Title: "The Tangled Webs We Weave"
Pairings: Brooke/Lucas, Brooke/Nathan, Peyton/Nathan, Jake/Peyton, Haley/Nathan with possible mention of others.
Characters:
Brooke Davis, 35. Brooke had her daughter Sophia at 19. She runs clothes over bro's in Tree Hill and has never been married.
Nathan Scott, 35. Nathan was Brooke's high school sweetheart. He got her pregnant at 18 and left to go to University on a full basketball scholarship. He is now married to Peyton Sawyer and has one daughter with her. Nathan used to play for the Lakers but was recently traded to the Bobcats.
Lucas Scott, 35. Lucas is Brooke's best friend and has been ever since they were little. He never got along with his half brother Nathan but he learned to accept that Brooke dated him because she told both of them that she didn't want them to make her choose. Lucas is an English teacher at Tree Hill High School and the coach of the Ravens basketball team. Lucas was once married to Lindsay but they split up (because of his feelings for Brooke). Lucas has always had strong feelings for Brooke but doesn't want to ruin their friendship.
Peyton Sawyer-Scott, 35. Peyton is married to Nathan. After a drunken fling she got pregnant by him at 18 and he couldn't abandon another child so he helped her out and they got married. Peyton runs her own record label. She and Nathan have an extremely tense and rocky marriage but she won't leave him because of Sawyer. Peyton is from LA not Tree Hill so she doesn't Brooke or Lucas or anyone else from Tree Hill.
Sophia Davis, 16. Sophia is Nathan and Brooke's daughter. She looks just like Brooke but has Nathan's blue eyes. She is head cheerleader and student body president, just like her mom was. Lucas is the father figure in her life.
Sawyer Scott, 16. Sawyer is Peyton and Nathan's daughter. Sawyer is blonde like Peyton and has blue eyes like Nathan. She is also a cheerleader and very popular. She will try to take over Sophia's spot on the squad and do a lot more damage than that.
Jake Jagielski, 35. Jake is a very good old High School friend of both Brooke and Lucas. He runs TRIC and helps coach the Ravens with Lucas. The whole fiasco with Jenny/Nikki did happen but Nikki left immediately after having Jenny and she never came back at all. Jake has never been married. He is quite content living life as a bachelor.
Haley James, 35. Haley is a good friend of Brooke and Lucas as well. She moved to Tree Hill from New York after she graduated University and became good friends with Lucas. She is also a teacher at Tree Hill High. Haley is divorced and has a son named Jamie the same age as Sophia and Sawyer.
Jenny Jagielski, 16. Jenny is Jake's daughter. The whole Nikki thing is the same (except they were 19 not 16 when they had her). Jenny is a total daddy's girl and she loves hanging out with her Aunt Brooke. Sophia is her best friend and she is also a cheerleader.
James Baker, 16. James or Jamie as he prefers to be called is Haley and Julian's son (odd pairing I know but I needed a father for her kid and it couldn't be Nathan, Jake, or Lucas so it was either Julian or Chris Keller and I'm not a fan of Keller/Haley so I chose Julian instead). Jamie is Sophia's boyfriend and really close friends with Jenny. He plays on the Tree Hill Ravens. His dad lives in LA so he hardly ever sees him.
Rachel Gatina, 35. Rachel is Brooke's best friend. She works as a model for Clothes Over Bro's. She's still the same Rachel that's on the show and she loves hooking up with nearly anyone. There may be hints of Rachel/Jake, Rachel/Nathan, and/or Rachel/Mouth in the story. She is just going to be used to add drama because Rachel is very good at that.
Julian Baker, 37. Julian is Haley's ex-husband and the father of her son Jamie. He travels so much for work (he's a movie producer) so he hardly ever sees Jamie but he stops in Tree Hill whenever he can. He is remarried to Alex Dupree.
Other characters that will be in the story are: Victoria, Chase, Mia, Lauren, Skills, Alex, Mouth, Dan, Karen and possible others.
This is totally AU except the Scott family history is pretty much the same.
