Oh, my goodness...It's finally finished! But it's not how I actually wanted it to. In fact, I had no idea how I even wanted it to end but oh, well. Now I can fucus on Party Monster because I have a lot in mind for that fic. Enjoy! And sorry, again, for the long wait.

They all looked to the voice and landed on Casey who was shocked that she was the one who called the stop.

She looked around, to Derek, and then to her mother.

"Case?"

"I'm sorry mom, but I can't watch you do this,"

Casey then walked away from the wedding and down the beach. Amy and Lizzie looked at each other, completely shocked that Casey would even think about stopping the wedding, Sam and Edwin were both shocked as well considering they thought that Derek would be the one to stop the wedding, and Marti, had a bright smile and was already texting people in her phone about it all.

Derek stood there, motionless for a full minute. His dad looked back at him and he snapped back. He looked at his father and walked away from the wedding.

But Casey was nowhere to be found. How could she have gotten away that fast?

Then, off in the distance, he saw her walking along the shore, then stop to sit. Derek then walked over to her and sat down next to her. She had a few tears falling from her eyes and made no move to wipe them away.

"What happened to not stopping the wedding?" Derek asked her a bit rudely. He didn't mean to say it so rude but it just came out that way.

She shook her head.

"What happened to letting your mom be happy, huh?" He continued, "Why did you stop the wedding, and why the hell aren't you saying anything to me?"

"I couldn't okay," she snapped at him, standing up.

"Why not?"

"I just couldn't," she said before she walked away from him but Derek was hot on her tail.

"No, you just don't get to walk away from all of this like nothing ever happened," he said grabbing her arm, "why did you stop the wedding?"

She pulled out of his grasp and continued to storm down the beach but Derek followed.

"Casey," he snapped at her, "why did you stop the wedding?" He asked again, "Casey!"

"Because, I still love you!"

Derek stopped.

Shock and relief washed over his body and he was frozen.

All this time he thought that Casey ended it because she actually didn't want anything to do with him and now, he found out that she still loved him.

"Wait, wait, wait, wait…" Derek said to her, "all this time you were pushing me away and telling me that what we were doing wasn't good for anyone and now I find out that you still love me? How is that even justified?" He snapped the last part at her.

Casey just let the tears flow from her eyes and she shook her head.

"Wanna give me an answer here, Case?" Derek asked. "Do you know how hard it was for me to not stop the wedding? Do you have any idea how hard it was to walk down the aisle with you? To watch you become my step sister?"

"Do you know how hard it was for me?" Casey threw back at him.

"No, I don't," he snapped at her, "I never know how you feel about anything anymore because you never tell me anything! So how the hell am I supposed to know how hard it is for you when you act like nothing is even wrong?"

Casey said nothing.

"Will you tell me something?" He pleaded with her. "Anything,"

"I can't watch my mother marry your father with her being completely oblivious to us,"

"I said- no pleaded, to tell them. I wanted to tell them right away but you said it'd hurt your mom too much. Do you think that she would like to see you hurting as much as you are now?"

"No, but I wasn't going to take her day away from her," her excuse was.

"And we could've told her and my dad about us from day one, but did you want to? No, you didn't." He half shouted at her, "I mean I would have thought that you would have wanted to tell you mom right away, I mean you are Casey after all,"

His lame attempt of a joke seemed to work because Casey fought back a small smile.

She knew he was right about that. She was always doing the right thing and she knew that she should have told her mother about her and Derek from day one to save them from all the heart break in the end of it all.

"I didn't want to hurt my mom," she said again.

"Yes, I get it, you didn't want to hurt your mom," Derek repeated tiredly, "Now tell me the real reason why you have made this worse than it is,"

Tears were streaming down her cheeks. She was afraid to tell him the reason why she wasn't giving in to him.

"Do you have any idea how it felt to walk in and to see you kissing some other girl?" She asked him.

"Oh, don't even bring that shit up again, Casey, God. I've apologized for that over a million times, what more do you want from me?"

Casey shut her eyes and when she opened them, Derek was standing right in front of her.

"I'm sorry, Casey, for hurting you like I did," he continued.

"You'll hurt me again," she accused.

"No I won't."

"How do I know you're not lying?"

It was true, how did Casey know that Derek wasn't going to hurt her again, and how the hell could she put herself through that again?

Derek said nothing. He simply cupped the side of her neck and kissed her softly.

"You're just gonna have to trust me,"

--

"So let me get this straight," George said to them, "you two used to be together?"

"Yeah," Derek said to his dad.

"And now you two wanna get back together," Nora said.

