McKirk- Teens
Leonard is the Jock at Jim’s new school. Not popular by any stretch of the imagination (people actually think he’s super weird cuz he’s always grumpy and complaining about everything), but he’s known for playing basketball and soccer and being one of the best players on both teams.
Jim doesn’t know much about the other teen, just that everyone is talking about all the collages sending out recruiters to see if he’s someone they want to bring in on an athletics scholarship.
Jim, on the other hand, is a total nerd, but a popular nerd. He gets along with everyone, loves getting into trouble and going to parties, but also enjoys shoving his nose into a book and dreams about joining Starfleet one day as a science officer. He can’t wait to see space and all of the cool things that he can only imagine Starfleet officers get to see.
So to say that Leonard and Jim are complete opposites is a bit of an understatement. They’re two people you wouldn’t expect to find anywhere near each other.
Which is why When Jim sits down beside Leonard in the cafeteria on a particularly busy lunch period after he arrived late (thank you late morning science study group) the whole room goes dead silent.
No one knows what is going to happen. How is Leonard the grump going to react to someone with Jim’s energy and charisma? How long will it take jim to roll his eyes and shove his nose into a book like he always does when someone is boring him?
Half the room actually expects Leonard to shove jim away from the table. Everyone knows Leonard prefers to eat alone, and he hates when people are in his space. And given that the table is already packed, Jim is elbow to elbow with the Jock.
Except, Leonard doesn’t shove Jim away. He doesn’t even growl or grumble. Instead, he actually moved over so that he’s taking up more of the person on his left sides space, and actually smiles when Jim looks at him in surprise.
Jim and Leonard don’t become friends quickly. Neither of them really think they can. But after that day, Jim decides to make it a personal goal to go to as many games of leonard’s as he can, and sit with Leonard at Lunch whenever he can, which doesn’t seem to bother Leonard at all.
They don’t even talk for the first week. They just eat their lunch in silence. After a week though, Leonard actually offers Jim part of his cupcake, stating he can never finish any of the sweets his dad packs in his lunch for him (a true fact in Jim’s experience. Over the last week he has never seen Leonard completly finish one sweet)
After that they start actually having conversations. Nothing much at first, just telling each other about their school day, but soon it stretches out into telling each other about things they like doing, where they enjoy going, and even what they want to do in the future. And to say jim is shocked when Leonard states that he doesn’t want to go to collage to be a sports star is an understatement. Everyone knows Leonard is prime pickings to go to collage on an athletes scholarship, so what else could he possibley want?
It takes jim another week to get the answer out of Leonard, and it only happens when he runs across the other teen in the field after school. Leonard isn’t at practice with the soccer team, but is instead sitting under one of the schools biggest trees reading an old medical textbook. As soon as he see’s jim he puts the textbook down and invites him over to sit with him.
Jim brings up the book slowly, wondering if he said something wrong when Leonard grimaces. But Leonard just tells him it’s what he wants to do. That he wants to be a doctor like his dad and help as many people as he can.
Jim gets a real grimace when he asks if Leonard’s going to join Starfleet, and he doesn’t understand at all until Leonard explains his fear of space. How he wants to reach out to as many people as possible and how meeting all of these amazing new races and people would be fantastic, but he doesn’t think he’d be a good doctor at all in a situation that constantly has him on edge.
Jim just nodds his head. He has fears of his own, he understands where Leonard is coming from, but he does think he’s selling himself short and he says as much.
Over the next year Jim and Leonard become inseparable. People at school actually get used to seeing the energetic nerd and grumpy jock together, and it becomes a little joke that opposites really do attract and Jim and Leonard are proof of this.
When Jim gets his acceptence letter to starfleet near the end of the year, he’s extatic. The first person he tells is Leonard and he can’t stop smiling as he goes on about all the things he’ll learn and see. It’s not until he actually looks at Leonard that he notices he isn’t smiling at all. He actually looks sad.
When he asks Leonard what’s wrong, the Jock just smiles sadly and tells Jim he’s going to be awsome in Starfleet and they’re going to love having him. He can already see all the news headings about Jim’s works and discovers, and Jim loves the idea. He adores that Leonard is so supportive, but it doesn’t change the fact that Leonard also looks so alone.
