Disclaimer: I do not own OTH or any of it characters, places or such. I am simply borrowing them

AN/ Okay, here is the next update. I lost the first page of this chapter, TWICE and had to rewrite it. I made my weekend deadline though!

As always suggestions are welcome

Lucas dropped the phone and stared back into the eyes of the man that wanted nothing, but to make their lives miserable. Dan Scott smirked at his oldest offspring. The boy was surprised to see him at the house, something he could use to his advantage.

"Hello? Hello! Luke? Nate?" Lucas could hear Haley's voice from the phone that had been dropped to the floor by his left foot. He didn't take his eyes off of Dan though.

Dan smiled darkly at Lucas and then turned and walked towards the front door. Lucas picked up the fallen phone, locked the back door and ran towards the living room.

"Nate, lock the front door. Haley, he is here." Lucas said having two conversations at once.

"What?" Nathan said as he locked the front door.

"He is there?" Haley said into Lucas's ear

"He is here, we need help. I don't like the look in his eyes and I don't know where he is"

"Dad, he is already there. Somewhere outside of the house" Haley told her father who was standing right beside her.

"Let me talk to him" John James said as Haley handed her dad the phone.

"Lucas?" John asked

"I'm here"

"Do you know where he is?"

"No, he is somewhere outside. He was by the kitchen when I was calling Haley and then he walked towards the front door."

"Are both doors locked?"

"Yes"

"What about the windows?"

"Mom, are all the windows locked?" Lucas turned to ask Karen

Karen's eyes got wide, "Meredith"

Nathan walked down the hallway towards Meredith's room. He could feel a breeze coming out through her door and looked to see the window open, but no Meredith.

"Meredith?" Nathan asked as he walked into the room.

"Looking for us?" Dan said as he swung the door shut with a slam. Meredith was sitting beside him, behind the door on a wooden chair, with a frightened look on her face. She was shaking

Karen turned as she heard the door slam and started running down the hallway. She tried to turn the doorknob on Meredith's door, but found it locked. She started banging on the door and screaming, "No"

Lucas turned back to his conversation as anger flashed through his eyes. "John, he is the house and he has got my little sister and Nathan locked in Meredith's room"

"Lucas, this is what I want you to do. I want you to get your mom and I want you stand outside Meredith's room. Don't move from there until we get there. We might have to use extreme tactics and I want to know where you are so that you don't get hurt. We are on our way!"

"Okay" Lucas said as he hung up the phone and walked towards his mom still beating on the door. "Mom, come here." Lucas pulled his mom away from the door and tried to comfort her. Karen quieted as Lucas told her that it would be okay. Nathan would not let anything happen to Meredith. Karen knew that was true.

"Let her go" Nathan demanded

"Is that anyway to talk to your father?"

"You are not my father. I have a father"

"He is dead"

"He may be dead, but he is still my father. Now let her go"

"Why do you care about this little girl? All she is, is your cousin"

"She is my sister. Let her go"

"Your mother telling you lies again I see. She is not your sister and Keith was not your father. I am"

"My mother has not been telling lies. She is my sister and Keith is my father. I know the truth."

"God, I could kill Deb for telling you these lies! When she gets here I will!"

Nathan then realized that Dan did not know that Deb was dead, nor did he know that he had been adopted by Keith and Karen. Nathan was going to let him think what he wants.

"Meredith, are you okay?" Nathan asked looking at his sister who was sitting next to Dan still shaking.

"No, he is scaring me" Meredith answered honestly

Dan laughed and looked down at the little girl, "You have got to be Keith's daughter. He always was a wimp"

"Meredith, come here" Nathan said as he sat down on the floor in the middle of the room. He watched Dan look at him and then at Meredith before turning his attention to the posters on the wall, while Meredith slipped off the chair and across the room to Nathan.

