Bleeding Love Chapter 15: How Do You Dream, an one tree hill fanfic

AN: Ok guys I'm sorry this update has taken so long. I have had a lot going on lately and to be honest I've had some writer's block. Finally this morning the words began to flow again. I guess it's from the hiatus or something. Who knows? Anyway I hope you enjoy this update. I made a slight adjustment to the storyline and I am proud to say ItalHun28 it's just for you. There are still a lot of neat things coming up for Nathan and Haley in this story so don't lose hope. I will bring on the fluff as soon as we get them past this last bump in the road over the attack. There have been a lot of great lines in Season 6 that I can't wait to use. And I do plan on bringing in the Sebby relationship just because Nathan's reaction to it was priceless. I think that will provide for some awesome comedy. Anyway please read and review. I enjoy them so very much. You all are a true inspiration to a writer. Just knowing that you're reading the words and like them is a huge help. I'd probably have writer's block permanently without them.

Chapter 15

How Do You Dream

I'm standing on a ledge
And I'm looking in your window
Exposing the outer edge
And the inner child in you

How do you dream?
How can you care?
Is there anybody in there?
How do you feel?
Are you aware?
When you lay your head to sleep at night
How do you dream?

The story remains untold
And your secrets are locked inside
Daily your heart grows colder
Are you feeling satisfied?

How do you dream?
How can you care?
Is there anybody in there?
How do you feel?
Are you aware?
When you lay your head to sleep at night
How do you breathe?
How can you live?
In a world made of make-believe?
How do you dream?

9 Ball

Nathan sat on the edge of the bed watching Haley sleep. He was supposed to wake her up every two hours as a precautionary measure due to her head injury. He hated waking her up. She was sleeping so peacefully, he couldn't help but smile.

"Hales?" he said next to her ear.

She put her arm across the bridge of her nose to cover her eyes "Hmmm"

"Baby can you wake up for me?"

"Hmmm"

"Come on baby. You need to take this Tylenol."

Haley slowly opened her eyes and saw Nathan sitting beside her with the most adoring look on his face that she had seen in a long time.

"What time is it?"

"About seven thirty. Here take this. It will help with the headache" he said as he handed her the two small capsules and a glass of water. After she had taken the pain reliever Nathan took the glass and sat it on the nightstand. He brought his hand over her swollen tummy and rubbed lightly. "How's my girl feeling?"

"Like ass" she said

Nathan frowned. It wasn't like Haley to not even try to cover up feeling bad. "Are you ok, Hales? God when I heard you telling Jamie to run…"

"I'm fine baby. We're fine" she said as she rubbed her hand across her stomach.

"Hales, I'm sorry I wasn't there. I'm so sorry that I couldn't stop this" he said as he continued massaging the baby bump that he had quickly become obsessed with.

"It's ok Nathan. You didn't know."

"That ride to the hospital was a holy terror. I kept hearing you scream on the phone and then Quentin's voice. Even though you told me he saved you I was scared to death he'd hurt you before the paramedics could get there."

"Nathan you have to forgive Quentin. He's not the bad guy you think he is."

"I don't know if I can Haley" he said as his eyes searched hers.

"Please try. For me?" she whispered, clearly getting sleepy again.

Nathan smiled shyly, nodded and bent over and placed a light kiss on her forehead. "Get some rest baby"

Haley nodded her head and slowly drifted back off to sleep.

'God he had nearly lost them today. That psychotic bitch was going to kill her and take Jamie.' The more Nathan thought about it the faster his blood rushed through his veins. He was worried sick when he realized that she was running for her life. She was pregnant and had been on inactive status for weeks since the surgery. He knew running couldn't be good for her or the baby and he was terrified it would cause complications.

As he sat there watching her he heard the pitter patter of little feet coming into the room.

"Daddy? Is Mommy ok?" Jamie whispered.

"Yeah buddy. She's going to be just fine. I promise" Nathan said as he bent to pick up his son and place him on his lap.

"Daddy I don't want to sleep alone tonight. Nanny Carrie scared me. I thought she was going to hurt Momma"

"I know son. I was afraid of that too. What about you though Jamie?"

"She wasn't trying to hurt me Daddy."

