Where Is Your Heart
By -OthStarlet- aka Katie
Story: One Tree Hill
Pairings: Just have to read and see.
Rating: T
Warnings: This contains some bad language.
Summery: At the end of Season 2, AU Senior Year. Secrets, lies, deception, pain is what the little town of Tree Hill, North Carolina is all about. And senior year isn't going to be any different.
Disclaimer: I do NOT own One Tree Hill, that pleasure remains Mark Schwahn's, or any of the characters you recognize, but the rest are mine.
Spoilers: Season 1 and 2, some of Season 3
Feedback: Please review. I love to read readers opinions and comments.
Author's Note: Story has been revised. Posted before but I didn't like how it was written but I loved the story line, so it has been rewritten. I realize you probably hate me so sorry. If you read the last story under the same name, all the important chapters will now become flashbacks. First five chapters or so are flashbacks, indicated and in italics. The characters thoughts will be bold and italicized. Any questions, just ask.
Title Information: The title of the story is a song by Kelly Clarkson. Lyrics can be found here:
http(:)(/)www(dot)azlyrics(dot)com(/)lyrics(/)kellyclarkson(/)whereisyourheart
Chapter 1 - Angels Losing Sleep
"Man once sang to me; look at you saving the world on your own. And I wonder how things gonna be, 'cause the time here it passes so slow. In a city of devils we live, A city of devils we live. Find somebody to learn, boy you gotta love someone more than yourself. I can feel the fire of the city lights burn. It's hard to find angels in hell."
- - Yellowcard "City of Devils"
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Who knew soap operas really existed. Welcome to Tree Hill, North Carolina. Really, can one town hold so much drama? When you think that there isn't anymore drama left to come from this town, it blows up in your face or bites you in the ass.
Lucas Scott flipped the page of an old Sherlock Holmes book that he was rereading for probably the billionth time, when he was suddenly blinded by a pair of hands covering his eyes.
"Guess who!"
- -flashback- -
The blonde hair, blue eyed girl Lucas had noticed from a distance came up to him at his table and asked, "Do you mind if I join you?"
Lucas looked at her dumbfounded while her eyes questioned him politely. Lucas finally moved and replied, "sure, why not."
As she sat down, she outstretched her arm. "My name is Marissa."
"Lucas."
Marissa chewed and swallowed some of her food before she continued on. "So Lucas, you aren't from around here, are you?"
"Nope, I'm just passing through."
Marissa nodded her head as she took another bite from her hamburger, ate a couple of fries and took a long drink of her Mountain Dew. "So, where you headed?"
"Um, home. Tree Hill, North Carolina."
"Oh-my-gosh, are you serious?" She stared at him, disbelieving what he had just said before she squealed and almost jumped for joy. "That is too weird. That's where I have to go!" Do you think you could give me a ride?"
"How old are you?"
Marissa looked at him confused and shrugged. "Does it matter?"
Lucas chuckled and smiled at her. "Well, yea. I really don't want to get in trouble if I get caught assisting a run away now do I?"
"I'm fine. I'm not a runaway."
"How do I know you are telling the truth?"
"You are just going to have trust me." She smiled at him, almost a smirk that made Lucas think that he has met her before.
Lucas stood up from the table and smiled widely at her. "All right, lets hit the road."
- -end flashback- -
"Marissa Vivian Scott, I can't read my book if your hands are over my eyes now can I?
"Oh no! Don't you go middle naming me Lucas Eugene Scott! And besides, you probably read that book enough times to memorize it by now if it's that badly worn."
Lucas chuckled. "Remember this conversation when I kick you out of the house. Don't you think that you should be a bit more kurtosis toward me, after all that I have done for you? We don't just allow strangers into this house."
- -flashback- -
"Could you turn here please, the house is down this street." Lucas turned the car down the street, lined with perfect suburban houses and lawns. "That house, down there." Lucas pulled up in front of a familiar house.
Lucas looked at her. "Why are we at the Scott's house?"
"Lucas, aren't you just Curious George. I'm here to see my father, Dan Scott."
- -end flashback- -
"You wouldn't get rid of me now would you?" Her bright blue eyes sparkled as she smiled sweetly to her newly found half brother. "After all, it would be so boring without me around here to liven up the place!"
- -flashback- -
"I need to see Dan Scott!"
"Why?"
"Excuse me?"
"Honey, let me give you some advise. Leave town now and never ever think about Dan Scott again. You are better off this way."
"But I need to see him. I need some help."
"What are you a slut that he has been sleeping with and now you are pregnant? Is that why you need him?"
"No."
"Then what?"
"I need to see him. I need to meet him and talk to him and see if I'm anything like him. I need to see my father!"
Deb glared at the blonde and Nathan looked between the two women. "What?"
"My name is Marissa Scott. My father's name is Dan Scott. I have to see him. Please, please, please help me!"
Deb's mouth dropped. She finally noticed the similarities between Marissa, Nathan, Lucas and Dan and could believe she hadn't seen it before. "How old are you?"
"What?"
"How old are you!"
"Fourteen"
"Oh-my-god, he cheated on me. After everything I went through with my affair and he actually fathered another child!"
"You're his wife?"
