Alright guys, here's our story: Young and Beautiful. Before you read we want to let you know that this story is set before the movie 'Savages' and is very Brooke Davis AU as well as a lot of Original characters. Hopefully you will like them all because we sure do! To make things less confusing we have put together a list of the original characters and some of their traits so you get to know them a little better so here you guys are (also with who we pictured as their playboys as we wrote them:
The Callaghan family;
Brian: (Josh Duhamel) Lawyer, supposed to take over the family business but since he's a lawyer, his younger brother Liam got the job. He is in his early thirties.
Liam: (Colin O'Donoghue) is still in the British military, but since he had to take over the family business. Strings were pulled so he wouldn't have to fight in the war. Liam went to college and is in his mid-20s. He had a very dark childhood.
Ryan: (Colton Haynes) Goes to college at Brown University. He is 20. Acts on his impulses no matter what they are. He plans to join the family business after he gets his BA in Business.
Aoibheann: (Lyndsy Fonseca) Lives with Liam in Laguna and is taking a year off before she heads off to college. Liam is her favorite brother and the other two know it.
Caitlin: (Michelle Fairley) strong in public but a pushover when it comes to her husband and Favors Liam the most, because his father is her one true love.
Darcie: (Russell Crowe) Got passed over to take over the family business. He is a member of the IRA (very high up) He hates Liam with a passion.
Ruari: (Anthony Hopkins) Stepped down from the family business because of his age, but has a voice in it, Loves his grandchildren, not proud of Darcie at all. Lost his wife to cancer and his two brothers that are members of the IRA.
Okay guys, that's the Callaghan family. Hopefully it won't be too confusing when you read about them! Hope you all enjoy the story!
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Down on the West Coast they got a sayin' "If you're not drinkin' then you're not playin'."
The relationship between the two young adults was nothing more than friendship, almost along the lines of siblings. The love they shared was what Ben called, spiritual. But that was what Ben defined a lot of things. They met during Bens last year at Berkley, Brookes first year. There was something about her that gravitated Ben to her. She was always the life of the party, everyone always wanted to talk to her, be near her, and soak in her aura. God damn, Ben, you are such a hippy. Brooke would make fun of him when he would go on about auras.
"Will you tell me that story?" Brooke asked Ben as the laid under the stars together, arms linked with the others. "The Greek one."
"Orpheus and Eurydice?" He laughed as Brooke nodded next to him. "No."
"Ben!" She sang.
"Brooke!" He sang back.
"Tell me that story. It's the one I want to hear."
Ben shook his head. "You always want to hear that story. It's too tragic, Brooke. You deserve happy stories."
"Give me tragedy!" Brooke laughed. They were both high off their ass, lying on the roof top of Ben's beach front property. Not the smartest thing to do while stoned. But Ben was a pro at doing things while high as a kite. Weed was his business. Brooke huffed when Ben wouldn't comply with her. "Fine." She scooted herself up. "I'll give you your own tragedy to write about!" She said with a giggle as she stood up. Ben grabbed her before she could get to the edge of the roof though, knowing what she was going to do. Threaten to jump off until she got her way. She was stubborn, and though she was only joking – Ben could see her jumping one day just to prove that she could indeed do it.
"Ok, Ok!" He finally agreed. "Just lie down."
Brooke smiled and moved back down next to him, looping their arms together again, taking his hand in her own.
He breathed in before telling her the story. "Orpheus was the greatest poet who ever lived. His music was so beautiful that when he played, rivers would stop flowing, winds would stop blowing, and the skies would open up so his wondrous melodies could be heard by the gods in heaven."
Brooke looked up at the nights sky with a smile on her face. Ben handed over the joint they were sharing, letting her take a hit. She inhaled, held it for a moment, letting her mind get dizzy, and then exhaled. "Go on," She breathed happily before handing him the joint back.
