Summary : Brooke Davis, a yound 17 year old girl, gets attacked in her own home, who will be there to save her ? Will she survive ?

Bittersweet Revenge

The Attack

Brooke Davis is a sweet and very cheery 17 year old girl. She's a cheerleader, she's popular and is kind to everyone, well, almost everyone. Her best friends are Marvin Mcfadden, Mouth as everyone calls him, Nathan Scott, Haley James Scott, Nathan's wife, Lucas Scott and her very best friend in the world, Peyton Sawyer.

It's the night of the homecoming dance and Brooke is going alone, since she has no date. Not that she minds, she knows she could have any guy she wants, but her heart belongs to another.

She has always been in love with Lucas Scott, but he is Peyton's boyfriend, has been for 2 years. But Brooke doesn't think it'll last, Peyton is always down when she's with him lately and Lucas doesn't seem to be so happy with her anymore too.

Brooke is standing in front of the mirror in her room, staring at herself and the dress she's in. She's wearing a long silver strapless dress with glitters on it. She made the dress herself a few weeks ago. She loves making clothes.

She has some make-up on, light silver eye-shadow, a little blush and a silver sparkly lipstick that all matches her dress. She looks beautifull.

Her long hair is Hanging down her back, with a few loose strains down her face. She's never looked more pretty, even if she's the only one who thinks so.

She decides to walk to the school gym, since it's only a 10 minute walk from her house and it's very hot outside.

She walks downstair, makes sure all the lights are off in the house and finally, after about 5 minutes, she leaves the house, closing the door behind her.

It's a short and sattisfying walk to the gym, the gentle breeze passing through her face and hair.

Once she enters the gym, all eyes seem to be locked on her. She deffinately is the jewel of the night. Mouth and his girlfriend Shelley meet her while she is still standing in the doorway of the gym.

"Brooke, you look beautifull." Mouth says as he gives her a hug.

"Thanks, you look very handsome yourself. But I must say your date really outshines you. You never told me she was such a hottie." Brooke smirks, making both Mouth and Shelley blush.

"Have a good time kids. Save me a dance Mouth." Brooke says with a wink. Mouth gives her one last smile and wave before dissapearing in the crowd with Shelley.

Brooke looks around for the rest of her friend, Nathan and Haley are dancing to a Gavin Degraw song, while she sees Peyton sitting at a table looking very grumpy.

Brooke walks over to her and sits down in the chair next to her.

"Hey P. Sawyer, you look awsome. So wanna tell me what's with that frown on your face ? It's gonna give you rinckles you know." Brooke says, trying to make Peyton smile.

"Luke and I broke up. You look amazing btw." Peyton says, trying to quickly change the subject.

"Thanks, and, what do you mean, Luke and you broke up ?" Brooke asks, pretending as if she's sad for her friend instead of jumping up and down in her mind.

"Exactly what I said, Luke and I broke up. We had a fight, again, and we both screamed at each other that it's over. Now you know, now you can go and hook up with him." Peyton bluntly says, kind of pissing Brooke of.

"What do you mean by that ?" Brooke says with an angry tone of voice, off course, she knows what Peyton means by it, but she wouldn't do that to her.

"Oh come on Brooke, you've had a huge crush on Luke ever since he joined the basketball team. And you know he feels the same." Peyton says, tears glissering in the corner of her eyes, making Brooke feel sad for her.

"Regardless of how I feel, I would never do that to you P. and Lucas wouldn't either. He loves you. I'm sure you'll get back together soon." Brooke says, not thinking about herself now, but only about her best friend who is clearly hurting.

"No, he doesn't love me. Maybe he did once, but not anymore. I don't think I still love him. We've been having trouble for a long time." Peyton explains, emmediately, Brooke thinks it's because of her and she feels extremely guilty.

"It's not your fault." Peyton says when she sees the expression on Brooke's face.

