Do you think it sometimes keeps Bones awake at night to know that he held in his hands a device that turned out to be capable of thought-based healing, which could bring someone back from fatal injuries unfixable by modern medicine, and they just gave it back to the Vians and left? That the knowledge of such perfect, instant healing makes his most advanced techniques seem no better than the cutting and sewing of people like garments?
Do you think he goes to Spock one night, asking if Spock can remember *anything* about that device with those mathematically perfect brainwaves of his, positing that if Spock was able to adjust the device to work for their thought patterns, perhaps he could puzzle out the construction of the device itself? So that Bones could simply think a healing thought, and will a body whole?
That Spock has to admit that, though he was able to modify the device, despite his best efforts he has no real idea how it worked in the first place. That, though regret is illogical, wonder at the possibilities of the universe is not...
...but that, privately, he cannot discern whether it is wonder or regret that keeps him up at night?
Do you think they share a cup of tea in quiet contemplation before Bones says that he wishes they could go back to Sigma Draconis VI so he could wear the Teacher just one more time; no matter what it would do to his brain, without the threat of medical urgency with Spock's impending death this time, perhaps he could at least write down the knowledge before the end?
And, maybe, Spock pauses, and thinks about both of these times where Bones hadn't hesitated even a second to save Spock's life at the expense of his own --
-- and says to him, impossibly gently, "But, then, who will think the healing thoughts, Doctor?"
And they finish their tea, go their separate ways, and sleep through the night.
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