Casey 2.0 (7/?)
Chapter title: Company
Rating: R just to be safe
Summary: Casey always had feelings for her. But he realizes that he needs to become someone he himself can be proud of before he is worthy of her. So after he leaves high school he does just that and returns Neptune at the beginning of her sophmore year at Hearst ready for the chance he's always wanted.(Casey and Veronica CaVe)
Characters/Pairing: Veronica/Casey (mentions all VM characters at some point)
Spoilers: entire series
Word Count: 2900
Disclaimer: I don't own Veronica Mars
A/N: the next three chapters cover the time spent in Montana, this is a short one, but the next will pick up right where this one leaves off.
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Week #12
9 AM December 30th 2007
We spent the next 3 days in bed with each other only leaving to shower and eat and we didn't do those alone, or with clothes. The ski equipment I'd purchased had been ignored but the lingerie she'd bought definitely had not.
In fact we'd been so tied up in each other, that we lost track of the days.
We were lying on the couch half naked and I was bringing her towards mind-blowing pleasure when all of a sudden the front door became the victim of what I could only assume was a full on heavy ammunition assault.
I swear Veronica about jumped out of her skin, knocking me off the couch in the process and making me hit my head as she grabbed a nearby throw to cover her nakedness. I couldn't help but smirk as I rubbed the new welt at the back of my head and I leaned over and captured her lips as I stood up. "Looks like we have company."
She nodded and hurriedly started pulling clothes from the floor and cushions quickly realizing that the skimpy green nighty and garters were not going to suffice and she stood up and ran towards the stairs, yelling back as she reached them. "How the fuck did we lose 3 days?"
I laughed and admired her perky ass as she ran up the stairs two at a time. "I'll give you a refresher on that later!"
I heard her laugh a little and as I pulled a shirt on over my naked torso I finally headed for the door that I was sure might break in half soon if I didn't.
When I opened the door I was greeted by an economy box of condoms being thrown in my face by none other than Dick and three other smiling faces. "Hey guys. And thanks, I was almost out." Which wasn't exactly true, we'd gone through a lot of the ones we'd brought with us, but still had plenty, but then I wasn't gonna complain, the more the merrier.
Luke laughed and pushed his way inside. "Don't 'hey' us buddy, you couldn't remove yourself from Veronica-land long enough to pick us up so 'hey' just ain't gonna cut it."
He wasn't actually mad just having fun, but I did feel terrible. The others followed Luke into the great room to take a seat as I stood there for a second smiling, thinking about what had just been happening right where they were sitting before I spoke up again. "Dude, guys I really am sorry, but you got here so you can't be too mad. Right? How did you get here anyways?"
Wallace propped his feet up on the coffee table and reclined back before answering. "It's called a GPS and since one half of our little menagerie here has millions we took advantage."
And then Luke broke in. "Well that, and in case you've forgotten...I've been here before."
I actually had forgotten. I'd let him use it back in our sophomore year of high school when he wanted to get into an girl's pants after waiting for 2 months for some action, it was one of our less than honorable moments, but regardless of that fact, it had worked, very very well I might add. I smirked and he nodded knowing what I was thinking and I had just sat down on the arm of one of the chairs when Mac reached behind her and pulled Veronica's green thong panties out of the cushions. And upon her discovery everyone moved at the same time: Mac and Wallace jumped up and shifted as far from the couch as they could, Dick grabbed them from her swinging them around on his finger and Luke just laughed as I stared wide eyed not knowing what to say.
Luckily, or I guess unluckily, Dick did know what to say. "Fuck, Luke was right, this is the magic nookie cabin. Touché Casey! Taming the shrew and all."
Ok, now that right there reminded me of why I almost didn't invite him and I was about to smack him when Mac did it for me. "Don't talk about V that way or you won't be reaping any of the benefits of the 'magic nookie cabin'."
Dick pouted a little and then pulled her down into his lap. "I didn't mean it in a bad way Mackie, it was just a joke. You know me…" He stopped suddenly and I got immediately worried when the smirk showed up on his face and he tossed the panties in the air. I was under the impression he was throwing them at me until they sailed past my face and hit Veronica smack dab in the middle of hers.
Her complexion turned as red Clifford the Big Red Dog and I really thought that Dick had signed his death certificate. All of us just froze waiting for the murder, but it never came, and instead of ripping into him she turned to me and very calmly said. "Why is he here?"