"One day, his wife; Eurydice was bitten to death by vipers. Over come with grief, Orpheus played heartbreaking songs in his lyre. The Gods were moved, and so advised Orpheus to travel to the land of the dead and sing his songs to Hades to bargain for his wife,"
Ben took a quick hit, knowing Brooke might slap him if he didn't finish the story she wanted to hear. He exhaled, coughing a bit and then cleared his throat. "So it was that Hades' heart was softened and he allowed Eurydice to leave under one condition." He passed the joint back to Brooke but continued on with the story. "-That Orpheus would walk in front … and never look back."
Brooke breathed out, smoke float about her head. "But he looked back."
"He did." Ben sat himself up. He looked down at his watch and groaned. "Brooke, I'm meeting with a new client in ten. We should get off the roof." Ben, always the gentleman, helped Brooke down the roof, knowing her head was buzzing too much for her to properly get down by herself. "You got it?" He asked, watching as she stepped down.
"Benny, can I stay the night?" She asked him. He laughed, because even though he hated when his mother would call him that – he loved when Brooke would.
"Yes." He agreed. "Just, go put on a movie or something." Ben said once they were both on solid ground and he could see the man he was meeting with stepping up his steps. "I'll be there in a little while." He said as he ushered Brooke in to the house.
Once she was inside, safe upstairs, Ben looked at the man he had been playing volleyball on the beach with for the past month. He didn't know why it took them so long to come up with some sort of agreement on the business they had both formed in their heads. "That your girlfriend?" Chon asked.
Chon. A Navy Seal, back from his first tour in Iraq. PTSD to the extreme.
"No," Ben shook his head. "Just a friend from college."
Truth be told, Brooke never finished her first semester at Berkeley, she dropped out and only came back for the parties and to visit Ben. But now he graduated and Brooke didn't have to drive back and forth from his place at Berkeley and her home in Laguna that she shared with her parents.
Brooke: a typical rich girl, why doesn't daddy love me? No, she was far from that. She didn't need a reason as to why her parents were never around – she was glad to have them gone. They were always out of town, out of state, out of the country and Brooke could care less. She liked that her parents were always gone. Especially her father. But that didn't mean she didn't get lonely.
Brooke walked up the stairs to the room Ben had deemed her own, and jumped on the bed. She looked down at her phone and saw she had four missed calls.
Ophelia. They had made friends in high school, and after Brooke dropped out of Berkeley, they became best friends. Brooke was Os hookup. She would always give her friend the best of Bens stash. She had been smoking weed since she was in middle school, much longer than Brooke. She had sort of a dependency on it, unlike Brooke who simply got high just to get high. Not to calm her nerves or make it OK to drive or because she was sick. Brooke just liked the feeling. O liked the feeling more.
O was just like Ben, mellow, very hippie. I think you'd like her. Brooke told Ben once. But he had been too focused on school. But school was over, he was done and there was no time like the present time to play. She hit the call button, calling Ophelia back and invited her over to try some of Bens new grow.
"You sure that's OK?"
"Yeah, it's totally fine."
"I'm not going to get greeted at the door with a pistol in the face?" Ophelia asked causing Brooke to let out a loud laugh.
"Not by me or Ben."
O agreed, telling Brooke she'd be there in twenty minutes, and Brooke guessed that by then Ben's business partner would be gone. If not, she would simply tell him to leave or join the party.
Brooke put her, messed up from the wind and roof, hair up in to a messy bun and quickly slipped in to a pair of skinny jeans and changed out of the tank top she had been wearing and ran down the hall in to Ben's room, stealing one of his t-shirts.
I help you grow, get you the seeds from Iraq, sell, and when people give you a hard time and don't pay up – well, that's when things get entertaining for me.
Violence is never the answer.
Brooke rolled her eyes and groaned. "Jesus Christ, Ben, don't get so preachy." Brooke said, finally emerging from the upstairs. She took a seat in the middle of the two men. "Ben, I invited Ophelia over," Before Ben could protest, Brooke raised her hands, stopping him from saying anything. "Benjamin, you have no excuses as to why she shouldn't come over and face it – you need to get laid."
Chon couldn't help but to laugh a little at what the girl said to Ben, which earned him a dimple from the girl. Chon glanced at Ben to see that he was rolling his eyes. Ben shook his head. "If you say so Brooklyn," Ben knew that Brooke hated it when he used her full name, only her parents did when they were around which was never.
