can i request some mckirk for the three sentence fic meme? 👀 wouldn't mind some hurt/comfort if you need a prompt, but you're free to do whatever!
this one got a leetle too long for a tumblr post, so uhhhh here:
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Title: told me not to fly too close
Fandom: Star Trek: The Original Series
Ship: McCoy/Kirk
Rating/Warnings: T / none
Word Count: 1900 words
Episode tag for The Man Trap
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The salt vampire is dead, and Kirk sits with McCoy in Sickbay as McCoy gets checked out.
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He sits down, bumping his shoulder against McCoy's. Tries to gather his thoughts.
He needs, he thinks, an argument. Something persuasive, and logical, and emotional. Something to convince him to stay. Something to convince him—
He doesn't want to convince him. He wants to go back in time to a few days before, when he didn't have to convince him. When he was the only one who could get McCoy on a five-year deep space mission without any convincing at all, with just a smile, with just a question, with just—















