Jim sighed and moved closer to the couch, where Spock was sleeping, tablet still held in his hand. Spock had only been trying to help, and Jim figured he shouldn't be too angry really. If the situation was reversed Jim would have done the same for his mate. Jim gently pried the tablet from Spock's grip, sitting it on the stand beside the couch.
"Spock, wake up" Jim said, shaking his sleeping bondmate's shoulder gently. The Vulcan's eyes snapped open, and looked up at the blond haired man.
"What is it? Is something the matter?" Spock asked, sitting up on the couch.
"Nothings wrong stop worrying. I just came to get you to come to bed" Jim replied.
"I did not believe you would wish to share a bed with me tonight" Spock said.
"I didn't, but I thought more about what you did and why, if I were you I would have done the same so I can't be too angry with you" Jim explained.
"I only wished to help" Spock told him.
"I know I overreacted. Lets go to bed, I'm tired" Jim said with a smile. Spock stood and followed his T'hy'la back into the bedroom.
XXX
The next day when they returned to the Kirk family farm it was packed with new family members who had arrived in the two days that they had been away. They could hear the noise from outside, and Jim groaned.
"We're going to be bombarded with my extended family the minute we walk through that door" Jim warned.
"Are you not happy to see your family?" Sarek asked.
"Not all of them, not even most of them. Half of them didn't talk to me until after the Narada incident, and about half of them wanted money. The other half wanted to spiel some bullshit about how proud of me they were, and how they always knew I was destined for greatness just like my father" Jim replied.
"You only have to deal with them for a few days" Bones commented.
"With my family, that'll seem like forever" Jim sighed. By the time they had reached the porch an old woman, white hair cut short and curling over her ears had opened the door. She was shorter then Betty, but was thinner. She had brown eyes that seemed too small for her face, but were outlined by laugh lines. Her glasses were falling off of her nose but she didn't bother to push them up as she smiled up at Jim. Jim smiled back, before bending down and hugging the woman, letting her run her long fingers through his hair.
"Jimmy, it's been so long," she said, before kissing the side of his head.
"I know" Jim replied, kissing her cheek before standing back up. "Guys, this is my grandmother Helen, I call her Mawmaw" Jim introduced before turning back to the woman still standing in the open door. "Mawmaw, this is Spock, his father Sarek and cousin Selek, and my best friend Leonard McCoy" Jim finished.
"Hello" Helen greeted, smiling at the group.
"Mom, come away from the door before you get sick" Betty said, appearing behind the woman.
"Oh hush Elizabeth, I'm old, not invalid" Helen replied waving her hand at her daughter, as if trying to wave her away.
"Do you have to go against everything I say mother? I'm only trying to take care of you" Betty said, just before a call from the kitchen drew her and her attention away.
"She acts like I'm a child. I brought that girl into this world and I can still take her right back out" Helen muttered.
"Let's go inside before Aunt Betty comes back," Jim said.
"I'd like to stay out here for a few minutes more dearie, I don't want to throw ya to the piranhas just yet" Helen retorted, stepping outside.
"Whose all in there?" Jim asked, sitting beside his grandmother on the swing attached to the porches roof.
"Who isn't would be the shortest answer. Almost everyone from your moms and dads side is here, all yelling and screaming at one another. I'm tempted to bend your cousins Rose's hellions over my knee, those children are absolutely ungrateful. There little monsters I tell ya, the whole lot of them" Helen ranted.
"How many kids does she have?" Bones asked.
"Five, and another on the way" Helen replied.
"Is Aunt Marie here?" Jim asked.
"Unfortunately, the she-devil. She's so excited about the press, going on bout telling everyone how proud she is of you. Lies, everything out of that woman's mouth is a lie" Helen replied.
"I know. She always believed I was going to die as a teenager, said it'd be my own fault for all the shit I did" Jim agreed.
"You were a hellion, but you were angry" Helen told him with a smile.
"Everyone wanted me to live up to my fathers memory, looked down on any mistake I made like I disappointed him. Expected me to be the perfect copy of him just because I look like him. I didn't know how to live up to these expectations of me that were formed the minute I was born" Jim replied.
"You may look like him, but you've always been someone completely different" Helen smiled, kissing the top of Jim's head.