On graduation day, Jim walks over to Leonard after everyone has gotten their diploma and thrown their hats in the air. Leonard beams at him as he walks over, and slaps him on the shoulder proudly as soon as he’s close enough.
Jim ends up asking which school Leonards going to. He knows Leonard got a lot of offers for athletic scholarships, and was having a tough time choicing.
What surprises him though is when Leonard pulls up an acceptence letter from Starfleet. The last place Jim ever thought Leonard would go. When he says as much, Leonard just smiles softly and tells him “I couldn’t let you have all the fun. Besides, who else is going to keep you alive while you go off and find New diseases and death?”
Jim isn’t sure when exactly he kissed Leonard. All he knows is that the room has suddenly erupted in cheer once more and Leonard is holding him close and refusing to let go.
He didn’t think his future could be any more amazing that being part of Starfleet and exploring the universe, but now he’s certain nothing can top doing all of that with Leonard by his side.
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Sometimes Jim gets particularly restless during meetings. When he notices, Bones will hook an ankle around Jim’s. The solid pressure helps keep Jim grounded until they can get through the meeting.
College AU where Bones accidentally elbows Jim in the face at a protest or concert (or other place where there’s a huge crowd) and makes his nose bleed, and then makes him do the right thing to get the bleeding to stop bc Jim does it wrong and Bones is a med student so he knows his stuff. Jim is flirting the whole time of course ;) I’m sorry idk what i’m doing i’m trash
Len was sympathetic to the protesters, really he was. There was no mistaking his understanding of the situation; it was perfectly acceptable that the student body was furious over the raise of tuition, unit prices, food hall prices, all while limiting the financial help access. He understood, hell he’d even be standing with them, but he really needed to get to class, god damnit. With a frustrated sigh he started pushing through the tense crowd. Hundreds of students milling around, chanting with megaphones, and causing a general disruption in the middle of the campus.
Eventually the crowd became too thick and Len found himself tripping over too many feet, he flailed, trying to gain his balance, but seemed unable to stop his sudden and unwelcome meeting with the ground. Right when Len decided to brace himself against the fall someone grabbed him, pulling him back to his feet, but failing to miss the wild swinging of Len’s arms. The med student winced when he felt his elbow come in solid contact with something crunchy. He had a sinking feeling that it had been someone’s face.
His saviour yelped and clutched as his nose with a groan.
“Oh Christ! I’m sorry!” Len grabbed the other man by the elbow and dragged him out of the crowd. Screw his class, he might have just broken some poor bystander’s nose. “I’m sorry.”
The guy waved him off and blinked back tears through a surprisingly genuine grin. “It’s okay, it’s not like you meant to do it. Though I have to admit a thank you would have been a little nicer than an elbow to the nose.” The guy sniffed and cursed as blood started to trickle down his upper lip. Quickly, he tilted his head back. “Nice hit though. You should try roller derby.”
“Don’t tilt your head back, you idiot!” Len grabbed the man’s face and forced him to hold his head forward. The kind eyes and sweet smile that now faced him made his heart stutter and his stomach drop. Of course Len would have the luck of elbowing a gorgeous man in the face. “You uh…” An eyebrow arched up toward the guy’s hairline, disappearing under the disheveled fringe of blond hair. Len swallowed hard and carefully pressed his fingers over the bridge of the other man’s nose. “Doesn’t feel broken, so just pinch here carefully until it stops bleeding. Tilting your head back doesn’t stop the blood.”
“If I say you hurt my hand too will you do it for me?” The blond’s sunshine warm grin didn’t fade even as he brought his hand to his face to pinch just under the hard cartilage at the bridge of his nose. Len pulled his hand back quickly when their fingers brushed far too deliberately.
“You flirt with every guy who nearly breaks your nose?”
The blond’s grin grew, making his eyes crinkle at the edges.
“Only the cute ones.”
Len rolled his eyes. “Just put some ice on that once you get home. Thanks for keeping me from face planting.”
“Actually, if you could do me a favor?”
Len narrowed his eyes but, against his better judgement, nodded.
