p data-p-id="44d2dab8c38b659589bcfb1970a09289"Lucas knocked on the door, it was late a night and he was fighting with himself if he should be here or not. He kept telling himself that this was for Brooke, that all of this was for Brooke. He gripped the carseat tight, he looked down in the carseat and saw Davis awake with his eyes wide open. The door swung open and a bright light shinned through, Lucas closed his eyes for a second until he was used to the light. He quickly opened them and saw a confused Victoria Davis standing in front of him./p
p data-p-id="bb70830edd37f5cb8468f8f8cac4e2e1""Lucas." Victoria looked down at him like he was nothing to her. She lost the surprised look on her face and stared at Lucas with disappointment. Lucas smiled a little, knowing that she would be like this./p
p data-p-id="447e8142368ae4cd424b830abaad2a2f""Victoria." Lucas said back with same matter. Victoria crossed her arms, standing in front of the door, not inviting him in. She wanted to know what the hell he was doing here. She didn't except that Lucas and Brooke had a relationship together. She always thought that Brooke deserved better and Lucas and Peyton should be together./p
p data-p-id="ea0fd59aa56f9e5e4380faa578e1d851""What's this?" Victoria looked down at the car seat that Lucas was holding. Lucas looked down at Davis, seeing how Victoria never saw Davis since he was born./p
p data-p-id="2328a6695a5b66532c2d96cae69fc509""This is your grandson." Lucas said to her. Victoria had suddenly changed, the frown on her face turned to a smile and her eyes widened. She relaxed her shoulders and lowered her hands. She didn't know that it was grandson, she wasn't even paying attention. She moved away from the door, so that Lucas could come in./p
p data-p-id="dfe2a40083d6650fae4e19f4230fa03a""Oh my god," Victoria said to him. Lucas walked into the house, with a little hope that this visit would be what Brooke imagined it would be. Lucas looked around the large house, a mansion. Expensive furniture and rugs, it looked just like Brooke's old house. Lucas stood there, taking in the house with every breath. "Lucas, sit," Victoria pointed to the single couch that was next to where she was standing. Victoria felt like she couldn't sit or move. Lucas blinked, listening to Victoria. Victoria watched as Lucas grabbed Davis from the car seat. She was so nervous to meet Davis, she didn't know what to say. "Oh my god, I can't believe this." Victoria mumbled, she never thought that she would see Davis./p
p data-p-id="d4d3f17b7523038365056946566f88ca""Do you want to hold him?" Lucas looked up at her. Victoria nodded, sitting on the long couch next to Lucas. She opened her arms and let Davis rest in them. She pulled him close to her chest, never wanting to let go. She had this warm feeling in her heart, it was similar to the first time that she held Brooke. Tears whelmed in her eyes, she remembered that day like it was yesterday./p
p data-p-id="a9aeeb67722cce224b6b5ecd1db5143c""He looks just like Brooke," Victoria sobbed, looking down at Davis. "I remember when I first held Brooke. She was so perfect. And when I looked into her eyes, I could see a glimpse of what our future held together. It was beautiful, she was beautiful." Victoria finally looked Lucas in the eyes. In that moment, Lucas felt sorry for Victoria. All this time, he wanted to hate her for abdonaing Brooke's side and not being a mother but she was still Brooke's mother. She had loved her and cared for her. Victoria had more memories and moments with Brooke than Lucas did. "I should have been there more," Victoria looked back at Davis, rocking him a little. Lucas didn't want Victoria to beat herself about it, about the things that they could have done. He knew the feeling. "I should have been her mother." Victoria shook her head, disappointed in herself. "Maybe she would still be here," Victoria looked up at Lucas with a slight hope in her voice./p
p data-p-id="817c4a61921831f844529731f8e99c56""Maybe," Lucas answered her./p
