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 Six: The Climb

I can almost see it, that dream I'm dreaming

But there's a voice inside my head saying

You'll never reach it, every step I'm taking

Every move I make feels, lost with no direction

My faith is shaking, but I gotta keep trying

Gotta keep my head held high

-The Climb by Miley Cyrus

Below the clouds, in the small quiet town of Tree Hill, Haley had finished her last assignment of the day. Reading over the letter again, she smiled to herself thinking over her first day as an employee of Scott Enterprises. Although the day didn't start how she would have wanted it to, she found herself enjoying the job more as the day went on. She had met other employees of the company and tried her best to act professional around Nathan. However that seemed to be impossible as whenever they were alone together or even with other employees, he would give her looks and smirks letting her know that he was thinking about their earlier encounter in the elevator.

Speak of the Devil.

She saw him walk down the corridor with some folders tucked underneath his arm talking to a pretty blond. She flinched when she saw him laugh at something the girl said. Haley scolded herself for flinching. This is what she wanted for him, to fall in love. But why did it feel so wrong? Seeing him come closer, she made herself look like she was doing work. She didn't want to be fired for not pulling her weight. After seeing Nathan at work, she realised this company meant the world to him.

"Haley" she heard from above her, "I would like you to meet the new Creative Director for the magazine, Peyton Sawyer. She will be using my office as her own until I can find a suitable office for her okay?" She looked up to see the blonde holding out her hand to be shaken. "Peyton this is Haley, the girl who I was telling you about. Haley and I have no secrets from each other do we Haley? So feel free to ask her for whatever you need" he smirked at Haley seeing her blush.

"It's nice to meet you Haley" she heard Peyton speak for the first time.

Haley looked between Nathan and Peyton and realised she had found the perfect match for Nathan. With one look at Peyton you could tell she was definitely good at her job, which she knew was something that Nathan would like. Although Haley felt quite intimidated by Peyton she smiled, shook her hand and said hello. Watching them walk into their now shared office, Haley felt a pang in her heart when she saw Nathan hold the door open for Peyton. But before he went inside, he turned towards Haley, gave her a smirk and a wink, and reminded her that it was getting late and that she should head off home as she had an early start tomorrow.

Getting up from her desk, she turned her computer off and put her things away before placing the letter she read earlier in an envelope and taking the rest of Nathan's mail to the mail room for it to be posted the next morning. Following the route she took earlier, she made it to the mail room and placed Nathan's mail into the cubby hole. Walking out of the building she reached into her purse for her phone to ring a taxi. However finding the purse empty, she remembered she had taken it out earlier to ring Brooke to tell her she would be late in getting home. Going back upstairs, she walked up the stairs foregoing the elevator, not wanting to deal with the consequences of another incident. Reaching her destination, she saw her phone at the other end of her desk. She leaned over to reach the phone but accidentally knocked the phone underneath the desk. Begrudgingly, she bent down under the table to grab it but stopped when she heard Nathan's office door open. Not wanting to be seen, she hid underneath the table.

"So the meeting with suitable photographers is tomorrow at four, we also have a meeting with Andy Hardgrove at 12 about the use of advertisements in the magazine. After all, he sells all the legitimate car memorabilia" she heard Peyton say. "You know it's not that late. I know this great restaurant around the corner that makes the best steaks, if you fancy it"

Haley held her breath waiting for Nathan's reaction, looking up from underneath the desk she saw the hope in Peyton's eyes but she couldn't quite grasp the feeling that she got when she looked at Nathan.

After a couple of seconds Nathan answered "You know what I'm really tired, I think I'm going to head off home and sleep, try and psych myself up for tomorrow. You should do the same".

Haley noticed the flick of disappointment in Peyton's eyes but as soon as it appeared it had gone and was replaced with a cool and collect Peyton.

"Oh…okay, yeah I'm going to go prepare myself for tomorrow" Peyton said before walking away, her heels clicking as she went.

Nathan turned around, switched the office lights off and set off towards the stairs. But before he could go any further he heard someone groan behind him. Turning around, he went back and switched the lights back on. It was then that he saw Haley on the floor behind her desk, holding the back of her head in her hands.

"Well…it seems you can't stay away from me can you Haley James" he smirked as another groan left her lips. "Come on…give me your hand…I'll help you up" he said holding out his hand for her. She grabbed hold and waited until he lifted her onto her feet before looking him in the eye.

