Chapter six IT'S ALWAYS ALL ABOUT POWER p2
Lucas and Nathan arrived at Dan's with Lucas swearing under his breath, his hands shaking and every inch of him dying to get out f there, to run and never look back. Nathan was deadly calm, which didn't help Luke at all. They went inside the beach house and found their father, Dan Scott, holding a half empty glass of whiskey and a piece of paper. Upon seeing his two sons he smiled warmly, which sent a chill down Lucas's spine, and gestured for them to come further into the room.
… come into my parlour; said the spider to the fly…
"Lucas I never knew you were an artist." Dan said, waving the painting around.
"We've come here to talk about Luke's ability to use a paint brush? Dad, you've got to be kidding me! Isn't it a bit late in the day to start showing interest in him? Come on, I mean we're missing fifth period right now and Mrs. Watford is going to kill me and I promised Haley we'd meet after class to go out for ice cream." Nathan complained. Lucas stayed oddly quiet. No biting retorts or any of those huffs of irritation he usually dealt out pretty freely. Nathan noticed this and realised just how closely he was in tune with his brother and how scary and deep that connection was. He guessed he had achieved that life long connection he had wanted when he had gone after Lucas all those years ago.
Dan cocked an eye brow at his son (Nathan) and Lucas folded his arms defensive and kept his eyes trained on the ground, afraid of what he might see in Dan's eyes.
"Oh but this painting is interesting. Good use of mediums, for a fourteen year old, he shows an amazing ability to express his emotions, kind of typical emotions for a fourteen year old though. Anger, pain, misery, over dramatic use of black and red fitting for a teenager, and of course lust. What is of interest to me, and you as well, is the subject matter. See, it's funny also that you mention Haley, because I ran into her and Peyton and they told me a very curious tale."
Nathan realised what the phone call had been about and turned to his brother. "Did you know about this, man? Dammit you should have said something!"
"I told you to turn the car around." Lucas muttered lowly, but both men heard him.
"I don't follow your orders, Lucas!" Nathan yelled back and Lucas just took it, standing there, shamed and guilt-ridden. Dan smiled.
"Yes. That's exactly how it should be!" Dan said, and both his sons looked at him.
"Dad, what are you talking about?" Nathan asked.
"You two… you're a pair. In every pair there has to be a certain dynamic or it won't work, one has to be in control, the… dominant dominating. And as much as I, and Karen, hate to admit it you two are a pair." His words hid barely veiled meanings.
"My mom doesn't have a problem with me and Nathan." Lucas sudden declared, surprising both men.
"Right. So she knows you've had sex with your half brother and she's fine with that?" Lucas blushed in shame and anger but lowered his gaze once again, keeping silent which was of course an answer in itself. "Thought not." Dan smirked.
"What are you saying, dad? That you are okay with this?" Nathan asked, unsure of what the hell was going on.
"Hey, I'm not going to call the cops or forbid you two to see each other. Which is more than I can say for your mothers, oh, and almost everyone else you know." Dan reminded the boys cruelly. Nathan could see this turning into another game of cat-and-mouse only the cat had already caught the brother mice and now he was just watching them squirm.
"Not Keith, though. I mean, that is who you are reefing to as the only other person who isn't likely to call the cops or flip out because we're related." Lucas said. He saw the answer in Dan's cocky-son-of-a-bitch eyes. "Yeah, I wonder why that is." Lucas said, knowing full well why Dan hadn't been surprised. Like father like son.
"you two can leave now." Dan said suddenly. "Wouldn't want you missing your ice cream date." He finished mockingly before handing Lucas back his painting and winking. Very creepy man, Dan Scott.
Lucas took one last look at the painting, remembering what had happened the day before he painted it. And he tore it in half and chucked it into the fireplace. Not looking back as he found his way into the car, Nathan delayed by a few minutes.
Back inside the house Dan turned to Nathan and said. "This is your chance son. You already have some power over him. If you control him then you can make sure Lucas never takes basketball away from you."
"I already did that, Dad, why do you think he never tried to join the team after he quit? It wasn't because he hated it."
"I'm proud of you son." Dan announced, gulping down the last of his beverage.
"Really? Because I'm ashamed of you." And with the Nathan left his father grinning like he just won something and returned to the car, secretly pleased that Lucas was onec again sitting in the passenger seat. Maybe his dad was right, maybe he did control Lucas…
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