p data-p-id="8ee8ca7bed586f7b4b1f06bb0bab68ad""Thank you for bringing him Lucas." Victoria thanked Lucas, looking back at her grandson./p
p data-p-id="d7142e0801fb1a43dd5ed7a48c307bae""Don't thank me, thank Brooke." Lucas pulled out a red envelope from the back of his pocket. Victoria looked at him confusedly, wondering what he was talking about and what he was holding. She took the envelope from his hand and looked down at it./p
p data-p-id="06d6216f616c675e769335868fe7b0ca""What is this?" Victoria asked him./p
p data-p-id="81473c1222a39e8bc17c9be8cd39b3b9""When Brooke found at that she had cancer, she started writing these letters. Some of them are meant for me but some them are meant for the people that she loved." Lucas informed her. Victoria was speechless, confused and happy at the same time. A smile formed on her face./p
p data-p-id="d10a970d492c2718726e8d817090b2fb""She wrote me a letter?" Victoria said to herself. She quickly opened the letter while Davis was in her arms. She pulled the letter from the envelope and saw her daughters handwriting. She ran her fingers through it, feeling the bumps of the pen on the paper. "That's her handwriting," Victoria whispered to herself, amazed./p
p data-p-id="4c9b4f9acb0bc975428bb209c3d5f9b9"strongemDear mom,/em/strong/p
p data-p-id="af3caa70857faad2abfc5305d8ca14a6"strongemI love you. I will always love you and I forgive you. If your reading this, it means that Lucas made it to you but it also means that I'm gone. I just want you to know that I never hated you and I never held things against you. You were my mother, a strict one but you were still my mother. You made me strong and brave. You showed me what I could make of my life, how I could morph it into different ways. But now, I need you to show my son that. I want you to make him brave and strong. Show him what this would could become if he just put his mind into it. I love you, mom. I'm going to miss you, wherever I go. Don't be angry or guilty for anything because you did nothing wrong. You were the best mom that you could be and I thankful for that./em/strong/p
p data-p-id="95f1405412d51918f8f80a5fbfd65717"strongemLove, Brooke/em/strong/p
p data-p-id="d1710d2a660001844b90b0e38b9e63bc"Victoria noticed that she had tears falling from her eyes and dripping onto Davis. She quickly whipped the tears from Davis' face. Victoria had no idea what Brooke felt, she thought that always hated her. This letter changed everything for Victoria. Lucas didn't know what to say, he often wondered but he didn't care. As long as it changed her, he didn't want to wonder./p
p data-p-id="7a5823e1a226d4322f0572044b2d5bd4""My Brooke," Victoria chuckled a little, realizing how clever Brooke was. Victoria placed the letter on the table. She looked over at Lucas, wondering what else was to this story. "Tell me more." Victoria asked him./p
p data-p-id="29cb98e74c74e160f379d0fa22e2892c""More?" Lucas asked confused./p
p data-p-id="e1a51b8f632e2166fe11597fb85ba400""About the letters, about Davis, about you...I want to know." Victoria tried to explain. Lucas thought it was a little odd, there was something in the letter that had changed her. Lucas didn't know where to start./p
p data-p-id="a566bb4a3df5b8f12b0822797d91a737""Brooke left these box of letters to me, she would tell me about how her days are going, what shes thinking about." Lucas raised his shoulders. Victoria was so speechless, she wondered what those letters would say. "Those letters are helping me from moving on." Lucas looked up at Victoria. Victoria paused for a moment, she wanted to say something but no words were coming out. "Davis is doing fine, he's perfect."/p
p data-p-id="4b78ed3d58316559a69653967449ccdc""He gets it from his grandmother." Victoria kinked her eyebrow, joking with Lucas. Lucas laughed a little, he wondered what else was going on with him./p
p data-p-id="eb0e2945a6013820074242d2161178d7""I'm coaching the ravens and writing a book." Lucas shrugged his shoulders./p
p data-p-id="83390e071275ef2fd80ba031752fd118""Oh really?" Victoria cocked her head a little./p
