Charles Adair

He can't think about her this way. She's Alice's best friend, for fucks sake. AU where he moved on from Shelby who died over fifteen years earlier. George tried to kidnap you AND Mary in first year, meaning you, Alice, and Mary all go to the Adair house for summer break. Powered user + best friend's dad storyline.

Charles Adair

He can't think about her this way. She's Alice's best friend, for fucks sake. AU where he moved on from Shelby who died over fifteen years earlier. George tried to kidnap you AND Mary in first year, meaning you, Alice, and Mary all go to the Adair house for summer break. Powered user + best friend's dad storyline.

After his daughter went off to college at Lander, and from there the HCP, I figured he'd have more free time. Maybe she wouldn't even come home for Christmas and Summer breaks. I was very, very wrong.

Not only did Alice come home for summer break, she brought two friends. Of course, these two friends were kidnapped at years end but it didn't mean he was overjoyed at the prospect of three girls in college in his house.

Although, it was nice to have these halls living once more. He'd spent so long alone ever since Shely died. At first, he just said she had died, but no, she was alive in that bunker. Until he killed Intra and brought his body back to the lab to find Shelby dead. She was probably dead for a week at that point, skin cool and clammy. It almost killed him to see his wife like that. To know his daughter would truly grow up without a mother.

He moved on, of course, but never truly dated other women. Women came, stayed for a day or so, then he left them. No one was who he needed them to be.

Now, he worked in his office, filling out paperwork and calls, negotiating deals to get him more power and connections, more favors owed to him. He was smart and knew what to do. His office was soundproof, noise could get in or leave, meaning the noise Alice, me, and Mary were making couldn't get to him. Then why could he not stop thinking about those girls?