Old Fights
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The trip to tree Hill was a short one, only two days and then they were on their way to LA. Lucas decided not to mention Brooke and the twins to his family and friends back in LA until they were actually there. Brooke still needed to go back to Florida in a couple of weeks, her house was now for sale, but she would need to finish gathering their belongings. She really thought that she had forgiven Lucas and Payton for what they did to her 4 years ago but that was only what she thought. "Dad," Lucas hears Lucas Jr. scream from his new bedroom. "What Lucas? Why don't you come find me instead of screaming through the entire house." He suggested. There was a short pause, "Ok, sorry dad," he said poking his head in the room. Lucas was putting together Leah's bed in her new room. "Have you seen my Lakers box dad?" Luke asked. "No, what was in it?" He asked looking up from what he was doing. "My basketball stuff, you, the whole team." He said walking in with tears in his eyes. "Huh?" Lucas said confused. "All of my posters of you and the Lakers, and the autograph and my cards." He replied. "Well it must still be in Fl, so when mom goes back she can get it for you." He said going back to putting the bed together. Lucas left and went back to his room, he couldn't remember being without the pictures and posters of his favorite player, Lucas Scott. He sat down and then thought to himself, "Wait, I got the real thing, he's my dad." He thought to himself now smiling and get up and running back to his dad. "I love you dad," he said and then going back to his room. "Nathan, why don't we go over to Lucas's," Hailey said holding Paige. "Huh, oh sure, any reason why?" he asked still watching Basketball with Nathan Jr. on the couch. "Well he had to go to FL and missed out on hanging with you and Jake, I worry about him always being alone." She replied. The doorbell rang and Lucas and Leah raced to be the first to answer it, and opened the door. "Hi..oh um..." Hailey said looking down at the two strangers. "Is Lucas here?" "Ok, one said, Daddy!" Lucas and Leah screamed into the house. Lucas appeared behind them before then stopped call him. "What, I'm right here," he said noticing who was at the door. "Oh hey guys, come on in." Lucas said to his very confused brother and sister in law. "Nathan Hailey, I would like you to meet your niece and nephew. Lucas Jr. and Leah." Lucas said.
"What was all that screaming about?" Brooke asked when she walked in the room and saw who was there.
"Brooke?" Hailey said when she saw her.
"Hey tutor girl," Brooke replied.
"What, I'm confused." Nathan said.
"These are my kids," Brooke said pointing to Lucas and Leah, "We've been living in FL since I left Tree Hill."
"I bumped into them at the signing, well actually Lucas got separated and I said I would help him find his mom, which turned out to be Broke."
Lucas ands Nathan walked outside while Hailey and Brooke stayed inside talking.
"Luke what are you doing?" Nathan asked as soon as they were alone.
"What do you mean Nathan?" Luke asked knowing the answer to that question.
"I mean you dated her in high school, cheated on her, she left one day, and now you see her 4 years later and she says your the father? You believe her?" he asked.
"Nathan, the week before she left she told me she was pregnant, but the day she left she told me she wasn't and that's the last time I talked to her. I always wondered if she was pregnant, but I couldn't do anything about it, I didn't know where she had gone. Nathan, just look at them, look at Luke he looks just like I did when I was that age and he looks like you. You can tell just by looking at him that he's a Scott." Lucas explained.
"Fine man, I just hope you know what you are getting your self into that's all."
"Yeah I know."
Payton and Jake decided to invite everyone out to dinner at Chuckie cheese with the kids.
No one answered at Nathan's so they walked over to Lucas's to see if they were all there.
Lucas saw them from the window and went outside and told them what had happened in FL. He was worried what would happen when Brooke and Payton were in the same room again.
Payton asked to talk to Brooke alone, they were in the kitchen.
"Brooke you just decide now to include Lucas?! How could you do that? How could you just not tell him that he had two kids?" Payton screamed at Brooke.
"Payton you don't get it!! I left because he was cheating on me with you, my best friend!!! Behind my back!!! How could you do that to me?!?!!! How could I let him be a father to my kids when he did something like that? "Brooke yelled back at Payton.
