Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 20:13:28 -0400
From: Miss Meehan <lilliluthor@hotmail.com>
Subject: Playing For Keeps

Title: Playing for Keeps
Fandom: One Tree Hill
Pairing: Nathan/Lucas
Warnings: Slash and Incest

A/N This story is an AU in which Lucas and Nathan meet in college but don't
know they are brothers. This story is based on a collaborative effort
between myself and the fabulous Ryan E. All typos and errors are mine.

Lucas Roe was excited to be heading for college. It was a chance to get
away, reinvent himself, be his own person. Not that he wasn't his own
person now but his mother tended to coddle him since his diagnosis of HCM
in his last year of high school. The disease had forced him to give up his
dream of becoming a basketball legend or at the very least getting a
scholarship. Fortunately for him, he wasn't a typical jock.  He loved
reading and writing and his grades were well above average.  It so happened
that Fullerton College, where he had hoped to play hoops also had a very
good English department that had turned out some of the hottest authors to
date. They boasted a number of alumni who had novels on the New York Times
Bestseller's list as well as two Nobel Prize winners for
literature. Another alumni was an Academy Award winner for best screenplay
several years ago.  Lucas was glad he didn't have to hunt down a new school
after his dreams of basketball were shattered. He'd even managed to get an
academic scholarship to the same school. He was glad things worked out for
his mother's sake.  As much as she wanted him to attend college,
financially it was impossible.

Lucas never knew his father. His mother told him it was a one night stand
after high school and she'd never seen the boy again. Sometimes he wished
he could have had a relationship with his dad but most of the times he was
cool with it. He persuaded his mother not to come with him to his first day
of college. He just felt that would be too humiliating. Besides, his best
friend Haley James had gotten into Fullerton as well. They had been friends
since he could remember and did everything together. She was the only one
he'd come out to in high school.  His mom still didn't know he was gay.  As
far as he knew, his mom was probably planning he and Haley's wedding the
minute they graduated from college.  Everyone assumed they'd slept together
and were an item in high school. His mom even gave him the talk, warning
him to take precautions until after his graduation.

The two drove up together, trunk and back seat bogged down with their
things. They talked excitedly about what college would be like and vowed to
keep an eye out for each other. The dorms were coed with every other floor
being either a boys dorm floor or girls. Lucas and Haley knew they'd be
seeing a lot of each other because the were going to be housed in the same
building.

When they arrived at the campus, Haley and Lucas parked and stared wide
eyed at the massive campus.

"Are we ready for this?"  Haley asked nervously.

"I'm game if you are."

"Or..."

"Or.?" Lucas questioned.

"Or we could run off together for the next four years and send postcards to
people saying we're here and all is well."

"That's an option too," Lucas laughed nervously. "Let's backburner that
until we give the place at least a week. Deal?"

Haley sighed, brushing her auburn hair out of her eyes and nodding. They
walked across campus from the parking area pulling their trunks and baggage
behind them and found the Berkely Building. After helping Haley settle in
to her empty dorm room on the fourth floor, Lucas took the elevator up to
the fifth floor and dragged his baggage to the end of the hall until he
found his room. He kicked open the door and was startled to find a tall
brunette standing there looking pissed off.

"Ever heard of knocking?" The brunette asked.

"Sorry, my hands were kind of full and this is my dorm room so I didn't
think I needed permission."

"Let's get something straight right now buddy.."

"It's Lucas, my friends call me Luke."

"Well Lucas," the teen began, putting extra emphasis on the last syllable
of his name, "this living situation is temporary, but until it is resolved,
we need to lay down some ground rules."

Lucas kept his expression emotionless as he listened to the boy babble on
about what was his and what was not. `What a jerk,' the blond thought.

"You keep that straight and we should get along just fine."

The brunette turned to finish his unpacking.

"By the way, you got a name?"

"Yeah, Nathan...Nathan Scott."

"Well Nate," Lucas paused, noting the grimace on the other teen's face,
"I'd like to say it's a pleasure to meet you but unfortunately I don't like
to lie."

Lucas threw his bags on the desk that divided his half of the room from
Nathan's.  His was the bed closest to the door. He heard his obnoxious
roommate muttering to himself and grinned.  The room was small. In the
center was a work station with a tall book shelf that gave a minimum of
privacy. One dresser and one closet were on each side of the room.  Lucas
set up his laptop first before putting his things away.  A light knock on
the door interrupted both boys silent unpacking.

