Summary: Single mother with six kids whose ex-husband is her best friend. Yeah, cause that's exactly would sound great on a dating website.
Disclaimer: I only own the kids, but even that isn't enough for me. The title comes from a Carrie Underwood song by the same name.
So I got asked some questions and I'm going to answer them for you all.
1. This is going to be a Brucas story.
2. Sullivan's hair is red like Rachel's. It can happen, my brother had red hair when everyone else has brown hair.
3. Luke will come around with Sully. I have a plan for that.
4. Brulian may be around for a little, if you all can handle it. There will be no Brulian sex in this though! I promise you all that!
Hope that answered all your questions! Please enjoy chapter four! I lost one review the last chapter! Please keep them up so I don't loose anymore! I love the reviews they keep me going! Enjoy this one!
Cupid's Got A Shotgun
Chapter Four: Cause It's All Down Hill From Here
"Lucas Eugene Scott what the fuck happened?" Brooke stormed into the condo, which held many summertime memories. She was even pretty sure that Rosie and Gwen were both conceived there.
"Stop with the middle name." Lucas held his hands up in defense. He was talking to the officer, trying to figure out what Sully was even wearing that day.
"When you stop losing kids or better yet stop pulling this shitty behavior on Sully then we will talk about the middle name." Brooke looked around the room noticing not many changes since they bought the place. Family pictures from different vacations and days at the beach were hanging on the walls and placed on the tables. Memories held in different places all over the beachfront condo.
"It wasn't really his fault Mom." Patrick looked up from his gamming system to look up at Brooke. "This is just normal Sully."
"Patrick, just because your brother does not like sports doesn't mean he's strange or deserve this behavior from all of you. What the hell happened tonight?"
"Mommy you said a bad word! It goes in the jar!" Teddy spoke up pointing to the almost filled jar on the kitchen counter.
"Not now, Teddy. Daddy will put more money in it later." Brooke sighed. "Em, Patrick, take them all upstairs and put something on to watch, got it?"
"Even in my house you're still bossy as hell." Lucas mumbled, but Brooke heard him loud and clear.
"Kids, upstairs now!" Brooke pointed to the stairs and watched how the five of them sprinted up the stairs. She didn't want to yell at Lucas in front of the kids and she wanted to talk to the police calmly.
"Mrs. Scott, maybe you could help us a little more. Do you remember what your son was wearing tonight so we can get that description out?" Officer Walters stated jotting notes on a small pad of paper.
"A Spiderman shirt, I think and jeans." Brooke tried to remember. She was in a rush this morning and afternoon and didn't pay much attention to the clothing her kids wore. "He might have a flannel over it."
"Thank you, we'll get this description out and contact you if anything comes from it. We have officers searching but it's still isn't considered a missing persons case till the child is missing for a day or so."
"I'm going out to look for him, and you better too Lucas. If anything has happened to him, you better hide."
"He's fine, Brooke. Just trying to get some attention, that's all." Lucas's reasoning wasn't setting well with Brooke. She was fuming and his ideas were only making it worse.
"If he was fine he wouldn't be getting picked on by his own father and siblings every single second he is around you all." Brooke ran her hands threw her wavy locks. "I tell you time and time again, Luke, but you don't listen to me. He's a little boy still who shouldn't be picked on by his own flesh and blood."
"We don't pick on him. He just doesn't want to do things that we want to do."
"Because he doesn't like basketball means nothing. He reads like crazy- just like you. Bond over that because I don't even know most of the books he reads. Just get to know him."
"It's hard, Brooke. I've tried but all he wants to talk about is those stupid Pokémon or shit like that. I don't know any of that."
"Well I do know one thing, that boy loved working on cars with you. Next time you need to do anything to the mustang, ask him to help. He knows a lot about cars. Take him to the car show next week." Brooke insisted. "Now I'm going to find our son since you could care less."
"Really, B?" Lucas yelled running after her. He has many memories of running after her, but this one he figured he would always remember.
"Someone has to be the parent here." Brooke climbed in her car. "I'm gonna drive around. You do whatever the fuck you do lately, Lucas."
Now it was Lucas's turn to stand in shock as Brooke drove off. He ran into the house knowing he had to make it all better. "Kids, get down here now!"
"But Barbie's on daddy and you know how much I love Barbie." Gwen stood at the top of the stairs with her hands on her hips, a true miniature Brooke. "Mommy let's me watch it all the time."
"Well then you can watch it later, Gwendolyn." Lucas never used full names unless he meant business and the kids knew that.
"So we are going to find Sully and you all are going to start being nicer to him, okay?" Lucas warned. He stood in front of all five kids, Em more into her cell phone and Patrick was playing his portable video game system but they were still in front of him. "Cell phone and game system away."
"I was talking to someone important." Em pouted when Lucas grabbed the cell phone from her hands. "This is unfair."
"What is unfair is the way you all treat Sully." Lucas corrected her. "Your mother is right, we all need to change how we treat him."
"He's weird, daddy!" Teddy announced giggling at the thought.
"Teddy, that's not nice."
"But Patrick said it first!"
"Patrick," Lucas looked at him. His older son sat there with a smirk on his face. "Change the thinking and behavior."
"Oh come on, Dad." Patrick argued. "He's weird. He goes to a school for strange kids. He's not like us, he probably is adopted after all."
