Author's Note: This is just a new story idea that I had. It's based off of the novel Going too Far by Jennifer Echols. It's a wonderful book, and I definitely recommend it. I hope that you all enjoy this! Happy holidays!

Disclaimer: I don't own One Tree Hill or Going too Far, by Jennifer Echols.

"Haley, get back here right now! Don't be an idiot!"

Haley James ignored her best friend and continued down the bridge, stepping over the railroad ties as she went. The concrete was still warm against her bare feet, despite it being two o'clock in the morning. She finally reached the middle of the bridge, standing with her hands at her sides, her fingers spread apart as if she were trying to catch the wind.

At the mouth of the bridge, Brooke Davis and Lucas Scott stood with panicked looks on their faces. They watched Haley for a moment longer, wondering what in the hell they should do, before Brooke jumped into action.

"Aw, shit, Luke," she said as she slid her sandals off her feet. She stepped onto the bridge, lightly and quickly making her way towards her friend.

"Brooke, are you crazy?" Lucas yelled after her. Brooke ignored her boyfriend as well, and Lucas cursed loudly as he dug his hand into his pocket, searching for his phone. He flipped it open and stared at the screen, his thumb hovering over the number nine.

Brooke carefully inched her way towards Haley, her hand extended, palm facing up towards the sky. "Come on, Hales," she said. "Let's go back."

Haley didn't look at Brooke. "It's beautiful... just like she said it would be," Haley whispered.

It was true. The sky was inky black against the bright stars, and the moon shone, hanging low in the sky. There wasn't a cloud in sight, and, under the bridge, the water twinkled as it swirled lazily past.

"Yes, it is," Brooke agreed. "But we need to go back. Now." The brunette flexed her fingers, trying to draw Haley's attention to her. "Take my hand, Hales."

"Do you hear that?" Lucas yelled from his spot, safely away from the bridge. "Listen!"

Brooke stopped trying to coax Haley towards her for a moment and listened hard. She heard a low humming, and she whipped her head towards Lucas. She couldn't find his eyes in the darkness, but she could just imagine the look of stark-white fear on his face.

Brooke's heart started thumping in her ears. "Haley, we have to go. Now."

She didn't wait for Haley to respond. She grabbed onto her hand and began to tow her off the railroad bridge.

But Haley struggled against her. "Brooke, let me go!" Haley exclaimed. "Let me just—"

The wail of a siren cut the blonde off. Everyone froze for just a moment as two cop cars, red and blue lights flashing, came careering into the clearing at the mouth of the bridge.

"Move off of the bridge, toward my voice," a strong voice commanded.

Brooke tightened her grip on Haley's hand and proceeded to tow her off of the bridge. Haley had thankfully stopped protesting at the sight of the police cruisers, and she remained silent as they reached solid ground.

Lucas crossed his arms and gave one of the officers a pointed look. "I don't have to call a lawyer, do I?"

"No," the older officer, Andy Hargrove, answered. "You don't."

"Do they?"

Andy shook his head again. "We're not arresting you."

The younger cop, however, did not keep his cool like the other cop. He rounded on Lucas, tense and shaking in the bright headlights from their cars.

"What the hell were you thinking?" he screamed at Lucas.

Andy, who was busying himself with a clipboard, looked up at the young cop. "Officer Scott," he said harshly.

Officer Nathan Scott stopped yelling abruptly, breathing heavily as his fists clenched. He glared at his twin brother, his face hard with anger.

"What's going to happen to us?" Brooke asked. She tightened her grip on Haley's hand. She knew that Andy had said they weren't going to be arrested, yet here they were, standing in front of two police cruisers.

"Community service," Andy called from the hood of his car.

Nathan shook his head and scrubbed a hand over his face. "Do you realize what could have happened?" he finally said.

Haley seemed to have snapped out of her trance. "Nothing," she said.

Nathan raised an eyebrow and pointed towards the bridge. "I wouldn't call that nothing."

They all turned just as the low hum turned into an almost unbearable screeching. A train tore past them all on the tracks, making the ground around them shake.

Haley's chest tightened. She gripped Brooke's hand more tightly as she swayed slightly.

Oh. Shit.

"Yeah," Nathan said, seeming to recognize the look on her face. "That almost happened."

Thirteen years ago, two kids died on the bridge.

The story was that a girl had gotten her shoe stuck in the railroad ties. Her boyfriend had gone back to get her, and they had both been hit by the train.

Haley found herself thinking this as they waited at the police station at four o'clock in the morning. They were currently waiting to hear what the verdict on their community service was. The three of them almost couldn't believe that they hadn't been arrested. They had broken a major city ordinance.

Just then, Andy came back out, followed by a surly Nathan. Andy tapped the clipboard in his hand and gave each of the young adults a stern look.

"Alright, I'm going to be straight with you," he said. "We're going to make an example out of you. You three are kids just graduated from college; you should know better than this. So we're going to make this simple. We're assigning each of you to a fire truck, an ambulance, and a police patrol for a week. At the end of the week, you're going to present a project to the DA, and the project will be used to discourage other kids from going on to the bridge. If you comply, there will be no mark on your records. Do you three get me?"

Haley, Brooke, and Lucas nodded their heads. Officer Andy Hargrove had a way of making them feel like they were ten years old again, despite the fact that they had all just graduated from college.

"Good. Scott, you're with the fire truck. Davis, you're the ambulance. And James, you're with the police patrol. In fact…" Andy flipped through a few pages on his clipboard before he nodded his head. "I think that I'm going to put you with Officer Scott."

Haley looked over at Nathan. He stood half in the shadows, leaning against the far wall. Even with his face shrouded in the shadows, his cobalt eyes shone brightly towards her. And those cobalt eyes were hard and cold.

Haley looked back towards her friends. Even after everything they had been through, they were still looking at her with concerned looks on her faces. She looked away from them again and stood up.

"Can we go home now?" she asked, looking at the floor.

Andy nodded his head. A concerned look of his own briefly crossed his face before he cleared his throat. "You report for your first shift tomorrow."

Author's Note: I hope you all enjoyed the first chapter!