Brooke stuck out her tongue at Ben, making a face at the name. "I hate when you call me that!"
"Well I'm not particularly fond of when you call me Benjamin." He teased her. Brooke rolled her eyes and grinned when she heard the knock on the door.
"Oh," she clapped her hands."There's Ophelia!" Brooke said with a cheesy smile on her face as she ran over to the front door. Brooke quickly glanced over her should to see that Ben was fixing his shirt and the guy called Chon looked like he was about to go full ninja mode.
"Brooke Davis!" Ophelia or better known as O yelled a she pulled her best friend into a hug. "I see you started the party without me," O added as she looked at the two men sitting in the living room.
"What can I say, they love me," Both girls giggled, which caused Ben and Chon to share a confused look. "You boys continue with the top secret meeting," Brooke paused and did the rabbit ear hand gesture. "We will be upstairs."
As O followed Brooke upstairs she whispered loudly, "Please tell me that Ben is the one with the curly hair,"
Ben just sat on the living couch with a huge grin on his face and yes he was still high as a kite.
"So…" Chon said awkwardly.
"Right, I say we have a deal my man," Both men shook hands, each thinking about how their lives where going to change for the better. "Wanna go upstairs and crash their party?" Ben stood up and stretched, he felt like an old man, but he knew it was because he had to take care of Brooke's crazy ass.
Chon shrugged his shoulders. Why not?
Chon took in the surrounding of the house, it was big, and there was no doubt that Ben already had a lot of cash stashed away. "Her names Brooklyn, right?"
Ben let out a loud laugh. "Brooke, if you call her Brooklyn she might start calling you by your full name. I learned that the hard way."
"-How old is she?"
"Nineteen." Ben said, a few feet away from Brooke's bedroom door.
"Legal!" Brooke yelled from her room causing Chon to fight back his own laughter. "-Benny, come in, I want you to meet O." She said, When Ben and Con came in to the room, O smiled at Ben, a smile so bright, it brought him out of his previous high and on to a whole new one. A high from a goddess. Brooke smirked. "I take it from your dopey grin that you two would like to get to know each other so I'm going to take your new business partner downstairs and you two can…fuck?" Brooke looked to Chon, he full on laughed at that, no longer able to fight it. "Come along, business man!" Brooke said, surprising Chon by taking his hand and running away from the pillow Ophelia was bound to throw at her.
They were outside now on the back deck, looking out at the beach. Brooke started a small fire in the outdoor fire place. Though there was no reason to other than when Brooke was high she liked to look at fire, that's what she told Chon anyway.
"Are you sure that you're not just secretly a pyro?" Chon asked her causing Brooke to laugh.
"Yes!" She continued to laugh, giving in to a small snort. "That's the true reason, you caught me, business man!" Brooke grinned at him. He couldn't help but smile back at her. He watched as she dug in to her pocket, pulling out a joint. "Do you want to light up?"
"Yes," Chon said happily. This made Brooke chuckle. "What?"
"It's nothing." She told him. "I just see why Benny brought you in to this." She said with a warm smile. She moved forward lighting the joint from the fire, quick to pull back before the whole thing lit on fire.
"You in the business?" Chon asked.
The smoke blew out of Brookes nostrils and she shrugged. "I sell to bambi-eyes in there. Something tells me that she's going to be around a lot more now though." She passed over the joint. Chon took in a deep puff, closing his eyes, not seeing the way Brooke was watching him. "You're the guy he plays volleyball with, right? Chon?"
Chon opened his eyes and raised his brow.
"Ben tells me everything. Most the time he says things because he doesn't think I'm listening but," she pointed to her ears. "I always listen." Brooke smiled. "I'm Brooke by the way."
"Not Brooklyn?" He teased her causing her to laugh.
"Not unless you want me to start calling you Chongy."
He laughed, eased in the moment because of the weed. "Please don't." She smiled, reaching for the joint. Chon moved forward and passed it to her. "Do you live here?" He asked.
"Most days." Brooke said with a shrug.
