Update! So in this next installment I go back to season 3. This has mostly to do with the way Peyton had been treating Haley at the beginning of the season. This is how I imagined Haley confronting Peyton about how she was being treated had a scene like this occurred. I felt like they brushed past that issue too quickly. A lot of the things Peyton would say to Haley were out of place and uninformed in my opinion. I feel the need to say that this is in no way me bashing Peyton. I do like Peyton but I have to admit that her treatment of Haley annoyed the heck out of me. I think I can understand why she was the way she was and I kinda get into that but I still hated it. Again time frame of this is a bit iffy of when I imagined this could have occurred had Haley done this.

Hope you enjoy this chapter. Don't forget to let me know what you think. ;)

*Special author's request at the end.

Title: Enough!

Season: 3

Episode: Sometime around Locked Hearts and Hand Grenades

Summary: Haley confronts Peyton about the treatment she's been getting from her.

It was a busy Sunday afternoon in Karen's Café. Haley was in the midst of all the customers counting down to the minute until the end of her shift which would be within the next couple hours. The craziness at least seemed to be winding down. After giving a customer their bill she saw Lucas walk in.

"Hey buddy." Lucas greeted smiling.

"Hey. I thought you were coming in a little later?"

"Mom called and said you guys could use some help."

"Yeah it got a little crazy. I think Gus could use some help in the back."

"Dish duty? Damn." Haley eyed him critically, "Okay, sounds good. Let me go then."

Lucas walked to the back room, put on the proper apron and greeted Gus as he took his place next to the older man. Karen step out of the storage and patted her son on the back before heading to the front to the coffee maker which she about to start brewing another batch. Haley came over to the register and began ringing up another customer bill.

"Haley, you can go ahead and have a break."

"Oh thanks but I was going to refill some of the salt and pepper shakers."

"Not really a break but at least you get to sit down. After you're done take a proper one."

Haley chuckled, "Okay, I will."

Haley grabbed the tray with the refills and sat at the counter. She only had a few containers to refill so she got through it pretty quickly. She then placed the freshly filled containers on the tables. Just as she placed the last one she heard the bell over the door jingle and saw Brooke walk into the café.

"Hey, roomie!" Brooke greeted perkily.

"Hey, Brooke. What brings you by?"

"Well, P. Sawyer and I were doing some shopping and I had a sudden craving for some of Karen's peach cobbler."

"Ah, you're in luck. Karen made a fresh one this morning. Take a seat and I'll bring it over." Haley said over her shoulder as she walked behind the counter.

Haley cut a quick slice and placed it on a plate. Grabbing a fork she then walked over to Brooke's table and placed the pie in front of her friend.

"Yum!" Brooke grabbed the fork and started digging in.

"So where's Peyton?"

"Oh, she was parking the car. I told her I'd grab a table since it looked like the placed was pretty crowded."

"Oh, okay."

"So, I was thinking of hosting a bit of a get together this weekend at our place."

"Okay Brooke let's just call it what it is. There's no way this is just a get together. You want to throw a party." Haley shook her head amused.

"I do. Is there something wrong with that?"

"No. It could be fun."

"Wow, I thought I'd have to work a little harder on the convincing." Brooke said surprised. At that moment Peyton entered the café and soon took the seat by Brooke. There was an obvious tension in the air as she glanced toward Haley.

"Brooke, you forgot your phone in the car. It was ringing. I think it was your mom." Peyton told Brooke as she placed the phone in front of her.

Brooke glance at the missed call, "Wonder what she wants now. I can talk to her later. So, I was talking to Haley about Saturday."

"Oh, did you need her permission or something?" Peyton commented snidely.

Haley slumped back into her chair and let out a small sigh. It seemed that no matter the conversation or comment which involved her Peyton would have something negative to say against her. It was getting ridiculous and as far as Haley was concerned unnecessary. No matter how hard Haley tried to repair the friendship Peyton refused to budge. There was just no getting through to her. Haley was getting sick of it. If Peyton didn't want to be her friend anymore she could eventually deal with it, but this vitriol Peyton had against her was too much lately.

Brooke sensed the tension between her two friends. She felt bad for Haley. She knew how much Haley had tried to get back on Peyton's good side but her best friend was having none of it. As much as she adored her best friend, Brooke didn't like the way Peyton was treating Haley. It was getting a bit tiring being the buffer between them. She really needed to talk to Peyton again.

"Uh no, but Haley does live there too. So she of course has to know and I need to make sure she's going to be there." Brooke answered with a slight warning glare towards her best friend, "Anyway, I was thinking Mouth could be the DJ, we'll get a few kegs, order some subs and pizzas. Oh and this will be invite exclusive. Don't want what happened at the last party that was held there."

"Sounds good. Just let me know what I can help with?" Haley kindly offered to Brooke.

"Fantastic! I do have a list of things, but it's at home. We can go over it tonight. Oh and you know we're going to have to go shopping."

Both Peyton and Haley groaned. "I think I'll pass Brooke. I don't need new clothes right now."

"I'm sure you don't. I'm sure you have plenty of fancy rock star clothes from your tour." Peyton commented lowly.

