country doctor

.・。✭ Glad you finally made it for your checkup! Thought I'd have to drag you by the ears ✫・゜・。 .

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Down the Rabbit Hole

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[ Spock ☾ @1stofficerspock ]

“As you wish,” he said after forcing himself to finish the lump of cold oatmeal. He was quite thankful of the tea to wash it down. “I shall wait for you to inform me when you would like to apply for a transfer.”

Was he pushing the Doctor’s buttons? Probably, but Spock was not in a good mood. He physically hurt from the creature’s attack, and he did not wish to spend anymore time than necessary in sickbay to deal with it. Had he more time, he’d have stayed in his quarters to meditate the pain into submission, but he had too many duties.

“Perhaps in the interim, you could assist Captain Kirk on today’s landing party?” You can watch him tear his uniform.

“Don’t hold your breath,” McCoy replied, still too amused to be truly peeved. He finished off his homefries then wiped his mouth with his napkin.

“I reckon I will. Goodness knows Jim can’t go unsupervised. Say, why aren’t you comin’ with? Still got your panties in a twist from yesterday?” He probably shouldn’t poke the metaphorical bear when he was clearly in such a mood, but McCoy could hardly help himself. Spock was such an able verbal sparring partner. 

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[ Aliah ☾ @lightxart ]

It had all happened so fast.

One moment Aliah and her mother had been boarding a remarkable starship to meet with it’s captain and begin work on forming relations, yet the next, Aliah’s mother had collapsed. They hadn’t even so much as exited the transporter bay.

Now here she lay, quiet and deathly still. Aliah’s ears twitched in a nervous fashion, her claws tightening round the foot of the bed in which her mother lay. Her knuckles would turn a pale lilac from the pressure. Grey lips were pressed into a fine line, Aliah unsure how she felt in this moment. Her relationship with her mother was … difficult. Though, if she were to perish here, what then? What would that mean?

She hadn’t noticed the strange looking man enter until he spoke. Aliah flinched, not sure if she would ever be used to such a sound. She turned her head towards him, unsure of what he needed. He appeared to have business here. Was he the doctor?

Aliah bregrudingly took a few steps back from her mother and waited, hesitant in what she should even be doing.

Leonard got to work, doing his best to interpret the reading his tricorder and the medical scanners were saying. Since this was a first contact event, Leonard didn’t have any experience with treating Taurans and could only guess at what their normal vitals looked like. Nurse Chapel was working on transferring data from medical facilities on the surface, but for now, McCoy would have to do his best.

He turned to the Tauran girl who had been crowding the Council member’s biobed. “Do you know if she was feelin’ alright today? Any prior medical conditions? A cough, even?”

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[ T’Lussek ☾ @theearthlyvulcan ]

“Oh no Doctor, Petty is something Vulcan’s do quite well.“ T'lussek let out a soft chuckle. She had hoped that opening up to the doctor wouldn’t cause any other issues for Spock and herself. She was of the mindset that Vulcans shouldn’t live in the shadows of hearsay. If people wished to know then she would share.

"I would much rather have you chat my ear off then listen to more bickering. A brandy would be lovely if I could trouble you doctor.”

Her eyes glanced around the room. There they were, delegates sitting and bickering like children. She began to wonder if it was always like this…or if this 3as a special case.

“Don’t I know it,” McCoy replied with a snort. While he didn’t really hate Spock, he was often genuinely infuriated by the man’s seeming pettiness. McCoy then gave T’Lussek a small smile and excused himself to retrieve their drinks. 

A few moments later, McCoy returned with a brandy in one hand and a bourbon in the other. He handed the Ambassador her drink, then lifted his in a toast.

“Cheers.”

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[ Chekov ☾ @russianonzebridge ]

Comparatively, Chekov and McCoy had gotten out of that situation incredibly well. Communications with the Galileo shuttle had been lost almost immediately after they entered the planets atmosphere, and then they had crash landed far away from one another. While Pavel normally had no worries about Hikaru Sulu’s capability with shuttlecraft, the entry into the planets atmosphere had been incredibly shaky, so the crash was no surprise, unfortunately.

