"You look pretty hot Mom." Polly chirped as Kim came down stairs in an ankle length halter neck dress. It was a dark green jersey wrap dress that was beautifully draped, her hair was twisted up away from her face and she was still carrying her stilettos in her hand. Kim wasn't sure about wearing it but Polly had insisted that it wasn't too young or slutty looking. She had even told her that Dad would be happy if it was just a little bit slutty.

He was taking her out for dinner.

Adam realised how much they needed it when he got home late from work a week after the funeral and found Kim sitting at the bottom of the shower sobbing her heart out. In an instant he was climbing in there, clothes and all wrapping his strong arms around his wife. "Darlin'. What you doing in here?"

"Your clothes are wet."

Adam laughed. "Yes Darlin' they are. What you doing?"

"I don't know. It's so fucking hard Adam. My Babies are hurting and I can't help them. I can't stop it."

"Oh… my beautiful baby." He reached up and turned off the taps. "Hop up Darlin'." Backing out of the shower he pulled Kim to her feet and grabbed a towel to wrap around her before pulling her into his chest. "It's okay Baby. They are doing okay. What happened?"

"Nothing. I just saw them sitting there tonight at dinner and they looked sad. I know Gus was worried about you still being at work. Sam is sick and Polly freaked out and I came up here and I didn't want them to see me cry so I hid in here. I miss you." Adam had been crazy with work since he went back, he felt he needed to make up some time and pay everyone back for picking up his slack and that meant he wasn't around much. Kim assured him it was fine but it just overwhelmed her today.

"Aren't you precious?"

"Can I be selfish for a minute?"

Adam nodded as found Kim's robe and tossed the towel aside and helped her slip it on, bundling her up tightly and finding a dry towel for her hair. He didn't do it often and in all honestly she wouldn't want him to but when he took control and helped her like this it made her love him even more. He always knew when she needed a bit of love and TLC. It was sweet and romantic. "You can."

"Why is this happening to our babies? What did they do to deserve this, they are beautiful children and they never want to hurt anyone, so why them? Why us? It isn't fair?"

"That's not selfish, Kim, that's being a Mom and you love them so much. From the moment we saw that little word on that stick we had to be selfish. That's what being a parent is, being selfish for your own children. We've loved them as hard as we could and because of that I know they are going to be okay. Not today or tomorrow but they will be okay because we love them and raised them right. We raised them to be able to handle this."

"I worry about them, that they won't be okay."

"They are lucky because they have you as their Mom." Adam reached for her hairbrush. "I've seen you pick yourself up so many times, dust yourself off and keep going. Now look at them doing that, sure they may stumble a little because they are young and they are still earning, but they are learning from the best. We taught them to be resilient and now we have to let them show us that we did a good job."

"I only got up because you helped me."

"So we help them get up." He kissed her forehead, staying there for a few sweet moments. "And we will every single time."

"You are wet."

"Yes I am and cold." Kim started unbuttoning his shirt. "Wanna warm me up a bit?"

"Always." Once he got his shirt off Kim started working at his belt. Getting out of soaking wet jeans was never easy or a quick process and they started laughing when he almost toppled over in his haste to get undressed. "Darlin' remind me to get undressed before I get in the shower with you next time."

"You feel so cold." His skin was a little clammy as Kim ran her hands over his chest.

"I am cold so you have a job to do." He scooped her up in his arms and he decided in that moment that she needed to be loved and adored again; they both needed it. They would need to go away, leave everyone and everything behind, even just for one night and just be Adam and Kim again. Not parents, not friends or work colleagues; they needed to be selfish; they needed to just be lovers.

Unfortunately he'd been called into work, or so he told her at the last minute while Kim and Polly had been out getting their nails done and Kim was now going to meet Adam at the restaurant. Kim had been disappointed until Adam reminded her how much of a thrill it would be for him to be sitting waiting for her and not being able to control himself when the hottest woman on the planet walked towards him.

'Where am I meeting you?"

"Polly knows."

