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Chapter 9

Nathan wrapped his arms around Haley as they sat on the river court with Lucas who was waiting for them to start talking. Haley had her eyes closed obviously trying to work up the courage to talk about what had happened, the hand mark on her face had started to settle down a little but there was a small scratch under her right eye where Karen's wedding ring had gotten her.

"You remember my dad right? Fire Fighter, all round goof ball just a really great guy" said Haley Lucas nodded Jimmy James was one of those parents who didn't seem like a parent half the time, sure he like to intimidate the guys his older daughters had bought home, heck his own father had joined in a couple of times, and when Nathan and Haley had started dating it had been amusing to see him try and catch them out. Most to the time he had the worst timing in the world, he would normally walk into Haley's room when they were just talking or when they were actually working on stuff for school. But there had been a few times there that he had walked in on them making out and he would stand in his daughters door way making comments that made the two teenagers laugh hysterically.

"How could I forget Jimmy Edwards killed him," said Lucas he frowned when Nathan tightened his arms around Haley as more tears started to run down her face.

"It wasn't Jimmy. I had been in the library and I had been listening to this new song Peyton thought I would like. I walked out into the hall to see your uncle shoot my dad; he'd just gotten Jimmy to put the gun down. Dan picked it up and shot both of them. I dropped my books getting his attention. He said if I told anyone he'd go after you or Nathan." Said Haley, Nathan watched his brothers face go from worried to confused to pissed off in a matter of seconds just like his had done seven years ago. When Lucas got up Nathan frowned.

"He'll be at the cafe"

"Luke no"

"They have to know Hales you guys haven't been here, you haven't seen what all this did to mum, she has to know, she has to know it wasn't you. Because for the last seven years she has thought her Goddaughter; one of my best friends was lower than a scum sucking leech I've had to listen to diatribe after diatribe about you, Lilly has too. In fact the whole town has and Dan has sat there every time and not said a damn word about it" said Lucas taking off back towards the Cafe he was going to have a few choice words with that uncle of his.

Dan Scott sat with his brother and sister in law enjoying a nice cup of coffee at the end of the day. It had been a ritual they had, had for many years. Even with the events from earlier today, they still carried on this tradition. Karen had carried on like nothing had, happened at all when both her husband and brother in law walked in. She knew she should have at least asked Dan what Nathan was talking about, but yet again that little voice in her head, told her that, it was all a ruse something Haley had talked him into. So they sat around like they had for as long as she could remember talking about their respective days and what they planned to do for the upcoming holiday season, that didn't seem so far away now that they were at the end of September.

All three looked up as the door chimes sounded and in walked an enraged Lucas. Karen went to ask him what was wrong still playing under the pre-tense that nothing had happened earlier. When her eldest walked over to his Uncle, muttered something then punched him square in the face knocking Dan flat off the chair and sending said chair flying out from under the table knocking into the one beside them. When Dan stood up, holding his jaw he looked at Lucas, wondering what had gotten into him. He went to walk past his nephew to grab his chair when Lucas grabbed his shirt and pinned him against the wall. As much as he fought, Lucas was quite a lot stronger and Dan couldn't push him off.

After several minutes of trying, Dan resigned to the fact that he wasn't going to get out of his nephew's grip anytime soon. Looking towards the door he saw Nathan and Haley standing there. A smirk came across his face so his other nephew was back in town, along with his darling little wife; their son was bound to be here somewhere. Well he had, had fun. Seven years it was a good run. He thought for sure the two of them wouldn't come back but then again he was always underestimating the two of them.

"Tell them what you did! Tell them!" Lucas yelled grabbing Dan's shirt and pulling him away from the wall before pushing him into it again, his parents where looking at him like he had grown another head. They couldn't figure out why Lucas had come in here and attacked his uncle; well Karen had an idea, but it wasn't one she was going to acknowledge. When Keith saw Nathan standing at the door with Haley, he knew it had something to do with them. Stepping around his son who continued to yell at his uncle, Keith made his way over to the door of the café, he noticed as Haley slipped her hand into Nathan's and step behind him resting her cheek on the back of his arm. Never in his life did he ever think that his goddaughter, Haley James would be afraid of him but then again he never would have guessed he wouldn't see her marry his son either.

