Disclaimer… Casey and Cappie are together, Rebecca is dating Rusty. Evan is gay with Calvin. I own Greek. A moron does not run America. Iraq is a utopia of peace and love.

Summary: As Casey prepares to leave collage after graduation, a strange sense of fear holds her back. Soon she meets Cappie who just might solve her problems.

Prequel: Life in LA

As Rusty got into the car, Casey looked at CRU one last time. After four years of trauma and heartache, she was leaving for the final time. Her goodbyes were said, everything was packed, but…something was missing, unfinished, incomplete. Maybe it was the fact that for the first time Casey had ever been here the campus was empty of students. Most seniors had stayed an extra day, but by now, everyone was packed up and gone, onto their new lives.

“Casey?” Rusty asked. “You know in order to leave, you actually have to start the car. What‘s going on?”

“I don’t know Russ. I feel like there’s something unfinished.” She told him.

He nodded knowingly. “Yeah, lots of people were saying you’d feel like that. Tell you what, I will take the train home while you stay and figure it out. I want to see more of the country.”
Casey smiled at him. “Are you sure?”

He got out of the car. “No problem. Good luck, sis.”

Once the bus had picked up Rusty, Casey got out of her car, and walked towards ZBZ. The house was unlocked, as it always was during the first two weeks of summer. Her home of the past three years was silent and empty. Even the furniture was gone, locked in the basement until next semester.

As she wandered through each room, Casey remembered Lizzie. She was certainly annoying, but in the end, she had understood Casey’s feelings, and helped her use to rules. Even Frannie, once she realized Casey was not taking any more of her crap, was much better. She paused at Rebecca’s room. It sucked having Rebecca date Cappie. Still, after they had broken up was way more mellow. She and Casey would never be friends, but they could at least tolerate each other.

When she closed the Sorority door behind her, Casey took a deep breath and blinked tears out of her eyes. Saying goodbye to four of the best years of her life was definitely difficult. There may have been rough patches in those years, but still, she loved ZBZ and everything about it.

Out of the corner of her eye, she saw someone coming. “Not Cappie.” She groaned quietly. It was just like him to stay until the very last day he could.

Quickly she ducked out of sight. It might have been the quick head movement, or the sight of Cappie, but suddenly, Casey had a mental picture of a dark green shirt with blue letters spelling out, “Beer is good”.

God, did she still have that shirt? Of course she did. She had held it and cried for them while she was packing up. It was Cappie’s and Casey had taken it years ago. She meant to return it, but something’s were just too hard to let go of.
“Move on!” She told herself, standing up and walking over to her car. It did not to take long to find the shirt.

Once she found it, Casey couldn’t help but remember walking around in Cappie’s room trying to straighten it up wearing that shirt. He had laughed at her, saying it was pointless to clean it up, because it was only going to get dirty again. Casey replied that if his room got dirtier, she would have to come over more often. He kissed her then.

A soft wistful sigh escaped her, but she forced herself to walk down Greek Row.
Logically, once she got to the Kappa Tau house, she should walk straight thought the door and up the stairs.

However, Casey was not logical at the moment, and decided to climb the tree and crawl through his window. It had been a while since she last did that, and she was fairly out of breath.

When Casey had caught her breath, she looked up and glanced around the room. It was unusually clean, with half-open suitcases littering the floor.

His bed lay unmade, and it was towards the bed that she gravitated. With a sigh, Casey lay down and pulled the covers up to her chin. She smiled, breathing in Cappie’s scent.

“Well, Goldilocks, why are you sleeping in my bed?”

Her eyes snapped open. “Cappie” She gasped, and jumped out of his bed. “What are you doing here?”

Cappie made a mock serious face. “Hmm, my bed is here, my clothes are here, and I’ve been sleeping here for the past two years.”

“Right.” She muttered, feeling stupid. “Here.” Casey thrusted the shirt at him. “This is yours.”

“Hey, this was my favorite shirt.” Cappie exclaimed.

She blushed. “Yeah, I found it when I was packing. I thought you’d want it.”

“I do.” Cappie looked at her. “Thank you.”

Slowly she sank down to sit on his bed. “I can’t believe it’s over. These last years were amazing. And now it’s to the real world.”
The bed creaked as Cappie sat next to her. “Don’t worry. I bet you’ve got a great job somewhere.”

Casey perked dup. “Actually yes! A fashion company in LA hired me. How about you?”

Cappie grinned. “There’s a law firm in Los Angeles who wanted my special skills.”

“A lawyer?” Casey asked. “I forgot you were taking those classes. I’ve got to go. I have to see if there’s a ZBZ who can hook me up with an apartment in LA. Good luck, Cappie.”
She gave him an awkward hug, then headed towards the door. Cappie stopped smiling. “Yeah. Good luck to you too.”

Casey was halfway down the street when he caught up to her. “Hey.” He said, breathing hard. “Look, I have an apartment already, the rent is a bit much, and so if you’re interested, you could move in and split the rent with me.”

She smiled. “Cap, I’d love that! Thank you. When is it available?”

“I’ll be moving in two weeks from now.” Cappie answered.

Casey thought for a second. “Would it be okay if I came around then? My job starts on the sixteenth. I’d like to get settled.”

He stuck his hand out. “You’ve got a deal.”

She shook it, and then said. “This is so surreal.”

“Never thought you’d be living with me?”

She never thought she’d be living with anyone but him. “Yeah, so I have to go. Are you heading out soon?”

“Well, I was going to crash here for a while longer, and then head out for California.”
Casey crinkled her brow. “You aren’t going home to see your parents?”
“Ah.” He explained. “They’re in Africa right now. I think. Anyway, I haven’t seen them in a while.”

“Oh Cappie!” She hugged him then, and he hugged back. “I’m so sorry.” She wasn’t sure what she was apologizing for, just that she was.

He came down and rested his head on her shoulder to breath in her scent.

When they broke apart, Casey invited. “Come home with me. We can go to LA together, and you can stay with my family until then.”

“Alright then. Away we go!” Cappie said. “Where exactly are we going?”
Casey smiled. “To the future.”

“Come brave time traveler.”
“You are such a dork.”

This is just a prequel! I hope you enjoyed.

I think I’m going to make Fanfiction history right now. I would rather all you readers not to review, and instead write your own Cappie/Casey fanfic. Or update one you already have up.

Don’t get me wrong, I would love you if you reviewed, but I’d love it more if there were more Band-Aids to get me through the Cappie/Rebecca relationship. PLEASE?

It should be noted however, that reviews will get a more imediate update, while stories will have an inspirational effect. So a mix of the two would be perfect.

Coming soon:

She slid into bed, and he was about to leave when he saw the picture. The exact copy of the picture he had, taped to the side of her mirror. The only difference was that Casey had drawn a small word on the bottom. “Forever.”
“Sweetheart.” He whispered. “What we have is forever. You just have to realize it.”