Chapter 8: Together at Last
A/N So I just started school, so these stories won't be updated as fast as usual sorry. If it was up to me I'd choose this over school, but don't tell Chase I said that. So I put my own twist on this one and its Cassie's birthday instead. There will be lots of Leo and Cassie. And of course there will be Chassie. And this chapter is in third person. Surprise guest!
Previously
"Quick pop quiz. 531 times 982?"
"521, 442" he answered without hesitation.
"Who discovered the atom?"
"J. J. Thomson"
"When was the first phone call made?"
"March 10, 1879"
"By who?"
"Alexander Graham Bell"
"To who?"
"Thomas Watson"
I held his gaze for a second "Outstanding"
"Oh and because you're not as cool as me, I suppose" My head instantly snapped to Chase who was smiling "Well at least that's what Cassie thinks?"
"What?" I asked as heat rose to my cheeks.
"Super hearing" He said pointing to his ears.
"Oh" was all I said as I awkwardly shifted positions
They went to go walk out the door but I grabbed Chase's arm "Chase wait"
He turned to me "Yeah?"
I wanted to tell him so badly and I almost but that would've made him leaving worse. "Just… I'm really gonna miss you"
"Yeah, me too" Then he hugged me tight, and I tried hard to hold back the tears but they came out anyway.
I pulled out of the hug "Don't die okay?"
He laughed a little "Okay"
Spike walked up to me with a smirk of his own "Hell-o sugar pop, Chase was right you are gorgeous" I blushed a little not because Spike was hitting on me, but because he said Chase thought I was gorgeous
I blushed and took his hand "One dance"
"One dance"
He took me to the dance floor and we danced, we actually ended up dancing the entire 30 minutes left of the dance. We walked out of the school, one of the last ones to leave. Hands down best night ever!
"Thanks, I'm going to bed now" I told him as I got up and started to walk away. When I reached the door I turned back "That new suit looks nice" I winked at him before I continued upstairs.
I paused and before I could stop myself I leaned forward and kissed his cheek "Good night, Chase" I walked out of the lab and backup to my room.
Now
An alarm went off and Adam, Bree, and Chase were back into the lab.
"Adam that was the rebel leader, the whole purpose of today's mission simulation was to interrogate him"
"I did, and his answer was, AHHHHHHH!" Adam mimicked the rebel leader, and the three of them hopped off the simulator.
"Hey, next time could you maybe throw in a cute blue-eyed rebel?" Mr. Davenport just looked at Bree shaking his head slightly. "What I'm just saying it's not gonna kill you to add a little something-somethin for the ladies. Right Cassie?"
"I got my somethin-somethin" Cassie mumbled starring at Chase. Bree and Mr. Davenport looked at each other then turned to Cassie. When she looked back at them they were smiling smugly, "I mean… Leo!" Cassie turned to Leo "Shall We?"
"We shall" they pushed passed Chase and Adam "Go ahead Big D
Cassie and Leo put on the goggles "Set it to awesome" they said at the same time.
"Guys, these goggles are not a toy" Mr. Davenport took the goggles off of Leo and Cassie, Cassie pouted.
"Come on Big D. If not for me than for Cassie-face, her birthday's coming up"
"Did you seriously just call me 'Cassie-face'" Cassie placed a hand on her hip and raised an eyebrow at Leo.
Leo shrugged "No. I designed the mission simulator to fine tune their bionics not to go on 3-D joy rides. Besides you two are not trained"
Leo groaned "But Big D"
"It's cool Leo we have better things to do"
Leo turned to Cassie "Really, like what?"
"Like… You know… We could… Shut up" Cassie stomped away.
Chase, Adam, and Bree walked over "So, your birthdays coming up" Cassie nodded "Why didn't you tell us"
"It's not a big deal it's just a birthday I have one every year"
"So, how are you celebrating" Bree asked.
