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smartass_captainIt's been years since Jim was a full time student. A cadet in his reds spending every waking moment studying or making it look like he never studied. Both seemed important to him at the time, even though now it seems like a rather wasted effort of a smartass kid who had a bone to pick with everyone. It hasn't even been a decade since his graduation yet and he already feels a lifetime away from the man who stood in front of Christopher Pike to relieve him of his post on the Enterprise.
Would his old teacher find this Jim Kirk amusing?
Putting together lesson plans and tests to give his fiance to try and catch him up on the basics of living on a space ship like the Enterprise so it would be safe to have him aboard? Spending the off nights carefully measuring herbs and seeds he's ground into dust with the pastes of feathers, fungi, and scales Felix provides as he dutifully studies his alchemy. Felix and he have made something of a competition over it because of course they have. It suits the competitive Jim perfectly. As much of a scholar as he is by his own right nothing motivates him better than trying to prove someone else wrong no matter who it is.
Even if it's the man Jim loves.
For as laid back as Felix can seem there's no denying there's a very specific drive in the Nirnish mage to not be left behind. He's also a voracious scholar but more important than the lessons themselves is the pleasure in smiling so sweetly at his fiance while he tells the other he's lost. Jim Kirk is a proud man. A stubborn man. Getting him into a forfeit round is no easy feat and Felix is always justifiably pleased in lording a victory over Jim. Just a little bit.
Of course the material itself is important as well. For as much of a pain as a 'mandatory cram school' as Jim calls it is, they both know how important this is before Felix soon finds himself immersed completely into Jim's daily life. In return for the hours of reading and questioning, Felix gets to watch Jim sit with his own notes carefully learning Cyrodiilic or dutifully practicing his alchemy. Strictly speaking this part isn't necessary. They're not going to be living in Tamriel after all. Anytime at all the mage comments on it Jim just looks up from his notes with the softest smile on his face.
"I know. I want to. I can't be much of a partner or confidant if I don't learn, after all."
Jim knows it's not enough. They don't talk about the things they should. He's not a mage, he wouldn't understand.There's so much Jim doesn't get and Felix needs someone he can talk to. If not Jim, then who? If Felix Caelus is going to leave his world behind and follow Jim out into the Black, the least the captain can do is educate himself in return. Until he's knowledgeable enough for Felix to open up. They've overcome so much. Jim can't let this stay in the way forever.
There's so much to learn for them both.
Would his old teacher find this Jim Kirk amusing?
Putting together lesson plans and tests to give his fiance to try and catch him up on the basics of living on a space ship like the Enterprise so it would be safe to have him aboard? Spending the off nights carefully measuring herbs and seeds he's ground into dust with the pastes of feathers, fungi, and scales Felix provides as he dutifully studies his alchemy. Felix and he have made something of a competition over it because of course they have. It suits the competitive Jim perfectly. As much of a scholar as he is by his own right nothing motivates him better than trying to prove someone else wrong no matter who it is.
Even if it's the man Jim loves.
For as laid back as Felix can seem there's no denying there's a very specific drive in the Nirnish mage to not be left behind. He's also a voracious scholar but more important than the lessons themselves is the pleasure in smiling so sweetly at his fiance while he tells the other he's lost. Jim Kirk is a proud man. A stubborn man. Getting him into a forfeit round is no easy feat and Felix is always justifiably pleased in lording a victory over Jim. Just a little bit.
Of course the material itself is important as well. For as much of a pain as a 'mandatory cram school' as Jim calls it is, they both know how important this is before Felix soon finds himself immersed completely into Jim's daily life. In return for the hours of reading and questioning, Felix gets to watch Jim sit with his own notes carefully learning Cyrodiilic or dutifully practicing his alchemy. Strictly speaking this part isn't necessary. They're not going to be living in Tamriel after all. Anytime at all the mage comments on it Jim just looks up from his notes with the softest smile on his face.
"I know. I want to. I can't be much of a partner or confidant if I don't learn, after all."
Jim knows it's not enough. They don't talk about the things they should. He's not a mage, he wouldn't understand.There's so much Jim doesn't get and Felix needs someone he can talk to. If not Jim, then who? If Felix Caelus is going to leave his world behind and follow Jim out into the Black, the least the captain can do is educate himself in return. Until he's knowledgeable enough for Felix to open up. They've overcome so much. Jim can't let this stay in the way forever.
There's so much to learn for them both.