"Easy just ell him and forgive him. He loved you Brooke! Not me, and you knew that. He still loves you Brooke! He hasn't been in love with anyone but you. The day you left you took his heart, and looks like you took his only two kids as well!!!!" Payton screamed in Brookes face.
They were both screaming back and fourth yelling, and tears were sliding down both of their faces.
"Don't you think I realize that Payton?! I have been regretting that since the day I left. I loved Lucas too, but he hurt me!! You hurt me!!" She screamed now crying.
"I'm sorry for hurting you Brooke. I truly am, but compared to how you have hurt Lucas by keeping his OWN KIDS from him. That doesn't even start to compare what you did. You took away four years Lucas can never get back, yes we hurt you but what you did is unthinkable." Payton screamed back.
After fighting for a while Brooke decided to find Lucas, she needed to talk to him.
"How did it go with Payton?" Lucas asked when he saw her.
"How do you think it went?" she asked.
"That well huh?" he asked.
"All these years I was so worried, that as soon as told you, all it would be is fighting between us. But I never expected Payton to yell at me. I'm the one who was mad at her when I left." She said sitting down next to him on his bed.
"Exactly Brooke, you left. You were mad at her and me and left. You took my kids, my flesh and blood with you without so much as a goodbye. She's just mad that you ended your friendship the way you did. I'm mad at you Brooke. The way you left without telling me I was a father. But I have to forgive you, for Lucas and Leah. Because I love you Brooke! I always have, I just want things to be ok between us." Lucas said.
"Lucas I know, I shouldn't have done what I did but I did. I left I hated you for hurting me! I hated Payton for hurting me, but most of all I hated myself for keeping them away from you. It hurt me every time I saw him watching you on TV, or coloring in the coloring pages of you. Or looking at your posters on his wall. By leaving I was hoping I could raise them without you, I wanted to protect you, but when he saw you on TV and then you were all he could talk about. It was like he knew in his heart that you were his dad. But you weren't you were just the guy, the guy that cheated on me! You weren't there when I went into labor 4 weeks early. You weren't there when Leah fell off the playground and broke her arm. You weren't there for the midnight feedings I was!" She said screaming at him.
"Broke I wanted to be there! I couldn't! Because you didn't tell me I had kids! You choose to raise them alone, but I was punished for it, they were punished for it!" he screamed back at her.
"I know Luke, I'm sorry. I love you!" she said screaming. He grabbed her and kissed her. It was the first time in 4 years they had fought, talked, let everything out, and they kissed. After 4 long years they told each other how they felt.
"Lucas should we be doing this?" Brooke asked.
"I've waited 4 years for this," he said kissing her again.
"But this still doesn't solve our problems," she said in between kissing him.
"We can still work on those Brooke." He said.
"What does this mean now?" she said once they had stopped kissing. "Are we back together? What?" she asked confused.
"I think it means were working on it." He replied
Lucas and Brooke just sat and talked for hours. They didn't realize how long they had been talking until Lucas and Leah walked in the room in their PJ's.
"Night mommy, night daddy." They both said giving each of them a hug and a kiss.
"What time is it?" Brooke asked.
"Um," Luke said looking at his watch. "Looks like 8:30. We've been talking for almost 4 hours.
Things went well over the next couple of days. He and Brooke talked, and were working things out. Brooke apologized to Payton for the way she left Tree Hill.
Brooke was off for a job interview at the local high school, she was a teacher at a high school back in FL. She had saved what money she could to take extra courses to get her degree after she had the twins.
"Lucas I'm leaving," Brooke called up the stairs.
"What? I thought your interview was tomorrow." He said coming down the stairs with only his shorts on. He was holding his practice uniform top and put it on.
"No Luke, its today. I better get going though." She said.
"Well I have practice in 20 minutes." He said walking down the stairs. "Who's going to watch Lucas and Leah?" He asked. "I can take Lucas but Leah would just get bored if she came with."