PLOT: Brooke and Nathan were High School sweethearts, the king and queen of Tree Hill High, and the "it" couple. Everything was going good until Nathan cheated on her with another cheerleader and they broke up. As graduation approached Brooke found out she was pregnant and Nathan vowed to be there for her. He received a scholarship to UCLA and left without saying a word, leaving Brooke alone to raise her child. The only person she had was her best friend Lucas (he is sort of like Keith was on the show). Lucas has always had strong feelings for Brooke but never acted upon them because of their friendship. Lucas was married to Lindsay but they split up (because of Lucas's feelings for Brooke). When Nathan moved to LA he met Peyton and after a drunken hookup she fell pregnant. Nathan knew he couldn't abandon another child so he stayed with Peyton in order to help her out and they got married and are now in a terrible marriage. When Nathan is traded to the Charlotte bobcats and they move back out to Tree Hill with their daughter Sawyer old feelings are going to resurface, old wounds are going to be reopened, relationships are going to blossom whereas others are going to fall apart, and drama is going to be hitting the maximum. Endgame for sure will be Brooke/Lucas and Jake/Peyton. That means that Nathan/Haley will most likely be endgame as well.
THE DAVIS FAMILY
It's hard growing up with only one parent. In the 16 years Sophia Davis has been on the planet she has never once met her biological father. When she was little on every single birthday that she had, she used to wish that her father would show up. He never did. Now 16 years later and he has never sent her a card, phoned her, or visited. He has remained unknown. She does know who he is, by status of course. I mean come on who doesn't know who Nathan Scott is? He's the starting shooting guard, team captain, and leading scorer for the Los Angeles Lakers and the biggest star that has ever risen from the small town of Tree Hill, North Carolina. Well aside from her mother. She's pretty well known too. Brooke Davis is a beautiful woman and not just on the outside. She has the biggest heart and the best personality. When she isn't running the multi-million dollar clothing company "Clothes Over Bro's" with her mother, she's spending time with her daughter Sophia or her best friend Lucas. Lucas Scott is Nathan's older half brother and Brooke Davis's best friend. From the time she was born, Sophia has only ever remembered two men in her life, her Uncle Jake and her Uncle Lucas. Jake was so busy raising his own daughter, Jenny Jagielski, Sophia's best friend that he wasn't around as often as Lucas was. Lucas was the main fatherly figure in her life and in her mind the perfect match for her mother. Why they never got together is beyond her.
"SOPHIA BROOKLYN DAVIS!"
The young teen cringed at the sound of her name, her mother's tone bitter and angry. Something was wrong. Horribly wrong.
"I didn't do it!" she defended, throwing her hands up in the air defensively as her fashionista mother entered the room, the anger clearly evident on her face. "Well maybe I did do it. But I swear I didn't mean to if I did."
Her mother chuckled. "You didn't do anything. Did you? If there's something that I should know about maybe now is the time to confess considering that there could be nothing worse than what I just learned about ten minutes ago."
Well there was that one time I threw a party at your house while you were in New York. "No there's nothing that I can think of," Sophia smiled sweetly, showing her mother the intoxicating dimples she had inherited from her.
"Well then you might want to sit down for this one. It's not going to be pretty."
"Mom you're scaring me," Sophia announced, sitting opposite her mother on the couch.
"There's no easy way to say this so I'm just going to come out and say it," Brooke started, clasping her hands together.
"Let me guess. You and Uncle Lucas finally realized that you're madly in love with each other and you guys are getting together after 16 years of denying your feelings for one another!" Sophia squealed, clapping her hands together excitedly.
Brooke's cheeks turned red. "I do not love your Uncle Lucas. He is my best friend!" she protested.
"Right…" Sophia chuckled. "I was kidding though because obviously if that were the news it wouldn't be a bad thing."
"Okay we aren't going down that road again," Brooke announced before her daughter could pry anymore. "Besides what I am about to tell you is going to change everything Sophia."
"I'm waiting…" Sophia announced, tapping her foot impatiently against the hardwood floor. "But can you hurry up because I have shit to do?"
"Language young lady," her mother glared at her, hazel eyes meeting blue.
"Sorry," Sophia mumbled with the perfected roll of her eyes. "Anyways…" she motioned for her mother to continue. Their conversations were frequently sidetracked because both women had the attention span of a two year old.
