A/N: Just a quick note this jumps from POV to POV but that what the bars are for.

Chapter 1

"Luke, we need to talk." Nathan's voice came over the line.

Lucas sighed but didn't say anything.

"You've been avoiding me since that night… the night you kissed me." Nathan said.

Lucas knew Nathan was blushing even behind his ears, and he couldn't help but think how sexy he probably looked.

"I know. I'm sorry."

"It was a mistake. It can't happen again." Nathan said.

"You're right," Lucas felt like Nathan had managed to take all the air out of the room from way across town.

"I'm glad we agree." Nathan said hanging up.

Lucas could have sworn he heard Nathan's voice break a bit like he was crying.

Lucas hung up the phone and looked over at Haley who was wiping down the counter at the café.

"That sounded intense. Who was it? Peyton?" she asked.

"Nathan actually, Dan's being an asshole." Lucas lied easily he didn't realize how easy it was to tell such convincing lies.

"Really, what else is new? Is Nathan okay?" she asked.

Lucas smiled sweet caring Haley, he knew his mother secretly wanted them to get together, but it wasn't happening. Lucas wasn't willing to admit he was gay just yet. But he wasn't interested in pursuing girls at the moment, he was far too hung up on his brother of all people.

"What has been up with Peyton lately I hardly see her?" Lucas asked.

"Why don't we find out." Haley said taking off her apron and putting away the cleaning stuff.

Twenty minutes later they let themselves into Peyton's house. It didn't seem like anyone was home. Haley assumed Peyton was asleep, all the lights were out except the lamp in her bedroom that she never turned off and there was no music playing, but Lucas had a feeling. He wouldn't say what it was. Upon walking into Peyton's room they were greeted with an awful sight, their friend was sprawled out on the floor naked with a bloody nose. All Haley could do was stand there,trying to not to scream or puke all over Peyton's bedoom floorluckily Lucas wasn't glued to the floor he ran over and checked Peyton's pulse.

"Is she breathing?" Haley manage to squeak out tears welling up in her eyes.

"Barely. Haley call 911." Lucas told her.

With shaking hands she reached into her coat pocket and pulled out her phone and dialed 911. Everything happened so fast her hysterical phone call to the ride to the hospital, she got to ride in the ambulance with Lucas and Peyton. They usually only allow one person to ride in the ambulance and Haley was in no shape to drive Lucas truck. And she didn't want to ride with the police, Lucas lobbied hard for the techs to let her. And they did. They didn't like Lucas' scary look any more than she did.

She knew he was just as shaken up as she was even more so.

Once they got to hospital Peyton was taken right into an ER. They were restricted to the waiting room.

"You need to call Brooke, I'm gonna call Nathan." Lucas stated with a blank expression on his face.

She nodded wiping her eyes and dialing Brooke.

Nathan Scott tried to do anything but stare at the phone, he wished Lucas would call back and say he still wanted him, and own up to fact that he was scared. He'd seen his brother do the exact same thing with every girl he'd been with. The defense mechanism, and this was an even harder situation.

He couldn't deal with it, he knew he was already too far in not to get hurt. The secret crush he harbored for his own brother had suddenly become a possibility at least until Lucas started avoiding him. The phone call to end things had merely been a test and Lucas didn't defend things and tell him that it wasn't a mistake.

Nathan had tried everything he could to take his mind off of Lucas he'd worked out, watched some of the Style channel which was supposedly appealing to gay men but he didn't think it was so hot. He played some Playstaion. He even played with his old karaoke machine singing a few bars of Bootylicious usually perked him up, but that didn't even seem to help.

So he gave up and resigned to lying in his bed thinking about Lucas and chunking a small basketball into the air. He lay there for two solid hours, his dad passed by poked his head in and berated him for some unknown reason and then slinked off to his mistress. Just as the mind numbing solitude was about to make him go mad his cell phone rang.

He heard the ringtone and nearly leapt a mile it was Lucas.

"Hello." He said trying to sound as neutral and unexcited as possible.

"Nathan," Lucas said.

Nathan became increasingly worried, it sounded like Lucas had been crying.

"Luke what's wrong?"

"It's Peyton, apparently she's been taking drugs cocaine in particular and tonight she overdosed she's in the ER right now. Me and Hales found her. She was unconscious." Lucas said in a rush.

"Oh God. I'm on my way." Nathan said grabbing his jacket and keys and running out of his bedroom.

"Yes, right there." Brooke purred in Jake's ear as his long questing fingers pushed aside her thong.

"Brooke, you're so sexy," Jake said nipping at her neck just as her cell phone rang loudly playing Hollaback girl for about the fifteenth time.

"Okay, Brooke that's kind of taking me out of the mood. You gonna answer that it has got to be an emergency they've been calling for the past twenty minutes almost non-stop." Jake said.

"Alright, it's Haley."

She said sitting up and hitting her head on the roof of her VW Bug.

"Fuck." She said into the phone.

"What a hell of way to answer the phone." Jake muttered.

She rolled her eyes, "Hey Tutor Girl what's up?"

"Brooke…you've got to get down here. It's Peyton, remember when she said she only did coke that one time? She's been doing it all this time behind our backs and now she's OD'd." Haley said quickly and slightly on the side of hysterical which meant Brooke was only able understand about half of it.

"Hales slow down what about Peyton?"

"She's in the hospital. She OD'd." Haley repeated.