"Polly's not driving me." Polly was not the most confident driver, as much as Adam tried to teach her and she had spent more time screaming nervously at every little obstacle that Adam had thrown his hands in the air and declared that he was done teaching her.

"No, Polly's not driving you. I want to see you in one piece and calm. Getting in a car with that nightmare would not achieve my goal of making you relax." He'd laughed down the phone. "I've organised a town car to pick you up."

"Adam Ruzek, are you trying to seduce me?" Kim was giddy with excitement.

"Why Kim Burgess, yes I am."

Polly was under strict instructions to keep the destination a secret so no matter how many times Kim asked her or tried to trip her up she gave her mother nothing. She was so excited when her Dad told her all his plans. She loved his romantic side when he made the effort. He knew how to make her Mom feel like a queen almost everyday but some times he just went above and beyond and Polly hoped that Sam was taking notes.

Kim had always loved the Waldorf Astoria and when the car dropped her off she found Adam standing in the foyer, dressed in a suit, sans tie of course but looking every bit as handsome as the day she married him. He smiled when he saw her, his face lighting up and he really did think that she was the most beautiful woman he knew. Physically beautiful but it was more than that; it was everything in between. Lately he had been watching her fight, defend and claw to protect their children. They'd been battered from all sides, they'd been places they could have never imagined, they'd fought and cried together and Adam was amazed constantly at how strong she'd been through it all. Both of them, at one point had stumbled and they had to wax and wane who was the one to do the heavy lifting.

He loved her, his whole heart sat in the palm of her hand and as much as he loved his children, and he was so passionate about them that he'd walk to the ends of the earth for them but for Kim he'd flat out run.

"Don't you scrub up well?" Kim smiled as he reached out and took her hand. Kim leant into him for a kiss, which he happily acquiesced, it was soft and sweet and full of promise for the night ahead.

"I love this place."

"I know." He turned and led her towards the lifts.

"Adam, what are you doing?"

"Taking you up to our room."

"How did I know you had something up your sleeve?" Kim could barely contain herself. Adam didn't do this often, but when he did go all out he always knocked it out of the park. She also knew not to even bother asking about what he'd organised for the kids because he always made sure that was sorted when he did this. Kim didn't have to worry about a thing and that was precisely his plan.

"Because you know me." Adam tugged on her hand as the doors slid closed and squeezed her hand. "I just want to spend some time with you."

"Best night ever."

"You've only been here five minutes." He pushed her up against the side of the lift and rested his hands on the railing either side of Kim. This was another thing he did that made her melt. How easy would it have been to press his body against hers and make his intentions obvious but he never did. This was so much sexier, he wasn't touching her and Kim was turning to putty.

"Don't care." Kim slipped one hand inside his jacket and rested it on his chest. "What else do you have planned?"

"Like I am going to tell you."

Waiting in their room was a bottle of whiskey and a sweet view over Chicago. Rather than pouring two glasses Adam only poured one and they sat out on the tiny balcony, Kim's knees draped over Adam's legs as they passed the glass back and forth between them. "This is perfect." Kim leant in and kissed him and lightly licked his lips enjoying the taste on whiskey on her tongue.

"You look beautiful."

"Polly helped me pick it out. She thinks it's just the right amount of slutty for you."

Adam didn't quite agree. "I would say sexy rather than slutty." He ran his fingers up and down her bare spine. "But you are missing something." Reaching into his pocket he pulled out the necklace and let it dangle from his fingers. "You should wear this."

Kim's hand flew to her mouth as she gasped as she lightly touched the three little hearts. Tears pooled in the corner of her eyes as he unclasped it and leant forward and did it up around her neck. Running a finger along the chain he adjusted the hearts before leaning forward and kissing them. "Adam, oh my god."

"Polly told me I should let you wear it, I didn't realise the reason why you never wore it. Because of me?" he rested his hand over it and Kim covered his hand with hers.

"I could always see the pain in your eyes when I had it on. I hate that."

"I'm sorry."