"I just heard that someone was moving back to town," she announced quietly.
"That's what you had to tell me? Like I care," Sophia snorted, pushing herself up from the couch.
Her mother grabbed her by the shoulders. "It's Nathan, your father. He got traded to the Bobcats and he is moving back to Tree Hill!" her mother blurted out briskly.
Sophia stopped dead in her tracks. For just a second it seemed like time had frozen. Her father, the one who had abandoned her and her mother mercilessly almost 17 years ago was coming back. The insensitive asshole that left without trace, without a phone call, without an explanation was moving back to Tree Hill. She could feel her head spinning and her cheeks burning up with anger and rage. Her mother was flinging her hand in her face. "Sophia! Hello!" she called out.
Finally she snapped back to reality. "Okay, please tell me that I did not just hear you correctly or that you're just kidding. Please just tell me that you're playing a nasty prank on me," Sophia demanded as calmly as she could muster.
"I'm afraid not. I wish that I could tell you that I was kidding but I'm not. Lucas told me that it's a for sure thing earlier today. He's coming back." Her mother's voice was so small and so weak and Sophia instantly pitied her.
"Why now? Why after 16 years of absence is he coming back?" Sophia screamed angrily. She just wanted to run away from all of this.
"I'm not him, I can't answer that," her mother replied weakly, looking down at her hands as she spoke. Sophia could tell that her mother was dreading this just as much as she was.
Sophia crossed her arms over her chest stubbornly. "If he tries to make amends there is no way in hell that I am going to forgive him. He's 16 years too late and I am not going to give him the time of day." He couldn't just waltz into her life and expect her to accept him as if nothing happened. It didn't work like that.
Brooke nodded her head. "That's completely understandable Soph because I'm not going to give him the time of day either. We're going to stick by each other through this and keep on living our lives normally as if nothing has changed. He's walked all over us for so long and now he's going to finally understand what it feels like," Brooke smiled, pulling her daughter in for a much needed hug. Nothing was going to tear them apart, especially not the one thing that had ruined them for so many years.
SCOTT FAMILY
Packing up and moving was never easy. A new town, new faces, a new school, those were all things that Sawyer Scott was dreading. She liked her life in LA. It was perfect. She was pretty, popular, and had everything she wanted. Sawyer Elizabeth Scott was the only child of Nathan and Peyton Scott. Her father was a huge NBA superstar and her mother owned the perfect record label, Red Bedroom Records. Just two weeks ago her father announced that they were moving back to Tree Hill, his home town after the Lakers traded him to the Charlotte Bobcats in exchange for some fresh new talent. Now her whole life was being moved across the country to a small hick town in the middle of fucking nowhere. There was something about that town though. She just knew it. The other night she heard her parents talking. Their bedroom door was closed but Sawyer was listening on the other side.
FLASHBACK
"Nathan do we have to go to Tree Hill?" her mother's voice was hushed but yet frantic. Sawyer knew that eavesdropping was wrong but something was up, something that she wasn't being included in.
"Peyton shut up. Sawyer might hear you," her father warned rudely.
"Whatever Nathan, this is bullshit and you know it. We have the perfect life here in LA."
"Do you think I want to do this any more than you do? No Peyton. I don't. I know that we have the perfect life her e in LA but the Lakers don't want me anymore. There is nothing that I can say to convince them to keep me. They need fresh new talent and as of now I am dead to them. I was lucky that even the Bobcats took me. I can't help it that we have to move Peyton. Sometimes life throws you tough shit and you just have to deal with it. I know the location isn't exactly ideal but I'll take what I can get."
"What if they still live there?" Peyton asked suddenly, emphasizing the word they. Sawyer wondered who the hell "they" were.
"I doubt it Peyton. She's a fashion designer for crying out loud. They're probably in New York. Besides, even if they do still live in Tree Hill we aren't going to let that phase us. We will keep living our lives as if nothing happened," Nathan assured his wife with a comforting hand on the shoulder.
"As if nothing happened? Do you hear yourself Nathan?" Her mother was screaming now, the anger raging in her voice. "You can't pretend that nothing happened. You abandoned your…"
"Peyton shut up! You've probably already woken Sawyer up with your excessive and dramatic screaming. We don't want to chance her hearing us so we will finish this conversation in the morning," he told his wife spitefully.
