I DON'T OWN ANYTHING SO DON'T SUE ME I'M JUST TELLING EVERYBODY HOW THIS SHOW SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED SINCE SEASON 3 & BEYOND
One Tree Hill
My Version of Season 3... But when Brooke comes back she doesn't just 'date' Lucas she wants to just be friends with him... Why? Because during the summer Peyton talked to her telling her she had major feelings for Lucas. So Brooke immediately put her feelings aside so Peyton and Lucas could be together. But Peyton has been telling Brooke that she knows Lucas has feelings for her so that way Brooke wouldn't think that Lucas wanted to be with her anymore. Lucas has tried contacting Brooke but can't get through, while busy helping Peyton with finding her birth mother. Haley James-Scott is back in town and Chris Keller has followed her! Brooke and Haley are now living together and Nathan is having a hard time adjusting to having his wife back. Meanwhile a certain face that everybody thought was gone shows back up again...
Hey everyone! So I got an anonymous review saying that everything will just be okay and Lucas and Brooke will just get back together, but that's because I WANT IT THAT WAY! ahah I love Brucas, having them broken up for about two chapters was ENOUGH for me (; But there definitely will be drama going on withe everybody! Only Brooke and Lucas will be together (: There totally will be fights between them but I want them to stay together FOREVER;D Oh and ignore any typos and grammar errors I'm SUPER tired and don't want to go through everything again, and ONE MORE THING I NEED EVERYBODY TO TELL ME IF THEY WANT JEYTON OR SOMETHING ELSE BECAUSE IT IS BECOMING CRITICAL IN THE STORY WE ARE ALMOST IN SEASON FOUR SO I NEED TO KNOW! THANKS FOR REVIEWING, FOLLOWING, ALERTING, AND FAVORITING! YOU GUYS ARE FABULOUS! ANYWAY HAPPY READING!
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Chapter Seventeen: Who Will Survive, and What Will Be Left of Them
Haley James-Scott was nervously sitting in the waiting room, waiting to find out how her best friend was doing. The doctor said she should be okay, after they removed the bullet and stop the bleeding. They were going to try to repair the shattered bone as much as they could but she would need to be in a cast for a month.
Nathan was sitting next to Haley and had his arm around her, supplying her with comfort he wouldn't need. He knew she was worried but he wasn't as much. Brooke Davis was a fighter and she would be damned if she got taken out by a bullet to the foot.
Lucas was sitting across from them still holding his sweat shirt which was covered in Brooke's dried blood. He wasn't okay with sitting out here waiting to see if she would be okay. He just wanted to her hear her complain about not being able to cheer and he wanted her to scream and yell at him. Hell, she could slap him around for all he cared.
Peyton was sitting in the corner of the room in Jake's lap, thankfully they weren't in the school when the shooting happened. They were outside near the track. She knew she didn't have any right to be here, but Peyton still loved Brooke, she was still her best friend contrary to what most people though these days.
Karen came rushing into the hospital with tears running down her cheeks. "Lucas?" She choked out seeing her son holding a bloody sweat shirt.
Lucas looked up and saw his mother and got up and gave her a hug. "I don't know how she is right now." He said to his mother sadly.
Karen pulled back from him and asked, "Who?"
Lucas frowned. "Brooke, why is there someone else who got hurt?" He asked frantically.
"Keith." She whispered to him. "He was shot in the shoulder. I don't know how he is, I just got a call that I was an emergency contact and I have no idea how he is." Karen told him sadly.
"Wait what's going on?" Haley asked standing up. "Who else is hurt?"
Lucas stared at his mother while he answered Haley. "Keith."
Peyton's jaw dropped as a tear escaped her eye. Keith was hurt too, but why was he in the school in the first place?
"Why was he there?" Nathan asked her unspoken question.
"They, uh, they wanted him to talk with some kids for a health class about drunk driving." Karen told him. "Apparently, today was just the wrong day." She said quietly. "You stay here I'm gonna go see what I can find out." Karen told Lucas and left to go to the front desk to talk with a receptionist.
Lucas sighed and rubbed a hand over his face. Good God, everything just seemed to happen today.
Haley felt bad for Luke, the first time since he kissed Peyton. He loved Brooke, she knew that, and now everything with Keith that had have some effect on him
"They'll be okay, Luke." Haley told him and brought him in for a hug.
Lucas just nodded and was silent just staring at the tacky waiting chairs when an old man came out from the sliding doors.
"I'm looking for Mr. Or Mrs. Davis?" The man asked in a gravelly voice.
Knowing that Victoria would not be coming Haley walked over to him and said, "I'm her sister."
