A/N: So, my computer is fixed, but you still won't get an update from Changes or I Need You Now this week. I still need to plan those. But, I do have some stories that I have planned, but I need people to vote on their favorites. They will be listed at the bottom of this chapter.

Chapter Thirteen: Relinquish

A week later and Sam was still in the hospital. Brooke had spent her entire time there with her daughter. Sam had convinced Aria to go to school, but every day after it, Aria was by her side. Haley, Nathan and even Jamie visited Sam. Peyton had brought Sawyer, but Lucas never stopped by.

Currently Sam was upright in bed looking out the window. She had regained any memory of the attack and everyone thought it was a good thing. Brooke had gone home to shower.

Sam looked towards the doorway when someone knocked on the door. She smiled when it was Peyton.

"What are you doing here?"

"Can't a gal visit and say hi to her niece?"

"Haley would, you wouldn't. What do you want to talk about as long as it's not about me?"

Peyton sat in the chair that Brooke had occupied before she left.

"You look better. Your bruises are starting to fade."

Sam looks at Peyton sadly.

"Yeah, but I still have SLUT written into my skin."

Peyton grabs Sam's eyes when she sees the tears.

"That can be fixed. You just need surgery to fix it like a skin graft or something."

"I'm really glad you didn't become a doctor. Your feelings are written all over your face."

"Peyton, you're not going to leave me right? You're not going to go back to New York. I have all these people here for me, but I called you."

"I'm not going anywhere. Sawyer is going to stay with me. Lucas is going back to New York."

Sam washes the emotions fly on Peyton's face. She looks at her sadly.

"I'm trying to determine whether or not you feel saddened by it."

"I'm not really sure to tell you the truth. A part of me loved Lucas, but I think I was confused on the type of love. I think I loved him as a friend and not as a boyfriend or a husband."

"Not like you love Brooke," Sam says softly.

Peyton looks at Sam in surprise.

"You and Brooke both don't hide it very well."

"It's complicated, Samantha."

"Everything to adults is complicated, but in reality it's easy. You love Brooke and she loves you. What is stopping you two to be together?"

"Nothing."

Sam and Peyton look towards the door to where Brooke was leaning against the wall. She had snuck in when Sam and Peyton were talking.

"There really isn't anything stopping us from being together except maybe me," Brooke admits as she walks closer into the room. "But Peyton and I will talk about it later," Peyton nods her head and Brooke continues. "I am now freshly showered and I ate some food so now there is nothing stopping me from staying here again."

Sam smiles slightly at Brooke.

"Good because you were starting to stink."

Peyton holds in her laugh and Brooke's mouth opens wide.

"Samantha! I can't believe you would say something like that."

Sam shrugs her shoulder.

"It's true."

-Complications of the Heart-

"Aria, where have you been?"

Aria looks away from her locker to the person that had approached her. Aria smiled. It was one of her teammates from the basketball team, Anna Dunbar.

"I've been visiting the hospital with my free time."

Anna nods her head in understanding. Anna knew that Aria had someone special in the hospital and word around school was that it was Samantha Walker.

"Is she your girl?"

Aria raises an eyebrow at Anna as she closes her locker.

"Yeah, she is."

Anna looks around the hallway and then whispers next to Aria.

"Is it Sam Walker?"

When Anna pulls away, Aria nods her head.

"Yeah, but you can't tell anybody. This is a private matter and she's okay for now."

"Are you sure?"

Aria nods her head.

"I'm here if you need me," Anna says before walking off.

Aria smiles and sees Haley walking down the hallway.

"Have you seen Sam lately?"

Haley smiles at Aria.

"Yeah, I have. She's doing great. She's still bruised, but at least she is sitting up in bed now, so that's a plus."

"That's good. I'm going to go see her afterschool and help her with her homework."

Haley and Aria walked into Haley's classroom.

"It's good that Sam has someone like you in her life. She needs that right now."

"She needs everyone right now," Aria amends.

-Complications of the Heart-

"Are you sure you want to do this Mr. Scott? I mean once you sign these papers and they are filed that's it, there is no going back."

