AOS!McKirk Rec List (Part 1)
There are +250 stories in this list, all AOS recs, in alphabetical order and divided in pre-slash, first time and established relationship. AU fics are included, also a couple of stories not strictly Jim/Bones but slash between characters played by Chris and Karl because I liked them too much not to (oops?).
Notes: this rec list contains 99% top!Bones.
❤ = favorite. It's what I chose instead of going alakjsdhgfjdksalsdfj please read it please please go just go what are you still doing here?? ajksfkjdhg in every one of them. It's more, huh, practical. lol.
★ = a story will have one to three stars depending on how much I liked the characterization.
‣ = same as the star but for plot.
> = 0-5 of these for angst.
& = this means fluff. 1-5.
*Another character's POV is marked at the beginning of the summary.
**When it says 'prompt' in the summary, it's usually for a prompt in the ST XI kink meme (or the old one) in LJ or the buckle-up meme in the same page. I'm just too lazy to add the link every time, sorry.
***There are some stories that didn't have the number of words so I added short in the description (they usually are 500-3000ish). Sometimes I added 'not so short' instead when it felt like they were around 5k and 'long' for >5k.
****Some of the links will not work if you're not a member of the Jim and Bones community on livejournal. The same goes for some locked journals, such as Dante's Hell.
PRE-SLASH AND/OR FRIENDSHIP
A call in the night [‣‣‣] [★★] [>>>]
Summary: prompt - Pike may have gotten Kirk into the Academy, but it didn't secure him a full ride. He's been sleeping in friends' dorm rooms as he doesn't have a place to stay, which results in him gaining his manwhore reputation. Bones takes him in permanently but stipulates he can't bring anyone back to the dorm. This isn't a problem for Kirk, he's already got the one he wants inside.
Word count: short.
AU Acute [‣‣‣] [★★★] [>] [&]
Summary: Jane T. Kirk is a genius.
Word count: short.
AU According to Jim [‣‣‣] [★★] [>] [&&]
Summary: girl!Kirk AU. Over the years, Len gets pretty good at deciphering the things that come out of Jim Kirk's mouth.
Word count: 1,168
Alive [‣‣‣] [★★] [>>>>>]
Summary: Jim had always known he wasn't meant for great things or a long and illustrious life.
Word count: 1,576
❤ And All the King's Men [‣‣‣] [★★★] [>>>]
Summary: "How many times can you patch up something before you realize that it's too fucking broken to fix, Bones?" When a training simulation uncovers something that Cadet Jim Kirk was never meant to remember, it breaks him. Leonard McCoy can't sit by and watch Jim crumble. When asked what he's willing to do to get the old Jim back, Leonard has only one answer. "Anything."
Word count: 63,153
Beginning [‣‣‣] [★★★] [>>]
Summary: Jim and Bones meet on the shuttle.
Word count: 1,043
AU Beginnings [‣‣‣] [★★★] [>] [&]
Summary: In which Leonard McCoy meets Jane T. Kirk.
Word count: short.
Bring it On [‣‣] [★★] [>>>>]
Summary: prompt - Academy years. Bones has always been patching up Jim since they first met. What if Jim, in some self punishing way because of his abusive step-father, always seek out rough sex that hurts him because he thinks he deserves it? And Bones slowly figures it out? Concerned for his friend, Bones tries to show Jim love doesn't always hurt and neither does sex?
Word count: short.
Bruises [‣‣‣] [★★] [>]
Summary: prompt - battered Jim Kirk going on shoreleave with Spock/Bones and someone thinks he's being abused.
Word count: short.
AU Call Bones [‣‣‣] [★★] [>] [&&]
Summary: When Jamie Kirk gets drunk somebody always calls McCoy.
Word count: 5,800
Classic De-aging Fic [‣‣‣] [★★★] [>>>] [&&&]
Summary: prompt - I want a fic where Jim is de-aged to around two years old and clings to McCoy in the same way because he was actually a pretty shy kid. Bones has to deal with him all day, although he really doesn't mind.
Word count: short.
Convergence [‣‣‣] [★★★] [>>>>]
Summary: Jim Kirk and Leonard McCoy are on top of the world at the academy until it all comes crashing down around them. Trapped in their own mystery of politics, sabotage, and possible murder, it quickly becomes impossible to know who to trust. Worse, Jim might still be a target. With a dangerous criminal on the loose and Academy leadership not doing enough, Jim and Bones have to get their lives back together and find out what happened... before it happens again.
