Midsummer Nights Dream pt2
Title: Midsummers Night's Dream
Author: scottiegilles
Rating: ???
Word Count: 1509
Artist: scottiegilles/ sorry some of the pictures look a bit weird trying to fit casey's head on to luke or noah's body is harder than i thought
Disclaimer: no copyright infringement i don't own any of the characters they belong to As the world turns and CBS and story originally Shakespeare.
Beta: Ashavan Doyon huge thanks goes out to him!!!
Summary: The story of Midsummers Night's dream based in Oakdale.
Hermia: Noah Mayer
Lysander: Reid Oliver
Helena: Luke Snyder
Demtius: Casey Hughes
Puck: Ethan Snyder
Oberon: Holden Snyder
Titania: Lily Snyder
Theseus: John Dickson
Hippolitta: Lucinda Walsh
Part 2
“He's with me,” Noah says. Everyone is silent, stunned, their eyes fixed on Noah and on Reid.
“What?” John doesn't believe this is happening, he can't believe it.
“He's with me,” Noah repeats, louder and with a soft smile at Reid.
Ethan clicks his fingers and you are standing in a living room. John, Lucinda, Casey, and Luke all stand around quizzing Reid and Noah about their relationship, trying to understand just what is going on.
“I mean who is he! What is he to you!” John paces back and forth as he speaks.
“Reid and me, we love each other very much,” Noah says, trying to avoid the open heartbreak in Casey's eyes.
“Don't be stupid, you cannot mean...” starts John.
“We do mean it,” Reid interrupts, a tinge of fierce protective anger in his voice. “If there had been any other way of doing it...”
John laughs. “Well let me think!? Maybe if you jump on the table and start dancing!”
“John please don't,” implores Noah.
“Noah?” says Casey, speaking for the first time, “What is going on here?” He is struggling to come to terms with everything that is happening. Luke sees the heartbreak there, the heart that Noah is busy trying not to see and feels so sorry for Casey.
Angry, John starts again, “You can't just change your mind like that!” He looks at Lucinda for support.
Noah looks at the floor. “I tried to tell you, but you wouldn't listen.”
John is shocked enough to go silent.
Lucinda tries to be a voice of reason. Her voice is calm and measured as she speaks to Reid. “Do you work with Noah, is that how you met?”
“Umm no I am out of work at the moment. I've not found a job good enough for my skills.”
“Noah?” Casey says again, a plea in his voice.
“Casey, I'm really sorry. I should of told you sooner.”
“You can't leave me just like that,” Casey says, his voice tortured, “I've known you all my life, wanted you...”
“I love Noah,” Reid says looking at Casey.
“Anybody can say that...” replies Casey.
“But you never did, Case,” says Noah, “never.”
“That's not true! I was always telling you!”
Noah smiles sadly. “I used to say I love you, and your reply was 'same here.' You always did it.” He walks over to Casey and pulls the sliver band off his finger, handing it to him, then he walks to the door that leads upstairs followed by Reid. John goes to follow him but Lucinda stops him and takes him out the back door to all the guests still waiting for answers.
“Don't worry everybody,” says John, greeting the barrage of questions from the assembled guests. “There will be an engagement tomorrow, and we will be toasting the happy couple.”
“John! You heard Noah. They spilt up.” Lucinda can't believe John is trying to pretend nothing has happened.
John glares at Lucinda, “Casey Hughes and Noah Mayer will be engaged soon... in the mean time please enjoy a drink! Or two!”
You hear Ethan click his fingers and the world spins in and out of focus. You find yourself back in the lounge, Casey slumped in the sofa, Luke sitting next to him.
Ethan stage whispers in a sing song voice “Luke and Casey sitting in a tree K.I.S.S.I.N.G Luke loves Casey! Luke loves Casey!”
Luke tries to put his hand on Casey's shoulder.
“Don't!” Casey flinches away from Luke. Casey sighs, “One minute you're... or you think you're in... then the next it's all... gone.” Casey looks at the floor. “He is the one thing that I love. He's it, my only...”
