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jim and bones 19

19. “Come home with me.”

Jim finds Bones huddled on the corner stool of the bar, nursing a glass that doesn't seem like his first of the night, nor the last. "Hey, man," he says nonchalantly, sliding into the next seat like he hasn't been looking for Bones all night, like this isn't the third bar he's searched and he's soaking wet from the rain. "You're not looking so hot."

"Fuck off," Bones mumbles halfheartedly, but his eyes focus slowly on Jim. "You ain't exactly Miss Universe yourself right now, kid."

"Rude," Jim says mildly. "After I came for you and everything." He pauses, then reaches out and gently tugs Bones' glass away from his fidgeting fingers. "Come home with me."

"Can't."

"Why not?"

Bones purses his lips and looks like he's trying to catch a word that keeps escaping. "Can't remember."

"Yeah?" Jim remembers. Remembers the crumpled score he found on the kitchen counter when he entered their empty apartment earlier that night, the fourth failed piloting examination in the two years they've been at the Academy. "Well...don't worry about it, all right? You just come on." He reaches out and takes Bones' wrist, and Bones looks right at him and lets him.

"Come home, Bones."