DISCLAIMER: I do not own One Tree Hill, because if I did, I'd have Brooke and Lucas get married! I do not own any quotes I may use from One Tree Hill in this story, and I do not own any song lyrics I may use. I don't own any characters from the original series, but if I do make up characters, those belong to me. Also, I do not own the lyrics I put as my chapter titles.
Background information on story: Haley left tour to go home and save Lucas and Nathan from Dan. Lucas still lives with Dan, and Nathan has also moved back into his father's house. There is some tension between Nathan and Lucas because Nathan still told Lucas that it's all Lucas's fault for his life being ruined. Dan and Deb are together, the dealership fire still happened and Dan conned Deb into not divorcing him just yet. At this point I am not sure if it's still going to be Deb who tried to kill Dan, so I'll figure that out along the way. Also, Dan is home from the hospital and Haley got home after the fire. I'm going to have every other chapter be one of the characters talking about their thoughts and everything. I'm pretty sure if you skip it, you won't miss much (except some reasons for why characters are doing that they are doing). Hopefully that all makes sense. Now, onto the story!
HALEY
Chapter 1- I'm
not exactly sure what I should say
Everything I do is a mistake
(Lyric in title from the song Over by Jimmy Eat World)
Sometimes things fall apart. Things like friendships, families, marriages. When they do fall apart, you find yourself trying to pick up the pieces, hoping that it is just a bad dream. You find yourself stuck in the past, wishing you could replay your best memories and fix your worst mistakes. But the moment that you find yourself wanting it all back is the moment that you turn bitter.
It starts eating away at your heart, your mind, your soul. You turn bitter, like a man I know. That man is Dan Scott, a heartless, mindless, and soulless man. You see, he turned bitter. He let himself rot away and is now a bitter man; trying to bring down the people he loves.
I'm not going to let him bring down his sons. The two most important people in my life keep getting sucked in by him, but I guess I can't really blame them. Every child wants to see the best in their fathers. The Scott brothers are something else, I tell you. I can't possibly see how two great men came from an evil psychopathic man like Dan Scott. And I'm not going to stand by and let Dan Scott bring down Lucas and Nathan.
That's why I'm on this bus home right now. I'm leaving something I love for the two people I love more. And I will not, cannot, let that turn me bitter. Because as long as I have my best friend and the man I love, I'll be alright. I won't revel in others downfalls; I will help them back on their feet unlike Dan Scott. I won't be stuck in the past, because I do admit I am deathly afraid of the consequences if I do.
I'm coming back for Nathan. For Lucas. For Brooke and for Peyton. For Tree Hill, for Tree Hill High. For Karen, for Keith, for Deb. For all the people Dan Scott has hurt, and for my old life. Life on tour is nothing compared to home. I did love it, and I can't take it back. I'll always miss it- I'll admit that.
I'll miss the screaming fans, I'll miss the feeling I had when I sang and people appreciated it. I'll miss feeling the butterflies in my stomach. And even if I won't say it out loud, I'll miss Chris Keller's crazy antics. But things in Tree Hill? If I stayed on tour, I would miss Tree Hill so much more. Nathan's smile, his voice. I'd miss the butterflies in my stomach- and believe me, they're nothing compared to the ones on tour. Those butterflies were crazy; they made my heart race and my knees weak every time I saw him.
The feeling of love is so incredible- and being with that person, it's amazing. I'd miss having little midnight talks about nothing really in particular with Nathan; I'd miss kissing him in the rain… Kissing him anywhere, really. I'd miss the way he raised his eyebrows when he was confused, I'd miss his little smirk when he was trying to be funny. I'd miss his ridiculous dancing, I'd miss our marriage.
I left tour for another reason- I found myself growing slightly bitter. I remember hearing a song that Nathan loved on the radio while on the tour bus. I grabbed a bottle of syrup, and poured it into Chris's shampoo bottle. For no reason at all. That scared me the most- I was in the middle of pouring the syrup in his shampoo, and I realized that would be something Dan Scott would do. He wouldn't as amateur, but it's like he lives for ruining anything he can get his hands on.
Now, Dan Scott had what he wanted most in the world, which was basketball. He had loved Karen, but his pride didn't let him see it. Everything Dan Scott wanted he had, and wasn't going to let Karen ruin it. He went off to a basketball college.
By the time Dan Scott realized what he had given up the thing he loved most for a superficial thing that would bring him nothing but loneliness, too much time had passed. He had another child, and another woman. But those two things did not make him the happiest man in the world. And seeing Karen being happy without him made him more bitter.
Everything Dan Scott touched turned into what he thought was gold. He had an amazing house, his own business, a wife that everyone in town wanted for themselves, and a son that could follow in his footsteps and do what he couldn't bring himself to do.
What Dan Scott hadn't thought of was that there were people in that town that could rise up and take him down. Nathan Scott, Lucas Scott, Keith Scott, Deb Scott, Karen Roe, Whitey Durham. They all want to bring Dan down. To make him stop ruining others lives.
And even I would like to bring Dan down. How could he hurt Lucas and Nathan like that? How could he hurt anyone, period?
I don't know quite yet how I will bring him down, but I will.
