At first he'd tried to play it off as a temporary condition, but Henry couldn't deny that the evidence wasn't on his side.
He'd stayed a little too long trying to determine whether the late wife of a wealthy banker had actually died as a result of tachycardia, and had been left without a ride home. Jo was on her third Martini, Abe had an old fiend round, and the bus service stopped running at 10. His only option had been to call a cab.
When faced with the trademark yellow paint job and sweat-stained leather seats, his pulse rate had shot up. For a moment, the young man with Italian ancestry had looked startlingly similar to Adam, and the doctor had been unable to reign in his fight-or flight instincts. He'd been so panicked and disorientated that he'd walked all the way home, Abe had been horrified.
Henry had tried again, and again, and again to force himself to hail a taxi, but every time he'd been so wracked with tremors that he'd been forced to abandon the endeavour. It was irrational, unacceptable-and absolutely the result of trauma. He knew that shellshock was no longer a disorder suffered through by soldiers alone, but his ordeal hadn't been anything too terrible. Dying was a regular occurrence for him…perhaps it was due to his complete lack of control?
Adam had had no trouble impersonating a trustworthy, nondescript cabbie. There was nothing stopping Henry's stalker from returning, from kidnapping him in front of the police department headquarters. In fact, the psychopathic cunt was probably waiting for him to book his next therapy session.
"Hello?"
"Ah! Good evening Detective, I was wondering if I might join you at your usual haunt. I'm in the foyer of the station, and find myself unable to reach you."
Jo wasn't someone who would be swayed by Adam, and she was definitely strong enough to avoid getting killed by him- she was someone Henry trusted with his life. If her company came at the cost of his sobriety, it was a price he was willing to pay.
A/N: An anonymous reviewer interpreted this as Jo and Adam, so I had to tweak it a bit.