Chapters: 1/? Fandom: The Bear (TV 2022) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sydney Adamu/Carmen "Carmy" Berzatto, Sydney Adamu & Carmen "Carmy" Berzatto, Marcus Brooks/Luca (The Bear TV 2022) Characters: Sydney Adamu, Carmen "Carmy" Berzatto, Nonna Berzatto, Nonno Berzatto, Original Child Character(s), Richie Jerimovich, Luca (The Bear TV 2022), Marcus Brooks (The Bear TV 2022) Additional Tags: this is somewhat of a rewrite of one of my older fics, i hope it was worth the wait, and I hope I can get the next chapter out soon, I'm bad at summaries... and tagging Summary:
What if Carmy took time away to heal?
What if he came back almost a year later as a better man?
What if there were secrets about himself even he was unaware of?
How was he going to be able to earn Sydney's forgiveness? It was certainly one thing to leave her twisting in the wind but to leave her with their restaurant and with his extended family without him around? She had every right to hate him.
It would be so much easier if she hated him.
Fortunately for the both of them, hatred was never something that ever fully existed between the two of them, even at their worst.
Big thanks to @morningssofgold for helping me brainstorm this fic!!



















