Brooke looked at the clock and sighed, Nathan was supposed to be home hours ago from his trip to Chicago and they were going to spend the day together since the beginning of the season and he promised her at least one night of alone time. She looked at the clock again and began rapping her nails against the table making Buddy look at her as he set his head in her lap wanting her to pet him. Brooke smiled down at her faithful pet and lightly scratched his head happy that at least someone was paying attention to her.

She stood up slowly and put her hand on her very big stomach since she was 9 months pregnant and slowly waddled into the living room to check the clock in there since she didn't think that the clock in the kitchen was right, there was no way that Nathan would ever be 3 hours late coming home from the arena and as her mind processed that he was 3 hours late she felt a twinge of pain shoot through her stomach and she clenched her stomach bending over slightly. She cried out and fell against the couch screaming as another twinge of pain shoot through her body.

Peyton who was in town helping Brooke with some things for work heard Brooke scream from the office and ran to where Brooke was. Brooke looked at Peyton with tears in her eyes wanting Peyton to make the pain stop and as soon as Brooke's water broke Peyton rushed into action and got her overnight bag and her purse and helped Brooke out to her car. She got in the car and carefully sped off to the hospital hoping that nothing happened between the house and the hospital. Once Brooke was all checked in Peyton decided to check both of their phones hoping that Nathan had called to find out where they were. Sure enough there were 3 messages on Brooke's phone from the time that they left and arrived at the hospital. She dialed Nathan's cell phone and by the 2nd ring Nathan answered the phone. "Where are you?"

"Nathan its Peyton. Brooke's water broke and we're at the hospital you need to get here fast." Peyton heard the line go dead and laughed to herself thinking that Nathan had dropped the phone since he was probably flying out of his house. Nathan dropped his phone and he picked it up as he ran out of his house trying to dial his brother's number.

"Hello?"

"Luke you need to get out here as soon as possible!" Nathan exclaimed into the phone as he threw the car into reverse and sped out of the driveway trying not to intentionally kill himself as he rushed to the hospital.

"What's wrong?"

"Brooke's in labor!"

"Dude stop yelling!" Luke exclaimed trying to calm his little brother down because knowing Nathan he was going to kill himself if he didn't calm down and focus on getting to Brooke in one piece. "Now breathe and get to the hospital, I'll try and get an earlier flight out there."

"Okay." Nathan hung up and put both hands on the wheel as he drove to the hospital. He parked the car in the parking garage and ran the entire way into the hospital only stopping to find out where she was. Peyton was nervously pacing in the waiting room when she heard Nathan bounding down the hallway. "Where is she?" Nathan asked fighting the urge to grab her by the shoulders and shake her.

"First off calm down, second breathe, and third follow me." Nathan nodded his head desperately trying to calm down and breathe at the same time. By the time they reached Brooke's room Nathan at least look like he was calm under the pressure but his heart was pounding in his chest and he almost pushed Peyton out of his way to be at Brooke's side.

"Where were you?"

"I got held up at the arena with some team thing. I was going to call but my phone was in my bag. I'm so sorry."

"It's okay you're here now that's all that matters."

"I'm not going anywhere." Brooke smiled as Nathan gently kissed her on the forehead holding her hand. Peyton smiled and watched from the corner of the room wishing that Luke was there.

When Luke hung up with Nathan and smiled into the mirror, his assistant was behind him on the phone scrambling to get him a plane ticket back to California as Luke was ushered back stage of the talk show where he was promoting his new book. He hoped that Peyton, Brooke, and Nathan were watching.

Peyton looked down at her watch and jumped up grabbing the remote from Brooke and turning the channel to the Melanie Show. "What the hell Peyton?"

"I forgot Luke's going to be on today."

"Oh yeah his new book came out on Tuesday." Nathan commented moving his chair so he could see the TV. It was kinda of cool that his brother was on TV even though he couldn't play in the NBA.

"So today Luke Scott is here to talk about his book One Tree Hill. I've read the book and I can't wait to talk to Luke. So Luke come on out." The crowd erupted when Luke appeared from behind two large doors and started walking towards the stage with a huge smile on his face and hugged Melanie. "So I have to ask the question, where did you get the idea for the main character from?" Luke chuckled briefly.

"Well I guess the inspiration for the main character came from a mixture of my childhood best friend, my first serious girlfriend, my lovely girlfriend, and my brother's wife."

"Now I understand that you and your brother's wife dated before they got married, is that true?"

"Yes Brooke and I dated and what happened between us is a huge part of the book and I like to say that I'm the reason they got together in the first place." Melanie laughed and lightly knocking Luke's shoulder.

