Hey Lovelies early update because I have a thing tomorrow :)
So for those of you who really want to know I finally got to fixing up the mistake in the Prologue (Thanks Google)
If you notice anything else let me know :/ till next week :x

Chapter 18

The starkly white room smelt of disinfectant, and hospital grade bleach, the fluorescent bulb sitting on the ceiling made everything in the already white room, twice as bright. Two nurses walked in talking candidly to each other as they went about the work they had to do. The younger nurse sighed as she once again noticed that their patient had, had no visitors.

"So I'm new here, and I'm new in town. But doesn't everyone, deserve at least one person to visit them? You don't seem at all surprised, that he has had no visitors I mean, why is that?" she asked the older more experienced women beside her. Looking up Felicity shrugged, she had known the family for years. She'd been one of the nurses who had taken care of the middle child, Nathan she was pretty sure it was him when he had his tonsils out. He'd only been roughly eleven at the time.

"Mr Scott doesn't get on well with his brothers family. Karen and Keith tend to keep away from him. Both their boys would be oh in their twenties now. More than likely have wives, of their own. Their youngest, Lilly, would be oh eleven if not close to it. Honey, I know he looks helpless now, but don't let Dan fool you, he's good at that did it to the whole town for years; sick and twisted as they come that one." Felicity said as she looked back down at his chart.

"She did what?" Haley looked at him shocked. Nathan had just arrived home with his mother in tow; she was now sitting outside with Lydia and Erin an ice pack on her hand. Haley looked out the window and shook her head. There had been many times where she felt like punching the living day lights out of Chance, but she knew him to be just as bad; if not worse than Dan. He was bound to come back now, that was all she really needed. Having her husband's psycho uncle around was enough. Tree Hill could only handle so much crazy and Dan Scott had that covered. Heaven help them when that lunatic came back to town. Turning to look at Nathan, Haley rested her hands on the counter behind her.

"So what do we do now? You and I both know as thick as Chance is, he's always been crafty" Nathan shrugged he had no idea what they were going to do. Walking over he wrapped his arms around Haley who lent her head on his chest. What ever happened they would do what they always did, and face it together.

There was an eerie silence that sat over the three women who sat by the Scott family pool. Lydia knew Karen wouldn't give up her stance without a fight, however having spent the morning with Erin she knew that as much as their children and grandchild loved this woman. She had never once replaced them in their hearts.

"You know, one of the first things Haley openly talked about was you, well the two of you really. She and Nathan were pretty guarded when they came to Stanford. They would only tell people what they needed to know, nothing more and sometimes depending in the person a little less. I had been looking after a sick Jamie when Haley came in; she was close to tears. It had been a long week for her. Nathan was off playing some away game; she had three assessments due that Friday just a huge week for someone so young. I asked her then, if there was something she could have, right then what would it be? She said that a hug from either of her mums. I think she knew what my next question was going to be. Because she started laughing and I couldn't help but wonder why." Said Erin even though it was autumn and rather cold she rolled up her jeans and stuck her feet into the pool. Looking over at Karen she smirked as she could see the curiosity in her eyes but her stubborn streak that Nathan had quite clearly inherited wasn't going to let her ask what happened next.

"After she composed herself Haley shook her head. She then told me that she always considered you to be a second mother to her, and seeing you were her mother in law you really were her mum. It was the first time she had told me anything about her life before Stanford. Haley admires both of you more then I think either if you know. After that day if I wanted to get Haley talking I would ask her about the both of you, she became a completely different person then. It was like this light would shine in her eyes. She told me bits and pieces about you Lydia at first. She left out a lot at first because of just how interconnected everything was and at that point I didn't know a thing about what Dan was up to. It was you Karen. In those early days that she talked about, she said how much she hated dragging Nathan away. That if she had a choice she would have made him stay. She talked about how much you meant to her and how much she loved you. She even had this silly little motto when cooking. Now if either of you mention that I told you this, Haley will have my head. As not even Nathan knows this, it was WWKD. What Would Karen Do? Do not think for a minute that, the young family in there replaced you with me, because they didn't. You are more important to them then you will ever know" Karen looked out over the pool down the back yard to the beach.

She really didn't want to like Erin, for the simple fact that Erin knew the past few years of her son's life better than she did. But with each and every time Erin spoke it was becoming more apparent to Karen that the role she had cast the woman in front of her in, was not the correct one. That role once again, was reserved for her brother in law. Karen turned to say something when she for the first time noticed a scar where Erin's neck met her shoulders. It wasn't a particularly bad scar but she had on several occasions over the last couple of weeks noticed the same scar on Haley. At first she had thought it was just a burn from a curling iron or something to that effect but this woman sitting beside her having the exact same scar in the same place. It couldn't be a coincidence.

"If you are wondering then yes it's another thing Dan did. Not directly but yes. Haley and I were out shopping Nathan had taken Jamie for the day to give Haley some time off as she had, been on full Jamie duty for about two weeks. I decided to take her out for the day lunch, a movie, and some shopping a girl's day. We had just walked out forever 21, when these two people came up behind us. They held knives to our throats, at first we thought it was just a mugging we had done the stupid thing of walking down this ally way that wasn't the safest place in town but the only way to get to the cafe we both wanted to go to. It would have been much worse if one of the people I worked with in admin hadn't come along; he'd seen those two following us and decided to make sure we were ok. The female Kai I think her name was mentioned something about Dan it was then that it clicked for both Haley and I that if my colleague hadn't come along and scared them off. Things could have turned out very differently." Karen took a deep breath and looked over her shoulder. Nathan and Haley were still in their kitchen, she smiled she watched Nathan tap Haley on the end of the nose before walking away.

"Erin I would like to apologize, I acted like a two year old yesterday and there really is no-

"You had a reason, one only you, Lydia and I can understand. If my daughter came back into my life so suddenly only to have someone who knew her from the life she had away from me I can say pretty much without a doubt I would have done the same thing" said Erin Karen shook her head, she didn't believe that it was nice of Erin to say those things but the woman sitting beside her had too much grace to be that childish.

"No you wouldn't have, thank you for trying to say you would but no someone who takes a young family like that under their wing so selflessly I could never do that." Lydia watched as the two women next to her continued to disagree with each other. After a few minutes she decided to be the driving force behind actually getting them to agree.

"You did that with Haley, when she and Nathan were kids. Whenever Jimmy and I were off taking care of our other kids, as they had such differing ages, we knew Haley was always safe with you. Now I agree with you that you could never do what Erin did, you love to deeply and too much to be able to detach yourself like she did, but you do take people under your wing you, make them better people for it." Karen sighed and rolled her eyes she knew she wasn't going to win this debate no matter what she said to the contrary.

"Fine, I still would like you to accept my apology. I shouldn't have done what I did. I hurt the last people on this earth that I ever wanted to and my grandson currently hates me for what I said. So please accept it" Erin smiled and nodded Jamie was too much like his parents. In time he would get over it but just like Nathan and Haley it was going to take a bit longer then a day.

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Dr. Annette Jackson walked into the room that her patient was in he had been here for a week and not once did his family come to see him. She doubted they even knew. She wouldn't be in here if she had a choice but she didn't she was bound by oath to look after anyone. Even if that meant a conniving son of a bitch like Dan Scott, taking a deep breath she picked up his chart and read over what the nurses had done. Looking up from the chart she jump slightly startled that Dan was awake.

"Dead" Annette frowned.

"Excuse me?" She asked timidly taking a step closer to Dan. She had a past with this evil man just like almost everyone in Tree Hill. But just like his family hers was not a pleasant on.

"Patrick Rolling"