First time Bones gets to introduce Jim as his husband
It’s one of those nights, one of those times where Jim forgets his cutoff number and ends up on the karaoke stage with a mic in one hand and the third beer too many in the other, and Leonard’s trapped on the other side of the bar by Nyota and her group of equally tall, equally beautiful, equally unimpressed friends.
“Honey, should’ve picked a man who could hold his drink,” one of them says, and Leonard attempts to squeeze past her out of the booth.
“Yes, well, I’m already married to the damn fool,” he says testily. “Excuse me—”
“Aw, let him have his fun,” Nyota chides lightly. “It’s your first weekend back from the honeymoon.”
“Exactly. Kid’s lost whatever reason he had left. D’you know he tried to cannonball into the hotel pool from the fourth—”
“But how deep was ze pool?” Chekov asks interestedly from where he’s squashed in the corner, and Leonard stares down at him in shock.
“How long have you been there?” he demands, just as he hears a peal of bright, uninhibited laughter from the bar. He looks over in time to see one of the locals, a tall young guy with a brazen smile and clearly not an ounce of wits about him, because his hands—
“Excuse me,” Leonard says again, firmly this time, and he pops free from the booth.
The guy’s got a hand resting on Jim’s ass in plain view, and Leonard’s seeing red by the time he storms up to the crime scene, clearing his throat pointedly.
Jim spins clumsily towards him, which removes the offending hand, but not the person it’s attached to. “Bones,” Jim says delightedly, flushed and happy and so damn beautiful that Leonard’s heart lurches and keels to the side. “Bones, hey, this is….this is, ah…” He squints fuzzily at the guy, who’s smiling confusedly at Leonard in a “I sense some kind of shit about to go down” sort of way. “What’s your name again?”
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