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AN/ Here is the next update! I was hoping to have this up sooner, but life got crazy as always!
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"Can I help you?" Samantha asked the two strangers standing on her mother's doorstep
"We are here to see Mrs. Scott" Lucas replied
"Which one?" Samantha asked
"Georgia Scott" Nathan replied this time
Samantha looked at the two suspiciously before yelling back into the house, "Mom, it is for you"
"Who is it, Sam?" They could hear Georgia yell from the back of the house
"Two young guys. I don't know who they are" Samantha answered back to her mom
Georgia came towards the door wiping her hands on a dishtowel as she walked. She stopped at the door and looked at the two young men before her. She knew who they were. She had seen them in pictures.
"Sam, go get your brother please?" Georgia asked not taking her eyes from Lucas and Nathan
"Mom, what is going on?" Samantha asked looking towards her
"Please, get your brother and I will explain everything" Georgia said this time looking at her daughter
"Okay" Samantha replied looking one last time at the two young men before walking up the stairs to the left of the door
"Lucas and Nathan?" Georgia asked as looked back the two
"Yes" Lucas replied
"Your mother told me that you would be coming. Come on in and have a seat" Georgia said as she stepped out of the doorway and let them enter the house before closing the door behind them.
"Come have a seat in the living room. Would you like anything to drink?" Georgia asked
"No, ma'am. Thank you" Nathan answered as they took a seat on the couch and Georgia in the chair across from them
Georgia looked up towards the stairs as she heard her children coming down.
"Mom, what is going on?" Chris asked as he eyed the two guys sitting in his living room
"Chris, Sam. Sit down there is something that I need to tell you"
"Mom, you are starting to scare me" Samantha said as she and Chris sat down on the loveseat between the couch and the chair
"I am sorry, sweetheart. I am not quite sure how to say this"
"Just say it mom" Chris replied looking towards his mother
"I never explained to you why your father and I divorced."
"You said it was because you two fought all the time" Samantha replied
"Well, that was the main reason, but there was another reason. Your father lied to me or actually never told me something. Something very important that impacts your lives"
"Mom, what are we talking about here? A disease? And why are you telling us this with these two strangers here?" Chris asked
"I am telling you this while these two are here because they have a big part in what your father did not tell me."
"Mom, spit it out" Samantha said becoming irritated
"Your father had two other children before he met me. These two are your brothers" Georgia said as she looked her children
"What!" Chris yelled standing to his feet.
"You are kidding right?" Samantha asked still in her seat
"No, I am not kidding. This is Lucas and Nathan Scott. They are your biological brothers"
"What do you mean biological?" Chris asked sitting back down
"Dan left right after Nathan was born. He signed over his rights when we were 3 and we were legally adopted by his brother Keith when we were 7" Lucas answered
"He signed over his rights when you were 3?" Sam asked remembering being told that Dan had also signed over his rights to her and then had to adopt her after her parents got back together.
"He signed over his rights to us at the same time that he did you" Nathan answered looking at Sam
"How come you are just now telling us?" Chris asked angrily as he looked towards his mom
"I didn't know how to tell you two" Georgia answered her son honestly
"How long have you two known?" Chris asked Lucas and Nathan
"We just found out Friday" Lucas answered
"I guess our parents chose to keep it from all of us that we had other siblings" Chris said heatedly
"They had their reasons. They were trying to protect us from Dan Scott. He is after all a sick man." Nathan replied
"Don't talk about him like that. You don't know him" Sam replied sitting forward staring at Nathan
"I know that he tried to kill me and our little sister the other day. He held a gun at me. We also know that he killed our dad, his own brother" Nathan replied looking right back at Sam
"What are you talking about? Dad would never kill his own brother" Chris replied as he stood to his feet
"He did, though. He told us himself. He wanted our dad out of the way so he could become our father again. Something he never was" Lucas said as he looked up at Chris
"No, none of this is true. Mom, how can you be so sure that these two are our brothers? How do you know that they are not just lying to you?" Sam asked looking towards her mother.
"Sam, look at them. You all look just alike. I know that they are your brothers because your dad told me and I have met their mother"
"How long have you known?" Chris asked his mother
"About 7 years." Georgia answered
"You have known for 7 years and never thought that we needed to know that we had two other brothers running around out there in the world" Chris asked his mother angrily
"Chris, I am sorry. I should have told you. I met their mother, Karen shortly after the divorce to your father became final. She told me that she was not sure if she was going to tell Lucas and Nathan. Therefore I decided not to tell you two."
"Why are you telling us now then?" Sam asked her mother
"Karen and I have been trading letters and phone calls over the years and I received a call from her this past Wednesday. She told me that Keith had been killed and that she thought that Lucas and Nathan would find out about everything this weekend. She knew that they would want to meet you both and call to let me know that they may show up here. I knew then that I would have to tell you. I just had to figure out how. I was going to tell you before they got here, but the time never seemed right"
"Your dad just died?" Sam asked looking towards the two guys sitting on the couch
"Yea, we came home for the funeral. One of our uncles told us that Dan had daughter. I think it actually just came out. He was there when Dan signed over his rights to all three of us we found out about Chris later that same night" Lucas answered
"I am sorry about your dad." Sam replied
"It has been a tough week. Let's just say that" Nathan said as he looked towards the floor in front of him
"Chris?" Georgia leaned over to her son who had been silent the last couple of minutes, "Chris, Honey?"
