"P. Scott do you want to take a ride with me?!" Lucas asked with a cheeky grin on his face.

"Why yes, but where might we be heading I wonder?!" Peyton playfully replied

"Oh I dunno, thought we might just take a drive around and see where we end up"

"And if we end up in a crazy little town called Tree Hill?"

"Suits me just fine!" Lucas replied before leaning in to kiss Peyton.

Sawyer giggled in the background.

"Why Sawyer Scott do you want to come too?!" Peyton asked her

"YES!" she yelled.

"Sawyer wants to come and see her Aunt Brooke and Aunt Haley again?" Lucas asked

"Yes!" she replied laughing.

"Well there you have it ladies and gentlemen… looks like the Scott's are headed for a road trip!" With that Lucas ignited the engine and started off. They were headed home at long last.

Two months had passed in the time it took for Peyton and Lucas to organise everything for the move. It was such a nice feeling to be returning home again. Karen was still travelling with Andy and Lily, so they were going to move back into Lucas' childhood home, at least for the time being.

Lucas had to admit, he was almost as excited as Peyton was. He knew she was right, nowhere else really felt like home other than Tree Hill. He was keen to go back and coach the Ravens once more, to re-connect with his friends. Something about Tree Hill always drew them back. They had all left at one point or another. Brooke to spend time in New York for Clothes over Bro's and then later LA to spend time with Julian. Nathan and Haley had left to pursue his basketball career and Mouth for his broadcasting job. And yet, all had returned. Nowhere else felt like home. And now at last Lucas and Peyton were returning.

Over the past few months Lucas had also been thinking a lot about his book. It was nice to actually be able to look past how Keith's life had ended, but rather look at how much he had achieved in his time on earth. Lucas still missed Keith every day, yet somehow, writing this novel was helping him deal with his murder in a way that nothing else had ever helped him cope before. Perhaps this was the reason that no-one yet had read or seen his book. He knew Peyton wanted to see it, but she knew that he would show her when he was ready. Lucas somehow felt that he couldn't show anyone this novel until it was perfect. For them to see the novel before-hand would be sacrilegious to Keith's memory. At least that was how Lucas felt. There were just some things that could not quite fit…. Some things that Lucas would need to go back and live his past again in order to get the full feel of his life with Keith.

"I just hope this book does better than The Comet"Lucas thought to himself.

They had a long drive ahead of them. Lucas' chuckled to himself. It would have been a lot easier to fly, but just as when they initially re-located to LA, there was 'no way', in Peyton's words, that they were leaving the Comet behind.

"There are so many good memories in this car" she had said to him meaningfully.

"I can't just farm it off to some stranger!"

"Peyton, we can get another car you know…. This car isn't going to last forever! I mean Uncle Keith taught me a lot about cars, but he didn't quite figure out how to give one immortality yet!" Lucas chuckled.

"Honestly Lucas! Have you no sense of meaning? No sense of romance?! Even if this car dies and is beyond repair, there is no way we are selling it or parting with it! We can sit in the garage and tell our kids and grandkids how their old parents met and all the adventures they had in this car!"

And so – it was because of that they were driving the long drive back to Tree Hill. He had to admit though, Peyton did have a point. This car did feature in a lot of their history… it led Lucas to the first time he and Peyton spoke, it led to his novel that led them back together. Lucas often wondered why The Comet was such a flop…. Maybe he just wasn't in the right frame of mind. He had to admit that Peyton really was his muse for writing. He was so…. uninspired when she wasn't around. It seemed so obvious to him now, he often wondered how he came so close to marrying the wrong girl, and believing that he was, in every essence marrying the right girl.

"Lucas… I have to ask you something" Peyton asked him one night as they were lying in bed.

"Mmm?!" her replied.

"I know it seems like a silly question now…. But why me?! How come you chose me? What made you decide that I was the one for you? You were so close to marrying Lyndsay… you would have married Lyndsay… had she not panicked. You pined after her for so long after she left you…. So what led you to ring me that day at the airport?"

"Oh I so did not 'pine'!" Lucas protested!

"Oh C'mon! Drunken nights, moping about, loosing your cool on the basketball court… telling me you hate me!" Peyton argued

"Ok… maybe I pined a little" Lucas sheepishly admitted.

"To tell you the truth, it wasn't really a thought process. I was at the River-court and saw the song you had written for me. Suddenly it all became clear. Like all those years ago when we won the state championships. Suddenly I realised Lyndsay wasn't the one for me, and that she was right all along… just like Brooke was right all along. I don't know why I didn't see it first, why I didn't see it earlier. I guess I was just too…. hurt to see how I really felt. Or at least acknowledge it. But then, when I read your song it all became clear. I then got a phone call from Lyndsay telling me she still loved me… and I felt nothing. I didn't feel happiness or relief. I realised there was only one person I wanted to hear that from… and that person had already told me multiple times the exact same thing, I just chose to ignore it… as I didn't want to get another 'someday'. "

Peyton smiled, then moved closer to kiss Lucas.

She sighed. "Oh if only I could take those words back. I should have known that we would be great together. That we could survive anything. I would give anything to have said 'yes' that fateful day. I'm just so lucky that it turned out well in the end!"

"Darn right you are! You would be lost without me" Lucas joked.

"I kinda like you, you know that" Peyton replied smiling.

"Yeah, I guess you're a bit of alright too" Lucas replied, smiling.

"What are you thinking about Luke" Peyton asked, bringing him back from his daydreams.

"Oh nothing much, just about our past, and heading home again. It's such a nice feeling to be heading home…."

"I'm so excited" Peyton responded. "It will be so nice to be able to work on re-building 'red bedroom' again. I mean Haley has done an awesome job, but she can't do it all. And I've really missed it, y'know. Plus – with the baby coming along, she'll be having less and less time to spend at the studio"

"Wow – aren't you just going to be the busy little working mother" Lucas teased.

"I wouldn't have it any other way" Peyton responded as she looked over the backseat to see Sawyer sound asleep in her car-seat. She looked so peaceful as she slept. Not a care in the world. Peyton was so excited to be bringing her home. Home to find and discover all of her parents old haunts and also to see and experience the life of a small town.

"I just hope she has half of the childhood we had growing up" Peyton mused aloud.

"And I just hope she has all that we had minus the drama's that her mother used to get into" Lucas teased.

"Well there is that…. Or she could always just find a guy who will just keep rescuing her!"