Thanks for reading/reviewing the last chapter!
I love the brotherly love, and this whole chapter is pretty much Lucas and Nathan talking about their fight, and also their relationship as a whole.
Enjoy.
Lucas walked into Nathan's room, where Nathan was sitting on the floor and watching TV. Lucas quietly walked over and plopped down next to him.
"Are we speaking now? Look I know I didn't really call you while you were away, but I figured, a week apart could help us clear our minds and chill out" Nathan said tentatively.
"Yeah." Lucas said, smiling and staring straight ahead at the TV.
Nathan smiled too and put his arm around his brother.
"So the extra politeness thing stops now?"
"Absolutely. Too much work for me."
"Nice."
"So I know we talked and everything last week, but are we cool?"
"Yeah. Well, I'm cool. You never have been and never will be."
"Bye." Lucas laughed, starting to get up.
"Uh huh, yeah." Nathan said, pulling him back down.
"So what are you up to tonight?"
"I was kind of hoping we could hang out, just the two of us."
"Sounds good."
"Okay…good."
"What did you have in mind?"
"No idea. But I kind of want to head to the beach."
"Its nighttime."
"Good point. I don't know."
"Hey boys, we forgot about this dinner thing. We have to head up there and it will end late so we'll be staying in the hotel." Deb said, standing in the doorway.
"That business thing?" Lucas asked.
"Yeah."
"My mom and Andy are going too."
"Oh that's nice."
"Will Dad be happy about that?" Nathan asked.
Lucas smiled a little.
"We'll see. But you two will be okay until tomorrow afternoon?"
"Can we go to the beach house?" Nathan asked.
"Why?" Deb asked.
"Guys weekend."
"That sounds good." Deb said, smiling.
"Deb we better go." Dan said as he walked in the room.
"Have fun." Lucas said.
"You too. Be good." Deb said.
"We'll be back tomorrow, and then we can all go out for dinner." Dan said.
"Great." Nathan said.
"Bye." Deb said, following Dan.
"Sweet. Let's go." Nathan said, pulling Lucas up and pushing him across the hall.
"Why so forceful?"
"I don't know. Pack." Nathan said, grinning and running back into his room.
"Ahh the beach." Nathan said as he and Lucas stood on the deck.
"It's dark and it's cold."
"You're bringing down the mood a bit here, Luke."
"My bad."
"Okay…so I just kind of wanted to have this weekend for us. You know without any outside…conflicts."
"Me too."
"How did it get like this? We were doing so well."
"It was just a slip up..."
"I don't ever want to feel like I did that day."
"It was such a crappy day."
"I want so bad to move past it."
"Want to?"
"Well you know…"
"There's just so much buried there still. Well actually not anymore. I pretty much let everything out."
"I had no idea you were feeling all those things. Why didn't you ever talk to me about it?"
"It didn't seem right. Just to randomly unleash all these past issues on you?"
"It would've been random, but I would've like to know that you didn't still resent me."
"I don't resent you."
"It's okay if you do. I used to treat you like crap. That's just what I thought I was supposed to do. I was just doing it because that's what Dad had more or less taught me to do."
Lucas swallowed hard, not expecting Nathan to be so candid.
"Yeah…"
"I'm sorry. That came out a lot more harsh than I wanted it to."
"It's okay. It's not like it's anything new to me."
"I wish it never happened."
"Me too. But we're here now."
"Yeah. We're here now."
"I'm just so tired." Lucas sighed.
"What?"
"I'm tired of all this emotional baggage and all this crap that keeps happening."
"I know what you mean." Nathan nodded.
"Nate, I'm sorry for the way I handled things the other day. Sure I was pissed off, but it didn't mean I should've hit you and yelled at you like that. I never handled the whole situation with you well."
"Thank you. It's okay."
"Good."
"I'm sorry for everything I said too. I was being selfish, and I just got embarrassed that you caught me. I didn't mean anything I said, about you being Dad's puppet or anything I said." Nathan said sadly.
"It's okay."
"I'm also just sorry…about everything."
"Me too." Lucas said.
"I think we needed that."
"Yeah…"
"Are we good?"
"I think we can move past it."
"Good." Nathan said, sticking out his hand.
Lucas slapped hands with him and pulled him into a hug.
"I love you little brother."
"You too."
"So what do we do now?" Lucas laughed.
"Wanna go in the water?" Nathan teased.
"I'll pass. I think I'm getting a cold or something anyways. Next idea?" Lucas said before breaking into a coughing fit.
"You okay?"
"Yeah, just a cold or the flu. Probably all that fun we had out in the rain."
"Jeez. You sure you're okay?"
"Yeah, fine. So what do you want to do?"
"I'm starving actually. You want to order a pizza?"
"Yeah."
"Hey Nate?" Lucas said as they walked inside.
"Yeah?"
"I'm sorry it took me so long to be able to talk through this."
"Why did it?"
"I was just…really embarrassed about being so out in the open…and also I just felt really bad about the way I treated you that day."
"Oh…well its all good now."
"Good."
Nathan woke up in the middle of the night when he heard Lucas having a fit in across the room from him.
Lucas was coughing in his sleep, but as Nathan pulled himself up, Lucas inhaled sharply and grabbed his side.
"Luke?" Nathan said, getting up and running over as Lucas tried to sit up.
"Ow…ow…ow" Lucas said as Nathan sat down.
"What happened?"
"I think I cracked a rib." Lucas said, taking short breaths and leaning his head back against Nathan's shoulder.
"What? How?"
"I don't know…ow…dammit it really hurts." Lucas winced.
"Okay, we gotta go to the doctors."
"Yeah." Lucas said, trying to catch his breath.
"Here we go…" Nathan said, standing up and slowly helping Lucas up.
They sat in the waiting room, Lucas still having trouble breathing and clutching his side. Nathan sat with his arm tightly around him, trying to do anything to make him forget the pain he was in.
"When do we go in?" Lucas asked through gritted teeth.
"I don't know, we just have to wait." Nathan said quietly.
"I cant stand-" Lucas said, breaking off mid sentence in a coughing fit.
Nathan felt terrible, knowing that coughing was probably aggravating whatever injury Lucas had.
"It's okay, you're okay." Nathan said, trying to calm him down.
Lucas finally stopped, taking rapid breaths.
"You okay?" Nathan asked.
"Blood." Lucas managed to say.
"What?" Nathan asked, trying to get Lucas to face him.
"Blood. There's blood."
"Oh my God." Nathan said, seeing that when Lucas had been covering his mouth, there were flecks of blood on his hand.
"Yeah…" Lucas said.
"I need some help!" Nathan hollered.
CLIFFHANGER!
Teeheehee.
Yeah, so I had a bit of writers block, but this evil scene kept popping in my head so I decided to write it
Heh, I think I said last chapter that the "guys weekend" would be lovely…well they made up didn't they? The next chapter, those other storylines I mentioned shall begin! Whee
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