WWWY chapter ten
I dedicate this chapter to Marissa Davis (you know why!)
10
The night that Karen discovered the truth about Lucas and Nathan's relationship, Lucas spent at Nathan's blissfully unaware of his mother's current feelings towards him. He slept peacefully in his brother's arms as Nathan watched on, plagued by memories.
The first time Nathan had found out that Lucas Scott was his brother was after Nathan had over heard his mom and dad arguing about Karen and 'her kid'. When the words 'but he's your son too!' fell from his mom's lips if felt like everything suddenly clicked into place for Nathan. He now understood why – for all these years – he had always felt… connected, intrigued… obsessed with Lucas Scott. Three weeks later Lucas knew it too and from that moment onwards there was a charge between them like electricity or extreme heat. Nathan would always know if Lucas was in the same room as him because the hairs on the back of his neck would stand on end and his heart rate would increase just a little bit. It was like his big brother was a drug and he couldn't get enough, but deep down he was scared that Luke would figure this out and use it to his advantage which was why, even before Nathan really understood about sex, he was using it to dominate his older brother.
There had even been a small amount of affection between them by the time Lucas broke it off, of course it was nothing like now where they made out for long periods of time; just kissing and caressing and teasing each other, back then the idea of lying next to each other in bed would not have crossed Nathan's mind – but here they were a year later and Luke was practically hugging him in his sleep.
Nathan was just scared that Luke would leave him soon, after all their incestuous relationship couldn't stay hidden forever. Already Peyton and Haley and their dad knew, it was just a matter of time before Peyton let it slip to Brooke and Brooke had the biggest mouth in all of Tree Hill.
Sighing, Nathan snuggled down in his bed, his arm across his brother's chest and his face in his neck. Slowly sleep took him away and he started to dream of the day that Lucas told him 'enough is enough'…
"What the hell are you talking about, man?" Nathan asked, his hand already undoing Lucas's pants. They were in the woods on the other side of the river – their most recent place of choice since almost getting caught by Tim in the locker room eight months ago. Nathan ignored his brother's protestations and forced the older boy against a tree.
Lucas just looked at his brother calmly, if a little pityingly. "I'm joining the team." Lucas told him, and even though they both knew this went way past just being about who got to be on the stupid basketball team; it would still mean the end of their little rendezvous.
"No, you're not!" Nathan said, as if that made all the difference.
Lucas shook his head and pushed the younger boy away, doing up his pants and stepping away from the tree. "Sorry, Nate, but nothing you say will change how this happens. I'm good at basketball, and I deserve the same chance everyone else gets. And I am gonna get that chance, whether you like it or not."
Nathan could see that his brother's mind was made up. So he said coldly, "don't think anyone is gonna welcome you with open arms. You step though that door tomorrow and I will make your life a living hell!"
"Do you really think that'll be any different from the way it is now? Nathan, if you hadn't notice, you treat me like your bitch and I put up with it for some reason that only the devil knows. So I'm breaking the cycle. And I'm saying goodbye." Lucas finished and he leaned in to kiss Nathan passionately but tenderly, leaving the other boy wanting so much more as he watched his brother walk away from him.
What Nathan didn't know was that after that Lucas went to Keith's autoshop and ended up confessing everything to his uncle, trying to ignore the way Keith's eyes said 'I already know'.
And now, even as the boys slept – Keith's eyes were saying the same thing to Karen Roe as she drank herself to sleep, swearing that when Lucas got home she was going to kill the boy.
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Thanks very much to the people who read this and have been reading my fiction. Thanks in particular to;
Lathan323, J.Gonaware, othhottness, Marissa Davis, and AlexCurtis.