ursus_major (ursus_major) wrote in x_2012, @ 2011-01-20 23:13:00 |
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Entry tags: | razorback, ursus |
Who: Ursus and Razorback
What: Lucien arrives in Hawaii
When: Wednesday night then Thursday
Where: Kane'ohe Bay, Hawaii
Warnings: Language
Lucien stepped off the plane in sunny and warm Hawaii and breathed deeply. No matter how long he lived in New York this will always be home. He accepted the customary lei given to him by a greeter with a smile and a murmured thanks. Normally eighteen hours by plane including various lay overs would have left him grumpier than shit but he was home!
The reason for his homecoming had been sudden and a bit of an emergency. The lawyer who’d finally found him and contacted him was paying for his flight and given the sudden nature of the trip, Fia had been unable to come. It nearly gave him a heart attack at how much even the cheapest airline wanted for a flight with only two day’s notice. So Lucien had packed his bags, kissed Fia reluctantly good bye and came to Hawaii. He wasn’t going to be there for too long so he couldn’t enjoy himself as much as he would have if this were a vacation but he was going to meet up with some buds of his from high school, have a few beers then he was off to the lawyer’s the next morning.
It had seemed like a good plan in retrospect, Lucien thought when he woke the next morning. He’d drunk enough to give even his mild feral abilities a hard time in processing the alcohol through his system. They’d gone to a strip club and he’d gotten a lap dance, they’d had too much to drink then he stumbled back to his room, alone, missing Fia and feeling like an dork because he was so stupid in love with her.
Now all he could think about was the pounding in his head, his ashtray moth and his very very full bladder. After a shower (that helped only somewhat) and just sitting for a bit to let his body sober him up, Lucien headed off to his father’s lawyer. He hadn’t even known his father had had a layer. The man had been searching for him for about a year so that he could read Lucien the will his father had left.
Lucien had thought he’d settled his parent’s estate or what little there’d been of it so all of this was confusing and surprising.
“Mr. Macmahon, please sit down,” Schultz said shaking his hand over the desk and gesturing to a pair of uncomfortable looking chairs. “I know that this is a bit of a surprise to you but your father had been most adamant that this reading take place no matter what.”
“O...kay?” Lucien replied warily. “What’s going on?”
“We’re about to find out.” Schultz picked up a sealed envelop from his desk and opened it with a quick flick of his opener. He began to read dispensing first with all the legalese that proceeded the real meat of a will. “I bequeath all worldly possessions to my loving wife Sivelia Macmahaon to be distributed to various relatives as she saw fit. If my wife predeceases me then I bequeath all my worldly possessions to my son, Lucien. All possessions are to be given to Lucien except for a single lock box of which Lucien has no prior knowledge. The key will be included with this will. The lock box should be taken by Lucien, if he has not predeceased me, to the address provided on a sheet of paper that is with this will.”
Schultz stopped suddenly, glanced at Lucien uncomfortably then pressed on. “The address is the last known residence of Mary and Bernard Kama. Bernard is my son.”
There was a resounding sudden silence in the room as Lucien felt his world drop around his shoulders. His mind struggled to come to grips with several pieces of important information, first and foremost being that he had a brother. Secondly, his father was obviously not he man Lucien had thought him to be and thirdly, had his mother known?
Lucien felt as if all the air had been sucked from his lungs in the shock of this revelation. A brother. He had a brother. The anger and betrayal would come later once some of the shock had worn off. “Do you have the key and paper?” he asked softly, his voice hoarse.
“Right here. And this is the will. The rest explains the circumstances surrounding your brother and after that it’s just platitudes and well wishes for you and family if you want to read them,” the lawyer replied gently handing everything over.
“Thank you,” Lucien replied absently accepting the will, the slip of paper and the key.
After shaking Schultz’s hand again, Lucien walked out blindly. The whole world felt like it had changed in an instant. Nothing seemed the same anymore, not even the sunlight. It was too bright for this kind of surprise hit. It should be raining or something but the sky remained stubbornly blue.
He sat in his rented car for at least an hour absorbing the facts that had been thrown at him. Part of him wanted to read what else the will said but part of him didn’t want to know. He didn’t want to read his father’s justification for what he’d done nor why his mother had taken his sorry ass back.
A kid! His father had had a kid with another woman! How old was this brother (shit) anyway?
That actually spurred Lucien into action. Turning the engine over, he looked at the address and headed in that direction. Whoever these people were might not even be there anymore but it was a start.
The house he pulled up in front of was shabby but tidy. The neighborhood wasn’t the greatest, two steps shy of a drug pit which made Lucien wary of his rented car but also of his father. If his father had left his own son and the woman raising him in this pit then Ade had to do even more serious reflecting on who his parents were exactly.
Stepping out of his car, he walked up the uneven walk way, up the stone porch steps and knocked on the creaky looking metal screen door.