"Thanks for everything." Dan smiled.

"Hey, you did good. I should be thanking you." A man who looked about Lucas and Nathan's age answered. He dark hair that was down to his shoulders and he was very greasy and grimy looking.

"So we are even?" Dan put his hand out.

"Yes." The hairy man shook his hand. "Thanks again." he smiled and walked out.

Dan took a deep breathe and looked around at his new apartment. Well not so much new, but new for him. Any other person would call it a beat down place where rats lived. And they would be right.

In any other day in age Dan Scott would call it pitiful and disgusting. But he needed a place to live, besides his car. It was very old looking with a lot of broken things. It was grimy, smelly, and down right uncomfortable to even look at. But still. It was now home.

It was a one bedroom apartment with a living room only big enough to please one person to enjoy it. It had a tiny bathroom with a tiny shower to match. The kitchen was the biggest part of the house. It had a table big enough for two and the refrigerator had a foul smell when you opened it.

"It can all be fixed." Dan told him self over and over.

Dan herd a rustling movement from the bedroom and walked in to see his sons awake.

They had tape over their mouths. Clearly they were trying someway to communicate but they both froze and their eyes widened when they saw that man walk into the room.

"Hello boys." he smiled taking a seat on the bed.

Silence. The boys stared into the eyes of their kidnapper, who happened to be their father. It wasn't the same man they had known months ago. He wasn't the cocky rude man he had been. He looked desperate, different. Not only was his physical appearance completely different but mentally he didn't seem stable. Just the look on his face seemed completely odd.

"Wondering what you are doing here?" he asked.

Nathan could feel the hair on the back of his neck stand up and he tried to yell but it was muffled by the tape.

"What was that son?" he got up and ripped the tape off his face.

"God dammit!" Nathan screamed. It hurt like hell.

"Nathan, I've missed you."

"What the hell are you doing." Nathan asked glaring at him.

"Hold on a sec." Dan put his hand up walking up to Lucas and doing the same thing, ripping off the tape.

"Shit." Lucas yelled.

"Lucas you okay?" Nathan quickly asked.

"Fine." Lucas mumbled looking up at Dan.

Dan went to sit back on the bed.

Nathan wanted to yell at his father, curse him out, punch him in the face.

But when he opened his mouth to yell nothing came out. Nathan didn't want to admit it. But he was actually scared of what was going to happen. Scared of what his father would do. He already shot someone. He tried to kill Haley. And now he had Lucas and him tied up in some shitty room.

"Like my new place? A little different from the beach house but you know, its home."

Neither boys spoke.

Lucas tried to control his shaking but like Nathan, he was scared. The calm way Dan was talking. The look in his eye was scary.

"What, what do you want?" Lucas finally spoke up.

"What do I want? I want us to be a family Lucas. Me you and Nathan, like it should of been a long time ago."

"Family? Are you kidding me. You shot our uncle. You tried to kill my wife. Now you have us tied up in some shitty place and you want us to be a happy family." Nathan yelled.

"I never said happy family." Dan spoke cooly.

Nathan and Lucas both looked at each other afraid of Dan's last sentence.

Dan got up and turned on the tv, well that is what he called it anyway. It wasn't very big. It didn't work to well either. He was watching for a while not saying anything. Lucas and Nathan didn't know what to do, so they just kept their mouth shut.

He grinned when he looked at what he was watching. He turned it around to show Nathan and Lucas and turned it up.

"A man was killed today in Winsicion, North Carolina. Police say he was killed early yesterday morning with three gunshots to the chest and one to the head. They have no suspects or leads. Apparently he was involved in a lot of illegal activity and the police say there is a slim chance that they will find the murderer."

With that Dan started to chuckle and turned it off.

"What the hell is that about." Nathan asked.

"Well how the hell do you think I got those guys to help me get you two here?"

"Are you saying. You...you killed him?" Lucas asked.

"Well yeah." he chuckled.

Nathan shook his head.

"What I needed help Nathan. There was no way I could get both my boys here with me by myself."

"How the hell did you even get involved in that."

"Well.." Dan started with this story.

Dan was sitting in his car again. Bored, angry. Alone.

He decided to go for a drive and ended up in a bad neighbor hood. With no luck at all his car was running out of gas. He found a gas station and pulled up. He realized he was alone. He quickly tried to fill up his car when he was grabbed from behind and shoved to the ground.

"Stay on the ground bitch. I'll fucking kill you." a young voice screamed.

Dan felt a gun pointed him in the back.

"Don't shoot." Dan begged.