"No she loves basketball Luke." Brooke corrected.
"Huh? Since when? He asked.
"She always have loved basketball, that is defiantly something that they got from you." She replied.
"I've never heard her say anything about liking it before."
"I told you Luke, she's not just going to open up to you like Lucas, you have to as her questions, it's going to take some time. Well bye," she said kissing him.
"Bye." Lucas said.
10 minutes later Lucas was walking up to where they practiced, with Leah in one hand and Luke in the other.
"Ok guys, this is daddy's work so you have to be on your best behavior ok?" he said kneeling in front of his son and daughter.
"Ok daddy." Leah replied.
"Luke?" Lucas asked looking at his son.
"I know, be a good boy." He said as they walked in the building.
"Good afternoon Mr. Scott, the man said as he opened the door. "
"Mike I would like you to meet my son Lucas Jr. and my daughter Leah." Lucas replied. "Well its nice you meet you, he said shaking their hands.
"Lucas, there you are." His manager Carl said as he walked over to Lucas.
"Carl this is my son Lucas Jr. and my daughter Leah, their mom had an interview so they came with, I hope that's ok. Lucas here is the biggest Lakers fan ever." Lucas said pointing to Luke.
"Of course its fine Lucas. Well why don't we see if the team wouldn't mind signing a ball for each of you." Carl said to Lucas and Leah.
"Really!?!?" Leah said her eyes opening wide. "Daddy I could really have a signed ball?" she said looking up at him.
"Of course Leah, and you too Lucas." Lucas said. He wanted to make sure he didn't make either one of his kids feel left out.
Lucas and Leah sat in amazement as they watched their dad practice with the rest of the team. After practice the whole team signed a ball for each kid, and also a couple for the other players kids including Jenny, Jessica, Nate Jr. and Paige. And one for Jakes new baby, couldn't forget the baby. Nathan, Jake and Lucas decided they would take the kids out for dinner and let the moms have a break.
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Please review and tell me what you think.
Tardychick06
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The trip to tree Hill was a short one, only two days and then they were on their way to LA. Lucas decided not to mention Brooke and the twins to his family and friends back in LA until they were actually there. Brooke still needed to go back to Florida in a couple of weeks, her house was now for sale, but she would need to finish gathering their belongings. She really thought that she had forgiven Lucas and Payton for what they did to her 4 years ago but that was only what she thought. "Dad," Lucas hears Lucas Jr. scream from his new bedroom. "What Lucas? Why don't you come find me instead of screaming through the entire house." He suggested. There was a short pause, "Ok, sorry dad," he said poking his head in the room. Lucas was putting together Leah's bed in her new room. "Have you seen my Lakers box dad?" Luke asked. "No, what was in it?" He asked looking up from what he was doing. "My basketball stuff, you, the whole team." He said walking in with tears in his eyes. "Huh?" Lucas said confused. "All of my posters of you and the Lakers, and the autograph and my cards." He replied. "Well it must still be in Fl, so when mom goes back she can get it for you." He said going back to putting the bed together. Lucas left and went back to his room, he couldn't remember being without the pictures and posters of his favorite player, Lucas Scott. He sat down and then thought to himself, "Wait, I got the real thing, he's my dad." He thought to himself now smiling and get up and running back to his dad. "I love you dad," he said and then going back to his room. "Nathan, why don't we go over to Lucas's," Hailey said holding Paige. "Huh, oh sure, any reason why?" he asked still watching Basketball with Nathan Jr. on the couch. "Well he had to go to FL and missed out on hanging with you and Jake, I worry about him always being alone." She replied. The doorbell rang and Lucas and Leah raced to be the first to answer it, and opened the door. "Hi..oh um..." Hailey said looking down at the two strangers. "Is Lucas here?" "Ok, one said, Daddy!" Lucas and Leah screamed into the house. Lucas appeared behind them before then stopped call him. "What, I'm right here," he said noticing who was at the door. "Oh hey guys, come on in." Lucas said to his very confused brother and sister in law. "Nathan Hailey, I would like you to meet your niece and nephew. Lucas Jr. and Leah." Lucas said.