"Don't be. It's a little strange but knowing how much it still breaks your heart makes me love you even more. It's comforting to me that it still means so much to you." They spent a few minutes in silence; Adam was content just to leave things as they were. He still didn't want to talk about it but he was happy to see how much Kim appreciated having the necklace on as she played with it gently.

"We have a dinner reservation in half an hour."

"Can we..." Adam quickly pressed one finger to her lips to stop her talking and shook his head. This was something else he had perfected, the slow burn. The seduction in the lift, the whiskey, the beautifully bittersweet moment with their three little hearts and dinner reservations was all part of it. He would touch her, tell her things or look at her until she couldn't stand it anymore and then he would take his time loving her and it drove her wild and it was frustratingly exquisite and he was so fucking good at it.

Kim held out her hand to pull him up off the couch. "Have I told you how handsome you look?"

"Thank you. You make me look good though." His wink was very sexy. "Always have."

"I'm really hungry but I don't want to leave here."

"You need some food for energy, I don't want you to fatigue too early." He tugged her towards the door. They laughed a lot during dinner, they didn't sit across from across from each like was usual, Adam asked for a table to be set up so they could be sit next to each other that way he could touch her. Why would you want to have a romantic dinner with someone and not be able to even touch them? He didn't want to lean across a table to hold her hand, he wanted to feel her hand on his thigh, he wanted to be able to feel her and smell her. He wanted to be close and that way he could lean over and whisper in her ear exactly what he wanted to do with her once they were back in the room.

He had one more surprise for her though. Kim kicked off her shoes and curled her feet up under her on the couch while Adam disappeared and ferreted around in the closet. A smile spread across her face when pulled out his guitar. He rarely played it anymore, and lately it had been the last thing on his mind or so she thought. Staring straight at his wife he started playing their wedding song.

His voice was deep and a little husky and the longer he sang the shakier his voice got. Kim just let the tears fall, her hand on her chest, on their three little hearts and watched this absolute beautiful specimen of a man make her feel like the only person in the world.

As he got close the end of the song Kim danced across the room in front of him, swinging her hips slowly, she closed her eyes and let her hair out and he watched as it tumbled down over her shoulders. She grabbed the neck of the guitar when he finished and lifted it from his lap and lay it in the chair, when she turned back around he was standing, his hands in his pockets and he looked mesmerised as she took three quick steps grabbed both his cheeks with her hands and smashed her lips into his. Suddenly all bets were off. The slow seductive game they had been playing was over and it was fierce and primal and absolute raw passion at least until all their clothes were discarded and then Adam returned to the slow burn as he drove her wild with slow sweet kisses, his warm breath and rough stubble tickling her skin as his gentle fingers covered every inch of her until she was almost whimpering under his slow and steady touch.

He was such a contradiction. At times he'd have his hands on the throat of a perp and they tough and strong and could bring a grown man to his knees but right now he had his hands on his wife's throat and they were lovingly caressing her and her knees were buckling out of the sheer pleasure he was giving her.

Adam rolled over and reached for his phone when it beeped. He smiled when he saw the message and looked over at the sleeping body beside him. He was a little torn, he wanted to wake her up and show it to her but he also wanted to watch her sleep for a little while longer or more precisely he wanted to feel her sleeping next to him as he cuddled up to her completely naked body.

It had been a little bit of heaven, the calm after the storm. Coming here for the night had been just what they needed. They had done this several times before, when things had got rough and they decided that enough was enough and that they needed to put things in the past and move on this was how they did it. They spent a weekend together, without distractions, without the kids and just become them again for a while. It had first happened after they lost the baby, and then again when Adam had come back from his three month Undercover Op and they struggled for a while until Kim booked them a weekend away and they righted that listing ship. Along the way they did it every now and then when they felt things were a little rocky.

He spent a long time loving her last night, or more precisely they'd spent most of the night loving each other. Taking turns to give love and pleasure then receive it. It was the purest confirmation of their love for each other. It wasn't about the sex, sure it was part of it, a very pleasurable part but it was more about the act of giving yourself completely to one person and knowing that everything they did was designed to make you feel like you were the only person that mattered in that moment, your happiness was what meant the most and that led to incredibly emotional, deeply connected, mind-blowingly awesome sex.

