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Disclaimer: All OTH characters belong to the creator of the show, Mark Schwahn except for the ones I wrote.
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{FLASHBACK}
"Haley we're on our way" Oliver holds tightly onto Haley.
Haley tries to breath but her body is telling her that it wants to shut down. The smell of blood fills the room. Her vision goes blurred. She sees this faint figure coming towards her but it fades out as her blood pressure crashes.
"Do you see it, Haley? The light is guiding us, we're almost there, we're almost happy."
{FLASHBACK ENDS}
Haley lies on the ground, surrounded with a pool of blood. Her eyes keep fluttering, trying to hang on but her nervous system is gradually telling her brain to shut down. Standing on Haley's front porch, Nathan looks into the living room to see if anyone was home but it was dark as he squints to see if he can make out anything. He was planning on giving up, seeing as it was obvious to him that Haley wasn't home. But he thought to himself, that he had to talk to her and clear their misunderstandings. After all, he owns her that even though they aren't friends. So he looks into the glass door again, squinting as hard as he can, he sees a faint figure lying on the floor. He doubts for a second but then he looks at the other side of the wall and sees a humanly shadow, reflected from the floor. In a heartbeat, he grabs the shovel, which was resting on the corner of the wooden banister. With tremendous force, he breaks the glass. His heart stops when he sees Haley lying on the ground, bleeding for her life.
"Oh my god, Haley!" Nathan quickly runs to her aid. He kneels down to her and put his arms around her to lift her head up and rests her head on his lap.
Haley breathes uncertainly.
"Stay with me, stay with me." Nathan gently lays her back on the ground as he went to the kitchen and grabs towels. He runs back to her and puts pressure on several wounds on her abdominal. As he's applying pressure, the blood continues to rise and soaks the towel and his hands. Nathan becomes distraught; he grabs his phone and dials 911. While still putting pressure on the lacerations, Nathan uses his other hand and lifts Haley up to face him. Frustration begins to take over and suddenly; he feels fear rush through him. He's afraid; he isn't ready to lose her.
"Haley – Haley – Haley – wake up, wake up! The ambulance is coming! Hold on" Nathan tries not to sound like he's breaking apart but clearly his attempt failed.
"You're here" Haley's voice sounds scratchy.
"I'm here, I'm here, and I'm not ready to let you go. We hate each other remember. How am I going to go on with my life without arguing with you everyday?"
Haley halfheartedly smiles. "Yeah, I hate you…"
Nathan smiles back but inside he's tearing apart. "I hate you too so you better not leave me. Because you own me a fight, Haley."
Haley closes her eyes and whispers. "Shhh, do you hear the waves?"
"Haley, open your eyes!" Nathan's voice breaks as he looks at his bloody hands. He grips Haley and brings her closer. Her head on his shoulders while his arms wraps around her waist as he breathes heavily.
"I hate you for putting me through this, Haley. Stay with me, please, stay with me!" Haley smiles and closes her eyes and rapidly Nathan couldn't feel her heartbeat.
***
{FLASHBACK}
"Can't believe we are going to have a baby together," Lucas whispers in Brooke's ear while clinching onto her waist.
Brooke chuckles. "Lucas, it's a boy."
Lucas looks speechless as he turns Brooke around to face him. He looks at her, the kind of look that makes you weak in the knees and smiles. "I want you to know that I'm lucky to have you and most importantly, I promise you that I'm going to be the best father that I can be."
Brooke tries to hold in her tears of happiness. "I'm lucky to have you too and I know you're going to be a great father."
"I love you Brooke Davis."
"I love you too Lucas Scott."
{FLASHBACK ENDS}
Brooke stands at the doorway of the nursery room she had set up for Jayden. No one knows about the room because she locks it whenever guests come over. The room was filled with baby blue colors with hand-quilted letters of her son's name on the wall. The smell of Johnson-Johnson fills the room. It tingles her spine and a few tears skid down her cheeks. Lucas approaches her from behind.
"You never told me you build a nursery" Lucas's eyes wander around the room, with a hint of sadness glimmering through.
"Well, now you know." Brooke wipes away her tears.
"It's a beautiful nursery."
Brooke sighs. "Yeah well it doesn't matter now."
"It does matter. This is our son." Lucas said meaningfully, grabs Brooke's hand.
"I can't do this right now." Brooke lets go of Lucas's hand.
Lucas seems confused. "Do what?"
"This. You and me. Please go. Peyton is waiting."
