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A/N: Thanks to everyone who left a review on the previous chapter. So I started this chapter a while back and I had forgotten about it, so much so that I started a new one all together for this story but when I realized my mistake, I finished this one first and the new one I was working on will be the next in line instead.

"Come on Miss Allie, time for bed." Kim called from the kitchen where she was putting the dishes away after Adam had cleaned them.

"I'm not tired mom." Allie was five and they weren't closer to getting her in bed at a decent hour than they were a year ago.

"It doesn't matter sweetie, it's time to be in bed." Kim insisted.

"Nooo." She whined, lying down in the couch in exasperation.

"Allie." Adam warned. "Bed, now."

"But daddd."

"No buts missy but you go in bed now and I've got a special bedtime story just for you." Kim was indignant by the fact that Adam made it happen so easily when Allie bounced excitedly to her room.

"That's not fair." She mouthed at him but he was all smirk.

"It's the Ruzek charm." He argued as he followed Allie in her room. "You ready?" He watched her bounce in her bed and pull the covers up over her.

"Ready." She smiled at her dad.

"I don't think I ever told you this one." Adam pondered.

"The one when you met mommy?" She asked hopefully.

"No but it's the first time I ever worked with mommy." He smiled, remembering it all like it was yesterday. He was still with Wendy then but that didn't stop the instant attraction he had felt to her.

"Mommy never told me you worked together before Intelligence with papa Hank." Her brows were furrowed.

"Well we did, just one day." He mused. "When I first became a cop, I was a cocky son of a bitch."

"Aaahhhhh DADDY! You owe money to the swear jar." Her eyes were big as saucers.

"Don't tell mommy and I'll put the money in your piggy." He laughed when she did a motion of zipping her mouth closed and throwing away the key.

"So, what happened daddy?" She turned on her side and propped herself on her elbow, listening attentively to Adam.

"Well I opened my big mouth to my friends from the academy because I skipped being on patrol like mommy did and uncle Al wanted to teach me a lesson."

"So what did he do?" She asked with a smile.

"Well uncle Al loved to teach me lessons. Some were fun and some weren't so much." He remembered the cell phone off the roof and the adult underwear for stakeouts.

"So what he do?" She asked again.

"He went to see grandma Trudy when mommy and uncle Kev showed up for shift and he thought it would be good for me to work a little bit more, see what I'd miss."

"So what did he do?" Adam only laughed.

"Slow down missy, I'm getting there." He chuckled. "So, grandma Trudy partnered me up with mommy and sent uncle Kev work in my spot in Intelligence."

"That's not very nice of him." She had never met Al but Adam made sure to tell her tons of stories because he had shaped him into the cop and man he was now and he wanted his memory to stay alive.

"Well that's what I thought too at first but I learned a lot that day."

"Like what?" Allie shifted so she sat Indian style with her chin in her hands, excitement and curiosity in her eyes.

"For one, that your mom is a bad ass and that I had a lot of things that I didn't know."

"Like what?"

"I learned how to be a crossing guard." He chuckled. "Mommy said I was doing it all wrong." Images of Kim swaying her hips with a whistle between her lips invaded his memory.

"Did you fall in love with mommy that day?" If Adam was honest with himself, that was exactly when he had fallen in love with her, even if he denied the feelings until after he and Wendy had broken up.

"Yes it was."

"Did you tell her you loved her?"

"No I didn't miss Allie." He ran his fingers through her hair.

"Why not?"

"Because it's more complicated than that baby."

"What else happened that day?"

"Mommy and I were called to a burglary in a house and that's how I found out that your mom is a badass beat cop and that everything that happened to her while she was down there is the reason why she is so good in Intelligence with papa Hank."

"Is she the best?" Adam wasn't going to get into that kind of thing with her because it wasn't a, who's better than who but in the eyes of his five year old, his mother was a hero and he wasn't going to tell her otherwise.

"The very best." He tapped her nose. "Now come on, it's time for bed.

"Another one." She whined as she slipped into the covers, Adam pulling the blanket up to her chin, another thing she had in common with Kim.

"Not tonight kiddo." He kissed the top of her head. "Mommy will be right up to tuck you in."

"Love you daddy."

"Love you too miss Allie, good night." He walked out of the room and jumped when he saw Kim against the side of their daughter's room, her arms crossed over her chest. "How long have you been standing there?"

"Long enough." She kissed him. "I love you."

"Love you too." He wrapped his left arm around her waist. "Coffee or that one glass of wine you refused over dinner?" He winked at her.

