"Lunchtime and socialising"
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amine_eyesCharacters: Jim Kirk, Leonard McCoy
Rating: PG-13, purely for the solitary swearword of Leonard's. (No, I can't believe he only swore once either xD)
Summary: It's been a month since Leonard joined Starfleet, and he can't hide from the cadets forever ...
A/N: Set in the magical 'verse known as Admiral Sellick!Verse (snappy I know xD), beta-ed by the wonderful
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sororexitium :DDisclaimer: Yes, I own these fictional characters, the next movie will consist of ninety minutes of them having sex. If only ...
“Ah Doctor McCoy! There you are!”
Leonard resisted the urge to jump, and instead turned round very slowly to face the owner of the hundred-decibel loud voice. Standing in the doorway of his office was Admiral Sellick, the head of Starfleet Medical, and he beamed at Leonard who started wondering exactly what he’d done to get into trouble.
Admiral Sellick came into his office, shutting the door behind him, and lowered his voice to the sound of a large shuttle taking off.
“Doctor McCoy, how are you settling into Starfleet?”
Leonard answered warily, hand holding the PADD out in front of him unconsciously.
“Fine thank you sir – Admiral. Settling in well. Sir.”
“Ah, good good Doctor, it’s nice to hear that you’re managing to cope with the workload and the stress of starting a new job.”
Leonard refrained from saying that as the workload mostly involved drunken students and the occasional injury, it wasn’t that difficult. He didn’t fancy getting passed on to the Sexual Health Clinic, it was bad enough he had to deal with people who should have learnt by now how to control their drink.
“There is just one thing Doctor …”
“Yes? Sir?”
“It’s come to my attention that you’re … well, rather aloof from the rest of the Academy. It might make you more approachable to the rest of the people here if you were to … socialise. Join them at the general mess hall instead of hiding in your office with a sandwich until clinic hours are over for example.”
“Sir, I’m here to treat people not become their bosom buddy. Sir.”
Admiral Sellick sighed deeply as he looked at Leonard.
“I had hoped not to do this … Doctor, I’m ordering you to go eat with the rest of the Academy and socialise with them.”
Leonard somehow managed to keep from dropping the PADD in his hands as he gaped in disbelief.
“You’re ordering me to go and socialise? This – sir – it -”
Admiral Sellick waved off his protests with an expansive gesture.
“Doctor, hiding in your office is not conductive to being a doctor at Starfleet Medical. Did it work in your old practice? I highly doubt not, the only way you’ll get half those people out there to trust you is by showing them that you’re able to relax from your job, be the same as them.”
I’m not the same as them, they’re wet behind the ears idiots who wouldn’t know a hard life if it came knocking on the door every week for child support money, Leonard thought furiously, restraining himself from yelling at the only member of Starfleet Medical who actually spoke to him as an adult. He took a deep breath, biting his lip before he replied.
“Yes … sir.”
After all, I can go grab my lunch quickly and run from there, it’s not like he’s going to notice after all, he’s a busy Admiral with a lot of people to look after …
“Good man! Now, I believe it’s time for your lunch break Doctor, go and have fun!”
With that, the Admiral started to head out the door, and then stopped, looking back at Leonard.
“Oh, and Doctor? If I find that you didn’t actually sit and relax, I will put you on the Sexual Health Clinic for a month. Do I make myself clear?”
Fuck!
“Yes sir.”
“Good man! Now, must dash, need to go bully the Administration into giving us more money for building improvements!” With a cheery wave he left Leonard’s office.
Leonard waited till he couldn’t hear the bellow of Admiral Sellick echo through the hallways of Starfleet Medical, and sank into his chair, holding his head in his hands. Great. He had to go socialise.
-x-x-x-x-
Leonard pushed open the doors to the mess hall, and the eruption of noise from within almost made him turn round and leave straight away. Screw Admiral Sellick, he could manage a month on the Sexual Health Clinic, it wasn’t that bad. It was only the arrival of the four students from Omicron Perseii VIII blocking his exit that made him turn round in defeat. He looked around the crowded mess hall, wishing desperately that there was a seat away from anyone who was still wet behind the ears, actually believed in duty and honour and glory, and sighed in relief. In the corner was a deserted table of only two seats, if he got his food and headed over quickly enough, he’d be able to employ his doom eyebrow to ensure no one sat next to him while he ate, then he’d be able to eat, be in the same room as people who were socialising … it would all work out fine.
Getting into the line for food, he employed the eyebrow, was quickly served, and made his way over to the table which, miraculously, was still empty.
He sat down, took of his jacket and hung it over the back of the chair, and sighed in content as he took a bite of the ham and chips he’d managed to get for lunch. The sound around him seemed to slightly muffle into the background, and Leonard took a moment to appreciate the nice, calm, tranquillity surrounding his table, until he was rudely interrupted by the banging of a tray onto the table in front of him. He looked up, and saw the cadet who’d sat next to him on that god-awful shuttle flight here in the first place sit himself down, and hold out a hand for him to shake.
“Hey there! Aren’t you the guy from the shuttle? McCoy, Leonard or something?”
“Err … yes …” Leonard replied, gingerly taking the hand in front of him and shaking it quickly, dropping it in order to carry on eating his lunch, hoping the guy in front of him – Jim Kirk he remembered – would get the hint and leave him alone.
“So what classes you in? I haven’t seen you in here before, what track you on?”
God-damn the kid sounded perky as though everything was hunky-dory. Leonard raised his doom eyebrow in the ‘keep talking, and I will personally remove your soul’ setting that caused many interns to leave him alone on the pretext of having some urgent business to take care of.
