A/N: It's not 3,000 words, but hopefully I'll have time in the upcoming chapters to write it that long. I've just been sidetracked and I am also co-writing a new story with peyton13sawyer. I encourage you all to please check it out...Satan's Hitchhiker and it's under this profile…

sawyer . james16 (there are no spaces)

Chapter Nine: Blood

Nathan was sleeping soundly next to his wife when his phone rang. Haley groans and Nathan kisses her forehead.

"I'll get it."

"M'kay," Haley murmurs before falling quickly back to sleep.

Nathan turns in bed and picks up the receiver.

"Hello?" Nathan answers groggily.

"It hurts Nathan."

"Sam, is that you? Are you okay?"

Nathan felt the bed shift next to him. Haley sat up once Sam's name was mentioned.

"…so much blood…"

"Sam, stay with me Sam. I need you to stay on the phone. Can you do that?"

"I don't know…"

Nathan could tell that Sam's breathing was becoming ragged.

"SAM!"

The call was disconnected and Nathan stood up from the bed.

"Nathan, what's happening?"

Nathan turned to his wife with a scared look on his face.

"I need you to call Brooke and tell her Sam is in trouble. I'm going to go to Sam's house and see what the hell is going on."

"Nathan, Rebecca hurts her I think."

Nathan grabs his sweatshirt and throws it over his head.

"I'll be careful, call Brooke."

"Nathan, I'll meet you at the hospital."

"What about Jamie?"

"I'll call Mia, maybe she can stay with him."

Nathan nods his head and runs out of the room with his cell phone attached to his ear.

"This is Nathan Scott and I need an ambulance at…"

-Complications of the Heart-

Aria felt like she was on cloud nine. Samantha Walker was her girlfriend. The kisses were amazing. Aria truly felt like she could easily fall for this girl.

If her kisses are amazing I wonder what it would be like to…

Aria giggles at the thought.

The phone rings bringing Aria out of her happy thoughts.

"Hello?"

"Aria, it's me."

"What's up Uncle J?" Aria asks concerned.

"Stay away from Sam's house."

Aria instantly grew concerned.

"Why what's going on? Is Sam okay?"

"We just got a call from someone named Nathan. They asked for an ambulance. I am only telling you this because you seem close. We're still about ten minutes away from the scene. Go to the hospital."

"I'm on my way."

Aria ended her call, grabbed her keys and got into her car. She drove as fast as she could to the hospital.

-Complications of the Heart-

It didn't take Nathan long to get to Rebecca's. He quickly ran into the house and gasped at what he saw. Sam was lying on the ground with her phone in her hand. Her eyes were closed, but Nathan knew she was still breathing. Sam was lying in a pool of her own blood. Nathan kneeled down next to Sam lightly tapped her cheek. Not caring that her blood was getting on his clothes.

"Sam, wake up. You have to wake up."

Sam's eye fluttered open.

"Where's Rebecca?"

"Um…I don't know."

Nathan took of his sweatshirt and placed it on Sam's stomach. He applied pressure and Sam gasped in pain.

"It hurts Nathan."

"I know, but people are on their way here. You are going to be just fine Sam. Everything is going to be okay."

"Thank you for coming. I was scared."

Nathan looked at the girl he considered his niece.

"It will be okay Sam. Do you hear that? Do you hear the sirens? People are coming."

Sam smiled slightly before her eyes closed again.

"Sam!"

-Complications of the Heart-

Brooke was in panic mode now. Sam had left before sundown and now it was late and she had still not heard a word from Sam. She was pacing the room. When the phone rang, Brooke froze. Snapping out of it Brooke ran to the phone in a hurry.

"Hello?"

"Brooke, Sam called Nathan."

Brooke's eyebrows furrowed.

"Haley, what's going on? Why are you calling me? Why isn't it Sam?"

"She's hurt Brooke. You have to go the hospital now!"

Brooke dropped her phone and ran out the door.

"Brooke, are you there?"

-Complications of the Heart-

Nathan stepped aside while the paramedics tended to Sam. He couldn't believe what was going on. He had never seen so much blood.

"Slut is lying."

Nathan turned his head to see two police officers handcuffing Rebecca and dragging her out of the house. Nathan shook his head and continued to watch over the paramedics.

"We need to get her to the hospital."

"Let's get her on the stretcher."

Nathan stood frozen in his spot. Too many people he knew wounded up in the hospital.

"Sir, we have to go are you coming."

Nathan looks at the hand grasping his shoulder and nods his head. Nathan headed out of the house right after the Paramedics.

-Complications of the Heart-

Nathan was standing in the waiting room. He didn't know where else to go. Haley had called and told him that Brooke was on her way along with herself.

"NATHAN!"

Nathan turns and Brooke looks at him in shock. There was blood everywhere on Nathan's clothes.

"Whose blood is that?" Brooke asks as she stared into Nathan's eyes. "Nathan is that your blood?"

Nathan shakes his head.

"No, this is not happening. Where is she? Where the hell is my daughter?"

"She's in surgery Brooke. Come on and sit down."

Brooke steps away from Nathan and shakes her head.

"No, I can't sit down. This was my fault."

Brooke starts pacing around the waiting room and Nathan catches Haley out of the corner of his eye.

"Brooke, don't think that," Haley says when she reaches Nathan's side.

"Yes it is," Brooke says as she turns to her friends. "I had the chance to call the police, but I never did. I shouldn't have let Sam leave the house. I knew better, but I let her go anyway. If I was a good mom I wouldn't have waited to tell anybody. I would've had known to do something about it. I'm a failure."

Haley grasps Brooke's arms when she sees the tears start to fall down Brooke's face. Brooke continues ranting the whole way.

"Why does everybody that I love get taken away from me? Lucas took Peyton. Rebecca took Sam and Angie had to go back to her parents. I'm destined to be alone."

Nathan takes a seat and stares at his bloody hands. He knew he was never going to get the images out of his head.

Haley kneels down in front of Brooke.

"Who do you need me to call Brooke? Do you want me to call Peyton?"

Brooke nods her head.

"Why did Sam call Nate Haley? Am I not good enough? Does Sam not want me as a mother?"

"Oh sweetie, let me call Peyton. You just go to the bathroom and clean yourself up."

Brooke nods her head with a sniffle.

-Complications of the Heart-

Aria walks into the waiting room and spots Haley sitting on the chair talking on the phone.

"I know Peyton. Have Sawyer stay with Lucas, Brooke needs you right now….bye."

"How is she?"

Haley looks up and frowns.

"We don't know yet. You might as well go home Aria."

"I'm not leaving my girlfriend alone," Aria states adamantly.

Nathan coughs and looks away while Haley's eyes go wide. Aria rolls her eyes and sits down.

"Where is Brooke?"

"She's cleaning up."

"How bad was it?" Aria asks gently.

Haley and Nathan look away and Aria knew her answer.

It was bad.