***
Clay returns, seeing Taylor in the kitchen cooking. But when she turns around, he sees Haley. She was smiling at him, telling him that dinner was ready and most importantly, he sees that engagement ring he placed on her finger, shining at him. Clay's heart becomes warm until Taylor spoke and the dream finally dies, noting to him that it was only his imagination.
"Hey, dinner will be ready in five minutes"
"Why are you doing this?" Clay asks, frustrated.
Taylor ignores the question. "I'm just cooking dinner."
"No, you are not just cooking dinner. You need to get out now!" Clay runs to Taylor and grabs the spatula out of her hand, turns off the stove and directs her out the kitchen.
"Dinner is almost done. What are you doing?" Taylor laughs, as she grabs the spatula back.
"I don't want dinner and most importantly, I don't want you here." Clay looks at Taylor sternly.
"Why? Because Nathan walked in on us when we were about to---"
Clay interrupts and corrects her. "No, no, nothing was going to happen with us whether he walked in or not."
Taylor chortles. "Hmm, not the way I see it. You were scared like you've seen a ghost or something. You weren't doing anything wrong, Clay. You and Haley aren't together."
Clay breathes out and scratches his head. "Yeah but I don't want to ever live, not knowing what could've been with…Haley."
***
The paramedics finally came, and Nathan begins to panic. Two strong looking guys pick up Haley and put her on the gurney. They begin to put a lot of pressure on Haley's wounds while another gentleman tells Nathan to release his hand from Haley's.
"Please, sir, step back, we have to resuscitate her." The paramedic warns.
"Resuscitate? Is something wrong with her heart? It stopped, didn't it? Please you have to save her." Nathan grows worrisome.
"She went into cardiac arrest and she lost a lot of blood, we have to transfuse her."
Nathan nods.
"Who's her emergency contact person?"
"I don't know." Nathan grows frustrated.
"We can't transfuse her until we get a hold of that person. Is she a transplant patient?"
Nathan exhales. "No. I don't think so. I don't know."
"Well we can't transfuse her until we have that information."
Nathan grows angry. "What? No. You have to transfuse her right now. You said it that she lost a lot of blood, if you don't transfuse her, she will die!"
"Sorry sir but we have to get her medical profile to find out about her medical history before we can proceed from here."
"No, no! You will listen to me right now and transfuse her!" Nathan comes face to face with the paramedic.
"Sir, I know this is a difficult time for you but you need to calm down."
"Don't tell me to calm down. Transfuse her!" Nathan shouts.
"What is your relationship to this girl?" The paramedic asks, holding a clipboard to jot down information.
Nathan clinches his fists. "This is not important right now."
"Look, she will get the transfusion, but right now, you will just need to corporate with us and tell us what we need to know. We promise you we won't let her die."
Nathan holds in his anger. "Fine."
"So what is your relationship to this girl?"
Nathan thinks to himself and finally gives an answer. "I'm her friend."
While Nathan and paramedic were talking, another paramedic comes and approaches the two. "We got her emergency contact person. His name is Clayton Evans."
The paramedic looks at Nathan and asks. "Do you know this gentlemen name Clayton Evans?"
"Yeah-h-h…I do…" Nathan responds shakily.
"Good, we need you to contact him. Let him know what happen and he has to be at the hospital right away."
***
Lucas comes home but he didn't want to go inside and face Peyton. He sits on the bench overlooking a beautiful view of the dock.
"Why didn't you tell me you and Brooke was going to have a baby?" Peyton stands on the little stairway.
Lucas a bit startle turns around. "I was going to but she told me that the baby was gone before ---"
"So you weren't planning on telling me about it? At all?" Peyton interrupts, beginning to feel upset.
"What do you want me to say to you, Peyton?" Lucas crosses his arm.
"How about telling me the truth."
Lucas groans. "Well too late for that."
"What does that suppose to mean?" Peyton gets in Lucas's face.
"You think this was all very easy for me? I made a mistake that costs my son's life." Lucas clinches on the wooden rail.
"I was part of that mistake too Lucas. So does this mean that we are a mistake? Is this what you're saying?" Peyton's forehead cringes in distress.
"I don't know what to think." Lucas exhales.
"I was a mistake in your eyes, wasn't I?" Peyton goes up to her fiancée with tears in her eyes.
Lucas takes a look at her, gently wipes her tears away. Peyton holds onto her fiancée's arms and asks one more time. "Answer me, Lucas."
Lucas lets go of Peyton and walks away, letting her stand there without an answer.
"Lucas" Peyton softly cries.
"I'm going out for a walk. Don't wait up."
