Disclaimer: I don't own anything on One Tree Hill or the places used in the story.

Summary: Nathan Scott had always been successful in everything he did except love. One angel is on a mission to change that. AU Naley


Sometimes All You Need Is One

Chapter Five: Take My Breath Away

Watching every motion in my foolish lover's game

On this endless ocean finally lover know no shame

Turning and returning to some secret place inside

Watching in slow motion as you turn around and say

Take my breath away, take my breath away

-Berlin

Below the clouds, in a small quite town of Tree Hill, Deb finished showing Haley around Scott Enterprises, "So this will be the desk you will be working at," Deb said, placing her hands on the table in question looking at the young girl in front of her. "That room is Nathan office, he is the one in charge, I'll introduce you to him when he gets in," She said, pointing at the office behind Haley's desk. "And my office is just down there…The one at the end of the corridor," She said pointing to her own office.

"Well…that about wraps up the tour…if you do have any problems you know where I am, Nathan is a fair man but the company means a lot to him, so even though he may sometimes be a little irritating he does mean no harm," She smiled at the girl.

At first when she saw the girl, walk through the main doors of Scott Enterprises, she started feeling like she made the wrong decision by hiring her, but after she went through all the paperwork and told her what she would be doing the girl in front of her smiled and she knew that Haley would fit in perfectly.

"Are there any questions you want to ask me before everyone come's in to work?" Deb asked, seeing a firm head shake she smiled again, "Ok could you go down to the mail room and collect Nathan's mail it's on the bottom floor and then come straight back, because Nathan should be here soon and I want you to meet him before it gets to crazy in here…ok?" she said to Haley.

Haley walked along the corridor and decided to take the stairs, elevators take too long and she hated the thought of being crammed into one with a lot of people. Reaching the bottom floor she took a right and hoped it was the way to the mailroom. She didn't really have a good sense of direction and when she was down here early she wasn't paying much attention to what Deb was saying. She was mostly thinking about a good plan for Nathan, so far she was playing it by ear. Taking a right she was greeted by a sign saying mail room, smiling to herself she took a step forward she turned the knob and walked through the door. She saw Nathan Scott written on a cubbyhole, taking the letters she glanced at her watch and cringed, she would have to take the elevator back up for her to make it back on time. Repeating the steps she took earlier, but in reverse she made it to the lobby just in time for her to see a raven haired man get into the last spare elevator. Smiling to herself seeing only him in the elevator she ran towards it, cursing Brooke for making her wear those shoes she only just made it before the elevator door closed.

Standing against the wall of the elevator, she was able to stare at the raven-haired man, smiling to herself she realised how cute he was. Looking at her watch, she realized that Nathan Scott would probably be in the building by now; she hoped she made it before him. She hummed to herself, as if to try and make the time go faster, she looked over to see the cute man staring back at her with an amused smile on his face. She quickly averted her eyes and stopped her humming but not before she heard a thump and felt a jolt, the elevator stopped suddenly.

"Oh my god…this can't be happening," Haley said to herself, looking over at the man she saw him breathing deeply. "Are you ok?" She asked him, he looked at her and nodded. However Haley realised he wasn't, "Lean your head back, and breathe deeply," She instructed and watched him do so, she saw his breathing become steadier.

"There's a button that you can use to call for help, it's at the bottom of the panel," The man said, speaking to her for the first time. Doing as he said she found out that security had already called an engineer and he was on his way. The security guard gave no time on when they would be out though.

Looking over at him she saw the fear in his eyes, "It's going to be ok…just breathe…in and out…that's it," she looked into his blue eyes and smiled, she got that funny feeling she had when her father mentioned the name Nathan Scott. "I once heard that it better to keep your mind off the situation…Don't look at me like that…I know we can't exactly stop thinking about the situation we're in, but until the engineer gets us out we are stuck together," she said, this time she slid down the wall and sat down onto the floor. "This is so not going to look good with the boss is it…I'm new here…not to the planet, here to this job…I've been on this planet for 22 years…that's how old I am..22…how long have you been working here" she said rambling on; she had to stop hanging out with her dad.

"From the start" he said "I was here when the company first started" he said to the girl in front of him.

"Wow, so you've heard of Nathan Scott then… he's a nice man right?…Deb says that he can be cruel sometimes, but he's fair with work…so he'll forgive me for being late on my first day, right?…I mean I was in the building and it's not my fault that the elevator broke," Haley said mostly to herself.

"Yeah…he's a fair man. This company means a lot to him, but I'm sure he will be fine with you being late. After all he's kind of stuck somewhere now anyway," He said, smiling at her, she looked at him and again that feeling came back, she knew she shouldn't get close to anyone but he was so cute and when he looked at her she couldn't help but smile back.

"So…What do you do at this company," She asked, hoping to put an end to the uncomfortable atmosphere in the elevator. Besides that, it would be nice to have a mortal friend. Someone that she could confide in when she got sick of confiding in Brooke - not that she could tell him the real reason she was here - looking over at him again as he began to talk.

"Nothing much just stuff," He said, not going into to detail.

"What kind of stuff…like data stuff or advertising stuff….Stuff can mean anything," She said, trying to pry more out of him.

"I generally just help run the day to day business of the company," He replied.

"So your in management then," She said, the man had to laugh at her innocence, he'd never met a woman so naive before and if he was being honest with himself he had to admit that it was nice to meet someone who wasn't touched by life's hardship.

"Yeah, something like that," He chuckled.

"So you want to play a game?" He heard her say after about a 15 minute silence.