p data-p-id="89f6fa71860a6f175fd8c6121d8c9e9d""Yea," Lucas started to say, feeling a little judged from Victoria by the ways he spoke. He looked down at his watch, it was almost time for him to go. "We've won a few games, I'm almost done with my book."/p
p data-p-id="41cee92885d1baf2a72b4d20fd55c78c""Let me guess, your book is about Brooke's letters." Victoria chuckled a little. Lucas didn't know that it was that obvious, he nodded. "Brooke was your inspiration." Victoria shrugged her shoulders, telling him. "Brooke's whole life was a okay but it wasn't perfect because I was never there. Peyton was...of course but still, I could tell that Brooke was missing something and I think that something was you Luke." Victoria pointed to Lucas. Lucas narrowed his eyebrows in confusion. "When she meant you, it was like a light turned on. She was more confident, the boys stopped coming over, she was getting more intellegent. She would read books for just the hell of it." Victoria smiled. "Lucas, don't ever think that you didn't do your best because you did." Victoria said to him. Lucas nodded, trying to tell himself that but he was still sad. It was like the words were rushing past his mind and he would just agree and nodd. "So it's just you and Davis,huh?" Victoria changed the subject./p
p data-p-id="27bb2d5ca6c600335ebfe49c494eb8ab""No, one of my friends came with me..."/p
p data-p-id="b1e1ef34a9d388c3df1861ec0d65670e""Did he or she know Brooke?" Victoria looked up at Lucas. Lucas felt a little uncomfortable to talk about the old man with him not being here./p
p data-p-id="df43bc8f72addf1ab1418b9b9943c37c""Yes, they were very close." Lucas answers her. Victoria nodded but she wanted to know who this stranger was. She had a guess./p
p data-p-id="91b6a6923cda428f3082ec0c088311e5""The old man came with you, didn't he?" Victoria said to him. Lucas was taking back by the fact that Victoria knew who he was. "I've known about the old man since Brooke first meant him." Victoria smirked a little./p
p data-p-id="d5b5aa461dbfa8cc19a4d4a823a9a785""How?" Lucas asked her./p
p data-p-id="b8a8d5f9c1c5932103e8974f329c55f8""Brooke would leave and not come home until midnight. I was worried about her." Victoria told him./p
p data-p-id="9dc0c712508ff2a95f2364b27c7a06b2""And you didn't stop her?" Lucas couldn't imagine Victoria letting this happen. Victoria paused for a moment, thinking about her past and how she failed her daughter./p
p data-p-id="078d3c8ed6ecf13638e94c44c1c76fb8""He was good for her. He taught her things that I never could. She needed someone like him in her life." Victoria said to him. Lucas became angry./p
p data-p-id="891efc7cfeae4ab2636a3dc00a550553""Brooke didn't want the old man, she wanted her mother and father." Lucas said to her. Victoria knew that Lucas wouldn't like what she was going to say. "You left her." Lucas stood up from the couch, taking Davis from her arms./p
p data-p-id="5d323494b9ae53cba931837df1f00db9""Lucas," Victoria stood up,trying to stop him./p
p data-p-id="a4084b13ed98746267fc0309d9ebeb4e""No," Lucas sharply turned around. They were only inches away from each other, Lucas wanted her to gear this. "You know how many times she would cry about her mother not loving her. She would think that you hated her and that she was the child that you wished she never had." Lucas raised his voice./p
p data-p-id="32c93c14310217dacc04a675658e9d9f""Thats not true-" Victoria said to him./p
p data-p-id="80f61c67d4537da0faacb77dda4084e4""And how was she supposed to know that? You never talked to her. You were never there." Lucas asked her. Victoria swallowed her annoyance and fear. She didn't want to break in front of him./p
p data-p-id="a2ec8a50189df1a6a9b78424490733fc""Brooke knew that I loved her." Victoria turned away, grabbing her coffee cup from the table. She turned around back to Lucas, her eyebrows raised and her wall back up. Lucas shook his head, knowing that Victoria would never change./p
