"So, what do I need to wear tonight?" Adam was making them both a coffee as they got ready for work. "Is it a dressy thing, a casual thing or a sweat pants thing?"

Kim genuinely looked confused. "Huh?"

"It's your turn."

"My turn for what?" She wasn't following. Her mind was elsewhere, thinking about Mack and she had even automatically gone to her room to wake her up before realising that she wasn't there. She did really hope she was having a great time, but she missed her just being around. They hadn't heard from the school so assumed that everything was fine. They were pretty good at letting them know Makayla's state of mind.

"Making me smile."

Kim chuckled. "I didn't realise it was a thing but okay." She shrugged. "I'll let you know."

Adam handed her the coffee and brushed his fingers over hers softly. The tension that was building between them was insane and they both liked it and did nothing to stop it. They were making each other smile.

'Casual' she sent him a text just after lunch. Just one word and he looked at it when he was out with Torres and smiled.

"Good news?" Dante asked when he saw his reaction.

"Yeah. Just Kim, it's nothin'." He slipped his phone back into his pocket.

"The message or Burgess?" he had to ask. It had been a little bewildering to him watching them and trying to figure it what the deal was. Finding out they were once engaged, had lost a baby together even though they weren't together at the time and were now living together raising Kim's adoptive daughter had blown him away. Kevin had filled him in and when he commented that it 'was a lot' he was surprised when Kevin told him that that was just the cliff notes, it was a whole thing that took way too long to explain and too many brain cells would die if he tried to work it out. The best Kevin could do was to remind him to 'just stay out of their way.'

"The message." Adam pointed ahead. "Take the next left." He'd let Torres drive for once and he hadn't stopped talking since. If he was in the passenger seat he was quiet as a mouse, behind the wheel he was a whole different beast.

He was surprised when they jumped in an Uber and pulled up outside of Molly's. "Really?" he turned to Kim and arched one eyebrow.

"Yes, we haven't been here for ages and had so many good nights here, with just us or our friends." Kim tugged on his hand to get him out of the car. "Last night, talking about Al it just made me think of them, you know Al, Erin, Jay, Antonio and it reminded me of this place."

Adam refused to let go of her hand even though he felt her pull away as they headed towards the familiar doors. "It's a cool place. I remember one night watching you walk in, you were in a black dress and I felt like I was fucked seven ways from Sunday. It was after that day we spent on Patrol together."

"Intelligence were just over at their own little table and it felt like unless you were invited to join you weren't welcome."

"It wasn't like that."

"Yes it was. You know Antonio was the first person who really acknowledged me on the job. After that rapist case…"

"The one you tracked down the guy through the pharmacy?" Kim did appreciate that he remembered the case, yet he seemed to be able to recall a lot of cases. It was a pity he couldn't remember to take out the trash some days or hang the towels back on the towel rail neatly, but details of cases he was good at. It made her feel good that he remembered her involvement as well.

"Yeah. I just wanted to prove myself and no matter what I did nobody seemed to notice until Antonio did. I appreciated it and I think I maybe when he winked at me….. I had a little crush on him." She blushed when Adam looked at her. "… I said a little."

Adam shuddered playfully.

"And then he called me kid and the crush died." She felt the butterfly's in her stomach when he winked at her right now. Damn him.

Adam found them a table and Kim hit the bar to order them some beers. She didn't recognise the bar staff although a couple of the guys sitting at the bar looked familiar and she nodded at them. They were either cops or firefighters, they just had that look about them.

"Have you talked to Antonio lately?" Adam waited until Kim sat down.

Kim took a mouthful of her beer. "Yeah, he's really into the groove down there. Doesn't miss being a cop that's for sure."

"That's good." Adam nodded. "He was a good cop though. A damn good cop, he was the only one that could keep Voight in line and accountable, most of the time. I thought he'd take over from him one day."

"Me too. I was surprised when he took that job at the DA's office, although that's what got me into Intelligence. He really wanted me to take his spot." Kim reminisced. All she remembered was finding out that he was leaving, Voight offering her the spot and Erin hugging her and Adam running away.

"What was that about?" Adam never quite understood why he chose to leave and then come back. "Not you taking his spot, you'd earned that a hundred times over but it was so sudden that he left."

"He wanted something more stable for the kids I think. Better hours."

"Yeah, well I get that now, I just can't imagine you or I for that matter choosing that path, but then he'd been a cop a lot longer than us. Perhaps you just get tired." Maybe one day they'd be there as well and that wasn't to say it wasn't hard some days with Makayla but right now they couldn't imagine working anywhere else. Adam ordered them another beer when the waitress came to clear the table. "Then again he was the last person I thought would have a drug problem either."

While the conversation was easy and free-flowing the tension was still very palpable. Beneath the table their legs were touching and it felt right. Adam made his leg sway a little and Kim's leg moved with him, it was slow and rhythmic and calming.

"Can I ask?" Kim started carefully. "Why did you do it? You and Antonio weren't exactly besties?"

Adam took a slow mouthful of his beer and thought about it for a moment. "Because he was family, he had a family and one bad decision shouldn't ruin his whole career, he needed help not to be arrested. It was his kid, he was protecting his kid. I kinda know what that's like now, you'd do anything for your kid."

"You almost ruined your career Adam."

He ran his thumb up and down the side of his glass. "Probably. I was in such a bad place, I couldn't save Al, I didn't want the same thing to happen again."

"So it was about Al?"

"Partly yes, but he was family Kim. He was addicted to drugs, going to jail wouldn't have helped him. He's clean now, happy and so…" he tapped the table with his finger. "… it's all good."

Kim slid her hand across the table and rested it on his. "I'm sorry I wasn't there for you."

"I didn't need you to be there for me. It would've been dangerous."

She looked at him strangely until he clarified. "I was still in love with you, you were in love with someone else. It would've been dangerous for me and I needed to protect the people I loved."

A slightly heavy quietness fell over them until Adam changed the subject.

"So tell me about this crush?"

Instantly the mood lightened again. "It was brief, not even really a crush. Are you going to harp on about this all night?"

"Probably." He smiled. "So, are we eating on this date?"

"Date? What date? This isn't a date."

Adam slid off his stool and held his hand out for Kim. "It's a date. Where are you taking me next?"

They stopped for burgers on the way home and the mood was definitely lighter. They talked about when Nadia kicked Adam in the nuts and Kim just about fell off her chair laughing at his graphic description. She knew what he was like when he was even slightly hurt and he followed it up with what it felt like to be tasered.

"When did that happen?"

"That day you had to save Gollum's ass in the warehouse."

The names he had for Roman were extensive and never complimentary and Kim just let them roll and enjoyed the story. She'd never heard it and when she asked why he mentioned that it wasn't the time to talk about because of what she had just been through.

As they left the restaurant Kim reached for Adam's hand while they waited for the Uber.

"I told him once I was a wild child." She blurted out suddenly. Listening to all the wild stories had made her feel like she'd missed out on a lot in those early years.

Adam groaned. "Who? Gollum? I really don't want to know."

"No Antonio." She looked at him dispassionately while he laughed. She did love it when he laughed with his whole heart.

"Did he believe you?"

"I don't think so." Kim started laughing with him. As much as she wanted to think she was a wild child, she wasn't by any stretch of the imagination.

"Kim, babe, skipping out of school early once is not being a wild child."

She pouted a little and pulled her hand away which Adam pulled her in for a hug instead and kissed he top of her head. "Whatever."

At no stage did Adam believe that Kim was a wild child. "Although you can get a little wild with me if you like?"

"After mocking me? I don't think so Babe." She teased him. Yep, things were getting dangerous.