SNOWED IN

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The Snowed In Meme

You were just having a normal day out when an angelical snow shower hits you... hard. And now you're trapped with someone else until it passes by. Are you at a cafe? A bookstore? School? In the middle of crime-fighting? Location, duration and snow intensity are all up to you!

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[willrevile]

[ Jim would be perfectly happy to help build the snow wall, seeing as he's got his damnable northerner's constitution thanks to a childhood of brittle Iowa winters, but Luke's on a tear and laughing about it, so starting a fire it is. Luckily he knows about a hundred tricks for toasting, incinerating, and harmlessly heating things with a phaser. ]

Alright, that's a story you're going to have to tell me, [ he decides as he reaches out and takes Luke's hands in his own (even the robot one, yes, he forgets all the time) to help rub feeling back into them. ] What the hell is a tauntaun? Did you get eaten or was it a really unfortunate survival day?

[xwing]

[ his smile softens fondly as jim takes his hands, shifting a half-step closer and rubbing the thumb of his prosthetic over the other man's wrist. the mild demand and questions earns another laugh, though, and a shake of his head. ]

Ugh, suns, it was the worst. A tauntaun is this.. furry snow-lizard the Alliance used as mounts on Hoth. [ his fingers creep up jim's wrist, sliding beneath the sleeve of his coat. ] I was on patrol and I was attacked by a wampa, then dragged to its cave, where it was probably going to tear me apart and eat me. I managed to wound it and escape, but I fainted before I got very far. [ it had been pretty horrifying at the time, of course, but now he's just grateful he hadn't died out there. ] --Han went out in a blizzard to find me, but his tauntaun died before he could make it back with me.

[ his lips quirk back up, brows arching. ]

While he was putting the shelter together, he cut open the tauntaun and pushed me into it to keep me from freezing, too. He likes to remind me every now and then.

[ he pauses, then nods toward the entrance to the cave. ] The cold doesn't bother you so much, does it?

[willrevile]

'A wampa', [ Jim echoes while he's explaining. He kind of loves that Luke's galaxy has all these creatures and beings and they all have names-- the gigantic ice bug that tried to eat Jim on his own frozen hostile planet adventure remains carnivorous insectoid species 37655. It sounds so charming and soulful, despite all the struggles. He makes a face at the end. ]

Gross, but very smart. [ He notices Luke attempting to hide in his jacket sleeve - what are you doing, you dork - and laughs quietly. ] It's definitely freezing but I'm used to it. Come here. [ He positions Luke in front of him and curls his arms around him, giving him full impact of the fire and a human heater. Also he can still hide his hands if he wants. ]

[xwing]

It looks a bit like what you Earth-natives call an abominable snowman. Only with big curving horns and teeth the length of my fingers.

[ being a desert native is terrible when you're on a planet like hoth-- or like this one. he hates the cold, the charm of snow had worn off within the first week of experiencing it, and he'd kind of hoped to put frozen wastelands behind him. not that this is a wasteland, precisely, but it's certainly frozenish. he is, therefore, only too glad for jim to reposition and then curl around him, tucking his arms in to fully maximize his ability to retain heat.

he tips his head against jim with a short noise of contented pleasure, eyes slipping shut. much better. ]

I don't think I'll ever get used to it. The only good thing about the cold is body heat. If I'm still here when you retire, we're definitely living in a desert.

[willrevile]

That is... really weird.

[ But also still really charming. Jim knows he shouldn't think that, not really, since he's well aware of the war-torn reality of Luke's galaxy. But still. Then, ]

You're out of luck, [ he laughs. ] I'm never retiring.

[ The tiniest hint of the dark humor that takes over Jim sometimes; he'd rather die on the job than have to deal with life after, honestly. But maybe he'll just stay on and teach at the Academy or something, when he gets too old to feasibly continue to command in action. ]

I do own a house in the Mojave desert, though.

[xwing]

Says you, [ he shoots back with amusement, trying not to grin too obviously. ] I still think your dinosaurs are weird. [ there are a lot of things about earth he finds odd, but he's getting used to the idea of it. it helps that there are a fair number of natives among the crew that don't mind chatting about their home planet.

he huffs an answering laugh, reaching up to curl his hands loosely around the other man's arms. ] You say that now, but when we're both in our eighties and creaking when we walk, I absolutely reserve the right to complain as often as I want about space making my joints ache.

[ not that he particularly expects to live that long, though he hopes they both do. and assuming he isn't.. home by then. he's been here with jim just long enough now that he's not even sure that the enterprise isn't his home now. ]

Next time the Enterprise has to visit Earth, let's go there. [ a beat, then he laughs. ] I never thought I'd miss the desert.

[willrevile]

[ Their eighties. Jesus. He hopes he's dead before then (which is kind of an awful thought, but that's Jim Kirk and his survivor's guilt for you). He also hopes they find a way to send Luke home before then. He's too good of a guy to be stranded permanently, and he's got too much of his life ahead of him. ]

Deal, [ he says with a soft laugh, about visiting the desert. ] I've never actually been there.

[ Christopher Pike's family home - he's not even sure when Chris had last been back, if at all over the last dozen odd years of his life. He was like Jim; not a homebody. ]

It is really cold.

[xwing]

[ he pushes up on his toes a little to bump his head beneath jim's chin, huffing. ] Don't brood on that. [ that's the thing about being this connected with a telepath, really; even when luke doesn't mean to intrude, he still gets hints of jim's thoughts and emotions. and given the fact that the other man is often luke's anchor when things get a little overwhelming, well..

--well, anyway. ]

Well, I've never been to Earth's deserts, so it'll be an experience for both of us, I guess. It can't be as unforgiving as Tatooine, anyway.

[ he grins at the complaint, then, pressing even closer. ] Yeah, it is. [ a pause, then he pushes back up onto his toes, brushing his mouth over jim's fondly. ] Don't we have one of those insulating blankets?