p data-p-id="80ed2f92a983fc6500d0a801833d052a""Well, she's dead. So I guess well never know." Lucas shrugged his shoulders. Victoria let Lucas have his last word, she didn't have anything else to say to him. Victoria shook her head, she could see how Lucas was destroying himself instead of getting better./p
p data-p-id="bb70830edd37f5cb8468f8f8cac4e2e1""Lucas." Victoria looked down at him like he was nothing to her. She lost the surprised look on her face and stared at Lucas with disappointment. Lucas smiled a little, knowing that she would be like this./p
p data-p-id="447e8142368ae4cd424b830abaad2a2f""Victoria." Lucas said back with same matter. Victoria crossed her arms, standing in front of the door, not inviting him in. She wanted to know what the hell he was doing here. She didn't except that Lucas and Brooke had a relationship together. She always thought that Brooke deserved better and Lucas and Peyton should be together./p
p data-p-id="ea0fd59aa56f9e5e4380faa578e1d851""What's this?" Victoria looked down at the car seat that Lucas was holding. Lucas looked down at Davis, seeing how Victoria never saw Davis since he was born./p
p data-p-id="2328a6695a5b66532c2d96cae69fc509""This is your grandson." Lucas said to her. Victoria had suddenly changed, the frown on her face turned to a smile and her eyes widened. She relaxed her shoulders and lowered her hands. She didn't know that it was grandson, she wasn't even paying attention. She moved away from the door, so that Lucas could come in./p
p data-p-id="dfe2a40083d6650fae4e19f4230fa03a""Oh my god," Victoria said to him. Lucas walked into the house, with a little hope that this visit would be what Brooke imagined it would be. Lucas looked around the large house, a mansion. Expensive furniture and rugs, it looked just like Brooke's old house. Lucas stood there, taking in the house with every breath. "Lucas, sit," Victoria pointed to the single couch that was next to where she was standing. Victoria felt like she couldn't sit or move. Lucas blinked, listening to Victoria. Victoria watched as Lucas grabbed Davis from the car seat. She was so nervous to meet Davis, she didn't know what to say. "Oh my god, I can't believe this." Victoria mumbled, she never thought that she would see Davis./p
p data-p-id="d4d3f17b7523038365056946566f88ca""Do you want to hold him?" Lucas looked up at her. Victoria nodded, sitting on the long couch next to Lucas. She opened her arms and let Davis rest in them. She pulled him close to her chest, never wanting to let go. She had this warm feeling in her heart, it was similar to the first time that she held Brooke. Tears whelmed in her eyes, she remembered that day like it was yesterday./p
p data-p-id="a9aeeb67722cce224b6b5ecd1db5143c""He looks just like Brooke," Victoria sobbed, looking down at Davis. "I remember when I first held Brooke. She was so perfect. And when I looked into her eyes, I could see a glimpse of what our future held together. It was beautiful, she was beautiful." Victoria finally looked Lucas in the eyes. In that moment, Lucas felt sorry for Victoria. All this time, he wanted to hate her for abdonaing Brooke's side and not being a mother but she was still Brooke's mother. She had loved her and cared for her. Victoria had more memories and moments with Brooke than Lucas did. "I should have been there more," Victoria looked back at Davis, rocking him a little. Lucas didn't want Victoria to beat herself about it, about the things that they could have done. He knew the feeling. "I should have been her mother." Victoria shook her head, disappointed in herself. "Maybe she would still be here," Victoria looked up at Lucas with a slight hope in her voice./p
p data-p-id="817c4a61921831f844529731f8e99c56""Maybe," Lucas answered her./p
p data-p-id="8ee8ca7bed586f7b4b1f06bb0bab68ad""Thank you for bringing him Lucas." Victoria thanked Lucas, looking back at her grandson./p
p data-p-id="d7142e0801fb1a43dd5ed7a48c307bae""Don't thank me, thank Brooke." Lucas pulled out a red envelope from the back of his pocket. Victoria looked at him confusedly, wondering what he was talking about and what he was holding. She took the envelope from his hand and looked down at it./p
