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Chapter 10

The events that had happened at his mother's cafe had left Lucas with a headache, all he wanted to do was have a shower and relax. However, he knew that Peyton and Brooke would be having their usual girls afternoon, he also knew that normally he wasn't home around this time, normally he'd head past the River Court where Skills would be with his peewee basketball team, the same one that Mattie's little brother belonged to, they ran for an hour every Tuesday and Friday. Lucas had actually been surprised that they hadn't run into Skills when he, Nathan and Haley had been their earlier normally their friend was there setting up whatever games he was playing with them that day. That is what he would normally do, but today he really didn't feel like playing, nor did h0e want a million questions from Skills about why his mood was so off.

Rolling his neck as he opened the front door he was hoping against hope that Brooke wasn't in one of her I-hate-everything-about-Haley-and-Nathan moods especially not after what he had just learnt. He wanted to sit down on the lounge and have a conversation with Peyton; he wanted to, talk to her and tell her what he had learnt; without Brooke's constant snorts and snide comments about their friends. He could understand why she was so pissed off seven years ago, but it was like she had never let it go, they all knew she could hold a grudge, but seven years, that was a little too much, like Dan for his liking.
Walking into the kitchen he found both of them sitting there laughing about something, walking over he kissed Peyton's head before grabbing a quick glass of water. He listened to their conversation thankful Brooke wasn't in one of her moods, because that's all he needed now.

"I'm gonna take a shower, catch you later Brooke" he said resting a hand on Peyton's shoulder, as he walked away Brooke looked at her friend and frowned.

"What the hell was that about?" she asked getting up Peyton grabbed her mug and the one Brooke had been using and placed them in sink she turned around and shrugged.

"I have no idea; clearly something has him in a twist. Maybe Karen's gone on another bender, I don't know, I'll find out later."

"Can you blame her, Karen I mean, and I'm not ranting I'm just saying can you blame her? Her son disappears for seven years with no word at all Nathan never even mentioned them when he was signed onto Seattle. Now if it were my parents, I could understand, back then I could have run around in front of them naked and they wouldn't have noticed but-

"But Karen, or Lydia would have kicked your ass, yeah I know, Mr. James wanted to, that time you were practically naked in middle school. You know I think this is the first conversation we've had we're you haven't gone off at Nathan or Haley"

"What can I say; maybe I just don't want to see that lying whore again."

"And there we go, I love you but if you ever say that about Haley again I will kick your ass, talk about holding a grudge B. Davis. She was my friend too remember, you're not the only one she left. Now I'm gonna ask you to leave before whatever is bugging Luke comes out and bites you on the ass" Brooke rolled her eyes and grabbed her bag she muttered something Peyton didn't hear and walked out the back door. Shaking her head Peyton left the cups in the sink she would wash them later as for now she wanted to know what was going on in the mind of that husband of hers.

Walking into the bathroom she saw Lucas standing in the shower his head resting against the wall, if she hadn't have known him as well as she did, she would never have noticed the tears he was trying to hide. Something must have really gotten to him today she hadn't seen him like this in years, not since he figured out that he was never going to see his little brother or one of his best friends again. Walking over she turned the taps to the shower off. Grabbing a towel she handed it to him while giving him a weak smile.

Lucas took the towel and wrapped it around his waist as he stepped out of the shower he wrapped his arms around Peyton holding her close. He knew that in a matter of minutes she would understand why he seemed so out of it and he really didn't know how she was going to react. That was the thing that scared him the most.

Peyton sat on the lounge in their living room waiting for Lucas, after their hug in the bathroom; he had said he would meet her out there. Still concerned about him, Peyton had made her way out there and sat there waiting all a bit a little impatiently, there were so many things going through her head, so many things that could have happened and she didn't know which scenario she was coming up with was worse. Looking up as Lucas made his way over to her she smiled as he sat down. She knew it couldn't be something good when he wrapped an arm around her, and he started playing with her hair, it had been something he had done since they were teenagers, it helped calm him down, or at least that's what he told her.

Lucas sighed he knew he must have been freaking her out, and that her sometimes over active imagination, was going into over drive just imagining what he was about to tell her. But he doubted that even, she could come up with something as crazy as what he was about to say. No one could have ever seen this coming. If he was going to rehash what had happened this afternoon he was going to have to keep his cool, and that wasn't something that was going to be easy, even just thinking about his uncle, made him clench his fist in anger. He started out by telling her what he had done for the day which as usual wasn't that exciting.

"Luke, I love you but I couldn't give a crap about your day at the moment, tell me what has you this worked up, I can see your fist it's I'm guessing something to do with Dan what did he do now?"

"Okay, Okay, just, please let me finish first. Well as usual I went over to the cafe to see how mum was going and well- Nathan and Haley were there-

"WHAT?" Peyton turned to look at him. Had he just said that Nathan and Haley were at Karen's Cafe, had she really just heard him correctly? When he looked at her with a will-you-let-me-finish look she sat back against the lounge waiting for him to finish what he had been saying. Lucas continued telling her what he had walked in on, and how he had figured out that his mother had slapped Haley, then about how Nathan and Haley had taken him to the River Court and told him why they left. He could see that she was just as pissed off with his uncle as he had been.

"I was holding Dan against the wall when Dad saw them at the door and asked them to come in, Quinn came in later, but she'd seen them before that. Lilly has seen them too, Haley is her English teacher. Her son was at Ike's with Lilly and her friends, Mattie came to see if it was safe for Jamie they had all called him-

"You didn't think to call me?" Peyton asked Lucas sighed and shook his head.

"Honestly. No I was kind of trying to get Dan to tell my parents what he had done, and I was still in shock that my little brother was here with not only his wife but son as well. Dan said to Haley that she had broken their agreement. Haley replied with-" Lucas stopped and turned to look at Peyton this next part he knew was going to knock the wind right out of her like it had done for all of them. He had left the River Court before Haley had, had a chance to tell him this. If she had told him Dan probably wouldn't have been left standing when he walked into that cafe, and he also wouldn't have walked out of there.

Peyton knew that whatever came next it would change her whole world and she wasn't sure if she was ready for that but she knew that whatever it was, it was eating her husband up inside and if he didn't tell her it would eat at him till he did so she took a deep breath and nodded not really sure what to expect but she would deal with that then.

"Haley said if he even looked at you, Brooke or Lilly the wrong way he would live to regret it. That he had pissed off a lot of people in the last seven years, and they knew more people who would want to have a go at him than anything he could think of doing. They left to save the three of you- Lucas stopped and watched as the colour drained out of his wife's face. A single tear rolled down her cheek as she rested her head on his shoulder.

"No contact, at all or he would do something. You know the night Brooke's store was broken into?" Peyton nodded she had a feeling she knew why it happened now.

"Nathan mentioned dad in an interview. The break in was a warning to them from Dan, do it again and it won't be a window next time, they had one up on him though, well news wise. They got around him by anagramming their names, and subscribing to the newspaper. It wasn't much but Haley said it was the best they could do, and it had Dan fooled, he didn't like it one bit. The cafe is also closed for a couple of days. Between dad, mum and I we kind of, well let's just say that; the bay window needs new glass and there needs to be some new chairs ordered." Peyton nodded and kept her head resting on his shoulder, this was not what she had being imagining before he came out of their room. She would never in a million years have guessed this was what had happened.