Word count: 140,467
Feral & Sharp, jagged ridges [‣‣‣] [★] [>>>>] [NC-17]
Summary: prompt - I would love to see Kirk and Bones during the Academy. They're like BFF but there are times Bones is bothered by Kirk's...er...free-loving (lol). Somehow, they argue, Kirk storms off, gets drunk in a bar and is assaulted in a back alley. But he tries to hide it from Bones because he fears Bones will just say he deserved it and Kirk just stumbles home. But Kirk is hurt more than he realizes, maybe in his delirium, he passes out bleeding in the shower. Bones is worried and even though he tells himself Jim's a grown man, he goes to check on Jim and finds him. Massive hurt/comfort, doctory things please. Bonus points if in the end, Kirk and Bones become more than friends.
Word count: short.
Fireflies [‣‣‣] [★★] [>>>]
Summary: prompt - Kirk has nightmares nightly. The only time he doesn't? When he sleeps with McCoy.
Word count: short.
AU Five lives Leonard McCoy has led [‣‣] [★★★] [>]
Summary: Doom crossover. How John Grimm became Leonard McCoy.
Word count: short.
AU Happenstance [‣‣‣] [★★★] [>>]
Summary: It’s not as if McCoy intended to end up standing on the platform of the Nenana Train Station, blinking against the harsh white landscape.
Word count: 2,000
He's my best friend [‣‣‣] [★★★] [&&]
Summary: prompt - While visiting the new Vulcan colony, Jim gets bit/scratched by an indigenous lizard-like feline animal. DNA in the creature's saliva starts integrating with Jim's, making him transform into something that's his halfway between human and the creature.
Word count: short.
I'm not nervous [‣‣‣] [★★] [>] [&]
Summary: prompt - McCoy has to use the transporter for the first time (for a mission that requires his special medical expertise or something) and he is not impressed at the prospect. Kirk helps him relax.
Word count: short.
❤ AR I'm the Reaper [‣‣‣] [★★★] [>>>]
Summary: prompt - Doom crossover. Reaper!Bones.
Word count: short.
AU I walk a mile in bloody shoes [‣] [★★] [>]
Summary: Doom crossover. Bones' thoughts before, during and after confronting Nero.
Word count: 1,000
AU I got my finger on the trigger [‣] [★★] [>]
Summary: Doom crossover. Sequel to I walk a mile in bloody shoes.
Word count: 640
❤ Impressions [‣‣‣] [★★] [>>] [&]
Summary: prompt - Academy era: I want one of them finding out the other's really a big softie. Like Jim volunteers at an orphanage or Bones really likes playing with dogs or something.
Word count: short.
AU Knight in Shining Armour [‣‣] [★★] [>>] [&]
Summary: prompt - Bones starts a bar room brawl when he attempts to defend always-a-girl!Kirk's honor. Kirk doesn't know whether to be amused or annoyed.
Word count: short.
❤ Know thyself, heal thyself [‣‣‣] [★★★] [>>] [&&&]
Summary: "Only once Jim completely settled did McCoy close his eyes and dare to relax, reflecting again on the breathing certainty of the one real bright everyday spot in his life. He'd desperately needed something to keep his attention out of the bottle to keep going at Starfleet-- when he signed up he wasn't sure he could do it. But that bloodied, beautiful boy from Iowa smirking at him on that shuttle had been it, that spark of life and verve and 'fuck the rest of the world' spirit that McCoy needed because he'd forgotten how to find it himself."
Word count: 2,602
Life is No Joke [‣‣‣] [★★] [>>>]
Summary: When a practical joke gone wrong begets a response gone way wrong, Spock and McCoy have to find a way to convince Kirk that everything's going to be all right after all.
Word count: 3,000
❤ Look [‣‣‣] [★★★] [>] [&&]
Summary: Without fail, Bones and Jim are always drawn towards each other.
Word count: 979
Lost [‣‣‣] [★★] [>>>>]
Summary: Uhura can feel the worry and fear that had first appeared when the Captain had been declared missing grow even stronger.
Word count: 500
❤ Mad [‣‣‣] [★★★] [>>>>]
Summary: Jim isn’t sure when he became so co-dependent, but he thinks that it’s making him a little crazy.
Word count: 1,529
Man's best friend [‣‣‣] [★★] [&]
Summary: same prompt as 'He's my best friend'. Jim gets turned into a strange creature and only Bones can handle him.
Word count: 3,435
❤ More things in Heaven and Earth [‣‣‣] [★★★] [>>] [&]
Summary: Spock's POV. "When you're born under a black star like Jim, here, well, sometimes that one millionth of a percent of a chance actually means something. Nothing's certain, Mister Spock. Heisenberg knew that. But Jim Kirk-- he lives it." Spock and McCoy discuss Kirk after the battle and before Enterprise's return to Earth.