The gray-haired man looked like he didn't believe her but he smiled at her. "She'll be fine. We managed to repair most of the shattered bone. We stopped the bleeding and got the bullet out without any damage. She'll need to be in a cast though for about three weeks." He told her smiling a little wider at the look of relief on Haley's face.
"Is she awake can we see her?" Haley impatiently asked.
"She is awake and yes, two at a time please." He told her before walking away.
Lucas smiled a little bit at hearing that his Pretty Girl was okay. Hopefully, Keith would be okay too.
"So who wants to go first?" Lucas asked, receiving questioning looks from everyone.
Although Haley wanted to see her best friend more than anything, she figured Lucas and Brooke needed some alone time. Especially because Lucas was silent ever since they got to the hospital.
"I think you should go see her." Haley told him and rubbed his arm. "I'm sure she wants to see you."
"You don't want to see her with me?" Lucas asked trying not to sound to excited he could see Brooke alone without any prying eyes.
Haley shook her head. "I think you guys need to talk by yourselves for a bit. I'll come in, in about an hour." She told him walking back over to Nathan. "We'll come in if we here anything about Keith."
Lucas nodded and whispered, "Thank you." Before quickly walking down the halls until he spotted his-girlfriend?-in the bed looking very irritated.
"Hey." Brooke said smiling drowsily at him. "How are you?"
Lucas laughed a bit and closed the door after he entered. "Shouldn't I ask you that?" He asked her as he sat down in the chair beside the bed, putting the sweater down on the floor.
Brooke shrugged and exhaled loudly. "Well I bet you already know that I can't cheer for, like, another month." She told him angrily. "I mean might as well hand over my captain-ship to slutty Rachel." She said bitterly and crossed her arms.
Lucas smiled, glad that she was okay. And she was, Brooke was already complaining on how slutty Rachel was. "Well, I'm just glad that you're okay." He told her and leaned forward and took her hand, placing a light kiss on her wrist.
Brooke smiled at him. "I'm glad that you were with me in there. You keep me calm." She told him happily.
"Yeah, I'm happy I was with you too." He told her truthfully. "Listen, I don't know if you remember but-"
"But, we were talking about you getting another chance." She cut him off and nodded slowly. "I remember."
When Brooke was silent he looked up at her and found her staring at him. "Well?" He asked. "Do you want to give me another chance?"
"Of course, I do." She told him as if he was dumb. "I just hate the fact that I want to give you another chance."
"Pretty Girl, I know you can do so much better than me. Hell, I'm sure you'd be better off without me constantly hurting you. But I'm asking for you to give me one anyways." Lucas said sadly and played with her fingers.
Brooke sighed and looked away from him. "You're a real piece of work, you know that?"
Lucas chuckled and nodded. "Yeah, I do. And you're the only one who knows how to put up with me."
Brooke just stared at him. "Lucas." She sighed and shook her head. "All you do is take and right now I don't have anything to give you."
Lucas looked at her and felt heart-broken. Here was the girl of his dreams, the girl he loved more than anything, and she wasn't going to give him another chance. "Brooke..." He said, and that's all he said. He didn't know what to say.
Brooke shrugged, as if she knew that they would come to this. "Lucas."
"I love you." Lucas told her quietly.
She looked at him and couldn't help but feel sad she was hurting him, but he hurt her too many times. "I know you do." Brooke told him, and she did. On some level he did love her.
"I understand you're not giving me another chance." He said quietly looking at the floor. "But if you're not giving me one because you don't think I love you enough, then re-think everything."
Brooke smiled a little at him. "Lucas, I can't even tell you what you're feeling because you don't even know what you are feeling. And you know what the sad thing is? I kind of always knew you and Peyton were it for each other, I just thought you know 'hey maybe he can love me just a little more' but apparently I was wrong."
Lucas frowned at her. "No, I know what I'm feeling. I really wish you would just believe me when I say I don't want Peyton, I want you. God Brooke, I want you probably more than is healthy."
Brooke smiled a little sadly at him. "You have such a way with words."
Lucas smiled a bit and nodded and finally looked up at her. "Yeah?
Brooke nodded. "Yeah, that's how you make all the girls fall in love with the Lucas Scott. And I know you don't do it intentionally. But, damn it, you're just so easy to love sometimes and you're so perfect."
Lucas smiled at her confession. "You out of everyone should know I'm not perfect. In this relationship everybody looked at me and wondered 'why the hell is she with him?'"
Brooke chuckled and nodded. "Yeah, I should have listened to them."
"I don't know how many times I have to say I'm sorry Brooke. But I'll do it until you forgive me for something I didn't even partake in."
"Partake in?" She scoffed and nodded. "Yeah 'cause you really just sat there and let her kiss you."