"What was all that screaming about?" Brooke asked when she walked in the room and saw who was there.
"Brooke?" Hailey said when she saw her.
"Hey tutor girl," Brooke replied.
"What, I'm confused." Nathan said.
"These are my kids," Brooke said pointing to Lucas and Leah, "We've been living in FL since I left Tree Hill."
"I bumped into them at the signing, well actually Lucas got separated and I said I would help him find his mom, which turned out to be Broke."
Lucas ands Nathan walked outside while Hailey and Brooke stayed inside talking.
"Luke what are you doing?" Nathan asked as soon as they were alone.
"What do you mean Nathan?" Luke asked knowing the answer to that question.
"I mean you dated her in high school, cheated on her, she left one day, and now you see her 4 years later and she says your the father? You believe her?" he asked.
"Nathan, the week before she left she told me she was pregnant, but the day she left she told me she wasn't and that's the last time I talked to her. I always wondered if she was pregnant, but I couldn't do anything about it, I didn't know where she had gone. Nathan, just look at them, look at Luke he looks just like I did when I was that age and he looks like you. You can tell just by looking at him that he's a Scott." Lucas explained.
"Fine man, I just hope you know what you are getting your self into that's all."
"Yeah I know."
Payton and Jake decided to invite everyone out to dinner at Chuckie cheese with the kids.
No one answered at Nathan's so they walked over to Lucas's to see if they were all there.
Lucas saw them from the window and went outside and told them what had happened in FL. He was worried what would happen when Brooke and Payton were in the same room again.
Payton asked to talk to Brooke alone, they were in the kitchen.
"Brooke you just decide now to include Lucas?! How could you do that? How could you just not tell him that he had two kids?" Payton screamed at Brooke.
"Payton you don't get it!! I left because he was cheating on me with you, my best friend!!! Behind my back!!! How could you do that to me?!?!!! How could I let him be a father to my kids when he did something like that? "Brooke yelled back at Payton.
"Easy just ell him and forgive him. He loved you Brooke! Not me, and you knew that. He still loves you Brooke! He hasn't been in love with anyone but you. The day you left you took his heart, and looks like you took his only two kids as well!!!!" Payton screamed in Brookes face.
They were both screaming back and fourth yelling, and tears were sliding down both of their faces.
"Don't you think I realize that Payton?! I have been regretting that since the day I left. I loved Lucas too, but he hurt me!! You hurt me!!" She screamed now crying.
"I'm sorry for hurting you Brooke. I truly am, but compared to how you have hurt Lucas by keeping his OWN KIDS from him. That doesn't even start to compare what you did. You took away four years Lucas can never get back, yes we hurt you but what you did is unthinkable." Payton screamed back.
After fighting for a while Brooke decided to find Lucas, she needed to talk to him.
"How did it go with Payton?" Lucas asked when he saw her.
"How do you think it went?" she asked.
"That well huh?" he asked.
"All these years I was so worried, that as soon as told you, all it would be is fighting between us. But I never expected Payton to yell at me. I'm the one who was mad at her when I left." She said sitting down next to him on his bed.
"Exactly Brooke, you left. You were mad at her and me and left. You took my kids, my flesh and blood with you without so much as a goodbye. She's just mad that you ended your friendship the way you did. I'm mad at you Brooke. The way you left without telling me I was a father. But I have to forgive you, for Lucas and Leah. Because I love you Brooke! I always have, I just want things to be ok between us." Lucas said.
"Lucas I know, I shouldn't have done what I did but I did. I left I hated you for hurting me! I hated Payton for hurting me, but most of all I hated myself for keeping them away from you. It hurt me every time I saw him watching you on TV, or coloring in the coloring pages of you. Or looking at your posters on his wall. By leaving I was hoping I could raise them without you, I wanted to protect you, but when he saw you on TV and then you were all he could talk about. It was like he knew in his heart that you were his dad. But you weren't you were just the guy, the guy that cheated on me! You weren't there when I went into labor 4 weeks early. You weren't there when Leah fell off the playground and broke her arm. You weren't there for the midnight feedings I was!" She said screaming at him.
