Newt only makes it through about ten seconds of imagining a Kate-Allison grilling session because he's pretty damn sure that it wouldn't end well. Kate's not really the grillable type, she'd probably end up either silently seething or skipping straight to a full rant; and Allison's one of those people nobody can ever actively dislike but she'd still made her first appearance in Darrow at the train station wielding knives in each hand. Little aggressive. In general, neither one of them are people Newt would want to piss off, so he's grateful that both of them like him a whole bunch because he can admit that he's a notably cool dude but there hadn't been people like Kate or Allison back at the 'Dome. Nobody in Hong Kong would have been able to say they'd loved him.
He's not in Hong Kong anymore, though, it's been over a here since he'd arrived in Darrow and in that year, pretty much everything has changed. He has more friends than he's probably ever had, not in one of those ways that make him feel sorry for himself but in a way that makes him feel awesome because it only validates the fact that he's totally worth the time people spend on him. His job keeps him crazy busy sometimes but it's a hell of a steady paycheck and also, there's that part where he doesn't have to worry about the world coming to an end via kaiju attack on the daily so that's kind of a plus, depending on how he looks at it. The best part, obviously, is the fact that he gets to say he's married to Kate. It's not even just that she wants to date him, be with him, live with him. No, she wants to spend the rest of her life with him, and Newt hadn't even known he could be capable of feeling that way about someone in return.
"You should," he agrees with a nod, "because it's basically my job as your husband to make you feel better when you're having a rough day. Or, y'know, for whatever you feel like." That's not exactly true, he never feels obligated to help Kate with anything, but they're married now and that only makes Newt want to make sure as many moments of her day are as fantastic as they should be that much more. "Speaking of husbandry, what would you say is an appropriate gift for a guy to get his wife for their first Christmas as a married couple? Asking for a friend."
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He's not in Hong Kong anymore, though, it's been over a here since he'd arrived in Darrow and in that year, pretty much everything has changed. He has more friends than he's probably ever had, not in one of those ways that make him feel sorry for himself but in a way that makes him feel awesome because it only validates the fact that he's totally worth the time people spend on him. His job keeps him crazy busy sometimes but it's a hell of a steady paycheck and also, there's that part where he doesn't have to worry about the world coming to an end via kaiju attack on the daily so that's kind of a plus, depending on how he looks at it. The best part, obviously, is the fact that he gets to say he's married to Kate. It's not even just that she wants to date him, be with him, live with him. No, she wants to spend the rest of her life with him, and Newt hadn't even known he could be capable of feeling that way about someone in return.
"You should," he agrees with a nod, "because it's basically my job as your husband to make you feel better when you're having a rough day. Or, y'know, for whatever you feel like." That's not exactly true, he never feels obligated to help Kate with anything, but they're married now and that only makes Newt want to make sure as many moments of her day are as fantastic as they should be that much more. "Speaking of husbandry, what would you say is an appropriate gift for a guy to get his wife for their first Christmas as a married couple? Asking for a friend."