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Parents' Weekend Evening Event - Saturday Evening Sock Hop

The student council folks had discussed events for Parents' Weekend and decided upon a sock hop at the community center.

So, the whole place was now ~~kitschily~~ appropriately decorated and very glittery, the refreshments were set out, and the music was playing.

There was also a large box of socks at the doorway, for those who felt their socks were too threadbare or too boring, who didn't have any socks, or who came from a world where socks didn't exist. None of the socks matched. Some seemed to be made of extremely odd materials. Some had capes and/or toes (not always five). Most were interesting color combinations. Nearly all had googly eyes that seemed to actually be looking around at things.

Hopefully they were at least good dancers?

Parents' Weekend 2013 Saturday Evening Mixer

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Be real, Karolina. He ruined his own things. Pike was just there to judge him until he fixed his life.

"Yes?"

"Hi, I'm Karolina." She didn't give non-teacher adults her last name. It was a thing. "I'm a friend of Jim's."

It could be considered a smart policy by some.

"Nice to meet you, Karolina," he replied with a genuine smile.

"Yeah, you too." There was a certain politeness Karolina was probably never going to shake when she was talking to people she wasn't outright mad at. "I don't think Jim was very happy that you came here, though."

"I'd already gathered that when he stormed away last night," he replied dryly. Because that happened.

Karolina sighed. Quietly.

"He's not going to be his dad, you know."

A notion she knew quite a bit about, actually. In general.

Chris watched Karolina for a moment. "Is that what he thinks I'm here for?"

Karolina shrugged her shoulders. "I'm not sure what he thinks, exactly. I just know what I think based on what he told me."

"Look, I'm glad he has friends who will defend him, but this isn't a case of needing it."

She was pretty sure he didn't get to be the judge of that.

But she wasn't particularly aggressive by nature. "I just wanted it known he has people who will do that."

"Trust me, with that kid's charisma? I would never doubt it."

Which is why he needed to be on the command track at Starfleet. See?

Karolina might not have agreed. But then finding out your parents were villains could lead to some pretty heavy beliefs about choosing your own path.

She watched him for a second. "So... why are you here?"

"To make sure he doesn't sell himself short on what he can accomplish."

"I don't think he's doing that."

Sure, breaking into facilities that belonged to the Avengers might not have been everyone's idea of a heroic act, but Karolina still held Jim in pretty high regard.

"Oh?" Go on, Karolina.

"He's helped me with things at home," she said, after a second to bite on her lip and weigh what she actually wanted to say, and how vaguely. "Big and not completely safe things. So, um... I think he's accomplishing plenty. And I think he'll keep doing that, wherever he chooses to go."

As long as he had the people to do it for.

Chris sighed at that. "Illegal things, right?"

Karolina refused to look even a little bit ashamed at that.

"The right thing to do at the time."

Crime for crime's sake was a different matter entirely.

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