"What are we five?" He said, looking up at her. They were both now seated with their backs against the wall, she had been clicking her heels together and now the boredom had set in, looking over at the man beside her she thought a game would be fun.

"Come on, it looks like we won't be getting out of here soon, so why not do something to pass the time. I'll even let you pick the game," She looked at him and saw him smile with a glint of wickedness in his eyes.

"Ok it's a game of secret, for every secret you tell me I will tell you one, it has to be similar so for example you tell me your afraid of the dark I have to tell you a secret about the dark. Like I never kissed a girl in the dark, no names have to be given unless you want, so if you want to say I had fantasies about my old boss you don't need to tell me his name ok?" He said, but not before noticing when he said fantasies she blushed, which he had to smile at.

"Ok, you start and I'll follow," She said, hoping that it wouldn't get too personal.

"Ok...I've never kissed a girl in the dark before," He said, laughing at her accusing face.

"That's so unfair! You can't use that one; you used it for an example!" She said. He just shrugged "Fine. I've never been kissed at all," She said, he looked at her shocked. She was beautiful, how could she have never been kissed before? He felt like he should just grab her then and kiss her just to let her know what she'd been missing.

"Shut up," He said, "That's a lie...how could you not have been kissed, didn't you play spin the bottle when you were in high school?" He said, glancing back at her.

"Spin the what?" She asked, "No I never played spin the bottle, I wasn't what you would call popular in high school," She said, looking down at her feet. She hated lying even in the worst of times, and now she had to lie to this nice man in front of her.

"OK...so the next secret is I kissed one of my mum's friends in college," He looked at her smiling, "Well actually she kissed me, it was kind of funny when I think about it now, but back then it was kind of scary," He laughed.

"Can I use my I've never been kissed secret again?" She looked at him, and saw him shaking his head, "Ok...well when I was in high school I saw my mum kiss a man." He looked at her.

"That was rubbish, so you saw your mum kiss a man, that's not a good secret," He said.

"She was married to my father at the time and the man wasn't my father." She said her eyes filling with tears.

"Oh, well that's a good secret," He said, "Did you tell your dad?" He asked softly.

"No... and neither did she, she just left one day leaving me and my father behind," She said, he placed his arm around her, hugging her tightly against him after all he knew what it was like to have a parent just leave one day.

"My father left my mother and me when I was little, that's not the secret, the secret is that when he left he took me aside and gave me a letter and to this day I still haven't read it," He said.

"Why?" She found herself asking.

"I guess I felt like I was betraying my mother if I read it. When he left my uncle stepped up and he was great, I kind of forgot about it, and then when my uncle died I didn't want to disrespect him by finding out what my father had to say for himself. Sometimes I think about him and what he's up to but my uncle meant so much to my mum and me that sometimes I just want to forget about him," He said

"Yeah me too, but then sometimes you just get reminders of the people you've lost. Like a song or sometimes when I'm walking around I think I see her face you know?" She asked, "It's stupid really."

"Okay, so the slit my wrist secrets are out of the way, let's get on to the good stuff," He said trying to lighten the mood.

"Okay," She laughed.

"So, I'm guessing since you've never been kissed then you've never had sex?" He asked.

"Not that it's any of your business, but I want to wait till I'm in love before I have you know," She said blushing.

"Hey, I respect that, but what if you never fall in love what then?" He questioned.

"Who says I won't fall in love, everyone will fall in love," She said in a tone of voice that left no room for argument.

"I won't fall in love, love is stupid, love doesn't last," He said.

"Well have you ever given it a chance? Because if you have then you would know that love does last and it's not stupid. If you really truly loved something then you would know that yes it may hurt, but the reward that you get from loving someone makes up for it all," She said.

"I'd like to see that," He said.

"You will because I'll show you," She said.

"What makes you think that love is so great, if you've never been in love before," He said.

"Because if I don't believe in it then what is the point of life?" She asked.

Before he could respond the elevator jolted and began to move, breathing a sigh of relief, Haley looked over at the man and realized Nathan Scott may not be the only one who has to succumb to love. Reaching her floor she noticed the man get off too. She went to Deb's office and knocked on the door, after a few seconds she heard Deb telling her to come in. She liked Deb, she reminded her of her mother-before the whole falling in love with a mortal. She liked the fact that Deb was straight up about everything, she made Haley feel right at home the minute they met this morning.

"I'm so sorry, I took the elevator and it got broke down and so I was stuck in there with this guy who was cute, but that's not what you want to hear. So we were talking, but he never told me his name," She heard the door click behind her signalling someone had entered, but she didn't turn around, "So we were telling each other secrets and then he says that he never wants to fall in love, and well how can anyone not want to fall in love? It's stupid, no what is stupid does that guy...not want to fall in love...then he said I didn't know what love was like because I've never been in love. Well you don't need to have been in love to know that it is the greatest feeling in the world," She said, "He made me feel so stupid."

"Well I never wanted to make you feel stupid," She heard from behind her, she turned and saw the man that was just with her not all but thirty seconds ago in the broken elevator. "Deb we really need to fix the elevators in the building," He said looking behind her at an amused Deb.

"Haley I would like to introduce you to your new boss, Nathan Scott, Nathan this is your new assistant Haley James," She said, watching Haley blush, "But you have already met according to Haley," She said.

"Nice to meet you, Haley," He said, holding his hand out to be shaken, "We are going to get along very well," He said smirking.

"Nice to meet you too, Nathan Scott," She said, shaking his hand.

Hi, so this is the next update to this story I hope you like the way in which Nathan and Haley met. Please read and review and a huge thank you to everyone who wanted to be my Beta-Reader and a thank you to D.J Alberta.