"A Moment In Time"

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Fandom(s): Life with Derek
Character(s): Derek Venturi and Casey McDonald
Pairing: Derek/Casey

Rating: T
Words: 595 words

Requested By: Enx2103
Challenge/Summary: Derek Venturi as a werewolf and he's imprinted on Casey McDonald
Inspiration: Werewolf aspect is a merger between Twilight-werewolves and Vampire Diaries-werewolves

Spoiler(s): After LWD series finale.
Time Frame: At least 10 years since Derek and Casey met each other.

A/N: At the end to avoid additional spoilers.

*LWD*LWD*LWD*LWD*LWD*

"Finally Mine"

He couldn't believe that this was happening to him. He was aware of the possibilities but it just never occurred to him that it would happen to HIM of all people. But then again, no one immediately thinks that they come from a werewolf bloodline...not until it specifically applies to them.

It's been five years since the incident happened...an incident that drastically changed his life forever. It took only one moment for him to go from living the life of leisure as NHL player, Derek Venturi, to an eternal servant to the moon.

He completely freaked out when it first happened and to this day he didn't know where he would be if it weren't for his stepsister, his angel and the reason why he continues on the way he does. If it weren't for Casey McDonald...he'd probably be on a killing spree somewhere in the south.

He didn't want to tell her, he didn't want to tell anybody but she managed to overhear one of his phone calls to a distant relative that had triggered the curse too. It wasn't long before she immediately hit the library (still the keener that she was) before she confronted him about it.

He thought she would freak, that she'd want nothing to do with him and he really couldn't blame her. Although they were 'sworn enemies' in high school, they had gotten real close after high school to a point that she was actually his publicist when he got signed into the NHL. But to his surprise, she stayed and helped him through it after he retired from the NHL. With her doing the main wolf research, she helped him realize what was happening to him, what was to be expected and some other theories that she'd come across.

So he was very aware of this one aspect that was attached to being a werewolf before he realized that it was happening to him...he just didn't think Casey would be the reason for it. At first he pegged the feelings down to appreciation for her sticking by him but then they grew to feelings of wanting to be near her, to be able to hear her voice, to be able to touch her in any way whether it were a brush of their hands or a smack to his face, he suddenly found himself needing her to a point that nothing mattered unless she was there with him.

At first he didn't say anything to her about it because it kind of felt...wrong because it wasn't his choice to feel the way he does towards her but it was the wolf inside him that had done the choosing. It felt like his wolf was robbing him and her the choice to be with each other or not. A part of him was glad that his wolf had chosen her but then the other part would worry about whether she'd accept him as a possible lover, a potential mate for her and that part is what held him back. He didn't know how he'd take it if she rejected him because she was his world...literally. He only had eyes for her and it seemed like his heart belonged to her too since the beginning...it just took him a little over 10 years to come to terms with that.

And he wasn't going to wait another day because tonight was the night that Derek Venturi was going to tell Casey McDonald that she was his imprint...and that she had been the love of his life since they were teenagers.

*LWD*LWD*LWD*LWD*LWD*

A/N #1: So what did you think? I gotta say I'm surprised that I managed to right that all under 1,000 words (if you've read my work my recently, you'd notice that I tend to write long chapters). I'm quite happy about it and I can't wait to hear what you think about it in a review! =D Please review!

A/N #2: I also want to quickly say thank you to all my readers for all my different stories and to the new ones for taking the time to read this. It truly means a lot to me so thanks a million!

Coming Up Next: Supernatural/Vampire Diaries Crossover

Originally Published: Oct. 23, 2011