"P. Sawyer." Brooke warned her friend while Haley did her best to ignore the comment. "Haley, come on. You know I'll be inviting Nathan. Gotta show him he's missing out on one sexy ass wife." Brooke smirked.

"Are you flirting with me Brooke?" Haley chuckled while Brooke responded by winking at her. "I don't know about doing that. Remember how my costume backfired during Halloween?"

"Haley, we're not putting you in a costume. We're just going to enhance your... assets."

"Yeah, I'm still not sold on it. I'm good with my clothes."

"You're no fun." Brooke pouted towards Haley then perked up again. "We'll talk about it more later." Haley laughed. Brooke did not give up easily. "Anyway, the guest list. Obviously we're inviting Lucas, Nathan, Bevin, Mouth, the Rivercourt guys, and of course the basketball team and cheer squad."

"Even Rachel?" Peyton questioned doubtfully.

"Well, the cheer squad minus Rachel."

"Isn't that a bit unfair?"

"It's my party and not a cheer sanctioned event so no I don't think it's unfair. I'm only inviting friends and Rachel is most definitely not my friend." Brooke clarified. "So, who else should be invited?"

"Why don't we invite Chris? I mean he is back in town." Peyton glanced at Haley. "Since you're so close and all, it would only be right. Just as long as you two don't run off on another tour."

"Okay, enough!" Haley finally cracked. She stood up from the table angrily.

"Excuse me?!" Peyton said taken aback by Haley's outburst.

"I'm sick of your attitude towards me. I've tried with you, Peyton. I've apologized, tried talking to you, and you have been nothing but a cold bitch to me. I get it. I screwed up, but I'm trying really hard to make up for it. Everyone seems to see that but you."

"You don't need to make it up to me. I'm not the one you left."

"Exactly! Yet you've treated me worse than Nathan has."

At this point Brooke got up and walked towards the counter. As much as she loved Peyton, Haley needed to confront her. This had been a long time coming.

"You have no idea what you put him through. I watched him suffer, Haley. And let me tell you, it wasn't pretty. You didn't even show up after his accident! Then you just show up expecting a simple apology will just fix everything and its back to normal. It doesn't work that way."

"I'm not stupid or naïve. I don't expect everything to be okay. That's not what I expected when I came back. I'm not foolish enough to believe I won't have to work for forgiveness."

"Really? Well, bravo. It's nice to see you actually care. Too bad you didn't show it when Nathan needed it most. Maybe picking up a phone would have been nice and maybe not working with the person who caused a rift in your marriage. I can't believe you have the nerve to work with Chris again." Peyton said incredulously.

"You know, maybe you should get your facts straight before throwing out accusations."

"I think it's pretty clear." Peyton folded her arms and snorted.

"Not as clear as you might think. Why don't you ask Nathan why he told me I needed to work with Chris?" Haley noticed the surprise in Peyton's face. "Yeah, I was just as surprised. And as for calling, I did. I even spoke with Nathan a couple times. And the last time I spoke to him I was at the airport on my way back to him and he told me not to. So before you try making me feel worse than I had already felt try having the whole story."

"Doesn't make any of what you did okay. Just because he told you not to, doesn't mean you should have stayed away. You should have come anyway. Being his wife you should have been there no matter what he said."

"Maybe it was another mistake on my part to stay away but in the end it's none of your business, Peyton!" Haley exclaimed.

"When I see my friend hurting I make it my business."

"I get that you're trying to act like a good friend but Nathan doesn't need you defending him. He's had no problem telling me how I've hurt him. I don't need someone else to pile on. I recognize my mistakes Peyton and I'm doing everything I can to make up for them. Nathan is giving me that chance and frankly he's the only one that matters. So believe what you want about me but keep it to yourself." Haley was about to walk off but hesitated for a moment before turning back to Peyton.

"You know what gets me, every one of you made big mistakes, you and Lucas sneaking behind Brooke's back, Brooke making Lucas believe she was pregnant, Nathan taking drugs, but not once did I ever hold that against any of you. Especially you and Lucas." Haley paused for a moment and then continued, "Nathan and Brooke could at least explain why they felt pushed to do those things but you had no excuse that would justify betraying your best friend that way. I go after my dream and I get condemned. Sure I handled it the wrong way. Chris kissing me didn't make anything better but at the end of it all I was only going after a dream."

"Don't try and turn this around on me, Haley."

"I'm not trying to." Haley was exasperated. "You just don't get it. To be honest I don't even think you're really angry at me. I don't really know what's going on with you. I can only assume by what Brooke's mentioned but whatever it is, you need to deal with it and quit projecting you're anger onto me, because I'm not taking it anymore." With that Haley walked away leaving Peyton speechless.

Brooke who had watched the scene from afar walked towards Peyton and put her hand on her friend's shoulder. "Hey, you okay?"

Peyton looked at Brooke who took a seat next to her. "Yeah."

Brooke moved her chair a little closer. "I didn't expect tutor girl to snap like that."

"Who knew she had balls." Peyton murmured.

"Okay P. Sawyer, don't hate me for saying this, but you were kind of asking for it."

