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jjverse In the end Challenge.
Title: We're Going Home
Fandom: Star Trek
Characters: James T. Kirk and Leonard "Bones" McCoy
Word count: ~900
Summary: Home is here
They'd had a lot of crazy missions over the last five years, met all sorts of new aliens and discovered all sorts of new plants and basically boldly gone where no man had gone before all over the fucking galaxy, and beyond. It had been the best, and sometimes the worst, decision Kirk had ever made to join Star Fleet. To prove to Pike – and to himself – that he was more than just a genius offender and that he was as good a man as his father had been.
Everything had changed since that first moment he'd met Pike in that bar in Iowa – the entire world had changed, the universe. All of it. Things Kirk had never even thought to imagine had happened in the last five years and he and the majority of his crew had made it out to the otherside. They had packed up the last of their gear on the last planet they'd made it to - and gotten everyone back on board - something Kirk considered a bit of a personal triumph getting everyman back from their last trip.
And they were headed home, it would still take them a few months to reach it but they were headed back in the direction of Earth. It seemed strange, to be going back, so many on the crew were talking about what they would do when they got home, who they would see, the food they would eat (the real stuff, nothing out of regenerators for the entire time they were on leave), and all the fun they would have being home again.
But for Jim, this had become home. Before he joined Star Fleet it would have been a miracle if he'd managed to stay in any one place for more than a few months, his mother had them moving around a lot - thanks to her job, and then thanks to her husbands. Until Jim finally left home, since then it was motels and the back of bars until Pike had found him.
And Star Fleet academy had become a sort of home to him in the years he was there taking classes, but even more than that this ship, his ship, was home to him now. It was where his friends were, where he ate and slept, and where he'd come to die more than once, it was the only place that had ever truly felt like it was home.
He didn't know what he would do when he got back, when they expected him to leave the ship - she needed some work after all. It hadn't been an easy five years for the old girl. Where would he go? Maybe he'd try and find his mother, show her he wasn't quite the screw up Frank always thought he'd end up to be, but that idea didn't hold any appeal to him.
"Whatcha doing up here, darlin'?" The familiar voice interrupted his thoughts, but Jim didn't turn to see the face of his Chief Medical Officer.
"Thinking."
"Always a dangerous pastime."
"I know." Jim's lips curled into a slight smile, lifting at the corners in a way that only Bones ever got to see.
"Thinking about what?"
"Going back."
Bones made a soft hum of a noise, but didn't say anything further. Instead he moved to sit with James on the couch, throwing an arm carelessly over the back of the sofa and around his shoudlers as he did - it was a well practiced move after all. James sighed and let himself relax into the closeness of it, he did this to himself a lot, got himself worked up over something that shouldn't be such a big deal. Only this felt like a much bigger deal than anything else he had dealt with in the past. This was about his home, what if they tried to assign him to a different ship? What if they decided it had been a mistake to give a ship like the Enterprise to someone so young? What if they decided it had been a mistake to make him a captain at all?
"You oughta come back with me." Bones said finally, after they'd both sat in silence for several long minutes.
"What?"
"You know, come home with me, when we get back to Earth."
Kirk looks at Bones like he's grown another head. "Oh don't look at me like that Jim. What are you going to do? Mope around the Academy for months before they finally kick you out for being a disgrace?"
James sputtered to answer that with some quick retort of his own, but Bones had always managed to tie his tongue up in knots - for various reasons.
"Come home with me, you can meet Joanna, we'll rest and wait out the rest of our shore leave before we come back home."
He wanted to argue, to give Bones some reason why his suggestion wouldn't work, and yet he couldn't seem to find any reason not to do just what he asked. And so he shrugged, put on his usual bravado and nodded. "All right then, that's what we'll do."
