AND HERE'S CHAPTER 17...

ENJOY....

I dedicate this chapter to Twilight1987.....

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Chapter 17

Sam entered the empty classroom. She suddenly started to feel that this wasn't such a great idea anymore. She didn't want to do this to Brooke again. Her stomach began to turn and she bent down towards the garbage can and vomited. She couldn't shake the images from her mind of what X could do to Peyton and Sawyer. Her head was pounding now. She put her hands on her knees and closed her eyes. She tried to steady herself. When she opened her eyes her vision was blurry. Yet, somehow she made her way to the telephone and with difficulty she began to dial the house. All of a sudden the room began to spin. She could barely hear the phone ringing.

"Hello?" asked Brooke.

Sam was breathing heavy and she couldn't find the strength to speak. Suddenly everything went black and she collapsed knocking over a lot of stuff from the desk in a failed attempt to hold herself up. This created a loud bang. The phone hit the wall and hanged by the wire. Yet Brooke was still on the other line and she had realized that it was Sam who was calling because of all the nights that she soothed her to sleep after waking she woke up from nightmares, Brooke had memorized her breathing pattern.

"Sam!!" yelled Brooke on the other line, "Sam can you hear me? Are you okay?"

Sam was out cold.

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X still had Peyton tied up. She was thinking about Lucas and how he was probably dealing. She figured that Brooke had already told him about what happened. She knew that Lucas was definitely super pissed and was planning what he was going to do when he got his hands on X. Peyton's stomach was calm now and as far as she could tell Sawyer was sleeping. All of a sudden she realized where she was. She was amazed that she hadn't figured this out before. They were in the Tree Hill High basement. Peyton realized this because of the desk that was in the corner with Mr. Lawson's, the janitor's, nameplate on it and a picture of him and his wife. Out of nowhere there was a loud bang that knocked Peyton right out of her thoughts. It had come from above them.

X pulled a gun out from his underneath his belt strap and loaded it. He began to walk upstairs. He stood against the wall and scanned the hallways before going towards the classroom where the noise had originated. He looked in to find Samantha unconscious on the floor. He put the gun away and picked her up, carrying her to the basement and setting her beside Peyton.

"SAM!! What did you do to her?" asked Peyton angrily.

"I guess little Sam here just couldn't take the excitement." remarked X with a sinister smile.

Peyton knew that Sam must have had a panic attack. She wondered if she was okay because of how loud the bang had been which was created by Sam collapsing.

"Please just let me check on her. I'm not going to run away. I swear." pleaded Peyton.

X thought about it for a moment. He was the one with the gun so there was no way that Peyton could get away so he decided to untie her. Peyton went by Sam. She saw that Sam had a cut on the side of her head. She was bleeding. Peyton knew that it must have been from hitting her head on a desk or the floor hard.

"She's bleeding." informed Peyton.

"And"

"AND!!!.... What the hell do you think; she needs to see a doctor."

"She's not leaving and I'd watch my tongue if I were you because I tend to be a little trigger happy these days."

"She's just a kid. What the hell is your problem? She didn't do anything to you. And when she told Brooke you deserved that. She's my best friend you bastard, and she's Sam's mother. Do you honestly think that this time when she finds you she won't kill you?"

X slapped Peyton across the face. Peyton again held in the pain. There was no way that she was going to make this any more enjoyable for him. She knew only one thing; if it wasn't for her pregnancy and Sam she would've already kicked X's ass. He wasn't even tough at all he just knew how to weaken you by either taking or hurting what you loved most.

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Brooke was beginning to freak. This couldn't be happening again it just couldn't. She knew if X got his hands on Sam again that she'd lose Peyton, Sam, and Sawyer for life. She couldn't stand not knowing her god daughter/ niece, and losing her best friend/practically sister, or her daughter. She just couldn't. This was officially the worst day of her life. The uncertainty was killing her.

Haley walked over to Brooke who was beside Julian. She could tell that Brooke was freaking out and so was she. She was afraid, terrified. But she knew that losing it wasn't going to get Peyton and Sam back.

