Thanks to a cup of iced coffee with whipped cream that he really did not need, after dessert and smoothies with Eve, Jack was quite pleasantly buzzing on energy. Once again, his lack of watch (and the lack of running clocks), led to him being unintentionally late. This time, at least, it was not a surgery, but just a friendly dinner.
He breezed into the room with a wide grin and a babble on his tongue, "/Miguel! What's up man? You would not believe the day I had today, and well yesterday! I donated blood, patched it up with Eve, tracked vitals on a patient in an emergency surgery./" In rapid-fire Spanish, only a native speaker would be able to barely discern his babble-tasticness. "/So, lots of blood, stitches, bandages, chocolate cake, smoothies with berries. Oh yeah, and I had coffee again./"
Jack finally took a breath, "/So, what have you been up to?/"
Then, remembering that they were not alone, he turned to the strange woman he half recognized. "Hey, I'm Jack, Miguel's brother-in-law. And I swear I'm not insane." He reconsidered, but not the sanity part, he was fairly sure he was relatively in the normal range. "Well, I'm really his brother's wife's brother. His wife's completely not blood related to me, although she is nice enough that I know Mom and Dad would adopt her in a heartbeat give the chance. Maria? Has he shown you the picture yet?"