"In so many words," Casey said with red cheeks. "Look, mom, I'm sorry for not saying anything before about it but I just couldn't..."

"Casey,"

"I know, I can usually tell you everything but I was waiting for the right time to tell you about him in the beginning but then he screwed up and then I find out you're getting married to a man I've never met and then the next thing I know, Derek is gonna be my new step brother," Casey sighed, "mom I still love him,"

"Derek," his dad said to him, "you two really dated?"

"Yeah," he confirmed, "but I just wanna say, if you and Nora aren't opposed to it then, you're just gonna have to deal with it because I love her too; I never stopped,"

George looked at his son and then at his soon to be step daughter if he was lucky enough to get married before the day ended and he sighed.

"What if this doesn't work out?"

"Trust me, dad, it's gonna work, I lost her once and I'm not gonna be a jackass again and mess it up,"

And the four occupants of the room were completely unaware of the fact that there were three eavesdroppers outside the door.

"What are they saying?" Lizzie whispered right into Edwin's ear by accident.

"Shh," he shushed her.

"Oh, hell no, you did not just tell me to shh," Lizzie snapped.

"Shh," he said again.

"Both you shut your friggen gobs," Marti snapped, looking back at them. "I'm trying to-"

"Eavesdrop?" A voice finished for her.

Marti looked behind her and saw Derek and Casey looking back at her. She laughed nervously, "Smerek," she then launched herself to him in a tight hug around his middle, "I missed you so much," she cried out, dramatically.

Derek rolled his eyes, "Marti,"

"Okay," she sighed, removing herself from her brother, "I was eavesdropping, but I wasn't the only one,"

"Yeah, but it was you're idea," Lizzie said.

"Hey, don't blame her," Edwin snapped.

"Yeah, if you really think about it, it's all Casey's fault, no offence," Marti said.

"You're gonna stand there in you're little emo crap and blame my sister when it was your brother who cheated on her in the first place? Oh, hell no!" Lizzie defended her sister.

Edwin watched wide eyed as the two girls battled it out until he noticed that Derek and Casey were just paying attention to each other.

"Dad and Nora are cool with it?" Edwin asked causing the girls to stop arguing.

"Huh?" They both asked.

"Long story short," Derek said, "they're cool with it,"

"You're all good now?" A voice asked.

Casey looked and saw Vikki, Amy and Sam with bright smiled on their faces.

"Yeah," Casey nodded.

Amy squealed and clapped her hands. "I knew it!"

"Calm down spaz," Vikki said, "yes, we're all excited for Derek and Casey to get back together,"

"Yeah, but we got a wedding to finish," Derek said, "Dad! Time to get married!" He shouted, banging on the door.

--

This time there was no call for a stop. There was no one to walk away. And there was no one at the wedding who didn't know about Derek and Casey.

And when their parents said 'I do', everyone clapped.

And after an hour, Derek sat down next to Casey and she smiled at him.

"So, I heard that this guy wants to dance with you," Derek said to her.

"Oh, really,"

"Yeah, but he's too chicken to ask you,"

"Maybe I should ask him then," she said to him, catching onto his little game.

"Or you can forget about him and dance with me,"

She smiled and nodded. Derek grabbed her hand and led her to the hardwood panel on the sand and danced to the slow music.

"So, I was thinking, when we get back to school-"

"I don't wanna rush things,' Derek interrupted her. "I just got you back for real this time, I don't wanna do anything to risk losing you,"

"Derek, you're not gonna lose me," she said to him, "I think that you've screwed up too many times to do anything to lose me,"

"Funny," he muttered.

"I didn't mean to make up mad or anything but it's just what I feel,"

"I really am sorry though," he said to her.

"Derek,"

"Alright," he said to her. He was about to say something else but was stopped by her mouth.

She kissed him softly.

"Say it," she whispered to him, after breaking the kiss.

"I love you,"

"Say it again," she said smiling.

"I love you," he said smirking.

She leaned in a kissed him again and Derek broke it.

"Now you say it,"

"I love you, too," she said to him.

"Again,"

She giggled, "Derek,"

"Hey, I wanna hear it again,"

She rolled her eyes, "I love you,"

He leaned in and kissed her softly. She wrapped her arms around him tighter and then they heard it.

"It's about freakin' time!"

Derek looked behind him and saw Ralph.

"Ralphie!"

"I couldn't miss G-Vents wedding," He said smirking.

After a quick man hug, they heard Marti speaking in a microphone.

"Okay, people, settle down,

She was no longer in the dress that Nora had picked for the wedding. She was now in a denim skirt with the pockets showing at the bottom, her hair a neat mess, and of course, her signature mark, a zebra striped shirt.