Lucas sighed and shook his head. "I know how it sounds but it's true. Would it prove it to you if Peyton told you? Because at this point I want to kill her for making me lose you."
Brooke shook her head and remained silent.
"Pretty Girl, I'd rather be alone than be without you." He whispered to her. "And you might as well take me back now because I can become a real pest with all of the apologies I'm going to give you."
Brooke merely arched a brow at him.
Lucas smirked. "It's true. I'm thinking about six or seven times a day."
Brooke laughed a bit and shook her head. "Yeah, a real pest." She teasingly agreed.
"So what do you say Pretty Girl? Take me back to save yourself some exhaustion of telling me to get away from you?" Lucas asked her, clear hope in his voice. His heart was in his throat if she didn't take him back, he didn't know what he would do.
Brooke was silent for a minute and a tear made it's way down her cheek. "Lucas." She sighed shaking her head and looked up at the ceiling.
Lucas remained quiet, it was killing him that he didn't know what she was thinking right now.
"This is it." She told him quietly. "I mean it I swear to God, Lucas, you hurt me again and this is it. I will never forgive you. But this doesn't mean everything goes right back to normal. I was finally getting comfortable with the thought of you and Peyton together and you both ruined it. So now I get to be a controlling girlfriend."
"I don't want you and Peyton alone together. I don't trust either of you alone in a room and if you can't handle that then this isn't going to work. Another thing is, I don't want you ditching me for other girls anymore, Luke. You have no idea how it feels."
Lucas felt a smile come onto his face, he wouldn't be letting her down this time. This was his last chance and he wasn't going to fuck it up. Lucas carefully went onto the bed and kissed her lips softly, feeling as if she would break from a spell under his touch. "God, I love you."
Brooke smiled and laid her head onto his chest and relaxed into him as he started to play with her hair. "I love you too."
Rachel Gatina was sitting outside in the park when a familiar face sat down next to her.
"Hey, what are you doing out here? It's freezing." Cooper said as he sat on the ground with her.
Rachel shrugged. "I don't know. My house is empty, my friend is at the hospital now because his friend was shot but she totally hates me so I couldn't go. So I came here, seemed like a good place to be."
Cooper nodded. "I used to come here all the time when I was a kid, my Dad tried getting me into football but I was more of a car kind of guy." He said looked at her smirking.
Rachel chuckled and nodded her head. "Yeah, I would have never guess if it wasn't for you being a professional racer and all."
"Yeah, kick-ass job if you ask me." He told her and stood up. "I'm hungry, wanna go get something to eat?" Cooper asked as he offered her his hand.
Damn did she want too, especially with him, but she didn't have any money on her. "No it's fine." She told him shaking her head. "I already ate." Rachel lied.
Cooper frowned at her. "You sure? I could get you some hot chocolate or some coffee. Come on there's this diner that I absolutely love, and the minute you walk in and smell all the food you will be hungry.
Rachel chuckled a little and took his still offered hand and stood up. "Alright, since I have nothing better to do."
Haley James-Scott was sitting in the waiting room watching anxiously as the doctor spoke with Karen. She couldn't tell if it was good news or bad news, the woman was just as stiff as she was when she was sitting.
Eventually she came back with a small smile on her face.
"What's going on?" Haley asked standing up, feeling Nathan join her and put his arm around her.
"The bullet when right through, it was a clean shot. They stopped the bleeding but they worry the bullet may have nicked something important so they need to watch for internal bleeding. He's sleeping right now, but they said sleep is good it means he's healing."
"So he's okay?" Nathan asked.
Karen nodded with unshed tears in her eyes. "Yes, but no visitors until he wakes up."
Haley smiled and looked over at Nathan. "I'll be right back, I gotta go tell Luke."
Lucas Scott was laying down on the bed, with Brooke half way on him and kissing her. He couldn't believe he would have had to live without this. He was so close to losing her when she blacked out, and he never wanted to feel that feeling again. He wasn't ever going to lose her again.
And of course Haley always ruins these moments. Haley walked right in with a big smile on her face that quickly turned into a smirk.
Brooke groaned angrily and reluctantly broke away from Lucas and looked at Haley and glared at her. "What do you need, Tutor Wife?"
"Just thought I'd let you guys know Keith should be alright." Haley told them.
Brooke's eyes widened and she looked at Lucas. "Wait, Keith was hurt?" She asked Lucas.
Lucas nodded slowly. "Yeah, he was shot at the school. But he's gonna be okay though, right Hales?"
Haley nodded. "Yeah, he's sleeping right now. But that's good it's just his body trying to recover. And when he's awake we can see him."
Brooke smiled and then looked over at Lucas. "Alright, Broody, out."