"I left my phone here so I couldn't ring a taxi and when I came back up to get it, it fell off the table and so I went to pick it up and then you and Peyton came out and I didn't want tot disturb you so I just stayed down there and as I was getting back up I hit my head and now here we are…so…yea" she quickly rushed out trying to gather her breath back.

He looked her up and down before speaking again, "Come on, I'll take you home" he said. And without another word he was leading her outside to his car.

"You don't have to do this, you know, I'll just call a cab…it shouldn't be too long" she said fumbling with her phone before he grabbed it out of her hand.

"No…I'll take you home, and that is final" he opened the door to his car for her before he walked around to the driver's side.

Getting into his car he saw her take her hair down, it had been tied loosely into a bun all day. Watching her hair cascade down her face he finally took in her beauty. Now he wasn't the type of person to call a woman beautiful before but he knew as soon as Brooke mentioned the name Haley James that she would be different. Realising what he was thinking, he soon started thinking of an excuse as to why he was feeling and thinking this way. The way she was talking about love this morning in the elevator made him look at her twice. He had to admit he had looked her up and down when she asked him to hold the elevator. He was a guy after all.

He pulled out of his thoughts once he heard Haley speak: "So did you enjoy your day at work" she asked, looking over, watching him concentrate on something then scrunching up at his distaste.

He looked over at her "Are you seriously asking me that?" Seeing her flinch he knew it sounded harsher then he wanted.

"Sorry I just don't like awkward silences, I'll just be quiet from now on" she said before turning her head so she was looking out of the window.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean for it to sound so harsh, I'm sorry" he said with sincerity. God what was she doing to him? He had only said I'm sorry twice in his whole life, both times to his mum. Once was after a big argument concerning two stolen cookies when he was seven and the other time was when he was 17 after his Uncle Keith died. That day, he went home and said to his mum I'm sorry he didn't make it. He saw his mum break down after that and he vowed he wouldn't apologise for anything ever again. He had stuck to that till day Haley came into his life.

"You take the next left" she told him breaking through his thoughts. He turned onto a long stretch road, trying to keep his concentration on the road. He had had enough of the tension. "Okay, if you don't start talking in the next 30 seconds, you're fired" he shot out taking a glance at her reaction.

"Well what do you want me to talk about, I don't want to disrespect you" she glared at him

"Anything as long as you're talking, and you're right awkward silences are not nice" he quietly said.

"Did you know that 8 million people send themselves valentines?"

He looked at her then and laughed. "Only you would know something like that" he said between laughs. She looked at him and joined in.

"Can I ask you something, what is your obsession with love? You've never been in love so why are you so bothered about everyone else being in love?"

"I don't know why, my mum left my dad a couple of years ago. They had been married for a long time. Everyone thought that they would be together forever, including my dad. After she left, I asked my dad if he would ever fall in love again and he said yes, because even though the pain of losing someone is hard, being in love is the greatest feeling you'll ever feel. I looked him in the eye and I knew he was telling the truth. So I think everyone should fall in love, even people that have built walls around their hearts like you" she said.

"Excuse me, my heart has not got walls around it, okay. If anyone has walls around their hearts, it's you. After all, you've never even kissed anyone before".

"I've never kissed anyone because I've never been in love and it's not about letting people in, it's about the feeling I get when I meet someone. I haven't had it yet" she said even though she knew she was lying. After all, she got that feeling when she met him. "Besides you can talk, Peyton asked you to go for something to eat and you turned her down. Now what does that say about you" she said her voice getting louder the more the feeling got stronger.

"That I don't mix business with pleasure" his voice matching her tone.

"Not what I've heard" she mumbled.

"Excuse me, have you forgotten that I'm your boss and that you should not be talking to me this way. And even if I wasn't your boss you don't know me, you have no idea what I've been through. You've been living in a dream world, this is reality, okay, so grow up" he said turning his head fully toward her.

"Stop" she shouted.

"No, you can give out advice; well here is some for you –"

"No, Nathan STOP!!!" she said pointing outside. He looked ahead and saw a car coming straight towards them. He swerved missing the other car but not before going over the side of a hill. The car went over and everything went black.

Thanks to all your reviews I am sorry for the lack of updates but I haven't been able to get on to a computer or the internet for quite a while and this is the first time but I have been writing so I have a few chapter that I will be able to upload once I have checked them and I am happy with it, but I want to say thanks to nathansgurl for her Beta-ing this chapter and thanks to D.J Alberta for her hard work on previous chapter. Please read and review and again I am so sorry.

Thank you,

Lauren