No such luck, Jim seemed to be immune. He tried for the direct approach.
“Look, Jim -”
“You remember my name!”
The eyebrow went higher, but it did nothing to remove the kid’s happy face.
“Yeh, whatever. Listen, I’ve only got a short while for my lunch-break, I really don’t fancy spending it listening to mindless drivel. If you don’t mind …” he gestured to the rest of the mess hall.
Jim grinned, and took a bite of his own meal before he replied.
“That’s why I came to sit over here McCoy, I don’t fancy listening to gossip for my lunch break, I get it enough in the dorms. I promise, I’ll stay absolutely quiet if you want.”
The doom eyebrow faltered as Leonard looked at Jim curiously.
“Well … okay then. Glad we’re on the same page.”
Jim nodded, smiling again, before settling down to eat his lunch.
The two of them continued to eat away quietly, letting the chatter of the mess hall wash over their little haven of silence. Eventually, Leonard looked at his watch and pulled a face, reaching round to put on his coat.
“I’ve got to head off to clinic duty or Admiral Sellick is going to have my hide.”
Jim nodded, swallowing before he replied.
“That’s cool. Hey,” he called as Leonard started to stand up to take his tray to the disposal units, “Cheers for the peace and quiet. Nice to have that once in a while.”
Leonard hesitated, nodding as he gathered his stuff together.
“Yeh, was nice. Well, see you around Jim.”
“You too Leonard. Same time tomorrow?”
Leonard froze in place.
“What?”
Jim levered himself up, grabbing his own tray as he continued speaking.
“We both like peace and quiet when we eat, I’m assuming you have lunch around this time for the foreseeable future, just wanted to know if I’d be able to sit at your table again without being glared at.”
Leonard looked at him curiously.
“… If you want …”
“Cool!” A brief hand clapped onto his shoulder, and Jim headed off into the crowded mess hall, weaving his way through the groups of people, and eventually disappearing from view. Leonard shrugged, heading to the nearest disposal unit and getting rid of his lunch stuff, before heading back to his office.
As he walked into Starfleet Medical, the booming voice of Admiral Sellick stopped him in his tracks.
“Doctor McCoy, how was lunch?”
Leonard thought back to the nice, quiet lunch with someone who understood the need for a little peace in life. Nodding, he replied as he headed towards his office, a small smile appearing quickly on his face.
“Good thanks sir. If you’ll excuse me …”
He continued on his way, heading in the door of his office and started to get ready for his first patient of the afternoon. Right on schedule, one of the new intake – Cadet Wilson – came in complaining of dizziness when she stood up. As Leonard treated her, and moved on to the next patient who was already waiting in the waiting room, he wondered whether Jim would be there tomorrow.
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Date: 2010-06-22 11:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-22 11:28 am (UTC)Cheers for the lovely comment :D
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Date: 2010-06-22 11:20 am (UTC)I love how the companionship is already growing :)
Also Sellick <3
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Date: 2010-06-22 11:28 am (UTC)Yay!
And Sellick <3 is awesome too (mostly 'cos I just imagine him as Brian Blessed :D)
Thanks for the awesome comment! :D
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Date: 2010-06-22 11:46 am (UTC)well, minus the beard (Hospital Hygene and all)
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Date: 2010-06-22 11:50 am (UTC)I'm not the only one WOOT! (And OMG I love that clip of him, he's just ... Brian xD)
Well, he IS the head of Starfleet Medical, and he wouldn't be Brain without the beard ... I'm sure we could work something out xD
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Date: 2010-06-22 12:13 pm (UTC)hmm...strap on beard??
lmaoxD
na, It works with the beard. McCoy has the epic eyebrow of doom, Sellick the beard and voice O.^
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Date: 2010-06-22 12:19 pm (UTC)There we are then - and ALL of Starfleet shall bow to his awesomeness xD
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Date: 2010-06-22 11:33 am (UTC)The doom eyebrow made me laugh! Lol! It's just really funny when McCoy is the one refering to it as the doom eyebrow lol!
Awesome xx
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Date: 2010-06-22 11:35 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-06-22 12:01 pm (UTC)Cheers for the comment :D
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Date: 2010-06-22 12:45 pm (UTC)Feels like the start of an epic romance fic to me. Yes, this is a hint. ;-)
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Date: 2010-06-22 12:53 pm (UTC)... *looks around room to the mass of plotbunnies waiting there*
Hmmm ... hint taken and stuffed in a drawer so it can wait t see the light of day when I've actually completed at least half my plotbunnies xD
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Date: 2010-06-22 01:01 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-06-22 02:58 pm (UTC)too cute~
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Date: 2010-06-22 04:14 pm (UTC)Cheersfor the lovely comment :D
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Date: 2010-06-22 04:38 pm (UTC)and FFF, this was so cute and just, made my morning. heavens help us when bones actually needs to SOCIALIZE. loved the inner dialog as well :D
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Date: 2010-06-22 07:02 pm (UTC)Aw I'm so glad you like it :D (And Bones is a Doctor not a socialite damnit! Thank goodness Jim's there to keep him in line when they meet the diplomats xD)
Thankyou for the lovely comment :D
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Date: 2010-06-22 05:49 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-06-23 02:05 pm (UTC)And your Sellick is so clever and intuitive! :D
Loved Jim and how easily he already just knew Bones.
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Date: 2010-06-23 02:56 pm (UTC)I also am very happy that all the characters work for you, thank you for the lovely comment :D
(And Jim always knows Bones, they are destined :D)