“Y-Yes, of course, sir. But, if I may ask, is it wise to trek directly through the jungle? We do not know what is out there, and it could be dangerous. I think that the river flows nearby, we could attempt to find it and follow it upstream.”

Perhaps it was unwise to challenge the doctors authority, especially if someone was in distress of injured, but it could be worse if the two of them didn’t take care - or they could not be the only ones needing medical attention.

McCoy gave Chekov a look then rummaged in his bag for a moment. He pulled out a caffeine pack and tossed it to the ensign.

“Wake up, kid. That’s what I said...we’re heading towards the river. There’s a bit of jungle to go through before we get there but I think we can manage. Let’s get moving, I haven’t collected my ‘eaten by space bears’ badge yet and I’m not sure I want it.” McCoy shouldered his bag and stood up, eyeing the dark hole that led deeper into the cave they had sheltered in. They hadn’t been gobbled up during the night, but McCoy still didn’t trust that there was something horrible lying in wait. 

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Cool so I have a lot of threads but I’m a completist so while I may work on them out of order or as inspiration strikes, I queue them/post them in order received. I know it takes me awhile and I’m always nervous people think I’ve forgotten about them so I have now set up a public view of my thread list, one for my turn, one for your turn. I have added both links to my Navigation page if you ever want to check in the future. If you see a thread you’d like to drop, or alternatively don’t see a thread you think I missed, please lmk ♥

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[ Ginger ☾ @beamusoutkids ]

“Yeah, okay, that’s fair, the same is kinda true for all of us.” Ginger can’t help but giggle a bit at that.

At the next comment, she pouts. “I’m not trying to! I keep forgetting! It’s not easy being thrown into the past, y’know! Even if Lily, James, Hailey, and Drew have all done it before and warned the rest of us to be careful, it’s one thing to know it can happen and another thing entirely to be going through it.”

She hesitates as she gets down, her brows furrowing. “Are you sure about this, Uncle Bones? I mean, I’m not completely convinced it’s a good idea that I told you who I am…”

Then again, Drew had told his father, Hailey and James had told their grandfather, and Lily had been found out by Carolyn before telling her father on her next trip.

“Believe me, I know,” Bones said darkly, remembering their own accidental trips to the past. “Just. Keep it at a minimum, I’ve already lost enough years off my life from stress.” He glanced down and checked his PADD to make sure there weren’t any pressing to-do’s in sickbay that needed his attention then proceeded out into the hallway. At Ginger’s hesitation, he rolled his eyes.

“Listen, I’m a doctor not an engineer. If you want to get back to your own time, we’re gonna have to tell the captain. Got it?” Leonard paused and thought about it for a second. “Actually, even if you don’t go back to your own time the captain is gonna find out eventually that we mysteriously have an extra security officer that’s the spitting image of him. You see where I’m going with this?”

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[ Jim ☾ @luck-over-logic​ ]

“I mean it, Bones. If it wasn’t for your quick thinking, well– things would have gone a lot differently.”

Jim took a deep breath, to steady himself. Why, even here, back in the relative safety of the Enterprise, he still couldn’t comprehend just why–

“They pretend to be so logical, so– cultured. And yet to kill innocent people in… a mating ritual! Maybe it’s the romantic in me, but well, up until all this, I had assumed that Vulcan boy meets Vulcan girl in a wholly unremarkable—”

“… guess you can’t judge a book by it’s cover, huh?”

“I’ve been sayin’ it all along, Jim. That thick Vulcan exterior is just a facade for something we humans can’t understand. It’s more than just a ritual, it’s a part of their biology--to fight or to die. I’m just sorry you got caught up in that mess.”

As Leonard spoke, he got up and retrieved his bottle of Saurian brandy from where it was stowed. He held the bottle out for Jim to see.

