~Realize~
~Casey is about to realize something Derek has known for a while~
Casey peeked out her bedroom door and quickly looked left then right and then back to the left -the coast was clear, no Derek- and then left her bedroom and headed for the stairs. She was not paying attention to where she was going just getting out of the house before she had to deal with Derek. Without warning the floor was suddenly no longer under her feet, and she was floating in the air as if in slow motion, before to strong arms wrapped protectively around her waist and set her right. Derek, Derek had caught her, Casey stared up and into his sparkling brown eyes, Derek stared back, deeply into here blue pools. Casey set her hands on Derek's chest and could feel the slow rhythmic rise and fall of the in and out of his breath, that was at this moment tickling her forehead. Casey watched as for once the corners of Derek's lips curved in to a smile and not a smirk and she herself began to smile. Casey pushed up onto her tippy toes realizing that Derek seemed to be just the right height for her and did something she hadn't realized she had wanted to do, Casey McDonald, smart, rational, well planed Casey McDonald crushed her lips Down on to her egotistical, smart assed, impractical step brother Derek Venturi's lips, and then he did something she hadn't expected, he leaned farther into the kiss and deepened it running his tongue across her bottom lip, not asking but begging for entrance, and soon an all out war ensued, Casey wrapped her arms around Derek's neck and smiled more as they battled for control of the kiss. They were oxygen deprived but unwilling to relinquish their tangle. Casey could hear someone giggling near by, and tried to pull back, but Derek cupped her cheek tight and gently continued to poor every felling good or bad he had ever had for Casey into this their first kiss. Then they heard a masculine cough, they had to pull apart knowing that they had been caught. Derek pulled back from Casey reluctantly, and Casey let her self down so she was no longer on her tip toes, and they slowly turned their heads to the source of the previous cough and the giggling, there stood Edwin, Lizzie, and a very confused looking Marti.
"Mum said dinner was ready." Said a shocked Lizzie, shooting quickly down the stairs.
"Umm… Coming Nora." Edwin answered the non-existent call.
"Smerek?" asked an unsure Marti.
"Umm… Yeah Smarti?" Derek prompted unsure of what to say as he realised that he was still tangled up in Casey.
"I thought you said you couldn't kiss Casey because she thinks you're a total Asshole." Marti said confused.
"Just because I think he is a total asshole doesn't mean I don't love him Marti, I just to a while to…Realize." Said Casey smiling.
"Ok." Said Marti as she to bounced down the stairs toward the kitchen.
"Took you long enough." Said Derek before racing after his sister.
"Hey it's not my fault, you could have helped." Said Casey to the already out of earshot Derek as she ran to join her family for dinner.