Episode 11 Ch.2 Rush

Aidan walks into the café. He didn't really want to see anyone in the Scott family, but Karen's Café had the best coffee in town, and he needed a big cup.

He walks to the counter and a girl grabbed her bag off the counter and ran into him. "Oh I'm…." Julie stopped talking once she saw Aidan.

He didn't say anything. He didn't know what to say. She walked off not saying anything else. They couldn't talk because talking seemed to lead to something more for them, and she couldn't have that.

Aidan looked back at her and then ordered his coffee. He had to forget about her. What they did could never happen again.

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Jake and the kids are eating in a booth at the Café. "Okay guys hurry up…We've got to get to school."

"Daddy…." Rosi fed him off of her plate. "Good…" She smiled at him.

"Yeah it's very good. You better eat some of it for yourself." He tried to feed her.

"I'm not hungry." She shook her head. "I'm done."

"Okay well then we better get going."

Max sees Mia walk into the café. Jake had introduced them a few days earlier at the Café. They had bumped into each other, and Max really liked her, and he could tell that his dad liked her too.

"Mia," he calls out to her.

Mia smiles and walks towards them. "Hey guys…hey there cutie…" She touches Rosi's cheeks. She had the cutest little cheeks. They kind of reminded her of Jake's.

"What are you doing here?" Max asked her.

"Well what exactly are you doing here?" She laughed.

"I meant you should have had breakfast with us. I mean you could have if we would have known that you were coming."

"Yeah well I never really know when I'm hungry." Mia joked.

"Well maybe she can next time." Jake told them.

"You could come to the park with us today. Dad is taking us after school." Max smiled. He wanted to be a little match maker.

Mia looked at Jake. She wanted to wait to respond. She barely knew them and she didn't want to invade their time together.

"I think it's a good idea. She can push Rosi on the swing." He smiled at her. It was a plus because his kids really seemed to like her.

"Then I'll see you this afternoon at the park." Mia said as she walked away from the table.

"Me like her daddy." Rosi told him.

"Me too…." Max said.

Jake smiled. He happened to like her too.

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Breanne and Jacey are sitting in the waiting room together. "I am so sorry for not knowing that you were getting abused." Breanne felt so bad for not being there for her. "I was too worried about myself. I'm sorry. Can you ever forgive me?"

Jacey nodded. "Of course I can forgive you Breanne. You are my best friend, and I didn't broadcast my abuse to anyone. I didn't want anyone to know. So please don't blame yourself. Keith was doing the same thing. And that is not what I want from either one of you."

Breanne took Jacey in her arms. "Keith's gonna be okay."

"Yeah….I know…I know…" But she didn't know.

"Excuse me Miss Jones." A police officer approached her.

"Yes sir that's me." She stood up.

"We wanted you to know that Eddie confessed to abusing you and trying to kill Mr. Scott."

"Oh good," Jacey was relieved to hear that. "Will he being going to jail?"

"I'm sorry but he died."

"What?"

"He confessed to hurting you, and soon after he killed himself. I guess he realized he was a lowlife that didn't deserve to live." The police officer didn't have much else to say, but he knew she would want to know. "Let us know if there is anything else we can do for you." He walked away.

"Oh my God…" She couldn't believe that Eddie was finally dead. "He put me through hell for a year. I can't believe he is finally gone."

Breanne took her in her arms. She didn't know how to make any of this better for her best friend, but she wished that she could.

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Lucas walks into Keith's hospital room and rubs Peyton's shoulders to let her know that he is there. "Maybe you should take a little break."

"No," she shook her head. "I don't want to leave him. The doctors say that he can probably hear my voice. It is good that I am talking to him."

"I know, but honey you don't need to wear yourself down. I think Keith will understand if you take a little break."

"You're one the talk. You're not supposed to be out of the house."

"I'm fine, and I'm not leaving this hospital until my son wakes up."

"He's gonna wake up soon Lucas. I just know it." Peyton looked at Keith. He had to wake up.

Brooke knocked on the door and walked in. "Hey P. Scott….I was wondering if we could take a walk together."

"I…I…" She looked over Keith.

"I'll stay with him Peyton."

She nodded. "I'll be right back my baby boy." Peyton kisses his forehead. "If he wakes up you come and find me."

"I will." He gives her a kiss and she and Brooke walk out of the room.

Peyton and Brooke are walking outside the hospital. "Lucas was right. The fresh air is making me feel a little better."

Brooke smiled. "If you need to go home for a little while I can stay with Keith."

"No," Peyton wasn't leaving her son. "I don't want to leave him for too long."

"He's gonna be okay Peyton. Keith is a fighter just like his mom and dad."

Peyton bit her bottom lip, "I know. He's so strong, but I'm just afraid that he isn't going to win this battle. I'm afraid that he isn't going to wake up, and I don't know what I would do if that happened."

"That's not gonna happen." Brooke stopped Peyton from walking. "Don't give up hope Peyton Scott. I believe in miracles and so do you."

"Yeah I do too. You're right he's gonna wake up. He's got to wake up." Brooke hugged Peyton as a lone tear slowly dripped down Peyton's cheek.

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Lucas is alone with Keith. "Your mom is pretty upset. You have to wake up because nothing will ever be the same if you don't. I have to admit I'm going crazy worrying about you. I really wish you wouldn't have inherited my desire to be a hero. You are just like me in that way. I always want to save the one I love, and you were doing the same thing. Jacey is okay. She's freaking out and blaming herself so you need to wake up and tell her otherwise."

Lucas touched his son's hand. "I just want you to know that I love you, and although I don't always tell you I do love you so much."