p data-p-id="06d6216f616c675e769335868fe7b0ca""What is this?" Victoria asked him./p
p data-p-id="81473c1222a39e8bc17c9be8cd39b3b9""When Brooke found at that she had cancer, she started writing these letters. Some of them are meant for me but some them are meant for the people that she loved." Lucas informed her. Victoria was speechless, confused and happy at the same time. A smile formed on her face./p
p data-p-id="d10a970d492c2718726e8d817090b2fb""She wrote me a letter?" Victoria said to herself. She quickly opened the letter while Davis was in her arms. She pulled the letter from the envelope and saw her daughters handwriting. She ran her fingers through it, feeling the bumps of the pen on the paper. "That's her handwriting," Victoria whispered to herself, amazed./p
p data-p-id="4c9b4f9acb0bc975428bb209c3d5f9b9"strongemDear mom,/em/strong/p
p data-p-id="af3caa70857faad2abfc5305d8ca14a6"strongemI love you. I will always love you and I forgive you. If your reading this, it means that Lucas made it to you but it also means that I'm gone. I just want you to know that I never hated you and I never held things against you. You were my mother, a strict one but you were still my mother. You made me strong and brave. You showed me what I could make of my life, how I could morph it into different ways. But now, I need you to show my son that. I want you to make him brave and strong. Show him what this would could become if he just put his mind into it. I love you, mom. I'm going to miss you, wherever I go. Don't be angry or guilty for anything because you did nothing wrong. You were the best mom that you could be and I thankful for that./em/strong/p
p data-p-id="95f1405412d51918f8f80a5fbfd65717"strongemLove, Brooke/em/strong/p
p data-p-id="d1710d2a660001844b90b0e38b9e63bc"Victoria noticed that she had tears falling from her eyes and dripping onto Davis. She quickly whipped the tears from Davis' face. Victoria had no idea what Brooke felt, she thought that always hated her. This letter changed everything for Victoria. Lucas didn't know what to say, he often wondered but he didn't care. As long as it changed her, he didn't want to wonder./p
p data-p-id="7a5823e1a226d4322f0572044b2d5bd4""My Brooke," Victoria chuckled a little, realizing how clever Brooke was. Victoria placed the letter on the table. She looked over at Lucas, wondering what else was to this story. "Tell me more." Victoria asked him./p
p data-p-id="29cb98e74c74e160f379d0fa22e2892c""More?" Lucas asked confused./p
p data-p-id="e1a51b8f632e2166fe11597fb85ba400""About the letters, about Davis, about you...I want to know." Victoria tried to explain. Lucas thought it was a little odd, there was something in the letter that had changed her. Lucas didn't know where to start./p
p data-p-id="a566bb4a3df5b8f12b0822797d91a737""Brooke left these box of letters to me, she would tell me about how her days are going, what shes thinking about." Lucas raised his shoulders. Victoria was so speechless, she wondered what those letters would say. "Those letters are helping me from moving on." Lucas looked up at Victoria. Victoria paused for a moment, she wanted to say something but no words were coming out. "Davis is doing fine, he's perfect."/p
p data-p-id="4b78ed3d58316559a69653967449ccdc""He gets it from his grandmother." Victoria kinked her eyebrow, joking with Lucas. Lucas laughed a little, he wondered what else was going on with him./p
p data-p-id="eb0e2945a6013820074242d2161178d7""I'm coaching the ravens and writing a book." Lucas shrugged his shoulders./p
p data-p-id="83390e071275ef2fd80ba031752fd118""Oh really?" Victoria cocked her head a little./p
p data-p-id="89f6fa71860a6f175fd8c6121d8c9e9d""Yea," Lucas started to say, feeling a little judged from Victoria by the ways he spoke. He looked down at his watch, it was almost time for him to go. "We've won a few games, I'm almost done with my book."/p