When Karen had calmed down, Lucas moved across the floor on his knees to Meredith's door. He could feel a breeze coming from below the door, which meant that the window was still open. He got down on his stomach quietly and tried to look under the door. He saw Nathan's legs and a pair of little legs hanging over his. He felt a huge sigh of relief, Nathan had Meredith. Then he heard Dan start to talk. He listened as Karen joined him.

"Are you in the NBA?" Dan asked as he turned towards Nathan.

"Yes" Nathan simply answered

"Well, well, well. I could use that to my advantage. Next time I get busted. I am going to call you to come bail me out. You have a couple thousand that you can throw around, don't you?"

"I don't think so."

"You are not going to bail out your dear old dad?"

"You are not my dad"

"I can not believe your mother told you these lies. I am your dad. I helped make you; I was there when you were born"

"Yea and you left 3 days later. I am 23 years old and I have only seen you one time that I can remember. That was almost 20 years ago. My dad was here every day of my life. He watched me play basketball at the river court, he watched me graduate from high school, he watched me get married, go off to college, get drafted to the NBA. He watched every basketball game that I ever played in."

"Did he ever tell you that Lucas is your brother?" Dan asked challengingly, smirking

"Yea, Luke and I have known that we are brothers our entire lives" Nathan watched Dan's face fall, "We were both raised by the same man and we both call him dad"

"He is not your dad. I am, I am the man that you both should be calling your father"

"No, all you are is the sperm donor. A father does not walk out on his two young sons and leave them to be raised by their mothers. A father does not show his face only twice in twenty three years. You are not a father."

Nathan watched as Dan's face turned red with anger. Dan was fuming. "I…I…"

"What do you want from us? Why are you back in Tree Hill?" Nathan asked Dan. Dan fell to his knees with his head in his hands. Not answering.

Lucas turned as he heard footsteps coming from the living room. It was Larry Sawyer and Jake. Larry nodded towards the kitchen and Lucas moved towards him. Jake took his place beside Karen.

Nathan looked towards the still open window and saw a shadow. Two shadows actually on the other side of the bushes. He could not tell who it was, but they both raised their right thumb in the air. He knew that it was Larry, John, Skills or Jake and they were going to get them out of there.

Lucas walked with Larry into the kitchen. "Are you okay?" Larry asked

"Yea, I am okay. Nathan has Meredith and mom is doing okay. Where is everyone else?"

"John and Skills are outside by Meredith's bedroom window. Apparently, Dan never thought to close it. Mouth is outside walking around to see if he can find Dan's car and everyone else is patiently or not so patiently waiting around the corner at my house.

"What is the plan?" Lucas asked

"John has one. My objective was to make sure that you two are okay and to try and get that door open so that we can get them out."

"Well, let get too it. I want to get them out of there as fast as possible."

Larry and Lucas walked back towards Meredith's room. Karen face was white. "It's not good. I think he has a gun" Jake said

Dan's head rose from his hands as his blood began to boil, "I AM YOUR FATHER!" He shouted as he rose to his feet removing a .38 millimeter from his jacket and pointing it at Nathan.

"WHOA!" Nathan shouted as he put his arms around to protect Meredith. "What are you doing man?

"I AM YOUR FATHER!" He shouted again shaking the gun in Nathan's face

Nathan tried to back away from Dan, but Dan followed and now had his back towards the open window.

"Say that I am your father"

"No" Nathan replied

"Say it or I will shoot you" Dan said as he pulled the safety on the gun.

"Put the gun down Danny" John said from the windowsill of the open window.

Dan turned his head to look at John and laughed. "You are going to stop me?"

"I am not going to let you shoot that boy"

"That boy is my son and I will do whatever I want with him"

"He is not your son. Don't you remember? You signed over your parental rights to both of them"

"I did not"

"Yea, you did, in front of the lawyer, Larry and me. That boy is not yours. Now let him go."

"NO!" Dan said he turned around taking a shot at Nathan. The shot went over Nathan's head and through the bedroom door.

John jumped off the windowsill and started wrestling with Dan for the gun. The struggle continued with both men on the floor until a shot rang out.

AN/ You know what to do!