"Case? Casey? Are you okay? Should I call the doctor.

She shook her head and smiled. "Do you remember the time you spit the tequila on Evan's face?"

"Yeah.. It was Cappie's idea to make me dr… Wait a second? Do YOU remember the time I..?"

"I remember everything."
(CH8)

Everything went fast after that. Casey's parents were over the moon about her memory coming back, but not so much about the fact that she wanted to move to her own place. She wasn't sure if she had ever really enjoyed being a ZBZ girl, but she definitely didn't enjoy it anymore. Ashleigh, being the finest friend that any girl could ever ask for, moved with her. They got a sweet little apartment that suited them fine, and truth be told the newly found privacy wasn't a bad feeling. Specially when Evan had started dating Rebecca and now the whole sorority was once again all over Omega Chi. Not that they had ever really stopped.

Rusty was annoyingly involved in her life, though she secretly loved it of course. They had brunch at least twice a week and the first time he had a big fight with Jen he ended up sleeping at their place instead of going back to the Kappa Tau house. It was the morning after that when they had "the talk" about Cappie, a subject both of them had consciously or unconsciously avoided.

"I don't wanna talk about it" she said as she brought the coffee cups to the table in their little kitchen alcove.

"Well Case…" Rusty said and thought about it. "I don't think I care" he then said and smiled before taking a sip and burning his tongue, which Casey thought was a act of karma.

"It's no use Rusty. I'm not taking him back."

"I didn't say you'd have to. It's just that… He's so miserable."

"He's always been miserable. He's a catastrophe waiting to happen" she said and got a glare from her younger brother.

"You love him."

"Do not."

"Do too."

"Do not!"

"Sorry Case, gotta go with your brother on this one" just awoken Ashleigh said coming to the room and yawning. "I've seen you watching your cell and sighing all lovingly and sad when he calls. You almost answer but then you don't. And then I have to deal with your bad mood the rest of the day."

"Thanks Ash, you're a real friend" Casey said and rolled her eyes."

"Yes I am."

The conversation took a turn towards more lighter issues after that, but it had got her thinking. So she loved Cappie. She had always loved Cappie but never been happy. With or without him. Well, that wasn't really true, she had been happy with him. Really happy actually. So why was she still sitting there, longing, when what she wanted could be hers. Because she was a masochist. A whole new side of her she had found with her memory. She had to be a masochist to screw her life like that. But that would come to an end.

"Cappie? Capster?! You alive in there?" some Kappa Tau guy that Casey had never seen before shouted through Cappie's door when everyone else had been too focused to the video of last year's mud wrestling contest between two sororities.

"I think I can take it from here, thanks" Casey told him and he left. She took a deep breath and opened the door to a dark room.

The curtains were shut and the little light that got in revealed a messy room with God knows what all lying around on the floor, on the chair and on his desk that she hugely doubted had ever been used to anything else than deep chemistry studying. She rolled her eyes and smiled when she thought all the times they had tried to make it work on the desk but concluded that it really wasn't big or steady enough, not to mention that it wasn't the most comfortable place make love. Thank God the bed wasn't too far away.

"Cappie?" she took a look around and noticed that there was something in his bed, maybe big enough to be him. "Cap? You in there?"

Casey got a quiet mumble as answer and as she sat on the bed she reached to pull away the covers that had shivering Cappie under them. Poor thing was sick.

"Hey? You okay?" she whispered and tried his sweaty forehead that felt warm but not hot enough to got her concerned. It was probably just a flue, it just happened to be that Cappie sucked at being sick. He hated thermometers, wouldn't drink tea and hardly ate anything else than what he wanted to eat. Hw also had a tendency to whine while he was getting sick as well as when the fever was starting wear off.

"I wanna die. Kill me please?" Cappie said with rough voice before starting cough.

"Sorry, I forgot my assassin's kit home, maybe some other time" she said and smiled gently at him.

"What are you doing here?"

"I can always go."

"Not what… what I said" he managed to get out before another cough attack got to him, this one so bad he had to sit up so he wouldn't choke.

"Stay there" Casey said getting up from the bed and snatched a semiclean t-shirt from the end of the bed and took it with her to the bathroom. She got back a minute later with the wet t-shirt in one hand and a beerbottle in the other.

"I thought you always said that beer's not a sick man's drink?" Cappie asked and sighed when Casey sat next to him and started wiping his hot neck and back with the shirt.

"It's not. This is the Cappie-version of a waterglass since all you have in here is beerbottles and I didn't want to go downstairs to get you a glass. So this will have to do, drink up2 she said and put the bottle with water in it to his lips.

Cappie drank half the bottle at once and sighed again to the feeling on his back.

"That feels good" he said with a sleepy voice, his eyes closed.