p data-p-id="41cee92885d1baf2a72b4d20fd55c78c""Let me guess, your book is about Brooke's letters." Victoria chuckled a little. Lucas didn't know that it was that obvious, he nodded. "Brooke was your inspiration." Victoria shrugged her shoulders, telling him. "Brooke's whole life was a okay but it wasn't perfect because I was never there. Peyton was...of course but still, I could tell that Brooke was missing something and I think that something was you Luke." Victoria pointed to Lucas. Lucas narrowed his eyebrows in confusion. "When she meant you, it was like a light turned on. She was more confident, the boys stopped coming over, she was getting more intellegent. She would read books for just the hell of it." Victoria smiled. "Lucas, don't ever think that you didn't do your best because you did." Victoria said to him. Lucas nodded, trying to tell himself that but he was still sad. It was like the words were rushing past his mind and he would just agree and nodd. "So it's just you and Davis,huh?" Victoria changed the subject./p
p data-p-id="27bb2d5ca6c600335ebfe49c494eb8ab""No, one of my friends came with me..."/p
p data-p-id="b1e1ef34a9d388c3df1861ec0d65670e""Did he or she know Brooke?" Victoria looked up at Lucas. Lucas felt a little uncomfortable to talk about the old man with him not being here./p
p data-p-id="df43bc8f72addf1ab1418b9b9943c37c""Yes, they were very close." Lucas answers her. Victoria nodded but she wanted to know who this stranger was. She had a guess./p
p data-p-id="91b6a6923cda428f3082ec0c088311e5""The old man came with you, didn't he?" Victoria said to him. Lucas was taking back by the fact that Victoria knew who he was. "I've known about the old man since Brooke first meant him." Victoria smirked a little./p
p data-p-id="d5b5aa461dbfa8cc19a4d4a823a9a785""How?" Lucas asked her./p
p data-p-id="b8a8d5f9c1c5932103e8974f329c55f8""Brooke would leave and not come home until midnight. I was worried about her." Victoria told him./p
p data-p-id="9dc0c712508ff2a95f2364b27c7a06b2""And you didn't stop her?" Lucas couldn't imagine Victoria letting this happen. Victoria paused for a moment, thinking about her past and how she failed her daughter./p
p data-p-id="078d3c8ed6ecf13638e94c44c1c76fb8""He was good for her. He taught her things that I never could. She needed someone like him in her life." Victoria said to him. Lucas became angry./p
p data-p-id="891efc7cfeae4ab2636a3dc00a550553""Brooke didn't want the old man, she wanted her mother and father." Lucas said to her. Victoria knew that Lucas wouldn't like what she was going to say. "You left her." Lucas stood up from the couch, taking Davis from her arms./p
p data-p-id="5d323494b9ae53cba931837df1f00db9""Lucas," Victoria stood up,trying to stop him./p
p data-p-id="a4084b13ed98746267fc0309d9ebeb4e""No," Lucas sharply turned around. They were only inches away from each other, Lucas wanted her to gear this. "You know how many times she would cry about her mother not loving her. She would think that you hated her and that she was the child that you wished she never had." Lucas raised his voice./p
p data-p-id="32c93c14310217dacc04a675658e9d9f""Thats not true-" Victoria said to him./p
p data-p-id="80f61c67d4537da0faacb77dda4084e4""And how was she supposed to know that? You never talked to her. You were never there." Lucas asked her. Victoria swallowed her annoyance and fear. She didn't want to break in front of him./p
p data-p-id="a2ec8a50189df1a6a9b78424490733fc""Brooke knew that I loved her." Victoria turned away, grabbing her coffee cup from the table. She turned around back to Lucas, her eyebrows raised and her wall back up. Lucas shook his head, knowing that Victoria would never change./p
p data-p-id="80ed2f92a983fc6500d0a801833d052a""Well, she's dead. So I guess well never know." Lucas shrugged his shoulders. Victoria let Lucas have his last word, she didn't have anything else to say to him. Victoria shook her head, she could see how Lucas was destroying himself instead of getting better./p