"A Past That Can't Be Buried"

A/N: So this is my first fanfic that I'm posting and I'm hoping you all enjoy it. Please comment & review because I do want to see if I should continue with this and other future stories. The past few days I've been reading "Dasey" stories and this idea hit me when I was in class, so hopefully it turns out better in words than what popped into my head. My layout will be alternating views between Casey (CPOV) & Derek (DPOV) usually with each chapter changing views. So sometimes 2 chapters will cover the same events just in the different perspective then continue on with the story until the next time it flips to go back to the last thing the character thought previously.

Disclaimer: I don't own Dark Angel or Life with Derek (they belong to their respective owners).

Summary: It's been 8 years since Casey escaped Manticore and is now in loads of trouble when she's left home alone with Derek.

Chapter 1:

Casey's POV

I wasn't always known as Casey McDonald, I was once known as X5-672 and I was a soldier…..no wait, I was a prisoner at Manticore, training to be a super-soldier, a human weapon designed to escape, evade and defeat the enemy. I escaped with eleven of my unit members, my 'family', when I was 10 years old. Zack took command and initiated the escape when Lydecker, our commanding officer, was coming for Max. We knew that with Max showing signs of having seizures, they would take her away like the soldiers that had them before her. We never saw them again. We couldn't take it anymore and with Max's condition, we took a stand and escaped from the secret government military base in Wyoming. Zack commanded us to separate and Max disagreed but he already assigned us a direction and we followed his orders. I was out of the perimeter with no trouble but now I didn't know where to go. I knew I had to go to Canada, that way Lydecker had no jurisdiction if he did find me, but it wasn't easy for a 10 yr old to travel alone.

Once I was in Canada, I ended up in an orphanage in Manitoba and it wasn't long before a lovely family came to adopt me. Nora & Dennis McDonald and their little girl Lizzie were an amazing family that welcomed me with open arms. They did have questions for me but I wasn't ready to tell them yet, it wasn't easy to trust people when you're on the run. It wasn't until I was 12-13 years old that I told Nora about my past since she was about to have that health talk with me. I told her about Manticore, my spliced DNA that had a little bit of feline DNA attached to it which gave me those extra special abilities and she didn't seem surprised. I always knew that you were special she told me when she hugged me. I instantly told her that it had to be a secret since they might still be looking for me and she agreed. Up until that talk, I always made sure that I drank lots of milk and now that Nora knew, she was able to get me tryptophan tablets to help with the serotonin deficiency that causes my seizures.

A month later, we moved to Toronto, Ontario since Dennis got relocated. It was perfect. At times I wondered if my 'siblings' found a life like I have found. It felt normal being with the McDonalds, at times I did forget my horrible past but I never wanted to forget my 'siblings'. Unfortunately, the perfect family wasn't perfect anymore once Nora & Dennis got a divorce when I was fourteen. Lizzie was devastated yet I was use to people leaving (except it was usually me that was leaving). Nora started dating again and met George Venturi, and when he proposed I wasn't happy at all. George had three kids of his own and that meant that was four more people I had to trust plus four more lives that were possibly in danger now because of me if Nora accepted.

A/N: I hope that pulls you in and please review so that I know that someone is interested in the rest of the story.

Remember:

Dark Angel -- The basics for the series is used about the genetically engineered soldiers (Casey is just one of the 12 escapees) -- story is not in 2020 like in the series and the pulse never affected Canada (affects the USA so that it still inhibits Lydecker's attempt of tracking down the 12 escapees)

Life with Derek -- Ignore the series' flashback of when Casey & Derek first met. Casey is a lot different in my story compared to the series and Derek is somewhat still the same. My story takes place in the summer directly before the two start university (basically taking off after the series' finale)

Hope you enjoy and please comment!!!