Word count: 3,625
Moving on [‣‣‣] [★★] [>>>] [&&] [NC-17]
Summary: prompt - Jim gets gang banged in a seedy bar after pissing the guys off hustling pool. The guys decides Jim was fun and brings him back to their place to "party" and they film it.
Word count: 2,400
not a big deal (tm) [‣‣‣] [★★]
Summary: that one time everyone on the enterprise thought jim and bones were fucking or even damn it, jim, i'm a doctor, not a decoy.
Word count: 2,550
AU Point Pleasant [‣‣] [★★]
Summary: Leonard McCoy's angel really sucks.
Word count: 481
Out of the desert [‣‣‣] [★★★]
Summary: The Academy drops 100 cadets in the desert for a little survival training; Jim decides he's got a better plan.
Word count: short.
AU Overexposure [‣‣‣] [★★★] [>] [&]
Summary: Leonard is Bones is rooming with Jane Kirk. Oy.
Word count: short.
❤ AU Road Noise [‣‣‣] [★★★] [>>>]
Summary: Sooner or later, you end up at the hotel bar at 1 AM. Features Rhett Ryan (Chris's character from Small Town Saturday Night) and Jamie Forrest (Karl's character from Shortland Street).
Word count: 5,000
❤ AU Snowfall [‣‣‣] [★★★] [>>>>]
Summary: Unstoppable/RED crossover. William Cooper receives an assignment he'd rather not take. When he sees the civvie he's working with he is even less impressed.
Word count: 4,634
Someday came today [‣‣‣] [★★]
Summary: prompt - Jim singing Chris' song from Small Town Saturday Night.
Word count: short.
❤ The Most Beautiful, the Most Immediate Breath of Life [‣‣‣] [★★★] [>>>>] [&&&]
Summary: Jim was always good as a drinking partner, a person to sit with at meals and at times, someone to study with. He was slowly becoming what looked like a good friend. But the day Leonard’s past caught up with him, Leonard learned something new: that Jim was also a good man.
Word count: 14,900
❤ The unexamined life [‣‣‣] [★★★] [>>>>]
Summary: “I might throw up on you. If he lived as long as a Vulcan, Jim would never see a better entrance than Bones’ cantankerous and protest-filled walk into the shuttle’s seating area. If it was a holovid, it would have been the best scene in the whole damned adventure. And that whole “danger, disease, darkness” spiel of his while Bones reeked of bourbon and sweat and Iowa dust while he ignored the stares of every slick cadet on the shuttle-well, it was a twisted way to find love at first sight, but that was Jim Kirk in a word. Twisted.”
Word count: 2,602
Tactile Rules of Engagement [‣‣‣] [★★★] [>>>]
Summary: prompt - Kirk is thought of as a tactile person, but it's really that he learned in childhood how to use touch/proximity to intimidate or charm others into doing what he wanted. McCoy has a habit of giving him absent little signs of affection - a knee pressed up against his at dinner, an arm slung over his shoulders on the way home from a bar, a hand stroking his hair when he's sick. It makes him suspicious and he finally asks McCoy what the hell he wants with all this touching.
Word count: 2,620
To sleep [‣‣‣] [★★★] [>>>]
Summary: "Kirk has nightmares nightly. The only time he doesn't? When he sleeps with McCoy."
Word count: 3,031
Untitled [‣‣‣] [★★★] [>>>] [&]
Summary: prompt - i like, need, low self-esteem!jim. preferably paired with bones or spock (bottom plz if it gets to that) srsly, he's adorable when he's all fucked up.
Word count: short.
Untitled [‣‣] [★★] [>>]
Summary: prompt - Jim is the type of boy that will let clients rough him up for a few extra credits. He's used to handling it by himself, but one time he passes out and wakes up in a free clinic with McCoy treating him.
Word count: short.
Untitled [‣‣‣] [★★★] [&&&]
Summary: prompt - For some reason I really want a de-aged Kirk to like 4 or 5 (don't care how) on the verge of tears (don't care why) and asking McCoy to cuddle with him (who totally melts but refuses to show it). The two of them falling asleep, Jim cradled on Bones' chest, and maybe someone finds them like that?
Word count: short.
Untitled [‣‣‣] [★★★] [NC-17]
Summary: prompt - based on this picture.
Word count: short.
Wild Child [‣‣‣] [★★] [>>>]
Summary: WIP. Prompt lost, but it's about Jim helping Bones deal with a teenage!Joanna.
Word count: short.
Part 2 (First time)
Part 3 (Established relationship)