"Trust me, he is not adopted." Lucas declared. "Your mother broke my hand going into labor with him." He shivered at the thought. "He may be different, but he's still your brother and deserves respect you all have."
"Rosie doesn't respect me daddy, she locked me in a closet when Lydia was here." Gwen snuggled into Lucas's lap. "Mommy yelled at her."
"That wasn't very respectful, Rosalie." Lucas gave his middle daughter the death glare. She was the full picture of middle child syndrome; silent but evil.
"It was Lydia's idea." Rosalie shrugged it off and continued to bicker with Gwen.
"Okay, let's get back to the topic of your brother guys," Lucas stopping the girls. "We are going to go look for him, and when we find him, you will all be nice. Got it?"
"I can't promise anything." Patrick nodded along. He really wasn't paying much attention to his father's speech, it reminded him of his mother's one earlier in the day and he really didn't care that much.
"Well if you want to see this again," He held up the electronic, "then you will behave."
"That's harsh, Pops." Patrick frowned knowing better then to talk back.
"Well sometimes you need to be harsh, Patrick. All of you in the car, now."
-XO-OTH-XO-
"Sully, where are you?" Brooke spoke to herself in a whisper. She pulled her jacket tighter around her body as she walked around the almost abandon park. It was the only place she could imagine him to be. Since Sully was younger he loved going to the park and just exploring it.
"Talking to yourself now?" The voice made Brooke turn around nervously.
"What are you possibly doing here?"
"I had to pick up my daughter from the park. According to a sixteen-year-old, hanging at the park on a Friday night is the cool thing to do. I don't really believe her but hey, you have to trust them."
"Yeah, I wouldn't trust her too much on that idea." Brooke laughed.
"What are you doing here?"
"In search of a missing child." Brooke let a frown replace her smile. "Sullivan is missing."
"Let me get this straight, you named your kid Sullivan like Monsters Inc?"
"I was high on pain meds, so shoot me?" Brooke shoved his shoulder.
"Want some help?"
"You don't need to Julian."
"I'm offering," He smiled. "I know the missing kid feeling. Whenever Sam, my daughter, got mad at me when she was a kid she'd take off running to where ever before I caught up with her."
"At least I'm not the only parent who loses kids." Brooke laughed it off. "Last time we were here he loved the trails, so that's were I'm hoping to find him."
"Then lets go." Julian guided her towards the wooden trails the use to capture Sullivan's attention.
"Sully!" Brooke yelled down the path. "Sully come on buddy, I know you're here."
"Mom?" Sullivan lifted his head up as he sat on the bench.
"Buddy, don't ever scare me like that again." Brooke wrapped her arms around him tightly. "You're old enough to know not to run away."
"I didn't. Dad left without me." Sullivan looked sad. "I started walking home."
Julian stood there awkwardly watching the mother and son interaction. He didn't know if he should say something or just leave them alone. In the end he decided to stay incase something happened.
"I'm gonna kill your father." Brooke still hugged Sullivan tightly. "But first I need to call him to tell him you're alright and then call off the police search for you."
"Police search?"
"Yeah, we got worried Sul." Brooke smiled still hugging him. She couldn't stop. "Why don't you hang with Julian here why I call everyone?"
"How do you know my mom?" Brooke heard Sullivan ask as she walked away to call Lucas.
"Did you find him?"
"At the park. Lucas Eugene you are so dead meat! How the hell do you leave him at the school? Are you out of your mind?"
"Shit." Lucas cursed silently. "It was a complete accident. I was sure I had all six kids in the car with me."
"Well you didn't Lucas."
"I realize that now, Brooke. I'll be right there." He hung up not really want to get the wrath of Brooke for his mistake.
Ten minutes later, Brooke stood with Julian and Sullivan at the entrance of the park. Sullivan was educating Julian on the different Spiderman comics. Brooke was enjoying watching Sullivan smile for once.
"Brooke," Lucas called pulling up with all the kids. Shortly after they all pilled out of the car and ran out.
"He's fine." She didn't bother looking at him. Right now Brooke was pissed off at him. She wanted never to see him again if that could possibly happen.
"Sul, come on. Let's go home." Lucas could feel the anger radiating from Brooke and he didn't want to deal with it. He knew he messed up but as long as Sullivan was okay then it was all good to him.
"I'm not going." Sully stated pushing his glasses up. "I'm going home."
"Then can we go home?" Emmeline asked, "Savannah is having everyone over tonight and they're still all there so I can still go spend the night." Savannah was their neighbor's daughter.
"No," Brooke declared. "Everyone is going with their dad."
"Who are you?" Gwen asked pointing to Julian who was standing back away from the group.
"I'm Julian." He introduced himself.
"He's my friend, Gwenie." Brooke smiled. She could tell from the look on Lucas face that he did not like this at all.
"No, he's your boyfriend just admit it mommy." Rosalie spoke. "Lydia says if you're not married and you're old you have a boyfriend."
"Umm..." Brooke was stunned, she could comprehend the words to say to fix this. Before she knew it, Gwen was screaming in tears and Emmeline had a pout on her face, giving Brooke a horrid look.
"I'm moving in with Dad." Emmeline declared. "He at least doesn't choose a guy over us." Emmeline stomped over to the car.
Brooke never saw this coming and knew it was only the start.