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Nathan spent the day planning cleaning the house and planning a date for him and Haley. His back was bothering him since he had slept on the couch but that didn't matter he just wanted things back to the way they where. He wanted him and Haley to go back to bliss. They had been so happy since the addition of Lydia. The café was doing well and he was doing well with Clay and the agency. This weekend was suppose to be a relaxing weekend home with his family not him needing Quinn and Brooke to fix what he shouldn't of kept from Haley in the first place.
Nathan was working on the laundry but forgot to grab Jamie's on his way down. Cursing to himself he rounded the corner out of the laundry room and shouted up the stairs.
"Jamie, can you please bring your laundry down so I can wash it?"
"Yeah I will bring it right down." Jamie shouted back
Nathan chuckled as he heard Jamie begin to run around his room and gather his clothes. He had a hamper but his clothes always ended up on the floor and not inside the hamper. This was funny because he was the same way and sometimes still was depending on how tired he was. Haley hated it, she rarely left anything on the floor.
Nathan turned and walked back to the laundry room to continue sorting.
Jamie finished getting his clothes together and ran down the stairs with them in his hands not noticing the sock that fell out of his hamper on the way down and landed on a stair.
"Here dad I also grabbed the towels out of the bathroom." He said with a smile towards his father.
"Ahh see I knew I forgot something else." Nathan said with a smile. "Okay, Jamie so I don't make you look like a marshmallow peep again, look through those whites and make sure nothing of color is in it." He then finished with a serious look on his face.
Jamie simply nodded "Okay, I am on it. I don't want Chuck and the guys making fun of me again."
Nathan chuckled "Yeah same here you're Aunt Quinn, Clay, and Brooke still makes fun of me for it." Nathan smiled as he remembered
Nathans phone started to ring. He reached into his pocket and answered. "Hello. Oh hi Quinn. You did? Okay I will have him get ready. Yes I have it all planed out and I am cleaning the house and doing laundry." Nathan finished saying into the phone with a smile on his face.
Quinn is silent on the other end of the phone "Nate, I love you like a brother but please don't turn my nephews white clothing pink again. You however act like a girl so the pink fits you but Jamie still has to deal with his young friends and well kids are mean." Quinn stated in a matter of fact voice as she started to laugh.
Nathan laughed into the phone "Don't worry I have Jamie double checking to make sure I didn't leave any colors in with the whites. I will also have Jamie ready to go when you get here." With that Nathan and Quinn exchanged a few more words and then hung up.
Nathan looked at his son who was smiling having heard his Aunts jab at his dad. "I will go get ready. All I seen are whites I think we are safe dad good job." Jamie finished with a small laugh. "Haha" Nathan mocked "Quinn is on her way to pick you up. I need you to go upstairs and pack an overnight bag for yourself."
"Sweet! thanks Aunt Quinn for the jail break. I am gonna go pack dad. I Love You!" Jamie finished as he raced out of the room and up the stairs to pack just missing the sock he dropped and still hadn't seen.
Nathan started a load of laundry and went to the kitchen to clean it. Once finished with the kitchen he cleaned every room in the house before running the vacuum, dusting, and then cleaning the floors. He wanted the house spotless for Haley when she got home.
Jamie was finally down stairs and waiting in the kitchen with his dad for his Aunt to arrive.
"Dad have you talked to mom today?" Jamie asked with a hopeful smile
"No but she did kiss my cheek this morning before taking Lydia." Nathan told his son with a smile.
"I just hope you and mom work it out. I can't help but feel guilty still. I mean if I had just kept it to myself and not told Chuck mom wouldn't know and she wouldn't be upset with you." Jamie finished looking at everything but his dad.
Nathan felt his heart breaking for his son. It wasn't Jamie's fault and Nathan hated the fact that he felt that way. Walking over to his son he knelt down so that he was eye level with Jaime "James I love you and this is not your fault. I should have told your mom and I didn't this is my fault not yours okay." Nathan said looking his son right in the eye. "I want you to go with your Aunt Quinn tonight and I want you to have fun."
