Authors note: I know that i'm posting chapters quicker than you can review right know but i have to get this chapter out so that i can get to the drama ;)
See, this chapter is mainly Brucas-fluff which is needed for the next few chapters to become realistic. But fluff or no fluff, i'd still like it if you could give me some reviews.

B Davis: Thanks for accepting my filler-chapters with so much grace ;) and jr foreva: i'm totally agreeing with you, either the Lucas-character in OTH is scitzofrenic and that is why he can go from beeing 100 in love with Brooke to felling nothin in like one episode... or Mark's just loosing it... i'm not sure lol

Here we go;

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CHAPTER 10 – I Dare You To Move

Welcome to the planet
Welcome to existence
Everyone's here, everyone's here
Everybody's watching you now
Everybody waits for you now
What happens next?

Brooke stops outside the schools entrance doors and breaths in deeply. Today is not going to be the best day of her life, she can feel that already, but remembering something Lucas had red to her one night she thinks "I am the master of my faith, the captain of my soul… I can do this. I have to."

Rachel has already pulled open the door and she follows her inside unwillingly. Somewhere inside of this high-school building is her backstabbing former best friend and even though Brooke has been looking forward to hitting her square in the eye for almost 48 hours she can't help but feeling a little uneasy about haphazardly meeting her in the middle of the corridor.

"What the hell will I say to Peyton when I see her?" she asks Rachel and hoists up her backpack on her shoulder. She looks around and watches all the students rush back and forth, laughing and talking. She's just been gone for one day but it all seems different.

"The blond whore? Just ignore her" Rachel smirks. "I mean, you can't fight her anyway in your condition. And I told her yesterday that if she so much as looks in your direction I will kick her for you."

Brooke laughs. "Funny, this is kind of the same discussion that you and I had a couple of weeks ago, just rearranged a little… If I remember correctly I offered to kick your ass for Haley's sake and you said I wouldn't because…um... yeah, because of the same 'condition'…"

Rachel laughs as well and it's a releasing feeling. Laughing in school and at least being close to normal. Her dimpled smile doesn't fade either. All the way to the lockers and on towards the classroom they laugh and talk, gossiping and trashing younger student on the way, just like she and Peyton used to do.

And just as she thinks that, Peyton walks past them on her way to her locker. She gives Brooke a long look, a mix between sadness, longing and bitterness and Brooke finds herself caught in the gaze. When Peyton disappears around the corner Rachel huffs;

"Remember on your birthday when I took you to that club? You told me about that whole library-kiss scenario and how she had told you that she would back of from Lucas if you said you loved him."

"Yeah?"

"I said that she was a good friend, remember? Well scratch that! The girl is psycho, totally! She messes with your boyfriend and you break up with him because of her and her weird emo-feelings, and then she sneakily overhears that you're pregnant and she goes ahead and outs it to him without talking to you about it?!? And now she figures that she has the right to look at you funny?! Seriously, what's up with that?"

Brooke just sighs and shrugs. She doesn't want to think about her birthday. It had been hard enough to be pregnant and celebrate it without her forever best friend, but to put that picture of Peyton and Lucas in her birthday-book had been almost self torture. She had needed to though, to remind her self not to fool herself again.

"Can we please not talk about Peyton…" she says and makes a face. "I'm feeling nauseous enough as it is. …the morning sickness you know…"

"Who wouldn't feel sick when she's around?"

Rachel laughs at her own comment and after a moment Brooke falls into it as well. Lucas sees them from further down the corridor and smiles unconsciously. It feels so good to hear Brooke's bubbly laugh again. He hasn't heard it in such a long time. And she looks great. Not as tired and pale as she's been lately. Yet he's happy that he gets to come along to the doctor this afternoon so that he himself can hear the doctor say that she's fine.

"Brooke!" He calls after her and she turns and smiles.

"Hey Luke…"

He speeds up the pace and catches up to the two girls right before home-room and Brooke actually links her arm into his. He smiles, happy that she isn't pushing him away, and he kisses her lightly on the hair.

"Everything alright?" he asks and she nods.

"Yeah… now I'm fine."

It's a little after half past one and Lucas is leaning towards Brooke's locker waiting for her to get out of Biology-class. And when he sees her coming down the corridor she's looking beautiful as always. But she's also looking very young. Coming towards him smiling, with her hair in a ponytail and the backpack draped over one shoulder, he suddenly sees her as the doctor will in half an hour. Like a young teenaged girl who's fitting in perfectly in high school but who yet hasn't figured out how to live in the world outside. And he himself probably makes the same impression.