"We're all celebrating" Leo answered for her "Every year my mom goes all out for our birthdays. Last year for my birthday she made a cake the size of me. But Cassie's are always so cool, she does TV show themes, last year it was supernatural, this year… what's your favorite TV show"
"Dr. Who" Chase and Cassie answered. They all looked between the two.
"What? You wouldn't come watch it with me and Chase was the only one I could find" Cassie told Leo.
"And I don't know if you notice but Cassie has worn a different Dr. Who shirt everyday this week" Chase crossed his arms defensively
"Of course you'd notice" Bree mumbled to Adam.
A couple minutes later Tasha came down to the lab all excited "Guess what? I just found out that I won an award for my undercover report on expired produce. 'Something in the Crisper can Kill you'"
"Congratulation" Mr. Davenport said while hugging her "That's great!"
"Oh thank you but the awards banquet is the same day as Cassie's birthday" Tasha told Mr. Davenport before she looked at Cassie. "I'm sorry sweetie but I'm going to miss it, I'm afraid if I don't show up there going to give my award away to that overdramatic screen hog Linda Monterez"
"It's okay Tasha, you go have fun. You deserve that" Cassie told her honestly.
Bree tugged Leo back away from them as Tasha and Cassie talked more about the banquet "I thought she was going to throw Cassie a party. I was promised a party. What is she doing?"
"I don't know" Leo told Bree before he said to Cassie "What are you doing. It's your birthday, stick it to her"
Tasha and Cassie simultaneously rolled their eyes "Leo, it's fine really. I'll have plenty of other birthdays. Who knows when Tasha's going to win another award" Cassie told Leo. She paused and her eyes widened, she slowly turned back to Tasha "Which will be very soon considering your amazing reporting"
Tasha sighed "I promise we'll celebrate the following night"
"Hey, uh, why haven't we ever had a birthday party?" Bree asked.
"Donald! You never celebrated their birthdays?" Tasha asked
"Of course I've celebrated their birthdays" Mr. Davenport told Tasha then turned to Adam, Bree, and Chase. "Remember when we… No when we went to the…" he trailed off and turned to Tasha shaking his head. "Yeah, I've never celebrated their birthdays."
"Did you also eat all the cookies before Santa came down the chimney?" Tasha asked sarcastically.
"What's Santa?" Bree asked genuinely confused.
"Oh, come on" Tasha shouted as she stormed out of the lab.
"Why would you give him cookies?" Mr. Davenport asked following Tasha.
"Cassie, are you sure you're okay with this?" Chase asked concerned.
"Yeah, I'm fine" Cassie told them honestly "Now who wants brownies"
"Me" Adam and Leo shouted raising their hands.
"On it" Cassie said before she walked out of the lab and up to the kitchen.
"Don't forget the sprinkles" Adam shouted after her.
"Guys, this is terrible. Cassie is so crushed" Leo said shaking his head sadly.
"She didn't looked crushed to me" Adam said
"Yeah, actually she looked the exact opposite" Bree added.
"Trust me guys I know when my best friend is sad, and Cassie is devastated" Leo assured them.
"Well, you know what we have to do right" Chase said smiling.
"Oh yes" Leo said nodding his head "I'm going to keep talking like I know what you're thinking and wait for you to further explain it"
Chase rolled his eyes "Guys! We have to throw Cassie a surprise party"
"Exactly"
"Well what do we know about throwing a surprise party?" Bree asked.
"Just leave this to the master" Leo pointed to himself "Okay, so here's the deal. Cassie's favorite TV show is Dr. Who, correct?"
"Correct" Chase nodded.
"So we'll just have a Dr. Who themed party"
"Okay. I got it. We're going to need Daleks, Cyber men, A TARDIS" Chase listed off a whole bunch of other things from Dr. Who. They all shook their heads at him "What? It was a long Dr. Who marathon"
"Woohoo! Yeah, we're having a party!" Adam said excited "Cassie's going to be so surprised. I'm going to go tell her"
"Adam" They all said in unison.
"Oh! Right! Well, I'm going to go tell Cassie she's not having a surprise party. That was close she almost found out" The three of them chased after Adam
A couple days later the Chase, Bree, Leo, and Adam were walking down the school hallways "guys, I just realized where are we going to have the party" Bree asked.
