Brooke and Skylar sit in Lucas's room while Karen goes down to the billing department, Brooke holding Lucas's hand while Skylar reads Julius Caesar.

"So do you and Lucas like to read all the same stuff?" Brooke asks, Skylar looks up from the book glancing at the girl before continuing reading.

"Kind of…Lucas is more into it then I am" Skylar says as she finishes her sentence and closes the book "He does it for fun…I do it just to relax and stuff"

"What do you do for fun?" Brooke asks curiously, Skylar shrugs

"Mostly watch movies or draw…what about you?"

"I shop, or just hang out with Peyton…oh and parties." Brooke says making Skylar chuckle

"Is that what you do every weekend party?"

"Not always…" Brooke says with a sly smile "So are you as serious as Lucas is all the time or can you loosen up." Skylar laughs

"No…just because we're twins does not mean we are exactly alike." She says "I went to a few parties while I was in New York."

"New York? Why were you in New York?" Brooke asks curiously

"For school. That's were I've been the last two years." Skylar says "I got this scholarship type thing to go to this really fancy dancey school to study art awhile back…so I went."

"Do you like it there?"

"It was…. interesting." Skylar says trying not to think about what happened the last year, Brooke opens her mouth to ask another question when Karen walks in looking like she's about to cry.

"Mom? Are you okay?" Skylar asks worriedly

"Ever since I landed, nothing has been the way I expected it to be." Karen says looking at her son.

"Including your son's new girlfriend, right?" Brooke says as she lets go of Lucas's hand.

"That's not true. I don't really know you Brooke." Karen says

"Look I know I talk a lot when I'm nervous." Brooke says "Actually I'm pretty gabby all the time." She babbles, Skylar looks at her with an amused look "But my stupid quotient goes sky-high when I'm flipped out. And meeting my boyfriend's mother and sister in the hospital with all of this going on is off the stress charts for me. But…I'm here for you guys if you need anything."

"Thank you." Karen says as she sits down next to Brooke

"And just so you know, the only thing I really want to see is Lucas laugh again." Brooke says barely holding back tears "You know hear him sing off-key and watch his roll his eyes at me when I steal French fries off his plate. I guess I'm trying to say is I'm crazy about your son. And I hope that's enough for you."

"Actually that's more than enough." Karen says teary eyed, Skylar nods her head in agreement happy that her brother has someone who cares so much about him. They look up when they hear knocking to see Deb standing in the doorway with a bag.

"I figured if I kept bringing food, you're bound to eat sometime." She says

"Oh my god. I'm starving." Brooke says, Skylar nods as if to say same "But that's probably not for me. Example of the stupid-quotient thing. Okay I think I'm just gonna go."

"No, no, no. why don't you stay?" Karen says "We could have dinner together, I mean if you're interested."

"I'd like that." Brooke says, Skylar smiles "I'll go get drinks." She says before standing up and heading towards the door.

"Don't get the coffee!" Skylar calls after her making the brunette laugh as she walks out. Karen rolls her eyes at her daughter, yet again, as she stands up and meets Deb.

"That looks great." She says looking at the bag

"Oh yeah the start up company gave us 100 for free as a test run." Deb says "I know it's the last thing on your mind, but business is fine."

"It's a strange world when the least important thing is doing well" Karen says as she begins to pull the food out "And the most important thing is just hanging on."

"Yeah." Deb says "Is there anything else I can do?"

"Yeah. Could you uh thank Dan for me." Karen says, Skylar rolls her at the sound of her father's name "I haven't had a chance. Things have been so crazy. But as soon as I can leave the hospital, I'll stop by the house."

"Dan isn't living at the house anymore."

"What do you mean?"

"We're getting a divorce."

"This may sound crazy but I'm sorry." Karen says, Deb gives her a small smile and says thanks her before leaving the room. "It was only six weeks." Karen mumbles to herself amazed. Skylar sighs as she stands up form her chair and walks over to her mom.

"Its going to be okay mom." Skylar says, Karen gives her a smile and a small nod before finishing empting the bag. Skylar sighs her mood lifting slightly now that she can eat food that doesn't taste like crap.

