A/N: so I was watching Cloud 9, a duh, and at the part where Nick tells the whole sled story I noticed Sebastian looked back at Will and Will looked like so hurt. Then I was totally like what if Sebastian was Will's dad and he left him and like this whole thing spread out before my eyes. Like Will and Nick could so be brothers just because they are both so fiiiinnneee like damn those Disney boys. I guess it's kinda like One Tree Hill only, not. I wrote it in like a hour. Hope you guys like it!
Doors:
Sebastian Allan Swift never wanted to become a father. He had told Elizabeth Cloud that the moment they started dating and she agreed. He didn't want kids. She didn't want kids. He would be a pro snowboarder. She would be a first class veterinarian. They both had to big of plans that a baby could crush with his little, pudgy hands.
He wouldn't of said they were in love, him and Lizzie (he will admit it was more than what he and Charlotte had) but they had dated for two years before she told him she was pregnant. He broke it off, giving her all he had in his wallet (a hundred and thirty one dollars and eighty seven cents) and told her that should be enough for an abortion. Then he left, assuming she got one.
He met Charlotte less then a week later. They didn't want the same thing, but he didn't care. She was just a rebound. He'd date her for a few months to get over Lizzie and then look for someone to spend the rest of his life with. She didn't exactly know that (they didn't really talked about thing like that. Or anything really) and purposed when she found out she was pregnant less then a month after they got together.
Her parents had money. They could bankroll him all the way to the top. He said yes and they were married that September. Nicholas Robert Swift was born that November. It worked out well at first, Charlotte stayed home with the baby and he went out and shredded, winning challenge after challenge and competition after competition. He was on the way to the top.
Then his in-laws lost most of their money in stocks and a factory fire or something devastating in more ways then one. He had to stop competing to provide for the wife and son he didn't want. However, it wasn't as terrible as he thought. He worked as a coach and in an office building using the degree he received but he never thought he would use. It wasn't until Nick started school that it completely fell to shit.
He picked his five year old son up on the first day of school and was introduced to his first friends. ("Daddy! This is Dink-" "it's Dick!" "No, your name is Dink!" "See Will agrees. It's Dink! Oh right! Daddy, this is Dink Johnson and Will Cloud. Were best friends!"). He stared at the little boy, laughing with his son at the other kid yelling that his name was Dick, not Dink. His hair was brown and eyes were a clear blue. The same blue as his and Nick's. Lizzie was on the other side of the class room, looking at him and confirming his suspicions. She never got the abortion (she never spent the hundred thirty one dollars and eighty seven cents either).
He had snatched his son away, telling him not to play with that boy again. Nick asked why and he replied he would hate him forever. (Little did Nick know that he already did because of his existence- not to mention his brother's. He never really had a chance in the first place). The five year old promised never to play with Will and Dink ever again for as long as he lived, cross his heart and hope to die, and held to that promise for a little over eleven years.
Then Nick met Kayla Morgan, Mike Lamb and Burke Brighton after he switched kindergarten classes. They then became his friends and eventual teammates. Nick started snowboarding as soon as his feet were big enough to fit in the boots attached to his father's first board. Sebastian started his own snowboarding club and equipment company when Nick turned 13. He pushed his son hard, not because it was Nick's dream, but to beat Will. Both his sons were apparently naturals on the slopes. After Will beat Nick at their first competition, Sebastian pushed his son harder. He didn't need the son he claimed as his own and raised to be a looser. That reflected badly on him.
Charlotte left him a year later. Apparently, he was to intense and ruff and she couldn't take it anymore. She went to live on the other side of the mountain with her parents and Nick. His son stayed with him on weekends and nights when practice went long, which was fine with both if them. He had the divorce papers written up less then a month after she left him. He signed and ended his 14 year old marriage without blinking an eye.
He needed Nick to win, pushing him past his breaking point and cheating to make sure of it. He had him date Kayla Morgan so her dad would pay for the team. He greased the bottom of Will's board so it wouldn't grip the ice properly and lead him to break his leg and collapse his lounge. He had almost killed his first born and temporarily ended the young man's career. But he didn't care as long as Nick won. (He did, but it wasn't like anyone noticed anyway with Will Cloud almost dying on the snow right before their very eyes. Not even Nick was happy about that victory).
a year later, he told Nick to run his brother's sled threw the sign and frame Kayla for it to get her off the team. They needed to win Fire and Ice and they weren't going to do it with Kayla dragging them down like an anchor. At first he said no, but he persuaded him like he'd been able to do since the day he befriended the brother he never knew he had. (Now the "I will hate you forever" threat was a bit more advanced). He had him break Kayla's heart and date Skye as well, just to make sure she didn't leave the team before he could beat the Hot Doggers into the ground.
He wouldn't of done that if he knew what would come out of it. The son he never claimed did what he could never do, coach Kayla into shape. She learned how to do advanced tricks that he never would have bothered thinking about teaching her. Nick barely beat him in the men's half pipe, which made him smile in triumph. He was still the failure he knew he'd be the moment he saw Will shred for the first time.
