"Hey Brooke?" Jamie asks the next day while they are out in Tree Hill.

"Yeah, buddy?"

"How long have you known Aunt Peyton?"

"For a really long time, since we were just about your age."

"Wow! That is a long time." he says, then sitting and contemplating that idea for a minute, "Is Uncle Lucas your friend now too?"

"Yeah... I like him and Peyton together. They love each other very much."

He stays silent again, taking in what she said, trying to come up with questions in his head about some of the things he talked about with the doctor. "When they get married, what's going to happen?"

"Well, what do you mean?"

"Uncle Skills says that when people get married, then they want to start a family and have babies... Are they going to have babies??"

"I don't know, buddy. I think they might like to have one or two. Why?"

He shrugs his shoulders.

"Sometimes people do that, but sometimes people wait awhile to have babies after they get married."

"Oh..."

She regards the boy with curiosity, wondering what could have possibly brought on these questions. "Jamie, you know that Peyton and Lucas love you very much, don't you?"

"Yeah, I do."

"Okay."

Again, silence comes over them as they sit in the park that they had finally walked to. He seemed lost in thought, and she was still trying to figure out what exactly she was supposed to be saying to the boy to make him feel better.

"Brooke, Can I tell you a secret?"

"You can tell me anything, Jamie."

"I'm scared."

"What are you scared about?"

He looks down at his shoes, not wanting to meet the brunette's eyes, "I'm scared that Uncle Lucas and Aunt Peyton don't want to keep me."

"Why would you think that, Jamie?"

"Because they are going to get married, and then they are going to want to have a baby, and babies make everybody crazy, and then they aren't going to want me anymore because I'm not theirs."

"Jamie, what on earth would give you this idea?"

He shrugs his shoulders again, still looking down at the ground until Brooke puts a finger under his chin to force him to look up at her. "James Lucas Scott, your Uncle Lucas and Aunt Peyton love you very very much... I know that it is hard to think about your mom and your dad leaving, but Lucas and Peyton aren't going to leave you, no matter how many babies they have and if they are married or not. They love you, Jamie. They will always be there for you."

He nods silently, and the pair sit on the park bench for a little while longer before Jamie asks if they can just go home now.

"Yeah, we can go home... why don't we call Lucas and Peyton and see what they want for dinner. We can bring food home for them."

"Okay." he says, his spirits still not lifted.

He remained that way all evening, prompting Peyton to talk to Brooke about anything that he might have said, which obviously led them to their discussion in the park.

"What are we going to do? How are we going to prove to him that we are here for the long haul?"

"I don't know, P. Sawyer. But there is something else going on. It isn't just losing his parents. He's got all these other ideas in his head."

"His doctor keeps saying that he won't talk about it, and keeps telling us that we need to talk to him about Haley and Nathan, but it isn't working. We can tell him stories, and that is fine, and he laughs and smiles about them. When we ask him to tell us a story, he shuts down. When we ask him to try to talk about the accident, he shuts down. It is like he's two totally different kids."

"You've just got to keep at it, Peyton. He needs to know that you guys are here for him. He needs to know that even after you guys get married, that he is going to be a part of your life."

"How do we do that?"

"Ask him." Brooke says, shrugging a shoulder in a gesture that made the statement seem so much more casual that what it entailed.

"You really think that he is just going to come out and talk about it all?"

"I don't know, Peyton. But, maybe he will, and then you'll be all the better."

Lucas, for the first time in a while, spent some time out of the house that evening, opting to help his friend Skills with some film on teams that the high school team was getting ready to face, leaving Jamie and Peyton alone when bed time came. Brooke had already called it a night, claiming that the young boy wore her out.

After brushing his teeth and changing into his pajamas, he climbed into bed and called out her name to come tuck him in.

"You ready?" she asks, pulling the covers up around him and sitting on the edge of his bed.

"Yeah..."

"Did you have a lot of fun with Brooke today?"

His face lit up a bit, which made her smile, "Yeah, she's pretty cool."

"Well, don't go stealing my best friend from me all the way... we can share, you know."

"I know." he says, with a little laugh.

"She said that you guys talked a lot. What did you talk about?"

He looks away for a minute, contemplating whether or not to talk to her about the feelings he had. Then, remembering that Dr. V. told him that he needed to talk to Lucas and Peyton just like Brooke said, he decided that it was a good idea.

"After you and Uncle Lucas get married, are you still going to want me?"

"What!... Jamie, of course we're still going to want you!"

They sit for a minute after that, both of them seemingly lost in some thoughts that they had to sort through.

"What would make you think that we wouldn't want you anymore once we got married?"

"Cause you guys are going to have babies, and you want to move into a new house, and you had to leave New York."

"Jamie, we left New York, because you are more important to us. We are still doing what we were doing in New York. We want to get a new house because we thought that it would be good to have a new start since this house has so many different memories of your parents, but we are waiting until you're ready for that." she pauses for a minute, trying to figure out how to address the first issue he stated. "As for babies... your Uncle Lucas and I might want to have a baby of our own some day, but that isn't going to be right away, and that is going to be something that we are going to give a lot of thought to. But even if we have a baby, you are still going to be ours, Jamie. You are very much a part of this family, no matter how big or small it is. Besides, you'd be like a great big brother to whatever addition we decide to bring."

"Yeah, I really wanted to be a big brother." he says, a frown slipping onto his face. "People get crazy with baby stuff, though..."

Putting a finger under his chin, his blue eyes looked up at her for just a moment before letting the tears fall. She pulls him up towards her, letting him cry silent tears for a little while.

"Talk to me Jamie."