"So I'll see you around a lot." He didn't ask, he was just getting the facts checked in his head. He liked for things to be planned. "You'll be here."
"I will. But if you ever get sick of me, feel free to tell me to go home – I keep telling Ben that but for some reason he keeps me around."
"I can see why." Chon said without thinking.
Brooke smiled brightly. But before she could say anything, her phone began to ring. She looked down to see who was calling her. Liam, the guy she had gone on a couple of dates with. She looked to Chon, thought about blowing Liam off to hang out with Ben's new business partner.
"Who's that?" Chon asked Brooke.
"This guy I'm kind of seeing." Brooke told him, not really sure what to call Liam. Her boyfriend? She had discussed that with her the Irish man she was sleeping with, she didn't really see the use in discussing it with Chon.
He saw her. In a crowd full of people he saw her. And he picked her.
A goddess.
She had been with her a young blonde woman. Her long brown hair stopping at the middle of her back, a wet mess of curls from her swim in the ocean. The sun seemed to shine down on her leaving the other faces in the crowd a blurred mess.
Liam had come for a meeting, clad in his suit while all the other men and women ran around in their bathing suits. He tugged at his tie, feeling sweat drip from his head down to his neck. It was too hot. He had first fought his grandfather, Ruari, on expanding their business to Laguna, California to which he replied. "What's not to like about California? The women run around with their tits out and a string up their ass and call it their outfit. You'll have fun in Laguna, I assure you.
And he had. He had slept with a number of women, earning himself a reputation in the area. He was foreign, European, all the girls flocked to him like birds to seeds. He was still dealing with the love he left in Ireland, his sweetheart; Irene. The best way to get over someone is to get under someone new. Ryan, his youngest brother, had told him. So he got under a lot of women.
He hadn't expected to want anything more from a California girl than a place to put his cock in until he saw her. The most beautiful woman in California. And he had to have her.
He watched, ignoring the man he was in a meeting with, as Brooke ran a towel over her head, trying to shake out some of the salt water and smiled. She was shaking her head like a wet dog, but he found it somewhat elegant. Everything she did was magic to him.
Liam! His name being called caused him to look away. Are you listening?
He told them to go on, but couldn't help himself when his eyes wandered down the beach again where this Goddess was now grabbing her things and heading his way. When she was close enough and caught him staring at her, she blushed. He grinned at her. There was something so familiar about her that made him get up, leaving the man he was with shouting his name, and walked up to her.
She smiled up at him as he moved close to her, gazing down at her. "You're beautiful."
She chuckled. "You're very forward."
"I'm not afraid to go after something I want." Liam told her. She laughed again and then held out her hand. I'm Brooke. Liam picked up her hand in his and brought it to his lips, placing a soft kiss on the back of her palm. "Liam." He introduced himself.
On their date, he had brushed his fingers along her smooth legs, pushed the hair away from her eyes, kissed her jaw line and whispered in her ear. Everything he could think of to make her his. She would smile, bat her lashes and him and run her hand up his leg until he was melted like butter. He wanted her, but she had him.
He was hypnotized. He belonged to her from that moment forward.
Brooke's phone continued to ring, she couldn't ignore his call. "Do you mind if I get this?" She asked Chon. He shook his head and watched as Brooke got up, leaving him alone at the fire pit. He should have known someone like Brooke was already taken.
"Hey Liam," Brooke said in to the phone.
"Hello, beautiful." He replied. "What are you doing?"
Brooke smiled, she loved his Irish accent. "Being 'wing-woman' of the year." She told him causing Liam to chuckle. How? He asked. "I'm getting Ben laid." Come over. Liam told her. She looked back to Chon who was still sitting at the fire pit, smoking. Brooke bit down on her lip. "Tomorrow?" She asked.
"I suppose I can wait to ravish you until tomorrow." Liam told her causing her to blush.
Brooke laughed. "I'll see you tomorrow." She said before hanging up and walking back over to where Chon was sitting.
"Do you need to go?" He asked her.
Brooke sat down next to Chon. "Nope." She told him causing him to smile.
"Good."
