Title: Comfortably Numb

Summary: A/U Lucas is pulled into Brooke's world after he walks in on her in a compromising situation.

Pairing: Lucas/Brooke. Nathan/Haley.

Notes: 1. I'm using creative license with ages and some of the history. 2. This is just the prologue - other chapters will be longer. 3. This is un-beta'd so all spelling and grammar mistakes are mine. 4, The title from this story is taken from the Pink Floyd song of the same name.

Disclaimer: The characters and premise of One Tree Hill do not belong to me - they are the property of Mark Schwahn and The CW.

Harper Lee wrote; "I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."

Comfortably Numb

Tree Hill, North Caroline population; who knows and honestly who really cares. It was a town like many in suburban America, it had one High School, a Main Street, a mall on the outskirts of town and hundreds on teenagers all trying to figure out their place in the world and discover what kind of adult they wanted to become.

Brooke Penelope Davis was just one of them. 5 foot 4, hazel eyes, brunette shoulder length hair, a magnetic smile and matching dimples. At 16 years 3 months and 11 days old she was one of the most popular girls in Tree Hill; really giving life to that old cliché about being the girl that every guy wanted and every girl wanted to be.

Born on March 4th 1989 to Robert and Victoria Davis she was the only child of one of Tree Hill's most influential power couples. Her parents however seemed to like the idea of having a child more than the reality. Leaving Brooke to be raised by a succession of Nannies, until the age of 14 when they decided she was old enough to be left alone. After that she was raised by credit cards and the occasional whistle stop visit from her parents.

To the outside world Brooke Davis had it all; money, popularity, beauty, charisma and no one ever telling her what to do. But the thing that they didn't know about Brooke Davis was she didn't really care about that, in fact she would give it all up in a second to have someone that cared. Parents that worried and friends that she trusted enough to let in, but somehow, somewhere along the way Brooke Davis had surrounded herself with superficial relationships, pushing away anyone that tried to get below the surface to the reality of the girl behind the hazel eyes and dimpled smile.

Which is how she had found herself right here in this very moment; sat before a doctor she had met just mere minutes ago as he carefully explained how her life as she knew it was over.

Then you had Lucas Scott. 6 foot exactly, blonde hair, blue eyes and a shy almost brooding smile that was rarely seen. At 17 years, 3 weeks and 5 days old he was one of the oldest in his year. He was born on May the 20th 1988 to Dan Scott and Karen Roe. Abandoned by his father before he was even born Lucas was raised by his mother. His mother was just a little bit older than he was now when he was born. Karen was a fiercely independent woman, who never wanted her son to feel like he was not good enough.

Making the most of what she had she saved everything she had to open up her own cafe, right in the heart of Tree Hill, she raised Lucas to know right from wrong, he was given boundaries and curfews, she had expectations and dreams for him. Dreams that he would be able to achieve whatever his heart desired.

If you asked him Lucas Scott would tell you that he was content with what he had, he had a loving mother, a best friend that he had grown up with in Haley James, he liked to study and when he wasn't at school or helping his mom in the cafe he could usually be found on the River Court shooting hoops with his friends or on the roof of Karen's Cafe reading a book.

The truth however Lucas kept close to his chest, he would never tell anyone how in the silence he was continuously plagued by that what ifs, that he couldn't help wonder why his father refused to be a part of his life. Instead he kept an air of indifference whenever the man was mentioned, choosing to avoid all contact with his father, stepmother and half brother Nathan Scott.

Until he found himself stood on the River Court, basket ball in hand, toe to toe with the half brother he barely knew as they battled for control, neither one of them willing to back down.

To the outside world Brooke Davis and Lucas Scott were polar opposites. Two teenagers living in the same time, attending the same school whose paths had yet to meet. What they didn't know as the sun rose on a warn day in June was all that was about to change. Brooke Davis and Lucas Scott's lives were about to become entwined in a way that no one ever would have predicted.