Emily-Star-92- Aw thank you and George will come around, it was all the stress that built up on to him over the past year, and I will be finishing up this story it will be a 14 chapter story and the next few will focus on Dasey and then we will get back to the haunting
Logicat- Thank you and I hope you keep reading!
A/N- the grave yard scene in this chap is from the movie, its in the deleted scenes and I loved the converstaion that the two cousins had but of course they didn't have what Casey and Derek will have in this chap
Chapter 7
They all woke up the next morning to find that Nora was missing; she must have woken up early to make breakfast. So the kids went down the stairs in a sleepy Brady bunch style minus the fluttering music and went in the kitchen to find Nora staring blankly at the stove. Derek put his hand on her shoulder and she flinched. "Mom…mom….Nora?"
Nora jumped and then turned to them with a smile. "Oh hey kids, you're up early." She went into the fridge and got eggs out. "Hungry?"
Marti, Edwin and Lizzie gave a happy yes and took their spots at the table but Casey and Derek just stood there, looking at her.
"What was that?" Derek asked
Casey shrugged her shoulders and they took their place at the table, Nora sighed. "I'm sorry kids I was just thinking that's all. A lot has been going on and well I'm not sure how to handle it all…"
Derek looked up from his plate. "Nora, you're doing an amazing job really."
Casey nodded her head. "Yeah, you handled everything yesterday perfectly." She smiled and Nora came over and put her hands on their shoulders. Derek flinched from pain, his skin was so burnt from the radiation and sometimes Nora would forget how bad it hurt, even the simplest touch would feel like someone is cooking you over an open fire. Nora noticed and removed her hand from his shoulder.
"Sorry sweetie." She said and then turned to Casey. "Hey do you think that you could take Derek to his treatment today?"
Casey nodded her head and went to start eating her food. "Yea, what time?"
"8:30." Nora said and Casey looked at the clock, it was 7:10and the hospital was a far enough drive. She choked a little then got up. "Well then we have to go now, come on Derek!"
Derek looked up from his plate, "But I didn't get to eat!" But was dragged out by Casey. The ride to the hospital was uneventful; they just talked about old times. Back when they would prank each other and when Derek would tease him. Those were the days when they were carefree, the days when Derek would get all the girls and boys would try to hit on Casey but Derek would scare them off…Back when Derek was healthy, back when George didn't drink himself silly, and back when the hospital wasn't a second home to them.
They spent two hours in the hospital that day, Casey watched from behind the window as Derek went through that machine again, then she watched as they poked him with the needles. He looked so helpless and she promised herself that she wouldn't cry but she did and if Derek saw her he would have laughed. When the treatment was over she helped him to the car and he had one request. "Can we…" He stopped to take a breath. "Can we please go to the graveyard?"
Casey looked at him. "What? Why?"
Derek shifted. "Johan wants me to find his grave, he wants to see if they buried him."
Casey sighed and then started up the car, when they got to the grave yard she helped him out of the car and locked her arm in his. "Are you sure?"
He looked up at her with a genuine smile. "Yeah, even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I'll shall fear no evil for I….am the baldest mother fucker in the valley."
Casey rolled her eyes and laughed. They continued their walk throw the grave yard, looking at the tombstones, reading the dates. Derek stopped walking and Casey kept reading, he looked up to see a funeral going on and Casey looked up at him. "You ok?"
He looked at Casey then back up, the funeral was just a vision. He looked at her again, "Yeah I'm fine."
They continued their walk in silence until Derek asked. "Did you ever ask yourself what's the point?"
"The point of what?" She asked
"The point of anything, of doing anything I mean we all…we die. We end up underground, why be alive at all." Derek said
"Derek…" Casey said
Derek spit. "What?"
She backed up away from him and folded her arms. "What the hell is your problem?"
Derek scratched the back of his head, he had said something wrong.
"You know that before my parents died that I used to lay in my bed at night, listening to them scream at each other….That there where nights when that I actually thought that my dad might kill my mom…and then other nights that it was so bad that I just wished that they would kill each other, or me? And then when they died I was actually happy…I was happy Derek? What kind of kid is happy when their parents die huh?" Casey said as tears began to form
"Casey I…" Derek began
But she continued. "But then we moved in with you guys…I don't know what happens when you die but got a family that loves you, that's the point, that's why you live…for them…for-for me." She stamped her foot on the ground. "I need you Derek, I need you more then you will ever know."
Derek pulled her into a tight hug. "I'm sorry Casey."
Casey said nothing, she was still crying and Derek pulled away but only a little. "I need you to Casey, you keep me strong…you kept me from killing myself."
Casey then looked up at him. "Really?"
Derek nodded his head and looked into her eyes, he saw that behind them she was hiding a scared little girl and Casey gulped, she knew what was coming next. He lowered his lips onto hers and she took a sharp inward breath, her whole body was shaking and her heart fluttered. When he pulled away from the most amazing kiss he had ever experienced he saw that Casey was still crying. "What? Casey did I bite your lip or something?"
Casey shook her head no and then started laughing. "No, I uh…I just didn't picture our first kiss in a graveyard."
Derek looked at her with confusion. "What are you talking about? That wasn't our first kiss; our first kiss was at Kendra's graduation party remember?"
Casey scoffed. "Well that didn't count, I was drunk!"
"One beer doesn't count as drunk princess." Derek said
Casey laughed and he kissed her again, she pulled away and then said. "Uh, maybe we shouldn't be making out in a grave yard…we should get back to the house."
Derek nodded his head and they turned around, Casey laced her fingers in his and then laid her head on his shoulder and they walked back to the car.
