Link
by neka lopez or klutzy-kay
The boy almost seemed to smile at him, disconcertingly, triumphantly, like he had something up on him. Cold, hateful blue eyes identical to his own bore into his soul, as though he was seeing, knowing, his innermost reflections. A serious shake of a golden head seemed to confirm that impossible notion, the unshakable gaze endless.
The confident quirk of his lips faded eventually, the fair boy just watching, silently telling him something that was beyond words, something only they could understand as father and son.
So unaware of the natural bond between them that Dan felt at the mere thought of Lucas Scott, the boy didn't feel his turmoil, sense the never-ending conflict within his battered, wounded soul.
And when he turned away, a nameless jersey staring him in the face, it was testament to the boy's fortunate inability to understand.
Automatically, his eyes turned wistful as they expectantly turned to the link, the one thing that proved the boy was his. But it was no longer there. Within a split second, he grew horrified.
His nefarious behavior was extreme and often uncalled for, he knew, but that was his only way of protecting his heart, to stop it from getting shattered into a thousand pieces like it had when Karen had told him to stay away. Like it still did every time he heard the boy's name. It was the feeling he buried deep within as he stumbled upon the boy and Keith interacting as a father and a son would around town time after time, as he and Lucas should have been instead of his son and that bumbling idiot.
But his heart was breaking anyway, no matter his attempts to erase the boy from his mind and soul, because the link was gone.
End