A/N: Okay, a new story. This story is very different to ones I have written before so I hope it turns out how I want it to. Of course, this story is Brucas. I know that they're unlikely on the show now but I find it easy to write them, and no matter what I still love them – that and I seriously can not stand Leyton.
The story is AU and most of the characters (in the beginning) are OOC. I know there are people out there who don't like stories like that but please give this story a chance.

~ Casey xXx

Disclaimer: One Tree Hill does not belong to me; it will never belong to me. The only character that slightly belongs to me is Lily Scott.

"The Family Scott"

In a risky move, the nice china plates had been set for dinner, even though the last thing on the dysfunctional family's mind tonight was eating. The delicious aroma wafting out of the kitchen where the last of the dinner was being prepared made its way through to the dining room where most of the family had assembled for this latest attempt at a family dinner and civility.
"You seriously believe that?" The family's oldest son. "Maybe you are thicker than you look."
"Don't even think about speaking to me like that!"
As the angry voices of family patriarch Dan Scott and his oldest child Nathan Scott quietened down, the room was left in complete silence and the tension could be felt by those present. Nathan's one year old son Jamie Scott must have detected on this because at once he started wailing and attentions were diverted as his mama Haley Scott attempted to quieten him down.
As Jamie's wails turned to whimpers the housekeeper, Janice, brought out the dinner and even after it was served no one even dared to glance at the food.
Dan opened his mouth, presumably to start another argument but his dark haired son beat him to it. The chair he had been sitting on hit the floor with a crash.
"I'm leaving." He declared his voice quiet and deadly calm but the malice could still be heard. The front door had slammed shut before his departure was fully realised and a second later his wife and son had quietly slunk away after him.

A sigh could be heard from the opposite side of the table. Dan looked up sharply to find the noise had come from his youngest child, sixteen year old Lily Isabella; without looking at her father she faced her mum and pushed away from the table.
"May I be excused?" She asked quietly; she hated involving herself in these verbal, and occasionally physical, slinging matches. She had barely even seen her mother's slight nod before disappearing; meals where everybody left before anybody ate were a common occurrence in the Scott Household.
The table once again fell into an uncomfortable and tense silence. Dan, his wife Karen and their second son Lucas were still sitting in their chairs. The other member of the family, Lucas's twin sister Peyton hadn't even bothered to make a brief appearance for this event.
"Great going dad." Luke snorted pushing back from the table. "You just had to ruin another dinner." And then like his brother and sister-in-law he disappeared out of the front door, presumably to go find his twin and get just as drunk.

The Scott family was undoubtedly one of the most influential families in the United States of America. Dan Scott, not only headed his family but also the corporate giant Scott Enterprises which was involved in everything, raging from car dealerships, Scott Motors, scattered across the country to the Finance Market on Wall Street in New York City. His business partner and also his wife of almost two and a half decades was Karen Roe Scott; her job was to manage the publicity that the company generated as well as keeping the Scott name clean in the media; which considering her children was a difficult task. Her oldest child was twenty three year old Nathaniel "Nathan" Scott. He wasn't generally a problem; he had married his high school girlfriend Haley when he was seventeen to carve a life away from his father, but there was those nights out that any twenty something year old millionaire heir was bound to have, and those infamous father/son arguments that ended in the police station half of the time.
After Nathan were her twenty one year old twins Lucas Eugene and Peyton Elizabeth Scott, who always managed to give her splitting headaches. At least once a fortnight Peyton appeared on the front cover of something national tabloid magazine as she stumbled out some random nightclub drunk at four in the morning hanging off the arm of some equally troubled big name actor or musician. Her last major damage control was caused by her son Luke who had overnight become a best selling author with his novel when there were speculations and gossip about how much was fictional and how much had been inspired from his own family.

Her only relief came in the form of sixteen year old Lily. Lily had enough sense to keep herself out of trouble, but Karen knew the girl was battling with some family secrets that she had successfully kept out away from the media.

Dan, who had actually started to eat his own dinner, looked up to find Karen staring at him in disbelief.
"What?" He snapped his mouth full of food.
Karen shook her head without uttering a single word; she loved all her children dearly but if her husband continued on his warpath she was going to lose them all. In a single gulp she completely drained her previously untouched wined glass and followed suit of her children leaving Dan by himself to enjoy his meal.

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~ Casey xXx