_TIME SKIP: _

Skylar looks up from her book to see Nathan walk into the room, she looks over to where her mom is asleep in the chair before turning back to her younger brother.

"Well, Well, well if it isn't Nathan Scott." Skylar says with a smirk before turning serious "How are you?"

"Been better." Nathan says awkwardly "How are you? Heard you were in the car."

"Been better." Skylar says repeating what he said, Nathan nods

"How is he?"

"No change." Skylar says with a sigh "What are you doing here anyway?"

"I just…I need to talk to him." He says, Skylar nods her head and waves her hand for him to continue before picking up her book again. Nathan looks at his sister before he awkwardly begins to talk.

"Hey man… I kind of need to talk to you." He says as he sits down in the chair "So I'm here because uh… everything's screwed up. I know you don't trust me with Haley. But I like her a lot, you know." He says, Skylar raises her book up to her face to hide her grin after hearing what Nathan said. "She's hurting right now too. She needs you to open your eyes, man. She feels like she can't be forgiven. And I'm sort of in the same place." He says as he looks up at his brother's still unconscious face before looking at Karen, whose still asleep, then at Skylar whose pretending to read her book.

Nathan sighs as he scoots up more in his seat and puts his hands on the bed, unsure of what to do with himself. "This accident…it might not turn out so bad, you know? You can take a break from the game, the pressure of people's expectations. I wish I had that chance." He says, Skylar sneakily looks over the top of the book at Nathan after hearing what he said and having no idea that he felt this way.

"This might be hard to believe, but maybe you're the lucky one." He says with a humorless chuckle "You can get out." Nathan looks down in confusion when he sees Lucas's hand move towards his, he looks up to see his brother's eyes half open. "Hey." Hearing Nathan, Skylar looks up shocked to see Lucas awake. Nathan and Skylar both stare at their brother, waiting for him to say something.

"Water." Lucas says weakly, Nathan nods and looks over at Karen before reaching over to the table and pouring him a cup of water. Nathan awkwardly looks at the cup then back at Lucas before helping him drink it. Lucas winces as he swallows before looking at his sister whose staring at him teary eyed like if she touches him he'll break. "Skye…" he says, before he can get the rest of the words out Skylar hugs him.

"Oh thank god your awake." She says before pulling away and flicking him in the head "Don't ever do that again." She says sternly, Lucas cracks a smile before turning back to his brother and asking him what he doing here.

"It's a long story. I'm gonna get your mom." Nathan says before standing up and walking over to Karen, gently shaking her awake. Karen looks around confused before her eyes land of Nathan.

"Nathan." She says confused

"I think Lucas want to talk to you." He says, hearing that her son is awake Karen quickly gets up and walks over to where her two kids are.

"Lucas." She says as she runs her fingers through his hair and she tries to wake him up, Skylar looks over to where Nathan was standing and watches him walk out. Even though she doesn't want to leave she knows she has to talk to her other brother. Skylar tells her mom and Lucas that she'll be right back before walking out of the room.

"Nathan." She calls down the hallway as she catches up to him, the basketball player stops and turns towards his sister. "I just wanted to thank you for coming to visit Lucas in the hospital." She says

"It was nothing." Nathan says with a shrug

"No. It wasn't nothing…look I know we all had our differences growing up but it means a lot that you visited." She says, Nathan nods his head before turning around and going to walk away but is stopped by Skylar once again. "And Nathan…. I know that Lucas may not improve of you and Haley…and I know that I've only been here for a couple days and most of them were in this hospital. But when I talked to her the night I came back…. I could tell that you made her really happy." She says, Nathan gives her a small smile as if to say thank you before turning around and leaving. Skylar watches as her younger brother leaves before going back to where her mom and Lucas are.

Later that night, Karen left to go thank Dan for what he did, leaving Brooke and Skylar with Lucas. They all look to see Haley walk into the room, Skylar gets up and gives Haley a hug and tells her that its okay before leaving with Brooke out of the room as to give them some privacy.

Skylar, Brooke, and Nathan all smile, happy to see that the two friends have finally made up.