Long Author's Note: Okay, so some people were confuzzled by whether it was a dream or not. You'll find out in this chapter. lol. It'll be explained.

The end scene of the last chapter where Derek was waking her up was the same exact way he woke her up in the first chapter.

I also wanted to point out that during the whole Island Adventure, everything was written from Casey's point of view. We never understood what Derek was feeling deep down or what he was thinking. It was all Casey's mind as to where the first chapter (before flight) had Derek AND Casey's POV. (does that make sense? Cuz I can confuse myself)

So that shoulda been a clue. I was trying to be subtle with keeping it under Casey's eye and apparently it worked. :)

Thanks for all you guys who stuck with me. I appreciate it.

Disclaimer: Nothing owned!


"Case?" He knocked on her bedroom door, "Casey?" He sighed a laugh because she was always so difficult to wake up, "Casey, get your ass up! We have to go!"

Casey heard his voice and immediately woke up. Sweating and panting. "Dream?!" she looked all around her room. The sun shining in through the window; no sand; no beach; she looked down at her clothes and didn't see herself wearing Derek's clothes. She had on the things she slept in that night she slept on the couch. Which shockingly was just the night before. "How do I know this isn't just another dream?" she asked herself. Casey could still hear Derek calling her from behind her door and she looked at her trusty organizer and read it. It confirmed that this was only the day of their departure. It all made sense now to her. Casey realized that the dreams she kept having on the island weren't dreams. They were occurrences to where she'd wake up in the middle of the night at home from her dreams, which were of her and Derek on the island. "It was a dream! I'm not dead? I'm not dead! It was all a dream!!" Casey whispered in excited shock but relief as well. She rushed to the door and opened it then instantly grabbed him by the shirt collar and pulled him into her room, "Derek..."

"I know it was just a few hours ago but I," Derek smirked, "didn't know you wanted me, Case." Casey smiled for a second until she realized she did sleep in Derek's room that night but all the things on the island never happened. She calmed down and had to tell him they couldn't go. Casey's face immediately washed over with fright. Derek was confused at her sudden look, "Casey? I was kidding I hope you know?"

She focused her eyes on him and nodded, "I know, Derek."

"Then what the hell is the matter with you?" He raised an eyebrow, "Time of the month because I'm not ready to deal with mood swingin' Casey on this trip. I'm ready to meet some babe--"

She put her hand over his mouth, partly because she didn't want to hear about him and other babes as he would call it and the other reason to just make him shut up, in which he still continued to mumble, "Derek, shut up for one second please?" He did. She took her hand away from his mouth, "Okay, I really have to tell you something."

Derek looked down at his watch then back at her, "Do you think it could wait because we really have to get to the airport now or else we'll miss our flight." He grabbed her hand and started to walk but she pulled back and stood in firm in her spot, "Casey, seriously we have to go!"

"Derek, we can't go." She shook her head, "We can't get on that flight," she expressed with such seriousness it scared even her. Of course she had come to find out it was all a dream but it freaked her out because it did seem so real. It seemed so real that she got her real life home wake-ups mixed up with those on the island. She wasn't willing to risk her and Derek's life.

Derek slowly paced in front of her and stared at her seriously. "Casey?" he asked her, "What's go--" he busted out in laughter, "I'm sorry I tried to be serious but you're making me laugh. We really gotta go, so come on!"

Casey shook her head, "Derek, that plane is going to crash."

He laughed at her, "Watching too many episodes of LOST now aren't we Casey..."

She rolled her eyes, "It's an awesome show but I'm serious, Derek. We can't go..."

He raised an eyebrow, "And why not? Why can't we go? Because I'm supposed to believe crazy Casey can see the future?"

"Don't mock me, Derek. I'm serious. We cannot go! I had a terrible dre--"

"A dream, Casey?" He laughed at her even more than before, "A dream? You're going to ruin this trip I won to Hawaii because of a dream?!" He groaned, "See I knew I should've invited Sam."

She crossed her arms, "Why didn't you invite, Sam? I mean why did you invite me instead?"

