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Obligatory Happy Epilogue:
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Adam fumbled with the object in his pocket as he strolled through the midnight scene of Central Park. This was their second Christmas together, and they'd spent it quietly and pleasantly together, having visited Frank's family and Miss Walthers the day before. Well, maybe there'd been an hour or so that wasn't all too quiet, but they'd never really been good at controlling themselves around each other.
And that was just it. They'd gone through good times, really really horrible times, times where they had to adjust to an entirely new life, boring times, and spectacular, amazing times. Whatever happened, they were happy in their stable relationship and got through the rough patches with wit and affection. At the risk of sounding sappy, Adam just wanted to spend the rest of his life like that. Which led him to this nighttime stroll with the ex-hacker.
Frank was by his side, eagerly describing the first episode of his new TV show. Picus had finally accepted a script from him, and the cyborg loved seeing how animated he got every time they spoke about it.
They stopped at a bench, and, taking Pritchard's hand, Adam figured he'd just do it now. He smiled, taking a moment to appreciate the myriad of expressions that passed over his partners face: questioning, slight surprise, knowing, "really, you're going to be that cheesy and propose in a romantic setting?", "god, I hope you don't get down on one knee," acceptance of said imagined proposal, and determination to enjoy the moment for what it was.
Yeah, he'd been pretty obvious with how he'd been talking, lately. That was okay, because as long as they were in this together, that's all that mattered. But he wasn't going to make it any more awkward than it had to be. He looked over the smaller man's face for any sign of hesitance and, finding none, went for it. "You and me, Frank? Let's do that forever." The ex-security chief took out a key and placed it in the raven-haired man's palm. "I got us a house pretty close to the city."
The smaller man smiled softly. "Okay."
"Okay we'll have our own house together, okay you'll stick around forever, or okay you'll marry me?"
Pritchard rolled his eyes. "Okay to all of those, Jensen. Of course."
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A/N: Thanks for reading the story! I hope it entertained you! I ended up writing a Part 2 of this story called Love, Exclamation Mark. No smut in it, but it was a fun write, so hopefully it's also a fun read.