"Jamie she busted out the car window buddy"

"I know but she was mad. She told me she was my Momma now and that we were going to live with you and be happy"

Nathan closed his eyes. "Jamie you have to know that would never happen. You see this woman here? She is the only Momma you will ever have."

"I know. I love her Daddy" Jamie said as he placed his head on Nathan's chest.

"I do too, son. So much"

......

Nathan had put Jamie in bed and he had been sleeping peacefully. He had finally decided to sleep in his own bed so his Mom could rest. Of course Nathan had to convince him of that but Jamie made the decision on his own. As Nathan lay there listening to his wife's even breathing, he took a deep breath. He couldn't stop the phone call from replaying through his mind. Hearing her scream his name just as Quentin picked up the phone. He hadn't felt that kind of terror since the night of the State Championship.

He was torn as to what to do about Quentin. He didn't want to like the guy but now he had a reason. He was indebted to Quentin for helping Haley and Jamie.

"Momma! Daddy!" Jamie shouted.

Haley sat up and moved to get off of the bed. Just as she stood up her body slowly collapsed towards the floor.

Nathan, thinking fast, moved to his knees and reached out and caught her in his arms. "Hales?"

"Momma! Daddy!"

"Jamie come here buddy!" Nathan shouted back to his son.

Jamie came running into his parent's room and stopped dead in his tracks.

"It's ok Jimmy Jam. She just fainted. She's ok. I promise. I couldn't get to both of you at the same time"

Jamie nodded as he watched his Dad smoothing his Mom's hair back from her face as he held her in his arms. Her head was hanging over his arm and her hair was loosely hanging toward the bed.

"Come on baby" he murmured as he continued to soothe her in the only way he knew how.

Haley's eyes fluttered open and she looked up to see Nathan hovering over her. "What happened?"

"You tried to get up to quick" he whispered as he continued to smooth her hair back away from her face. "You fainted"

"What?" Suddenly Haley remembered Jamie calling for her. "Jamie?" she whispered.

Jamie came up to the side of the bed and placed his tiny hand around her fingers. "I'm right here Momma. I'm fine"

"Did you have a nightmare buddy" Nathan asked.

Jamie nodded.

"Are you ok?"

Jamie nodded again. He kissed his Mom and Dad and decided to go back to his room. He didn't want anything to bother his Mom. It was obvious she wasn't doing as well as the little boy had thought.

"Jamie?"

"Yeah Daddy?"

"How would you like to sleep in here tonight?"

Jamie smiled and jumped into bed and curled into his Mom's side. Haley smiled and leaned over to kiss her little boys head and then looked up and smiled at her husband. "I love you" she mouthed.

"I love you too." he mouthed in return as he watched his pregnant wife and child further bond. He couldn't help but think that the days to come were going to be hard. Jamie had already started having nightmares tonight and he saw a distance in Haley's eyes that he knew was not going away anytime soon. His wife believed in the good in people and she had been sorely disappointed in that belief with that latest development. Her trust in people was broken and Nathan had no idea how to fix that for her. He knew it would eventually eat her up inside if something wasn't done.

"Hales?"

"Yeah?"

"I think we need to schedule appointments with the counselor for you and Jamie. Someone is going to have to help you guys through this. You know I'm here if you need me but I don't know if I can do for you and Jamie what needs to be done."

Haley nodded. "I'll call in the morning"

"No I'll call, but I do think you should go baby. I don't want you stressing over this while you're pregnant Hales. I don't want anything to happen to you Jamie or the baby. I wouldn't survive it. I need you to know that Haley. I need you to know that I can't live without you"

"I can't live without you either Nathan" she whispered. "I don't even want to try"

………

It had been three days since the attack. Nathan was downstairs cooking breakfast. Haley hadn't fainted anymore and at her follow up appointment yesterday the doctor said that they should be past the side effects of the concussion. They had done an ultrasound at that visit and Nathan was amazed to see his child moving around on the black and white screen. As he was reminiscing with a smile the telephone rang.

Picking it up and looking at the caller ID his confused frown crossed over his face. "Scott residence"

"Mr. Nathan Scott please"

"Speaking"

"Nathan this is detective Fogarty at the Tree Hill PD."

