A/N: Thanks to everyone for the wonderful reviews. Here's Chapter 2 let me know what you think!

Disclaimer: I don't own One Tree Hill or any of it's characters. If I did, season 6 would have been much more interesting.

"Come in"

"Haley" he said, with a tight smile.

She'd hoped that things had changed since High School, but to her dismay, things were the same as they had always been.

"Nathan, hi, it's good to see you again" said Haley as she reached out to shake his hand.

"Look Haley can you just cut it out? There's no point in acting like we actually like each other so can we just get down to business?" replied Nathan impatiently.

"Down to business? Okay, why are you here Nathan?"

"I'm pretty sure you already know that, unless you've been living in a hole or something. Which come to think of it, if you're anything like you were back in high school you have."

He was going to be a class A jackass then fine. Bring it on.

"Nathan I know about your case. What I meant was what are you doing here, in my office? If you hate me so much then why are you here asking for my help?"

"I'm not asking, I'm demanding. Your boss has assured me that you and only you will me handling this case"

God he was as difficult as ever!

"Why me, Nathan? There are plenty of good lawyers in this city, why did you have to pick me?"

"Well isn't it obvious? Because you're the best and I go for nothing but the best."

"Did you do it Nathan? Did you kill Dan?"

"Maybe I did, maybe I didn't. Did I Haley? Did I really kill my father? What do you think?"

"It doesn't matter what I think. Just answer the question. Did you or didn't you?"

"Geez you're worse than the police, at least they were interesting."

"Come on Nathan, focus. How can I help you if you won't cooperate with me? It doesn't have to be like this. Just… just trust me okay?"

"Trust you? Sorry, I stopped doing that a long time ago."

It always came back to the same thing. No matter how hard she tried to get past that period of her life, it always came back to haunt her. That's part of the reason why she'd moved away from Tree Hill. Everyone treated her like dirt; they all took his side, even Lucas. When she'd moved to Washington she'd hoped for a fresh start, but here she was, playing mind games with Nathan once more.

"Nathan can we put the past behind us? It's been a long time since then. You've changed, I've changed, everything is different now."

"You're right, I have changed but from what I've seen so far, you're still the ice princess you always were. You still don't get it? You still don't realize what you did to me. You don't regret it one bit. You know what? I've had enough of this. Send a copy of all of your questions to my manager and I'll have him send you my response. I'm not paying you to slack off, I expect you to put 100% effort on this case and I expect you to win it. Now if you'll excuse me, I'll let myself out. Goodbye Haley"

And before Haley could say another word, he went out of her office, never looking back.

It took Haley a moment to process everything that just happened. Seven years, seven long years and nothing had changed. Having Nathan back in her life was a mistake she knew it, but what other choice did she have? She had a good thing going and she wasn't going to lose it over Nathan, not again.

Haley tried to remember the first time she'd seen Nathan. Was it at one of Lucas's little league games? Like many things in her life, this too she couldn't remember. Her entire life was made up, since childhood she'd had this problem. She couldn't remember the day when both her parents were killed in a car crash, she couldn't remember how she'd ended up at Lucas's house. There were so many such things in her life. She had been robbed of every emotional moment of her lifetime. All she knew of them were what people told her and from that she'd formed her own memories. What the real truth was, she'd never come to know. There were so many holes in her string of memories but the memories of Nathan and her were painfully clear. And no matter how much she tried to forget that part of her life, it always came back to bite her in the ass. She'd been ostracized by everyone who cared for her. When she split with Nathan, everyone took his side, even the one's closest to her.

Haley hated Nathan for that. He'd taken away everything that ever meant something to her and then had the audacity to blame her for everything that happened. Even after all these years, she hadn't been able to forget Nathan. The fact that there were posters of him all over the city could have something to do with it perhaps. In the past few years, Nathan had popped up everywhere, on TV, the radio, magazines, she simple couldn't get past him. Everywhere she looked, she saw his pictures and in all of them, he always seemed to stare at her, taunting her, making fun of her. Perhaps it was paranoia speaking but that's what she felt. She'd left him and everything he meant so many years ago and yet she was still back to being the girl that everyone hated and didn't give a damn about back in high school. So what if she'd become one of the best lawyers in the country, so what if she was living the life most couldn't only dream of, none of it mattered because she'd left the great Nathan Scott to go on tour, to follow her dream. To this day she didn't understand why everyone had turned against her. Why was it okay for Nathan to pursue his dreams but not her? She'd thought that if she quit the music business and came back home, that things would be different but no, not a chance. Everyone was as cruel as ever. And worst of them was Nathan, the day she came back, the first thing he did was to hand her the divorce papers. No "welcome home honey". Or "Hi honey how was your trip? Nothing of the sort, just "sign these papers and get out", his exact words.

At the time she'd been too stunned to do anything else. She'd signed the papers and left. It wasn't until later that she realized the mistake she'd made. The fact that she'd signed the papers without protesting seemed to strengthen his animosity toward her. Since then, he'd been at his absolute cruellest, ridiculing her, embarrassing her, hurting her time and time again until she couldn't handle it anymore and left. She'd wanted him to stop her, to say that he was sorry but he never did. All he said was "Leave Haley, because that's what you're best at. So leave, get out of my house, my town, get out of my life. I never want to see you again" and then he shut the door.

That's the thing with Nathan Scott, when he made a decision, he never looked back. His word was law, and the funny thing is everyone chose to abide by it, Haley no exception.