"And you are the bastard child. Leave me and my son alone or else I will be forced to call the cops on you."
Marissa looked quickly at the man behind his mother, wondering if he looked anything like her father as she was pushed out the door. "Wait!"
The door slammed behind her and she turned around to stare at the door and ring the door bell a couple of times. When she realized that they weren't going to open the door again, no matter how many times she rang the bell, she walked to the road.
- -end flashback- -
"Yea, because Tree Hill really needs more drama." He turned serious and looked at Marissa silently and asked, "How do you feel today?"
- -flashback- -
The door bell rang in the distance. Lucas looked between his mother and Andy and got up to answer it as the person at the door rings the bell again impatiently. Lucas opens the door to see a small blonde with flooded blue eyes. "Marissa?"
"Hey." Lucas watches as her eyes cloud over and she collapses, with Lucas catching her before she hits the ground.
- -end flashback- -
"I'm fine Lucas. Thank you for asking but don't ever play the worried brother card on me, and I mean never! I would have to kick your ass!"
"So treatment today was good?"
- -flashback- -
Marissa hears beeping coming from somewhere around her head as she struggles to stay conscious. She doesn't have a clue where she is, all she could remember was ringing the door at Lucas' house. How long ago was that? A few hours, a day, maybe a week.
Her eyes slowly flutter open and she looks at the face of a blonde haired boy sitting beside her as he smiles down at her. "Welcome back."
Marissa closes her eyes and reopens them and tries, with little success, to give a genuine smile back to the blonde. "Thanks," She whispers to him.
Lucas' face becomes serious and looks at her. "Were you ever going to tell me you have leukemia?" Marissa's eyes sudden become wide open. "You should have told me."
"I . . . I . . . I didn't think that I should be telling some stranger that I was sick."
"But I'm not some stranger. I'm your brother."
- -end flashback- -
"It was fine, Lucas."
Lucas sighed. "Fine, fine, you keep saying fine. What's going on Marissa? Why can't you tell me what is really wrong?"
"What if nothing is wrong?"
"There is something wrong. I can tell because you have the same expression on your face like I do when I'm lying."
"I must really be your sister then."
- -flashback- -
Marissa sits up in bed and watches as a man enters her hospital room and looks down at her sitting in her bed. "Hi."
"So you are the bastard child?" Marissa gasps, but doesn't respond, instead looks down trying hard to keep her tears at bay. "You are the child that your slut mother never bothered to tell me about for fourteen years is it?"
"Maybe that was a good thing, considering how much you screwed up your first two."
"Been talking to Lucas I presume. Which means that you only know some of the story. But I'm not here to waste my breath and explain to you what happened seventeen years ago."
"Why are you here then?"
"Unfortunately, since your mother claims I'm the father of you, I have to collect you and take you home with me."
"I'm not going anywhere with you."
The hospital room door opens and both turned as Lucas walks into the room, handing Dan some paper work. "What's this?"
"We want you to sigh over custody of Marissa to my Mom."
"Gladly." He quickly signs the papers in his hand and hands them back to Lucas before heading toward the door. "By the way, I heard the reason you were looking for me is that you need treatment for your Leukemia? You can forget that now," he smirked before leaving.
Marissa buried her head in her hands, finally letting the tears fall down her cheeks as Lucas strokes her back, trying to comfort her. "Don't worry. My Mom will pay for it."
- -end flashback- -
"Marissa, why don't you just tell me what's wrong. Sometimes talking to people you care about helps the pain go away, or at least a little more bearable. Just talk to me.
"Nothing's wrong, nothing at all."
- -flashback- -
"Dan won't pay for the treatment, Mom." Marissa kept her eyes closed and strained to listen to the conversation going on outside her room. "What are we going to do? We can't just let her go without the treatment."
"No, of course not."
"But Mom," Lucas paused for a moment and then continued. "We can't really pay for either can we? We don't have that kind of money."
"I know Lucas. But there is know other way."
"What are you going to do?"
"I'm going to go talk to the Billing Department here and see what kind of payment plan we can work out for Marissa. We might even have to take out a second mortgage.
"You are going to do all that for Marissa?"
"She has had a bad enough life, especially know that she knows what kind of father she has, I really don't want this to hurt her more." Karen turned to walk toward the office before turning back to Lucas. "We better pray that you become some rich basketball player now, don't we?"
Marissa brought the blanket up over her head as Lucas opened the door, chuckling to himself, although she noticed, it was half heartedly.
- -end flashback- -
"Alright, but I still don't believe you."
"I'm going to bed. I'm a bit tired and I need a nap." Before Lucas could respond, she leaves the room and runs toward her own room in the house, closing the door and burrowing her face in the pillow, her tears running down her face.
Angels Losing Sleep - Our Lady Peace
I'm really sorry if this is confusing right now, but I promise you that it will make sense as soon as the flashbacks are gone. Also Haley never came home and Lucas went and saw her during the summer by himself. Nathan went to highflyers, Brooke went to California, and Peyton had that whole Ellie thing. Each will make sense in future chapters. Again, any questions, just ask. By the way, any song featured in my story is usually a song that I love, so you should check it out. If the story is too confusing, you can go over to The WB and read it there, as it goes slower then here. Link is posted
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- Katie -