"Luke," Nathan said as he walked into the room. "How's he doing?"

"No change," Lucas said sadly.

"It's gonna be okay man. Scott's are fighters. We always seem to manage no matter what happens."

"Yeah," Lucas wasn't so sure.

"I wanted you to know that Brooke and I are gonna be okay. We know that we love each other, and I think everything is finally gonna go back to the way it should be."

"That's great Nathan. I always wanted you two to be okay."

"Yeah…."

"You know I keep thinking of this time when Keith was five and he fell and hurt himself and he had this huge cut on his leg. He wouldn't let me doctor on it because he said he was a big boy and didn't need my help, but I knew that he was just afraid that it was going to hurt when I put medicine on it. It makes me think that he's scared to wake up because he doesn't want to hurt."

"What did you tell him?"

Lucas chuckled a little, "I told him that if he counted to ten and thought of his favorite person or favorite thing in the whole world then it wouldn't hurt as bad, and no one is too big to have someone that loves them help them out."

"Then I'm pretty sure that's all he needs to hear now. Just let him know that you'll be here when he wakes up, and you'll help him through anything that gets in his way just like you always have."

"Thanks Nate…."

Nathan smiled and hugged his brother.

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"I can't believe Eddie is dead." Jacey sighed. "He got exactly what he deserved."

"How did the two of you get together?"

"He was charming and sweet and he said everything I needed to hear. He didn't start hitting me until we moved in together, and the first time he hit me he blamed it on me saying that I made him do it to me. He told me not to make him angry and it wouldn't happen again. And it didn't for a while, but his temper would get the best of him and he would just go off on me." Jacey began to cry. "But every time he hit me afterwards he told me how much he loved me."

"You were brainwashed Jacey."

"No," she shook her head. "I was just stupid. I knew that he was hurting me, and I let him hurt me everyday."

"Well he will never hurt you again."

"Yeah well if Keith doesn't wake up then I should have let him kill me. Because I know now that I cannot live without Keith. He's everything to me."

Breanne held Jacey in her arms. She wished that she could make everything better for her, but she knew that she couldn't.

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Isabella walks into Cliff's hotel room.

"Hey baby…I've missed you."

'Yeah well my family is going through a lot right now. I kind of have to be there for them."

"I want to be there for you too….I love you." He kisses her and Isabella thinks back to drinking and doing drugs with him. She knew that she had to stop involving herself in that kind of behavior, but she didn't know how to tell him.

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Daniel walks into Noah and Elizabeth's little apartment that was located below the Scott household. "Hey brother…"

"Hey…"

"I was hoping to see my little niece. Where is she?"

"Elizabeth took her to the hospital. She thought it might help if she took her to see Keith."

"Right…How's he doing?"

"No change…Elizabeth is a complete mess. I've tried to do what I can to make her feel better, but I'm not much help." Noah told him.

"Yeah but she knows that you love her and that's all that matters."

"That I do. I love her more than anything else in the world. Her and Emma are everything to me."

"Yeah…that's good." Daniel's voice began to break.

"What's wrong?"

"I just really need to talk to you. I'm losing my mind."

Noah looked at him confusingly. He knew that there had to be more to the story. Daniel couldn't possibly be going crazy. That would just be weird.

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Summer opens the door to see Lily and Spencer standing in front of her. "Oh my God does this mean that the two of you are finally together." She squeals with excitement.

"Yeah we're pretty happy." Lily smiles as she hugs her best friend.

"I can't believe this. I kind of always knew the two of you would end up together." She now hugs Spencer. "Where have you guys been?"

"Well we kind of have something that we want to tell you." Spencer tells her.

"Okay I'm listening…"

"But it is top secret and no one can know."

"Okay…now I definitely want to know."

"Can you keep a secret?" Lily just wanted to make sure.

"Yeah just tell me already."

"We were in Las Vegas getting married." Lily squeals when she tells her.

Summer looks unbelievably shocked. "What?"

"We decided that we wanted to be together forever, and we weren't going to let anything get in our way." Spencer walked Summer over to the couch. She looked like she was about to fall out.

"Then why is it such a secret?"

Lily looks over at Spencer. "We also decided that we want a big wedding where Lucas walks me down the aisle and gives me away."

"And we decided to let it set in for everyone. We don't want to push our happiness in Aidan's face. That's the last thing that I want."

"Well I am very happy for both of you. I always knew my two best friends would end up happily married."

"We are happily married." Spencer kisses her forehead.

"Great," Summer makes a face.

"What's with the face?" Lily asks her knowing that there is something wrong with her.

"I thought that Chase was going to propose, but I think he changed his mind." Summer said sadly. She hated waiting for him to propose. She already knew what her answer would be.

"Oh my gosh that's amazing. Why would he change his mind?" Lily wondered.

"I don't know. Maybe he realized that he doesn't love me anymore."

"He loves you with all of his heart. I've never seen Chase more in love."

"Maybe you should say something to him." Spencer suggested.

"I can't tell him that I found the ring. Then he would just propose because he had too not because he wanted too." Summer yelled at him.

"Okay…okay…sorry…just wait on him then. If he loves you and he wants to be with you then he will propose."

"You are no help at all." Lily tells him. "Summer what you have to do is simple. Just throw yourself at him. Let him know that you love him so much and you don't want to be with anyone else. Be the best girlfriend you know how to be and he'll propose."

"I hope you're right. I hope I haven't lost him."

Spencer just shook his head. He didn't understand women and he never would, but that was okay because he finally had the woman of his dreams, and he was never going to let her go ever again.

Okay let me know what you thought! I'll update soon. This was kind of a long chapter.