Pilot, Can You Help Me?
By: MissUnderstood92
Disclaimer: I own nothing but the ideas in my head :)

The next day, the Scott family was found sitting in their Range Rover, Brooke behind the wheel, getting ready to go to the park. Brooke was scared shitless. It took Lucas an hour to convince her to try driving again, and she reluctantly agreed. She sat transfixed; her eyes staring in front of her, her hands hands frozen on the wheel. Lucas put a hand comfortingly on her thigh "Come on baby, you can do it" He whispered lightly to her.

It was storming outside that night. "Luke! I'm taking Mattie with me to Naley's house! I have to pick something up from them!" She called up the stairs to her husband, while picking up her oldest son by a mere minute, Matthew James Scott, and putting him down into his baby seat. "Are you sure Brooke? It's storming pretty bad out there tonight. Why don't we just all go tomorrow morning when the storm's let up?" He asked worriedly as he walked down the stairs with their younger son, George Davis Scott, in his arms. He looked up through the big window above their door to see a lightening crack, and hear the boom of thunder.

"We'll be fine Broody. We left Mattie's PJs there, and I'm pretty sure those are his favorites. Aren't they baby?" She smiled down at the little boy in his car seat. Lucas laughed, shaking his head a bit as he heard his wife interact with their son. "Brooke, he's a month old. He doesn't care which PJs he wears" Lucas moved toward the two and kissed his wife softly. "You're crazy, you know that?" He laughed a bit, deciding to try again with trying to keep them home until tomorrow "Seriously though babe, it's not lookin' too good out there. Wait until tomorrow and we can get the PJs." Brooke shook her head "I'll be fine Broody; we'll be back in like five minutes tops"

Brooke was at the intersection by Nathan and Haley's house, where she looked left and right. She saw an oncoming car, but she had the right of way, so she went on ahead to Naley's corner driveway, when she looked to the side as she was turning into their house, with the car she saw previously coming on fast. She quickly took her seat belt off and turned to shield Mattie, but it was too late. A loud CRASH sounded through the air, bringing Nathan and Haley out of their house, calling the police as soon as they saw the crash. "Nathan! It's Brooke's car!" She could recognize that blue bug anywhere. It was her sister-in-law's.

"Haley, go inside!" Nathan called back to his wife as he looked in on the crushed car. Brooke's face was all bloodied up, with so many cuts on her head he couldn't even see the origin of most of them. He pulled her out and set her down on the ground as he went back in, seeing his nephew in his car seat on the side of impact. "Oh my god.." He whispered to himself. The baby lay motionless in his seat, a single cut coming from his head. "Matt," He called softly out to the baby "Matt!" He spoke louder this time "MATT!" By this time, he was yelling, the dead baby in his arms. Haley was behind him, an EMT checking out Brooke when she saw the baby in his arms. "Nate, I called Lucas..he's on his way" Nathan turned to Haley, and if his eyes hadn't been red, she wouldn't know he had been crying. "Nathan.." She asked, frightened. "He's dead Hales" She immediately began crying, looking to Brooke.

"Nate?! Hales?! What's going on?!" Lucas called frantically. He left as soon as he got Haley's call, dropping Georgie off at Karen's house. "There was a crash, Luke." Lucas watched on as a small body bag was taken into the ambulance. "Oh god" He cracked, tears coming from his eyes. "Mattie..is he okay?" He looked frantically between his sister-in-law and brother, eyes searching for an answer from one of them. Nathan was the one who finally spoke up. "He was on the side of impact Luke..I got outside as soon as I could. I..I went to the car and pulled Brooke out, but when I went back in to check, Mattie was.." He trailed off, unable to tell his brother that his son was dead. "He was gone Luke..he was gone when I held him" Nathan closed his eyes as Lucas just stared at him.

"..Lucas?" Brooke's frail voice rang through his ears, immediately waking him up. She looked around the room, for a second not realizing where she was.

"Hey baby" Lucas said softly, walking to her side and stroking her hair. His eyes were red, and his short blonde hair was sticking in all directions. "Lucas, what's wrong?" She looked around the room, remembering Mattie was in the car with her. "Where's Mattie?" She looked to Lucas frightened. "Lucas, where is he? He's okay right? Luke..please tell me he's okay" Lucas started crying again, and instantly Brooke knew what happened. "Baby...baby he's gone." He choked out. Brooke instantly started bawling. Lucas took her into his arms and cried with her, stroking her hair.

"I...I can't do it Luke" She shook her head, taking her seat belt off. She couldn't drive, even if it was a sunny perfect day. She couldn't bring herself to put the gas on the pedal. Lucas hung his head dejectedly, but nodded his head."It's okay baby, we'll try some other time" He opened the door and stepped out of the car, helping Brooke out since she was still frozen on the wheel. She got into the passenger seat and turned around, checking on Georgie.

"I'm sorry Luke, I feel really dumb that I can't even drive anymore" She said somberly. Lucas turned his head to her, "Babe, you're not dumb at all" He fully turned to face her, cupping her face in his hands. "It's understandable that you'd be hesitant to get back behind the wheel." He assured her "I told you I'd give you time, and I will. Whenever you think you're ready, we can try again" He leaned forward, kissing her forehead gently. "And if you get scared those times, then I'll be here to drive for you" Brooke nodded, pulling away from his hands. "We should probably get going to the park if we want Georgie to have any fun" She gave him a small smile as Lucas nodded, pulling out of the driveway.