McCoy just gave him a fond smile and let Jim continue to think it had been his idea from the start, he'd had years to get to know and understand Jim to know when to leave well enough alone.
jjverse In the end Challenge. Title: We're Going Home
Fandom: Star Trek
Characters: James T. Kirk and Leonard "Bones" McCoy
Word count: ~900
Summary: Home is here
They'd had a lot of crazy missions over the last five years, met all sorts of new aliens and discovered all sorts of new plants and basically boldly gone where no man had gone before all over the fucking galaxy, and beyond. It had been the best, and sometimes the worst, decision Kirk had ever made to join Star Fleet. To prove to Pike – and to himself – that he was more than just a genius offender and that he was as good a man as his father had been.
Everything had changed since that first moment he'd met Pike in that bar in Iowa – the entire world had changed, the universe. All of it. Things Kirk had never even thought to imagine had happened in the last five years and he and the majority of his crew had made it out to the otherside. They had packed up the last of their gear on the last planet they'd made it to - and gotten everyone back on board - something Kirk considered a bit of a personal triumph getting everyman back from their last trip.
And they were headed home, it would still take them a few months to reach it but they were headed back in the direction of Earth. It seemed strange, to be going back, so many on the crew were talking about what they would do when they got home, who they would see, the food they would eat (the real stuff, nothing out of regenerators for the entire time they were on leave), and all the fun they would have being home again.
But for Jim, this had become home. Before he joined Star Fleet it would have been a miracle if he'd managed to stay in any one place for more than a few months, his mother had them moving around a lot - thanks to her job, and then thanks to her husbands. Until Jim finally left home, since then it was motels and the back of bars until Pike had found him.
And Star Fleet academy had become a sort of home to him in the years he was there taking classes, but even more than that this ship, his ship, was home to him now. It was where his friends were, where he ate and slept, and where he'd come to die more than once, it was the only place that had ever truly felt like it was home.
He didn't know what he would do when he got back, when they expected him to leave the ship - she needed some work after all. It hadn't been an easy five years for the old girl. Where would he go? Maybe he'd try and find his mother, show her he wasn't quite the screw up Frank always thought he'd end up to be, but that idea didn't hold any appeal to him.
"Whatcha doing up here, darlin'?" The familiar voice interrupted his thoughts, but Jim didn't turn to see the face of his Chief Medical Officer.
"Thinking."
"Always a dangerous pastime."
"I know." Jim's lips curled into a slight smile, lifting at the corners in a way that only Bones ever got to see.
"Thinking about what?"
"Going back."
Bones made a soft hum of a noise, but didn't say anything further. Instead he moved to sit with James on the couch, throwing an arm carelessly over the back of the sofa and around his shoudlers as he did - it was a well practiced move after all. James sighed and let himself relax into the closeness of it, he did this to himself a lot, got himself worked up over something that shouldn't be such a big deal. Only this felt like a much bigger deal than anything else he had dealt with in the past. This was about his home, what if they tried to assign him to a different ship? What if they decided it had been a mistake to give a ship like the Enterprise to someone so young? What if they decided it had been a mistake to make him a captain at all?
"You oughta come back with me." Bones said finally, after they'd both sat in silence for several long minutes.
"What?"
"You know, come home with me, when we get back to Earth."
Kirk looks at Bones like he's grown another head. "Oh don't look at me like that Jim. What are you going to do? Mope around the Academy for months before they finally kick you out for being a disgrace?"
James sputtered to answer that with some quick retort of his own, but Bones had always managed to tie his tongue up in knots - for various reasons.
"Come home with me, you can meet Joanna, we'll rest and wait out the rest of our shore leave before we come back home."
He wanted to argue, to give Bones some reason why his suggestion wouldn't work, and yet he couldn't seem to find any reason not to do just what he asked. And so he shrugged, put on his usual bravado and nodded. "All right then, that's what we'll do."
McCoy just gave him a fond smile and let Jim continue to think it had been his idea from the start, he'd had years to get to know and understand Jim to know when to leave well enough alone.