Peyton's tears come streaming, as she already knows the answer.
***
Nathan stands outside of the emergency room, staring at the red light, hoping it will go off so the doctor will come out and tell him that everything will be okay. But he has been waiting for an hour and no nurses or any medical personnel comes out and greets him yet. He stares at the ground, and all of a sudden, he hears footsteps bouncing off the wall, resonating through his ears. He looks up and there stands Clay with an absolutely anxious and upset face.
"Is Haley alright?" Clay asks, standing face to face with Nathan.
"I don't know. She's in the operating room right now – I haven't heard anything." Nathan tries to remain calm.
"What the hell happened?" Clay begins to get aggressive.
A puzzled look came across Nathan's face. "What?!"
"I'm sorry let me make that clearer, what the fuck happened?"
Nathan lets out an irritated sneer. "You better tell your boyfriend to step back before this is going to get ugly!"
Taylor pulls Clay's arm, implying him to step back but Clay yanks away his arm and steps in front of Nathan's nose. "What happened, Nate? Hm. Tell me. Why is Haley in the operating room?"
"Funny you ask, Clay. You should ask yourself that question. How about that? What happened, Clay? You said you love Haley and you turn around sleeping with her sister?"
Clay without thinking, feeling absolute rage, throws a punch across Nathan's face. Taylor comes running and holds Clay back as Lucas, Brooke, Julian and Peyton came running and witnessed the whole thing.
"Nate, where's Haley?" Brooke asks, trying to hold it together but you can hear the crack in her voice.
"Why don't you asks him? He's the emergency contact person." Nathan rubs his jaw.
"Clay?" Peyton asks, wondering what happened.
An embarrassed Clay replies, "I don't know."
"That's right. While Haley gets stabbed, you were ready to pounce on her sister." Nathan distinctly said with no holding back.
Clay's eyes widen while everyone's jaw drops, directing their attention to Taylor.
Brooke breaks down. "What are you saying, Nathan?"
"Haley has multiple wounds on her abdominal. The police suspect that someone stabbed her a couple of times in the stomach. She lost a lot of blood, She went into cardiac arrest and now they are trying to revive her." Nathan said as he wipes away the blood on his jaw.
Everyone couldn't believe what they just heard happened. They all took a moment to absorb that information. The red light finally turns off. The doctors come out.
"I'm sorry to interrupt but who goes by the name, Nathan Scott?"
"I do. I'm Nathan. How is she?"
"Haley got stabbed ten times. She lost a lot of blood. We transfused her but her cardiovascular system isn't holding up. Her heart was left alone for too long. I'm sorry to say this but everyone should get ready for what's to come because I'm not certain how long she can hold on for."
Peyton and Brooke let out a frightening scream as Julian and Lucas hold them together. Clay's world goes blurred, Taylor left stunned. Nathan falls down on his knees.
The doctor gives the gang a few minutes to cope with the news. After five minutes of silent, the doctor asks, "Nathan do you want to come in and say something to Haley?"
Nathan gets on his feet and looks a bit speechless.
"Even though she's sedated, she's still breathing - slow but breathing nonetheless. She could still hear you."
Clay looks at Nathan and walks away, depressed. Nathan sees that Clay walks away and calls him back.
"Clay!"
Clay turns back.
"I think the person who Haley puts down as emergency contact person should go see her."
"Thanks" Clay murmurs as the doctor leads Clay into the ER.
Seeing that Clay went in, Nathan walks away to a window. Rest both of his elbows, clasps his hands and looks up into the sky. "Haley, I hate you, do you hear me?" Nathan whispers. "You owe me a fight so don't leave me yet."
***
Clay walks into several corridors of the emergency room. Finally the doctor stops, and Clay sees Haley resting in the middle of the operating room. Clay feels sick to his stomach and this agony pain in his heart. It tears him up inside, witnessing what's going on.
"There's Haley" The doctor pushes Clay towards her.
Clay quickly grabs Haley's hand and holds onto it tightly while his other hand, he gently brushes her hair. He then, reaches over and kisses her forehead.
"Haley, Haley, sweetie, I never told you this. But when we were little, do you remember how we use to play prince and princess? And you were Cinderella and I had to put that gooey, plastic see through shoe on you when midnight hits. And even though I know you were upset that your father burned it, I secretly kept the other shoe in Snow White's music box. So listen…what I'm saying is that you must wake up because the glass slipper is waiting for you. I'm not ready to let you go yet, Haley…I still have a lot to tell you so stay with me please, please….I don't know what I'll do without you"