He arched his eyebrows, "Maybe because you desperately begged me? Or did your mind forget that in your dreams of craziness?"

Casey shook her head, "Derek, just because I beg doesn't mean you'd take me. How many times have I begged you for things and you put me through hell before you even consider giving me the time of day."

He scoffed, "You know I have gone soft on you ever since we've been living together. The second time around," he decided to add that in there, "Don't be stupid."

"Derek, why did you really invite me?" she asked him seriously once more.

Derek was getting annoyed with her constant questions that even he knew wasn't ready to admit to her. He wanted to save it for Hawaii, which she was trying to make them miss. "Casey, why are you trying to make us miss our flight?"

"I told you already, Derek! We can't go!" she snapped at him not with anger but with much desperation.

He was starting to get really annoyed with her, "Casey, you're starting to really piss me off."

"Well you're starting to really piss me off." She battled right back.

He went closer to her and stared with disbelief, "Why? It is because I won't go along with you and your stupid crazy dream?"

She shook her head and was about to admit something she was scared to admit. Casey didn't know if it was true but she decided to just throw it out there, "No, because you won't admit you love me."

Derek scoffed with a tiny bit of nervous laughter, "What the hell are you talking about? Seriously are you on something?" He started to blush and Casey couldn't help but notice it. It gave her the confirmation she was looking for, "For the last time, Casey, let's go!"

"We slept in the same bed last night and you did nothing to push me away. You held me throughout the whole time I was on your bed, Derek. You were even worried when I was sweating or whatever," she pointed out aloud to herself and also for Derek to hear. He just stared at her blankly because the news he wanted to spring on her was being turned around to being sprung on him. Casey took a seat on her bed and looked at him, "Derek, if you really love me, you'll stay. You won't get on the flight."

"Well great, I don't really love you, so I'm gonna go." He lied.

She buried her face in her hands. She could still picture the images of the crash and how terrified she was when she couldn't find Derek. The dead bodies, dying Charlie, losing her things, the thunderous rain that made her fall from the plane…she could still see it as if it was what she thought was really happening. The only thing that was worthy of happening was her and Derek getting together but she knew they could easily deal with that here. A normal environment. Not one where they had to learn to survive on the island. It would scare her now even more if Derek got on without her. "Derek, please?" Her voice crack and the tears in her eyes gave Derek a scare.

The desperation in her voice was unlike any other that he'd heard in his life. In that moment he really considered staying but in a split second he went over her reasoning for him to stay and it just all sounded crazy again. He shook his head, "I'm sorry, Casey. I really want to go. So am I gonna have my roomie come with or not?" Derek only hoped she would just cut the crazy act and come because this was going to be their trip.

Casey stared at the ground for a good minute or two. She was terrified but she realized she loved Derek as much as he loved her, even though he wasn't willing to admit it now. Casey never got to tell dream Derek that she realized she loved him too. She knew this dream was real or had a strange feeling it would be real and there was just a little sliver of hope that it wasn't but she wasn't really willing to risk it. Especially if Derek was going.

She looked up at him, "Yes. I'm coming with."

He instantly smiled that bright smile she knew she wanted to see more often, "Well come on let's go!" He grabbed her hand and pulled her up off her bed, "Lighten up, please. It's gonna be Hawaii. Beaches. Sun. Surf dudes," he shuddered for his own benefit, "It'll be great, Case."

She put on a fake smile and nodded, "Yeah. It'll be great, Derek."

Casey picked up her duffle bag and sighed. Derek looked at her, "Do you want me to carry it for you?"

In reality, which shockingly was now, he was actually asking to carry her bag for her. In her dream he was a jerk that morning. Now her relief was starting to take over because her morning was much different than the one in her dream. She could only hope her dream's outcome wouldn't happen now. Casey looked at Derek and saw that he was actually willing to do it and it let her know he did actually care. She shook her head and threw him a smile, "No. I got it, Derek. Thanks anyway." Casey freshened up and got changed. She was ready.

He grabbed her hand again, "Let's go." This time he held it all the way to the taxi and Casey neither questioned it nor pulled away. Instead she just held on.

