For Ida :) 3

In the third installment, Danielle, Dylan and Julie are visiting home, on break from college. Brorson and Kadam are still going strong, but the proposal of marriage only goes well for one of the couples. To make matters even worse - or better? - the complicated love triangle between their daughters eventually begins to affect Kathree...

Some backstory: Dylan is a freshman at the same school where Julie is a sophomore. This is still AU like the first two Certain Challenges', but their story is similar to the show: they were childhood friends, but were separated when Katherine moved away. They became close again when Dylan moved back. Some changes to the canon: Wayne is in prison, and Dylan is the real Dylan.

Certain Challenges III

Julie & Dylan's story.

Adam walked into Katherine's study, finding her at her computer with a shocked expression on her face.

"Ohhhh dear." she said to herself, not yet realizing Adam was there. "Oh dear. Oh my goodness."

"What?" said Adam, laughing a little at Katherine's exaggerated reaction. "What's that, Facebook?"

"Yeah. Mmhm. Yes."

"What's the big deal? Whose pictures are you looking at?"

"Well, you see that girl there? The one with her tongue down the other girls throat?" Katherine pointed to one of the pictures.

Adam laughed again. "Yes, I do. It's kind of hard to miss."

"That's Danielle. Bree's daughter."

Adam almost choked on nothing. "Whoa." He started to notice other details in the pictures, like the fact that everyone was holding red plastic cups and were all falling over or laughing hysterically. "Looks like a pretty wild party."

"I guess so." Katherine murmured, wondering what Bree would think if she saw the pictures herself.

Adam started laughing again suddenly, as if he'd just realized something. Katherine turned her head slowly, giving him a look.

"What...is so funny?"

Adam stifled the laughter and cleared his throat.

"Well...isn't her son gay too?"

Katherine sighed. If it were anyone other than Bree she might have laughed along with him, but she knew how Bree would react and she felt awful just having seen the pictures first.

"What are the chances?" Adam continued, allowing himself another chuckle.

"Maybe she's just experimenting." said Katherine. She was already thinking of ways to break it to Bree gently.

"You'd know all about that." Adam teased her, elliciting another look from Katherine.

"That was different." Katherine insisted, pretending to be hurt by his comment. "And I wasn't drunk off my ass." she added, gesturing toward the computer screen.

"If I got you drunk, would you do it again?"

This time Katherine reached out to smack Adam's arm.

"Adam! What am I going to dooo? This will devastate her!"

"There's nothing wrong with what Danielle is doing!" Adam said, still laughing.

"You clearly do not understand the way Bree Van de Kamp's mind works."

"Okay," he continued. "She's still underage so she shouldn't be drinking, but is kissing another girl really that bad? On the grand scheme of things?"

"Of course not, I find it perfectly acceptable-"

Katherine stopped and pouted when she saw Adam smirking again.

"It's perfectly acceptable, to me." she said. "But Bree-"

"Needs to loosen up." Adam interrupted. "So until she does, don't say a word. All we have to go on is one or two pictures from an obviously crazy night, it could have been a dare for all we know. And if Danielle does turn out to be gay, then it will be her decision to tell her mother and anyone else she wants to."

"That's...very wise advice, Adam." Katherine told him begrudgingly.

"Thank you. Now are you going to follow it?"

"I don't know."

Adam chuckled again. "How did you find these anyway?" he asked.

"Dylan sent me the link to her profile, and I saw that she and Danielle were friends, so I clicked and it just kind of spiraled from there."

"Pandora's box, huh?"

Katherine pouted again and said "At least Dylan seems to be behaving."

Adam rubbed Katherine's back and kissed the top of her head.

"Am I going to meet her when she comes home to visit?" he asked, purposefully changing the subject so she would stop worrying. It worked like a charm. Katherine looked up at him and smiled, touching the hand that rested on her shoulder.

"Of course. I'm really excited about it, actually. Bree and I were thinking of having a big dinner with everyone, so we could introduce our girls to our guys."

"I'm there." said Adam. He leaned down again, and this time kissed Katherine on the lips. He'd meant for it to be just a quick peck but once he felt her soft lips he couldn't pull away so quickly. It also didn't help that she could seduce him with a wink and a smile. "Hmm." he said. "What will it mean for us when Dylan is staying in the next room?"

Katherine smirked. "I guess we'll just have to be quiet, won't we?"

"Something like that takes a lot of practice, you know. We should get started right away."

"Shh." Katherine said, standing and pulling Adam by the hand to another room in the house. "We're starting now."