Casey/Zeke vignette

[layne67]

This little vignette is a follow-up of Red, one of eight Borderlines-inspired drabbles written by Liz Hlisabellex. Her sexy drabble has got me thinking of what Zeke’s reaction might be if he saw Casey wearing the same robe. I would like to thank the wonderful vshendria for her generous permission to use her Borderlines!Casey/Zeke characters and the equally wonderful lisabellex for her go-ahead to use that very sexy red robe in this little story of mine.

Title : Red 2
Rating : R
Pairing : Casey/Zeke
Summary : Zeke sees red.
Beta : lisabellex. Thank you so much for everything . You are beautiful.
A/N: Borderlines!Casey/Zeke and Roy belong to vshendria and the original Red belongs to lisabellex. The phrase Art Made Flesh belongs to _grievousangel. Zeke here has nicked it from Houseparty!Viggo.


RED

Casey’s wearing red silk. It’s a robe… a brief, flimsy affair designed with a woman’s body in mind. Roy purchased it with Casey’s body in mind.

Now the robe has slipped open and Roy is staring.

Casey’s absorbed in his handiwork. He carefully spreads his toes and lifts the brush once more to paint red liquid beauty onto short, boyish toenails.

He sighs. He’s found contentment. The serene smile on his face mirrors an inner tranquillity. He’s fully immersed… temporarily disconnected from an unkind world… happy and safe in this perfect moment.

“Red becomes you, Casey Connor,” Roy murmurs quietly.



RED 2


Another time. Another place


Zeke enters the bedroom and stops short. His eyes widen. He can’t believe what he is seeing.

Casey…

Lying propped up on their bed, his eyes closed.

Wearing nothing but the flimsiest of robe. A silk robe that was clearly made for a woman’s body; a blood-red robe that contrasts deeply with his satin-smooth, creamy pale skin. It’s buttoned-up, but it’s opened at the throat, exposing the purpling bruise that Zeke has put there the night before. A robe so sheer and clinging that Casey couldn’t have looked any sexier naked.

Art-made-flesh, the thought comes unbidden to Zeke’s mind and he feels himself growing hard.

Time seems to stand still.

Zeke doesn’t say anything, but Casey twitches and stirs. Perhaps Casey can hear his heart beating loudly and arrhythmically against his ribcage, and the harsh, uneven sound of his breathing.

Casey opens his eyes slowly and looks up uncertainly at Zeke. He sees Zeke’s expression tighten.

“Zeke?” Casey’s voice quivers.

“Where did you get that, that thing you’re wearing?” Zeke asks quietly.

“It’s, it’s mine,” Casey stammers, his eyes round. “Roy b-bought it for me”.

It takes only two strides for Zeke to reach Casey. Shaking, he reaches out and grabs a fistful of silk chiffon. He doesn’t mean to rip the robe, he really doesn’t but that’s exactly what happens. The thin fabric tears with a sickening sound.

For a moment, they just stare at each other. Zeke looks appalled while Casey looks plain frightened as he shrinks back into his pillows.

“You are going to get rid of this,” Zeke enunciates slowly and carefully, trying to control his shaking, “and you are never ever gonna wear anything that shithead bought for you ever again. Do you understand? You know what this makes you look like?” He pauses, then continues without waiting for an answer. ” It makes you look like a – “ Zeke stops himself, horrified at what he is just about to say.

“Go on, s-say it,” Casey’s eyes have started to fill up with tears. He looks devastated. “It makes me look like a, a s-slut. That’s what you were going to say, weren’t you?”

Zeke lets his breath out slowly and releases his hold on the robe.

He turns and leaves the room without another word.

Comments

[-grievousangel.livejournal.com]

So Zeke reads House Party, eh? Good to know!

Well done, darling.

♥

[layne67.livejournal.com]

So Zeke reads House Party And he's anxious to know when is the next offshoot coming up ;D

[-grievousangel.livejournal.com]

Planning to start on Viggo's backstory over the weekend, so hopefully Zeke can be patient for a little while.

[hanarobi.livejournal.com]

Ah, but darling, *everyone* reads House Party. How could we not?

[-grievousangel.livejournal.com]

Zeke's in very good company then!

[alchemie.livejournal.com]

Just like hanarobi said .... *everybody* reads House Party!

