AN: Okay... I'm giving a fair warning there is another cliffhanger at the end. Calm down, it's a terrific one. It'll probably be the bigger cliffhanger unless you count...nevermind haha. I'm terrible I know I know. So that's all. Read on if you like. I won't force you. Gah I'm gonna be so sad to see this one end : ( hehe.

Also you guys don't really care but I thought I should add that the Washington Capitals made won the division last night and made it into the playoffs... exciting because we were horrible! okay. I'm done. That really is all. haha.


Disclaimer: I own nuffin.

He laughed, "I thought we went over this. You said it was bor--"

She shook her head, "No, Derek. I really really just wished you were there."

He stopped laughing as he realized there was a sort of desperation in her voice, "Why?"

"Because Derek..."

"Not really a convincing argument, Case." he couldn't resist.

She glared at him, "Derek. Not the right time."

He controlled his laughter, "Sorry." Finally he stopped, "Seriously, that's the last one. So why?"

She shrugged, "Maybe you could have stopped me from making the biggest mistake of my life."

She wasn't making sense to him, "So me being there would have stopped you from getting married?" she nodded, "Casey if you didn't want to get married, you shouldn't have."

"I thought I did. It all became so real, Derek. Something opened my eyes around that time."

"What opened your eyes?"

"Nothing."

She was confusing him, "I don't know what to say, Casey."

"I know I'm not making sense, Derek." he snorted, "It's just maybe if you were there I would have had a clear sign telling me not to go through with it."

"So you wanted me there to help you not get married?" he was trying to understand her.

"Yup." he dropped his head on the back of his couch; taking in what she was telling him.

"I didn't have a project to do, Case." he admitted. "I wasn't assigned to do anything."

"I knew it!" she boasted.

"Yeah, yeah. Shush." he blushed with embarrassment, "I didn't want to see you getting married okay? And everyone said you were happy and everything so I thought if I went I would ruin that for you."

"Ironic." she laughed.

Then he laughed, "Yeah, irony rears it's ugly head for us, huh?"

She nodded, "And now I'm miserable."

"Now, you're miserable." he joked.

She smacked him upside the head, "Thanks for making me feel better."

He laughed, "I'm kidding. But I thought you said you two just had a fight? Isn't that why you're acting this way? I mean you can't be unhappy 24-7?"

"Yeah, I thought that's why I'm being so blah today. I'm in this marriage though, I'll eventually learn to be happy. No turning back now."

He nodded. He looked at his wall clock, "Casey, we gotta get you to that airport."

She looked at the clock, "Man time flies when you're having fun." she said sarcastically.

He frowned intentionally, "You weren't having fun with me?" he made a pouting face.

She laughed, "I was having fun. I mean the 'serious conversations'" she used finger quotations, "weren't too thrilling."

"I actually enjoyed the serious conversations." he told her getting up from the couch.

"Really?" she raised an eyebrow.

"Yeah, I mean I know more about your life now. I'm really gonna remember this stuff."

"I guess you're right." she got up too.

"What did I tell you, Case. I'm always right." he expressed in an sing-song voice. "Let me use the bathroom really quick then we can go."

"Alright."

He went to the bathroom and she found herself looking around his place once more. It would probably be the last time she'd be there so why not? She quietly made her way to his bedroom, which once again was shockingly tidy. She sat on his bed and looked around the room. She saw the wall he had with all the photographs he took. She got up and looked at each and everyone of them.

"Not bad, Venturi." she said aloud to herself.

Her eyes landed on a black and white photo in the center of them all. It was of a woman sitting on the edge of a pond staring out into the sky. She arched her eyebrows as that pond looked exactly like the one she went to all those years ago.

She looked at the bottom right corner of the photo it read, "'Her' derekVENTURI"

"Who the hell is 'Her'?" she muttered in confusion.

"I think you know who it is." Derek leaned in the doorway.

She looked over at him, "I have a very good idea. But when, Derek?"

"That night. I had my camera with me that night. You rushed out of the car and it looked like a perfect shot, so I took it." She reached over and took it off the wall, "No! Casey don--"

A certificate fell from behind the photograph, "What's this?" she read over it. She looked up at him, "You won with this picture?!"

He sighed, "Yeah."

"I thought you said you lost this?"

"I didn't." he shrugged, "I lied."

"Why would you lie about losing it?"

"I don't know, Casey." he hated getting the 3rd degree.

She was silent looking back down at the picture. She looked back up at him with wide eyes, "Derek, you said you loved what was in this picture. This is me in the picture."

"Yeah, so? You said you loved me too."

She arched her eyebrows, "What? When did I ever say I loved you?"

"In your book, Casey. You said in your book that you loved me."

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