Author's note: Okay! I know this took a while... but I have a reason! I was on a break, kind of, from the fandom. I had to get my grades up(unsuccessfully), and for that to happen I had to stay away from non-school related sites. But school is over now, so it's all good! On with the story, my loves!

BTW: I wrote Daphne and Jeff an email over a week ago. You can read it here: http : // kthxilyxxx (dot) livejournal (dot) com / 776 (dot) html I'm highly doubting a reply, ugh. They annoy me.

Only in the Movies

A Life with Derek Fanfiction

Scene Eighteen

Disclaimer: Why would I write a letter to the writers-BEGGING FOR DASEY- if I owned LwD?!

That same night, the four of the, went out to dinner at a local Applebee's. Ralph had gone home complaining that his mom needed lotion applied somewhere. The rest of the didn't want to know where.

They had just gotten their drinks when Lily looked at the rest of the table, smiling dearly at them.

"You guys are simply the best!" She stated happily, yet she couldn't help but have her eyes well a bit with bittersweet tears.

"Oh, come on! You're happy! Why must women cry, all the time?" Derek asked, looking upwards, as if asking the heavens to answer him.

"It must be another thing I get from my mom." Lily said jokingly, wiping her eyes.

"Mom!" Casey yelped, a realization hitting her. "Derek! What are we going to do about Mom and George!?" Casey asked, on the verge of hyperventilating.

"Casey, Casey; It's okay." Derek rubbed Casey's back in comfort, "Lily informed me of a plan she has." He added.

"Yeah," Lily spoke, her tears completely gone now, "You know that webcam you have in your dorm so you can communicate with your mom and step-dad?" Lily smiled, mischievously.

"You can't be serious..." Casey spoke. Silence. "You want to tell our parents through webcam?!" Casey asked angrily.

"Hey; don't knock it 'till you try it. There's more to my plan. But you should call your mom and tell her that they should be at their computer at 9:30pm." Lily told her.

"This better be good." Casey warned.

"Hey! My plans are fool proof; obviously." Lily gestured to Derek's hand, that was so perfectly holding Casey's.

"Point taken." Casey said simply.

9:30pm.

"Casey? Derek? What was so important? You sounded stressed on the phone, Casey." Nora's glowing face and growing belly showed on Casey's computer screen.

"Well, mom... we'd like you to meet someone. Someone very important to the both of us. Someone who made us very happy. Some may say, happier than we've ever been." Casey at Derek. He elbowed her in the stomach for making fun of him.

Nora just waited.

"Okay? Who did you want us to meet?" George asked expectantly.

"Me!" Lily popped into the screen.

"Mom, George; this is our new best friend and confidante: Lily Bennet." Casey spoke formally.

"Um..." George spoke cluelessly.

"Hello, Lily. It's nice to meet you." Nora spoke for her and her husband.

Lily smiled, "It's nice to meet you too, Mrs. McDonald-Venturi; Mr. Venturi."

"Oh please... call me Nora." She chuckled.

"Please call me Mr. Venturi." George asked. Nora elbowed him.

"What? I don't know her." He said helplessly.

"Oh, George." Nora huffed and Derek laughed making Casey huff.

"Wow, talk about mirror images." Lily spoke under her breath, warranting an elbow in the gut from both Derek and Casey. "Right; back to the matter at hand." She continued, rubbing her sides.

"I'm sorry... matter?" Nora asked, confused.

"I'm just going to ask that neither of you interrupt as I tell you something. I respect you both, and I hope you respect me as your childrens' best friend." Lily requested professionally.

The parents nodded.

"Alright. I'll start like this: I met Derek and Casey on separate occasions. I ran into Casey on the first day of school. She was flustered, having just dealt with Derek. We mad plans to meet up for lunch and get to know each other. Later that day, I had a class with Derek. My first impression? He was arrogant and I didn't like that... but later the same day, I saw him again, and got a different perspective. What I'm trying to say is... when I first met Derek and Casey, I had no clue that her mom was married to his dad." She took a deep breath.

"Then, when I first saw them together, I saw it. I mean, how could I not see it? It's just so blatantly obvious!.. an- and I'm totally not trying to offend anyone because... well they didn't have the opportunity to know them before they became step-sibs." Lily went off on a tangent, leaving the parents in a daze of confusion.