"Come in," Nathan yelled, as if he was expecting company.

"Oh hi," Haley smiled, looking around.

"Hi yourself," Nathan said, swaggering over.

"Haley this is Nate," Lucas emphasized, "Nate, Haley."

"It's Nathan and you know this guy?" Nathan asked, pointing to the blond
like he wasn't even there.

"Most of my life," Haley answered cheerily, grabbing on to Lucas' arm.

"Hey, there is a freshman mixer tonight. I think we should go.," Haley
announced excited.

"I was planning on doing some reading and working on a few things ," Lucas
answered, nodding to his laptop.

"I'll go with you," Nathan offered.

Haley looked at Lucas with pleading eyes.

"Okay, let's all go," Lucas offered.

Nathan seemed disappointed but he agreed.  Lucas supposed he wanted a
chance to be alone with Haley. He knew his friend was beautiful and had he
not been attracted to guys, he definitely could see himself putting the
moves on her.  Haley and Lucas roamed around the campus for a while and met
a few other freshman who said they would be attending the mixer. On the
walk back across campus, Haley and Lucas talked.

"I think my jerk of a roommate likes you."

"He's not my type," Haley answered, "but he is cute.  Too bad he isn't gay,
that would be perfect."

"Just being gay isn't enough," Lucas snapped back. "He's rude and
obnoxious. Why do people think that two gay men with nothing in common
should automatically hook up?"

"I didn't mean it like that and you know it."

"I'm sorry Haley, but that guy is such a jerk. He's probably a jock or
something."

"You were a jock once," Haley said, nudging her friend in the ribs.

"Yeah, but I was also an intellectual. A very rare combination."

Lucas walked his friend back to her dorm and met her roommate, a snooty
brunette named Brooke Davis. She made it clear she had aspirations of being
head cheerleader at Fullerton one day. Lucas kept thinking how much she and
his new roommate probably had in common. Haley walked him outside the door
and rolled her eyes.

"Gonna be a long semester," they both said in unison before breaking out
into uncontrollable laughter.

What do you wanna bet that mine is a jock," Lucas laughed.

"Ten bucks says he isn't," Haley giggled.

"Prepare to lose. Pick you up around 9:30 tonight," Lucas said, kissing his
best friend lightly on the cheek before taking the elevator back up to his
floor.

For the next couple of hours, Lucas sat in front of his laptop working on
some stories he wanted to post on his live journal. He also decided to add
his pictures he had uploaded before he left home to the face book and
create a my space account.  Lucas was hoping college would be a place to
explore his sexuality but so far it seemed as repressed as high school. His
roommate had disappeared to go shower so it gave the blond teen some time
to write he thoughts and feelings down in his journal.  He had managed to
connect with other college bound gay teens but still felt lonely.  He was
hoping there would be someone he could talk with face to face.

Nathan sauntered in clad only in a towel and his slippers and walked right
up to Lucas' desk.

 "You gonna get ready soon?"

Lucas tried to ignore that the man's cock was at his eye level. Staring
straight ahead he answered tightly, "Sure."

Mentally he was cursing Haley for planting visions of he and this
Neanderthal rolling around in the sack.

Nathan leaned over looking at Lucas's screen.

"I got one of those," he said, pointing at the live journal page.

Lucas quickly clicked off the screen and stood up to get ready. Now he was
practically in kissing distance of the brute and found himself staring at
the teens face which wasn't as unpleasant as he had supposed it would be.

`Damn you Haley,` he muttered to himself when he finally snapped out of it.

He wasn't sure but Nathan seemed to be blushing and struggling to control
his breathing in those brief seconds that they stood face to face. `Cold
shower,` Lucas admonished himself.

"Hurry up, we don't want to be late," Nathan called after him as he
disappeared out the door.

For the life of him, Lucas couldn't imagine why this suddenly felt like a
date. The guy had been a total prick to him earlier in the day and now he
was literally in his face and trying to be all getting to know you.  When
he returned he found Nathan looking in his closet.

"What's with all this medication? You got some sort of disease?"

Lucas felt like saying yes. An ignorant prick like him might actually move
out for fear he could catch the disease by breathing the same air.

"No," Lucas said tersely, slamming his closet door shut, ` and I'll thank
you not to go through my things again.  I have ground rules too."

"Sorry man," Nathan said backing away. "I just thought..."

