Handle With Care

Summary: She thought she was doing what was best for her son and family, who knew it would be the one single thing taring them apart.

Disclaimer: I own nothing, not even the idea actually, sad but true. Its an amazing book by Jodi Picoult. The infamous Lucas and Brooke are owned by their owners leaving me only owning Cade and Ethaniel. At least its a start...

Author's Note: Here's chapter two, and now its in Lucas' point-of-view. The next chapter I think will be in Cade's and how he feels about all this mess OI causes. I'm speeding up the events compared to the book. Like the book is almost I think 20-40 chapters, so I'm going to make this at least ten, maybe fifteen- if I can. I hope you enjoy this chapter. A little into the mind of Lucas E. Scott. All personal thank you's are at the bottom :) I answered you're questions! Thanks for reviewing and please, pretty please keep them up! -Den

Chapter Two

Lucas' Point Of View

I couldn't believe what Brooke just showed me. A wrongful birth suit. I couldn't do that to E, he's my little man, my son to pass down my name, or to try. Most people don't live past the age of twenty with OI. But a father can dream, right? "Brooke, are you nuts?"

"Just read it Luke, it gives good information. Haley was supposed to tell us something wasn't right from the beginning, like when she made me go through all those test and then come back in a week for more. She is supposed to tell us."

"So you're saying if you knew E had OI you wouldn't have wanted him? You're saying he's a mistake?" I questioned trying to keep my voice down. Thanks to Cade being home, we made sure Cade kept E in his room playing with him till we settle this whole mess.

"Don't you dare say that Lucas. You know I wouldn't change my mind about having him. He's one of the greatest gifts in my life, but if we go through this mess it will help pay for things. We wouldn't need to live paycheck to paycheck with no savings. We would be living comfortably and you wouldn't need that second job so you can be here more for E. He hates that you're always working."

"Well if you went to work then I wouldn't be working two jobs." I harshly stated. I didn't mean to sound harsh, I wanted Brooke to see that maybe wrongful birth would prove to Ethaniel that we don't love him. E is my life, the reason I worked so hard lately, everything is for him and only him.

"Don't bring that up Luke," Brooke stared hard into my eyes. "I work my butt off to keep him safe and make sure he doesn't break anything."

"Yeah, yeah." I grabbed a beer out of the fridge before leaning against the counter.

"Can we just go see a lawyer, Brody, maybe he can tell us whats best."

"And throw our best friend under a bus?" I stated. "Hales would've told us if she knew something was wrong, she would've."

"You never know," She played with her fingers nervously. "Please Lucas, just let us go see the lawyer and we don't need to do anything about it if we don't when the time comes. It could be whats best for Ethaniel's life."

"Sure set up an appointment." I said walking out of the room. I still didn't know how I felt about this whole thing, it confused the hell out of me. Of course I couldn't see my life without E, he was mine. Sure there was Cade, and Brooke and I were happy with just him but there was something missing. Even though I adopted Cade the day I got married to Brooke, me and him still don't have the bond that I have with E.

"This is not how I wished it all would be." I heard her whisper. It wasn't how I wished either, but as of now there is nothing I can do to change it. E is here, and our lives are about taking care of him.

"Cade? E? How's it going up there?" I yelled up, checking up what was going on.

"Daddy, he's letting me play his video games," excitedly Ethaniel yelled down. We had a gate at the top of the stairs so he'll know not to come down with out someone carrying him, one wrong slip and he'll break something.

"Thats awesome, little man." I smiled.

"Daddy, can we go visit Mickey soon?" He looked at me, his eyes showed want, the wanting to do something that normal kids get to do, he wants to be a normal kid. "Can we go to Disney?"

"Disney?" Cade responded. "Can't we go to like Universal Studios or something?"

"Cade," I looked at him. He knew that we where just trying to give E a normal life, but sometimes that took away from his normal life. "I don't know if we can bud, I'll have to talk to Momma about it tonight."