"So I'm hearing rumors that the book is already creating buzz in Hollywood and that maybe there's already a movie deal in the works." Now it was Luke's turn to laugh, they said that about the last book and there had been no movie but Luke laughed and thought about how he should answer this question.

"Well I think if there's going to be a movie made out of any of my books I think it should be this one and I'm more than willing to do whatever it takes to make it happen."

"Well that was a very good Politian like answer, so what will Luke Scott be doing now?"

"I'll be flying back to Sacramento to meet my new niece or nephew and I'll be brainstorming the next one." The crowd cheered and Melanie hugged Luke as they went to commercial break.

Peyton smiled and turned off the TV turning towards Nathan and Brooke who were smiling also. "I did not know that I was such inspiration to him."

"Hon, you should read the book it's really good." Both Brooke and Peyton turned towards him as if he had grown 3 heads. "What? Luke asked me to read it and see if it was good, you know that I don't read books but this one was worth it. I still have the copy of it too; he even dedicated the book to us."

"Really?" Both asked at the same time and Nathan nodded reaching down into Brooke's overnight bag and pulling out the book. "When did that get there?" Brooke asked ripping the book form his hands.

"I put it there when I finished it so you could read it while we were here." Brooke and Peyton weren't listening as they flipped open the book and looked at the dedication page.

"To my awesome family; my mom, Peyton, Jessica my lovely sweet daughter, Nathan the brother that always kept me grounded, and Brooke the girl that taught me to go for what I wanted no matter how much it hurt." Peyton read aloud as Brooke wiped at the tears that were falling from her eyes. "That is so sweet."

"You guys should really read the book." Peyton set the book down and sat in the other chair in the room.

"The first thing to be taken care of is having this baby." Brooke laughed and rubbed her stomach.

Hours later after Brooke had finally been doped up and Nathan sat next to Brooke's bed as she slept holding onto her hand a million thoughts running through his head. Nathan picked up the phone next to the bed and called his coach explaining to him that he was going to need a few days off to in case it took Brooke a long time to have the baby because Nathan was determined to be there for her when they did have the baby. Finally Luke arrived at the hospital and just like Nathan did ran the entire way to Brooke's room. Nathan laughed at him softly when he came in out of breath and hunched over. "Dude you know it's not good for you to run." Luke stood up and glared at him as he sat down in the chair that Peyton had been sitting in hours before.

"Where's Peyton?"

"She ran back to the house to get some stuff that Brooke forgot to pack in her bag."

"Oh."

"We watched the show."

"Really?"

"Yeah the girls were in tears as they read the dedication and they were shocked I actually read it."

"I expected that." Luke replied laughing as Brooke slowly started waking up. She smiled when she saw Luke sitting on the other side of her bed. "Hey I think it's time to push this sucker out Brooke."

"Ha ha, you're telling me. You did great today."

"Thank you."

"I didn't know that I had so much influence over you."

"You never forget your first real love." Nathan nodded agreeing with him. He would never forget Haley and everything that they shared together even after all these years. Brooke smiled and sat up as the doctor came in also sporting a smile. He did his examination and smiled at Brooke letting her know the good news.

"Well Mrs. Scott I believe it's time to start pushing."

"Really? It's only been a couple of hours."

"Brooke, the hours vary with each baby with each pregnancy. I'm more than willing to let you keep the baby inside for a couple of more hours."

"No!" He nodded his head and Luke left the room going to call Peyton to let her know that Brooke was finally going to have the baby.

Finally Brooke and Nathan welcomed Adam James Scott into the world weighing in at 11 lbs and 5 oz. Brooke was more than overjoyed to finally have her baby in her arms after years of dealing with the miscarriage even years after it had happened. Nathan looked at Brooke and smiled when he saw tears in her eyes matching the ones in his.

Luke and Peyton came in and both smiled Peyton happy for her best friend and tears in her eyes and Luke even had a tear in his eye. He was finally an uncle and could do everything he had planned on doing from the beginning because he wanted this child to know that he had so many people that loved and cared about him. Brooke looked down at the little baby in her arms and kissed his forehead happy that she was finally getting the chance to be the mother she always wanted and she was going to be the best mother possible.

Nathan looked at his son and decided right at that moment in time that he was not going to be like Dan. He was determined to make life for his son the best life that he could give him and no matter what happened later on Nathan was always going to love his son and support him. Finally the 'black' cloud that had hung over the couple for years was finally being to turn a lighter shade of grey.

A/N: So I know that it's been forever but this chapter for me was kinda hard to write.