Episode 5 Ch.3 The Great Unknown

Elizabeth and Noah are now sitting down in front of Andy and Michelle. "I didn't even know you were pregnant."

Elizabeth was looking at her baby girl. "I wasn't going to tell anyone about my pregnancy."

"Why not?" Andy wondered.

"Elizabeth and I had broken up right before she found out she was pregnant. She didn't tell me either."

"I was going to give my baby up for adoption. I didn't want my baby to be raised in a broken home but then Noah found me, and we realized that we loved each other more than anything in the world. I knew that if I had him by my side everything would be okay. He's a wonderful father."

"We know that it is going to be hard, but I love Elizabeth and I love Emma."

"Can I hold her?" Michelle asked. Elizabeth smiled.

"Of course you can. She has been waiting to meet her grandma." Elizabeth hands Emma over to Michelle.

"She is so beautiful Elizabeth. She looks just like you."

Andy smiled. "She's amazing."

"Yeah we think so too." Elizabeth smiled and Noah held onto her hand.

"Where are you going to live?"

"We're gonna be staying with my mom and dad until we can find a kid friendly apartment to live in."

Andy nodded. "You could always stay here if you want too."

"It's okay. My mom fixed the downstairs for us, and Lily will be moving out pretty soon so."

Michelle couldn't take her eyes off of Emma. "I'm upset that you guys didn't tell us that you were going to have a baby. I would have liked to have had sometime to make up a nursery for when she stayed with us. I also would have liked to have been there when she was born. Why did you wait two weeks?"

"Um the doctor didn't want us to travel with her so soon after she was born. And he wanted to do a check up and have time to refer her to someone else." Elizabeth realized lying wasn't very easy.

"And we're sorry mom. We just wanted to make sure that this is what we wanted."

"And this is definitely what we want." Elizabeth squeezed his hand. This was definitely what she had always wanted.

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Jeremy and Drew are at the park. Jeremy picked him up from Daycare, and he wanted to go to the park so that they could swing on the big boy swings.

"This is so much fun." Drew screamed as his daddy continued to push him.

"Yeah buddy…I love pushing you on the big boy swings."

"Yeah so does Chase."

Jeremy nodded his head.

"He does a lot of things with me."

Jeremy hated when Drew talked about chase.

"I wove him."

Jeremy noticed that Drew's face lit up when he talked about Chase.

"Mommy woves him too."

Jeremy rolled his eyes. He stopped pushing Drew and walked in front of the swing to stop it.

"I want to swing."

"I know, but I wanted to ask you something."

"Otay," He frowned.

"Would you like it if maybe your mommy and I lived together?" Jeremy knew he probably shouldn't ask him, but he knew that he would be happy. They hadn't lived together since Drew was born. "It would be like we were a family."

"I already have a family."

"Huh?"

"With Chase and mommy….I like just playing with you sometimes." Drew told a hurt Jeremy. "Can you push me now?"

"Yeah," Jeremy said sadly. He had ruined everything all those years ago.

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Peyton walks back into RobertScott Designs. Larry is there waiting on her. "Hey baby girl…"

"Hey dad…How long have you been here?"

"About an hour…I thought you would be here, but you weren't."

"Sorry dad…I had to take care of Lucy."

"Is she sick again?"

"She's pretending. Lucas and I are going to talk to her tonight." She looked at her dad, and she could tell that he was worried about something. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing," he lied.

"Come on dad….There is obviously a reason why you are here."

"I'm worried about McKenzie."

"Yeah Brooke is worried about Hunter."

Larry shook his head. "Don't talk about him." He wasn't Hunter's biggest fan.

"Dad…Hunter and McKenzie made some mistakes, but Hunter isn't the only one to blame."

"I know that, but he should just drop it. I don't know why he doesn't want to put the baby up for adoption. That is the best thing to do for everyone."

"Dad I…." Her phone started ringing. "I have to take this. Hello…Yes…What?....Okay…I'm on my way…"

"What's wrong?"

"We're going to have to finish this conversation later. Natalie got into a little trouble at school."

"Our Natalie…she's usually very good…"

"Yeah well I guess she decided she didn't want to be good anymore… I'm sorry about McKenzie, but Hunter should have a say in his baby's life too. It isn't fair not to give him a say. At least he is taking responsibility for the things that he did." Peyton grabbed her things and walked out of the business. Larry just stood there. He still thought that Hunter should give up his parental rights. They were kids. They weren't ready to raise a child.

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Isabella and Daniel are sitting in a booth at the café. "So how's your modeling career?"

"Right now it is nonexistent. My mom is making me go to college."

"What's your major?"

"I don't have one yet. I'm just taking my core."

"Oh…"

"I really want to be back in New York."

"Yeah well I'm glad you are back in Tree Hill. I missed you."

Isabella smiled, "I missed you too, Daniel, but New York is my home."

"Yeah…Do you want some hot chocolate? I know it is your favorite."

"Sure that'd be great."

Isabella smiled. Daniel was still a good guy. She hated that she broke his heart all those years ago. She had just left Tree Hill without even saying goodbye. She wrote him a note and that was it. She figured goodbye would just be too hard. She had regretted that decision from the moment that she did it.