Sawyer heard a long sigh and a "fuck you" being mumbled from behind the closed door. Then she noticed the light go out and the sound of a body falling back onto the bed. Something incredibly suspicious was going on. What did her mother mean when she said "you abandoned your…"? Sawyer really wished she would've finished her sentence. Fuck her stupid father for cutting her off. It was all his fault. Sawyer Scott was a spoiled brat and she always got her own way. She was going to get to the bottom of this. No matter what it took.
END FLASHBACK
Sawyer sat in the back seat of her father's escalade, feet up on the middle console, headphones jammed in her ears.
"Tonight, Imma fight till we see the sunlight. Tick tock on the clock but the party don't stop, NO!"
Peyton turned around and shot a slight glare at her daughter. "Honey can you please be quiet?" she asked as nicely as she could.
"What? You don't like my singing? That hurt's mom," Sawyer answered sarcastically, holding her hand against her heart in mockery.
"I never said that!" Peyton defended herself. "You have a uh… a lovely voice," she lied awkwardly. "But sometimes the noise is just too much."
Sawyer rolled her eyes sarcastically. That woman was about as good of a liar as she was at singing. "I will sing if I want too," she bit back coldly, turning her headphones up and belting out more of the song at the top of her lungs. "Now, now, we go until they kick us out, out or the police shut us down, down. Police shut us down, down. Po-po shut us down, down!"
Peyton's was fuming by this point. That much was obvious. "I've had enough of you young lady!" she hissed, ripping the headphones out of her daughter's ears, taking the ipod along with them. "I'll be keeping these until you can learn to behave like the girl I know I raised you to be!"
"Daddy…" Sawyer pouted, looking to Nathan who was driving for support. "You guys make me move across the country and leave everything I had behind in LA and she takes my ipod away? That's hardly fair."
"It's called tough love kid," Peyton growled from her seat.
"Peyton just give her the damn ipod as long as she agrees to stop singing like that," Nathan insisted, not taking his eyes off the road.
"Nathan! You really have no concept of parenting do you? You let her get away with whatever she wants and that is not how we raised her to be. How I raised her to be. She is not going to get away with acting like a spoiled brat!"
"Sorry kiddo. I can't help you out right now but I promise you that when we stop I'll get your ipod back for you," Nathan winked at Sawyer through the rearview mirror.
"Nathan do not encourage her!" Peyton hissed at her husband harshly. She really hated the way that Nathan treated Sawyer. In Nathan's eyes Sawyer was this perfect little angel that could do no wrong. He wasn't too keen on disciplining her. That had always been Peyton's job. She felt like she was the bad parent because Nathan gave Sawyer everything and treated her like a princess but Peyton actually acted like a mother and disciplined her daughter. While she knew that she was being the good parent, she felt like Sawyer resented her for it because Sawyer was blindsided by the way Nathan treated her, catering to her every need.
"Bitch," Sawyer mumbled under her breath.
"Excuse me?" Peyton turned around to face her daughter, who was smirking. "You just like to stir things up don't you princess? Well guess what Sawyer? You aren't always going to have daddy's hand to hold!"
"Let's pull over guys. I'm tired and I don't really feel like listening to anymore fighting today," Nathan suggested, breaking the mother and daughter from their argument.
"Fine by me," Sawyer grumbled from the backseat.
Peyton stretched and let out a huge yawn. "Sounds good to me, I'm beat."
Tomorrow the Scott family would reach their destination. Tomorrow the Scott family would learn that the past doesn't just erase itself. Their homecoming to Tree Hill was going to be anything but pleasant.
AN: So here's the first chapter of a story that I just couldn't get out of my head! I'm having a little bit of writers block with my other story so I thought I'd give this one a shot. It's going to be very different from most stories I write and filled with drama. The first chapter was just a filler to get the story going. Next chapter things are going to heat up and the other characters will be introduced. I'm going to be away until Monday and I am currently sick but I will try to update as soon as I get back from my little trip. Anyways let me know what you think. Good idea or bad idea?