Fic: a Different Kind of Friendship (HP/CSI:NY, gen)
Title: A Different Kind of Friendship
Author: loonie_lupin (ff. net)/nilitara (livejournal)
Fandom: HP, CSI :NY
Characters/pairing : Harry Potter, Adam Ross (friendship only), Flack/Jess
Rating: PG
Summary: Flack and Jess invite Adam and Harry on a double-date. Well, at least Harry understood it was supposed to be a double-date.
For: crossovers100
Prompt: 057. Lunch.
Disclaimer: The characters are the property of their respective creator. I own nothing.
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A Different Kind of Friendship - main entry
057. Lunch.
About two weeks had passed from that fateful morning in the restaurant, when Adam arrived in the apartment, after a workday, wearing the biggest smile on his face. Now, Harry had been aware all along that Adam was an intrinsically cheerful person but this was a bit much, even for him. Something must have happened to make him so happy and Harry was more than curious about it. Of course, knowing Adam and his propensity to talk about nothing and everything, it would only be a matter of minutes, if that.
“Hey, Harry! Are you doing anything tomorrow at lunch?” Adam asked him excitedly.
Harry blinked for a second. That wasn’t exactly the question he had been expecting and he was quite taken aback. He shook his head, regaining his bearing, and actually answered.
“No, why?”
“Flack and Jess invited us to have lunch with them. I guess they just want to know you, you know, after you saved her life. I told them I would ask you. So I can tell them okay, right? You will come?”
Harry had always had the intention to say yes but, quite frankly, even if he hadn’t, the hopeful look on his friend’s face would have been enough to make him change his mind. There was no way he could have said no to him.
“Sure, could be fun. They seemed nice enough.”
Harry was just extremely grateful they had been pretty occupied for a while because, had they asked to see him before then, he would have been forced to pretend to still be hurt. After all, he would have been hard pressed to explain how it was that he had healed so quickly from a gunshot wound. At least, now, it would be normal for him to be mostly back to normal, as long as he pretended not to do too much effort, and so long they didn’t ask to see the scar that didn’t even exist anymore.
Adam practically let out a woo of glee at the thought and dove for his phone, apparently more than impatient to let his coworkers know they were on for lunch the day after. Harry smiled at his enthusiasm; he knew that Adam hardly saw the people he worked with outside of work. It wasn’t that he didn’t want to but they didn’t seem to have much in common, especially with the two detectives, with Adam being kind of a geek, so he was glad for the occasion.
Well, it seemed that he actually had something to do the day after at lunch. He hadn’t planned to but it would do him some good too to see other people. He wasn’t the most sociable person either so his whole universe in New York practically revolved around Adam. Still, there was something about the invitation and how it had been worded that made Harry think that it may have been more than just a ‘get-to-know-your-friend’ lunch.
Harry was the first to arrive at the restaurant, which didn’t exactly come as a surprise to him. After all, contrary to the other three, he didn’t have a job to make him late. Thankfully, he didn’t have anything else to do either, so the fact they were not there at the previously arranged hour didn’t bother him at all.
He got up once he saw them come in, to welcome them, and they all exchanged the usually courtesies. They sat down and Jess took the opportunity to thank Harry once again. Harry just waved it off; he didn’t do it for recognition, but because it was the right thing to do. They discussed for a while, talking about nothing in particular, until it was time to order.
Then, Adam got up to use the bathroom and Harry, who had seen the way both Jess and Flack were looking at them decided to seize the occasion to do some damage control before their lunch date turned very awkward. Yet, before he had time to open his mouth, Jess asked him a question.
“So, how long have you and Adam known each other?”
“Almost a year,” Harry answered, after a brief mental calculation. “You do realize Adam has no idea you think we’re dating, right?”
Both Flack and Jess looked at him as if he had lost his mind.
“I asked him to come with us on a double-date,” Flack enunciated slowly, as if it was Harry that didn’t understand.
Harry made a face, half a grimace, half an amused look.
“Yep, and I did get that when he told me about the invitation. But he just thinks you wanted to get to know me and invited him along because we’re friend and it would be easier to talk that way. We’re just friends.”
Both of them looked quite a bit embarrassed, which was exactly what he had wanted to avoid when he had decided to talk to them without Adam being present. Then, out of the blue, Jess just began to laugh, which made both Harry and Flack turn to her for an explanation.
“God, I’m sorry guys. I thought… I don’t know, he just looked so freaked out when I saw him in hospital and, when you hugged him, you both looked so comfortable. I guess I jumped to conclusions.”
Harry shrugged.
“I don’t really care. I mean, I never thought about Adam like this but there are worse thing that being thought in a relationship with your best friend. I just wanted to tell you before you said something that would make Adam uncomfortable.”
Both Flack and Jess agreed not to say anything about the misunderstanding and Flack muttered under his breath that he would better call Danny to tell him not to tease Adam about it like he had planned to. Harry frowned at hearing that.
“It wasn’t anything ill-intentioned,” Flack was quick to defend his friend. “Danny thought it was nice for Adam to have someone in his life. He just felt a bit hurt not to have been told.”
Harry nodded. Yes, hearing Adam talk about Danny, it had been easy to work out the slightly brotherly relationship between the two of them and he guessed he could understand being hurt at him having kept what he thought a relationship hidden for so long. As long as no one got hurt, the teasing was okay.
“So, what did I miss?” Adam asked as he got back from the bathroom and it was Flack who smiled slightly at him, shrugging.
“Nothing important.”