Fic: 'Let's All Go to the Lobby' (Power Rangers Jungle Fury, gen, Casey/Fran, G, 1/1) Title: Let's All Go to the Lobby Fandom: Power Rangers Jungle Fury Characters: ensemble Word Count: 509 Rating: G Challenge: Fic tag meme: "That's Amore!" - later that evening. Disclaimer: No one mentioned belongs to me. Summary: Casey begs his teammates for a favor.
Let's All Go to the Lobby
"Why don't you head on home, Fran, we'll lock up," Casey offered.
"You're sure?"
"Yeah, no problem." Casey beamed at her brightly, earning a smile in return.
"Okay. I'll see you in an hour, then?"
"Absolutely," he promised her. "See you then." Casey waved Fran out the door, locked it after her, switched the sign to 'closed,' and turned to find his teammates smirking at him. "What?"
"'See you in an hour'?" said Lily. "Do you have... plans, Casey?"
"Uh, sorta. I, uh, I kinda asked her out to a movie," he said. He could feel the blush rising but knew there was nothing he could do to stop it.
Lily beamed. "Casey, that's fantastic!" Even Theo looked moderately impressed. Fighting bad guys was one thing, but asking a girl out took a different level of guts.
"So you're doing it tonight?" she asked.
Casey's smile faltered nervously. "Yeah, we are, but that's sort of the thing. I kind of told her it was a... you know, a group thing."
Theo caught on quickly. "You're kidding me."
Casey chewed his lip. "I'm sorry. It just sorta... came out. I didn't want to scare her or anything." What he didn't add was that he was a little bit scared himself, and that he was throwing himself at their mercy. "Please, guys?" he asked, just the right note of pathetic where they'd take pity on him. "I wouldn't ask if it wasn't important."
"What if we had plans?" said Theo.
"Theo," Lily hissed.
"What if we did?" he asked.
"Lil?" Casey said, knowing he was begging. "Please?"
"Oh, all right-" she began, but the rest of it was lost as he flung an arm around her shoulders and pulled her in with a hug. The other arm was reserved for Theo, who resisted and ducked away.
"I didn't agree to this," he said.
"Oh, come on, Theo," said Lily. "It'd be a nice change of pace from working, and training, and fighting, and training, and working, and fighting..."
Theo rolled his eyes. "I like those things."
"If you won't do it for Casey, do it for me?" She batted her eyes comically, but when Theo's face remained stony, she abandoned that tactic and opted instead to swat at his bicep. "Come on. You owe me."
"No, you owe me," he said. "And I guess you'll owe me another one after this."
"No, I'll owe you," Casey said enthusiastically. "Thanks, man. I really appreciate this."
"Tell you what. Get this place cleaned up, Cinderella, and then we can all go to the ball." Theo crossed his arms over his chest and his meaning was clear.
Casey didn't mind. "You got it!" he said, reaching for the mop.
He went right to work cleaning up for the day, and behind him, he thought he heard Theo hissing, "I told you this would happen. I told you."
Casey grinned to himself and shook his head. Theo, and maybe even Lily, would probably make him pay for this later. But right now, he didn't mind.