Derek was a chatter box on the way to the airport. Constant mentions of babes in bikinis and how he's gonna surf; Casey did nothing but smile and nod along because there was nothing she was really excited about. Especially his mentions of other girls but she knew their safety was more important. Maybe staying with Derek was the only thing she thought was good because she would've been terrified if it was him alone.

They sat at their terminal; Derek listening to his iPod; Casey absent-mindedly flipping through a magazine she wasn't even paying attention to. All she could think about was what would happen next. Would her dream become a reality or was Derek right? Was she really just having a crazy and deluded dream? Things were different that morning and she was slowly starting lean toward Derek being right. For the first time in forever Casey just wanted Derek to be right.

"Flight 797 to Hawaii boarding..."

Casey patted Derek's thigh. He took his headphones off, "What?"

"Boarding Call."

"Oh saweet. Let's get in line." He stood up and offered her a hand. She took it and they both stood in line. Derek looked at Casey's worried face, "Casey, I'm not gonn--"

She put on another fake smile, "I'm fine, Derek." As they stood in line, Casey started to see the oncoming passengers who stood in line with them. Casey then saw two familiar people who she'd known in her dream and all the relief she had acquired during those moments in the morning, had subsided. She had to know. Casey slowly paced over to the two and tapped the elder man on the shoulder and the two turned to look at her, "Hi. Would both your names happen to be Ed and Charlie?"

Once Casey saw the two nod with massive confusion, she instantly felt herself become even more terrified. "Yes, do we know you?"

"No. No. I just have a good name guessing skill." Casey lied and her eyes grew wide as she turned to a question filled face Derek and led them to hand in their boarding passes.

"What's going on with you?" Derek whispered.

"Derek, I said I'm okay." She assured him once more but deep down she wasn't. She was the opposite.

He nodded, "Good. Everything will be fine, Case." He tried to wash the worry off her face and deep down he knew he wasn't really succeeding but thought once they landed in Hawaii everything would be fine.

They walked in through the corridor toward the plane door, "Yeah. Fine. Right." Casey let out as they took their seats.

After minutes of settling down, they finally took off.

After 10 and a half hours of intense anticipation, Casey started to freak out. The dream flight had her asleep for most of the flight and not a care in the world. Now she hadn't slept. At all. She even watched a peaceful sleeping Derek for a while; it actually calmed her down for a short amount of time she was freaking out. She bounced her leg in nervousness and she stared out the window and around at all the passengers. The child crying from restlessness, which Casey quickly got teary eyed over as she noticed that was the same baby she saw lifeless on the island. She could vividly remember how hard it was to see.

The snoring fat guy who made his neighbor uncomfortable, was the same fat guy who sat next to her in her dream plane's right; sadly this time his neighbor was Derek, who sat in the middle because he offered Casey the window seat. Charlie drumming his fingers to song he's listening to on his iPod, while Ed flipped through a plane safety pamphlet. Then that guy next to her that convinced her to come and that same guy who admitted he loved her as they were stranded on that island together. The guy, Derek, who she admitted to having feelings for as they felt this may be it for them. Now she was here… waiting, anticipating, kind of hoping she was a bit crazy.

She took a glance at her watch and she knew it would be anytime now. So she waited. Waited. Waited. And waited. Still nothing. "We will be arriving in Honolulu shortly. The fasten seatbelt sign will be turned on so please head to your seats and fasten your seatbelts. Thank you for choosing Air Canada. Enjoy Hawaii." Casey had all the relief wash on her at the very minute the pilot stopped talking. It was over and her dream was just a crazy old mess--"

Casey hit relief way too soon. The shaky and bumpy feel that the passengers just shook off because this was normal, just happened. It wasn't until the drop that gave you the butterflies in the stomach feel, that the passengers actually started to panic. Casey started to panic.

Derek abruptly awoke from his peaceful nap and looked around at the people who were panicking. He looked at Casey who had that sort of expectant panic written on her face. She was breathing erratically as she stared directly into Derek's eyes. "Casey?" He sqeaked.

