Author's Note: okay, another episode! (:
Episode 5: Ian
Peyton stared at Lucas with tears in her eyes. Lucas stared right back at her.
"Peyton.. I know you want to do this. You were just excited about it at the apartment. If anything goes wrong, I'll protect you, okay?"
Peyton just nodded and wiped the tears away from her face. Lucas pulled her in for a hug and they kissed. They both got out of the car at the same time and walked to the drug store across the street. They walked into the store and saw a tall blonde man who smiled at them as they came toward him.
"Just let me talk to him for a while."
Lucas gave Peyton a suspicious look. She smiled at him.
"I'll be okay, Luke. I promise." Peyton said as she kissed her husband.
Lucas kissed her back and smiled as he walked away nearby but not too far away from his wife. She smiled back as she walked towards her "brother".
"Hey, are you Peyton?" Derek asked as Peyton came closer to him.
"Hey, yeah. Are you Derek?"
He nodded and smiled.
"Who's that with you?"
Peyton looked at Lucas then back at Derek.
"That's my husband, Lucas."
Derek started choking and Lucas' eyes narrowed suspiciously.
"Husband? Gah, Peyton! You're only like what? 17?"
Peyton shook her head.
"I'm 16 actually. My birthday is in a few months. We got married 3 months ago."
Derek stared at her.
"Does Larry know that you two tied the knot?"
Peyton smiled, "Yeah. He was mad for a while, but he got over it and bought us our apartment."
"Wow. My sister. Married. Even though, I just found out about having a sister, I can't believe it." Derek said with a smile.
Peyton laughed and replied, "Yeah, I can't believe it either."
Derek had a though to ditch the husband, "want to go grab a coffee or ice cream or something?"
Peyton's smile faded. She didn't know him.
"Uh.. Derek.. I don't think that's a good idea..I just met you and.."
Peyton trailed off.
"I don't think you heard me correctly. I was just asking nicely." Derek said with force as he pulled out something from his jacket.
Peyton felt something hard against her stomach. She looked down and saw a gun.
"Umm.. Okay." She said with nervousness filling her voice.
She saw Lucas moving towards her as Derek pushed her out the door with a gun pressed against her back. Peyton mouthed to Lucas 'Help Me!' as Derek pushed Peyton into his car and she watched him get in with the gun pointed at her. He tied her hands and put a piece of tape over her mouth so she was left with her thoughts until she saw Lucas coming in the rearview mirror. He was running and Derek started the car quickly and pulled out of the parking place while the gun pointed at her head.
"Oh, in case you haven't figured it out yet Peyton, I'm not your brother. I'm Ian." He said while speeding down the road. Within a few minutes they arrived at a hotel. He pushed her out of the car and into the room within 5 minutes. He pushed her onto a bed and she stood up and kicked him. He fell to the floor and the gun lay on the floor. She tried to untie her hands, but they were tied tightly. She prayed for Lucas to get her as fast as possible. She saw their car following them the entire way. Derek got up and punched her hard. Peyton fell on a table. The door busted open just as Derek started to make his way to Peyton. Lucas came in and saw Derek. He beat him up badly and Peyton just stayed back and watched. Tears flowed down her face as the police entered and took an unconscious Derek away. When the police were gathering Derek, Lucas walked over to Peyton and untied her hands. She fell into his arms crying. She took the piece of tape off and her sobs filled the hotel room. Lucas just held onto his wife. Paramedics tried to take a look at Peyton, but she just held onto Lucas for life. Lucas was finally able to get Peyton to let the paramedics look at her.
Tears still flowing, Peyton stuttered her answer to the paramedics question, "He punched me and I fe-fell on that ta-table."
After the paramedics were finished, Peyton fell back into Lucas' arms crying.
"I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry, Peyt." Lucas whispered soothingly to his wife.
Peyton looked up for a moment and whispered, "Can we leave now?"
Lucas nodded and helped her off of the bed. Peyton closed her eyes as they exited the hotel room. It was raining and Peyton saw Derek being put into a police car. Peyton turned away from the sight and buried her head in Lucas' chest crying once again. Lucas held her until he saw the police car leave the parking lot.
"They're gone. Let's go home." Lucas said while helping Peyton walk down steps and into the car.
Peyton said nothing on the ride back to the apartment. When they got there, they both got out and into the apartment. Peyton started crying on Lucas' chest.
AN: there ya have it. A update