Reboot Ficlet "Beliefs" (K/Mc)

[syredronning]

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The Enterprise is limping home, and everyone is in limbo. It gives Jim a moment to reconnect with Bones, a stolen hour of holding each other on McCoy's virginal bed, too exhausted for more, too wound-up for sleep.

"It's strange," Jim suddenly says into the silence. "Everyone thought I'd die young. Hell, even I thought I'd die young. I'm a Kirk. Dying young is like a family curse."

Bones opens his eyes to show that he's listening but remains quiet.

"But it's all bullshit. In another reality, my father lived! I lived a full life. There's no such thing as a Kirk curse."

"The old guy told you so?" Bones says, trying to keep the doubt out of his voice.

"No." Jim smiles. "He showed me. Well, not my father, but he showed me my other self."

"Did he." Bones can't help himself.

Jim rolls off the bed and puts on his shirt. "He did. And shouldn't you be glad that I got rid of the thought that I'd die young?"

"I am," Bones says. It's just that he'd hated that superstition in the first place, and now isn't really happy seeing it being replaced with the inverted version of it. "Still means you can die in this universe, Jim."

"I won't," Jim says, eyes bright. "Not for a very long time."

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Comments

[illariy.livejournal.com]

What, a fluffy story by you? I am shocked! :P

That was heartwarming, I enjoyed it.

[syredronning.livejournal.com]

I don't see it as fluffy... okay, maybe compared to my other stuff *ggg*

[illariy.livejournal.com]

*g* As I said, I enjoyed it, it just was very different from your other stuff &ndash I guess that made it appear much fluffier than it really is, taken on its own. :P

[shadowvalkyrie.livejournal.com]

Wow, this was great. Somewhat chilling, really, and a great look into what makes reboot!Jim tick.

[syredronning.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I went for that chill, so I'm glad it came across for you.

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

That explains so much about Kirk! Beautifully done.

[syredronning.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :)))))

[severinne.livejournal.com]

Oh, that was lovely, with Jim so optimistic and Bones just ever so slightly jealous, perhaps? And for some reason, the phrase McCoy's virginal bed made me make this completely undignified *meep* sound of delight. *g*

[syredronning.livejournal.com]

*grins*

You're like a long-lost fandom sister in kink or something :) That's so much fun.

*bouncy*

And yes for jealous Bones - there will be more of it afais.

[vail-kagami.livejournal.com]

Aw. That was... actually very good. Not that I doubted your abilites for one second, but I usually prefer TOS over AOS quite a lot.
This was a description of the charaters that seems fitting for both universes, and makes a lot of sense. Kirk is like that: Either it's all "I can mindlessly throw myself into danger because I'll die young anyway" (based on all of one example) or it's "I can mindlessly throw myself into danger because I'm fucking immortal!" (This will go on until Bones kills him with a hypo. I in his place would.)

By the way, I just realised, you are the one who got me into this fandom. I read your Kirk/McCoy essay at ship_manifesto because I wanted to see if it was something a Trekkie friend of mine would be interested in. She wasn't, but it got me into the fandom, and reminded me that I loved Pille Bones and why. Thank you for that!

[syredronning.livejournal.com]

Oh, a ship manifesto reader! So happy to hear that *G*

And you're the "Ghost in Attics" writer! And you're German too. That's cool :) I friended you now to keep track of your stories.

[vail-kagami.livejournal.com]

I friended you right back.

By the way, I wrote a Kirk/McCoy and a Kirk/Spock/McCoy fic. I thought as a fellow K/Mc shipper you might be interested. (It's so sadly underrepresented in the TOS fandom.)

[ayalesca.livejournal.com]

I love this. :D

[syredronning.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :))

[celandineb.livejournal.com]

Oh, I like this! Kirk, reckless in any universe, only his justification changing.

[syredronning.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Poor Bones, trying to keep Reckless!Kirk at bay.

[graceandfire.livejournal.com]

Oh boy. I can totally get Bones' reaction. Thinking you won't die is just as crazy as thinking you will. Of course, trust Jim to go to extremes :)

[syredronning.livejournal.com]

It is! But considering TOS Jim and "I always knew I'd die alone", this is unfortunately strangely in character - just with a Reboot tilt on it.

[weepingnaiad.livejournal.com]

Good that Jim's gotten past the idea he'll die young. Love that Bones is rightfully worried that he'll think he's invincible.

[syredronning.livejournal.com]

Yeah, poor Bones trying to keep Jim safe :) A job for a lifetime.