#healerverse

Chapters: 24/24 Fandom: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies) Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Gaila & James T. Kirk, Gaila/James T. Kirk, Leonard "Bones" McCoy/Spock, James T. Kirk & Leonard "Bones" McCoy, James T. Kirk & Spock Characters: James T. Kirk, Spock (Star Trek), Leonard "Bones" McCoy, Jocelyn McCoy, Joanna McCoy, Gaila (Star Trek), Christopher Pike, Geoffrey M'Benga, Original Characters in quantity, Christine Chapel Additional Tags: Medical Casefic, Traumatic Brain Injury, Self-Harm, Suicidal Thoughts, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Mind melds, Telepathy, Episode: s01e29 Operation - Annihilate, Starship Narada (Star Trek), Medical Jargon, Starbase 4 - Freeform, Vomiting, Autistic Spock (Star Trek), Autistic Leonard McCoy, Accidental striking of a child, Estrangement, Ableism, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Anxiety Attacks, Angst with a Happy Ending, child custody, Aphasia, Chronic Pain, Orthotics/Braces, curly hair, Tarsus IV, Staring Patterns, Psychiatric medication, Used appropriately Summary:

One year after a defrosted Khan temporarily killed Enterprise second officer James Kirk, permanently killed fifteen thousand people on the San Francisco waterfront, and critically injured Leonard McCoy's ex-wife Jocelyn and daughter Joanna, the doctor attends a medical conference held on Starbase 4. James Kirk accompanies him on his way to sign on as the first officer of the hospital ship Nightingale, serving under Captain Christopher Pike.

When Jocelyn arrives unexpectedly on the starbase to leave McCoy with sole custody of his daughter, his life is placed on a collision course with a certain Vulcan healer named Spock.

Chapters: 23/24 Fandom: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies) Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Gaila & James T. Kirk, Gaila/James T. Kirk, Leonard "Bones" McCoy/Spock, James T. Kirk & Leonard "Bones" McCoy, James T. Kirk & Spock Characters: James T. Kirk, Spock (Star Trek), Leonard "Bones" McCoy, Jocelyn McCoy, Joanna McCoy, Gaila (Star Trek), Christopher Pike, Geoffrey M'Benga, Original Characters in quantity, Christine Chapel Additional Tags: Medical Casefic, Traumatic Brain Injury, Self-Harm, Suicidal Thoughts, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Mind melds, Telepathy, Episode: s01e29 Operation - Annihilate, Starship Narada (Star Trek), Medical Jargon, Starbase 4 - Freeform, Vomiting, Autistic Spock (Star Trek), Autistic Leonard McCoy, Accidental striking of a child, Estrangement, Ableism, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Anxiety Attacks, Angst with a Happy Ending, child custody, Aphasia, Chronic Pain, Orthotics/Braces, curly hair, Tarsus IV, Staring Patterns, Psychiatric medication, Used appropriately Summary:

One year after a defrosted Khan temporarily killed Enterprise second officer James Kirk, permanently killed fifteen thousand people on the San Francisco waterfront, and critically injured Leonard McCoy's ex-wife Jocelyn and daughter Joanna, the doctor attends a medical conference held on Starbase 4. James Kirk accompanies him on his way to sign on as the first officer of the hospital ship Nightingale, serving under Captain Christopher Pike.

When Jocelyn arrives unexpectedly on the starbase to leave McCoy with sole custody of his daughter, his life is placed on a collision course with a certain Vulcan healer named Spock.

Chapters: 21/24 Fandom: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies) Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Gaila & James T. Kirk, Gaila/James T. Kirk, Leonard "Bones" McCoy/Spock, James T. Kirk & Leonard "Bones" McCoy, James T. Kirk & Spock Characters: James T. Kirk, Spock (Star Trek), Leonard "Bones" McCoy, Jocelyn McCoy, Joanna McCoy, Gaila (Star Trek), Christopher Pike, Geoffrey M'Benga, Original Characters in quantity, Christine Chapel Additional Tags: Medical Casefic, Traumatic Brain Injury, Self-Harm, Suicidal Thoughts, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Mind melds, Telepathy, Episode: s01e29 Operation - Annihilate, Starship Narada (Star Trek), Medical Jargon, Starbase 4 - Freeform, Vomiting, Autistic Spock (Star Trek), Autistic Leonard McCoy, Accidental striking of a child, Estrangement, Ableism, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Anxiety Attacks, Angst with a Happy Ending, child custody, Aphasia, Chronic Pain, Orthotics/Braces, curly hair, Tarsus IV, Staring Patterns, Psychiatric medication, Used appropriately Summary:

One year after a defrosted Khan temporarily killed Enterprise second officer James Kirk, permanently killed fifteen thousand people on the San Francisco waterfront, and critically injured Leonard McCoy's ex-wife Jocelyn and daughter Joanna, the doctor attends a medical conference held on Starbase 4. James Kirk accompanies him on his way to sign on as the first officer of the hospital ship Nightingale, serving under Captain Christopher Pike.

