An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Hannibal (TV), Adam (2009), Valhalla Rising Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Adam and One Eye Characters: Adam Raki, One Eye (Valhalla Rising) Additional Tags: rare pairs, First Meetings, Shy, Anxiety, Asperger Syndrome, mail, mail in wrong box, Neighbors, Star Gazing, space Summary:
For creative's eat the rare prompt. The postal service plays matchmaker when One Eye's mail keeps winding up in Adam's box.
Excerpt:
Adam opens his mailbox, and it is stuffed full. He frowns with furrowed brow giving an irritated sigh as he yanks out all the mail.The engineer finds misplaced mail in his box for two months now. The letter is addressed to an OsbornEkart, the new neighbor across the hall. Their names are not even close. The only thing that Adam can deduce why the mailperson keeps putting the neighbor's mail into his box is because of the stars. Ekart has a fascination for the night sky like Adam. The neighbor receives magazine after newspaper after books about space. His collection must be impressive from what Adam has gleaned from receiving his mail for the past two months. The engineer has even starting subscribing to some of the same publications as his neighbor.
It's annoying after this long he is still receiving the man's mail. A neighbor which he has never seen. He sometimes hears the mystery man moving around in his apartment, but they have never met. Adam wonders what EKart does for a living. He assumes the neighbor works from home because they never pass each other in the hall in the morning or evening. Adam hears the man's door open only after he has settled into bed around 10 pm. The only loud noise his neighbor makes is slamming the door.
Adam is curious if Ekart ever goes to the park to stargaze like he does. He wonders if the man might be an Aspie like himself. The amount of literature the person receives is obsessively significant.For the first time in many years, Adam wants to meet his neighbor. He thinks they might be friends or at least be able to talk about the stars at length.
Adam trudges upstairs as he separates their mail. He goes into the apartment putting away coat and briefcase. The engineer places the rubber band post for Ekart onto the table near the door. He changes out of his work clothes before he starts his dinner. After dinner of mac n cheese, Adam slips out the door placing the mail in front of his neighbor's door. He politely and gently knocks on the door. Adam tells Ekart that his mail is at the door. Later, after one of Adam's nightly documentaries, he hears the neighbor's door open and close. In the morning the mail is gone.