A/N: Thanks for the reviews !!

Next up: Luke's reaction to Dan and Karen!!!!

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Lucas stood in the living room of his house, where he'd grown up and felt like he was living his nightmare.

In front of him stood his mother and Dan Scott, the man that never acknowledged him as his son.

Karen's lips trembled as she struggled over how to tell Lucas. His harsh tones stopped her and her heart tore at the anger and fear in his tone.

"How could you after all the pain he put us through for the last seventeen years, how can you be with him and forget what he did to you and to me. How?" Luke's face echoed his anguish.

"I love him, I never stopped." Her words fraught with definition and affirmation. Her brown eyes blurred with tears as she watched her son, her flesh and blood vibrate visibly with tortured anguish as he looked at her and his father.

"Mom, I can't be part of a family that includes him." Luke's words tore at her heart and soul.

"You're asking me to choose between my son and my …." her voice broke. "I can't, damn it Lucas, do you have to break my heart." Her back trembled and she fell back onto the sofa. Dan sat down with her, putting a comforting arm around her.

"How can you do this to your mother?" He looked surprised, having expected his son to stand by his mother and not go against her.

"Don't you say a word to me. You have no right, you gave that right up when you abandoned me," Luke looked at Dan with blazing malicious hatred in his eyes.

"Lucas, don't speak to your father like that." Karen's voice broke, tears trailed down her face as she reached out to Lucas.

"You've made your choice." Luke's voice was devoid of any emotion, he grabbed his duffel bag and left in the harrowing silence.

"Lucas." Karen's cry fell on deaf ears. Dan embraced her as wracking sobs tore through her body.

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Lucas walked to the local bus stop and then thought better of it and turned to head down the highway to hitch a ride.

After a half an hour of walking and sticking his thumb out, a red truck pulled over. A blonde with brown eyes opened the door, "Where you headed?"

"Wherever you're going." Lucas climbed in, shutting the door….on his past. His eyes focused on the darkening horizon as the sun set and on starting a new life for himself, wherever he went.

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Lucas obviously doesn't accept their relationship and he won't anytime in the near future. He's gone off to "find himself" so don't expect to see him in this story again. I might have a story spinoff about what happens to him, just an idea, I've been tossing around. Karen and Dan will move on. This story is on the verge of ending as it has served its purpose: to reunite Dan and Karen.

Next update: by July 16