Ellie was fretting like a mad woman, Awesome was trying to calm her down, and Casey was counting down the seconds until Sarah came 'round with the antidote ring. He was using his expert acting ability to pull off "Worried Boyfriend", which, admittedly, wasn't that hard. He was worried about Chuck, but his regular worry would never have manifested if he was Major John Casey and he needed to make it seem like he was dying inside. So he sat by Chuck's side, holding his ringless hand, ran a hand through his soft curls, and pretended he was trying not to cry.

"Why would someone do this?" Casey whispered dejectedly.

Ellie's arms were around Casey's neck in a second. "Oh, John, I'm so sorry! I'm sure Sarah will be back soon."

Morgan walked through the door. "Hey, what's up?"

Ellie, with softened eyes, turned to Morgan and said, "Someone stole Chuck's engagement ring."

"Engagement... Well, Casey, at least you're making an honest man out of my bestest best friend" Morgan said.

Casey closed his eyes. "Thank you Morgan."

"After all" Morgan continued, but was stopped.

Sarah pushed past him, holding up a small gold band. "Found it!"

**********

"I'm bored" Chuck whined.

Months had passed since Chuck was released from the hospital and he was slowly learning to get on Casey's nerves again.

"I know something we could do" Casey said lecherously.

"I wanna do something other than have sex" Chuck complained some more. He looked at the ring. "And when can I take this off?"

"Never" Casey said. "Just be glad you were throwing up the day we were supposed to get married." And then, two days later, Prop 8 got passed. Oh no!

"I really wouldn't mind getting married. To you, I mean."

Casey proped himself up on one elbow. "Really?"

Chuck nodded. "Yeah. I don't see why not."

Casey continued to look at Chuck. "Really?"

"I mean, other than the fact that you're a murderous mercenary with a disturbing obssession with Ronald Reagan, you have hundreds of enemies that will kill me if they ever found out about us, and you can't cook for shit, you would be a pretty good husband" Chuck said.

"If I'm the husband than that makes you the wife and the wife cooks" Casey said.

"Then we'll be ordering out a lot" Chuck said flatly.

Casey couldn't stop his smile.

"You're smiling" Chuck pointed out.

Sarah opened the door. Chuck tried to cover his naked Chest and Casey stared at her. "Put on some clothes. The two of you are coming out." Sarah closed the door.

Chuck lowered his blanket. "What did she mean by 'coming out'?"

**********

"Oh...this is what she meant" Chuck said as he saw half of the apartment complex and all of the Buy More employees standing in the courtyard.

It was a coming out party.

"I hate your sister" Casey whispered.

"Please don't kill her" Chuck whispered back.

"Not worth my time."

"Chuck, Casey!" Ellie cried. She ran up and hugged the two of them. "I hope you two don't mind that I organized this. I had planned on it to be a wedding party but with what happened and all... You two don't mind, right?"

Chuck answered before Casey could even think of a response. "No, of course not. It's wonderful Ellie! Thank you."

Ellie glowed. She hugged her brother before pulling him away from Casey and into the crowd.

Sarah appeared by Casey's side. "Me thinks she's trying to be the good supportive sister. Too bad she's forgotten about the man who turned her brother gay."

"Bryce?" Casey said.

Sarah looked at Casey, stunned. "Really?"

"Who hasn't slept with him?"

Sarah glared. She looked away, then froze. "Look over there."

Casey looked over Sarah's head. Off on the edge of the crowd was a brown-haired twenty-something who was staring fondly but sadly into the crowd. Casey excused himself and walked over to greet Rebekah.

"What're you doing here?" Casey asked.

Rebekah shrugged. "In town for a heist and decided to see how you were doing."

"Oh." He looked up and down her skinny body. "Have you talked to your mom since..."

"The reason I actually started looking for you was because she died. It was the only way she would tell me who my probable dad was and," Rebekah shrugged, "I got lied to. I went to my aunt and she backed your story, though." She pressed her lips together. "Thank you."

Casey pat Rebekah's shoulder. "No problem."

Rebekah gestured to the crowd. "What's going on?"

"A coming out party that was forced upon me by the future sister-in-law from Hell" Casey monotoned.

Rebekah laughed. "Sucks for you, buddy." She crossed her arms over her torso. "Well, I better get going. Georgio wants to take me out to an early dinner before we rob a jewelry store."

"Sounds like a productive evening" Casey said.

Rebekah nodded. "It will be." She sighed. "Well, say hi to Sarah and Chuck for me, okay?"

"Yeah, I will."

Rebekah smiled. "Thanks." She turned around and walked away.

Casey watched as she walked away before turning around and rejoining the party. He was going to make Chuck pay later.