"...and of course, Derek denied it at first, but I wasn't having that. I kept going because I knew the truth. So I formulated a plan, the plan was called, 'Operation: Dasey Breakthrough'." Lily stopped to lo9ok at Nora and George.

"...and I know you have no clue what I'm going on about, but I promise it will be painstakingly clear in about thirty seconds." They nodded. "I just had to have my plan work," She continued, "In my mind..." She paused, glancing at the two people behind her, smiling. "They had to be together."

The parents' eyes widened and Nora opened her mouth.

"Now, you need to listen, please, because I asked you politely to respect me and you agreed." Lily spoke, staring straight into camera, making it all the more personable. Nora's mouth closed. "Good." She smiled before continuing, "Now, you know Casey and Derek as your daughter," She spoke to Nora, "and your son." Now to George. "And your respective step-children. And although you may have grown to love them as your own children... they do not see each other as their own siblings. You placed an attractive fifteen year-old boy in the same house as an attractive fifteen year-old girl and thought everything would be hunky-dory." She paused for a breather.

"I'm by no means scolding you, as I'm obviously in no position to do so, but you must understand: Casey and Derek will never see each other as brother and sister." Another pause, "My plan, Dasey Breakthrough, was to get Derek and Casey to admit they like each other and then get them together. It proved very hard as they are both extremely stubborn, and Casey was busy worrying about how you would feel."

Nora grimaced but Lily kept going, "Now, as I do respect you, and I must say that you've done a great job of raising such a wonderful person as Casey is... you have to realize that she'll never be happy if she's trying to please other people." Pause, "So I told her to screw what other people think and she did. Derek was easier to handle, as he admitted his feelings long before Casey.

"Anyways; earlier today, they started dating. Yes... dating; each other. And I know for certain that they'd just love to be accepted by you and the kids as well. I just don't think it is fair that you disown them for something that is not their fault. You can't help who you fall in love with, and I know what you're thinking... 'Love? But they couldn't stand each other before they left for university!' But... haven't you heard of the little boy in Kindergarten, pulling the little girl's hair because he likes her?"

"And we all know Derek has the brain of a five year-old." Casey added playfully. Derek glared at her and Casey smiled, looking back at the 'rents.

"Their bickering is like that of an old married couple; do you see it now?" She didn't leave room for a response, "It's just that they are so absolutely perfect for each other that sometimes I can't stand it." She smiled. "So I hope you take into consideration the things I've said as you make a decision about their new and amazing relationship." She concluded, getting out of the chair she had been in to be level with the webcam.

"Oh!" She remembered, sitting back down, "I'd kust like to add... if you so easily fell in love with Geor- Mr. Venturi, and he fell in love with you... wouldn't it make sense that they fall in love with each other... because from what I've learned, Casey is a lot like you, and Derek is a lot like his father." She added, not entirely sure how she ended up speaking mainly to Nora. With that, she exited the screen and all that was left was the verdict.

The new couple sat there, waiting, for a good five minutes as their parents whispered back and forth. It was the longest five minutes, ever.

"Ahem." Nora cleared her throat, "Although it may not be the most idea of situations... Lily is right. Everything she said we can agree with, and you have our blessing." Nora smiled at the two of them and Lily cheered from the background.

"Did you hear that, Sam?! I was right! BOO YAH!"

The four people on the webcam laughed.

"But I don't want the next webcam session to be Lily explaining about how great it is to be a grandfather, so keep it clean!" George spoke for the first time to Derek and Casey. They blushed in response.

"Thanks... Dad. You have no idea how much that means to us." Derek said, smiling at Casey.

"Yeah, thanks Mom, George. Now we can say you two helped in the aiding of making us the 'happiest we;ve ever been'..." Casey said, bursting with laughter.

"God, woman! I'm never gonna live that down, am I?" Derek asked, embarrassed.

"You shouldn't be ashamed of being sweet, Derek."

"Yeah, okay. Why do I put up with you, again?" He joked.

"Oh shut up, you love it." Casey smacked his arm playfully.

"Wow. They are like an old married couple." George said, watching the exchange between Derek and Casey.

Author's Note: I don't know how much is left, but not much. Read and review! :)