"Here you go…"

"Thanks Daniel…But I should probably just go."

"Wait…I want to know why you did it. I want to know why you just left me without saying goodbye."

"I said goodbye in the note."

"Yeah I know what the note said. I'll never forget the note." He reached for his wallet and pulled it out. "I kept it."

"Oh…"

He began to read the paper, "I have to follow my dreams and you aren't apart of those anymore. This is goodbye forever." He shakes his head. "I thought this was some kind of joke or something. I thought I was being Punk'd. But you never came back and you never called."

"I'm sorry Daniel. I just I needed to live my life on my own."

"Yeah that didn't work out so well for you."

"That was a low blow."

"So was this," he holds up the note. "But I still love you."

Isabella doesn't say anything. Daniel shakes his head again. "I'll see you later."

"Daniel…I thought we could hang out some more."

"When you stop lying to yourself then maybe we can hang out." Daniel walks out of the café.

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Julie finds Rob in his classroom. "Hey do you got a minute?"

"Yeah what's wrong?"

"I left something at the house today and when I went back to get it Jenny was yelling at Nicholas because he was crying. I thought she was going to hurt him."

"Julie you don't know what you are talking about. Jenny would never hurt our children. She loves them."

"There is something wrong with her, and you should probably get her some help."

"Julie…" Rob didn't want to believe what she was telling him.

"I'm moving out."

"You don't have to do that."

"Jenny practically told me that I had to do that if I told you what I saw. I love you Rob that's why I'm telling you that your wife has some issues."

"Where are you going to live?"

"I don't know but I'll find a place. But please just talk to Jenny."

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Aidan and Lily are lying in bed together. "I think I love this house." Lily laughed.

"I think I love you."

"You better because I'm about to be your wife, and you'll be stuck with me forever."

He kissed her. "I think I'll be okay with that."

Her phone started beeping.

"Oh don't answer it."

"It may be Peyton. I have too." Lily flipped open her phone and read a text message that said please meet me at the boat house…Spencer…

"What is it?"

"I have to go. Peyton needs me, but I'll be back I promise." She hated lying to him, but she wanted to see Spencer.

"You better…."

"I will…" She gives him a kiss and then searches for her things.

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Elizabeth walks into Keith's classroom holding Emma. "Oh my gosh is that my niece?"

"Say hello to Uncle Keith, Emma."

Keith takes Emma into his arms. "Oh wow…I can't believe my sister had a baby and I didn't even know that she was pregnant."

"I know. I'm sorry, but everything was just complicated."

"Yeah I know a thing or two about complicated."

"What's going on?"

"The kids here hate me. They think I'm a murderer."

"I'm sure that's not true." She smiled. "Everything is going to be okay."

"I suck at this."

"I think you are doing a pretty good job holding her." She laughed.

"That's not what I was talking about."

"I know. I was just trying to lighten the mood."

"Yeah…well I'm really happy for you Elizabeth…Where's Noah? He is the father isn't he?"

"Yeah of course he is. He's waiting on us. Dad hasn't met Emma yet."

"Oh well she is going to have him wrapped around her little finger. Yes you are…" He smiled at Emma.

Elizabeth smiled. She loved seeing them together. "She already loves her Uncle Keith."

"Yeah well her Uncle Keith already loves her."

"Well I was wondering if you would take on two titles in her life." Keith looked at her. "I'd really like it if you would be her God Father too."

Keith smiled, "Of course I will."

Elizabeth was happy. Everything was going to be okay.

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Peyton and Natalie walk upstairs to see Lucas and Lucy watching TV.

"Natalie what are you doing home?"

"Go take a seat on the bed Natalie." Natalie did as her mother asked. Peyton turned off the TV.

"What happened Peyton?" Lucas asked again.

Peyton walked over to the bed and sat down next to Lucas. "Well Natalie got caught biting today."

"Natalie," Lucas said in a stern tone.

"I'm sorry daddy. I won't do it again."

"Why did you bite?"

"I don't know."

"That's not a good answer Natalie." Peyton warned her.

"I wanted to come home, and I didn't know how to pretend to be sick." Natalie told her parents and twin sister.

"Is that what you have been doing Lucy?" They already knew that she was.

Lucy nodded her head. "I just wanted to spend time with you."

Lucas felt bad. He had been so sick that he hadn't been able to spend much time with them.

"Well pretending to be sick and biting someone is not allowed."

"We know." They spoke at the same time.

"I love you two very much, and I'm sorry that I have been so sick. I promise when I get better we are going to spend a lot of time together."

"So no more faking and biting. Is that understood?" Peyton looked at them sternly.

"We understand."

"Good…We love you."

"We love you too."

Lucas felt so bad that he wasn't able to spend much time with his little girls. He was going to change that somehow. He had to.

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Nathan and Ava walk into her hotel room. "You know I may need to go apartment hunting."

"Are you planning on staying for good?"

"I think I could be persuaded. Nathan…"

"Yeah…"

"Can you give me a reason to stay for good?"

Nathan just stared at her not really knowing what to say.

Okay so how was that? Let me know what you thought and if you have any suggestions. Lucas meets his granddaughter in the next chapter. I hope you guys enjoyed this.