"All these years I wished that I had a brother and all of these years I did, two of them" Chris said looking at his mother. "I wish you would have told us mom. I really do"
"Chris" Sam said as she put her hand on her brother's knee, "she was protecting us. Don't blame her for doing what she thought was best. Yes, it was not right to keep it from us, but we know now."
"How can you be so calm about this, Sam? We had brothers that we never knew about?"
"And they are sitting right in front of us" Sam replied looking from Chris to her other two brothers. "That is all that matters is that they are here now and we can all get to know each other"
"We want to get to know you both. That is why we came here. We wanted to meet you and somehow make up for last time. We didn't grow up together, but that doesn't mean that we can't be friends now" Lucas said as he looked towards Chris
"Do you think we really can be friends?" Chris asked as he looked at Lucas
"Yea, we already have a lot in common. Think you can handle being brothers with two of the top NBA players?" Nathan asked smiling as he said the last part
"Lucas and Nathan Scott. That is why they looked so familiar" Sam said and started laughing
"I think you all inherited the basketball gene" Georgia said interrupting the moment between the four siblings. "Why don't you guys go outback and sit by the pool, talk and get to know each other. I am going to make some lunch" as she stood and walked towards the kitchen
"What do you say, Chris? Friends, Brothers?" Nathan said as he stood to his feet. Lucas stood also.
"Brothers" Chris said as he stood
"God, I was having a hard enough time with one brother, now I got three" Sam said smiling as she stood to her feet also.
The four walked towards the back of the house and out the backdoor. When they reached the patio they each took a seat around the round table next to the pool and started talking
Inside, Georgia Scott watched with a smile upon her face. She was witnessing the beginning of relationships between the four new found siblings. She walked towards the phone on the wall beside the refrigerator and picks it up, dialing a familiar number.
"Hello?" The voice answered on the other end
"Hey Karen. It is Georgia"
"Georgia. Did they get there okay?" Karen asked
"Yea, they are here. I told Sam and Chris after they got here. Chris took it the hardest"
"Where are they now?"
"Sitting on the patio outback talking. I think they are going to be able to make this work."
"Good. That is what I was hoping"
"Me too. I just wanted to call and let you know that they are okay. I am sure one of them will call you later"
"Thank you Georgia. Good bye"
"Bye Karen"
Georgia replaced the phone, smiling. She was glad that her children had met their siblings and hoped that the relationships they started today would last the rest of their lives despite the past.
Georgia walked into the formal living off to the right of the kitchen and pulled out two photo albums. She then pulled out the middle five books of an older set of encyclopedias and pulled out another thinner photo album from behind them. She placed it on the floor next two the other two, replaced the five books, picked up the three photo albums and walked towards the back door.
"Here you go guys" Georgia said as she placed the three photo albums on the table. "Since you weren't not around to watch each other grow up. You can at least look at pictures"
"What is this one, Mom?" Sam asked picking up the thinner photo album, "I haven't see it before"
"Those are pictures that Karen sent me of Lucas and Nathan. I put them in this photo album knowing one day you and Chris would want to look through it"
Sam opened the front cover and the first two pictures were of the boys the days that they were born. Karen was holding Lucas at the top and Deb holding Nathan at the bottom. "Who are these ladies?"
"Our moms" Lucas answered
"I thought you had the same mom" Sam replied
"That is my mom. She died when I was 6, Karen, Lucas's mom adopted me and has been my mom ever since. She never let me forget about my real mom though." Nathan said
"They were the best of friends and we were basically raised by both of them and our dad, Keith" Lucas said, "That's him" He pointed to a picture as Sam turned the page.
"That is your uncle" Georgia said looking over her daughter's shoulder
"I am sorry that we never got to meet him" Chris said as he looked at the picture that contained a family portrait of Lucas, Nathan, Karen, Deb and Keith.
"You would have liked him. Everyone did" Nathan replied
As Sam continued to flip pages they came across pictures of Lucas and Nathan at basketball games, the river court, and their high school graduation. Pictures of their friends and them as they had grown up. She stopped when she came to the wedding picture featuring Nathan and Bevin.
"You are married?" Chris asked
"I was. Bevin and our son Michael were killed in a car accident five years ago" Nathan answered
"I am so sorry, Nathan. What happened?" Sam asked
"We don't know. They were hit head on. When police arrived at the scene the driver of the other car was gone and they have never found him" Nathan answered looking at the picture
"Where were they killed?" Chris asked
"Wilmington, where we went to school. Why?" Nathan asked as he looked towards Chris
"I think I might know who killed them" Chris answered
"What! Who?" Nathan asked
"I think it was Dad" Chris answered looking at his sister
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