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The Cahill Project - Dads with Daughters - Hansel Kuhn, Will Grimm, Brian Grimm, James Doyle, Vincent Keller, Aaron Grimm, Jason Grimm, Sam Grimm

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The Cahill Project - Wrecking Ball Soulmates - Sam Grimm & Jules Callaghan

Wrecking Ball Soulmate - This soulmate is not somebody who comes into our life peacefully. They enter in to shake things up. This type of soulmate can come in many forms, but it’s normally a romantic relationship that leaves us feeling as if we’ve been swept up like a tornado, taken for the ride of our life, and then dumped from the sky with no warning in an exhausted heap. (Description by Dina Strada)

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The Cahill Project’s Hufflepuffs - Marina Petrovka, Casey Shraeger, Aaron Grimm, Clint Grimm, Darcy Lewis, Sam Grimm

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The Cahill Pack - Marina and her older sons

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Reaper!Bones is done, but big sisters are known for meddling.

In all the years since Olduvai screwed with their lives, the Grimm twins have had each other's backs - even when the other doesn't want the help.

John has done his best not to get attached to anyone else.  It never ends well, even when there aren't monsters involved.  He watches the people around him grow old and die and as much as he loves his sister, he hates her sometimes too because she denied them that. 

So he keeps his distance, tries to lay low no matter what name he's calling himself at any given time.   Even as a brilliant researcher and respected doctor, he manages to keep from letting anyone get close.

Until Jim.

Because God forbid James T. Kirk ever do the sensible thing and avoid the apparently crazy doctor heading to Starfleet - something he's only doing at all because he's tired of Sam insisting that he needs to belong to something bigger than themselves again before he goes crazy.  Oh no.  Jim Kirk has to take it as a challenge.  And he isn't put off no matter how grumpy or cantankerous John gets.  He just keeps pushing and calling him Bones - no matter how creatively he's threatened about it - until John just can't help but let him past the outer layer of walls.

The thing is, though, that once John commits, he commits with everything that he is. He can't help it, that's just who he is.  It made him a damned good marine, once upon a time.

He knows that Jim collects friends and hanger-on's like some people collect antiques.  And he knows that Jim doesn't let anyone past his own walls, for all that he refuses to respect anyone else's.

He knows that Jim means more to him than he means to Jim.

But he lets himself get invested anyway and he accepts the notoriety that associating with Jim Kirk gives anyone, even knowing that it'll mean a long period of solitude between this life and his next so that the masses will forget his face.  He accepts that he's now Bones (and really, it's not like he's all that attached to Leonard Horatio McCoy). 

He accepts that he's got to return to space - a place that hasn't been kind to him in any incarnation - because someone has to keep Jim from getting himself killed.  He accepts whatever role Jim will let him have, even if he wants more.  Even if he has to be the second choice, the backup plan, the one that won't turn Jim away in the middle of the night when everyone else is done with him.

Even if it burns bitterly to see Spock waltz in and take over the position of Jim's best friend despite Bones' nominal claim over the title after doing damned little to deserve it in Bones' opinion.

He accepts the suicidal missions he gets dragged on.  He accepts the risks keeping Jim safe pose to his own secrets.

Then Jim dies and it's the most horrific pain he's felt since Olduvai.  It's worse than looking down the barrel of Sarge's gun and realizing that his best friend had lost his mind and was going to try to kill him.  It's worse than any loss he's had since his parents and this?  This is exactly why he was avoiding getting attached.

If he had C-24, he wouldn't even hesitate, but he doesn't and for a minute he hates Sam's decision more than ever because he has to live in a world without Jim Kirk and he can't remember how he managed before the crazy sonuvabitch showed up in the first place. 

Except the tribble comes back to life and it's not C-24, it's not forever, but Bones doesn't even care because he'll take whatever time he can get.

He pushes himself to the limits of even his own enhanced endurance and intelligence, but he does it.  He saves Jim. 

He didn't do it for Starfleet.  He didn't do it for the crew.  He didn't even do it for Jim.  He's man enough to admit he did it for himself.

He wasn't looking for gratitude, though maybe he'd hoped for a little more acknowledgement than he's been getting lately.  Maybe even some sign that Jim might finally understand just how much he's come to mean to Bones.

He certainly wasn't expecting complete and utter dismissal while Spock gets all the thanks and credit.  And he wasn't expecting that to feel like a knife to his gut, though he thinks that probably shouldn't be a surprise, all things considered.

That's about the time he realizes that he can't do this.  He can't keep pawing at Jim Kirk's feet, begging for scraps of affection and wishing for something that won't ever be his.

He hadn't planned on ducking out of Leonard H. McCoy so soon, but maybe it's for the best.  He puts in his resignation, citing extreme trauma, and leaves.

He and Sam have a place hidden away where they go to while away the long years between lives.  He can't kill McCoy yet, but he can lay the groundwork, start setting himself up for his next life.  Maybe even as his own son.  That's worked for them in the past.

The only problem is that he's more heart sick than he's been in centuries. 

At first Sam tries to cheer him up, or just keep him company, but it isn't working this time.  She hates to see him so miserable, so she does what any big sister would do.  She bullies the whole story out of him and then goes to take matters into her own hands while he isn't looking.

She goes to San Francisco and breaks into Jim's apartment and just waits.  Months have passed since John showed up looking like someone had skinned a beloved puppy in front of him and she wants to see the man that's got her brother so twisted up.

She doesn't think much of him. 

But...  She can see that Jim isn't much happier than John is.  She can see the sincerity of how much he misses her brother.  She believes him when he says he's been trying to find 'Bones', that he got the resignation changed to a leave of absence because he's really hoping his friend will come back.

She decides to give him a chance.

One chance.

He can either try to understand and fix it, or he can move on and let John do the same.

Jim's had months to realize how very much he doesn't like the Bones shaped hole in his life.  He's also gotten verbally shredded from one side of Starfleet Medical to the other from just about everyone he knows about just how much he really owed to Bones this time, about how frantic Bones had been to save him.

So even though he isn't entirely sure that this woman isn't crazy, she's the only lead he has and he isn't willing to let it slip through his fingers. 

And as she takes him to Bones, she tells him a fantastical story about immortality and monsters and a man called Reaper. 

It explains a lot.

Bones isn't thrilled to see him.  Bones is less thrilled with his sister, though, calling her meddlesome and a whole host of other, less polite things. 

Jim would be more worried about that except that when Sam cheerfully announces that that's what big sisters are for and that she's going to go and take a very long time to get supplies, he can hear the soft words of thanks that Bones' gives her before she leaves.

He can work with that.