"You should be," Lucas grumbled.

"Anyone ever tell you you're cute when you're mad?"

Lucas looked at the man, stunned.

"You're eyes get squintier and..."

A knock on the door interrupted Nathan.

"Come in," both men yelled.

"Oh, you're not dressed yet," Haley smiled.

"I thought we said 9:30," Lucas answered gruffly.

"Everything okay," Haley asked, a tad concerned.

Lucas looked over at his roommate whose face was now flushed.

"Yeah, just running late."

"Okay," she said, eying her friend suspiciously, "Brooke and I will wait
for you guys in the lounge.

As soon as the door was closed, Nathan began babbling an apology.

"Look man, I'm sorry about the snooping and the stupid comments about your
meds. It's none of my business."

"You're right it isn't."

"It's just that I had a friend...never mind...forget it.  I'll wait
downstairs too."

Lucas closed his eyes and calmed himself before dressing. Ten minutes later
he joined his three companions and headed over to the Frommer building for
the party.  The place was packed and Lucas instantly regretted coming. A
lot of sororities and fraternities were there recruiting and as he had
guessed, Nathan was a basketball player and mentioned on the walk over that
he planned to pledge a fraternity. Brooke had convinced Haley to at least
consider pledging which pretty much left Lucas to wander the party
pretending to mingle. A few hours later his roommate literally stumbled
upon him thoroughly drunk.

"Great party huh?" He smiled wildly.

"Yeah," Lucas lied.

"You havin' a good time?"

"Yeah...you?"

"Awesome.  You look like you're ready to go?"

"Sort of," Lucas confessed.

"Not really your scene, huh?"

"No, not really."

It was freaking Lucas out that the man was standing so close. He had a
drink in his hand and one arm resting on the wall above his head. Lucas
suddenly felt like one of the poor girls he'd seen tonight being hit on by
some idiot jock or fraternity dickhead that couldn't take no for an answer.

"I'll go find the girls," Nathan began, practically talking in his ear,
"and we'll get out of here."

`Well this is strange,` Lucas thought, `he cares that I'm not having a good
time. No Luke, don't go there. He is not even remotely a possibility.`


It was another hour before their little foursome found each other and made
their way back across campus to their dorm. Haley and Brooke were drunk and
walking ahead of them giggling at everything. Nathan was barely holding his
own. He was off balance and kept holding on to Lucas for support, finally
throwing an arm around his shoulder. Lucas just wanted the night to be over
and tried to usher the group across campus as quickly as possible. The men
walked the ladies back to their room before taking the steps up to their
own room. Nathan forgetting the ground rule he set, immediately collapsed
on Lucas' bed much to Lucas' dismay.

"C'mon big guy, let's get you tucked in," Lucas pleaded, tugging at the
jock who had become dead weight.

"Yeah," Nathan grinned foolishly, pulling the slightly smaller man down,
"let's get you tucked in."

Before he knew it, he and Nathan were lip locked and the jocks hands were
like octopus tentacles, exploring every part of his body.  Lucas tried to
pull away but the brunette was a lot stronger than he looked.

"You're so cute," he slurred, rolling Lucas over onto the bed and pinning
him down.

"And you're so drunk," Lucas replied, trying to avoid another kiss while
wondering when his roommate had grown and extra pair of hands.

He felt his fly go down and his cock groped through his underwear.

"I think we should stop this before one of us gets hurt," Lucas threatened.

"Aw baby, I don't wanna hurt you. You're so cute."

"So you keep telling me," Lucas managed to get out before his lips were
engulfed again.

The errant hand had found it's way into the opening of his briefs and
suddenly Lucas didn't feel much like protesting.

`I know I'm going to regret this,' Lucas thought, as he let himself succumb
to the jock's advances.

He heard the thud of shoes being kicked off and decided to lose his
own. Nathan's hand had rucked up his shirt and his thumbnail was brushing
back and forth over his nipple.

"Fuck," Lucas blurted out.

"I will baby, I will."

Lucas felt his whole body shudder. He was gay in theory only.  He'd never
done this before.  He'd always imagined he'd give himself to the person
he'd fallen madly in love with but now it seemed like that wasn't to be the
case.  Lucas realized his lips had been released and that the same naughty
mouth that had stolen kisses from him was now assaulting his chest.  He
felt a long wet lick go up from his navel to his right nipple and then
another that landed on his left Lucas heard himself sigh and his hands held
the obnoxious jocks head in place against his left nipple.  He felt it rise
beneath the rough tongue.  He felt himself rising as skillful hands brought
his cock to full attention. There were too many sensations to concentrate
on;; the small playful nips along his chest, the hand that was exploring
further and further and then suddenly it stopped.

