it’s Cassandra Cillian/ Eve Baird, so casseve or ceve or whatever name we’re using these days. the librarians is a fandom i’ve been in for ages, and i miss that show dearly.
i’ve literally been writing this fic for years (well. technically i wrote it all in one go ad have been looking at it once every six months or so.) and im finally happy with it! also i really want people to read it.
please, if you can, let me know what you think! I’m so so so excited to finally share some of my writing!! Hope you like it!!
You write some of the best fanfiction in the Librarians fandom! If you have the time, could you maybe write some casseve? Thanks so much for everything you've given to the fandom so far!
Oh my goodness, you are so freakin’ sweet! This means so much to me because I know there are quite a few good writers in this fandom, so I really am honored you consider me a part of them!!
Anyhow, I really hope you enjoy this! I think these two are so cute, especially just imagining them all blush-y and nervous, haha! Plus, it was fun delving into other ships in the fandom; I think they’re all great!
Cassandra had never really been in a realrelationship. That wasn’t to say she didn’t want to be in one. There hadbeen plenty of cute boys and girls in her high school, but her parents didn’treally let her actually go to high school so she didn’t really get theopportunity to know any of them. After school, she either spent her time in thehospital or at her job…in the hospital. The only people she really got to meetwere her coworkers and none of them really held any respect for the first floorjanitor.
Still, despite all this, she apparentlyhad ‘game.’ At least, according to Jake she did. When she’d asked what the hellhe meant, he’d come up with several examples.
“Remember that time you were princess charmin’?”he had said. “That Italian girl liked you too. Oh! And that little Lucy Lyonsgirl definitely had a crush on you by the end of the day.”
She’d told Jake he was just being silly,but she also knew he wouldn’t lie to her about something like that. Becausedespite their arguments sometimes, Jake and her were pretty alike. And, despitetheir initial dislike towards each other in the beginning of theirLibrarianship, they’d become intimately familiar over the years with each other’spasts.
For example, Cassandra knew Jake wasbisexual, and he knew she was too. He knew she’d never really dated anyone, andshe also knew, despite his constant boasting, the girl in the Tesla town,Mabel, had been the first person Jake had kissed in a very long time. She knewthat she was the first person Jake had had real feelings for for the first timetoo.
This also meant that Jake knew ofCassandra’s feelings for someone too. And he was constantly egging her on. He’d point out that Cassandra wasapparently good at flirting and that she could get anybody she wanted, noproblem. But Cassandra knew there was one person she couldn’t get, and it wasthe one person she wanted the most.
When Cassandra had first met Eve, she knewshe was beautiful. There was just simply no denying it. Then she got to knowher and found her to be stubborn in the best way, loyal, just, and caring. Shewas also strong, and the way she punched people and knocked them out in one gocould be really hot.
Sure, she and Eve had had their disagreements,but now Eve thought of them as a teamand not her soldiers. Now they worked together flawlessly. Now there wasnothing for Cassandra to convince herself that it would be a bad idea to act on her feelings because sheand Eve were perfect together as teammates; why wouldn’t they be perfecttogether as girlfriends?
Or, at least, that was Jake’s argument.
“Just talk to her,” Jake was saying nextto her. She was sitting next to him at his desk trying to covertly stare at Evefrom across the Annex. She was sitting at Flynn’s-desk-that-was-really-hers andwas flipping through a book. She did that a lot. Ever since their missions hadslowed down, Eve would do whatever she could to teach herself about any and allbad guys they could possibly go up against in the future. Did Cassandra mention that Eve was alsosuper protective? And that it made her feel safe for the first time sincefiguring out that her life was going to be scary and short?
“I talk to her all the time, Stone,”Cassandra said stubbornly. She was basically pouting next to him, but she justcouldn’t help it. Eve was just soperfect and perfectly imperfect, and Cassandra was falling for her so hard. But she was Eve and Cassandra was going to diesooner rather than later and she couldn’t do that to her.
Jake rolled his eyes. “Not what I mean,Cass.” He sighed, glancing at her from his computer that was open to somethinghe’d been writing. “It’s just…you like her, right? Like you really like her…and she’s the first personyou’ve ever liked like this, right? Then why wouldn’t you at least try…right?”
Cassandra glanced at him. “You said ‘right’like three times in a row.”
Jake sighed again and closed his laptop, starting tostand. “Look, I get that you’re scared of her rejectin’ you or something, but,at the end of the day, I know Baird likes you. You owe it to yourself to seethat too. Just talk to her.”
Cassandra watched him walk away, nod a silent goodbyeto Eve who had looked up at his movement, and go upstairs. She glanced back atEve to find her flipping through the book again. She inwardly grumbled toherself, debated walking upstairs to find Jake and mope some more but thenstopped herself.
He was right.
She hated it, but he was right. She should just…testit out. She was a scientist for goodness sake. If it hadn’t been for peoplelike her, the world would’ve thought the earth was flat, or that once you got acold you were dead, or that the moon was just a god that chased around the sun,another god. This was her big experiment. Hypothesis: If Cassandra liked Eve,then Eve could like her too. Now for the test.
Cassandra quickly got up and walked over to Eve’sdesk. When she got to the edge of it, she cleared her throat a little. “Um…Eve?”
Slowly, Eve raised her head. When her eyes metCassandra’s, they lit up and a smile tugged at her lips. “Yeah, what’s up?”
“I-I was just wondering…” Cassandra started. “Y-Youturned down Flynn when he first asked you out b-because you said you d-didn’tlike guys, right?”
Eve’s smile turned down a little bit into a confusedfrown, but Cassandra could not let herself get distracted no matter howfreaking cute it was. Eve nodded. “Uh…yeah? But that was, like, two years ago,Cassandra.”
“I-I know!” Cassandra quickly said. “B-but my nextlogical assumption would be that you like…g-girls. L-like me.”
Suddenly Eve’s face was as red as a tomato, andCassandra’s brain was going insanetrying to figure out how she could make her blush again because it was adorable. Eve opened her mouth to saysomething, paused, closed it again, and hummed nervously.
So Cassandra plowed on. “I was j-just thinking that,if you did like me, the n-next logical step would be to ask you on a date…withme. W-we could go to the movies. I kn-know you really like popcorn.” Shestopped herself, tried to get control of herself again, and said, “Logicallyspeaking…of course.”
Eve slowly nodded, her blush getting harder andstreaking down her neck. “W-well…I dolove logic.” She gave Cassandra a grin that was both equally excited andnervous. “And I do love popcorn.” Hercheeks grew redder. “And I do like you…quite a bit actually.”
And, logically, the only thing Cassandra could do nextwas lean over the desk and press a kiss to Eve’s cheek. “Okay…I’ll meet youback here at seven, and we can find a movie.”
When she pulled back, Eve’s eyes were alight and asmile threatened to split her face in two. She nodded. “That sounds wonderful.”
