"Uncle Kim this is Loffi" Venice ran up to Kim to show him another plushie. Kim briefly looked at his nephew and just nodded a bit before he turned back to Kinn and Vegas to continue in their conversation. Kim lost track of how many plushies he was introduced to and to be honest he stopped paying attention to the names and who is who after the second toy Venice came to show him.
Venice ran off to Tankhun who was sitting on the floor on a pile of plushies.
"Good job" Tankhun praised the boy when he settled down on the floor next to him. "Are you going to add one more?" he asked and smiled when Venice giggled and nodded.
Pete and Porsche who were sitting on the sofa by the wall were very secretly taking pictures to document the whole thing while trying not to laugh.
"Uncle Kim... this is Baily" Venice ran up to Kim with another plushie in his hand.
"Wasn't Baily the dog? This was Gio or something like that, wasn't it?" Kim asked when he realized that both the plushie and the name were familiar.
"Ehm... this is... ehm... no this is also Baily. And... Gio is his twin so they look the same" Venice quickly came up with something and Kim was starting to have a feeling that something was off but since he had no idea what he just shrugged it off.
"Sure" Kim decided he will not think too much about some plushies.
"That was a close one" Venice whispered to Tankhun when he returned to him and put the plushie he just used aside so he would not accidentally show it to Kim for the third time.
"The pink flower next, little one" Tankhun said and after a short pause they made between each plushie Tankhun sent Venice on another quest.
"I think this was the last one" Venice grinned happily when he got back to Tankhun who pulled him in a proud hug.
"Ok so I'll look into it and then let you know" Kim nodded when he, Kinn and Vegas finished their conversation.
"Uncle Kim wait!" Venice jumped to his feet, because he could not let Kim leave without hugging him goodbye. Venice wrapped his arms around Kim's legs and Kim as usually just waited for Venice to move back.
"Hug him back or I'll dox you!" Tankhun looked at Kim while sitting on his throne made out of plushies.
Kim, trying to look like he's suffering while doing so, crouched down and hugged Venice. He had to bite his cheek to hide the smile when Venice giggled happily at that.
Kinn's and Vegas's quiet chuckling made him turn his head and look at them.
"Yeah that's funny, Kinn I thi... he was just telling me a joke" Vegas said quickly and Kinn nodded to confirm him.
Kim narrowed his eyes while standing up again, knowing for a fact they were not laughing, or trying not to laugh, because of some joke.
"Whatever... bye" Kim decided he will not waste his time with the two, or the other three, Tankhun, Pete and Porsche, who he could hear trying to muffle their laughter.
When Kim left the room everyone waited for a moment before they finally started to laugh.
"You do have the pictures, right?" Tankhun looked at the two spies in the corner.
"Yep... sending it to you right now" Porsche nodded while sending Tankhun the pictures he took.
"I am impressed how many you managed to put there, Venice" Kinn looked at his nephew and ruffled his hair and the boy smiled proudly.
"Yes, very proud but now come here... we have work to do" Tankhun called Venice back to him so they could play with the plushies.
*
While Kim was going to his car he would swear the bodyguards he was walking past were turning around to look at him again and then tried to hide their smiles and laughing. He would swear he could head a very quiet whisper while they were looking at him, after he walked past them.
Kim was used to the bodyguards noticing him, despite him ignoring them, but the amusement from their part was new.
Kim just kept ignoring them and continued to his car, got in and drove home.
Another strange thing happened when Kim was waiting for the elevator and one of the neighbors, he never even spoke to, smiled at him and said he must be a very good uncle.
Kim entered his apartment utterly confused and just a little bit concerned about how that woman could possibly know he is an uncle. Was she a spy? An assassin? Kim went to his computer to find out more about his neighbor who seemed to have too much information about Kim but then he stopped when he noticed something in the mirror. Something that explained everything. The amusement, not just of his family but also of the bodyguards and more importantly the quite unsettling comment from the neighbor who is probably not a hired assassin after all. All the woman needed to know Kim is an uncle was to be able to read.
Kim was looking at the mirror, looking at the stickers all over the back of his leather jacket, well not all over, only where someone of a smaller height would reach, someone very similar to Venice's height. How many plushies Venice showed him? Kim wondered and he was sure that the amount of plushies would be equal to the amount of the stickers on Kim's leather jacket.
There were stickers of all sorts of shapes, sizes and colors. Flowers, hearts, animals, music notes... just anything Venice thought would make Kim's jacket look more fashionable. When Kim took a closer look at it he could see Tankhun's influence in some of the stickers.
The animals, flowers and hearts were not all that was there however. There were some letters as well. Eight letters to be more exact. And those eight letters spelled exactly what Kim was.
"UNCLE KIW" (with a sticker of a big heart behind it)
Well... maybe not exactly what Kim was then, Venice created a strange combination of the names Kim and Wik, which Kim was sure was not intentional. He recalled Venice frowned a bit while introducing him to one of the toys and Kim was sure that that was the toy that served as a distraction for the letter M.
Kim took the jacket off to see it properly and while he was looking at it a small smile appeared on his face. He was actually impressed that he didn't notice anything. He could feel Venice's hand on his back a few times but Venice always pretended to trip and lose his footing, pretending he ran too fast and didn't manage to stop in time, so Kim didn't think too much of it.
It seems that Kim will have to keep an eye on his sneaky little nephew from now on. Or maybe teach him one or two little tricks in stealth.
