Impromptu Family Meetups

[smartass_captain]

It's that time of year. Holidays around every corner, family and friends dropping in unannounced, needing to be entertained and fed and plied with stories of how you've been, how is work, and all sorts of things. The thing is, for most of Jim Kirk's life he's never known any of that. It's hard to have sudden family visits when you don't have much in the way of family and aren't speaking to damn near all of them.

Which makes this day exceptionally stressful.

No Starfleet uniform today--even if Jim wanted to he's not allowed to wear any of his own clothes for where he's about to be headed. Instead he's dressed in a soft wool tunic in his preferred golden color and simple linen pants beneath the fur lined cloak he's got pulled over his clothes. Gloved hands fidget with the ties on all of this, a nervous habit he can't quite stop himself from making.

He stops his pacing when he nearly stumbles over a passer-by with how lost in thought he is and it's only then that the captain looks up at whomever he's nearly trodden upon.

"What's the best way to impress your in-laws? What's the etiquette for meeting someone's family for the first time?"

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[slayers_desire]

April wishes for a moment that she could ask Clark to be here. It was Clark who made more drastic changes in his life, since it was his world that she integrated into. But when your husband is a busy superhero journalist, one has to adapt.

"Do you need help with that? I had to forge plenty of documents myself, to integrate into Clark's world."

[smartass_captain]

"The documents I have pretty well handled. I've spent two years working on getting them all in order. Started working on it way before I asked Felix to marry me. I didn't want ask before I knew if I could make it work."

Jim offers a slight shrug of his shoulders.

"It's a lot more work than you think it's going to be though."

[slayers_desire]

"It is a lot of work. But you found a way to work through it. And get things in order."

"Perhaps you should draw upon that same determination when you are meeting his father. Be yourself. And show him how much Felix means to you."

[smartass_captain]

"Within reason, obviously. I don't think an audience needs or would want to be around if I'm proving how much Felix means to me." Jim waggles his eyebrows good naturedly but the joke helps ease some of the tension in his shoulders.

Be himself? That's not something he's great at in these kind of situations but he can try.

[slayers_desire]

"I am sure that Felix is all the audience you need." April grins in return. She can sense some of his tension lifting away.

"May I suggest a little toy or trinket that helps you focus your nervous energy on? My son enjoys those little fidget spinners, when he feels anxious around other people."

[smartass_captain]

"That's not a bad idea, actually."

So long as he can get something that would be appropriate for Felix's world. Something to harness some of his boundless nervous energy into. It's a pity Jim Kirk is so ill equipped for magic because he's got excess mental energy for days.

[slayers_desire]

"A cross-Nexus relationship can work. Clark and I have been married for nearly 10 year now." April smiles.