Catalano Scott wavved politely to the last customers of the day as they left Haley's cafe. Lydia pounced towards the door and flipped the sign from open to closed with way to much excitement behind her attitude.

"I thought they was never going to leave" Lydia said with a long overly dramatic sigh.

The blonde locked the door as her best friend and co-worked closed all the curtains.

"They was on their forty fifth anniversary dinner" Catalano said. "Its sweet".

"Oh you still have newlywed fever. Everything is sweet to you" Lydia said with a not to subtle eye roll.

"I've been married for almost six months I don't think that's really considered a newlywed anymore".

"How many times a week do you have sex"?

Catalano had learned to expect the unexpected with her friend over the past year.

Exhibit A… Most people wouldn't ask you questions like that in any situation but they especially wouldn't ask you that if you married their cousin. It didn't include Lydia.

"Three or four times a week. Why"? Catalano asked as she folded her arms.

"See you stop being a newly wed when that becomes a once or twice a week".

Catalano laughed as she cleared off the table the couple had just finished eating at.

"Speaking of your boy toy is here" Lydia said pointing towards the window.

Catalano looked to see her husband parking his car on the curb outside of the café. Normally he waited for his wife but this time Keith got out of his car and walked to the door.

Lydia quickly unlocked with a sly smirk and said "were closed… Go away".

Keith didn't even acknowledge his baby cousins joke instead he walked into the empty café and looked straight to his wife.

"We need to talk real fast" he told her. "Privately".

"OK" Catalano told him.

Keith followed his wife to the back into the office where he shut and locked the door behind him.

"What's up"? She asked.

"As of the Tuesday after next I'm being relocated" he told her.

"What"?

"A base just opened up in less time than the past month over in Europe. I was one of the random that got selected to be stationed there" Keith told her.

"Europe"? Catalano asked.

"I don't want you to feel pressured to come with me but I could be there a six months a year or the rest of my career. It all depends" he told her.

Catalano nodded.

Clearly she was just absorbing the new information.

Keith walked towards the door but he hesitated before he spun back around towards her.

"Screw what I just said. You're my wife. I don't want to live on two different continents with an entire ocean and Eiffel tower between us. You married me knowing I was in the military and knowing what it entailed. You knew I could be moved at any given time. I don't want to be separated from you if I don't have to be".

Catalano put her hand over her husbands mouth.

"You're rambling" she told him with a small grin.

Obviously.

"First of all I would never not go with you. You're right. I married you knowing that this could happen. Secondly you're my husband how could you think I would stay anywhere without you. If you was deploying then we wouldn't have a choice. I was just processing what you had said" Catalano told him.

The raven haired stood on her tip toes and reached up hanging her arms around her husbands neck. He leaned down and he kissed her softly.

Maybe he had jumped to conclusions.

He definitely had.

"So we are moving to Europe"? She asked. "How close will be to Paris"?

"About a forty five minuet train ride" he told her. "I'll take you when we get settled in. I won't be working as much as I have been here… At least for the first couple of months until the base is officially up on its feet".

Catalano smiled but she looked at her husband.

"How are we going to tell our family"?

Good question.

Very good question.

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Brooke Davis-Baker had forgot what it was like to be this happy. She had forgotten what it felt like to smile but there she was smiling.

She shut the back door to her car before jumping into the drivers seat and buckling her seat belt.

"Everyone ready"? Brooke asked.

It was clearly a rhetorical question.

"We've been ready" Breyton told her mother.

Brooke looked in the back seat through the rear view mirror at her daughter who was jiggling six month old Liam's foot. Then she turned to the passenger seat where Jude sat buckled up relaxed into the cushions.

She reached over and held her sons hand squeezing it gently before finally taking off.

Brooke couldn't remember a time when she was as happy as she was watching the hospital disappear in the sunlight behind her car.

The drive was quite and peaceful something that had become unfamiliar to the family but was missed.

Brooke should've drove her children straight home but instead of going straight at the traffic light she made a quick right. Five miles down the road she pulled into driveway that led to the cemetery. Neither of her children had been paying attention to where they had been heading until their mother put her car into park.

"I figured since … I figured you two would want to see your dad".

The family made their way across the ground until Brooke found the familiar spot in the ground.

"We just got his tombstone in a little over two weeks ago" Brooke told them.

Breyton sat down next to the grave where her father was buried with her son cradled in her arms.

"LJ I want you to meet your grandfather… Dad meet Liam Jude Baker-Scott" Breyton said.

Jude held his mothers hand but he didn't say anything.

It was nearly three hours later before the family made it home. Brooke was quick to order food considering she wasn't much of a cook and wasn't going to pretend to be.

As she did set the table downstairs in the kitchen upstairs her daughter had finally got her baby boy to sleep. It never took long but it always felt longer than it actually was.

Breyton laid her sleeping baby in the basinet next to her bed as the door slowly opened.