"We can just have it at the house" Leo said.
"No!" Leo shouted "Cassie well see all the decorations and know something's up, plus do you really think your mom and Mr. Davenport will allow us to have a huge party while there gone" Chase asked Leo.
Leo grimaced "Ooh, no." Leo looked in thought "We someplace big"
"And with a stage" Chase said also in thought
Adam mimicked there expressions "I have no idea what we're talking about"
Just then two boys walked by "So did you see the new school gym, it's completely remodeled" The first boy said to the other one.
"I know it's huge now" The second boy said.
"Did you guys hear that?" Bree asked the three boys
"Yes, no all we have to do Is get principal Perry to let us use it" Chase said feeling accomplished.
"Yeah, this is Perry were talking about" Leo reminded him and Chases smile quickly faded.
"It's okay guys. I got this" Bree told them.
After school the four of them walked over to Perry smiling "Hello, my wonderful principal" Bree sucked up.
"What do you 4 want" Perry scowled
"We were wondering if you'd let us use the gym this Saturday for Cassie's birthday party" Chase asked
"A party" Perry asked curious "Am I invited"
"No!" Leo shouted
"Fine, then you can't use the gym" Perry went to turn away.
"Wait!" Chase called to her and she turned around.
"What are you doing" Bree asked quickly
"It's for Cassie guys" Chase reminded them before he turned back to Perry "If you let us use the gym… you can come to the party"
Perry smiled triumphantly "Now if you'll excuse me I have to by my cats new suits"
The all had a look over disturbance on their faces as their principal walked away "What have we done"
Cassie walked up to them with with a confused look "What are you four up to"
They all spun around "Nothing" Bree, Chase, and Leo shouted.
"Defiantly not throwing you a surprise party" Adam said.
"Okayyy. So I need someone to come to the mall with me to get a new beanie. My old one has a hole in it"
"Great" Chase smiled "Leo you take Cassie to the mall for say 3 hours and Well stay here preparing… Adam for a test. Right Bree?"
Bree laughed nervously "Yep. We'll be here. Preparing Adam for a test. Oh and before I forget heres your present" Bree took a small pink bag out of her book bag and handed it to Cassie.
Cassie smiled and opened it, it was a small perfume bottle. The liquids were pink and it said Irresistible in black cursive writing "Thanks Bree. This was really-"
"By Cassie" Chase shouted as Adam, him, and Bree walked away.
"What's up with them" Cassie asked Leo as she put the present into her bag.
"Nothing. Let's go get you that new beanie" Leo smiled and pulled Cassie out of the school.
About two hours later the gym was almost done, the stage was covered with blue and black balloons. There was a giant throne on the stage they had a banner that said 'Happy 15th birthday Cassie". The ceiling was lined with little lights covered by little TARDIS' Fake metal Daleks and Cyber men lined the room and there was even a life sized TARDIS there. All they were waiting on was the cake which should be there soon. Chase, Adam, and Bree sat on the edge of the stage looking over their work.
"That took forever" Bree groaned.
"But it was all worth it" Chase told them smiling.
"So…" Bree smirked "What did you get Cassie for her birthday present"
"You'll see" Chase said mysteriously.
"Can I have a hint" Bree asked
"No"
"Please" She begged
"No"
"Please!"
"No"
"Fine. But when she hates it I'm going to laugh"
"She's not going to hate it, she'll love it" Chase defended. At least I hope she does he thought.
Back at the mall Leo was dragging Cassie through the dress section; he had to get her a dress to wear to the party without letting her know about the party. Which wasn't the easiest task.
"Here" Leo shoved a dress into Cassie's face "Try this one on"
"Leo, this is the fifth dress you've made me try on. Are you ever going to tell me why" Cassie asked taking pushing to dress away.
"No" Leo said shoving the dress back at her.