"Hey baby…" he says. "Are you ready to go?"

She nods looking a bit nervous and he puts one arm around her shoulders as they walk out towards her car. Her hands are pulled up inside the sleeves of her sweater and he can feel how tense she is.

"Luke, we'll be okay, right?"

He stops and puts a finger under her chin, bringing her eyes up to meet his.

"I told you. We will be more than okay, we'll be fine." In his head he adds 'Believe me' but as of now he knows she won't. "Let's just get going."

He kisses her forehead and opens the car door for her on the passenger side. And as he grabs the stairingwheel he sees his hands shake a little. Today is the day that Brooke gets to decide their future.

"I dare you to trust me" he thinks.

I dare you to move
I dare you to move
I dare you to lift yourself off the floor
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
Like the day never happened
Like today never happened…

Half an hour later they're sitting across the table from the doctor as he flips through a pile of papers.

"So Miss Davis, how are you feeling today?"

"I'm still tired, though it's getting better…"

"Any nausea or vomiting?"

She laughs awkwardly. "Um…yeah… kind of all the time…"

"Well, that is to be expected. As well as some tenderness in your breasts and abdomen. You could also be experiencing menstrual like cramps."

The doctor looks down at her medical journal and she secretly glances at Lucas who looks a little embarrassed. It feels good to have him there with her but its still weird having someone else talking about her body in his presence.

"Your ten weeks along now and when you were last here we talked a little about your different options… Have you decided what you would like to do?"

Welcome to the fallout
Welcome to resistance
The tension is here
The tension is here
Between who you are and who you could be
Between how it is and how it should be

Lucas glances back at her and their eyes lock for a second. She's been thinking about this decision for weeks going back and forth between the pros and cons with every option. And still, sitting here across from the doctor, she starts to panic. But then she feels his fingers intertwine with hers under the table, holding her hand in a steady grip like if he's letting her borrow some of his strength. She takes a deep breath.

"I… um… we… have decided to keep the baby."

The doctor looks up behind his thick glasses and smiles at her. "Then congratulations to the both of you." Brooke shyly smiles back already wondering what the hell she is getting her self into. But after last nights talk with Lucas, she knows that having the abortion would be too hard on both of them.

"When will I start showing?" she asks, not ready to meet Lucas' eyes, but she can feel his grip tightening and even in the corner of her eye she can see him smile. "Look at you Lucas Scott," she thinks to her self. "I've missed that smile…"

"Well it depends from person to person but you are young and you seem fit and healthy so it might not be for a while. Looking at your figure now I'd say not until around week fifteen."

Lucas clears his throat. "Yeah, uh… about that. Brooke is captain of the cheerleaders and I was thinking that maybe it's not so good for the baby having her practice four days a week…"

"Lucas!" she shoots him an angry eye and he looks back pleading.

"Brooke…"

The doctor smiles and interrupts. "Miss Davis. As long as you're careful you can keep cheering. I think we can agree that you know your body better than both me and Mr. Scott. Once your belly start growing you might want to cut down of the flips and the cartwheels but a little physical exercise is good when you are pregnant."

Brooke smiles winningly at Lucas who just mutters "we'll see about 'a little'…"

"Things you should abstain from though are alcohol, raw food, any per scripted medicine uncase you checked it with me, jacuzzi's. And of course stress, physical or mental… I'll tell the nurse to give you some brochures and I'll prescribe you some prenatal vitamins… But first we'll do a sonogram."

She gets up from the chair to get up onto the bed and she realizes that Lucas hasn't let go of her hand yet. She looks up at him and raises her eyebrow playfully as if to say 'are you scared?'

And he mouths back silently; "Thank you."

It's almost eight o'clock in the evening when they walk through Lucas' front door. After seeing the doctor they had went to the café to see his mother and the meeting between her and Brooke had been some what emotional. There had been crying, hugging, lectures, more crying and in the end some laughter as well. And he's glad that it went well because he knows how important the relationship with his mother is to Brooke.

"I'm glad my son has you… and you'll make a great mother, you'll see…"

He watches the brunette girl that slumps down on his bed with a tired smile lingering on her face. And he feels this pain in his chest over the fact that she's still not letting him all the way into her heart.

He's happy that she at least trusts him enough to keep their child and he figures that whatever amount of time she needs he will give her. If he'll just love her enough she'll come around. He has to believe that.

"Luke, can I ask you something?" she says and tilts her head, the way she used to tilt it and smile before she kissed him.

"Anything for you…"

"Do you remember dare-night? That stupid game that Felix put us up to?"

