Home and Away
A/N: Hi, i've never written a Home and Away fanfic before but i do watch the show alot. In my story Charlie didn't die when Jake shot her, she survived and her and Brax decided to stay in Summer Bay but Casey and Ruby still broke up. This story starts in episode 5573 and the main focus of the story is Brax trying to fight his father and protect his brothers. His fathers name is Sean Braxton in my story, not Danny.
"Seems like your my like me than you say you are," Sean said, taunting his eldest son as he walked away, "Chip of the old block aye?"
Brax stopped dead in his tracks before turning away and walked back to his father with determination. "I'm nothing like you, Sean." "Yeah you are." Sean said, "You just don't want to admit." Making Brax tense even more as he struggled not hit his father.
"Everything okay here?"
Brax turned and saw his Charlie standing there, watching the two men cautiously.
"Nah it's all good babe." Brax said, "Come on lets go." He told her, trying to get her away from Sean as quickly as possible.
"Are you gonna tell me what happened back there?"
Brax looked at his girlfriend, as they walked along the beach, "Do i have to?"
"No but i'd like it if you did." Charlie said, taking his hand in her own. Brax sighed, "My dads bad news, he's a complete dog. No matter what anyone says i'm not gonna give up till he's out of our lives again. He thinks he can get out of jail and just push me around again but thats not gonna happen. I'm not scared of him anymore, he needs to get that into his head."
"What it was it like growing up with him?" Charlie asked.
Brax had told her that Sean had always been a bad father and though Brax had never said the words, it didn't take a genius that Sean was an abusive parent. But Charlie knew Brax and knew that it was more than the abuse that fueled his hatred for his father.
Brax sighed again, "It was messed up. For all of us. He put Heath in hospital a couple of times, he hit Casey a few times, though Casey doesn't remember it. Me and Mum got the worst of it, she could never do anything right in Dads eyes and i got beat all the time cause from the age of around twelve onwards, i stood up to him and tried to protect Mum and Casey from him. I got put in a hospital once when he whacked me over the head with a cricket bat. Life was hell with him around, thats why when he got arrested, it was one the best thing that happened to my family."
By now they had sat down on the beach and Charlie hugged her boyfriend as he told her about his tough life. Ever since Sean Braxton got out of jail she had found a new compassion for Brax and the other River Boys. She realised that the lifestyle they lived was basically a survival instinct from their home lives as children. Brax had told her, 'Us River Boys, we're not a gang, we're a family. We've all had tough lives and are used to people judging us and turning their backs on us. That why we're so close.'
"What are you gonna do?"
"I don't know."
Charlie grabbed Brax's face and kissed him softly, "I love you."
"I love you too." Brax smiled, "Lets go home."