Then Nick turned on him. He came clean about the whole thing just because he hadn't been proud enough or cared for him enough. Sebastian glanced at Will and saw the shame written in his features at his son's proclamation. Will already hated him and now Nick did as well. Sebastian lost both his sons a long time ago and he was ok with that fact until then. Until the day after he saw four eyes, identical copies of his own, looking at him with sadness and shame.
They lost because Kayla Morgan, the girl he had put in harms way because he thought she wasn't a threat, did the fucking Cloud 9 and got a fucking perfect score. That was unheard of and all that night it was all Sebastian could think about. Until he walked into his son's room the next morning and found it empty besides the furniture and Nick's Team Swift snowboard laying in the middle of the room, broken in half and with a hateful note laying on the desk.
It wasn't until the next day that it hit him. He had lost all the arrogance and intensity and the ability to hold back his feelings so he could hurt those around him without the guilt seeping in and realized he lost everything. He had no love, no son and no respect. People sent him glances of hatred and crossed the street when they saw him coming. Richard Morgan, owner of the resort, stopped all his funding for the club. Nick moved completely in with his mom, only leaving a few useless and broken items to show he had ever lived there. For the first time in his life he was alone.
He had lost all hope and went to the last place he'd ever thought he'd end up: Lizzie Cloud's doorstep. He had knocked and Dink answered the door, having stayed at his best friend's house after the night full of festivities for the Hot Doggers. ("Dick, is... um, Will home?" "It's Dink"). He had gotten his son and Will had told him that he wasn't welcome here, in the home that he had livid in once with the mother of his eldest son.
He stayed silent though because he didn't know why he was there, let alone what to say ("when's your birthday?" and "what's your middle name?" came to mind, but he was still to scared to show that he cared- correction, cares). It was the closest he had been to his first born in about twelve years and that fact alone startled him. Will didn't look anything like him, except the nose and the striking blue eyes. Then Will started talking.
("My mom told me about you, how you left, told her to get an abortion, and didn't even stick around long enough to see it threw. Then you get Nick's mom pregnant twenty minuets later and marry her? I am not envious of Nick. I could never be after how I saw him last night. He came by here and apologized because you greased my board the night of my accident. He thought he should have stopped you and shouldn't have wrecked my sled. He told me he wished we could have been friends, but you told him no. That you threatened to take away something you didn't even give him in the first place. I told him I wished we could have been friends too and then I told him that we're brothers. I told him because he deserves to know, not to get back at you. So please go before I call the cops").
He shut the door on him and Sebastian lost it. He went home that night and cried himself to sleep because now he apparently had feelings. He grew a heart when no one needed him to use it, when no one cared if he had one anyway. It was to late for him. It was much, much to late for him to prove himself to and love his family because they had shut him out. One door had been glued shut years ago and no matter how hard he tried he couldn't pry it open. The other door was locked from the outside and he couldn't get out even of he had the key. He would he'd never be able to prove himself to his boys.
He saw both his sons again together five years later. They were at the Cantina, their boards leaned against the wall behind them and they were laughing and talking and smiling (three things he never saw Nick do when he was in his life). Kayla Morgan was basically in Will's lap, a huge ring on the ring finger of her left hand and his eyes were filled with love and adoration when he looked at her. Nick had his arms slinged over the shoulders of a skinny red head who was sneaking spoonfuls of his ice cream without his notice. They were happy and he only knew that because of a chance passing one cold afternoon. That was the last time he saw them in person.
He watched Will (and occasionally Kayla) win gold medals and a few silver medals in the 2018 and 2022 Winter Olympics. There was an announcement in the newspaper a while latter that the local Olympians were expecting a baby boy. He clipped that article out and put it with the one announcing that they were married. He never met his grandson or even learned his name.
He received a letter from Nick about a year after reading the article. It contained details of his life. He quit snow boarding after he graduated high school and went to Santa Clara University in California while Will joined the Olympic team. He became an architect and was the best man at Will and Kayla's wedding. Nick told him of his girlfriend who he was thinking of proposing to and that maybe he could come to the wedding, if he ever worked to the nerve to propose. He also bragged about his little nephew who apparently looked just like his hot uncle. He had included a two pictures. One was of Nick and Will, both looking smart in tuxes and standing at the altar at Will's wedding. Nick was giving the camera a thumbs up and Will was smiling larger than he had ever seen him smile. The other was of himself, his brother and the baby boy who was smiling a toothless smile. The two brother's arms were wrapped around each other's shoulders and the baby was sitting in his father's other arm.
The baby looked just like Will except for Kayla's blond locks and Nick's huge nose, but even that trait both brother's got from himself. He also possessed the striking blue eyes of his grandfather. He starred at those pictures while waiting for the wedding invitation that never came. Years went by and eventually Sebastian knew he was completely forgotten by his sons and their growing families.
Sebastian Allan Swift never wanted to be a father, but he became one anyway. He distanced, resented, threatened and pushed his sons past their breaking point and lost both of them in one bad decision and a first REAL conversation between two brothers. It wasn't until he wasn't one anymore that he realized he wanted to become a father. He had loved being a father.
A/N: yeah. I don't really know where that whole thing came from, but I'm glad I wrote it. So this will become a three-shot, the next two chapters restricted to both Will ad a Nick's point of view. They will contain more info about what happened to all three of them after the Fire and ice competition. Hope you guys liked it and stay tuned for the next installments.