A vacation could do the family some good for a little. Break away from the normal routine. Plus since teachers break was coming up for five days of no school it maybe a good idea.

"Okay," he responded.

"Bed time bud," It was my turn to put him to bed, and that made my night.

"Already?"

"Yes already. March." I laughed pointing to him room which only consisted of a mattress on the floor with pillows surrounding it, even though that may not even help.

"Night Cade," Ethaniel smiled hugging his brother the best he could. "I love you,"

"I love you too rockstar." Cade smiled back. I think Cade was the only one who treated E normal. He was the only one who wasn't worrying twenty-four-seven.

"Night daddy,"

"Night buddy," I kissed his forehead before walking out of the room. "Cade, you should start doing your homework,"

"Dad," He looked at me, "Come one, its the first week of school. Who gives homework?" I loved hearing him say dad, I was after all the only father figure he knew.

"So, do something. I think you've played enough video games for today."

"Fine," He stated turning off his TV. "Happy now?"

I didn't answer though, I just shut the door behind me before walking down the hall to mine and Brooke's room. "So E asked me something today,"

"Yeah, well what is it?"

"He wants to go to Disney." I looked at her as I changed out of my work clothes.

"Disney? Where'd that come from?"

"I'm not sure, but I think we can make it work." I said. "His birthday is coming up, maybe go for it during my break coming up?"

"Can we afford it?" Brooke asked me, that was the major question with everything we did lately.

"I think we may, but my mom can help. I know she would love too." My mom moved to Florida soon after I married Brooke. In her words, she needed to get away from this small town.

"Lucas, we can't relay on your mom for everything."

"B, she wants to see us. We'll drive down there to save money on flying and we'll stay outside the park at one of the cheap places. We can do this,"

"Okay."

It was my lunch break and I would do anything but sit in this lawyers office, anything instead of this.

"Is there a case or not?" Brooke wondered after showing him all the facts.

"We'll, Mr. and Mrs. Scott, I think you may have an actual case here." Steven Jacobs said from behind his big wooden desk.

Brooke looked from him to me and back and forth. "I can't believe it."

"What are we going to do?" I questioned.

"I wanna go through with it." Was all Brooke said before my anger took over.

Chapter Two End :) I really wanted to get this one up and fast. The next one things start moving along more, so keep an eye out for chapter three. I'm going away for a week on Tuesday and I'm not sure if I want to bring my laptop or not. So I'll try and get chapter three written and up before then, if not I'll be home on the twenty seventh, so the next chapter will be up the twenty eighth. Thanks for reading!

Personal thank yous:

Libby- thanks for reviewing :) I really am thankful you liked it.

Linda19- thanks :) I tried to stay away from what I normally write, like I want a new zone to write in if you understand? Read the book, its ah-maz-ing. I enjoyed it so much!

Sweetestgirl123- I can't tell you what is going to happen to Brooke and Lucas, but there will be some tough spots like most marriages have. They'll do anything for their kids is all I'm going to say. Thanks for reading!

Melissagirl- Thanks for loving it! Please keep on reading it!

G-styler- I just felt like I needed a new idea, something I haven't tried before and this book I fell in love with and I guess I just put them together and it worked. Thanks for reviewing!

MadeleineV- Thanks for reviewing! Hope you keep reading!

PettyBabe- I would tell you to read the book, it is amazing, Jodi writes books that make your heart melt with the stuff the others go through. It will take sometime but things may get better or may get worse. I want them to be happy too, and Brooke normal wouldn't want to give up her baby but you need to see where she is coming from. She left everything she normally usually use to do and became a stay at home mother to protect a son that means the world. You'll find out why she's doing it later on….. and as for the jobs, Luke is a college teacher and Brooke was a fashion designer, but when E was around 1 and started to become mobile, Brooke quiet to give her full attention to E. Thanks for reading!

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