"We just started growing apart and the more we grew apart, the more we started to fight. Look, if you get together with Lucas, I won't hold it against you, but just don't do it tonight, okay ?" Peyton pleads to Brooke.

Brooke sighes and takes Peyton in a hug.

"Listen, You know I've always had feelings for Luke, but I would never do anything about it, not even now. Not if there's still a chance for you two. I want to see you happy, if you're happy, I'm happy." Brooke says, trying to comfort her friend.

"I don't think we'll get back together. I hope we can learn to be friends again, but nothing more. But I do think I need some time to moarn." Peyton says, letting go of Brooke in the process.

"Okay, whatever you need sweetie, just know I'm here for you." Brooke says.

"Thanks, but for now, I just think i want to be alone. I'm gonna head home, clear my head a little." Peyton says, standing up.

"Do you want me to come with you ?" Brooke asks, truly concerned about her friend.

"No, thanks. I'll be fine. I'll see you monday in school." Peyton says, walking away from her friend.

A few minutes later, Brooke stood up to get a glass of punch. Suddenly, she was really thirsty. As she was pouring her drink, she saw a familiar face standing next to her. She wanted to say something, but strangly, she was afraid, very unlike her.

"So, is she really pissed of ?" Lucas finally asks her, with the same broody face he always has.

"Not really, a little sad, but that'll pass. She hopes you two can still stay friends." Brooke says, trying to avoid looking at him. Because when she looks at him, all she can ever think of are his lips and how much she wants to kiss them.

"I was hoping for that too. It just was time, you know ? All that bickering wasn't good for either of us." Lucas explains, Brooke just gives him a friendly smile.

"Hey, guys. What's up ? Where's Peyton ?" Nathan says, he and Haley had just joined them after finishing their dance.

"Peyton's gone home. She and Luke broke up. But they both wanna stay friends, even though they haven't talked to each other yet. Right Luke ?" brooke says, smirking, she loves telling the dirt about her friends to her other friends.

"Right, and I'm gonna go talk to her right now. See you guys later. Thanks Brooke." Lucas says, giving Brooke a peck on the cheeck, making her blush.

"My my, aren't we happy tonight ?" Haley laughs as she sees Brooke's delighted smile on her face. Brooke quickly looks the other way.

Brooke has a great time the rest of the night, she dances and laughes with her friends, including a slow dance with Mouth and Nathan.

At the end of the night, Haley and Nathan are crowned Homecoming King and Queen, which everyone already knew would happen.

Around 2 am Brooke says her goodbyes to her friends and walks home.

Once she reaches her house, she notices something strange. The door is open. Did she leave the door open ? She doesn't think so.

She carefully opens the door. It's very dark inside, all the lights are still out, except one, in her mother's jewell room. All the jewells and money of her mother are kept in that room, in a safe off course.

"I didn't turn that light on." Brooke says to herself, but appearantly she said it too loud, because the light suddenly turns off.

Brooke hides behind the kitchen door, hopen whomever was in that room, is gone now. Several minutes later, all though it feels like hours, the front door slams shut. Releived, Brooke comes out of hiding.

"Pollice, I have to call the pollice." Brooke says to herself.

She turns around to turn the light on when suddenly, she is pushed and falls to the floor.

She screams, she's stunned from what just happened. She can feel someone ontop of her... a fist slams into her face, another one, and yet another one. She raises her hands, but it's not use. They keep beating her.

After what seems like hours, but were probably just minutes, the beating stops. Brooke can feel someone's breath in her neck, she can only slightly open her eyes, but she does. She can't see who is sitting on her, but what she sees next, almost scares her to death.

Her attacker pulls a knife out of his pocket, raises it and jams it into her stomach. A sharp pain surges through her body as she feels her life drain out of her. Her attacker stands up and finally leaves the house.

Brooke feels very dizzy, she can hardly see, her entire body hurts, but nothing as bad as where she has been stabbed. Finally, she passes out.

TO BE CONTINUED