Okay so I know it's been forever since I've updated, but it didn't really seem like anybody cared much. But, I read the story again and I realized that I left it at a really intense moment and I think maybe I should continue and see where the story goes. I live off your feedback, so people PLEASE review, it means a lot. This is definitely a Nathan-Haley story and Chris Keller, not necessarily liked by everyone is needed for my future plans with the story and Nathan and Haley's relationship. So love him or hate him, he's going to be in the next few chapters. I have a song that relates to this chapter, so enjoy, and REVIEW.

Your fascination

with naked walls of silk and skin

with no conditions

I needed you to notice....

that's all I wanted

Don't Cry Out

Cease Fire

Don't Cry Out- Shiny Toy Guns

"Wait man you do not want to do this", Lucas said, cutting in between a flaring Chris and an excited Nathan.

"Move out of my way Luke I wanna make this pretty boy cry"

"The only piece of shit that will be crying is you", Chris said, half spitting in Nathans face. Lucas struggled violently as he tried to separate the two from jumping one another.

"Chris come on, he's not worth it", Haley said panicking, "this is stupid, Nathans just looking for a fight"

"Aw Hales, do you wanna be this pussy's cheerleader for when I smack him down?", Nathan said chortling. Chris lunged again, but Lucas was a solid barrier separating Chris from hitting Nathan, and Nathan from disfiguring Chris. Haley grunted in anger, this testosterone overload was really getting to her.

" Listen caveman one and two, whatever you two are fighting over which by the way is not me, needs to be put on hiatus for now because you see Freddy the security dude downstairs, yeah, he has no problem pummeling your asses into a bloody pulp", Haley said viciously, "Oh and don't think I won't help him"

"Whoa, I think you need tighter reins on this one, she's feisty", Nathan said to Chris winking.

"Yeah I think you need tighter reins on your mom, I fucked the hell out of her last night", Chris said in retaliation.

"Oh shi-", Lucas said but was cut off by Nathan pushing him aside and lunging at Chris with a murderous expression on his face.

"NO, NATHAN STOP", Haley screamed. She knew this would happen, not that Chris was incapable, but Nathan was a basketball player and he could destroy Chris in the snap of his fingers. Idiots, Haley thought, and ran to Nathan. Haley jumped on Nathans back who had already made his own nose bloody, probably broke Chris's nose and bruised both of Chris's eyes. This wasn't normal anger, Haley felt as she struggled while trying to pull Nathan off of Chris. She wondered where Lucas was, but her thoughts were answered when her eye caught a figure lying on the floor being tended to by Brooke, Chase, and Peyton. As she gripped Nathans big muscular shoulders she could feel the rage radiating off of him and with one jerk he stood up pushing her off with such force, all Haley could feel was the ground beneath her, and everything becoming black.

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Haley. Haley. HALEY WAKE UP. As Haley opened her eyes her head throbbed like death, and her arm felt like pin hot needles. "What the fuck happened", Haley mumbled. "Where are Nathan and Chris?" Haley said her eyes adjusting to dark surroundings and Peyton and Brooke sitting next to her.

"How long have I been out for", Haley said suddenly scared.

"Five minutes", Peyton said holding Haley's hand. "Nathan and Chris got kicked out by Freddy the security dude. Chris left with Chase, and Nathan took Lucas to the hospital to get stitches on his chin"

"What the hell!" Haley said sitting up in what she recognized vaguely as Peyton's car.

" You climbed onto Nathans back like some idiot monkey when he was on killer whale mode, and when he pushed you off his Godzilla back, you fell flying off and hit the ground and your head pretty strongly on the fucking concrete floor", Brooke said with angry tears in her eyes.

"I'm sorry, I didn't want Nathan to kill Chris, I don't know why he got so fucking pissy", Haley said looking pensive and confused.

"Nathans mom died when he was like 10 or 11, I guess when Chris brought her up like that it stirred something in him", Peyton said quietly.

"STILL! That gives him no right to almost kill Chris and hurt you in the process", Brooke said indignantly.

"Yeah I guess", Haley said feeling a sudden sympathy for Nathan. "Just take me back to the house, my whole body hurts, I need to get an x-ray for my arm tomorrow, and I've had enough drama for one night", Haley said looking desolately out of the window. Things had just got a lot more complicated.

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Haley walked up the stairs in pain. She had plastered a sick, I'm okay so stop pestering me smile so Brooke and Peyton wouldn't take her upstairs or worse to the hospital, now she was regretting the dismissal for help. Her arm hurt so badly as she walked to her room, she swore she felt the ground spin beneath her, she grabbed the side of her door to keep balance, but she knew in a matter of seconds her knees would give away. She closed her eyes awaiting the nausea and dizziness to pass but it got stronger, and as she felt her knees give away, but for some reason she didn't hit the ground. She opened her eyelids, and felt the world still moving except someone was moving her.... to her bed? She knew it was Nathan, because she felt his tightly clenched muscles holding her. Great now he's going to get handsy when I'm a basket case, lovely.

"Nathan you can let me down now I'm fine", Haley said with her fake-fine voice.

