So I may have miss placed my USB, and had to find it, that is why this Update is a few hours late. :/ My bad Anyway it's here now and as usual thank you to those of you who do review you really do make me smile every time I get one. Also guys if you see a mistake with anything, don't be afraid to tell me. I don't bite unless of course you do it in a way that makes me want to you, slap you a-la- Haley vs Rachel.

Chapter 20

Quinn James smiled as she walked past the door leading to the back deck of the house she shared with her boyfriend Clay. She could see Nathan and Jamie running around their back yard and she knew her baby sister would be inside doing something; Quinn liked to think she was baking. Haley had always been the one to want to help their mother out when they were kids. Vivian being so much older than the rest of them was always out with friends when they were really little and she'd gone off to College by the time Haley was in the fourth grade. Taylor had always been a wild child and well Quinn herself had always enjoyed taking photos and spending time with her dad. That left shy little Haley with their mother in the kitchen, of course as her sister got older. Haley's shyness was lost along the way somewhere. Quinn probably guessed it was hidden away somewhere at their mothers place just like all their old things were.

"Hey baby what you thinking?" Clay asked coming up behind her and wrapping an arm around her waist. Quinn lent back into him and smiled she laughed as Nathan tripped over trying to catch his son.

"Nothing really, just I'm really glad my baby sister is back I know, it's been what two weeks today since we found out but- it seems like longer. Like I've watched Jamie grow up like they've always been here but they haven't and I guess my head's just playing tricks on me. I know something will come along to remind me that what I'm feeling isn't true but. For right now I'm happy. I'm happy that I can hear my nephew laughing at his dad. And if I go out onto the back deck I'm pretty sure I'll hear my little sister singing." She said Clay smiled and kissed the back if her head. He was glad she was happy, he could remember back when just the mention of Haley would bring a tear to his girlfriends eye. Now, now it bought a smile to her face.

"I'll be here with open arms, to show you where you belong if you're missing come on home" Nathan walked into the kitchen and smiled it had been a while since he had heard her sing.

"Is that a new song, babe?" He asked walking over to the fridge and grabbing a bottle of water. He opened it and chugged the whole thing, Jamie had worn him out running around and he needed a break much to the displeasure of his five year old, who it seemed had boundless amounts of energy.

"Yeah, I thought it was time I started writing again, I know I'm no longer on a label but hey my biggest fans are here so I don't need a label to perform for them. Jamie tire you out?" she asked Nathan only had to smirk at her for Haley to know his answer. Walking over she tip toed up and kissed his cheek.

"You will rile him up it's your own fault you know." She said before heading back to what she was doing, unsatisfied with just a quick peck on the cheek Nathan grabbed her arm and pulled her back wrapping his arm around her as he kissed her. Chuckling evilly as he heard her moan. He knew just what to do to make her go weak at the knees.

Brooke Davis laughed as she and Peyton walked up to the front door of Nathan and Haley's place, both woman had other things they needed to do that day, Brooke had a fitting for her own wedding dress being made by a friend of hers while Peyton had, an artist coming to use Red Bedroom for a couple of hours while they were on tour. This little visit they were making though couldn't wait, well it could but they couldn't.

As always the front door was unlocked. It seemed strange to the both of them that the door was always unlocked given the family's history. Walking in they continued their conversation till they came to the kitchen, both of them couldn't help but laugh. Nathan had Haley sitting on the kitchen bench while he stood in between her legs as their heated kisses continued.

"Ok I do not need to see my brother and sister in law create a new niece or nephew thank you" said Peyton. Brooke laughed as Haley rested her head on Nathan's shoulder.

"Hey, what are you two doing here?" asked Haley pushing her husband away and sliding off the bench. Brooke grinned like a Cheshire cat. Pulling her Iphone out of her bag she found what she was looking for and sat it on the counter. Haley looked at her best friend for a minute before her voice came through the speaker and an old song of hers off her last album started playing.

"I found this and a few other songs on my iTunes recommends, I've been looking for some new songs as Julian and I can't decide which one we should dance to" said Brooke folding her arms and looking over at her best friend.

"And I remembered at that lunch we had when we first found out you were back that you had that tank top on with tour dates, the one I wanted to buy online but they didn't have my size, imagine that? So we went looking for anything more recent and found out that Haley James Scott hasn't released anything new in almost three years and that her last label let her go because she refused to stay in California where they wanted her based." said Peyton Nathan smirked he could see where this was going he had seen the Red Bedroom Records printed on the door in Tric. He smiled as Jamie came running inside and over to Brooke who instantly bent down to give him a hug.

"Aunt Brooke are you here to see more photo's?" he asked

"Sorry buddy, I'm a little busy today. I just came to see that rock star mum of yours and show her what I found" Jamie sighed and shrugged there would always be another time; giving her another quick hug he took of back outside. Brooke stood up at looked at Haley who rolled her eyes.

"Uh in case you've forgotten I am a teacher and mother not a rock star. That part of my life was a long time ago. Besides most labels want you close to them and I won't move I'm finally home and I thought you two out of everyone would at least agree with me on that front." she said it was then she noticed the glint in Peyton's eyes.

"Wait...what are you up to?" she asked.