"Good. Now lay down."

Casey helped Cappie back down, put the shirt on his chest, the bottle to the nightstand and thought for a while before kicking off her shoes and getting into the bed. She arranged the covers so that they were covered to the waistline before she turned to stomach and started smoothing his moist hair. Oh how she had missed that hair, messy and perfect. Just the kind you wanted to dig your fingers into.

It didn't take long for Cappie to fall asleep and even Casey dozed off for about an hour. When she woke up she went downstairs to make them something to eat, though Cappie would probably just nibble it. She came back to find that the bed was empty.

"Cappie?" she put the waterbottle and the plate to the nightstand and jumped when she heard noise from behind her.

"Dammit" shower fresh Cappie with only a towel on cursed and balanced to hold his toes that he had obviously hit in something.

"You okay?" Casey asked and stifled a laugh.

"Mmh" he mumbled and jumped back to the bed with one leg.

"Here, I got you something" she said and offered him the plate before sitting on the bed.

Cappie stared the sandwich, took a bite and grimaced.

"It had lettuce in it."

"It won't kill you" she said and rolled her eyes. "Why do you have lettuce in the Kappa Tau house anyway? I thought that "a real man" doesn't eat anything green except peasoup and even that is first and foremost used as a prank or something."

Cappie thought about it and grinned.

"Who says that lettuce can't be used in in as a prank or something?"

"Forget that I ever asked."

"So…" Cappie started after they had been silent for several minutes. "I thought that I had dreamt you."

"You didn't. I'm here."

"I know, I never would've put lettuce in my sandwich. So… Why are you here?" Cappie asked and looked at Casey who had focused her look on his door.

"Mmm…"

"What was that? That didn't quite get that."

"I… um… God this is annoying. I'm here to get you back" she said and her look went from the fascinating door to the more fascinating floor.

"Why?"

"Cause I love you."

"Oh… Why?"

"Don't know."

"Huh… Okay then." And they were silent again.

"So… You think… That you might, love me too?" Casey asked.

"Always have, always will."

Why it was so awkward and shy they didn't know, but when they finally looked at each other's eyes they smiled. Casey leaned forward to kiss Cappie but he pulled back.

"Don't want you to get sick."

"I'll take my chances" she said, pulled him from his shoulders and kissed him. It wasn't heated and passionate, but slow and gentle, which was even better.

"So, Rusty tells me you've got your memory back" Cappie said later when they were lying on a couch at the Kappa Tau's sitting-room.

"Yep."

"Remember that one time when you and me went to the…"

"No."

"Yes you do."

"Do not."

"Do too."

"I will never confess."

The starting argument that would've evolved to a ticklewar ended when Beaver barged in.

"You'll never guess what's happened!" It was amazing how guy like Beaver was really one of the biggest telltales that there was.

"What?" Cappie asked as he tried to tickle his girlfriend.

"Rebecca cheated on Evan. With Frannie!"

The couple froze and stared him.

"Oh fine! Evan cheated on Rebecca. But it was with Frannie!"

Casey laughed and Cappie could hear Beaver mumbling something about they not being any fun while he left.

"It's too bad. They would've made such a lovely couple" Casey said.

"Who? Bedchambers and Rebecca?"

"No" Casey giggled. "Rebecca and Frannie" she said and laughed again.

"Huh."

"Do not think about them together!"

"I wasn't!"

"You were."

"Was not."

"Were too."

"I'll never confess."

"Ha-ha. Now come on, I promised Rusty that we'd meet him at a coffeehouse if you'd be up to it."

"I'm not up to it. I'm sick. I feel the fever coming back, I'm dizzy. You should take me to bed right now" Cappie said and played week.

"Oh, poor baby. And here I thought that I'd took you to bed later tonight and we' had some fun. Oh well, I guess I'll just tuck you in and let you sleep it away then" Casey said and got up.

"What? No! We can have fun. I just read a medical release that said that fun is what cures people. There was this guy with a cancer, some fun and puff, it was gone."

"Right, like you'd ever read anything else than He-Man" Casey said as she walked to the front door, Cappie following her.

"Not true. I read Spiderman too."

"Great, I'm dating an overgrown 8-year-old" she said and rolled her eyes but smiled, cause she really didn't care. Even if Cappie would never read Dickens, or Dostojevski it'd be fine, cause she didn't want to read them either. She had a very clear picture of herself right now. She was a loving daughter, an annoying but protecting big-sister and a college student. Oh yes, and a girlfriend who's boyfriend was madly in love with her, and who was madly in love with him too.

THE END

A/N: Thanks for correcting me the whole Ethan-Evan thing, I don't know what I was thinking. Not much. Anyway, this was it, and thanks for reading.