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This is an answer to
this prompt over at
buckleup_meme Summary: Fed up by his latest stepfather's antics, almost-17-year-old Jim Kirk runs away, ending up in Oxford, MS, working at a bookstore near the campus of University of Mississippi. Enter Leonard McCoy, in his second year of undergraduate studies.
Done in parts, each of which are linked here.
(Chapter 1: Great Fall)
(Chapter 2: All the King's Horses) (Chapter 3: All the King's Men) (Chapter 4: Shatter (NSFW)) (Chapter 5: Swept Away) (Chapter 6: Blown Away) This story is complete. The sequel is called
Suspended Imagination