“Kiss it better?”
There was a long silence as Len stared at him in disbelief. “Are you fucking serious?” He had meant for it to sound angry, but it mostly came out baffled. “What teen drama did you walk out of?”
“At least let me take you out for coffee? I mean you did almost break my nose.”
Len shook his head slowly, looking like he wasn’t entirely sure this was really happening. “Just ice your nose when you get home.” He turned on his heel and started to wade through the crowd again to get to class. He tried not to smile when the other guy called out after him.
“I’m Jim, by the way! I’m expecting coffee when you get out of class, Bones!”
He glanced over his shoulder to see Jim still grinning at him, hand to his nose and head cocked to the side in a ridiculously endearing way.
“Sure, kid! You just keep dreaming!”
Len would be lying if he said he didn’t like the way Jim started waiting for him outside of the building, pestering him for coffee. But that didn’t mean it wasn’t going to make Jim sweat it out for a few days before agreeing. He had to give him some kind of punishment for those awful pick-up lines.
Jim knows it’s not rational, but once he really cares about someone, his family, a girlfriend, a best friend, he can’t let them leave without them knowing he cares. A simple goodbye of “be safe” or, in the most serious cases, “I love you” is the last thing he says to them.
It’s only the extremely important people that he needs to hear it back from. Bones knows from experience that not hearing it back makes Jim almost crawl out of his skin. The night Winona lost cell reception before she could answer Bones spent nearly three hours trying to reassure Jim he would hear her say it again once the shuttle landed and nothing bad would happen.
Really it’s how Bones knew Jim was serious about him. One night Bones simply hummed softly into the back of Jim neck in reply to the quiet “I love you” as they drifted off to sleep together. Jim pressed back a little and repeated himself. “I love you, Bones. I love you.”
Bones smiled into Jim’s neck and whispered into his skin. “I love you, Jim. I love you. I love you.”
And then they slept.
Kirk: I’d like you to take a moment to think back to a time when you did something stupid, how you were treated, and how you wish you were treated.
Bones: What did you do?
Waiting on some beautiful boy to save you from your old ways.
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Imagine your brotp and otp
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Leonard Horatio McCoy is not a violent man by nature but the fact that he’s heard the rumours about Jim getting into Starfleet on his dad’s legacy and sex makes him want to punch someone
Bones: Is the equipment secure?
Kirk: Check.
Bones: Phasers ready?
Kirk: Check.
Bones: Did you have breakfast?
Kirk: What? That’s not on the checklist.
Bones: I added it because I care about you.
Kirk: No, I did not have breakfast.
Bones: Unacceptable. Look in your pocket.
Kirk: [pulls out granola bar] Hey, there’s little chocolate chips in this.
Bones: Yeah, I’m not an idiot. I know how to trick you into eating your fiber.
Person A of your otp singing Tove Lo’s “Talking Bodies” to Person B,
“Now if we’re talking body
You got a perfect one
So put it on me
Swear it won’t take you long
If you love me right
We fuck for life”But like, super obnoxiously because they know there’s no way Person B actually feels the same way. But Person B is totally gone on Person A, so they use this as their opportunity.
“I’ve got a perfect body, huh?” Person B says while slowly advancing on Person A.
“Uh, yeah,” Person A says, confused at this strange turn of events. “Everyone knows that.”
“And you want me to put my perfect body on yours?” Person B says, smirking as Person A visibly twitches, their back hitting a wall.
“There’s a slight possibility that might be a true statement,” Person A is freaking out internally because what is happening.
Person B boxes Person A against the wall with their arms while leaning in close, breath ghosting across Person A’s skin, causing them to shiver. “And you want to fuck me?” Person B whispers into Person A’s ear, smirk growing at the sudden gasp.
Person B’s about to pull back to see the look on Person A’s face, but before that happens, they hear a quiet “fuck it”, and Person A is pulling them in for a kiss that’s more passion than technique, but Person B can’t bring them self to care because finally!
Needless to say, fucking does eventually happen. And of course Person A has to make a joke after they’re both sated and panting. “Told you it wouldn’t take you long.” Person B groans and tries to hit Person A with a pillow for ruining the moment.
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