Late birthday art but... Happy Birthday, Adam!! 🫶

Pairing: Adam du mortain X Carter Dionne (F!Det.)

Fanfiction: the wayhaven chronicles

Wordcount: 1.0k

Warnings: None (Just Adam fluff!)

Ratings: General

Tagging: @winterkeys ( if you want to be tagged in my future works please let me know!😊. )

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Carter’s POV:

Note: Hey! I had some free time so I thought I’d do a quick drabble about the detective revealing her past with Bobby to Unit Bravo.

Pairing: Detective Adam Du Mortain

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Detective Kingston fell back on the chair with a groan. Before she had made her way to the warehouse, she was stopped by Bobby. Incessantly pestering her with questions about her progress with the case, her protection of the town and Unit Bravo. Bobby had a talent of making Adaline feel as though she was never good enough. It was something he had done since their time dating. An insecurity that never really left her.

“Are you okay, Adaline?” Nate asked as he placed a hot mug of tea down in front of Adaline. Adaline smiled warmly at Nate. She was lucky to have found such a close friendship with Nate. He always knew the right thing to say or do when she sad.

“I’m okay. Just… Bobby.” She grimaced. Nate offered a sympathetic smile.

“Oh. That guy,” Felix’s face scrunched in disgust. “What were you thinking?”

“Felix! That is impolite to ask.” Nate scolded, shaking his head in Felix’s direction.

“Sorry, Adaline. I just can’t wrap my head around how somebody as great as you ended up dating such a moron.”

Adaline laughed gently, followed by a shrug. “He wasn’t always like that.”

Felix’s brow raised. “Then what happened?”

“Felix!” Nate reprimanded, but he couldn’t ignore the peaking curiosity he was also feeling.

“It’s fine, Nate. We are a team, and friends, I have nothing to hide from any of you,” Adaline smiled gently. “I guess we always kind of knew each other. In school, I mean. He was always slightly cocky but I never had much interaction with him. We were in completely different circles. Anyway, we ended up going to the same college by complete accident.”

At this point, each member of Unit Bravo’s interest was directed on the story. They were all thinking the same as Felix whenever they saw Bobby.

“I guess we just naturally gravitated towards each other because we didn’t know anybody in college and we only knew each other. I had no idea he was even there until I went to a welcome party on the first week of college and bumped into him. I was…” Adaline coughed awkwardly. “Very drunk. To mask how nervous I was moving out of Wayhaven for college. And I guess one thing lead to another and-”

Before Adaline had a chance to finish, she was interrupted by Adam’s hand slamming against the table. A complete accident in a moment of jealousy at the admission between the detective and Bobby.

The interruption made Adaline’s throat hitch. The thought that Adam was jealous ignited a heat within her. Was he truly jealous? Does that mean he does care about her in the way she cares for him? She didn’t dare to get her hopes up, swallowing the heat down her throat.

‘Bobby is an insufferable idiot. How could Adaline fall for that?!’ was swimming through his head and before he knew it, his hand was slamming the table. He coughed awkwardly, shifting in his seat. “My apologies, Detective. Please… continue.” The last sentence came out of his throat strained. He didn’t want her to continue but admitting that would mean he would have to admit the growing jealousy in his stomach. Felix’s eyes sparkled at the scene in front of him.

“Uh, yeah. You can kind of guess the rest. And then he asked me out on a date and it went from there. I thought he was just confident at first. It was something I admired. He knew what he wanted.”

Adam flinched at the last sentence, the words cutting deep. He knew Adaline and him were complicated. He knew he was denying his feelings for her. And yet, she was here, discussing about how she once admired Bobby for being the complete opposite.

“So when did he turn into such an ass?” Mason remarked, causing Adaline to chuckle. But the chuckle wasn’t as genuine as normal. There was a slight pain in her expression as she looked back on her time with Bobby.

“He just… He changed when we started college classes. It became about being the best all the time. Everything was at an expense of him being the best. I was never good enough for him in the end. My hair wasn’t perfect enough. My make up wasn’t right. I was too sarcastic, or I wasn’t outgoing enough. It was a never ending list,”

Adam frowned. How could Bobby have Adaline in such a way and not be in complete awe of her? How could anybody think she was not good enough? His eyes scanned her face. It was pure beauty. His eyes softened and it took him everything not to wrap his hand around hers and take the pained look on her face away. Instead, he frowned and put his hands on the table to try and ignore the urge pulling him towards her.

“I found out he plagiarised my work I had been working on for weeks. But I was dumb enough to forgive him.”

“Why?” Felix asked.

Adaline sighed, thinking hard on the question. She knew Felix meant no harm and he was simply curious. She also said that there was nothing she would hide. “I wanted to feel wanted,”

Another cut to Adam. Something he, again, wasn’t giving to her. He turned his attention to the window, looking outside.

“I grew up without my Dad and Rebecca was always away working. Bobby… gave me the idea that he wanted me. Not in a sexual way… but in a way that he wanted to spend time with me. At first anyway. I found out a while later that I wasn’t the only girl he, uh.. wanted.”

“Then why did you stay?” Felix asked.

“Because, when you think you love someone, it makes you stupid sometimes.”

“Did you love him?”

Adam’s attention snapped back to the detective, much to his dismay. His heart was pounding against his chest waiting for Adaline to answer. He knew a “yes” would feel like a knife ripping into his chest. He knew the detective would have obviously have been with other people before, but it wasn’t something he enjoyed to hear.

“No. I thought I did at the time. But I realised I was in love with the idea of being wanted. The idea of love, I guess.”

The room was quiet. The deepness of the conversation hanging in the air. Adaline sighed. She didn’t care for Bobby romantically anymore, but it was still a painful time in her life.

“Well. I think it’s safe to say, he is a real moron and it’s his loss.” Felix smiled. A genuine, soft smile as he placed his hand over Adaline’s.

“Agreed.” Mason nodded, causing Adaline’s eyes to widen slightly in shock. She searched his face but found that he was being completely sincere.

“Adaline… thank you for being so honest with us. It’s an honour that you feel comfortable enough to tell us things like this. Truly.” Nate smiled, meaning every word.

“It is important that we can be honest with each other. It will make working together much easier.”