When Jocelyn arrives unexpectedly on the starbase to leave McCoy with sole custody of his daughter, his life is placed on a collision course with a certain Vulcan healer named Spock.

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Loki snorted at Kenna's playful bluster. "Therein lies the conundrum, madam: if I am so thin as you insist, there is nothing on my backside left to strike."  Cheekily and lightly, he swatted her own rump, and his tongue probed between his grinning teeth as he jumped back from any retaliations.  He blinked in sobered shock at the kiss Kenna planted on his hair, and found himself in a rare state of modest meekness, as if transported back to the very age at which Kenna might have indeed successfully spanked him. 

Her words about Sigyn and about his own solitude struck him hard and he averted his long-lashed eyes to the floor, at a genuine loss. Blind to the happinesses in his past, Loki could now only remember being alone.  

"He is not my father anymore, by his own decree," the Jotun prince murmured through his teeth.  "But mark me, Kenna, I shall weather this next tempest and I SHALL be free, with Sigyn at my side, and children who shall flourish."

Loki perked up on the bed in his cell with the comical straight-backedness of a ferret or meerkat.  He folded his hands in front of him for a moment of pathetically feigned nonchalance before reaching them out with the eager greed of a child.  His face was transported with a rare enthusiastic anticipation. “Give it,” he half-gasped, and seized the item from her.  For a long silent moment he leafed through it like a parched man drinking a pitcher of water. Then he closed it and cast his healer a delighted, smug look complete with the probing of his tongue through his teeth.

Loki spun slowly at the sound of the words uttered from the mouth of gentle, unassuming Sigyn.  

"Am I?" he crooned, as a smile slowly slipped up his narrow face.  "Do tell."

The Trickster God loped over to the Healer and laced his arms slowly, and almost protectively, around her.  

"I shall accept this sentiment whole-heartedly if I am permitted to return it."  

After only a few months, John is used to patching up Sherlock like an old rag doll that kept being torn.  It's a bit more complex than that, really, human beings generally were, but he found the analogy rather apt.

Sherlock would come back home after a long night out on a case, and John would find him about ready to collapse for one reason or another.  Without needing to be asked, the healer would take to his flatmate and friend as though he were just another patient, albeit one that tended to grouse most of the time about what was going on in John's head.

And then, the next day he'd be perfectly fine, right as rain, as though he hadn't almost died the previous night.  John would be more annoyed with him than normal, and Sherlock would try harder to be less annoying than normal, but apart from that, life would go on as though nothing had happened.

It becomes similar to a routine, and it happens even when they're out - if there's another medic nearby, Sherlock will go to John first.  First they'll deal with the worst of it - "Sherlock, don't move.  No, I know it's going to hurt, so don't be a baby and deal with it.  You could have ducked." - and then there'll be the minor things, the cuts and scratches and bruises that are bad enough to make life miserable for several days, and John knows Sherlock would complain endlessly if he just left them as they were - "Can I move now?"  "Yes, but only if you don't jolt me while I'm working on that hand of yours." "How long is it going to take, then?"  "Don't be impatient.  It's almost done, see?"  "...I'm bored.".

It became a scene to watch, if it happened - so long as John himself wasn't injured, it was more of a comic show than something to be worried about if Sherlock got hurt, to see him acting like such a child.

And then Sherlock fell, and there wasn't any time - let me pass, I'm his friend, I'm his healer - and when he was near nothing was working, it wasn't supposed to be like this, there had to be enough time, and Sherlock wasn't moving.  He always, always fidgeted and moved whenever he wasn't supposed to, twitched at just the wrong time, drummed his fingers as John's hand, glowing pale green, lit up and healed his broken lung or bust arm.

But he wasn't this time.  This time, he just lay there, so limp, unresponsive, no life, not working.  It wasn't working.

There was a word for when a healer could not heal their patient.  One small, very specific word, but John didn't want to admit to it.  Not just yet.  He'd been able to do it all of those other times, so why not now?  Why not?