#alanwarner

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This was the moment Adam dreamed about ever since he was a kid. The moment where he’d find out what it would be like to meet his father. At some point he had built up this perfect integration of a father. He was some war hero, or great scientist working on some cure to save the world. That like the superheroes in his comics, was sacrificing his personal life for the greater good. While at a young age that felt like the truth, he knew as he grew older it wasn’t. Every time he brought up his dad growing up, he could see the look that came over his mom’s face. It pained her, and eventually he realized she felt she wasn’t enough for him--if he kept wanting to know about another parent. So, he simply stopped asking. His mom went above and beyond for him, and he didn’t want to cause her any distress. 

When he was older, and he had the means to find out more about his genetics, he still felt a resistance to it. He never went all in, out of respect for her, coupled with the fear that perhaps it was better to not know. But, there was no avoiding this. Adam rubbed his temples as he took a deep breath. Dr. Halstead gave him the heads up that Alan had already arrived. It was only a matter of time he came out of Alex’s room, and he’d see him. There was nothing that could prepare him for the conversation that was about to take place. It helped he didn’t have any expectations. He abandoned those a long time ago. As he heard the door shut, he instinctively looked up and saw a man walk out. 

Adam felt frozen in time as he just stared at him. For so long that face had only been just a picture tucked into a very old manila envelope buried in a file box in the top shelf of his closet. What felt like twenty minutes, were only seconds before The Dentist off duty stood up, and wiped his hands together, before approaching the man. “Uh--excuse me. Mr. Alan Warner?” He made direct eye contact with the man, with the bravest face he could muster. Though in that gaze a young boy with hopes and dreams couldn’t help but glimmer through in a distant memory.