Hey I am sorry that it took me so long to update. I was away this weekend and didn't really have time to write.
This is the whole background story of what happened to Nathan and Molly before they went to college. It is extremely long and you probably don't have to read it to understand the story.
Disclaimer: I still own nothing.
How it all began.
It was the third week in November when the world of Dan Scott changed forever. He and his wife Deb had been expecting now for 9 long months. They had been hoping for a girl,
but little did they know they were about to get the best of both worlds. "Push, come one Deb just keep on pushing", Doctor Smith said. "I can see the baby", Dan exclaimed as he
kissed Deb's forehead. Deb gave a hard push and then there she was Molly Elizabeth Scott. "Wait there's another one", Doctor Smith nearly shouted. "Another one how can this
be", Dan asked rather confused. "I don't know we must of missed it, come on now Deb just one more big push and you'll have both of your babies." the doctor answered.
Moments later Nathanial Lee Scott came into the world as well. Both of the parents were shocked and nervous. They didn't know how they were going to raise two children in
there little two bedroom apartment.
As the years went by the two children were inseparable, however as the twins got closer their parents became more distant. They lived in a nice house; Dan now owned a real
estate business so money was not an issue. Due to his strenuous work schedule Dan was barely ever home and Deb began to drink heavily in his absence. By the time the kids
were 10 they had learned to live on their own for the most part. After school they would go to the park to play basketball instead of going home. They already knew what they
would find; their mom would be passed out on the couch like usual. Neither one of them could take it anymore, it hurt too much to watch their mom slowly kill herself. At one point
they decided that they were going to run away and go live with their grandma Lee, sadly she passed away before they ever even got the chance to visit her.
During the middle of freshman year a new girl moved in down the block from Nathan and Molly. Her name was Tiffany Timmons, her and Molly became instant friends. They
did everything together, literally where you found one the other was sure to be their as well. This angered Nathan at first, what was he supposed to do while his sister was off with
her new friend? It had always been the two of them against the world, and now he felt like he was not only losing his sister but his best friend. The answer however was basketball;
he loved the sport more than anything in the world. He would have played his whole life away if you had let him. Eventually after sulking for weeks he too became friends with
Tiffany, the three of them would all go down to the courts and play until dark. Things were going well for the kids, that is until Dan lost his business.
The family was almost bankrupt; they were forced to move out of their gorgeous Victorian style palace into a two bedroom, one bathroom trailer. After hearing this a lot of the
twins "friends" refused to hang out with them anymore. Seeing as how they were no longer rich, their social stature was gone as well. Molly didn't handle this very well; she would
cry herself to sleep every night. She just didn't understand how she could have been a friend to such awful people. Nathan on the other hand chose to just shut everyone out. He
had always been like that; it was his only way of coping.
Tiffany though she was different, she made sure to stand by the two siblings no matter what. And it wasn't easy for her, a lot of people made fun of her for hanging out
with the "trailer trash twins", as they now liked to call them. She didn't let it phase her though; she knew that Molly and Nathan were probably her only true friends. The other kids
would have turned on her as fast as they had Nathan and Molly.
As the months went by things just continued to get worse and worse for the family of 4. A couple of nights before the twins seventeenth birthday the family came to an end. Dan
who had started drinking after he lost his business came home roaring drunk. Deb was always drunk so a fight was bound to happen. Normally the two would just argue, throw a
few things, and then pass out. This night though was very different, this night Dan caught Deb in bed with another man. He flew off the handle, it was all over now. He told the man
to leave, but not before threatening his life if he ever came back.
Dan instantly ran at Deb pushing her clear across the room. The sound of the shaking wall woke the twins instantly. Nathan decided to go and see what the problem was while
Molly went back to sleep, she figured it was just the usual. When Nathan arrived in the room he saw his father standing over his mother with a pistol. "Oh my god, what the hell is
going on", Nathan thought. "Dad what are you doing", Nathan asked fear written all over his face. "I'm giving your mother what she deserves, the death of a whore." Dan
answered. At that instant he pulled the trigger. Nathan saw it all happen; all he could do was freeze. The shot rang through his ears, and the smell of the gun powder burned his
nose. The sound of the gun shot woke Molly from her not so peaceful sleep and at once she was by his side. She screamed as soon as she walked into the room. The site being too
much for anyone to handle, but not Nathan he just stood there, jaw to the floor, paralyzed.