“Fancy a drink?”

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It was a most unusual emergency, and Bones was particularly grateful for his quick-thinking medical staff at this moment.

First contact was always dicey business, but when an important Council member from the world you were making contact with suddenly collapses while aboard your ship--well, first impressions and all that. 

“I’m gonna need you to stand back, ma’am” Bones told the Tauran woman. She was standing very close to the biochamber that contained her mother and Bones needed room to work. 

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Sorry I’ve been slow with Bones’s drafts lately! I haven’t forgotten anyone, I’ve just been focused on Janeway lately ♥

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[ T’Lussek ☾ @theearthlyvulcan ]

Not in the slightest. He wished for Spock to take the head of our line in ambassadorial duties. My brother…from what little we have spoken about the matter, felt that it was much easier for his duality to be accepted in Starfleet. Though if it was anything like my journey it wasn’t an easy one either way. “

T’lussek let out a soft sigh. She hated that even now there was such distance between Spock and herself. She wished more than anything that they could be close again like they were children. Shaking her head she got a sharp feeling from her mind. The ancestor inside of her mind was reminded her to keep her composure.

“Knowing that neither of us at that present time would be able to give him what he wanted Sarek tried to fix his tabooed children by ignoring them until they wished to buckle down and take up the family trade.”

T’lussek couldn’t help but chuckle.

McCoy had only met Spock’s estranged father once, and while the tension between the two men was obvious, he could never have guessed just how deep the rift between them ran.

“My, my. And here I was thinking that Vulcans were beyond such petty things as family feuds.”

Really--today McCoy was getting quite the education on Vulcans. He of course knew that all Vulcan families were likely not the same, and Spock’s family was very important which tended to cause a lot more problems than if they were just your average Joes. McCoy gave thanks that he was a nobody from Savannah, Georgia and that there were no sky high expectations of him. Life was hard enough without all of that. 

McCoy suddenly realized had been so fascinated by his conversation partner, he’d been remiss in his manners.

“Can I get you a drink, ma’am? It’s the least I can do since I’ve been bending your ear all evening.”

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[ Ginger ☾ @beamusoutkids ]

“Excuse you, disobedient? You don’t even know us yet! Do you have so little faith in everyone here’s parenting skills… including your own?”

Ginger rolls her eyes, smiling warmly anyways. “We’re a bit rambunctious sometimes, not to mention occasionally chaotic, but we do know when to be serious. ‘S what happens when you enlist during– annnnnnnd I’m stopping that sentence right there.”

Clearing her throat, she continues, “In any case, it could be worse, Uncle Bones. We all could be a whole lot worse than we really are, not that you’d know in the first place.”

“Yes. Have you seen these fools? Every day I’m amazed the Admiralty lets us out of the house,” Leonard said, shaking his head in exasperation. God, Ginger looked and acted so much like Jim. 

“You’re killing me kid...quit hinting at the doom to come and come on. We gotta let the captain know you’re here.”

Bones set down his hypo and grabbed his PADD off the counter as he headed towards the door. When he reached the threshold he paused to wait for Ginger to follow.

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[ Ginger ☾ @beamusoutkids ]

“Stop it!” Ginger whines and glares at him. “I didn’t get flung across time and space to be attacked by hypos, Uncle Bones.”

She smiles a bit at his description, but her smile falls just a bit. “Uh, no, no, he couldn’t… other things were going on. But he did try to get ahold of me… I kept ignoring his calls until he called one of my other friends, James, Spock’s son actually… who came in and asked me why I was ignoring my dad…”

Shrugging it off, she smiles innocently. “I’m not the only one of our massive group in security.”

“Eat your vegetables and I won’t have to attack you with hyposprays,” Leonard scolded. “You’re just like Jim--you’d get scurvy if it wasn’t for me.”

