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Years later, when their kids are grown up, when Jim's grave is ten-years-old, a young woman comes knocking on their door. It's the same door they carried each of their children through for the first time, the same door they painted and repainted, tacked on The Kirk-McCoys and an Enterprise shaped door knocker. 

She says she's doing a thesis on Jim. Just on Jim. Not on the Enterprise or his missions or Tarsus, lots of people like to focus on that. 

Bones twists his ring on his finger, offers her the sweet tea Jim always loved. "Just Jim, huh? Isn't that a bit ambitious?"

"Not when you think you can do it justice, sir."

"Call me Leo." Bones tells her, settling into his chair in their sunroom. 

"Leo," she says and smiles. She takes out a notebook, an actual notebook, and a pen. Things most have cost a fortune. 

"What do you want to know?"

Her eyes are alight with a kind of mischief only seen on his children's faces now. The original mischief maker is gone. 

"How'd you meet? Was it love at first sight?"

Bones snorts. "Well, the thing is. You can tell a lot about a person if they let a total stranger vomit on them. First thing I said to him. Was it love at first sight? Maybe." He shakes his head. "If I only knew back then what I know now."

If he got to tell Jim one more time how much he loved him. If he got a chance to meet the love of his life one more time. If only.

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 Jamie falls asleep in Bones’ sweatpants, with the waist band rolled up twice to account for size, with his tattered Old Miss sweatshirt, fraying terribly at the sleeves that she loves to tug over her knuckles. Bones has thrown it out twice but each time Jamie fetches it before it can make it’s journey to the trash chute, to be compacted and thrown out among the stars.

 It’s been twelve days, really. Twelve days since her husband took an emergency position on a colony the Enterprise was in orbit of. Twelve days since the SOS came about a strain of flu the colonists had never seen nor had any hope of dealing with. Jamie had been forbidden down on the planet and orders had come in that the Enterprise was needed not far from the colony. She had wanted to protest, really. But Barnett was too new at his new job as head of Starfleet and she was too tired to argue. So she left Bones and his flu strain on the planet, wearing his tattered sweats in his absence.

 And every night he was gone, she had fallen asleep at her desk in an attempt to catch up on the most boring paperwork that she always put off until someone (Spock or Rand usually) made her do it. Who the hell really had time to deal with the budgeting anyway?

 So she falls asleep, her glasses pinching into the bridge of her nose and her chin slowly falling off her hand. She shifts a little, only slightly aware of the discomfort and lets her glasses fall forward off the bridge of her nose. Somewhere, in the back of her brain that isn’t fully shut off yet, she remembers Bones teasing her about them and she settles into a deeper sleep with that warm memory. 

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Bones staying with Jim after he's been infected with a fatal highly contagious virus because the least he can do is give Jim something for the symptoms. Jim orders the others to leave them on the planet, where everyone else has died and the rumble of the colony burns around them. 

"Leave. Now."

"I could've been infected already. Don't want to risk it." Bones crosses his arms and hunkers down. 

"Bullshit. You said it yourself, it's my immune system."

"Won't change anything. Not going anywhere."

"I hate you."

"Love you too, kid."

"I don't want you to do this."

The Hypo Bones gave him takes affect and Jim slumps forward. It'll delay the symptoms for a while, at least. He thinks about calling back to the Enterprise, telling them to beam them up into quarantine but knows it won't do a thing. He made his peace with it a while ago, wherever Jim goes, he's going. 

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Dead Like Me McKirk AU. Bones is a reaper and the last post-it before he passes on to the Great Beyond is Jim Kirk, his captain and best friend (and probably the love of his death). But Bones can't do it and so he keeps bringing him back from the brink of death, when he should really be collecting his soul. 

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"Let's..." Jim says as they walk across campus.

"Let's what?" Bones asks. It's fucking cold out. He worked a double last night and all he wants to do is lie in bed, with a pillow over his ears to muffle the sounds of cadets partying on his floor. His New Year's plans didn't include following Jim Kirk around campus. 

Jim pauses and Bones walks a few feet before realizing Jim even stopped. He wants to yell at the kid, tell him to fuck off and head back to the warm dorm room, but he's got such an expression on his face that Bones can't help but turn back toward him. 

"If all you want is company for getting turned down by Uhura yet again, you can consider the packed bar as-" Bones starts to say but Jim grabs at Bones' jacket and pulls him in. 

He's too surprised at Jim's lips on his, salty and soft, at the way his own mouth opens automatically for the other man's. His mind stutters for a moment. 

Jim pulls away, a softer version of his usual grin acting like a punctuation mark to what just happened. "Let's start this year off right."

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AND TO MY MCKIRK FEELS PEEPS. 

I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH. Thank you for making these past few weeks happy and fun. And also for inspiring me to write these little ficlets, making me laugh and giving me advice. I love you all and am so happy I can talk to you. 

Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas. I wish you all the best and hope these next days are as warm and cuddly. 

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