Once they got to the park, Brooke got out of the car, unbuckling Georgie from his car seat and pulling him into her arms. She was dressed in a pair of black flip flops, with cargo capris that tightened around her calves at the bottom, with a simple black t-shirt. Lucas had jeans and a crew t-shirt with a flannel shirt over it. "So where are we going first daddy?" Brooke asked, trying to perk up and have fun for the sake of her son. "Well, we can start on the swings if you want?" He raised an eyebrow as he made his suggestion, and smiling as Brooke nodded. Brooke carefully put Georgie in the baby swing, backing away to let Lucas push him a little. "Not too high Luke" She reminded as he laughed at her. "Brooke, he's barely three feet off the ground; he's fine" He leaned to the side, kissing her cheek lightly, pushing Georgie a little softer to humor her. "I know, but he's just a baby. He's only seven months old"

After a little while of swinging, Lucas pulled the baby out of the swing. "Do you want to try the seesaw?" He asked, raising an eyebrow. Brooke scrunched her nose up a bit and looked out to the field of grass by the playground. "Let's go sit down" She took his hand in hers, dragging her boys over to the field like a little girl would her friend. When they got to a nice spot, Lucas sat down with Brooke next to him, Georgie in his mother's lap. He was babbling to himself as Brooke held his hands, massaging his palms with her thumbs. "I love you, you know that right baby boy?" She leaned forward, kissing his head gently, smiling slightly when he laughed a little bit. She looked over to her husband and shot him a curious look "Do you think that Mattie and Georgie would've been like when they got older?" When Lucas raised a confused eyebrow at her, she tried to make herself clearer "Like would Mattie be the hyper one, and Georgie more reserved, or something like that?"

"Every day" Lucas nodded, understanding exactly what she was talking about. Brooke moved away from Georgie, letting him sit up by himself and play with the grass while she moved to Lucas and sat between his legs, leaning back against him. "You know you don't have to keep everything locked in, right Luke?" He shrugged slightly, tilting his head to the side "I know, but I want to fix you first. I'm supposed to save you, remember? I'll be okay Brooke" He kissed the top of her head lightly "I promise" Brooke nodded, snuggling her head against his chest. "Just promise me you won't keep everything inside" She pleaded slightly "I promise, Brooke"

Georgie was just about falling asleep while the family was in their car again driving home. Brooke sat in the back with the baby, holding his hand as they pulled into the driveway. "I'll put him to bed, you find a movie to watch" Lucas proposed as he turned off the car and opened the car door. Brooke walked into their living room and bent down in front of the DVD cabinet, searching for a movie. "Hm. How about the Sex and the City movie?" She smirked as Lucas walked back into the room. "..or not" Lucas laughed, plopping down on the couch. "Well then, how about Tropic Thunder?" She pulled the DVD case out of it's place and brought it to the TV, setting everything up after getting the 'okay' from Luke. She walked back over to the couch and sat down next to Luke, slipping into the crook of his arm.

They were halfway into the movie when Lucas tightened his hold around Brooke a bit, sighing contently to himself. "Are you happy?" He asked her softly, taking her attention away from Ben Stiller. She nodded a little bit, "You know, the funny thing about today is when I was in the car, and you were telling me I could drive, I thought back to that night, and if I hadn't been wearing my seat belt, I definitely could have gotten to him" She started off, seeing Lucas's face change to worry "Which I'm not going to stress over, but still. After we got to the park though, and we played on the swings with Georgie, and we sat in the grass, just hanging out with him, I forgot all about it, and I just let myself be happy with the two amazing boys I have in my life right now" Lucas gave her a smile that told her he was proud of her, which didn't keep him from telling her. "I'm really proud of you baby, you know that?" Brooke nodded a little bit

"I told you you were stronger than you thought. It's only been six months, and we've only been in therapy for five and a half, and you're already bouncing back. Which isn't to say that we won't have some more bad days, but those won't even matter to me, because I'll have seen you get over this even if only for a day. You even make me feel better about it when I see you happy, and I know there's no place you're happier than with Georgie and me" He kept the smile across his face "I love you so much Luke, really I do. But I think if you don't get this out somehow, it's going to come back up on us somehow. I want you to write about this" She turned to completely face him, putting her hand on his chest. "I'm serious Luke. I want you to write about this. Write about everything you're feeling, write about everything that happened, just write. I know for a fact it's the only way you will ever talk about anything. So do it for me. No, better yet, do it for Mattie. In memory of him, okay?" She looked at him sincerely. All she wanted was for things to be better. Better than they had been in the past six months. "Okay, I will" He answered simply, then adding "For Mattie"


AN: Alright guys, here's your update for the week. My sweet sixteen is this Saturday, and Thanksgiving is on Thursday, so I probably won't even be working on a new chapter until at least Monday. And because one of the reviewers asked, yes. Mattie is Georgie's twin brother. I hope you got a better understanding of what happened the night of the crash from the flashback.
Special thanks to:
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toddntan
bibleboymary4ever, and
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