The night it happened Kyle had dreamed about Adam for the first time in he didn’t know how long, dreamed about tagging together back early in their Future Shock days, Adam such a kid he hadn’t been able to grow his beard in yet and Kyle playing at being the veteran despite still being such a punk himself – and for days after when he closed his eyes Kyle would get a replay of desperate, panicked Adam making that last ditch reach for the tag before getting dragged out of the ring and into the dark by two multicolored blurs (of course it wasn’t until the episode finally uploaded that Kyle realized who those blurs were, or what it all meant, or why poor Adam had looked so fucking scared.)
The thing towering over him in the crossroad laughed at him, its single eye staring him down and an Irish lilt making its voice both seductive and obscene: “That one? How many chances would you give him to overshadow and betray you?”
And okay, maybe it had a point there, Kyle had actually stopped counting over the years but they’d always gotten past it and even if they hadn’t, he knew it didn’t matter – his partner was reaching out to make a tag. “Looks like at least one more."
FILL: Kyle O'Reilly & Adam Cole
The night it happened Kyle had dreamed about Adam for the first time in he didn’t know how long, dreamed about tagging together back early in their Future Shock days, Adam such a kid he hadn’t been able to grow his beard in yet and Kyle playing at being the veteran despite still being such a punk himself – and for days after when he closed his eyes Kyle would get a replay of desperate, panicked Adam making that last ditch reach for the tag before getting dragged out of the ring and into the dark by two multicolored blurs (of course it wasn’t until the episode finally uploaded that Kyle realized who those blurs were, or what it all meant, or why poor Adam had looked so fucking scared.)
The thing towering over him in the crossroad laughed at him, its single eye staring him down and an Irish lilt making its voice both seductive and obscene: “That one? How many chances would you give him to overshadow and betray you?”
And okay, maybe it had a point there, Kyle had actually stopped counting over the years but they’d always gotten past it and even if they hadn’t, he knew it didn’t matter – his partner was reaching out to make a tag. “Looks like at least one more."