Jamie smiled at his father "Okay dad" he then leaned in and gave his father a big hug. "I love you buddy!" Nathan said as he returned the hug Jamie was giving him. "I love you too dad."
Quinn had just walked with into the house with Lydia on her hip to find Nathan and Jamie both in the kitchen hugging. "Aww sorry to interrupt the male bonding but I am here to pick up my nephew and some of my nieces things." Quinn said with a giggle.
Nathan looked at Quinn and smiled. "Hey Quinn, take good care of them tonight. I am going to be taking good care of Hales you know get things worked out."
Quinn smiled at her brother in law. "No problem. We are going to rent some movies, pick up some pizza, and have a good time." Quinn finished turning to her nephew who had a huge smile on his face. "Go get your stuff buddy. I will be up to get some of Lydia's and then we are out of here." She finished with a smile. "Okay I already packed I just have to go get it." Jamie finished as he raced of to gather his things.
"Nate here can you hold Lydia while I run up and get some of her things?"
"Sure!" Nathan said as he scooped his daughter out of Quinn's arms. Quinn then quickly left the room.
"Hey baby girl!" Nathan cooed lifting Lydia up into the air to hear her giggle. Nathan smiled as he brought her into his embrace. Nathan just stood in the kitchen cooing and making faces at Lydia waiting for Jamie and Quinn to return to the kitchen.
After a few minutes both had returned to say goodbyes to Nathan and then left to go for the night.
Nathan stood in the kitchen for a little while longer. He then decided to take a shower to start getting ready for tonight.
Haley sat behind the wheel of the car at a red light. She was nervous, she felt ridiculous for being so but she couldn't help it. She still felt incredibly guilty for smacking Nathan and overreacting like she did. Now that she knew everything she felt even worse she decided as she started to drive again as the light turned green that she was going to make it up to Nathan tonight.
After what felt like forever she finally turned onto there street and started toward the driveway. She stopped the car at the end of the driveway to get out and collect the mail to find it had already been picked up. She made a face and started for the car again. Nathan rarely got the mail but then again he was hardly ever home.
She finally got her car to the garage and shut it off. She waited a moment before getting out. She decided to go in through the front door. She walked up to the front door making note that the yard was cut. She got to the front door and unlocked it quickly and stepped inside. Everything inside shined like she had cleaned all day instead of having been at the café and the smell it smelled of sweet fresh wild flowers as she walked farther into the house sure enough as far as she could see there was fresh batches of them in every room. Her heart melted but she was still wondering where he was. He wasn't in the kitchen and she couldn't hear him at all.
She decided that he must be upstairs getting ready for tonight. She started for the steps but stopped when she heard Nathan starting to descend them.
Nathan checked the time as he was walking down the stairs not paying attention. He took a little longer in the shower then normal but it helped his back. He was still sore and all the work her had done today wasn't helping. Haley was due home so he quickened his pace heading down the stairs he still wasn't paying attention and slipped on a sock that was still laying on the stairs.
"What the…" Nathan yelled as he felt his feet come out from under him. His rear end smacked the first stair the back of his head hitting another and just every stair on the rest of the way down.
Haley screamed as she seen her husband tumble ass first down the steps "Nathan!" she ran towards the bottom as he came to a stop not two feet in front of her with his eyes closed and not moving. She wasn't sure if he hadn't hit his head or not so she just stood there shocked looking at her husband.
Nathan laid there for a moment. He knew he was hurt he felt it. His ass and back where hurting just as much but if not worse then before but it was nothing compared to the sharp throbbing pain he felt in his head. He slowly opened his eyes as he remembered hearing Haley scream his name as he fell. She enough she was there with a concerned look on her face her big brown eyes pooling with unshed tears and her lower lip trembling.
