#mcckirk

Jim: ...no?

McCoy: Are you lying?

Jim: Depends on what your definition of lying is?

McCoy: Mine is to not tell the truth.

Jim: Oh, mine is to recline your body in a horizontal position.

Jim: Aw, come on, you know you’ll always take my case...Pro Boneso.

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From March 7, 2013.

Song is "Doctor Jones," by Aqua.

There are a few clips from Star Trek: The Original Series included in the video.

On AO3 here

Lenght : 36828

author summary : What if Leonard McCoy had been at the bar that night? Two men, a cycle, and a trip that changes their lives.

My rec :

Two of my favorites things in fiction are road trips and science fiction. So How could I resist the fic I am going to present today ?

This is a pre-academy story, where Jim and Bones doen’t meet in that shuttle. Instead, they ran into each other just after Jim fight in the bar, and of course Bones can't help himself and had to help him.

Bones was on the edge of going, but changed his mind at the last minute. For Jim, Pine didn’t convinced him to join Starfleet.

Out of the kindness of his precious heart, Jim offers to Leonard to take him to a bigger city, so he can start a new life. And that's how their journey start, between ratty hotels, meals over the fire, searching for a shelter under heavy rain, ...

This story has a slow path, quietly leading the story toward their inevitable relashionship, and Starfleet. This allowed them to learn to know each other, sharing their life under the night sky, and healing slowly thanks to the other.