One Tree Hill 6X23: Forever and Almost Always (Patreon)

I really, really wanted to put a Naley thumbnail here, but it felt unfair to Peyton and Lucas, as this is their day. Lol.

Anyway, we get a fairly good wedding. Things seem to be going well. The minister gets held up, but Luke registers Haley as a minister online and she marries them (along with giving a vocabulary lesson). I was super surprised to not see Sam at the wedding. I know she's spending time with her birth mom, but she could have come to wedding.

But, even though Sam doesn't show up, Julian does. Luke invited him because he knew Brooke missed him and was trying to get them back together. However, Luke doesn't let Julian in on that part of the plan and he shows up with a date. Fake Brooke. Not to be outdone, Brooke gets Nick Lachey to be her date. (He's in town recording Haley's song). The two of them play who can make the other one more jealous, while Nathan and Haley have slutty wedding sex in the bathroom,

Eventually, when the wedding is over, she and Julian dance. After a short while, Brooke tells him she can't do this, as she misses him and leaves. I'm guessing this is just too painful for her, as she wants to get back together. Julian, not ready to give up, heads to Clothes Over Bros to talk to her, but it's Victoria he finds. He tells her that he loves Brooke and eventually, she's gonna love him too. And when that happens if Victoria isn't nice to Brooke, she won't be seeing her anymore. And Victoria looks almost...proud?

We also find out that Nino got called up to the NBA, but Nathan didn't. And the team has never had two call ups in the same year. He skipped practice to go the wedding, but also a little bit because he felt like a failure. Haley assures him that isn't the case.

So, we finally get to the crux of the episode. After the wedding, Lucas and Peyton return home where he's filled the house with white rose petals, fairy lights and candles. She's super touched. He tells her it's been a long day and she should get in bed, but asks if she can handle one more surprise. He goes out to the garage to get the Comet ready to show her. But apparently, she couldn't handle one more surprise. When he gets back into the house, like 2 minutes later, the floor is full of blood, and Peyton has collapsed and is unconscious.

Seriously. Writers. Please. Give this woman an easy rest of the series. I'm begging you.