Idea triggered by the episode Sniper Zero in season 1 when Larry began contemplating his desire for children and then listening to the police song, "Don't Stand So Close to Me." Loosely set in that time period, Charlie and Amita are still on the wall about things and he hasn't asked her out or anything yet. Ever is 17, the age was originally decided to add irony to Larry getting a 'last minute' parenting gig and also because it adds the tension of her eventual relations with Charlie being illegal.

The main relationship focus will between Charlie struggling with the way his friendship with Ever develops and takes over his life, and Larry trying to parent and relate to Ever.

I know the age gap of around 13 years will bother some people so, sorry but just don't read the story then 'kay? The pacing will be realistic, Charlie's a good guy, not a vicious cradle robber and as in character as I can write. The fic will be third person, but alternating between Charlie's, Ever's and probably Larry's head. Depending on feedback and requests there might be some eventual 'smutt' and in that case I will change the rating.

Recently started fic and will work to put up the first chapter soon.

Chapter 1: Teaser/ Prologue

Chapter Text

~Prologue~

Age is the physical effect of time on a living organism. A person's age was the length of time they had spent living on the earth's fragile crust. It also is the most universal use of numbers and counting across the globe. Charlie could quantify, define and mathematically prove age's existence.

To compare ages is simply to create an inequality, with rare cases of equalities from people being born at the exact same time.

Age was simple, it was known and it was absolute. Everyone that Charlie knew could point at her and look at him and state the unavoidable conclusion, "Too young for you."

Even he could do it to himself. He would say it clearly while he made fierce eye contact with the mirror, "Too old for her."

He could prove and quantify; the information was RIGHT there in his hands. So how come whenever he saw her he involuntarily discarded the information without a second thought?

He could never turn their inequality into anything else. The math was simple, permanent. The inequality was forever.

For Ever.

~Summary~

After a tragic vehicle accident involving an ex-lawyer who was living the last 20 years in a witness protection program and his wife, Larry Fleinhardn'ts cousin, Charlie Eppes' close friend Larry Fleinhardt ends up the legal guardian for his 17 year old niece-once-removed; Everest. Ecstatic at the opportunity to do some last minute raising of his very own child or as he has described, 'worm hole' Larry bends over backwards to please her. He lets her live in her inherited mansion where she grew up by herself, besides dropping by a few times a day.

Since childhood she was home schooled with an arrangement of expensive tutors for all her subjects, except math, which her father taught her himself. In order to legally keep Ever happy and educated, Larry enlists the best math teacher he knows to tutor his new family addition. With the girl adamantly refusing to learn from anyone but her father, is Charlie really up for the job?

Especially when evidence shows up that the accident might not have been so accidental? Charlie and all those closest to him get swept up in Ever and the mess and potential murders that surround her. So why does Charlie feel singled out by the young eager eyes and elusive smile?