"I think you should come in," he said Haley bit her lip and looked up at Nathan after Karen's performance earlier, she was worried what they would do, and she knew that Quinn and Jamie would be back soon, she didn't want Jamie seeing anything that would potentially wreck any relationship he would have with his grandparents. They stepped inside for a minute before Haley noticed Quinn walking back towards them. She squeezed Nathan's hand before walking outside again.

"Quinny where's-

"With Lilly, it seems cool aunt Lilly and her friends are more fun to hang out with then me" Quinn pouted Haley smirked, and nodded Jamie had been bugging her all week to see Lilly so she wasn't entirely surprised.

"Sorry my fault, Lilly is in my English class, she figured it out, and came over for dinner one night she and Jamie got along really well and he's been asking to see her all week. He'll be ok, with her. Do you want to come in?" Haley asked Quinn thought about it for a minute, Karen wouldn't be too happy but she wanted to know what was going on, and why Lucas was holding Dan against the wall, looking like he was ready to kill him.

"Sure"

Lydia James hadn't been entirely sure this was a good idea when Quinn had sent her a text telling her to get down to Karen's cafe ASAP. She and Karen had been at odds about what made their children decide to leave. Karen insisting it was Haley who made them leave and not having a bar of what Lydia thought at all. Walking over to the cafe she hadn't been in since after the wake for her husband's funeral. The first thing she noticed was the front window had been smashed. A dilapidated chair sat on the footpath outside. Frowning she wondered what was going on inside, as she came to the door, she noticed that Lucas had Dan pinned to a wall, while Nathan had his arms locked around Keith's shoulders. Opening the door she walked in looking around. She also noticed that inside the cafe looked worse than it did from the outside. Quinn was standing behind the counter with Karen, who had a cloth pressed to the side of her head. Lastly she noticed Haley, standing in front of Keith with her hand pressed to his chest. Why hadn't she seen that before?

"Keith please; listen to me you couldn't have stopped it, because you didn't know no one did, Nathan was the only person I told. I didn't even tell Brooke and back then I told her everything. Don't beat yourself up please. And don't do anything stupid, because then he wins, he got to you and you get taken away from your family which is what he wants. Trust me I know, he's tried to do it to Nathan before; he knows the Scott family temper. He knows how to push buttons it's what he does best so please do not let him win. He's won too much in the past I don't want to see him win again. Besides, my son deserves at least one grandfather. He took away one, don't let him take the other please" Lydia couldn't believe what she was hearing, Dan had shot her husband, all these years she had been blaming a misunderstood teenage boy for what has gone down that day, but how did her daughter know this, why was it only Haley who knew?

"Haley?" Haley turned around to see her mother standing near the door, looking over at Quinn, who seemed to understand what her little sister was saying, walked around the counter, and over to her mother. Grabbing a chair and placing it behind her mother, Quinn nodded. As Haley told her story again, Lydia's face became white before she fainted, luckily Quinn was able to catch her.

"You know Haley we had an agreement, and you broke it" said Dan. Karen, Keith, Lucas and Quinn watched as Haley stormed over to him.

"If you even look at Brooke, Lilly or Peyton the wrong way not even God himself will be able to save you, just remember Dan you maybe the devil incarnate but in the last seven years you've pissed off a lot of the wrong people. You chased Nathan and I out of almost every town we've lived in, but unlucky for you we still have friends in those towns so remember- before you decide to go through with your threats. That from here to California you have nowhere to hide." Lucas thought she was going to hit him but she simply turned away and walked over to her sister and mother who had woken up and was now sitting on the chair Quinn had gotten her.

"What do you mean look at them the wrong way?" Keith asked.

"That's the reason we left, he told Haley not to tell anyone, but she told me then he said if she didn't leave, he would hurt one of them but she wouldn't know who till it was too late. He never thought I would go with her; he wanted me to stay, for only Haley to leave. But I wasn't going to keep his sick little secret and I told him that so he said I had better leave too if I wasn't going to play by his rules.
We'd just arrived in Savannah when he tracked us down and said that if we ever made contact, he'd do it anyway. That's why we have so many photo albums at home, so many unsent letters we were protecting them and you the only way we could, the only way we knew how. I mentioned you once in this online magazine and then shortly after Brooke's store when it first opened was broken into, we couldn't mention you at all in public, because he didn't want us to, he wanted us to look like the bad guys. Just because we couldn't contact you doesn't mean we didn't keep up with what was going on here." Said Nathan, if Dan thought he was screwed before it was nothing compared to now. Before Lucas or Keith were able to do anything though he did get one question out.