You can hear Ethan suppressing giggles. “Oh! The irony! Luke loves him and he doesn't have a clue!”
“...and he's just... gone,” continues Casey. “Whatever you had to say, Luke, I appreciate it, but it's not gonna help, it just. It can't.”
“Noah I don't think we should hang around,” says Reid. He's waiting in Noah's room watching Noah's ass which is stuck up in air enticingly as Noah looks for something in his bottom drawer. Reid resists the temptation to causally stand behind him. Noah finds what he was looking for and stuffs it into a bag. He groans softly. It's just awful what he's done to Casey. Reid walks over and takes Noah's hands in his.
“Hey, come here. The hardest part is over now,” says Reid.
Noah pulls Reid in a tight squeeze in his arms. “You better be worth it, Doc!” He has a small smile on his face.
Reid kisses him. “You are so...” Reid starts, but Noah puts his a finger on Reid's lips.
“If you knew how much I wanted you...” says Noah, But Reid interrupts Noah with another kiss.
Luke walks past in the corridor, stopping at the sight of Noah and Reid kissing and coughs to make his presence known. “Remember me?” Luke looks at Noah as he speaks, “Loyal friend and voice of reason?”
“Hi Lewis,” Reid says.
“It's Luke,” says the young man, looking pointedly at Noah. “We need to talk.” Noah nods and joins him in the corridor.
Luke's voice is hushed, meant for Noah's ears alone. “How well do you even know him? And how come you've never mentioned him before?”
“I knew you'd stick up for Casey. I know how fond you are of him,” Noah says.
Luke glares at him. “A bit fonder than you, I'd say, by the looks of things!”
“I'm not doing it to hurt Casey. I'm not, Luke. I'm doing it 'cause I found a guy who I really, really love.”
Reid picks up Noah's bag and follows Noah into the corridor. “Noah, come on.”
Noah looks at Luke's expression. It's full of anger and regret and frustration. “You think I'm making a mistake with Reid don't you?”
“I think your making a terrible mistake.”
“When you find someone you love as much as I love Reid. I hope... Luke, you'll understand, you will.”
“Noah,” Reid says, holding out the bag.
“Where are you going?” asks Luke. The fight in his voice is gone.
“Lakeview. Reid got us a room,” says Noah. He turns to go, then turns back for a moment. “Just be happy for us Luke, please.”
Luke watches Noah and Reid walk down the corridor and down the stairs. Then he looks out the window and sees John and Lucinda talking in the back garden.
“You're not going anywhere. You'll do something you'll regret. Noah just needs time” Lucinda says as John paces back and forth.
John shakes his head, his face red with anger. “Noah needs time,” he says in a mocking sing-song. “Time to run off who knows where with a useless nobody!”
“He's not a tramp, he's just unemployed,” says Lucinda.
“You say that like I should be reassured. Noah doesn't even know him!”
“Noah changed his mind, and running after him like a raging bull is not going to help change it back,” says Lucinda, her voice still calm, almost soothing.
“Who is this Reid who-ever anyway? It's like he... it's like he brain washed our Noah,” says John.
“Maybe he feels confused or pressured? Maybe the man she thought she loved doesn't make her heart sing any more.” Lucinda stared at John right in the eyes, “it does happen.”
“Yes. Well, last time I checked, the heart is an internal organ. The chances of it singing seem very remote, so if you've finished spouting new age drivel, perhaps you can address the matter at hand!” says John, turning his back on Lucinda.
“He didn't feel like he could come to us and talk about it. Don't you think that's what we should be worried about?” Lucinda is staring at the back of John head, boring a hole in it with her gaze as she wills him to turn round and face her. When he doesn't, she goes over to the table with the drinks on it and pours them both large glasses of wine. John seizes the opportunity while her back is turned to escape into the woods.
“Me thinks I hear my parents call!” Ethan says brightly. Then he looks you up and down. “I guess you'll have to come with me. You're human and bound to fall into the pond or out of a tree if I leave on your own. Come on!”