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McCoy wouldnāt call himself nosy, exactly. It was a professional curiosity. Any doctor would be curious if they had a patient whoād just undergone a huge neurochemical and behavioral shift, only to snap out of it as if it had never happened.Ā
The thing was, McCoy didnāt really buy that it had all stopped that quick. Sure, Spock claimed that, when he thought heād killed Jim, the āmadness was goneā but that same āmadnessā had taken days to culminate and the effect had been profound. McCoy had never thought heād see Spock behave in such a mannerā¦ impulsive, violent, even mindless.Ā
It didnāt sit right with him. There was something about it that put everything out of balance. Heād gone to that so-called Vulcan wedding ceremony expecting this unrecognizable version of Spock to marry some woman he hadnāt seen in years, who heād been betrothed to as a child, all while Spockās entire body and mind were doing and mind were doing a number on him. McCoy knew Vulcans had some strange ideas about freedom, but there was something unethical about that kind of lifelong commitment being made under those circumstances, at least as far as he was concerned.
ā¦ That wasnāt the point though. That wasnāt why he had asked Spock to come to the sickbay. It was a professional thing. Even the Vulcans couldnāt know much about how this pon farr might affect a half-Human. There was no way to be sure there wouldnāt be some residual damages or lingering effects. McCoy wouldnāt be doing his job if he just accepted that Spock was fine because he said he was.
Still, he knew Spock was private about this kind of thing, so he let his staff leave about an hour early, giving them time before the next shift came in. If there was some kind of medical emergency in that hour, wellā¦ He knew his people would hurry back, and heād take the nasty message from Starfleet about it.
Chapel was the last to leave, giving him a silent look before she left that told him to make sure Mister Spock was okay. He just smiled at her and took a little time while he waited for Spock to arrive to look over the readings heād taken during Spockās last two medical checkups--one before the condition had taken hold and one in the midst of it.