Dan rushed over to the children grabbing each by the arm. Molly froze and just looked into the fiery eyes of the monster that stood before her. He then went to hit her, no such
luck this time. Nathan snapped out of his daze and seized his arm, whipping his father towards him. It became an intense battle between father and son, but Dan was stronger then
Nathan and he quickly had him overpowered.
Molly tried to stop her father but he just punched her and then sent her flying into the corner of the bed. As Dave continued to beat Nathan, Molly noticed the gun in the corner
of the room next to the body of her mother. She very slowly crawled to it, trying not to touch her mother's dead body. The site was awful; it took everything she had not to just
pass out right there. She carefully picked up the gun and when she held it in her hands she felt a serge of energy and sadness. At that instant she knew that she was going to have to
kill her father in order to save her brother. Dan was still beating on Nathan; at this point Nathan was unconscious. Molly crept up behind the man that she had once called daddy,
put the muzzle to his head and then as he raised his hand to strike his son again she pulled the trigger.
Molly threw up as soon as she saw all of the blood. Then she just stood their in shock, that is until she realized that her brother wasn't moving. Her instincts quickly kicking in,
she checked to make sure that he was still breathing. He was, shallowly but surely. She proceeded to call the police as well as Tiffany. When the ambulance arrived they took
Nathan away, Molly was not permitted to ride with him because the police had to ask her some questions. Molly explained everything that she knew about what had taken place t
hat night. She later swore never to speak of it to anyone but Nathan ever
again. Tiffany rode with Molly in the police car attempting to calm her down the whole way to the hospital.
Molly had needed some stitches from where she had smacked her head off the corner of the bed but other then that she had not been harmed. Nathan however was in a coma,
having suffered severe head trauma during the fight. He had bruises all over his body and a couple of cuts on his face. Molly stayed with him the whole time though. There was no
way that she was ever going to leave his side, not now anyway. Everyday she would pray to god that he would just wake up. That she would be able to see his crystal blue eyes
stare back into her big brown ones.
"Nathan the doctors say that you can hear me so I figured maybe it was time for me to talk to you. Oh where do I even start? I suppose the truth is probably best. I love you so
much Nathan, there is no one left on this earth who means as much to me as you do. You're my twin my other half and I need you. I don't know how much longer I can be strong
for both of us. Tiffany stops by a lot I know that she just wants to help, but there is nothing that anyone can do. No one can change what happened. That night was terrible and
we're all still facing it. All I need is for you to wake up so that I know that everything is going to be ok. I'm so scared I can't even imagine my life without you in it. You're my little
brother, bad things aren't supposed to happen to you. Just know that I love you and I want nothing more then for you to be ok."
With that Molly broke down, everything that she had been holding in for the past two weeks came flooding into her all out once. She kept seeing it over and over again, her
mothers' dead body and her father mercilessly beating her brother. "God how did we get so screwed up", Molly thought to herself. She knew that there was a time when they had
all been happy, she just couldn't remember when that day was. A few more days passed and Molly became more and more worried about her brother. The doctors kept telling her
that the longer he was in the coma the worse off his mental state could be. She began talking to him more and more hoping that maybe it really would help.
"Hey little brother it's me Molly again… God Nathan I really need you, things just keep getting worse. You've always been the strong one, and I know that it's supposed to be
my turn now but I just don't think I can do it. I thought about killing myself last night, stupid I know but it just seemed like the best option. But then I thought about you and when
you wake up, I couldn't just take the easy way out and leave you with no one. So I am going to be stronger, I'm going to be more like you, and even if you don't wake up for
another 10 years, I'll still be right here, in this spot waiting for you." With that she kissed his hand and began to sob, something that she had been doing a lot of lately.
Molly had all but given up hope when finally after a month of torture she felt his hand squeeze hers' back. She nearly jumped out of her chair she was so frightened. His eye lids
began to flutter and then there they were the most gorgeous blue eyes you could imagine. "Did you miss me", was the first thing that Nathan asked with a weak smile. Molly began
to weep "Oh my gosh Nathan, more then you will ever know", she smiled back at him. She hugged him for what seemed like forever, and she would have held on longer had the
doctors not come in to examine him. That was the first time that she had left his room for more then an hour since the whole thing had happened.
