( open ) so darling, save the last dance for me

[winscenario]

who: Jim Kirk & YOU!
what: last month Jim asked for some dance lessons on the network, this is a log for said lessons + people randomly walking in on him practicing on his own, and finally the actual date with Victor
when: throughout July
where: various places
warnings: none, will edit if need be

(( starters in the comments!! ))

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[wiccant]

( and billy makes himself comfortable on the other side of the booth, takes out his phone and sets it down on the table in front of him face-down. folds his arms over the table to lean in closer. )

I live at the Sanctum sometimes? I have an apartment I share with my brother, too. When he bothers zipping around. ( and makes a huge mess out of everything. as speedsters do and all. )

[winscenario]

Right, Tommy. [ He plucks one of the menus between them. There's another one for Billy to help himself to, if he feels like going for something a little less standard. ]

How's he doing? After that whole... cult mess. How are you doing, for that matter?

[wiccant]

He's--fine. Disappeared for a bit but came back eventually.

( no menus necessary, billy knows what he's getting. )

I went back to my own side of the multiverse for a bit after--kinda. Went through some things a. . well. A little worse, but I'm still okayish.

( all things considered. being kidnapped's a little less on his mind after that whole, being possessed by something mildly more terrifying, his body being used in some alternate future to destroy near-everything. but stuff goes on. )

How have you been?

[winscenario]

I'm glad to hear.

[ He gets that need to go away sometimes, even if he's not particularly prone to doing it, himself. Not anymore, at least. He finds his comfort at home with his family rather than in solitude, these days. ]

Sometimes it's easy for us to forget that things can get a lot worse, isn't it?

[ In Jim's world, Billy's, or any other's. Things get complicated here, but by comparison they're fairly easy to handle. ]

Oh, I'm alright. The kidnappings got to my little girl a lot more than they did me, since she was taken too. But she's tough. She's all good now.

[wiccant]

Yeah. I mean, it's--sometimes things happen and they seem like the worst possible thing to happen, but life goes on.

( a small lift of his shoulders. everything seems world-ending when you're young. in billy's case, a shitton of it was close to world-ending, but--they're still here. universe hasn't imploded in on itself yet. )

You have kids?

( mildly surprised not that it's. bad. what's bad is that a kid got taken along with the rest of them. those cultists were monsters but going that far with children is. . well. plenty that it definitely would have pissed billy off to the point of going too far, if he'd known earlier. )

[winscenario]

Something worse can always happen.

[ Tempting fate a little, there. But still true. Maybe more in Jim's case, since he has seen world-ending but not universe-ending, at the very least. Things can always get worse— it's a good thing to remember, particularly when bouncing back from bad stuff. ]

Ah— just the one. She's adopted. Actually... she's from the same universe as my boyfriend, in a way. She was here with her grandmother, but when her grandmother left Victor took her in.

[ It's probably too long and too complicated a story to get into the details, but that's the gist of it. ]

[wiccant]

( he's seen kids around on the moon. given--the comings and goings of most residents, billy handn't really stopped to think about where some of those kids from from. a younger laura's here, but--wolverines are a bit different. )

That's nice of him. Your boyfriend, I mean. And you. I'm sure it wasn't easy for her, being left here when her grandmother went home.

( little kids shouldn't be left on their own. especially not on a weird moon. he's heard there are caseworkers for those occurrences, but still. )

So you've settled in here pretty nicely.

[winscenario]

[ There are guardians, social workers, things like that— but it's still tough. Average kids wouldn't adapt so easily. Laura's a particular case, considering her background, but Jim knows Lucy wouldn't have done as well if she'd ended up here on her own. ]

Honestly? It was complicated, at first. We had a pretty rocky start, and she didn't like me a lot. And Victor and I had just started dating when she moved in with him... [ Like, literally for just a few days. ] It was a little tough. But I liked him, and I wasn't ready to give up on that so easily.

[ He smiles softly, and nods at Billy's question. ] I'm glad I stuck with it. And yeah, I do feel pretty settled.