Lucas frowned up at her. "What do you mean out?"
Brooke rolled her eyes. "I mean out. I want to talk to Haley without any boys listening. So scoot." She told him and got off of him.
Lucas stared at her and got off the bed but a small smile came onto her face. "Alright, just let me know when they tell you, you can leave this place. Kay? I'm staying at your place for a while your healing up."
Brooke nodded and smiled a bit when he kissed her forehead and left the room. "So, Tutor Wife, what have I missed?"
Haley shrugged with a small smile and sat down in the chair near the bed. "Not much, so what did I just walk in on?"
Brooke giggled and shrugged. "A boyfriend and girlfriend making out. What's wrong with that?"
"You're back together?" Haley asked.
Brooke nodded. "I know, I'm an idiot but God, I love him, Hales."
Haley shook her head. "Brooke, I know you do. And I'm happy that you're happy."
"Me too, but I told him this is it. I am not doing this again. He screws up again and I'm done."
Haley nodded. "Good, I really hope it doesn't come to that but I'm glad you're sticking up for yourself."
Brooke smiled. "Yeah me too. I also told him thought I don't want him with Peyton alone anymore. I just don't trust either of them together at this point."
Haley nodded. "Brooke, your not being ridiculous or demanding. You're acting as any other girl would if they were in your position."
"Enough about my relationship problems, tell me how you and Nate are doing."
Peyton Sawyer was nervously looking towards the sliding doors. She wanted to go see Brooke, but she didn't know if that would be good. She knew she was a bad friend, going after her best friend's boyfriend twice now. How could anybody like her?
Jake rubbed Peyton's hand and she looked up at him. "Go see her." Jake told her. Jake didn't know what Peyton did. She only told him that she was in a fight with Brooke. Although, Peyton didn't even know if it was a fight herself. She hasn't seen Brooke at all since telling her Ellie died.
Peyton shrugged. "I don't know." She mumbled. She didn't feel comfortable leaving Jake out here with Lucas and Nathan.
Jake shook his head. "No, go see her. You could have lost her. I'm sure that puts anything that you guys were fighting about to bed."
Peyton sighed and nodded. "Alright." She whispered as she got off his lap. She ignored the looks that Lucas and Nathan gave her as she walked through the doors and opened the door to the room Brooke was in.
Haley and Brooke instantly stopped talking about whatever they were talking about and stared at her.
"Um, hey Brooke. I just wanted to see how you were doing." Peyton said holding onto the doorknob.
Brooke nodded with a small smile on her face. "I'm doing good. Can't cheer but Haley here promised me she wouldn't let Rachel become captain while I'm not there."
Peyton smiled, of course that's all she thought about. "Oh well, that's good."
Brooke nodded and looked over to Haley and she nodded.
"Alright, well I'm gonna get going. You know, have to get home and feed Nathan before he decides to get some God awful take out." Haley said hugging Brooke good-bye and waving slightly to Peyton and left the room.
Peyton felt a little unsure about being alone with Brooke and apparently Brooke sensed this. "Peyton, how much damage can I do to you if I'm confined to a bed right now?"
"I'd rather not think about it." Peyton joke a small smile on her face as she vacated the seat Haley was just in.
Brooke rolled her eyes. "Listen Peyton, you're my best friend and I love you. But this thing with Luke, it's gotta stop." She told her softly. "I love Lucas, Peyton. I really do, he is the first decent guy I have ever even showed interest in. It's not fair you keep trying to take him away from me."
Peyton sighed and looked down feeling ashamed. Her best friend deserved everything and more. She was just such a good person. "I know, and I'm sorry. To be honest I don't mean to."
"Well you are. Whether you mean to or not. You have Jake now. Isn't that who you were pining or? Isn't that who you were so broken over?" Brooke asked her softly.
Peyton shrugged. "Yeah, but I don't know how I feel Brooke. I know I love Jake, and I can see us getting married and being one of those old couples who are still together sitting in rocking chairs having or grandchildren litter the yard."
Brooke smiled. "So why are you trying to ruin that? Why are you trying to ruin both of our relationships?"
Peyton shrugged. "I don't know. But it's obvious you and Lucas love each other and Me and Jake love each other. That's that." Peyton said. "I'm sorry, for everything."
Brooke nodded. "Me too. Listen, I don't want you alone with Lucas anymore."
Peyton stared at Brooke confused. "What do you mean?"
"I mean that I am no comfortable with you and my boyfriend being together without anybody around." Brooke told her seriously.
Peyton wanted to scoff at her, but decided not to. Her best friend had just been shot and was going through relationship problems because of what she did. She could only hope and pray the didn't tell Jake.