The Impossible by brevityis
This is what it takes to do the impossible.
Written for the prompt:
"Bones-the-doctor ALWAYS saves Jim. Period. This is canon, fanon, and trope. Khan blood is a miracle, and everything is pretty happyshiny at the end of STID, but we didn't get to see the intervening weeks when Bones worked feverishly, jacking himself up on stimulants to keep working on the cure, or when it looked like Jim might die anyhow despite the massive compromise of medical ethics, or when an exhausted and terrified Bones finally let fly on the command crew for not calling him down to engineering in the first place, goading Spock into a meld to share the moment of Jim's death. And how much of this will Lazarus-Jim ultimately find out? How does this change not only the Jim/Bones dynamic, but the way everyone looks at Bones?"
As we all know, Jim Kirk has a little accident at the end of Star trek : Into Darkness. Yeh, he died.
This is a very traumatic experience for him when he finally come back from death thanks to Bones : He has this memories of his last moments, but also it takes a lot of times to recover. No fun times indeed. But what we don't see that often is the impact it had on his friends, and on one person in paticuliar : Bones.
This story explores the consequencies of Jim death on Bones, when he was the one spending days, weeks on the serum, driving himself crasy to find the cure, rejecting all of his main principles for the man he loves, forgetting about himself and his own health, cutting himself from his friends and all the support they could provide him with.
When I read this fic, I was affected a lot by all the sadness and heavy sorrow Bones suffers throught all the story. While he is as stuborn as usual, he let himself being torned apart by his pain, and take it out on his friends more than once. The crew is very worried about him, and even more when they witness one big break down he has. Even when Jim finally woke up, it will take a lot of time for him to understant what happened, to be able to help his friend recover along his own healing, and understand his feelings.
This story is very interesting in the way it explored Bones reaction to Jim's death, but also the relashionship he has with the crew. The Hurt!Bones is almost at the highest you can get it and it is very well done! Be ready to feel your soul tearring apart from the sadness !