Brooke wanted to cry for about half a second before hanging up and climbing into the front seat still only wearing her underwear.

"Brooke, what's going on?" Jake asked as Brooke cranked up the car.

"I'd hold on tight if I were you." She said swerving out of the school parking lot.

She drove eighty all the way to the hospital and made it a record three minutes. It took her awhile to register that she was only wearing a thong. So she quickly pulled on her pants and Jake's shirt and her denim jacket and ran into the hospital leaving a half dressed and completely confused Jake trailing behind.

Brooke found Haley and Lucas in the waiting room Lucas was yelling at a nurse and Haley was sitting on the bench staring at a spot on the floor, she looked up just as they entered the room. Haley got off the bench and launched herself at Brooke.

Brooke and Haley held each other, while Haley cried. Brooke knew Haley was feeling like this was all their fault for not telling someone about what Peyton was doing sooner. She knew this because she felt it too, she looked up to see the fear and anger on Lucas' handsome face as he started toward them.

"What did they say Luke?" Brooke asked.

"She's stable now and technically in a coma, she has a deviated septum so she must have been using for a while. I knew something was going on. Did you two know about this?" he asked.

Haley started her hysterical babbling, "That guy Rick from Tric said she'd done some lines with them before. She swore it was only the one time and we believed her."

"What? And you didn't tell me?"

"You can't fix everything Luke. You can't stop Nathan from getting hit and you can't save Peyton from herself just like you can't stop Taylor from ruining her life Haley. The only thing we can do is be there for them as cheesy as it sounds." Brooke said.

Lucas frowned but nodded in understanding, Brooke knew she was right, in the end if they all didn't self destruct they'd be lucky for survive adolescence sane themselves.

"Okay I'm so confused here." Jake said.

"Oh I 'm sorry Jake I forgot you were here. Can we pick up where we left off another time? I need to stay and see if my friend is okay." Brooke said.

"I'll call Skills and ask for a ride. He's prolly on the way to the river court anyways. I'm gonna shoot some hoops for a while. Call me if anything changes. I hope Peyton pulls through." Jake said.

"I'll call you. I hope she pulls through too." Brooke said.

Jake gave Brooke a quick hug and offered a small smile to the other two before leaving.

Haley shot her a knowing glance, "We're just friends." Brooke stated.

"Yeah right what were you doing when I called," Haley said.

"Nothing."

"We're probably going to be here all night. We'd better go find some caffeine and you need to stop pacing." Brooke said.

She was the picture of calm she had to be the other two were nervous wrecks, while inside she was so scared for Peyton. But she was right they couldn't fix Peyton's life Peyton was the onlyone who cold do that.

Lucas stood alone in the waiting room she knew Brooke had to be upset. Brooke was excellent a masking her feelings when she wanted to.She could turn her feellings off and on.She'd make a great soap star, in Lucas opinion but he didn't watch too much TV.

He was still pacing he couldn't help it he glanced up and toward the door just as Nathan ran in.

He stopped midway and they stared at each other for awhile, Lucas was tired of fear and indecision he wanted Nathan and Nathan wanted him there was nothing wrong with diving into this head first.

Before he knew it he was sprinting over and enveloping Nathan into a big hug and to his surprise Nathan hugged back.

"I don't think kissing you was a mistake, but not being together would be a big mistake. Deny thy father and refuse thy name." Lucas whispered in Nathan's ear causing Nathan to hold him tighter.

"I would deny Dan in a heartbeat," Nathan said.

"Me too,"

"How's Peyton doing?" Nathan asked breaking the embrace

"Better she still hasn't woken up yet; the doctors say she will soon though. But the tough part would be getting her to stop using."

"She has to want to stay clean." Nathan said.

"That's true, the next couple of weeks will be hard for all of us." Lucas said.

"I'll have you so it won't matter." Nathan said.

Lucas took his hand, he didn't care if they were in public or if anyone told Dan. He planned on telling their father himself as soon as he got Nathan out of that house. He knew Brooke was right but he couldn't stand idly by while his friends got hurt he had to fix things.

"We're going to be here all night." Lucas said sitting in one of the hard hospital chairs.

Nathan sat beside him, "Looks like. That means we must find some way of entertaining ourselves."

Lucas gave him a tentative smile. Nathan knew that meant that he should back off.

"Or we could just sit here and I could like hold you," Nathan suggested.

"I would really like that." Lucas said.

Nathan put his arms around Lucas which was rather awkward simply because of the chairs Lucas felt right in his arms. Lucas buried his face in the crook of Nathan's shoulder and they both sighed at the same time.

Each breath gave Nathan goose bumps he wanted so badly to just…touch Lucas and kiss him. The nurses were already giving strange looks. Siblings held each other all the time. Just not the Scott brothers.

It wasn't long before Brooke and Haley came in.

Brooke opened her mouth to ask what was going on but Nathan stopped her.

"Not now Brooke." Nathan said the look in his eyes was enough to get the girls to back off.

They sat in silence for about an hour Haley slept on Brooke's lap while she played in her hair. Nathan dozed and Lucas had fallen asleep as well.

A/N: Thanks for the reviews kind readers. I understand that this is incestual slash. Not exactly everyone's cup of tea, I know but there is another sub plot it's not going to focus solely on Lucas and Nathan smut or anything. However, there will be some chapters where I will give a warning about he content in the chapter so some readers can choose not to read if they don't go in for that sort of thing.