"Are you kidding me, Brooke? You're supposed to have my back. You were just as pissed at her when she left."

"Look, all I'm saying is you haven't given her a break. I've actually talked with her and got her side of things. Can you say the same?" Peyton looked away. "Haley knows what she did was wrong. There's no doubt about it. She isn't trying to pretend like it wasn't but I do believe her when she says she went after a dream and there's nothing wrong with that. We all focus on the fact that Nathan hurt. He hurt badly, we all saw firsthand, but Haley was hurting too."

"Yeah, I'm sure she was." Peyton scoffed.

"Can you imagine finally getting to live a dream and not really having anyone to share it with because you believe the person you want to share it with most hates you? And you believe all your friends probably feel the same way? I'd think that would be pretty lonely. You don't have to like what she did. None of us do and she knows that, but we all understand and that's one thing you refuse to do. Even Nathan is warming up to her again, but you can't seem to let up."

"I don't forgive people as easily as everyone else seems to."

Brooke sighed loudly. "Okay, remember after I found out about you and Lucas? I seem to recall you trying to apologize and thinking that would be enough. In my book what you did was way worse than what Haley did. Sure you asked what else could you do to make it up to me but you thought that it would be enough."

"That's different Brooke." Peyton was surprised Brooke brought that whole thing up. "Nathan and Haley are married and she walked out on him with a guy she kissed."

"No, she walked out after he gave her an ultimatum, which she stubbornly went against, to follow a dream. Could she have handled it differently? Sure but sometimes we do things in the heat of the moment that we end up regretting later."

"I don't want to talk about this anymore."

"Okay, just think about it. Maybe try putting things into perspective because I don't think she was too far off when she said you may not even really be mad at her." Brooke wrapped her arm around Peyton and hugged her. "I'm here for you P. Sawyer. You're my best friend but Haley's my friend too and at one time, yours as well. Don't forget that."

Brooke got up and walked towards the back of the café to find Lucas. Peyton looked around and noticed Haley at the other side of the café pouring a cup of coffee for a customer. She noticed that Haley had a fake smile on her face. It really wasn't like her and maybe that was her fault. Were Haley and Brooke right in thinking that her issues with Ellie and her father caused her to project all her anger onto Haley? She had to admit there was some validity to it. She had been pretty harsh to Haley lately.

Then again she really was angry for what Haley did to Nathan. She never saw him suffer like that before. He was completely wrecked over everything. As his friend she felt really protective of him. They may not have worked out as a couple but they managed to maintain a great friendship. The last thing she ever wanted for him was to go through that much pain again. If there was something she could do to help make sure it didn't happen again then she would do it.

She knew that in the end it was up to Nathan and he was getting closer to Haley again. Maybe Brooke was right. She heard the door jingle and saw Nathan walk in. He spotted her quickly and took a seat by her.

"Hey." He greeted.

"Hey."

"Something wrong?" Nathan questioned noticing the glum look on Peyton's face.

"No, sorry. I've just got some stuff on my mind."

"Anything I can help with?"

"Thanks but no." Peyton caught a glimpse of Haley watching them before turning back towards Nathan. "Actually, I have a question for you."

"Okay? Shoot."

"At what point did you realize that maybe you could begin to forgive Haley?" Peyton curiously asked.

"Oh, uh, you had to ask a heavy one?"

"Sorry." Peyton shrugged.

"Don't worry about it." Nathan took a moment to think, "I don't even really know how to answer it. I can't really pinpoint a moment. I guess seeing how hard she's trying has a lot to do with it. I haven't fully forgiven her yet and it's gonna take some more time to feel like I can really trust her again, but seeing how much she's trying to show me that she is here for good helps. I still love her with everything in me and I guess I owe it to myself to see if this can work out. There's just going to take a lot to get there. I want to forgive her and I want to trust her but I don't know how right now. I just have to take it a day at a time."

"Is that why you stopped avoiding her?" Peyton playfully commented.

"I wasn't purposefully trying to avoid her; it was just easier to deal with her being back if I didn't see her all the time. I wasn't ready to face her."

"What about Chris? Is it true you told her to work with him?"

"How did you find out about that?" Peyton gestured for him to answer her question. "I guess I need to know if what she says is true. If it's just about the music, great. If it's more than that, we'll have our answer."

"That's a pretty big gamble."

"I know. It's not easy but it's what I need for now." Peyton nodded her head in understanding. "So, is there a reason you're asking?"

"I'm just trying to figure some stuff out. I should get going. I'll talk to you later." Peyton got up and went to find Brooke. After Brooke told her she would catch a ride with Lucas, Peyton said goodbye and walked out to the main dining area and saw Haley awkwardly talking to Nathan. She watched them momentarily and then quietly made her way out of the café.

Hope you liked it. I did go on past the confrontation with Brooke's view because I can imagine the position Brooke was in between those too and of course I couldn't resist a scene between Nathan and Peyton. I like their friendship.

*Oh and I need a favor, I have an idea for a one-shot but could use some visual aids. In my profile I have a link to my fanfic blog. The most recent post includes two polls. If you could please take a moment to vote I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks!