PART TWO (CLOSED)

[fangirlofmccoy]

STAR TREK XI KINK MEME
PART TWO

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PART ONE

When you've finished a prompt, feel free to pimp it here: REPOST THREAD

Kink what?
What is a kink meme? Pretty self explanatory, actually. You request a pairing and a prompt/kink anonymously, and someone else (or several someone elses for that matter) will be able to fill that request- also

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OP Repost

[anonymous]

I got lucky with one repost earlier today, so I'm going to dare another. :-) Original post here: http://community.livejournal.com/st_xi_kink/8314.html?thread=22916986#t22916986

Jim and Bones are having relationship problems (over some substantive issue, not just a petty disagreement) and they've been tense and unhappy with each other for few weeks. During the day they're barely speaking to each other; at night, they have silent, angry, almost desperate sex.

I'd like the resolution not to come from some big dramatic event like a near-death experience, but rather from something more internal to one of the characters. Maybe Bones realizes that this feels an awful lot like the end of his marriage did, and he's not going to let it happen again. Or Jim talks to one of the other crew members and he/she gives him some helpful advice.

And then of course there is tender makeup sex. :-)

Re: OP Repost

[rubynye]

*contemplates*

OP

[secretsolitaire]

I think I would flail with joy if you wrote this one. ♥

Re: OP

[rubynye]

Flattery and being a wonderful person will get you many things. :)

Orbiting Situla Secunda 1/3

[rubynye]

To outward appearances, Dr. Leonard H. McCoy, CMO of the USS Enterprise, is sitting at his office desk concentrating on his padd. He may be reading an article on recombinant retroviruses, or perusing an update from the Situlan Medical Science League on their progress in mopping up the Kastra Fever outbreak, or grimly surveying the mortality and morbidity rates charted against date, age, gender and blood type

Orbiting Situla Secunda 2/3

[rubynye]

And that was that. A little nothing of a fight, but one day became two became more than a week, and they didn't talk. Leonard advised the Situalans from shipboard, itching to feel the exact swollen firmness of patients' lymph nodes and observe precisely what reduction in skin discoloration was meant by "slightly improved," but muffled through distance and working through others' hands he fought the plague until they found the one vulnerable step in the virus's infectious pathway, and then a way to create a vaccine that the virus couldn't mutate away from

Orbiting Situla Secunda 3/3

[rubynye]

His door opens and Jim's on the other side, a step away from leaving. The room's dim, only 25% lights, and Jim's eyes shine with bottomless clarity before he drops his head, chuckling as he shakes it. "Hey, Bones

Re: Orbiting Situla Secunda 3/3

[secretsolitaire]

OMG! *flail* Am out of town sneaking onto the internet so I can't give this the full comment this deserves, but I will when I get home. In the meantime, eeee, THANK YOU!

Re: Orbiting Situla Secunda 3/3

[rubynye]

You are ery, very welcome. :)

Re: Orbiting Situla Secunda 3/3

[secretsolitaire]

And I'm home. *rereads happily*

I really love this. ♥ I was hoping so hard that this prompt would be filled and you did an amazing job with it. I am always fascinated by fic that explores how Jim and Bones would deal with the captain/subordinate issue when it comes into contact with their friendship/relationship, and I like how you played that out here, especially the way you have them call each other by their rank at certain key points.

"Captain," he says, just as seriously, "I was insubordinate, and I apologize." Jim's eyes widen, oval and getting rounder, but he nods in acceptance. "Jim," and Leonard can't keep looking at Jim any more than he could stare into the Sun, so he stares at a dark corner and keeps himself talking. "I didn't mean for it to get this bad either. I miss you, you arrogant asshole."

♥♥♥

I also adored the angry sex, and that Jim was already planning to apologize, and the Jocelyn line with the forcefield, and that you used the Jocelyn part of the prompt. :-D And oh, the ending.

"I thought..." He skims his

Re: Orbiting Situla Secunda 3/3

[rubynye]

Thank *you* again for asking for this, and for encouraging me. (And reccing this! When I looked in my inbox -- ee! I did a happy dance) I had been thinking vaguely about that balance for awhile, and then between your lovely prompt and thistlerose's astounding recent story all you can do is do what you must (which I've totally been crediting in my replies here) I had a story to tell.

I especially loved the part of the prompt about Jocelyn, because I love writing about McCoy -- about all of them -- as someone with a past and a future. :D

This has been one lovely creative experience. You're very welcome, and thank you. :D

Re: Orbiting Situla Secunda 3/3

[sumofparts]

Here via secretsolitaire's rec. I don't read a lot of Kirk/McCoy though I do see it. The emotional punch of this was very well-written. And I agree that seeing how they navigate a relationship that's personal and professional is very interesting. Thanks for the fill!

Re: Orbiting Situla Secunda 3/3

[rubynye]

Thank you so much for commenting to tell me that I did well, and what you liked! If you liked this tale of balancing personal and professional relationships, you might like this beautiful story, which inspired me as I wrote this: thistlerose's all you can do is do what you must.

Re: Orbiting Situla Secunda 3/3

[rubynye]

Eee, thank you so much for this lovely, detailed comment. These are words to refine my writing by. (And I understand you recced me as well! Thank you, so much!)

I admit, I'm kind of astounded by blue and green eyes. They seem almost magical, those colors in human flesh, and especially the way light eyes change with moods and lighting and vicissitudes. So I write a lot about those bright blue eyes Mr. Pine imprinted onto my image of Jim Kirk.

Re: Orbiting Situla Secunda 3/3

[blcwriter]

Hurty and lovely and perfect as always.