"A Moment In Time"

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Fandom(s): Life With Derek
Character(s): Derek Venturi and Casey McDonald
Pairing: Derek/Casey (kinda)

Rating: K
Words: 197 words

Requested By: none
Challenge/Summary: The ideas that bug her the most are usually the ones she accidentally gives him.
Inspiration: Watching "Power Failure" and it was during the dinner when Casey brought up prefects did the idea hit me.

Spoiler(s): all of series
Time Frame: sometime when Derek and Casey are at Queens.

A/N: At the end to avoid additional spoilers.

*LWD*LWD*LWD*LWD*LWD*

"Revealing More Than Necessary"

She did it again. It has happened so many times at this point that she'd lost count of all the times that she'd manage to repeat the horrendous act. Yet he always remembered them.

Derek relished in the moment every time Casey managed to slip up. Usually it would hurt him when she thought so lowly of him but he would always brush the feeling away when with those thoughts came ideas that never even crossed his mind…he was more amused when those ideas first came from her lips.

Like the time when she was dating Sam and she told him to stay away from Emily. It never crossed his mind to use Emily to get back at Casey for dating his best friend by dating hers. He just needed another French partner for the project.

Or the time when Mr. Lassiter made him a prefect. At first Derek wasn't going to accept the job; he was too cool for that. That is until Casey mentioned the fact that prefects had more power in the school…that appealed to him very much.

Those events only happened during the first year of them living together. Many more had occurred over the years after that, much to Casey's annoyance.

And it was all thanks to Derek.

*LWD*LWD*LWD*LWD*LWD*

A/N #1: I know it's short but it's what popped into my mind when I was watching that particular episode. So what do you think?

A/N #2: Thank you for everyone who took the time to read my latest snippet/challenge on Vampire Diaries (first time I wrote for Forwood), it means the world to me! A special thanks to Ghostwriter and Enx2103 for leaving me a review...I'm loving the thoughts that I get to read and it means the world that you're leaving your thoughts behind for me to read. THANK YOU!

A/N #3: I just wanted to give you guys a heads up that I'm closing in on my final evaluation for the semester before I'm free to my winter break. So bare with me because once Dec. 7th comes, I'm hoping to be able to turn my muse back on and get started on writing the next chapters for hopefully a few of my stories. Wish me luck! (Good luck to those that have exams coming up as well!)

Coming Up Next: Life with Derek (challenge)

Originally Published: November 27, 2011