Adam sent off a quick 'thanks' and threw his phone back on the cabinet beside the bed. As he snuggled into the back of Kim and kissed her bare shoulders she stirred a little.

"Was that the kids?" she asked sleepily.

"Yep." Adam mumbled. "They are up and all good."

Al was taking Gus to his game; they still always tried to make sure that someone was there to watch him, especially lately and Gus would be happy to see Al and Polly also promised to go. Sam was working so at least he was pretty sure that they weren't just going to romp around the house while Gus was out. The only romping he wanted to think about was his own. And they had certainly done that.

"I get the feeling you are not about to go back to sleep are you?" Kim hadn't opened her eyes but she did smile and Adam could feel Kim starting to respond as his hand was starting to work its way down her body.

"No." Adam's was making it blatantly obvious what he wanted and Kim sighed and rolled over and Adam instantly captured her lips in a passionate kiss. "No need to sound so excited."

Kim chuckled and slid her hand beneath the sheets and grabbed hold of him. "I can tell you are."

"Perhaps if you weren't naked, alone with me in this amazing hotel room with no kids to interrupt us and not currently playing with my junk I might have let you go back to sleep." Kim rolled her head to the side and let Adam have full access to her neck.

"I can stop." She pulled her hand away and Adam groaned, grabbing her hand and returning it to its original task.

"Don't you dare stop now."

When they finally made it out of bed, mostly because they were starving Adam asked her if she wanted to see the message from the kids. He patted his knee and asked her to come and sit with him. He hadn't seen it either so had no idea what the video message was but he had asked Polly and Gus to send him something to show their mom.

'Hey Mom. We just wanted to tell you how much we love you and thank you for being there for us lately. It's been a bit rough but through it all you were so awesome and I hope you know how lucky we feel because we have you as our Mom. We love you so much. Enjoy your time with Dad you deserve it.'

Kim had her hands over her mouth willing herself not to cry as she watched Polly and Angus on the video. Adam just watched her; she was so beautiful when she was in love with their babies.

But they weren't done.

'Speaking of Dad, you are our Superhero. You and Mom go out everyday and try to protect people you don't know and we are so proud of that but Dad, you protect us, you love us even though we drive you insane sometimes, and we love how much you love our Mom. We are so glad Mom choose you to be our Dad because we love you and love everything you do for us. Oh, and we are glad you choose Mom too. We are the luckiest kids in the world. We can't wait to see you both again, because that's when we are happiest, when we are with you. We love you both.'

"I wasn't expecting that. I didn't ask them to do that." He was a little stunned and just as he loved watching Kim love her babies, she adored watching Adam loving them too. He'd always been such a passionate father.

"They are good kids aren't they?" Kim rested her head on his shoulder and enjoyed feeling this close to him; the peace, the steadiness they gave each other and the pure love. The love they had for each other was unrelenting, it was honest and raw and deep. They could niggle each other, snipe and push each other to the limit but they never stopped feeling that deep all consuming love that they had nurtured and enjoyed; even when it felt overwhelming and the challenges seemed unsurmountable, they just kept going.

"Of course, they are part you and part me. We always said we made beautiful babies."

"I am proud of you." Kim leant and whispered in his ear. "You are an amazing father Adam. You've made them great."

"Nah, we've made them great." He kissed her softly, resting his hands on her cheeks and looking way beyond her eyes into her soul. "We did that."

A/N: Well folks, that's it for this story. I want to thank you for all your kind words, reviews and suggestions on how to improve my story and my writing. I do try and take your suggestions for what you want to see into consideration. This was an interesting challenge for me to write as it wasn't really anything I thought I could do, so I hope it didn't disappoint.

Now we wait to see what the new season brings for our favourites. Hopefully that might inspire me to write another story, but right now I might just take a Burzek break.

You are all awesome, thanks for your support. It means a lot that people enjoy my stories as much as I enjoy bringing them to you. I might see you all again some day if I get another brainwave. Until then, take care.