"Is that why you're holding my hand oh so very hard?" Nathan said softly. Haley's eyes darted to their interlocked fingers and ripped her hand away as if it was diseased, repressing the feelings bubbling inside of her.

"Just leave me to die, like you would have done for Chris", Haley said awaiting a response from Nathan. Nathan dropped Haley onto her bed gently.

"Your pretty boy is fine, he just has a rather bruised face and may not be so pretty anymore", Nathan said emotionlessly.

"Whatever just get the hell out of my room", Haley said desiring privacy so she could, after a long time, actually cry.

"First drink water and take this", Nathan said almost pleadingly but masked by a layer of no nonsense seriousness.

"Roofies? No thanks I've had enough of unwanted action for one night", Haley said while glaring at Nathan.

"No for fucks sake, they're painkillers, I know you might go slit your wrists in your free time and enjoy mortal pain but under my roof you're going to get better"

"What do you care? I believe my ass can protect me from anything right?", Haley said sardonically.

"Most things, not all", Nathan said jokingly, but his humor was replaced immediately by anger, "now I'm not going to leave till you take that pain killer"

"Fine you psycho freak", Haley shouted and swallowed the pain killer along with the water. " Happy?"

"It's a start", Nathan said quietly and got up to rummage through Haley's closet.

"Listen you must be fucking coked up, what the hell are you doing? Stay away from my underwear drawer"

"I'm taking out your pajamas so you don't crawl out of your bed at night like the fucking suicidal spider you are and attempt to wear them but kill yourself, you're not leaving that bed until you've slept and if you've got to tinkle, there's an empty bottle of water next to you, you know what to do", Nathan said in all seriousness. Haley bewildered and at a loss for words took her pajamas and didn't argue with Nathan. Nathan finally satisfied, on his way out of Haley's room, shut the lights before he spoke.

"Listen Haley, I'm really sorry for hurting you tonight. I didn't mean to, and I hope you're okay, Jodie will come check on you tomorrow." Nathan said abruptly but loud and honest enough for Haley to believe and hear. On that note he quickly exited the room.

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Nathan sat quietly with a glass of whisky in his hand. He twirled the glass softly and with an air of melancholy dissatisfaction. He stared at the frame resting on the table, of his mother hugging him. It had been thirteen years since she died, and it still stung alot. What was worse was the rage he felt, and the fact that it could be evoked so easily. He had tried suppressing it in the past, but unluckily suppression is not the best means of dealing with ones feelings. He hadn't realized how harmful his feelings which he hid from the rest of the world were. He also realized that if provoked his rage could come pouring out like a landslide and harm those around him, literally. Fuck what he did to Chris, that bastard partly deserved it, but when he saw Haley lying on the floor unconscious and unable to wake up, it was probably like somebody took the insides out of his stomach and his brain out of his head. Screw the fact that she was a total bitch, the fact that he harmed her and that she could be gravely hurt or even dead dawned upon him and he felt so awfully strange he didn't know what to do, he just stared at her, till somebody helped her up and established that she was mumbling but just passed out. What if one day his anger got the best of him and he hurt somebody again? Emotions that Nathan never dealt with just came pouring to the surface like an irrepressible waterfall, and it was too much. He knew one thing; he would lay off Haley for a bit and try to avoid instigating her, even though he secretly enjoyed it.

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"When exactly did you hurt your arm?"

"Three days ago"

"Have you taken any medicine?"

"Just a lot of pain killers, but you know I don't want to get addicted and be a meds junkie, not cool", Haley said nervously, intimidated by the professional beautiful doctor that stood in front of her.

"Yes, that would be… uncool", the woman said in a mocking tone and wrote viciously on her clipboard.

"So the x-ray's okay right? I mean the pain will subside eventually, right?"

"I'm sorry but you've got a bad hairline fracture and you'll have to wear a cast"

"ON MY RIGHT ARM!?", Haley said yelling.

"I believe that's the arm you're bruised on? Unless you want a cast on both arms? I really couldn't care less."

"Ugh, well how long will I have to wear it?"

"Four weeks minimum. You'll have to wear it in a sling for majority of the day, but for a few hours you can take it off the sling", the doctor said nonchalantly writing on her clipboard.

"Joy! Well at least the pain will go away"

"Actually, for the next week or so, the pain will be stronger than ever, and like you said before you want to avoid being a 'junkie'"

"And that means what exactly?" Haley said questioningly.

"It means one pain killer a day for the next week"

"WHAT!? No! I'll-", Haley's protests were cut short by the superior eyebrow that the doctor had cocked at her.

"Never mind, thank you for your time", Haley said on her way to leave.

"Oh by the way, I've spoken to the man you're living with and he'll help you with any difficulties in movement, pain, or changing of clothes", the doctor said with a bored tone in her voice. Haley cringed and had an urge to gauge out her eyes. The dilemmas she had to face were endless.

"Bye Lindsey Lohan", She heard the doctor say as she walked out. Stick a fucking thermometer up your ass, Haley thought and walked out in a rotten mood.