She tapped her bare foot, waiting for everyone to pay attention to her and she sighed. She saw Derek look at Casey and kiss her.

"Smerek, stop making out with Casey and get up here," she snapped at him, making everyone chuckle.

Derek kissed Casey one more time before he walked up to the stage.

"That means you too, Ralphie,"

He groaned and followed Derek. Marti tossed Ralph drum sticks and a sheet of paper. He read it and then tossed it. She smirked when he sat on the drums and did a quick drum solo. When he ended it, there was an applause and he smiled.

"Okay, so you obviously know that Derek and Casey are back together, which is great but sorry Derek, today isn't about you," she said smirking. "Today is about celebrating the love of my dad, George Venturi, to his new wife, a new mother to myself, Edwin and Derek, Nora. And I'm really happy that my dad found Nora because before her, he was a trainwreck."

George looked at Nora and she smiled before she kissed him on the cheek.

"Kinda like someone else I know," Marti continued. "And because that someone else I know begged me to sing him this song, I'm pretty much stuck singing it right now, so..."

Derek then started playing the music that he helped Marti write and he looked in the audience. Casey was smiling at him with love in her eyes and right then he knew that they were going to be just fine.

--

Two years later...

Derek was sitting behind the monitor, watching his actors on the set.

"No, you tell me why I'm in this book of yours," the brunette on screen demanded from the darker male in front of her.

"I don't know," he said.

She took his notebook and started hitting his shoulders with it.

"Look! I have no idea why you're on every single page," he said to her, "all I know is that I'm supposed to find you," he snatched the book back and flipped open to a page, "and we're supposed to find this little girl,"

The brunette looked at the picture and then back at him.

"Or what?"

"Or our kind is in great jeopardy,"

"Cut!" Derek shouted. The lights turned on and Derek moved from behind the camera. He smirked. "Daniel, Nicole, that's all for today, you guys can leave,"

They nodded and Derek walked back to his crew.

"You know, you could have been a little more easy with the notebook," Daniel said to her.

"How would you feel if someone had sketches of you in a notebook, watching and documenting every little personal moment you had?"

"You don't have any personal moments with me, you sleep with me,"

She scoffed and walked away.

"Derek, this is great," his producer said to him.

"A lot of hard work," he said. "You guys can take off too,"

Derek was the last one to leave the set. He turned around to admire the beauty it held for him and he smirked.

He slid the metal door shut and locked it before he got into his truck and took off.

--

Casey was waiting outside a Starbucks, reading the latest tabloid on her director husband and she shook her head. This week, he was secretly dating his leading lady and last week he was living a double life. She flipped the page and smiled when she read about his second film in the works.

Is first film won so many awards, he was shocked.

She closed the magazine and sipped on her juice.

"Hello, beautiful," a voice said to her. She turned around and smiled. He leaned down and placed a gentle kiss on her lips before he crouched down and nuzzled her flat stomach with his nose, "and hello to you too,"

"Honey, you know it's just the size of a pea right?" Casey asked him.

"Babe," he mocked, "a pea? That's it?"

He smirked and kissed her once more before he sat across from her. He rolled his eyes when he saw the magazine with his face on the cover.

"So what am I doing this week?" He asked his wife.

"Oh, well, you're secretly dating Nikki,"

"Impossible," he said, "Nikki is sleeping with Danny,"

"De-rek,"

"Well, they're not exactly quiet," he said to her, "so what's your news?"

"The producers of Sex and the City want to make a spin off from my book," she said, smiling at him.

Derek then got up from the chair and pulled her up in a tight hug.

"That's great," he said, smiling at her.

He leaned down and kissed her softly and then Casey whined.

"It's Liz, she says she's got some news for me or something," she said breaking the kiss and pulling out her phone, "hey Liz," she rested her hand on Derek's chest and her eyes grew wide, "you and Ed are what?"

"What," Derek asked her.

"Since when?"

"Yeah, since when? What?"

"Have you told mom," Casey asked through her phone, "well tell Ed to call Derek and you guys need to tell the parents,"

"Okay, what is going on?" Derek asked his wife after she hung up the phone. His phone suddenly rang and he answered. "Ed, what's up?" He nodded, "What?"

He nodded and snapped his phone shut.

"Well, we can't give him shit for dating his step sister," he said smirking, "his brother is married to his,"

Casey laughed and nodded.

"Who'da thunk, we got back together on a random hook up," he said to her.

"Maybe not so random," she said to him.

See? I just couldn't find the right ending.