BACKSEAT | LRH

5.3

same day

[luke]

"Luke... There's someone here to see you."

Luke furrowed his brows in confusion and slowly stood up from his seat, then wiping his face with a napkin.

As he walked through the house he wondered who would be at the door for him at Michael's flat?

Once he reached the door, he was met with a face he hadn't seen in a long time.

"What are you doing here?" Luke gasped slightly, taking a step back from the door.

Michael stepped in front of the door, making it so he couldn't get inside.

"We need to talk."

"You could use a phone maybe? That is something we tend to do in the 21st century, you know." Luke scoffed.

"I don't need your petty sarcasm right now, Luke." He shook his head, giving him an angry stare.

"I thought we weren't on speaking terms anymore?" Luke said, cocking his head to the side.

"Stop being a little bitch. I came here to make things right."

"You're off to a great start there." He rolled his eyes at his brother.

"Just give me five minutes." His brother pleaded.

"Five minutes Ben, I'll be counting." Luke said sternly and pushed past Michael to get out the door and into the hallway.

"Start talking, clock is ticking." Luke said to Ben, crossing his arms over his chest and foot tapping the ground.

"Alright so, I wanted to talk to you about- can you stop tapping your foot? It's annoying." Ben groaned at the annoying little sound that Luke's foot was making.

"Nah, I'm good." He smirked.

Ben just rolled his eyes and stomped on Luke's foot with his own.

"Ow! Jesus." Luke whined, hobbling on the one foot that wasn't now throbbing.

"Shall I continue?" His older brother said in a snooty voice.

Luke looked up from the ground and glared harshly at Ben.

"You think you're the only one who was screwed over by Jack. You were screwed over by him because of your own mistakes but me? He just screwed me over for the hell of it." Ben chuckled disgustedly.

"The stuff he did to Sam and I was pretty bad, Ben." Luke said.

"Oh boohoo he made you-" Ben started to speak but Luke cupped his mouth shut with his hand and shoved him against the wall behind him.

"She could be listening, shut the fuck up." Luke whispered harshly to his brother, his body pinning him flat against the wall.

Ben tried to speak but it just came out as gibberish since Luke's hand was covering his mouth, making Ben unable to speak.

He noticed that Ben couldn't actually speak with his hand pressed against his mouth and quickly removed it. Ben let out a breath and used his sleeve to wipe his mouth.

"Save that slamming people against walls shit for your girlfriend why don't you." He his eyes and pushed himself off of the wall he was currently pressed against.

"She's not-"

"Does it look like I care?"

"Whatever. So again, why are you here?" Luke asked again, still counting down how long Ben had in his head.