"Hey there" she said to Jude with a light smile.

"Am I interrupting"?

"No, he is asleep" she told him.

Jude sat next to his sister and the two both stared at the sleeping baby.

"He looks like LJ" Jude told her with a grin.

"I know that its impossible but … I-".

"He reminds me of dad too".

Breyton rested her tired head on her brothers shoulder.

"Have you talked to Catalano"? Breyton asked rubbing his arm.

"No. Not yet. I don't know if I an ready for that. I honestly don't know when or if I'll ever be ready for that. I know we wasn't together but I wake up after three or four months and she is married".

"Its OK for you to need some time".

Jude nodded.

"I have bigger things on my mind right now anyways".

"Like what"?

Jude jumped up and darted over shutting his sisters bedroom door.

"I don't want mom to know" he quickly explained. "Davis found me before the building collapsed. He found me right after Xavier stabbed me and.. He left me there".

"No. That doesn't sound like Davis. Maybe he just went to go find help" Breyton told him standing up walking over toward him. "I mean he is our brother".

"A lot that means. No he seen me laying there in a puddle of my own blood and he left. He looked me square in the eye and he walked out of the room".

Breyton ran her fingers through her long hair adjusting to the information and not well. In fact she couldn't let herself believe that it was true.

She was refusing at this point.

"You was losing blood maybe you was just having hallucinations" Breyton said.

"If I was hallucinating I would've seen LJ or Cat or even Lydia. I wouldn't have seen him and I know what I saw Breyton. Trust me".

"We have to tell mom" Breyton said.

Jude grabbed her wrist and pulled her back before she could make it towards the door.

"No. I want him to think that I don't know. I want to know why he did it. I want to know what is going through my brothers head but I won't be able to do that if he knows that I know".

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Mia wasn't ready for this.

Peyton wasn't ready for this.

Lucas wasn't ready for this.

Chase… He was definitely not ready for this but yet it was happening and the four seemed to be helping it happen.

"Our plane leaves in two hours we kinda got to get a move on things" Keith said as he threw a suitcase into the trunk of his car.

"I think this is the last of it" Lucas told his son as he carried a couple boxes across the parking lot.

"And everything else will be shipped next week" Mia told her daughter and son-in-law.

The trunk was full of luggage and the four parents stood along with their married children.

Chase shut the trunk door with a long heavy breathe.

This was it.

The married couple climbed into their vehicle and made their way towards the airport.

They said goodbye to their little town as it disappeared in their rearview window.

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So this was the last chapter of this story.

It was very rushed and I'm sorry for that. I did leave a few unanswered questions out there for my next stories…

I'm sorry this took a while longer to update than was planned.

I have however figured the base for my next stories.

One will pick up right where we left off here. Maybe a month will pass or a little time but it will have everyone in it.

Sort of.

It will be called… Parenthood and it is going to be about exactly what it sounds like. Everyone is parenting. Some are learning and some have been for a while

It will follow all the parents and the new grandparents. It will more be around the adults the "OGs" but also Jamie and Sawyer and Breyton as they learn from the best. Along with Jenny and Madison and Logan of course.

The kids will have some story lines but not as big as this one. This story will be all about the curves and the challenges of being a parent.

Brooke will learn to be a single window mother.

Haley and Nathan will try to figure out how to be parents while dating each other which will have its weird awkward funny moments.

Mia and Chase (my favorite couple) will start to pick up the pieces of their nearly failed marriage.

Peyton and Lucas will try to learn how to live in happiness again.

Jenny and Jamie will be going to court.

Breyton will be trying to figure out how to do this whole thing without her father or her son having a father.

I could go on and on but you get the idea.

I haven't started to write this one yet.

The other one I have but it doesn't have a name. That I need help with.

It will be surrounding Catalana, Lydia, and Jude along with and some of their families however the catch is about five or six years have passed since Keith and Catalano left Tree Hill.

Keith will be a semi main character along with Scotts and Mia and Chase.

My question for you guys is do you want any other main characters? Like Christopher or anyone. I just started the first chapter and I've already got it into play but right now I can change things.

So let me know… Also need help with name for that one big time. I'm stumped.

One last question… I don't want to mess up like I did with jumping into the future like last time so I am going to take a poll here…

Jude/Catalano.

Keith/Catalano

Breyton/Jamie

Jamie/Madison

Jamie/Jenny

Sawyer/Jude

Sawyer/Cole

Sawyer/Logan

Logan/lily

Lydia/Jude

Hell, I'll even consider Lydia and Breyton. Just throw couples out there for me so I know what you want.

In the future story I will mention past things that have happened bit mostly with the next generation kids and give you hints about what happened.

So anyways let me know what you want or anything. I'm still in the planning process and I'll update this when I post my first chapters.

Oh and I almost forgot…

Careers? What would you like to see Jude, Lydia, and Catalano doing in six years?

I already have it down but again its not to late to change anything

Review review review!