"Ah yeah, what can I do for you?"

"I wanted to call and inform you of the situation regarding your wife's attack and your son's near kidnapping."

"Ok"

"Carrie White committed suicide in her jail cell this morning"

Nathan closed his eyes. He had realized the bitch was deranged but he hadn't realized she was that off her rocker. "Thank you"

"Yes sir. I hope in some way this knowledge will provide peace to you and your family. I know it's not justice for what happened but at least the threat will no longer be there. She can't harm your wife and child anymore"

"I doubt my wife will see it that way sir but thank you for letting us know."

……

Later that afternoon Nathan and Haley were sitting on the couch while Jamie was taking his nap. Nathan took Haley's hand and brought it to his lips. Kissing the back of it he closed his eyes. "Hales? I have something that I have to tell you"

"What?" she asked.

The phone rang and Nathan sighed heavily. He moved to the kitchen and when he reached it he picked it up. "Hello? Scott residence"

"Nathan?"

"Yeah"

"This is Mike Wilson. Look I heard you might be interested in playing ball again."

"Yes sir"

"Well I have an opportunity for you but it might not be exactly what you're thinking"

A few minutes later after Nathan had told Haley about the phone call, he then moved on to the subject he had been dreading. "Hales, I have something else that I have to tell you."

"What? What is it?"

"Hales, Carrie committed suicide last night. She hung herself in her jail cell"

Haley's eyes instantly filled with tears and Nathan pulled her to his chest, holding her tight as she sobbed. "Let it out baby" he whispered. He knew she would take this hard. Haley had such a loving heart. She couldn't bear for things like this to happen, no matter what the person had or hadn't done. It amazed him that her first thought was for Carrie's sickness and not what Carrie had tried to do to them. All of them. She had nearly wrecked their family twice. Nathan wanted to kill her but Haley just felt sorry for her. He'd never known anyone with a kind heart like Haley. Her heart was tender and loving. It was what had made him fall in love with her and it was what he loved most about her every day.

…..

Nathan drove up to the Rivercourt. Quentin was shooting around. As Nathan walked onto the court he still hadn't met Quentin's eyes.

"Hey Nate. How's Ms. JS?"

"She's better. Look Quentin I came to say thanks. You saved my wife and you saved my son, but man you tried to molest my wife, right here where I'm standing. I don't know where that leaves us Q."

"Nate, man I don't know what else to say. I'm sorry that I did that. I had no idea that Ms. JS was the type of woman she is. If I had I would have never done that."

"Haley's forgiven you Q. I just don't know if I can. Man you didn't hold her while she was crying that night. You scared her to death, yet she put that aside to help you. She's asked me to try with you and I promised I'd do that but Q if you fuck up again, I'm gonna hurt you, no questions asked."

"I won't." Quentin said. "Why are you doing this?"

"Because I love Haley James Scott more than anything! It matters to her and that matters to me"

Quentin nodded his head.

"Now I gotta go check out an opportunity to play ball again. Are you coming?"

Quentin smiled and grabbed his things. He climbed into the Range Rover beside Nathan and smiled again.

"So you're going to do this?"

"I don't know. We'll see when we get there" Nathan smirked.

…….

As Nathan and Quentin watched the game that was taking place one of the players was slammed into this glass.

"This can't be good for my back" Nathan said.

"This can't be good for anybody's back."

"Come on Q. We need to leave. This is NOT for me"

"Wait Nate! You're just gonna give up this opportunity just like that?"

"I'm not going to do anything to put my ass back in that wheelchair. I won't do that to Haley and Jamie again. Not to mention to my little girl that's on the way" Nathan said as he turned to walk away.

"Yo Nate?"

Nathan stopped and turned around. "We'll up the practices. You and me one and one. We'll get you back in game shape man. We'll get you to the association."

Nathan nodded and smirked. "Ok Q. You're on man"

………..

After taking Quentin home Nathan made his way into the house. He was met by Haley. The look on her face told him immediately that something was wrong. "Hales? You ok? What is it baby?"

"Nathan, I'm bleeding" she breathlessly whispered as she held her abdomen.

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