Chapter 1 outside of the game

It was an early afternoon in the main building of Empire. A sixteen year old boy sits outside his father's office his father was named Lucious Lyon. The boy however was named Thomas Lyon the youngest son of the Lyon family. Thomas takes a deep breath as he stands up from his seat taking one step towards the door and putting one hand on the door knob. Thomas hesitated for moment still holding the door knob. "Are you sure you know what you're doing?" Becky asked. She was Lucious's secretary and good friend. Thomas sighed and let's go of the door knob and turns around to look at Becky. "I don't know anymore... I just won't him to know that I love music and I'm ready to be signed already," Thomas said with a huff under his breath. Becky smiled softly and stood up from her desk and walked over to the young man. "It will be fine just tell how much you love music go on and tell him," Becky insisted.

Thomas looked at her and smiled. He knew she was right. Thomas had to stand up for himself even if his father would get angry with him, it didn't matter anymore if his father got angry he just wanted to make great music like his two brothers Jamal and Hakeem, that would travel all around the world. "Alright I'll do it," Thomas said with pride as he turned and walked to the door and opened it. Thomas walked into his father's office to his oldest brother Andre talking to their father. "Hey dad hey Dre," Thomas said as he walked up to the desk. "Thomas Lyon what can I do for you?" Lucious asked his son. Thomas then swallowed hard. "Dad I want to talk to you about..." Thomas cut off by his father rudely. "Mr. Lyon I am not interested in signing you at the moment wait until you're a little bit older come back when your nineteen or twenty," Lucious said rudely. This made Thomas angry. "Dad cut the business act I want to do this for real and I know you know that," Thomas protested. Lucious played with his pen with his fingers. "Good boy... Son you really do want this don't you?" Lucious asked as he puts down the pen.

Thomas nodded hoping that this would be the final say on making music or not. "And I see that you want this more than your brother Jamal," Lucious added. Thomas didn't like the looks of this. "I'm choosing side's dad I want to make music because I love it," Thomas stated. Lucious chuckled. This was going to be a hell no for sure. "Then I'm sorry Mr. Lyon I can't do anything for you," Lucious said looking down at some paper work. "Now if you will I have a meeting to get back to," Lucious said without looking at his son. This made Thomas's heart sink. Thomas then turned around and started walking towards the door. He opened the door and stepped outside of the office and headed for elevators. Becky saw the sad look on Thomas's face she didn't want to upset him anymore than his father already had. Thomas puts his purple hood on from his purple sweat shirt and press the button to go down. The elevator doors opened with Jamal in the elevator. Jamal was shocked to see his youngest brother with some tears in his eyes.

"Thomas what's wrong?" Jamal asked. Thomas looked away and swallowed hard. "Dad happened," Thomas answer. Jamal knew what kind of pain and denial Thomas was going but the only difference in the reason was Jamal was gay and their father didn't approve of that. "Hey let me take you home," Jamal offered. Thomas nodded as he wiped his years away and walked into the elevator. It was a long way down of getting to the first floor so they had time to talk. "Still not letting you make music?" Jamal asked. Thomas didn't answer he just nodded. "I told you before I can produce some tracks for you and we can make a mixtape," Jamal suggested. Thomas turned and looked at him in a blank stare. "Right you want what I don't want," Jamal said crossing his arms.

How could you not want it?" Thomas asked. Jamal looked down at the ground. "It's just not my thing to have all the fame as for Hakeem that's a another story," Jamal stated. Thomas rolled his eyes. "What are you scared dad and about you being gay?" Thomas asked crossing his arms. "What where did this come from?" Jamal asked. Thomas looked away. "Sorry that wasn't my place to say. I'm just so angry about being outside of the game. And I want to make music people will love," Thomas explained. Jamal nodded. "You could go to other record labels if you wanted to," Jamal said. There was only a few more floors to go down. "Yeah but you know dad... He wants his own blood on the same label besides one," Thomas said as the elevator doors opened and they stepped out.

"Why don't you stay with me tonight I'm sure dad could cool off from things and I'm sure you can too," Jamal offered. Thomas looked at his brother and smiles. "Sounds great I love Michael's cooking," Thomas said with a chuckle. Jamal laughed. "Now there's the little brother I know," Jamal said as he puts his arms around Thomas's shoulder. Thomas felt understood by Jamal about being put in the background and being unknown to the world, unlike Hakeem hanging with him there was always something to bitch about mostly about girls and drinking and making hip hop music to the fullest like their father.

Kodiwolf321 A/N alright I'm new to this I love the show dearly lol I can't get enough of it it's so amazing lol and I wanted to try and get a nice storyline as fan so yeah hope you like it and sorry its short lol