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McCoy wouldn’t call himself nosy, exactly. It was a professional curiosity. Any doctor would be curious if they had a patient who’d just undergone a huge neurochemical and behavioral shift, only to snap out of it as if it had never happened.
The thing was, McCoy didn’t really buy that it had all stopped that quick. Sure, Spock claimed that, when he thought he’d killed Jim, the “madness was gone” but that same “madness” had taken days to culminate and the effect had been profound. McCoy had never thought he’d see Spock behave in such a manner… impulsive, violent, even mindless.
It didn’t sit right with him. There was something about it that put everything out of balance. He’d gone to that so-called Vulcan wedding ceremony expecting this unrecognizable version of Spock to marry some woman he hadn’t seen in years, who he’d been betrothed to as a child, all while Spock’s entire body and mind were doing and mind were doing a number on him. McCoy knew Vulcans had some strange ideas about freedom, but there was something unethical about that kind of lifelong commitment being made under those circumstances, at least as far as he was concerned.
… That wasn’t the point though. That wasn’t why he had asked Spock to come to the sickbay. It was a professional thing. Even the Vulcans couldn’t know much about how this pon farr might affect a half-Human. There was no way to be sure there wouldn’t be some residual damages or lingering effects. McCoy wouldn’t be doing his job if he just accepted that Spock was fine because he said he was.
Still, he knew Spock was private about this kind of thing, so he let his staff leave about an hour early, giving them time before the next shift came in. If there was some kind of medical emergency in that hour, well… He knew his people would hurry back, and he’d take the nasty message from Starfleet about it.
Chapel was the last to leave, giving him a silent look before she left that told him to make sure Mister Spock was okay. He just smiled at her and took a little time while he waited for Spock to arrive to look over the readings he’d taken during Spock’s last two medical checkups--one before the condition had taken hold and one in the midst of it.