simplicity itself - Trek reboot drabble - PG

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Title: simplicity itself

Fandom: Star Trek reboot

Disclaimer: not my characters

Warnings: spoilers for film

Pairings: Jim/Bones

Rating: PG

Wordcount: 200

Point of view: third

Prompt: simplify

 

 

Of all Jim’s one-night-stands, his favorite was a gruff older man from somewhere in the south. He was either a structural engineer or a lawyer—Jim had been too drunk to be sure which—and he took care to make Jim feel good. It was a week before Captain Pike and the dare that changed everything.

 

For five years, that drunken tumble was Jim’s best experience. Not even beating the Kobayashi Maru or Nero topped it.

 

But two years after becoming captain, after Bones nearly getting his fool self killed by jumping in front of a dagger meant for an ensign, Jim sat by his side for the hours it took him to wake up. He studied Bones’ vitals and held his hand and told Spock to consider himself Acting Captain until sometime in the future because of compromised emotions. 

 

And when Bones finally opened his eyes and slurred something out, Jim breathed again.

 

And when Jim leaned down to kiss him in relief, giving in to thoughts he’d never admitted thinking, Bones kissed back, tasting familiar, like the memory of Jim’s favorite partner.

 

Jim, Bones murmured into his mouth. 

 

Bones tasted like being given the Enterprise felt—like home.