After the doctors were done examining him Molly came back into the room. "So did you hear me talking to you?" Molly asked. "Ah yeah Mol I heard everything that you said,
which means that we need to talk." Nathan said. Molly just shook her head in agreement. "Killing yourself Molly, it's not like you to even think such a thing. I know that it must
have been hard for you over the past couple of weeks, but I really thought you were better then that. I know that your better then that. Don't you remember our promise that we
made to each other." Nathan asked. "What promise" Molly asked a little confused. "We were 12 and down at the courts, mom and dad were having another one of their many
fights so we decided to leave. We were both pretty upset so we came up with our deal, our pact. We promised each other that no matter what happened between mom and dad
that we would always stick together, we wouldn't let anything tear us apart. Now I know that we were just kids, but I guess I just always thought that it really meant something."
Nathan said with a bit of anger in his voice. "Nathan, I did mean it when we made that deal, its just you don't understand, I killed a man Nathan, I killed our father. And then I
thought that I had lost you too ok. I thought that I wasn't going to have anyone, and I couldn't live without you." Molly finished in almost a whisper. "Well Molly I'm not going
anywhere, so promise me no more of this suicide talk ok." Nathan said. "Yeah ok Nate, no more" Molly answered.
Nathan was released with a clean bill of health four days after he woke up. He was warned though to stay away from all contact sports or anything that could cause head trauma.
Now that Nathan was ok there was a lot that needed to be figured out. First of all where were these two kids going to stay? Their grandparents were dead and their parents had
been only children. Thankfully while they were both at the hospital Tiffany had been doing what she could do to help. She knew all about what had happened both from talking to
Molly and because her father was on the police force. She also found out from he father that sometimes children are emancipated or allowed to live on their own in these kinds of
situations.
It was December 29 one of the coldest days of the year, Nathan and Molly sat in the court room ready to hear their future. Thankfully the judge decided that since Nathan and
Molly were both 17 and respectable young adults he would allow them emancipation. This came with rules though too, if either of them were to get into any kind of legal trouble, or
fail a subject it would be grounds for reconsideration. They would have a trial period so to speak of for 4 months.
Nathan and Molly could not stand to live in there home after what had happened so they sold it to a newlywed couple and got an apartment. The apartment was small it had one
bedroom, a small bathroom, and a kitchen/living room. The upside was that the complex had a ball court and a swimming pool. The rent was just right for them. Molly decided that
she would get a job at the local store in town while Nathan got back on his feet. Even though he was no longer physically ill, mentally was a whole other story. He kept seeing it
over and over again, the image of his father or Dan as he now called him shooting his mother. Why would he do that, Nathan just couldn't understand. In a way Nathan blamed
himself, he was unable to save his mother, and then he himself had to be saved by his sister. Nathan 6'3, 210 pounds of what most people would call pure muscle had to be saved
by Molly his 5'5, 120 pound sister. "How pathetic is that", he thought to
himself. Now because of him his sister had to carry around the fact that she had shot a man, and not just any man but their father.
Molly knew that Nathan blamed himself but there was nothing that she could do about it. She had tried telling him multiple times that she didn't blame him, Dan was sick and she
had done what she knew she had to do. Still she would wake up in the middle of the night to him sobbing. It broke her heart to hear it. Nathan had always been the strong one, the
person that she leaned on, but now, now he needed her. She would try to comfort him, but he would just push her away. He already felt weak and having her coddle him like that
just made it worse. Finally one night though the flashbacks were just more then he could handle. It was so real the shot rung through his ears once again and for a moment he
thought that he could smell the gun powder. He decided to go out to the courts, the one place where he always felt at peace, the one place where his past couldn't touch him.
Molly knew where he had gone but decided that it was best to just let him get it all out. He needed to deal with it his own way. She decided to go out into the living room and
wait for him. When he came back in he did something that he had before been to proud to do. He came in and seeing his sister sitting on the couch he laid down, put his head in her
lap and just let it all out. "Why Molly why us, were we really that terrible, even our own parents couldn't love us", Nathan sobbed. Molly lifted Nathans' head, cupping his face in
her hands. "Nathan look at me, what happened was not our fault, our parents were screwed up. So maybe we got a shitty deal in life, but you know what we still have each other.
And I don't know about you, but that's all I need." Molly answered.
Nathan just shook his head, deep down he knew that what she said was the truth. They stayed there like that for hours just crying together. Her stroking his hair and him
rubbing her back. It was then that Nathan truly started to believe that no matter what they would always have each other.