Lucas looked at his lawyer and nods his head.

"I'm just not the man I used to be. I'm worse. Maybe if I let go I can get back to the man that I one was."

"Lucas, I advise you to rethink your decision. As your lawyer that's part of my job."

"I know Stan, but I've got to do it. Everything has been a lie and I just need to do this," Lucas says as he glances to the floor where his daughter was playing quietly.

Stan takes a breath.

"If this is how you feel."

"It is."

-Complications of the Heart-

Sam sat alone in her room while Brooke had gotten an important phone call and Peyton had to go home because Lucas needed to speak with her.

"How is the pain today Samantha?" Doctor Green asks as he steps into the room.

"Like a five. It still hurts, but I think it involves my ribs mostly."

Doctor Green writes something on his paperwork and clicks his pen off.

"Okay, that's good. It means that things are healing," Doctor Green smiles at Sam. "We must be doing something right then."

"Hey Doc, do you know when I can get out of here, I hate hospitals?"

"A lot of us do. If things keep going well you'll be out of her by the end of the week. Then we can talk about another surgery to fix what's on your chest."

"Slut, you can say it."

"Yeah, that's what I mean."

Doctor Green excused himself from the room when his beeper went off. Sam glanced at the bedside table where a notebook and a pen lay on it. She hesitated for a moment before grabbing the notebook, flipping to a clean page and started writing. She needed to get her mind off of things until Brooke or Peyton came back.

-Complications of the Heart-

Peyton looked at the paper in her hand and then up to Lucas with tears in her eyes.

"I don't understand why would you do this?"

Lucas took set the bags he had in his hands down on the couch.

"Because, it's what has to happen. I maybe an ass because of this, but I don't care. I can't do this with you Peyton. I can't do that."

"Oh, but you can do this with Lindsey?"

"Yeah I can because unlike you, she loves me. Our baby was produced out of love not some experiment."

"You are such an ass. Sawyer isn't an experiment as you so kindly put it. Let it be known that today, Lucas Eugene Scott, became his father."

"Think what you want. At least this way, you're free of me."

Lucas grabbed his bags and started heading for the door.

"Aren't you going to say goodbye to your daughter Lucas?" Peyton cried from the couch.

"I already did."

Lucas walked out the door and Peyton continued to stare at the piece of paper in her hands.

Petition to Voluntarily Relinquish Parental Rights

A/N: You can either vote from my profile or tell me in my review…Pick your two favorite…

A-Being 15 years old and the daughter of big time producer and director Julian Baker and Hollywood's biggest actress Alex Dupre, Samantha Baker had never had an easy life always being in the spotlight. Can a small town of Tree Hill, North Carolina change everything for a girl who thought she had nothing? Couples: Brooke/Julian, Alex/Chase.

B-The Baker Twins, Jude and Davis were always curious people unlike their older sister Samantha. So when Brooke and Julian separated they asked why. When their parents started dating other people, they asked why…When they saw their sister with cuts on her wrists or saw their sister snorting white powder, it was only logical that they asked why. Couples: Brooke/Julian, Brooke/OC, Julian/OC

C-23 year old Brooke Davis had it all. She was rich, powerful and single…until she fell asleep. When she woke up she was 39, married, running a small town Café and the big shocker, a mother to a 15 year old, Samantha Baker and 10 year old, Jude Baker. Couple: Brooke/Julian.

D-Julian Baker first met Brooke almost 6 years ago. She was 17 and he was 20. It had been love at first sight, but like most summer romances, they come to an inevitable end. He thought he'd never see her again, until a job put him in her hometown. When he saw her again he expected the spark between them to still exist. What he didn't expect to see was the small little girl holding onto her legs and calling her mommy. Couple: Brooke/Julian.

E-Sam was happy with her family. She had adopted Aunts and Uncles and a couple of cousins plus two parents that loved her. A classroom assignment makes Sam's reality hit her hard with just two words. Family Tree. Sam already knew who her birth mother was, but not once had she thought about her birth father, until now. When she learns the truth, she realizes she's a little closer to her huge adopted family then she believed. Couple: Brooke/Julian.