Thursday: Counterparts
Happy Thursday morning to you all, dears! This is nevcolleil, posting for a final time this week as your guest host :( It's been a lot of fun! For our final prompt, I am throwing out: Counterparts. A Counterpart is "a thing that fits perfectly with another", "something that completes", and also "one remarkably similar to another". Soulmates, twins,
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It's too late to do anything now that Morgan's started the dvd, Casey's glimpsed the one element of this show that could possibly catch his attention, Casey's planted himself on his and Chuck's couch, dragging Chuck down beside him, next to Morgan, and Disc 1 has begun.
Morgan is apologetic, Chuck is uncomfortable, his face burning, and Casey-
Casey is freaking out.
Not grab-your-guns freaking out - which, honestly, for Casey, is less a matter for concern and more a typical Tuesday evening - but freaking out all the same. First he gets very still, very quiet, instead of fidgeting non-stop and making scathing remarks, as he usually does when Chuck and Morgan force him to watch something.
Next his eyes get very wide. His skin looks pinker than normal. And, to tell the truth, Chuck would find it very cute, except Chuck just knows that, any second now, Casey's gonna put two and two together and-
"Wait a minute..."
"John-"
"Chuck, how many times have you watched this show?"
Chuck has a carefully-worded response to that question...
Which he'll never use, because Morgan blurts out, "Oh, so many times! Chuck's watched the sexy Jayne scenes of this show so often, if these were VHS tapes we'd really be- Yeah, and I'm going to go now."
And Morgan does before Chuck can wring his little, loose-lipped neck.
Silence reigns for a moment.
"John. About-"
"The 'sexy Jayne scenes'?" Casey asks.
Chuck cringes. 'Oh boy. Chuck will never live this down.
"That's why you don't like me carrying my big knife?"
Leave it to Casey to be intuitive at the worst possible opportunity for Chuck.
"It's... a thing, alright? A 'I can't concentrate on my work if I'm picturing you licking your knives' thing," Chuck explains, although the damage is done. "Casey, please... Don't make it any worse."
"You told me my knives 'disturb' you."
"They... do." As in, it's disturbing to Chuck, walking around Castle all day half-hard.
Casey stands. Chuck becomes worried that he got it wrong. Maybe Casey doesn't think Chuck is lame for crushing over a fictional character that looks like his boyfriend. Maybe he won't make fun of him. Maybe he's offended, or even angry.
"Casey..."
Chuck goes to rise, but Casey stops him with a glare. And then he smiles... A predatory smile.
"Stay right there, Bartowski. I'm going to go get my knife."
"Oh god."
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