Her pupils dilated, "Yeah, Derek?"

"Is this what..."

She nodded, "This is."

He shook his head in disappointment toward himself. She grabbed his hand and held it tightly. "I'm sorry, Casey. I'm sorry."

For a second the panic dissolved into a feeling of forgiveness, "Derek, it's okay."

Derek was freaking out and he had every right to. He immediately knew this could have been prevented if he just believed Casey. He looked around at the noisy crowd of panicking passengers, "I should've stayed home with you. I should've listened to you. I should have." He looked over at her; eyes full of regret, "I'm sorry." She nodded. "Casey, you knew, why didn't you just stay?!"

"I wasn't going to let you go alon--"

Just then the plane took another drop and both Derek and Casey closed their eyes as the oxygen masks dropped from their cupboards. The pilot came on the intercom and there was no sign of hope in his voice he knew things were not getting any better from here, "Sorry for the unexpected turbulence." That was the best he could come up with and the passengers weren't any calmer.

The flight attendant then got on, "Please passengers put on your oxygen mask--" She was interrupted by a sudden drop given by the plane. She quickly ran to her seat and put her seatbelt and oxygen mask on. That gave the passengers even more of an excuse to worry.

Casey, whose hand was still tightly held by Derek's, was staring intently out the window. All she saw was water, which was like before, when she glanced out of Derek's window, and she knew there would be land soon if this was according to her dream. "Casey?!"

Casey turned to see a pale faced Derek staring at her in his most frightened state ever. The oxygen mask covering his face and the commotion all around the plane made him hard to hear, "Yeah?!"

"I just want you to know...!"

"What?!" Another sudden drop occurred and this time the drop was continuous. They were going down and fast.

"Casey! I do love you!"

She nodded, "I know, Derek! I love you too!"

He was able to intertwine their fingers as they felt the pressure in their stomachs plummet just like the plane itself, "I thought I should tell you before we die!"

She shook her head, "We're not gonna die, Derek!"

He was able to give her a raised eyebrow, "What?!"

"We don't die, Derek! We survive!" She closed her eyes as she told him, "I thought I lost you the first time, I don't want to worry, Derek! Just please hold my hand and don't let go!" She opened her eyes and looked around at the passengers. In those last few minutes as she knew the plane was about to reach its end, everything was silent. Her eyes scanned the irate and terrified passengers. Silent now sleeping baby, silent fat man who was hugging his own arms in terror, silent Charlie who brought his knees to his chest and rocked nervously back and forth wording a song to help calm him down. Ed holding on to Charlie with his eyes closed. Then Derek. Derek at his most vulnerable moment. She squeezed his hand tighter, "Please don't let go!"

That loud noise that signaled danger, rang louder and louder. Casey knew it was almost over. The worst would be done soon. Derek squeezed whatever space was left between their conjoined hands, "I won't!" She nodded.

Approximately one minute after the last words were spoken between the two of them, came the crash.

Silence.

--

Casey briefly mentioned that there were differences between her dream and her reality.

There were parallels that ended up colliding into a different outcome.

Dream: Derek woke her up with complete annoyance.

Reality: Derek was a sweetheart like the roommate he was to her in those past 3 years.

Dream: Casey asked if he could grab her bag and he rudely declined.

Reality: Derek offered to grab her bag and she kindly declined.

Dream: Arguing to hurry up and leave.

Reality: Hand holding as they left the house.

Dream: Casey had the middle seat.

Reality: Derek had the middle seat.

Dream: Casey woke up as the flight was plummeting to the ground.

Reality: Derek woke up as the flight was plummeting to the ground.

Dream: Derek grabbed her hand to hold tightly.

Reality: Casey grabbed his hand to hold tightly.

Dream: Casey had no idea this was going to happen.

Reality: Casey anticipated this.

Dream: They crashed on the island where Casey, Derek, and numerous others survived the horrible disaster.

Reality: They crashed on the island where Casey, Derek, and all others didn't survive the horrible disaster.

Silence was all there was. Silence.


There is an alternate ending...

So don't kill me just yet...

I wanted to give this story two endings.