;-)

[ex-absolutef238.livejournal.com]

wow. i love this scene and you totally captured a borderlines!casey and zeke dynamic great job girl.

[layne67.livejournal.com]

Glad you like it! I miss B'lines!Casey/Zeke very much.

[lisabellex.livejournal.com]

Well done, Layne. You've written a lovely follow-on. It was great to see Zeke's reaction to Casey wearing the robe Roy that had purchased for him. First arousal, then anger as he finds out that Roy is the benefactor. Poor devastated Casey.

You're a star!

*hugs*

;)

[layne67.livejournal.com]

Which one is it today - pink or red ;)

Any plans on writing a Casey/Zeke Faculty fic? And not necessarily from the Borderlines universe.

And you're my star.

*hugs you back*

[lisabellex.livejournal.com]

Red today, definitely the red.

Borderlines fic...? Wouldn't rule it out. You never know! I just go where the muse takes me, hon.

And you're my star.

Aw thanks!

:D

[vshendria.livejournal.com]

Great stuff! I enjoyed reading it vewwy much.

[layne67.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you enjoyed it. They're your men after all and I'd been rather afraid that you would think that I misinterpreted Zeke.

Thank you vewwy much for reading.

xxx

[alchemie.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I need a Casey/Zeke fix! This did the trick. Excellent!

[layne67.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I just had to write this when I read Liz's Red. My first thought was oh no, Zeke's going to hate this robe and that's leaving the whole nail polish thing out of the equation. You know, him being Zeke. Sasha would probably like the robe though.My beta and I were discussing a bit on this. She said that Zeke would probably not mind the robe that much if it's not from Roy, or if Zeke's drunk ( he has to be very drunk IMO). What do you think?

BTW I love your icon!

[alchemie.livejournal.com]

I would agree. If it's from Roy Zeke wouldn't be happy. BUT - I'd like to think he'd feel guilty for hurting Casey and would make it up to him. ;-)

Thanks for the comment on my icon. I did the C/Z graphics for vshendria's Borderlines website too. *puffs up chest* :)

[aranel80.livejournal.com]

oh you did those beautiful graphics on the website?! I love those so much, they make the website looks much prettier, very well done!

[layne67.livejournal.com]

Aranel, maybe it's for some Casey/Zeke photo manips? *grins*

[layne67.livejournal.com]

I love those graphics alchemilla. I think Elijah was at his most beautiful when he was photographed as Casey, you know, the ones with him all in white and with the most tragic expressions on his face.

[alchemie.livejournal.com]

I agree those are lovely pictures. But that's not Elijah as "Casey". They were Elijah modelling designer clothes. But I do think they capture the essence of Casey.

[alchemie.livejournal.com]

ps - Now I'm wondering if you're right. Where those ads out the same time as The Faculty? Elijah was modelling clothes.... but maybe it accompanied an article on The Faculty. *scratches head*

[layne67.livejournal.com]

Actually I didn't know that those photos were ads. But Elijah looked so Casey in them that I just presume that they're taken as part of The Faculty promotional campaign. What brand clothes was he wearing? Were they Tommy Hilfiger's?

[alchemie.livejournal.com]

I guess I'm right. I double checked. Calvin Klein and Helmut Lang. Here's a close up of the page - it was in Madmoiselle magazine:

[aranel80.livejournal.com]

oooh!! I thought you were writing an orlijah! but this is SO good, I love Zeke and Casey and I adore Borderlines!Zeke and Casey!

this is so great and well written, I loved that red robe Liz's invented for Casey..mmmmmmmmm....so sexy. Zeke's reaction sounded pretty much like him, and so did Casey's, very well done honey *muwah*

[layne67.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, that red robe is quite something, isn't it? I'm so glad you like the story, love. And I'm glad that I managed to get Zeke's reaction right. The only thing that I wasn't quite sure was why Casey wore it in the first place. Liz got me thinking when she asked me about that. What do you think?