"Broke I wanted to be there! I couldn't! Because you didn't tell me I had kids! You choose to raise them alone, but I was punished for it, they were punished for it!" he screamed back at her.
"I know Luke, I'm sorry. I love you!" she said screaming. He grabbed her and kissed her. It was the first time in 4 years they had fought, talked, let everything out, and they kissed. After 4 long years they told each other how they felt.
"Lucas should we be doing this?" Brooke asked.
"I've waited 4 years for this," he said kissing her again.
"But this still doesn't solve our problems," she said in between kissing him.
"We can still work on those Brooke." He said.
"What does this mean now?" she said once they had stopped kissing. "Are we back together? What?" she asked confused.
"I think it means were working on it." He replied
Lucas and Brooke just sat and talked for hours. They didn't realize how long they had been talking until Lucas and Leah walked in the room in their PJ's.
"Night mommy, night daddy." They both said giving each of them a hug and a kiss.
"What time is it?" Brooke asked.
"Um," Luke said looking at his watch. "Looks like 8:30. We've been talking for almost 4 hours.
Things went well over the next couple of days. He and Brooke talked, and were working things out. Brooke apologized to Payton for the way she left Tree Hill.
Brooke was off for a job interview at the local high school, she was a teacher at a high school back in FL. She had saved what money she could to take extra courses to get her degree after she had the twins.
"Lucas I'm leaving," Brooke called up the stairs.
"What? I thought your interview was tomorrow." He said coming down the stairs with only his shorts on. He was holding his practice uniform top and put it on.
"No Luke, its today. I better get going though." She said.
"Well I have practice in 20 minutes." He said walking down the stairs. "Who's going to watch Lucas and Leah?" He asked. "I can take Lucas but Leah would just get bored if she came with."
"No she loves basketball Luke." Brooke corrected.
"Huh? Since when? He asked.
"She always have loved basketball, that is defiantly something that they got from you." She replied.
"I've never heard her say anything about liking it before."
"I told you Luke, she's not just going to open up to you like Lucas, you have to as her questions, it's going to take some time. Well bye," she said kissing him.
"Bye." Lucas said.
10 minutes later Lucas was walking up to where they practiced, with Leah in one hand and Luke in the other.
"Ok guys, this is daddy's work so you have to be on your best behavior ok?" he said kneeling in front of his son and daughter.
"Ok daddy." Leah replied.
"Luke?" Lucas asked looking at his son.
"I know, be a good boy." He said as they walked in the building.
"Good afternoon Mr. Scott, the man said as he opened the door. "
"Mike I would like you to meet my son Lucas Jr. and my daughter Leah." Lucas replied. "Well its nice you meet you, he said shaking their hands.
"Lucas, there you are." His manager Carl said as he walked over to Lucas.
"Carl this is my son Lucas Jr. and my daughter Leah, their mom had an interview so they came with, I hope that's ok. Lucas here is the biggest Lakers fan ever." Lucas said pointing to Luke.
"Of course its fine Lucas. Well why don't we see if the team wouldn't mind signing a ball for each of you." Carl said to Lucas and Leah.
"Really!?!?" Leah said her eyes opening wide. "Daddy I could really have a signed ball?" she said looking up at him.
"Of course Leah, and you too Lucas." Lucas said. He wanted to make sure he didn't make either one of his kids feel left out.
Lucas and Leah sat in amazement as they watched their dad practice with the rest of the team. After practice the whole team signed a ball for each kid, and also a couple for the other players kids including Jenny, Jessica, Nate Jr. and Paige. And one for Jakes new baby, couldn't forget the baby. Nathan, Jake and Lucas decided they would take the kids out for dinner and let the moms have a break.
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Please review and tell me what you think.
Tardychick06