"Shut up bitch!" another voice yelled.

The boys, who could not be older then 19 years of age began to search him and his car. Rummaging through everything trying to find something. Anything.

"You don't got shit in here man." he yelled.

"I..I'm sorry." Dan whined. "Please just don't, don't kill me."

He was picked up by two and shoved against his car. He could see now how outnumbered he was. 5 to one. The leader pointed his gun in Dan's face.

"What should we do with him?" one of them asked from behind.

"Tony said we needed something good, or we'd pay for it." another said.

"Fuck tony. I'm so tired of that bitch." the leader finally spoke up.

"Tony will kill us man, you know it." Another told him.

Dan looked at these, these boys. They were too young to own guns or worried about weather or not they would be killed. This life wasn't healthy for them. Clearly whoever this Tony was, he wasn't a good person to get involved with.

"You've been saying this for months. You always say you'll take care of him, you always say you will kill him. But every god damned day were back there. Taking jobs, getting payed. And every time we regret it. Its all the same. Its never going to change. At least not until someone pops tony any time soon." a taller one chimed in.

"Whatever." the leader responded. "Lets just kill this one and go find something valuable."

Dan felt the boy ready to shoot when he spoke up.

"I'll kill him."

Dan could feel his face getting hot. He didn't mean to say it. Just anything to keep him alive.

"What the hell did you just say."

"I said I'll kill him. If you promise not to kill me."

"Is this some kind of a joke?" he asked shoving the gun harder into his chest.

"No, not at all. Listen I'm in a lot of trouble, trouble you could never believe. I'll kill him, if you help me out with a few things. We can call it even."

"How do you know I can trust you?" the leader asked.

" you just have to take your chances. But honestly do you think I'd be lying or trying to trick you in any way with you pointing that gun in my face?"

The leader didn't answer. HOLY SHIT Dan thought. He was actually considering it.

"You aren't actually going to go through with this are you?" one of the leader's friends asked.

"What could it hurt. If he fails some of Tony's men will kill him. If he does anything before that to screw up. I'll kill him my self."

Dan shuddered at the thought.

Dan nodded as they all talked over the plan.

Usually Tony would have a lot of people with him, but there was certain times where he liked to be alone. No one to bother him. He had a porch he used to sit on everyday. Smoke a cigar. Read a good boy. Just enjoy the quiet. It took them a couple of days to plan out exactly what they wanted to do. The boys would tell Tony they were going to find him something valuable. They would go get Dan and Dan would be walking by, and without warning shoot him.

It went perfect. Dan felt his hand lift up and he shot the gun, four times. He then ran away. He sprinted so fast and after that things started to look up for Dan.

As the boys promised they helped him out. They gave him their old place they used to stay, far away from everything, and everyone. They promised he would be safe, because they were the only ones to know about. Tony and his men didn't even have a clue about it. Dan told him about his situation and they agreed to help get Lucas and Nathan, and then they would be on their way.

"So now I have you boys, this house. And well I stopped a bad man from doing some bad things."

"You are insane." Lucas told him.

"No," Dan got up and yelled. "No I am not insane Lucas. I had to do to get what I want. We are together and we are going to be a family!"

Dan went and made sure they were tied tight and smiled.

"I hope you burn in hell." Nathan looked at him dead in the eyes.

Dan's smile quickly faded as he grabbed his youngest son by the throat and picked him up with one hand, and it gripping Nathan tightly.

"Let go!" Lucas yelled. Trying to get up but it was no use, he couldn't get up. He was tied to tightly.

"LISTEN NATHAN. I put up with your shit for to god damn long. You no longer talk to me like that. I am your father. You respect me!"

Nathan tried gasping for air but Dan grabbed tighter.

"Answer me Nathan. WILL YOU RESPECT ME."

"Stop! He cant answer you with your hand around his neck. God dammit you going to kill him"

Of course Nathan couldn't answer. He could barley even breathe.

Dan finally released his grip causing Nathan to fall straight to the ground and gasp for air. Hacking and coughing, but he was alive. He was thankful for that.

"That was your warning." Dan whispered to him and walked out the door.

"Are you okay." Lucas asked immediately. Trying to scoot over to him.

"We need to get out of here Lucas." Nathan managed to say through deep breathes.

"Yeah." Lucas agreed. "Yeah we do."

i wont be updated as much because i have field hockey AND school coming in like a week but umm i'll be trying on all my free time. That is if you guys want me to continue. Tell me what you think. like it? getting annoyed? tell me what you want to see. So yeah. thanks

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