"Ugh! This is the last one" Cassie took the dress and tried it on. It fit nice and the color popped against Cassie's pale skin. That dress was strapless and reached just above her knee. The torso was covered in black sequence, the bottom half was magenta with a black see through design over it. Cassie paired it with black stilettos. She walked out of the changing room and inspected her reflection, she love it. Leo looked Cassie up and down then whistled, startling Cassie.
"You look hot!"
Cassie rolled her eyes smiling at her reflection "I guess I do"
"Great" Leo said and pulled her to the checkout line.
"Leo at least let me change back"
"Nope" Leo replied simply and gave the cashier 25 bucks and pulled Cassie back outside. He walked to the school with Cassie following him; her wrist still stuck in his grasp. They were almost to the school when Cassie tried to tug out of Leo's grasp, protesting, demanding answers. Leo just stayed quiet not letting her wrist go. Leo and Cassie walked up to the gym doors of the school.
"Okay, stop!" Cassie shouted finally getting her wrist free of Leo's grasp and placed it on her hip "You got me into the dress, now you're going to tell me what we're doing at the school gym. And why Perry hasn't thrown us out yet"
"I can't tell you, now come on before I have to do it the hard way" he opened the door but it was pitch black inside.
"What does that even mean" Leo didn't answer instead he nodded towards the gym again. Cassie crossed her arms "No, I'm not leaving this spot until you tell me why we're here"
"I didn't want it to come to this…" he trailed off snapping.
"What ar-" Cassie was cut off by Adam coming up behind her and picking her up bridal style
"Adam, put me down" Cassie protested and squirmed in his grip but Adam kept her steady. Which wasn't that hard because he was ten times stronger than she'd ever be.
"Sorry, Chase's orders"
"Chase's orders, what?"
"Bree" Adam shouted ignoring Cassie as he set her down.
"Bree?" Cassie was too confused to even think about leaving. The lights turned on illuminating the decorations that were covering the gym. Blue, black, and white balloons layered over the ceiling and covered the stage. Streamers were everywhere, little Daleks and Cyber men were lined up against the wall, and there was even a life-sized TARDIS. Dr. there was a long buffet table covered in soda, pizza, chips, etc and a cake that said 'Happy Birthday Cassie-face.' The last light turned on showing Chase standing on a stage behind a microphone and in front of a wanna be throne that had a sign above it covered in TARDIS' and read 'Happy 15th Birthday Cassie.'
"Chase" Cassie said as she took a couple of steps forward.
"Hey, Cassie" he said into the microphone, his voice echoing through the empty gym.
"What are you doing up there" She smiled slightly.
"This is my birthday present" he said, just then people began to fill the room, they stood on either side of the room awaiting the presentation.
"You're throwing me a party, that's your present"
"Not just that" He took a deep breath and turned on the music, 'Someone like you' by Summer Set began, and Chase sung to her.
"You got a price tag hanging on the back of your dress,
You got your shoes undone and your hair is a mess,
But no one sees you like I do
You roll the windows down when it's starting to rain, yeah,
Everybody else might think you're insane,
But no one sees you like I do
Cause the little things don't mean much to me
My girl, I'd cross the whole world for someone like you
Oh oh, no matter where I go, oh oh,
My unpredictable girl, you're impossible girl,
You know that it's true, oh oh, no matter what you do
I'd cross the world for someone like you
Someone like you; a girl like you
Someone like you
You love the sing along when you don't know the words,
You lock your keys in your car right next to your purse, yeah,
No one sees you like I do
You only show up right out of the blue,
Then 20 minutes late, 5's early for you, yeah,
No one sees you like I do
Cause the little things don't mean much to me
My girl, I'd cross the whole world for someone like you
Oh oh, no matter where I go, oh oh,
My unpredictable girl, you're impossible girl,
You know that it's true, oh oh, no matter what you do,
I'd cross the world for someone like you
Yeah, you're perfectly imperfect, my love
Oh, I'll be waiting up all night because your little things, all the stupid things,
Oh, the little things, don't mean much to me
My girl, I'd cross the whole world, for someone like you
Oh oh, no matter where I go, oh oh,
My unpredictable girl, I'd cross the whole world for someone like you
Oh oh, no matter where I go, oh oh,
My unpredictable girl, impossible girl,
You know that it's true, oh oh, no matter what you do,
I'd cross the world for someone like you
Someone like you; a girl like you
Someone like you
I'd cross the whole world
A girl like you
Someone like you"
When Chase ended the song everyone started clapping and cheering, Cassie walked on stage with a huge smile on her face "What was that for?" Her
Voice erupted through the speakers but she didn't care.