"Wine glass, but a small one." She smirked and slipped out of his grasp, going in to tuck Allie in. Adam watched the two for a few seconds before making his way down.

"So baby, how did you like the story?"

"Daddy told me you showed him how to be a crossing guard." Kim couldn't help the laugh that escaped her lips.

"I did and he was so bad at it." All she could see in her mind was the look that Adam had given her all those years ago, lips tucked between his teeth.

"Daddy said that's when he fell in love with you."

"He did, did he?"

"Yup." She had to ask him to confirm that particular information. She never disputed their attraction, even then but love, she wasn't so sure.

"Did you always love daddy?"

"Its complicated baby but I think I always loved him on some level." She didn't know if that made sense to her five year old.

"Okay. And do you still love him now?"

"Not as much as I love you." She tickled her daughter's sides. "But I love him more than I ever did."

"That's why I'm going to have a baby brother soon."

"Two more months." She smiled at her daughter. She had been over the moon since they had told her about it and she had been so sweet with Kim after she had miscarried.

"Why won't you tell me his name?" They had kept it a secret, even from her up until now.

"Because you, my sweet girl, can't keep a surprise and we want mommy and daddy's friends to have a surprise when your brother gets here." She ran her fingers through her hair, Allie having the same colour as hers as a kid. "But I'll just give you a hint." She whispered, looking around as if afraid Adam would catch her, Allie laughing at her. "It starts with a D."

"A D, got it." Kim could see the clogs going in her head, knowing that until the baby was born, she would try to guess what they were naming him.

"Okay, time to sleep. Good night sweet girl."

"Night mommy." Kim gave her one last kiss on the forehead and headed downstairs where Adam was waiting for her in the living room, her glass of wine waiting for her.

"Hey, did she go down okay?"

"She did and for the record, you were doing it all wrong." She smirked, taking a sip of her glass.

"Maybe you need to show me again." She knew it would be harder for her being seven months pregnant but he knew she'd be up to the challenge.

"You mean like this?" She raised her left hand and moved her pelvis around, Adam laughing. He sat up straighter and pulled her gently to him.

"Your mom's still got it." He pressed a kiss to her still expanding belly.

"Surprising since baby boy Ruzek is weighing a ton." She had gained more weight so far with Dylan than when she was pregnant from Allison.

"Is that an accusing tone I hear?"

"Absolutely." She chuckled.

"Tell mommy is because you have strong bones." He rubbed circles on her belly and felt a kick. "But you have to be gentle with mommy Dylan." He whispered their son's name against her belly.

"You're the one who excites him Adam." Kim lowered herself next to Adam and raised her feet on the coffee table.

"I'm telling you, this boy is going to be trouble."

"Only if you influence him." She chuckled. "But steering this subject away from your son, our daughter told me something quite interesting."

"Did she now?"

"She said that you fell in love with me that day in the crosswalk." She ran a hand against his leg.

"Only our daughter can make me think of these things but yeah. I knew it even back then and that night when you kissed me, I knew I was a complete goner for you." He played with her wedding rings. "Did I make stupid mistakes with us? Yeah. But I never stopped loving you, not one second."

"It's a good thing you didn't because we wouldn't be here, happy, if you had stopped." She mused, leaning her head against his shoulder.

"And we wouldn't be waiting to be parents for a second time had you not taken me back."

"Pretty sweet isn't it?" She was referring to their family life.

"It hasn't always been easy." Adam was referring to the miscarriage between Allie and this pregnancy and the on duty injuries over the years. "But I wouldn't trade it for anything."

"Perfect was never in our cards but it's made us who we are and I'm okay with that."

"I'm more than okay with that, especially since you've made me a husband and a dad. I was stupid to be afraid of that."

"You just weren't ready then and I shouldn't have pushed to get married."

"Well I for one am happy I eventually got my head out of my ass and made an honest man of myself by having you walk down the aisle."

"You were totally hot in that tux."

"I remember." He chuckled. "You looked like you wanted to eat me up."

"And if I remember correctly I did." She couldn't contain the blush on her cheeks.

"And you were so absolutely beautiful that I couldn't take my eyes off of you."

"That was such a happy day."

"One of the best." They spent the rest of their evening with music playing in the background, replaying happy memories, Kim rubbing slow circles against her belly, Dylan winding down for the night with them.

A/N: I thought it would be sweet for Adam to tell their daughter about the two of them meeting so I hope you guys liked it and please take a few seconds to review before you go, your thoughts mean the world to me - Sarra