"What if I said there was a very interested local record label that would be willing to work with you?" Peyton asked Haley looked over at her sister in law like she was crazy she only knew of one local label but no one would want to work around a middle school teacher's time.

"I love you guys for trying but no one is that flexible; besides you both don't even know if they would go for it. I'll keep it just for Nathan and Jamie." Brooke looked up at her friend and sighed same old Haley James giving up her dreams for the better of everyone else.

"Haley. I know Red Bedroom is interested because I am Red Bedroom, it's my label and you have a pretty good in with the owner, you're married to her brother in law and the mother of her very sweet nephew." said Peyton Haley looked at Peyton trying to see if she was kidding. When Peyton didn't start laughing Haley said she would think about it. Peyton knew that was all she was going to get for right, now and well 'I'll think about' it was better than a flat out no. She turned to look at Brooke who shrugged they had tried at least, for now though both of them had things that they had to be doing; before they headed out Brooke turned to ask question.

"Why is your front door unlocked? I thought for sure with your past with Dan you would keep it locked?" she asked, Nathan smirked and nodded.

"A friend of ours back in Savannah works in IT. He also likes to fiddle around with security systems as a hobby. When we first bought the house he and I came up for the day to install the system. He's pretty much a gadget freak loves trying out new things. We have video surveillance that is even easy enough for Jamie to use and Tyler added facial recognition and a few other things that neither Hales or I can understand. Megan Tyler's wife came up one day to get photos of everyone. She's a photographer like Quinn so she could do it without being seen. She had a list of people to get and old photo's with her. Every person we know is programmed into the system, an alarm is set to go off if someone we don't know or Dan comes within reach of the camera's." said Nathan he pointed to the small monitor sitting in the corner of the kitchen.

"Our family and friends are all safe people, a green line come up on the bottom of the screen." said Haley pointing to the monitor as Quinn walked up the drive way as Haley said a green line appeared at the bottom of the screen.

"Cool, ok well Hales think about it. I'm totally willing to work around your times." said Peyton Haley nodded and watched her two friends walk out as her sister walked in.

"Hey have you seen this?" Quinn asked handing over the local newspaper Haley looked at the page her sister had it open to. There in black and white print was an article talking about how the police had no leads on finding out who ran over the Mayor of Tree Hill.

"I was wondering where he'd gotten to, it seemed a little too peaceful around here; and well peaceful and Dan are two words that don't really go together all that well. It is a shame they didn't kill him; although it's about time someone ran him over karma's a bitch" said Haley when Quinn looked at her sister with a quizzical look Haley tilted her head towards the living rooms and the two sisters went to sit down.

Flash back-

Kai Merral sat in her green Dodge Challenger trying to be as inconspicuous as possible, which round these parts wasn't all that easy. College kids she hated them but she had a job to do so she was gonna do it. Rolling her neck she sat and waited she had a specific target in mind, well no that wasn't true she'd been paid to do this to someone, why this old guy wanted it done she didn't know, the last time hadn't worked but money was money and when she could get it Kai took it.

As people started to flow out of the party she took a quick look at the picture beside her. The young woman was a pretty little thing. Well Kai hoped that's how people would remember her. Tapping her hands in the steering wheel she kinked and eyebrow when her target walked out with a young man. Well, well what do we have here? She thought as people started to move away from them she started up her car. They looked so in love oh well they'd pissed this guy off somehow. Speeding up she didn't even seen her hit the front of the car it all happened so fast. The next thing Kai knew was she was pulling herself out of the totalled car. Glad it was a rental, she thought as she staggered down the road. When an arm grabbed her she turned around and revived a fist to the face.

"Holy shi-! Didn't anyone ever tell you not to hit a lady?" she asked. Looking up she noticed it was the young man from before.

"You tell me why you hit my wife with a car and maybe I'll spare your life" he said his face was going red and Kai knew better then to play with fire.

"Some old guy named Scott. Didn't get a first name, paid me four grand to run her over" and just as she had suspected he clobbered her a couple more times before rushing back to his wife. Staggering further down the street she stopped and pulled out her cell phone. Dialling the last number called when her client picked up she rolled her eyes when he asked if it was done.

"Whatever the hell your problem is with her is no longer my business I just got my assed kicked by her husband. I did what you asked you pay be my money and that's it I'm done" she said not giving him time to respond before she hung up. Spitting out the blood that had pooled in her mouth she looked to her left then right before getting up an leaving the rented car where it was. Screw him she wasn't gonna take the blame for this no way.

End-

Quinn looked at her little sister in disbelief. Dan had hired someone to run her over, to try and kill her. If he wasn't already in hospital he would have been once Quinn caught up with him.

"I'm ok Quinny I don't have any scars at all. I'm just glad I hadn't been pregnant with Jamie at the time. I could have lost him. Dan deserves all he gets. I would actually like to know who it was. I want to thank them." said Haley Quinn nodded and pulled Haley into a hug. She wanted to know to, just so she could thank them as well and Quinn was sure the rest of their family would feel the same way. But for now, all they could do was enjoy, what they had been given...normal lives, something one didn't have around Tree Hill, or when it came to Dan Scott very often.