"It was all for you because" he took her hand "I like you Cassie and I mean I really like you, and I want to be with you"
Cassie looked deep into his eyes "I like you too Chase" she barely got out before Chase kissed her; the kiss was short and sweet. Chase and Cassie broke the kiss with huge smiled on their faces.
Leo hopped up on stage "Finally" he shouted, "now as I have taken the 'Best Friend' role I must say" Leo suddenly turned serious and looked at Chase "if you ever hurt her I will hurt you" Chase and Cassie laughed at his attempted threat "Now let's get this party started DJ cue the music"
Cassie laughed "that's my best friend for you" she said to no one in particular as her IPod playlist played through the speakers. The first song played was 'Listen to your Heart' by Cascada. Everyone swept onto the floor chatting and dancing.
Chase held out his hand "May I have this dance"
"You may" Cassie smiled as he led her to the dance floor. They danced and he twirled her to the music, it was perfect Chase and Cassie finally got together. Bree walked up to Leo who was sitting on a chair eating pizza.
"You know I'm surprised it took them this long to get together" Bree chuckled lightly.
"I know, Cassie's liked him since we first moved in" Leo told her as he took another bite of his pizza.
Bree raised an eyebrow "there's no way someone like my brother that fast, I mean he's… Chase"
"She did and everyone saw it"
"Except Chase" Bree finished with a chuckle.
"And it was so obvious that she did, did you see her when Chase went to the dance with Danielle" they laughed at the memory.
"I'm still trying to get that makeup off, she held me captive for two hours getting ready for that dance" they laughed again
Back to Chase and Cassie who were still dancing
"I have a confession to make" Cassie said smiling
"And what's that" Chase stopped dancing slightly
"I've kind of, sort of, liked you since we met"
"And that would be so shocking if you weren't so obvious" Chase smirked.
"Me. Obvious." She chuckled "Look who's talking, I'm not the one who spiked out on the whole football team because Trent was hitting on me"
"Well, that was just because he was a jerk had nothing to do with you, but you basically fangirlled over me when you first saw my bionics"
"Mmm, your bionics, not you" Cassie smiled proudly.
"Whatever" Chase rolled his eyes
"Whatever" Cassie mimicked before she pulled him into a quick kiss.
The rest of the night they all took turns dancing with Cassie and Adam and Leo gave her their gifts. Adam got her little TARDIS earrings and Leo got her supernatural shoes. The night was great until Perry showed up and did a conga line with her cats. After a few hours they cleaned up and headed back home.
The next morning Cassie and everyone was eating breakfast when Mr. Davenport came running down the steps.
"Okay, Cassie" He called her attention "Since I wasn't here yesterday to give you your present, I got you it today" Mr. Davenport opened the door and none other than David Tennant.
Cassie jumped up and ran over to the door right in front of David "Oh my gosh! You're David Tennant" Cassie jumped up and down squealing.
"You must be Cassie" he said watching her jump "Is she always like this" he asked Mr. Davenport.
"Yeah" Everyone said.
"Okay Cassie, I got you a day to hang out with David Tennant, make it count"
Cassie just squealed again and took David's hand "Let's go" she pulled him out the door and down the driveway.
"What did I just do" Mr. Davenport asked shaking his head.
A/N Yes Cassie and Chase finally got together, and I know some of you are like Chase singing? I just thought it be really cute if that's how they got together. And I just couldn't resist bringing David into this. Love him so much. So…
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