I smiled and pulled her into my arms. "Because he's my friend…most of the time and he's dating your friend. Plus, it wouldn't be a vacation without a resident dumbass to entertain us."
I heard Dick huff and Mac and Veronica both laughed. "True, very true." Veronica sat down with me in the chair, sneakily sliding her panties into my pocket and picked up the condoms. "Housewarming gift?"
I nodded. "Compliments of Luke and Dick."
She smirked and tilted her head. "And here I thought this was all Wallace."
Wallace cringed right on cue. "Eww, that's all I'm gonna say and if it gets worse than that I'll be hitchhiking my ass back to the airport."
Veronica laughed a little and Luke stood up, pointed at the lake and all the snow and said. "Now how about you two go put some warm clothes on and give the bed a breather so we can all go and enjoy some of that fresh powder out there." And then he walked over to us and grabbed Veronica's hand. "Now I know you're probably scared since all you've seen for the last 3 days is Casey's naked body, but I promise you that the white stuff doesn't bite."
Veronica just gave him a dirty look. "Gee, thanks Luke, I was frightened for a second."
Luke smirked and stepped back as Mac walked over to us and pulled V off my lap. "Before we do that lets get settled. Bond, would you be so kind as to show me to my room?"
And that got Dick's attention. "She means our room!"
Veronica and Mac just laughed as they sauntered up the stairs and we watched them go and I really seconded guessed my decision to share her for a few days. I didn't need to look at the boys to know that they could read me like an open book, well at least Luke and Wallace could, Dick probably thought of me as more of a magazine article.
We headed out to the Whitefish Mountain Resort at Big Mountain about an hour later and checked into the lodge. It was only about an hour and a half away and I was under the impression that we'd be driving back, but apparently Casey had arranged for us to all be there for New Years Eve so we would be staying two nights. I wasn't thrilled with the idea, I knew how expensive it was, but both Mac and Wallace were thrilled, so I went with it. And well, if I'm being honest, New Years Eve at a huge resort did kind of sound like fun.
But Casey being Casey and knowing how I felt he didn't get us suites, just normal rooms, much to the chagrin of Dick who complained the whole way and well I'd be lying if I said that didn't make it a little more worth it. I couldn't help but think that maybe Casey had done it on purpose for that reason and that reason alone, I did always enjoy it when Dick didn't get his way.
Casey and I were having a hard time remembering that we weren't alone for the first few hours and more than once Mac and Wallace had to remind us of their proximity. I would just blush uncontrollably while Casey would smirk and kiss my hand, in truth it didn't really bother me that my feelings were so apparent, but for some reason I wasn't able to turn off the embarrassment reflex.
After getting our rooms and getting changed we'd met everyone downstairs. Luke, Dick and Wallace all had snowboards; but Mac, Casey and I had skis, he liked both but since I'd never done either he opted for skis with me. As I was standing there I realized that I had less equipment then them. We were almost out the door of the lodge when I grabbed Casey's' coat. "Case?"
He turned to me and smiled before leaning down to kiss me. "What's up babe? Nervous? It'll be fine."
I smiled and pointed at his hands. "I left my pointy stick thingys in the room."
Casey and everyone else smiled and started to laugh. "Pointy stick thingys?"
I titled my head and gave him the 'you better watch your mouth' look. "Whatever, do I need them?"
Casey looked slightly concerned by my question and I just knew the phrase 'ski lessons' was going through his head and that was so not ok, but he seemed to push it aside. "Yeah, you need them." He turned back to Luke and Dick. "You guys go ahead I'm gonna take Veronica back to the room."
Casey had just grabbed my hand when Dick stepped in front of us and smiled. "I got it Case, if you go we won't see you for another week. I'll take care of the Ronster, I even promise to return her to you in one piece."
Casey looked at me and smiled when he saw me vehemently shaking my head no and kissed me on the top of my head before tossing Dick his room card. My jaw dropped and I smacked his shoulder. "Traitor."
He leaned in and whispered in my ear. "I'll let you punish me later."
I rolled my eyes and kissed him one last time before he took off. I yelled, "If you're lucky!," as he got further away and he turned back to me.
"I got you, didn't I?"
I couldn't help but smile, but that smiled didn't last as I turned to see Dick beaming at me. "I think that's a yes Ronnie."
"Ugh, Dick, let's just make this quick."
I walked past him trying to get a lead on him but of course he caught up to me and threw his arm over my shoulder. I tried to contain my distaste but I'm sure it was more than slightly evident on my face.