"I miss them... and I was really excited to be a big brother."

Peyton had to stop her emotions in that instant, knowing another piece to the puzzle that made it that much harder to have lost the two of them, and understanding even more why Jamie was having an even harder time. "I know you miss them, Jamie, and I know you were excited."

"They were mad at me."

"Jamie, you didn't do anything wrong... we've talked about this. You didn't do anything wrong."

"That's why I wanted to stay up... Daddy said that it was a celebration, but Mama said that I still needed to go to sleep when we got home. She said that even big brothers need sleep. They weren't yelling at each other, they were just being silly. They're always silly. They talk back and forth like they're fighting, but they always smile when they do it. You and Uncle Lucas do that too."

She smiles at that, and then lets her face turn more serious, "It wasn't your fault. It wasn't your mom or dad's fault. There was nothing that you could do to help them."

He nods, looking up and meeting her eyes again.

"But you can do something now."

"What?"

"Do you think that your mom and dad would have wanted you to be sad all the time? Would they want you to be mad and think that it was your fault?"

"Probably not."

"That is why your Uncle Lucas and I are here, Jamie. We're here to make sure that you are safe and loved, and most importantly, that you get to grow up and do all the awesome things that I know your mom and dad wanted you to be able to do. It's hard, because it still makes you sad when you think about them, and that's okay..."

"Aunt Peyton?"

"Yeah, Jamie."

"I'm glad that they chose you and Uncle Lucas to take care of me."

"Really?" she asks, still unsure of the boy's feelings toward the whole situation.

"Yeah..." he says, sitting up again to give her a hug.

"Well, I'm glad too...Now, listen...you had a long day with school and Brooke, so I think you need to get some shut-eye."

"Okay." he says, sinking back into the pillows as Peyton tucks him in again, turning off the light.

"Peyton?"

"Yeah, little man..."

"I love you and Uncle Lucas."

"We love you too, Jamie." she says before walking out of his bedroom, moving to their bedroom to change and get ready for bed.

When Luke comes home, he isn't surprised that everyone is in bed, as they have been getting to bed pretty early around there lately. What he was surprised to find was Peyton sitting in the bathroom with tears streaming down her face.

"Why do I keep finding you here? What is it, what happened?" he asks, throwing his bag down on the floor and crouching down to meet her eyes.

"Haley."

"What about Haley?"

"She was pregnant, Luke... they were going to have another baby..."

"How did you...?"

"Jamie."

"He talked to you about it?"

She nods her head, leaning into Lucas' shoulder as he moved to sit next to her against the wall. "He was talking to Brooke today about stuff, and he's so worried that we are going to get married and we're going to leave him. So, I asked him about it, and he feels bad that we gave stuff up for him."

"We didn't... did we?" he says, pausing to look at her, asking the question more of her than of himself.

"No we didn't. I wanted to do this Lucas. I can't see my life with anyone but you now, and Jamie is in that picture."

"Jamie and..."

"Maybe a few others... I haven't really thought that far ahead."

He raises his eyebrows, surprised at that.

"I mean, I've thought about it, but then when this all happened, all I could think about was him... I'm glad that Brooke is so excited about this wedding, because I don't think that I could handle planning anything like this."

"You know that we don't have to get married right away. Hell, we don't even have to have a big wedding."

"Really?" she says, smiling up at him.

"I don't need all of that as long as I've got you..."

"Oh Luke... that's way cheesy, even for you!" she says laughing and he joins her as the mood lightens, "They'd be so upset though...the party, the family, everything. I would feel bad for everyone else."

"Okay..." he says, seeming to be deep in concentration as he stared in front of him.

"What are you thinking in that head of yours Lucas Scott?"

"Ideally, when do you want to get married? Take Jamie and everyone else out of the equation. Just us."

She turns to him, taking his hands in hers as she replies, "Lucas Scott, I'd marry you tomorrow if you asked."

"Okay." he says with a far off look in his face.

"What, okay? What do you mean, okay?"

"We're getting married tomorrow..." he says, standing up and walking away from her to get into the bedroom and pull out his laptop.

"Lucas!" she calls out to him, "We can't!"

He is quiet as she still sits in the bathroom trying to figure out if he was really this crazy or if this was actually something that he wanted to do, or even could do. No. They couldn't do it.

"Crap." she hears a few minutes later from the bathroom and decides that she needs to get back to him.

"What?"

"We can't get married tomorrow."

"Thank you, I thought that you were going crazy."

"What about Friday?" he asks as she steps into the closet to change into her pajamas for the evening.

"Luke..."

"I'm serious, Peyton. For you and me. We haven't done anything selfish in the past two months. Every day, I'm more in love with you than the day before. I am. I know that is as corny as possible, but it's true. We can still have the big reception with our family and our friends, but this can be just you and me."

"And Jamie..."

"Really?"

"If we are doing this, then I want him there. He needs to know that he is a part of this, Lucas."

"You're right... me and you and Jamie. Be selfish with me Peyton. I can't think of anything more that I could want with you."

"Friday?"

"Friday."

"And we don't tell anyone but Jamie?" she says cautiously.

"No one."

"Friday it is."

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Okay, I thought about it, and I realized that Leyton was really giving up a lot for this, and I wanted them to have something that Jamie would bond with them over. And it would also hold a bit of sentimental value in similarity to another couple that we love. I hope you all don't hate the idea, but yeah. Jamie is going to be having some breakthroughs because of this, so get ready for some more of a ride folks, cause I'm still not done yet! So I guess that the formal wedding will be slow developing, but the actual one... hmmm... maybe not?

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