking it lovingly as she tries to imagine how their son will look, like his father or like his uncle.

She hasn't told Sam yet, only Brooke knows, but she decides then and there to tell him as soon as he gets home.

She walks into their bedroom, head full of dreams and heart full of love, so lost in her own little daydream that she fails to notice the dark shadow in the corner or feel it's piercing yellow eyes follow her every move.