"I'm okay Hales." Nathan said as he shook his head to try to clear some of the cob webs he felt still within his head and soon found that to be a bad idea for all it did was make the pain worse. He then reached under himself as he felt something under him. It was a sock. He groaned as he was about to try to get up. He wanted to get up as quick as possible.
Haley was snapped out of her thoughts as she seen her clearly injured and slightly out of it husband try to get up. "What are you doing?" she screamed as she took the few steps she needed and then pushed him back down. "Don't move you could hurt yourself more."
Nathan hissed as he was pushed back down. "Hales I'm fine. I just want to get up." Nathan exclaimed as he tried to get back up. This time with little protest from Haley but she did grab onto him and walk with him as he walked to the kitchen. Nathan felt Haley clutching to him. He started to laugh as he reached the kitchen. That was a bad idea because pain wrenched though his body he then hissed as he sat in a stool.
Haley then let go of his side and started looking him over. She knew he hit the back of his head so she moved to look. She put her hand on his head and felt him flinch. Sure enough there was a large bump on his head. "Nathan, we have to go to the hospital." Haley stated in a matter of fact tone.
"What?" Nathan exclaimed turning to look at her. "Haley I'm fine!" Nathan stated crossing his arms over his chest "we are not going to the hospital. You are going to get ready and I am taking you out tonight." He finished giving her his stubborn I am not budging on this look. "Plus I'm fine."
"So you keep saying." Haley returned crossing her arm over her chest. She was really worried she knew what that fall could have done. He was brushing it off as if it was nothing. "Nathan I don't want to fight but I think you should get looked over that wasn't a little fall and that isn't a little bump on your head either." Nathan exhaled loudly looking at his wife whose eyes held nothing but worry. He didn't want to fight with her either so he decided it would be best to go with what she wanted to do. "okay Hale's, we can go to the hospital first but we are going on that date tonight. It's been way too long since I have taken my sexy wife out" Nathan finished with a signature smirk.
Haley rolled her eyes as she smiled at her husband. "Okay, I will go get ready we will go to the hospital and out afterward depending on what the doctor says." Haley finished as she started to walk away and then turned back around to walk back up to her husband. "Oh and about yesterday…" she started as she caressed his cheek "I'm sorry I overreacted and said some things I didn't mean I also didn't mean to slap you." Once she finished she kissed him on the cheek before moving to his mouth the kiss started off slow and gained heat fast. She was now kissing him deeply. When she pulled back his eyes where still closed she smiled as his eyes fluttered open and he returned with his signature smirk.
"Keep kissing me like that Haley James and we won't even be leaving the house. As for last night I was out of line and I am sorry too." Nathan finished looking into his wife's eyes with nothing but pure love and pride at the fact that they where going to be okay. "Now go get ready so we can get this hospital nonsense out of your system." Nathan finished with a wink.
"Alright I'm going." Haley said as she started walking to the stairs to get ready. However the name he had called her just registered in her brain. She did an about face "oh and babe! It's Haley James Scott. It has been that way since I was 17 and it will be until the day I die." She finished with a prideful smile of her own as she turned and went to get ready.
An hour later Nathan and Haley where on there way to the hospital Nathan wasn't feeling all that well his head was pounding and his back wasn't feeling much better. They came up to the parking lot and Haley parked the car. She had refused to let Nathan drive because she was worried about him. He wasn't looking very good and she knew he was still trying to play it cool. They both got out of the car and Haley was at his side in an instant. They checked in and took a seat to wait. Haley was rubbing Nathan's back trying to sooth him as he sat with his head in his hands. He was starting to feel dizzy so he excused himself and went to the bathroom. Once in the bathroom he splashed cold water on his face and wiped it off. It helped a little. He turned and lifted his shirt only to find bruising on his lower back just over his scar he knew his ass was bruised he could feel that when he tried to sit down.
Once he fixed his clothes he went back out to the waiting room where Haley sat waiting and watching the mens room door for him to come out. He noticed relief flash across her face when he came out he threw her a reassuring smile as he took a seat. He took her hand in his and intertwined there fingers. He finally broke the silence "Some date huh?" he asked looking her in the eye. She rolled her eyes and kissed his lips. "Babe I just want you to be okay. You're not looking that good right now." Nathan didn't say anything he knew there was no use she could read him like a book.