Now don't get me wrong, I knew he'd changed, Mac had been a really positive influence on him. But I still slightly blamed him for leaving me in the room with Beaver and the way he treated me during my relationship with Logan still bugged me. The less time I had to spend in his presence, the better, as far as I was concerned.
When we got to the room he opened the door and I ran in and grabbed the poles, but when I turned around to leave, he was standing right behind me smiling. "Ok, got em. Let's go."
He turned a little and waved me in front of him. "Are you sure that's all you need? Are you good?"
I gave him a funny look as we left the room. He'd been like this for months, always asking me how I was doing. If things were good, and even our banter was friendly on his end. It was too weird for my liking. "Yeah, I'm fine."
He tossed his arm around me again and my brain went on red alert. That was it, it was time to find out what his deal was. So I stopped dead in my tracks and pushed his arm off of me. "Why are you being so nice to me?"
Dick smiled and laughed a little before his usual cocky expression came back. "Ronnie, I've been nice to you for months, today's no different."
I gave him the head tilt and kept my expression serious. "You know what I mean Dick. For my entire relationship with Logan you barely tolerated me and it was consistent vicious banter, but ever since Casey came back to town you've been acting like a friend. Like 'pre-Lilly's death' friend. What's your angle?"
The cocky expression still firmly in place he grabbed my arm and pulled me along with him. "They're waiting and if we don't show up soon Casey will think you've murdered me and I don't want him to waste time thinking of ways to help you cover up my untimely death."
I didn't pull out of his grasp but there was no way I was letting this go. "And I repeat. What is your angle?"
He gave a big sigh and raised an eyebrow as he gave me a once over and I cringed. I guess my day wasn't complete without a Casablancas leer. "Ah come on Ronnie, you and I both know that I've been nice to you for a lot longer. Months before Casey got here."
Ok, that was true. "Why?"
He shrugged as he pressed the elevator button and turned to me. "Truth?"
"Obviously."
He turned from me and looked straight at the elevator doors. "It's not that I didn't like you Ronniekins. I totally did, you're a pain in my ass like all the fucking time, but your still cool as shit. I just hated you and Logan together."
Ok, so I kinda saw that coming but to hear the truth kinda hurt me. "You hated us together?"
"Yeah, like I get that you two were like 'in love' and all but seriously you just made each other miserable and like every chance you got you did shitty things to each other, that's not love, that's more like the plague."
I really was at a loss for words; I mean how do you respond to that? And when I didn't say anything he continued. "Ok, so it was love but you know what I mean." And then he turned to me with a serious expression that literally scared the shit out of me. I mean this is Dick Casablancas we're talking about here, serious is not his mantra; I didn't even think it was in his vocabulary. "Look, Veronica, I've apologized before, but I really do mean it when I say I'm sorry, a lot of, well most of what happened to you was my fault and that's just bullshit on my part. I just think you deserve to be happy, you know like me with Mac, I never thought I'd have this, and neither did you I don't think, you know, what you have with Casey. The reason I'm so nice to you now is because I realized I was being a jackass and you didn't deserve that and because I think you belong with Casey. I always have, even in high school. Dude, he had a major fucking hard on for you after you helped him, it was so obvious. "
By that point I was in so much shock my feet were rooted to the floor and all verbal skills were completely and totally on hiatus. And when the doors to the elevator opened and I still hadn't spoken or moved, Dick smirked grabbed me around the waist and carried me out of the building. Movement found me again but there were still no words as he helped me with my skis and we got on the ski lift.
It wasn't until halfway up that I finally found the will to speak. "So you're being nice to me because you think that I'm finally happy and that's what you've wanted all along?"
I heard him chuckle and I looked over at him. "Dude, nice Cliffs Notes version Ronnie, maybe you should go to work for them."
I shook my head and laughed. "Seriously, Dick?"
He just shrugged and pointed at our friends who were now only a few feet away. "Dude, when I'm wrong I'm wrong, and I was, but I'm not about this. You and Casey, you guys have something that most people only dream about. Sometimes it's ok to go against type you know. I wouldn't have Mackie if I didn't know that."
I couldn't help but smile at him because the truth, was that I thought he was right and for the first time in years I kind of liked Dick Casablancas and that was just not possible. "Who are you? What have you done with Dick? And what is the name of your plastic surgeon because the cast of 'The Bold and the Beautiful' should really go to him from now on."
Dick just smiled, grabbed my hand and helped me off the lift and into Casey's waiting arms. Definitely a strange moment.
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