Summary: Have Lucas ever gotten drunk in the vault? How do James react when he finds out?
16 years since Lucas' birth
Lucas' pov
Lucas has only gotten drunk once in the vault. It was on the prom, when he and the others in his class graduated from school. It seemed like a harmless idea at the time. Butch has gotten to his mother's tremendous supply of alcohol, and was handing it out to everyone. There were no parents or other grown-ups in the mess hall; they had it all to themselves this particular day.
At first Amata was a bit unsure of the idea, but one word from Butch, that she was little miss perfect, made her take one of the beers and drinks it all down. But that was all she took. Lucas, on the other hand, tried one beer. Then another, and then another. It turns out he likes the bitter taste, and after an hour he has downed three of them. At the fourth beer he has never felt better.
In the end the alcohol gets to his head, and he starts to act funny. For example, he starts to practice his kissing on a loaf of bread and calls it Amata to the rests big amusement. He also begins to call Butch for Gloria, much to the irritation of the leader of the Tunnel Snakes. Lucas even gets a black eye for that, but Lucas doesn't seem to mind it at all in his current state. Lucas then goes ahead and pees in the corner of the room, not for anyone's pleasure.
After two hours he has taken six beers, and is feeling quite queasy in his stomach. It ends with him throwing up all his gastric content onto the middle of floor. That's when James walks in to check on how it goes, and frankly, he doesn't get that very happy with what he sees. He sends everyone home for the evening, and leads his own son home to sleep away the jag.
In the end, Lucas might not want to redo it. He admits that he have discovered that he feels extremely relaxed when intoxicated and that he feels great in that regard, but he have no control of himself when he have been drinking a little too much.
James never lets him hear the end of it either. "What if I haven't walked in, huh?" he says to his son in an angry tone the very next day. "What if the overseer would have gotten there first?"
"We weren't that drunk," Lucas have retorted, as he thinks that his father makes such a big deal out of it. Also he has a headache from the day prior. "I wouldn't even have called us drunk."
"Don't give me that! You were drunk, all of you." Then James sighs and looks more exhausted than ever. "Just- Stay away from the booze, son. It isn't good for you."
And that Lucas does… until he gets out of the vault that is. But that is a story for another time.