A nurse walked into the waiting room "Nathan Scott." She announced as she stepped into the waiting room. Nathan stood up with Haley standing with him in an instant. The nurse nodded already knowing it was his. He may not be in the NBA anymore but he was still a local celebrity. "Come with me please." The nurse led him and Haley to a bed in the corner she pulled the curtain and did everything she needed to while asking him questions. Once she knew everything she told him the doctor would be in shortly. Sure enough the doctor walked in. he greeted them "Hello I am Doctor Smith I hear you took a nasty fall down the steps. Lets get you checked out."
With that the doctor started his examination. He looked at the bump on Nathan's head and then looked over everything else. Next he took a flash light and tested Nathans eyes he wanted to see how they would react. A slow reaction could indicate head trauma. The doctor did notice some hesitation in the right eye but decided to order more testing and play it cool for now "Okay Mr. Scott I am going to order a CAT scan of your head and X-rays of the lower back. A nurse will be in shortly to take you.
Already knowing the drill Nathan emptied his pockets handing his wallet, keys, and cell phone to Haley. He sat back down on the table and looked at Haley. She was the picture of worry you could see it all over her face. Her lip was in between her teeth being chewed on and she was looking at everything in the room trying to hold back tears.
"Hale's what's wrong?" Nathan asked coming to kneel in front of her. Haley looked at her husband his eyes held worry which made her feel guilty he was the one that was hurt and here he was comforting her again. "It's just this could have been so bad Nate you could have become paralyzed again or worse you could have died." She wanted to say more but she started to cry the thought of losing Nathan forever was just too much.
"Hale's I'm not going anywhere..." He said just as a nurse walked in. "Mr. Scott I am here to take you for x-rays and CAT Scan now please follow me. "Okay maybe I am going somewhere." Nathan said with a smirk towards his wife. Haley rolled her eyes as she laughed. Only he would make a lame joke like that but that is one of the reasons why she loved him. He was always able to say something to get her mind off things. She watched as he kissed her forehead and left the room to follow the nurse.
It had now been a good hour and a half Nathan was back with Haley waiting for the doctor and the results. He looked at the clock it was now 9:30 he called the restaurant he had made reservations at and cancelled them he felt horrible he really wanted to take Haley out tonight. He looked over and seen the look on Haley's face he knew that look he reached over and took her hand in his.
Haley's mind was a million miles away her mind was racing she didn't understand what was going on and why things where taking so long. Worst case scenarios started running through her mind. But, before she could really start to freak out she felt Nathan reach over and grab her hand and intertwine there fingers. He then pulled her hand up to his mouth and placed a soft kiss on the back of her hand. All she could think in that moment was how amazing he was.
Nathan and Haley talked a little about things he had missed while he had been gone. She told Nathan she would have to show him a video of Lydia when they got home. Lydia had discovered her feet and had been fascinated by them. She also took video of Jamie's baseball games he was doing awesome. She also talked about the café. Nathan mostly just listened his head was hurting really bad and it was getting harder to concentrate. The nurse did bring ice in. after a while they melted into a peaceful silence.
After another hour Dr. Smith finally entered the room. "Mr. Scott, I am afraid I have some bad news…"
AN: Okay sorry it has been so long. My mom had her surgery and had some trouble so i spent most of my time taking care of her and when i wasn't i was working which i work nights. so being up all day and night with her caught up to me and i had an accident at work i crushed my hand and broke it however my being tired had nothing to do with it the machine malfunctioned and yeah... so this chapter was written via hunt and peck with my left hand i am right handed. it is slowly getting better i have to see a hand doctor. he is going to see if i need surgery or not. i hope you enjoy with chapter. please leave me comments to come back too. the next chapter with be posted as soon as i am done.