[aranel80.livejournal.com]

well, I kinda thought about it at first but then I dismissed, but now that you asked me I thought about it some more and heres my theory :P

ok, so I think this might have happened after Zeke got Roy's letter but before he showed it to Casey, so Casey still hasn't made that phone call to Roy yet, Liz has said that Casey in that moment when he was wearing the red robe for Roy he was feeling safe and content, so maybe on that day he was feeling scared and lost and he wanted to wear that robe so he could re-live all those good feelings associated with wearing it, and thats why he fell asleep wearing it cus he was feeling safe and contentn again...umm..I'm not sure that could be accurate, I'm not an expert in Casey's mentality but thats kinda sounds like him to me..

ahem...what about you? what do you think??

[layne67.livejournal.com]

casey wanting to recapture that feeling of being safe and content - now, that's very intersting and could very well be it. My own thoughts on it is basically Casey trying to make Zeke jealous of Roy so the time-frame would probably be during the time when they hadn't had any actual sex yet, when they had just moved to Seattle. Casey wasn't thinking clearly most of the time anyway and he certainly didn't expect the almost-violent reaction that it provoked in Zeke. oh yes, Zeke is jealous alright!

I'm not an expert in Casey's mentality Yeah me too. I'm more with Zeke if you know what I mean. So that last chapter written from Zeke's POV is extra special to me. I really, really feel for Zeke. casey is so lucky to have someone like Zeke loving him!

[aranel80.livejournal.com]

thats interesting too, except why would Casey want to make Zeke jealous?? trying to attract Zeke's attention or something??

well, I've been more with Casey actually, although I can't predict what his reactions would be lots of times but its just like I feel for him more than Zeke, like when he hated that Winnona I hated her too, even when she wasn't really doing anything nasty, but just the fact that Casey hated her made me hate her as well! :P

So, would like to see a Zeke/Casey or Josh/Elijah manip?? I've only done one of them so far..

[layne67.livejournal.com]

Oh gosh I love both of them and I really dislike Winona too. Given half a chance I think she would have pursued Zeke. But as much as I felt like squeezing Zeke’s throat where Winona is concerned, I do understand his reasoning (I think) for befriending W. Zeke is obsessed with Casey. This obsession may not be quite an issue if Casey is healthy but unfortunately he’s not. Hence Winona. It could have been anyone but she was the first person that Zeke met on campus, the first person to offer him friendship. He needed a friend, an outsider, to “dilute” (I cant think of another word) his obsession with Casey. But unfortunately this didn’t work out. Winona was just not the right person. She’s not right for Zeke and she’s certainly not right for Casey. And I doubt if anybody could be that person.

And I love it when Zeke went all masterful, protective and controlling *sigh* Zeke can control me anytime he wants *grins*

As to why Casey would want to make Zeke jealous, well, he probably wanted to push Zeke into having sex with him. He's telling Zeke that Roy had bought the red silk for him, Roy had made love to him, that he felt good wearing that robe. What he didn't expect was Zeke's almost violent reaction!

Borderlines chapter 22 should be up soon. I cant wait for the reunion. And hopefully before you go back to Syria, eh. Just wondering, you cant access the internet in Syria?

[aranel80.livejournal.com]

yeah I understand Zeke's reasons for friending that Winona but his mistakes were the wrong timing and choosing the wrong person to friend, I mean it was obvious that she didn't like Casey and it was obvious that Casey was extremely distressed by his friendship with her and yet Zeke went on friending her and inviting her to his b/day party..but I guess its understandable cus he's Zeke and he always does what he wants!

And I love it when Zeke went all masterful, protective and controlling *sigh* Zeke can control me anytime he wants

oooh! I second that! I think its too damn sexy when he does that! wouldn't mind being controled by him either ;)

yeah I can acess the internet through the internet cafe's there but I dont have internet at my house there, thats why I wont be able to use it everyday and for hours and hours like i'm doing now you know. and I definitly can't post any manip from the cafe! so even if i make some there they'll have to wait till I'm back :)

[honeyandvinegar.livejournal.com]

Haha, found this in that discussion you linked me to. And may I say...
MMM? Yes. Mmmm. Very, VERY good... ;)

[layne67.livejournal.com]

Thank you, hunny bunny. The Zeke in my head was practically pushing me to write this. I wish he ( or Casey ) would push me more often!

[honeyandvinegar.livejournal.com]

Yea lyk... on the bed pushing. ;)
BTW, I made a small poll because you've inspired me to possible work on some sort of "epic" lol! I mention that you've placed "faith" in me. Hee! I have a big idea, which I hope can pan out. Drop by... ;)