Leonard decided he didn’t even want to know what ‘other things’ were going on that would prevent Jim from going after his daughter. Jim was very protective of those he loved, it would have to be something really bad and galaxy-ending.

“Great. I can’t wait for all you disobedient brats to be giving me migraines. Have you no consideration for my blood pressure?”

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[ Ginger ☾ @beamusoutkids ] 

“Now where’s the fun in that? Kirks aren’t just impulsive, we can’t sit still enough for something like being a doctor.”

Ginger laughs a bit and shakes her head. “Death and danger and disease, right? No, but I heard it secondhand when his own kids were enlisting. Plus we’re all on the same ship, so I still hear about it on occasion. Not as scary as my dad finding out I was in security after I was already gone, gotta tell ya.”

“I can nail your feet to the floor, would that help?” McCoy asked, still scanning her. He noted a vitamin deficiency on his scanner and snorted disapprovingly, then stabbed her with a hypo before she could protest. 

Leonard gave a low whistle at that particular tidbit. “Did he warp ten after you, and tell you to ‘get back here right now, young lady’?”

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[ Jim ☾ @luck-over-logic ]

“I… suppose he really must have thought me dead down there, huh? Your parlor tricks worked miracles, Bones.”

The grin slowly evaporated off the Captain’s face, as he shook his head at the floor.

“I owe you my life for that.”

“Owe nothin’, Jim. You would have done the same for me or any of the crew. I’m just glad I thought to take my med kit. I almost didn’t y’know...I figured Vulcans had hospitals, what was the point?” 

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[ T’Lussek ☾ @theearthlyvulcan ]

“I would be related to Commander Spock. In fact I am his younger sister. Though he is only older than me by five point eight minutes.”

T’lussek’s tone was filled with a hint of annoyance. It was if he had pointed out their age gap quite often. It was only logical to point out the fact. She could hear his voice in her mind as she shook her head.

“He was the part of the reason I am here now. I was the first of Sarek’s children to run away if you will. I was sent away so that my brother can “live his life without distractions” as my father put it. Now they think it’s only right that someone takes their place in one of the most influential families on Vulcan. And Spock likes the Enterprise more.”

T’lussek couldn’t help but chuckle. She didn’t do anything but cause her brother to be emotional. She was one of the few people that didn’t shun Spock’s emotional outburst. She never understood why they couldn’t express themselves. She had learned just enough to be a functioning emotional Vulcan which helped in situations like this.

McCoy’s eyebrows lifted in surprise.

“Looks like he’s plenty distracted now. From how he tells it, his old man didn’t want him joining Starfleet.”

McCoy wondered if T’Lussek was part of the Vulcan group known as the V’Tosh Ka’Tur. He didn’t know much about those sorts of things, but from what Spock told him, they were ‘Vulcans without logic’ and were considered to be quite taboo among Spock’s people.

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[ Chekov ☾ @russianonzebridge ]

Pavel quickly set about grabbing his clothes and possessions, getting himself into a reasonable state of presentation to face the world. The least he could do was get ready quickly so he could help the other. “I’m ready, I’m ready! What is the plan today?”

Bones crouched down on the floor while Chekov scrambled awake. Grabbing a stick off the ground, he started to draw in the thin layer of sand that covered the cave floor.

“The plan, is to track west in the jungle towards the river,” McCoy drew a line, “the Galileo shuttle went down here,” he marked the spot with an X, “and even if the other away team didn’t sustain any injuries, they couldn’t have traveled far on foot, so they’re probably within a 80 kilometer radius of the crash site. We already covered a lot of ground yesterday, but we need to hustle today because if either Sulu or Uhura are injured...” McCoy trailed off, not wanting to voice aloud the worst case scenario that was already playing in his head. 

Their own shuttle, the Copernicus, had taken quite a beating on the landing, but it was at least repairable. Given what they saw during descent, McCoy suspected the Galileo would never fly again. Naturally, all their blasted technology was useless--something in the planet's atmosphere interfered with communications with the Enterprise.