"Be right back," Nathan slurred again, as he stumbled to his side of the
room.

Lucas lay there confused. He heard draws opening and slamming and the sound
of a zipper and a few curse words as apparently Nathan toppled over trying
to take off his pants. Lucas wondered if maybe this would be a good time to
put a stop to things before they went too far. He had just raised up on his
elbows to do just that when his roommate suddenly appeared from around the
other side of the desk and pushed him back down.

"Let's get these off," Nathan said, sounding a bit more sober than before.

Lucas complied and raised his hips and in one fail swoop, pants and
underwear were gone. He watched as Nathan laid items next to his head.

"Lube and condoms," Nathan answered, as if reading the blonde's mind.

Lucas nodded dumbly and watched as the tube of lube was opened with nimble
fingers and spread over the tips.

"I've never done this before," Lucas volunteered, feeling suddenly
vulnerable.

"Turn over and get on your knees," Nathan ordered. "It'll hurt less."

Lucas was about to ask for a position that wouldn't hurt at all but decided
against it. He rolled over and got on his hands and knees.

"You're so beautiful," Nathan rasped out.

Lucas wasn't sure that it was a compliment. After all up until now, Nathan
had insisted that his face was cute but now his ass was beautiful. Lucas
decided to take Nate's word for it since he didn't spend a lot of time
examining the merits of his own ass. All thoughts of this nature went out
the window as soon as he felt slick fingers toying with his opening.

"Relax, don't clench up."

Lucas wasn't sure, but the prospect of sex seemed to sober up his roommate
considerably.

"That's good," Nathan moaned, as one finger breached his opening.

Lucas gasped and let his head hang between his shoulders.

"How you doing, okay?" Nathan asked breathing harshly.

Lucas noted that Nathan was also nicer when sex was involved.

"Okay," Lucas lied, trying to adjust to the feeling of being filled inside.

He hadn't bothered to get a gander of his roommates package beforehand
otherwise he might have made different choices this evening.  Lucas
wondered what were the chances that his roommates goods were smaller than
his long skilful fingers. Lucas wondered how he managed to wonder anything
at all with his once enemies hand up his ass.

"You're dong good," Nathan gritted out.

"Maybe you could get a job teaching this," Lucas answered, trying not to
moan in the process.

He actually did moan when Nathan's fingers touched something inside him
that made him see stars and his body go white hot.

"That's your prostate," Nathan informed. "You like that, huh."

Before Lucas could answer, Nathan touched him their again. He let the long
semi-loud moan speak for itself.

"Quiet," the jock warned, `these walls are thin."

Lucas vowed silently to keep it under control. That worked right up until
something thick nudge at his backside and then all bets were off.

"Use your pillow," Nathan said, between short jiggered breaths.

It took a while for Lucas to realize what he was using his pillow for. `To
scream into,' he thought as he felt the first sharp pain of being invaded
by something other than fingers. Lucas grabbed his pillow and bit down hard
on it.  In romantic stories he'd read online, the experienced lover always
asked the virgin if he wanted to stop.  That was only in stories. Nathan
plowed ahead, thrusting himself deeper and deeper trying to breach Lucas as
if his life depended on it.

By now, Lucas was bent completely over, practically smothering himself in
his pillow.  The pain was excruciating and in one brief coherent moment, he
remembered Haley describing her first experience and how much it hurt. He
felt Nathan's chest resting on his arched back. He felt one arm wrapped
around his waist, the other had dropped lower and his cock was grabbed with
Nathan's free hand.  Lucas groaned. For a brief second he forgot about the
pain and briefly enjoyed feeling a hand other than his own touching
him. Then within seconds he heard cursing in his ear mixed in with a few
`Oh baby's' and then Nathan was thrusting harder and harder like he was out
of control. He felt warmth pouring inside him and out of him and then the
boy behind him became like the dead weight he was earlier and collapsed on
top of him.

Nathan kissed him on the cheek and whispered how good it was for him. When
Lucas woke the next morning, everything hurt, his sheets were a mess and
Nathan was gone.