"Yeah…" he answers, not really wanting to think about the asshole Brooke used to date. "Why?"

"The whole point of that night was kind of to face our fears, right? To be able to do things that you're really scared of…"

"Okay…"

She looks a little embarrassed and he wonders what she's thinking of. He sits down beside her on the bed, giving her a look as if to say 'continue'. And she does.

"Well, Felix said that sometimes there are things you want to do which really scares you… and if you call it a dare, it kind of makes it okay… for a night…"

He not sure where she's heading with this but he nods anyway.

"So I was thinking… What do you say about us making this night our private dare-night?"

I dare you to move
I dare you to move
I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
Like today never happened
Today never happened before

She runs her hand through his short blond hair. She loves it this way, the way he had worn it last spring when she was living with Karen here in his house. And she waits for him to answer. She knows that her behavior probably seems strange to him but she's been thinking about this the entire day. Thinking about how to come around the rules that she herself has set up to protect her from this blond boy. He doesn't say anything but looks straight into her eyes, holding her gaze steady with his perfect blue's before catching her other hand in his, and giving it a soft squeeze that confuses her even more.

She holds her breath for a moment, tensing at his unexpected tender gesture and then relaxes against his warm body, thinking that this is how it's all supposed to feel. That she's happy.

So she does what she's wanted to do for days now, for weeks even, ever since they broke up. She gets up and stands in front of him. Then she slowly pulls her t-shirt over her head. And Lucas' eyes widen.

"What are you doing Brooke?"

"Just look at me" she whispers before starting to unbutton her jeans.

And he can't do anything but. The thin waist, the flat tummy that's hasn't even started to grow a tiny bulge and her breasts in the lacy white bra. She's gorgeous.
Her eyes never leave his as her jeans fall to the floor. She takes a step forward, in between his knees, and runs her hands through his hair. Shivers travel down his spine. He has missed her touch so much. And not being able to resist the urge, he stretches out his hand stroking the soft skin at her stomach with his fingertips.

"Our child is inside of this beautiful body" he thinks and for a second he can hear her stop breathing.

Suddenly desperate to feel her he grabs her waist and pulls her to him, needing her to be closer. Needing to feel her pulse beating through her skin.
He wraps his arms around her slender form and buries his head between her breasts. Stays there until her hands leave his hair and work their way down his back with nails gently rasping his skin through the t-shirt.

Then he starts to kiss her skin. Covering her upper body with kisses while his hands slide down over her body down to her thighs. He knows her body better then his own. Every freckle, every birthmark or scar. Every curve.

"Come here…"

His voice isn't much more than a whisper. And she straddles him.
For what feels like the longest time he just looks into those amazing dark green eyes of hers, only hearing her breathing, and when she finally leans in and brushes her lips against his he realizes that he's been holding his own breath.

"I love you Pretty girl… More than you'll ever know."

"I love you too."

He runs his hands up her body, over her breasts, up her neck and through her hair. He makes his way from her collarbone to her lips, his kisses leaving an almost burning sensation on her skin and she sighs.

And then his mouth finds hers. His tongue begs for hers and she meets it. It's like her whole body is run on autopilot, like she's just lost control over herself. But it feels so good kissing him again. She knows that she might regret all this later, regret not being strong enough to protect her heart when she knows that them doing this is just going to screw up things even more. Even more so she'll probably regret being honest and telling him she loves him. And still she starts touching him back.

Maybe redemption has stories to tell
Maybe forgiveness is right where you fell
Where can you run to escape from yourself?
Where you gonna go?
Where you gonna go?

She knows his body. Sometimes she even thinks that she was the one who found it and that no one touched it before her. His muscles are so familiar under her hands and she needs to feel his skin against her own. Impatiently she pulls at his t-shirt and gets it over his head before crashing her lips against his again and he tugs at her body, pulling it closer to himself. He grabs her by the hair, kissing her deeper as his left hand finds the hem of her panties and slips under them touching her skin in under. She gasps from pleasure and arches herself backwards allowing him to kiss her neck.

I dare you to move
I dare you to move
I dare you to lift yourself
Lift yourself up off the floor
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
Like today never happened
Today never happened
Today never happened
Today never happened before

"It's too late to stop this," she thinks as he leans her down on the bed. And even though it scares the hell out of her she knows that she has fallen again. That the last brick-wall around her heart is failing and that from now on she's unprotected. Tomorrow nothing will be the same.

"Boyfriend…" she whispers between the kisses. "I've missed you."

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In the next chapter we'll be back to the real One Tree Hill-drama! I'm so happy LOL Until then, take care /Lynn