Brooke looked up as Haley stopped in front of her cutting her path off. Haley put her hands on Brooke's shoulders. She still had the phone in her hand.

"Brooke you got to calm down. Do you really think that this is going to help us find them?" Haley asked Brooke.

Brooke looked at the floor then back at Haley realizing that what she was saying was true. It wasn't gong to help them find Peyton and Sam at all.

"Hales, What do we do?" asked Brooke.

"We've already called the police so their doing there part and well you have caller ID right?"

"Yeah....."

"Okay then give me your phone."

Brooke handed over the phone to Haley and watched as she examined the call log. Suddenly her determined expression turned to confusion.

"Sam blocked the number and well I've got good news and bad news. Good news is that this means she isn't wandering the streets because you can't do that to a payphone. But bad news is that we can't find her using the number since its blocked."

"So basically Sam could be calling from a friends house or a store. The Diner......." suggested Julian.

"Maybe.... Okay so here's what we can do. Julian can check the Diner, Luke and Nate can check X's house for Peyton, and Brooke and I can check Sam's friends houses. If anyone finds her we call each other and if you think of any other place that she could be go ahead and check. And we have to try and think really hard if Peyton is not at X's house where would he take her. Try and think like a psychopathic heartless piece of trash and you'll be golden." explained Haley, "Everyone understand.....?"

"Yes" everyone answered.

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Jack had just been examined and when the nurse left he quickly got out of bed. They had taken the tube out of his throat a half hour ago because he had regained the ability to breathe on his own. He slowly and carefully pulled the IV out of his arm. After he searched through the drawers and finally found his clothes. He quickly put on his faded jeans and t-shirt. They were the ones that he wore when he came to the hospital. The hospital attendants had attempted to clean them but the blood stains were still there.

After he was dressed he walked over to the closed door. He looked through the glass and waited for the perfect moment to make a run for it. Suddenly it came. The doctor and nurses were far away from his door and the assistants were busy on their computers. He slowly opened the door took a deep breathe and ran strait for the exit.

"STOP!!" yelled a nurse at the nurses station.

But Jack continued to run, He had to. He couldn't let X hurt Sam or Peyton. Sam was his best friend and he hoped future girlfriend and Peyton was a nice person who Sam considered her aunt and loved very much. Both of their lives were important. And they were both loved dearly. They didn't deserve to be prematurely robbed of life considering they had barely just started living it.

Sam had already been through enough in her life and she was finally had something good going for her. She was finally discovering that there wasn't only bad people in the world and that there was a person out there who would want her and love her. And that was Brooke. As for Peyton she had just finished college not to long ago and her record label was on the rise. And to boot she was having a beautiful baby girl.

When jack got outside he ran towards the school. X had always bragged about how his school was the perfect place to do whatever he wanted to a person and not have to worry about consequences. The school was so easy to get into and there were no cameras at this easy entrance. Also the basement was sound proof and there was never anyone there on weekends or at night except for when there was back to school night. It gave him the right amount of time to get what he had to do done and cover his tracks.

"HEY!!!" a familiar voice yelled not to far away.

He turned to see Julian's car coming down the street with the window open and him sticking out his head. Jack didn't want to get caught by Julian, who would probably drag him back to the hospital, so he ran through the back of someones house. He knew that Julian had seen him but he continued to run. Not stopping until he reached the park that him and Sam always hung out at when Brooke allowed her to go out for a while.

"Please, Please hold on Sam." he prayed.

"I'm coming."

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and there it is chapter 17....

review and tell me watcha think.....

o and just to let you all know I have started another fanfic....

It's a charmed fanfic with prue and paige dialect.......

And also sine this one tree hill fanfic is almost done I will be starting another one....

This will also have a Sam and Brooke dialect.....

Except Sam and Brooke will be sister's not mother and daughter.....

It'll be called......a dark past leads to a bright future....or something like that......