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A/N: In which, Shadow reveals something to his soon to be son in law and Sandy does nothing but laugh. Also, happy Valentine's Day, y'all.

"So, y'all are planning to move in together?" Sandy asked, setting a pitcher of tea on the table.

Blake nodded, fiddling with his engagement ring. "Yes, it's my aunt's old place so all we really need to do is move in. It's not that far from campus and still in the Kismet region." He answered, pouring himself a glass of tea. College students were currently on winter break, but with Bryce being his mother's son he decided to take an internship over the break with an artist he admired; Blake couldn't remember his name since Bryce was that excited about it.

"That's nice. Who's yer aunt?" Sandy asked, sitting across from Blake and taking a cookie from the plate she baked earlier.

"Aunt Rouge, she was nice enough to offer it to me when she met Bryce and we were still looking for apartments. Funnily enough, she mistook Bryce for Shadow at first." He said, laughing and straightening up as Shadow entered the kitchen, gaze trained on him. "It was just a mistake though." He continued.

Shadow sat next to his wife, reaching across the table to take Blake's hand. "Blake," he started, clicking his tongue as Sandy snorted. "I'm proud to have you apart of this family, but. . ."

Blake looked at their joined hands, wondering what his soon to be father in law was getting at. He wasn't about to ask him to call off the engagement, right? Granted, it'd ultimately come down to whether Bryce knew about this or not and—

"If things were different, I could have been your uncle," Shadow said, completely serious as Sandy outright laughed, holding her stomach as her laughter subsided into giggles. "It's not funny,"

"Course it is," Sandy managed, giggles building into a laugh again. "Poor boy must've thought you were 'bout to disown him."

Blake let out the breath he was holding, pausing as his brain processed what Shadow said. "You dated my aunt?" he gasped. "You were going to marry my aunt?"

Shadow frowned, clearly thinking. "Maybe. Possibly. I mean, yeah, but some stuff happened and, you know I'm glad my son met you. I mean it."

"Don't change the subject," Sandy called from the back as she went to wipe her face of the tears that gathered from her laughing.

Blake nodded in agreement, lightly squeezing Shadow's hand. "You do know she wants to meet you two, right?" he said. "And the rest of Bryce's siblings."

Shadow blinked, barely reacting as Sandy kissed his cheek, saying, "C'mon, it can't be that bad. I'm sure she's a nice gal n yer off tomorrow anyway."

"That's great, I'll—." Blake stopped, starting to stand up and take his hands away from Shadow. He pulled, grunting with the effort and sighing when Shadow didn't budge.

"So, basically, I should avoid this meeting at all costs, got it," Shadow said, nodding as he let Blake's hands go.

Sandy scoffed, lightly punching Shadow in the arm. "So what if y'all dated? It's in the past n now yer gonna be family, don't be like that."

"Fine," Shadow mumbled, wondering how his wife always managed to convince him things won't be as bad as he imagines. After all, it was for his son, so he could suck it up for now and just deal. There was no way this could possibly go wrong. Hopefully.