"How, how did you know what was going on here?" This time it was Nathan's turn to smirk evilly.

"Well for one there's the newspaper and clearly you never looked into John Thales or Amy Act-Teas rearrange the letter Uncle Dan, you always said you were good at anagrams. I'll give you a minute." It was Keith that figured it out first, a smirk came across his face, waiting for his brother to figure it out although he knew Dan wouldn't he would only be thinking of Nathan Scott not both of them. When he could see that his brother was still trying to figure it out he decided to give him a helping hand.

"Danny might help if you add Haley James" Dan scowled they had fooled him. All these years they had one up on him and he didn't even know it. If they could get that past him what else had they gotten past him? He'd have to think about that.

"Lucas let him go," said Karen when her son looked at her oddly she just nodded, sighing Lucas let his uncle go.

"Listen to me very carefully if you come near my family again, Dan I swear you will see me at my worst, even worse than before and trust me you don't want to see that. Now please leave, you are no longer welcome here." Dan straightened his shirt up and eyed Haley for a minute when she didn't flinch like she used to he walked out. Leaving the mess and destruction he had caused behind him. Karen then turned to her husband, and eldest son, a look more of hurt in her eyes than the anger that had been there a minute ago.

"I understand you wanting to keep certain things from me, because of my depression, what I do not understand; is why you felt the need to keep the fact I have a grandson from me." It was Lucas who stepped forward.

"Do you remember that detective a few weeks ago? The one with the information you said you wanted to know nothing about; that was it. You choose not to be informed about that; dad didn't know either; until I told him, the detective gave me a file when I showed him out, a file about Haley. I checked it slightly first before taking over to Lydia. We didn't keep it from you, you didn't want to know"

The door bell rang out once more, catching everyone's attention as they turned around expecting Dan to have come back for round two. What they hadn't expected was Mattie Harris looking around shocked at what lay around her she'd never seen the cafe look like this and she had been coming to this Cafe most of her life.

"Uh sorry, Lilly sent me up to see what it was like here. Jamie wants to know if it's safe yet, I'm going to go with no. Mrs. Scott we're about to head to the River Court, I've got to pick up my little brother from Basketball do you want us to take Jamie?" Mattie asked five of the seven adults in the cafe looked shocked that Mattie and Lilly had met Nathan and Haley's son before they did.

"Before you kill Lilly, I'm her English teacher. I asked her not to say anything, Nathan and I wanted to tell you ourselves and not have it as a message from Lilly. She came over and met Jamie, after my first day at Tree Hill Middle school." Haley then turned to the young girl standing at the door.

"Mattie if you can wait a couple of minutes Nathan and I will come and get Jamie. Thank you, for checking to make sure it was safe though" Mattie nodded and headed out still not believing just how messed up the cafe was. Haley knew that her sister, mother and in-laws all wanted answers and they all deserved them. However she also knew that it would be better for them to let what they had just learnt sink in. They also needed to believe that she and Nathan were not going to go anywhere that they were here to stay.

"We will explain everything, well as much as we can another day. I know you all want to know now. But trust me, it's a lot to take in and trying to take it in all at once will do you no good. Let what you now know sink in. Then we will go from there." Haley got up and gave her mother and sister a hug.

"Besides, I would rather Jamie meet you all under better conditions than this. Quinny would you like a lift home?"

"How-?"

"They moved into the new house next door" said Quinn as her mother went to ask how Haley knew were her sister lived. Lydia nodded to let her daughters know that she would be okay if they left her alone here. A question she could see on both their faces.

"Sure thanks Hales"

After, Nathan, Haley and Quinn left, Lucas started cleaning up the cafe with his father, both Scott men needed to be doing something, as they processed all the information they had been given. It wasn't till Lucas felt his mother's hand rest of his arm that he stopped what he was doing.

"Thank you, Luke, now go home to Peyton, please" when he tried to argue with her, Karen just looked at him, Lucas threw his hands up in the air, and nodded before heading out the door leaving only the parents in the dishevelled cafe.