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As he stood over the lifeless body on the floor, in front of him, Noah Bennett was glad that he had found out that he could get revenge on Adam Carrington.
It had started out when a man, Jeff Colby, had seen him in a bar in New York and spoke to him about what Adam Carrington had done.
And it was a lot.
And Noah had a grey moral compass but when Jeff had told him about what Adam Carrington had done to someone called Kirby, Noah knew Adam Carrington had to pay for what he had done.
Sexual assault was bad enough but the things he had put his victim through afterwards made Noah feel sick. All he could think about was his own daughter, Claire.
If anyone had hurt her......
He was glad that Jeff Colby had thought Noah was someone called Steven Carrington (apparently they looked alike) and Noah didn’t correct Jeff. All the while he was talking to the other man, he had a plan forming in his mind.
He went and sought out Hiro Nakamura and told him and asked for his help. Lucky for Noah, the once morally noble Hiro had been through a lot of time travel and seen things that had made him less morally grey than Noah, but not the idealistic man he once was. And he agreed to help Noah; not entirely aware of the extremes Noah had planned.
It was pretty easy for him to find out where Adam Carrington was and to set up a meeting.
Paper salesman. That’s what the whole world, his family included, thought Noah was. Just a mild-mannered paper salesman.
Only a handful of people knew the truth about him. Behind the paper salesman persona and the horn rimmed glasses, was a very dangerous persona.
As Adam Carrington found out.
Posing as “Steven Carrington”, in 1988, Noah went into the office where Adam was and he started to argue with him. Words were said that Noah didn’t quite understand , but it didn’t matter. Someone had to stand up to a bully who used his power to violate women. And the argument got more physical. And Noah pushed Adam, who fell, hitting his head on the coffee table in the middle of the room, on the way down.
Adam wasn’t dead. Noah checked and there was a pulse. Noah knew that the physical pain he had inflicted on Adam was nothing like the physiological pain Adam had inflicted on his victims (of all his crimes) but Noah hoped Adam would know what it was like to be the victim; to be powerless, for once in his life.