Okay so for this month only, the chapters will be up early for you as Saturday's this month for me, are all busy which means that instead of the chapter going up in the afternoon/Morning they will go up on My Friday night. Now for those of you after what I changed majorly, this is one of those chapters. Please don't get up me if anything is wrong. I went on what I knew and how things would fit into the story. I had several people point out a couple of flaws with the last version of this chapter so I changed it up a fair bit. Hope you all like it all the same. THANKS to those who reviewed :) See you next week :)

CHAPTER TWO

It was a well known fact that Karen Scott hadn't taken her middle child running away with his girlfriend seven years ago, very well at all. In fact, things had gotten so bad that it had come to a point four years ago, where Keith, had had to get her professional help. She had been on cocktail of medication that helped her with the depression she had sunk into, as well as what had been weekly therapy sessions, that over the last year, had gone down to monthly appointments. Today was an experiment, encouraged by her therapist to see just how well she could cope with any news about her missing son.
Keith walked into their living room, to find his wife looking out of the window, her right foot tapping on the floor a clear sign of her impatience of having to wait for Lucas and the detective she had found online.

"Karen honey, you do know Nathan will be twenty four next year, you can't force him to come back. He and Haley are more than likely quite happy wherever they are, and don't give me that look you know as well as I do, that Nathan and Haley will still be together."

"Don't you dare say that name in my house!"

"Haley, Haley, Haley! Haley James, Haley Bob James, your Goddaughter I could go on and you know it; you also know that Dr. Roberts doesn't want you snapping at people for mentioning her name. This is her town just as much as it is ours. You also don't know what happened; it may have been Nathan's idea. You just have this silly notion that it was Haley; it could be something else entirely. They may have felt they had no choice. Whatever happened you have to face the fact, that we may never know why they left, and you have accept that fact. You and I know that you will never, get off your meds if you don't and I want my old wife back, the person I married. I know your hurt and I know you want to know why, we all do but honey, you still have a child here, who deserves the mother that her brothers got. I know there is no overnight cure and I know you have been working hard to put it behind you, I just don't want this; to set you back." Keith walked over and rested his hands on her shoulders, knowing that it was the only way he was going to get her to listen and it was something she had to hear, something he had been trying to tell her for the last couple of years. When she shook him off he sighed, and people wondered where their children got their stubborn streak from.

"Karen" Keith walked after his wife getting her to stop at the front door.

"Fine, I won't snap at people. But it was still that wretched girl who took my boy away" Karen looked up as the front door opened and her eldest son and the detective walked in, all four of them make their way back into the living room. Karen, Keith and Lucas were sitting, in that order on the sofa with the detective standing in front of them. She knew her husband, son and therapist were only humouring her. She knew this was a test and she wanted to be able to prove to them that she was finally getting better and that she didn't need them to watch her like a hawk.

"Ok I know you said you just wanted me to find him but I did a little digging and found out some more information for you. Nathan was enrolled in a High School in Savannah Georgia that same year, as a junior he studied there till he graduated. Now I know this has more to do with Haley-

"No offence but I didn't pay you to find Haley, I paid you to find Nathan." said Karen. The detective looked at Keith who shrugged there wasn't much they could do if Karen didn't want to know well that was her choice. At least she hadn't closed down; three years ago she would have gotten up and, locked herself in their room for the rest of the day. Maybe she was finally coming out the other side of this depression that had taken over the last several years of their lives.

"I thought it would interest you but if you don't want to know that's perfectly fine I won't tell you." Said the detective Lucas knew that, the man in front of him wasn't entirely sure what to say to his mother's reaction. But most people didn't know what to say or do around her when she went into one of her episodes.

"Nathan attended Stanford on Scholarship. I have a friend on staff there who remembers him. She said he was a very good student, between working a part time job, and Basketball, he was very well liked, the image of a good student his grades weren't fabulous but he passed all his classes." He handed them a file that contained photo's also a tiny article about Nathan being the star of the school's basketball team.

Karen looked at the first picture in the file to see it was of Nathan and Haley as much as she didn't want to know about what happened to her, it seemed that, in seven years one thing hadn't changed, and that fact was, where there was Nathan there was Haley. It had obviously been taken at a party as Karen could see there were other people standing around what looked like a fire in the back ground. Haley was sitting on Nathan's lap she looked like she was laughing while pointing to a strange hat that sat on top of Nathan's head.

Keith had noticed it first, Haley's wedding ring it was simple but elegant just like Haley, apart from that they looked like any other young college couple at a party. There were a lot of things he had learnt through the media about his youngest son, this however was a new photo he hadn't seen this one before, he also knew they were married, but he had no idea that they had been married this young.

"There were two NBA teams, interested in him his first year out of Stanford the Charlotte Bobcats and the Seattle Sonic's; the Sonic's won out in a bidding war for him, however Nathan only played half a season as he injured his back during a playoff game, he was going for a layup when he collided with another player, and came down on his back, the wrong way I couldn't get the full details. However I know that he could have continued to play but he took, his doctors advice and stepped away from playing professionally. He does play charity games every now and then for different causes, the one he is most affiliated with however is childhood diabetes.

"The last address I have for him is back in Savannah. However that house was sold six weeks ago. I have not been able to find them after that, the forwarding address is to a friend of his one Tyler Rolling also from Savannah." Lucas nodded knowing his parents...well his mother; because his father really was only playing a part- wouldn't respond to anyone for a while as they took all this information in. He got up and walked the detective to the door.

"I know your mother asked only about Nathan, but I also found this, maybe you could give it to Haley's parents" said the detective handing a small folder over to Lucas he nodded and watched as he got in his car and drove away. Walking out onto the front porch Lucas sat down on the top step and opened the folder he never expect to find what he did, there was a copy of a birth certificate. He was an uncle, that was something he hadn't known; and thanks to his mothers stubbornness she wouldn't know either. Well if she didn't want to know anything about Haley this was the price she paid. Closing the file he smiled I'm an uncle wow my lanky kid brother had a kid all of his own he thought as he looked up to see his little sister sit down.

"Luke, is it bad that I don't feel anything? He's my big brother and I don't feel a thing" she asked Lucas wrapped his arm around her pulling her close.

"Lil you were four when they left, it's okay I know you love him; and mum and dad know that too, but you were so young when they left that, them leaving had no real effect on you. Don't worry I know- Okay make it more a feeling- that one day Nathan and Haley will come back and you'll get to know them all over again. You adored Haley and she adored you, now she's your sister just like you wished when you were told to make one on your fourth birthday" said Luke Lilly smiled she liked hearing these stories, when she could get them out of, Lucas, or Peyton sometimes she could get them out of Brooke or someone else but mostly she only had old photographs and a few vague memories, and well, as much as a picture could tell a thousand words, she was still missing part of the story.