
It felt good to be waiting to meet with Jim, Leonard thought, as he waited in his seat at the restaurant he’d arranged to meet Jim in while Leonard was briefly in San Francisco.
He hadn’t seen Jim since the last time he’d been there, a year ago, when Leonard had left Starfleet to return to Georgia to set up private practice and finally stay grounded on Earth, where he could attempt to have a relationship with his daughter.
But he’d come to San Francisco to pick up some medical equipment he needed in person, and honestly, it had made for the perfect excuse to catch up with Jim.
Just then the door to the restaurant flew open and Jim breezed in, literally, as it was quite windy outside, and his friend came in with a gust.
Jim was laughing, his face lit up by a smile, which was great to see, honestly.
Leonard stood and motioned him over, pulling Jim into a tight hug. “God, it’s great to see you.”
“And you.”
“Sit.” Leonard gestured. “Wow, you look—”
“Fat? Ugly?” Jim joked.
“Gorgeous, actually.”
And it was true. Jim looked well rested, tanned, his blue eyes sparkling. He wore a burgundy long-sleeved T-shirt that seemed molded to him, and his slacks, black dress ones, looked pressed and expensive.
Jim laughed again, and Leonard was struck how he seemed…happy. “If I didn’t know better, I’d think you were flirting with me.”
“You do know better,” Leonard said, dryly. “I took the liberty of ordering us a bottle of wine. Should be here any time.”
“Fantastic. And speaking of, you look pretty good yourself. Leaving Starfleet agrees with you.”
“Are the rumors true?”
“True?”
At the moment the wine sommelier arrived with their bottle and for the next five minutes they were occupied with tasting and then pouring glasses for each of them.
“Back to rumors,” Leonard said. “I’ve heard through sources that they’re finally going to make you a full admiral, Commodore.”
“Oh that.”
He snorted. “You say that like it’s nothing. You’re a big deal, Jim.”
“If you say so. And yeah, I guess they are true. I’m torn. Part of me wishes I could go up again, command of a ship—”
“Ten years wasn’t enough?”
“Oh, hardly. Anyway, I guess they want old men like me to be in charge of the brash young ones.”
“Which you were at one time.”
Jim sipped his wine. “Mm. Great choice.”
“Glad you approve. Still in that apartment?”
“Sure am.”
“Big place for just you.” Leonard shook his head.
“It’s not that big and who says it’s just me?”
Leonard lowered his glass to the table. “Damn! You’re with someone?”
Jim blushed. “Well.”
“No wonder you look so damn happy!” Leonard grinned and slapped the table. “That is good news. Great news in fact. I never thought you’d settle down, Jimmy boy. When did this happen?”
“Well.”
“Is that all you can say? Within the last year, I’d guess.”
Jim shifted. “Little longer.”
Leonard frowned. “You were with her when I saw you last year?”
Jim grimaced.
“Longer?”
Jim nodded.
“But…wait. You were together on the Enterprise?”
“Yeah.”
“How in the world were you with someone on the Enterprise and I didn’t know?”
Jim was bright red. “We kept it a secret, Bones. For, um, for a while, actually.”
“How long?” Leonard asked, dumbfounded.
“Last three years of the mission.”
“Plus this whole last year?”
Jim nodded.
Leonard felt hurt. He supposed he didn’t have a right, but…he did. “Why wouldn’t you tell me? Was she an ensign?”
“No. God. No. Nothing like that. For a long time, we just, it was so weird for us, everything, and I wasn’t even sure if I could get it right, Bones. And then we did and it was so private and intimate between us that for a long time neither of us wanted to spoil it.”
“Okay. Okay. Maybe. I get that. But what about the last year?”
Jim winced. “Well. Um. Actually, Bones, who I’m with, well, I included them for dinner. And uh—”
The door opened to the restaurant and Leonard turned around to look. Standing there, looking windswept, was Spock.
For a moment, Leonard’s brain didn’t catch up, and he wondered what Spock was doing there, and what a coincidence that he would be at the same restaurant he and Jim met at, but then Spock looked in their direction and walked toward them.
And it all made a strange sort of sense that he didn’t even think about before, but now, it was all he could think of. Yes. Of course. Spock. “Bones,” Jim said with a smile as he took Spock’s hand. “Spock is my husband.”
August 9, 2019 at 4:20 am
Not just space husbands but secret space husbands!
Fantastic. And Bones is right. Of course it makes sense once you think about it.
Awesome. Just awesome.
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August 9, 2019 at 7:33 am
thanks!
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August 9, 2019 at 7:14 am
Love it! Everyone is happy and Bones is taken by surprise about this. I feel I need more of this Spock and Jim… a prequel , a part 2… 🤷🏻♀️ They all deserve their happily ever after! ❤️
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August 9, 2019 at 7:33 am
LOL you always want a sequel or more to the story
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August 9, 2019 at 11:05 pm
That’s entirely YOUR fault, you know. Put me on the prequel/sequel list.
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August 10, 2019 at 12:59 pm
LOL yeah you guys are all nuts. I already have flashes scheduled through mid-October and a plan for the rest of the year
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August 9, 2019 at 7:54 am
Just call me greedy! ❤
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August 9, 2019 at 7:58 am
I’ll throw my hat in for a prequel or sequel 😀 but I am perfectly happy with this little fic. It’s short and so sweet with everyone happy 🙂 loved it
Put a smile on my face
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August 9, 2019 at 8:19 am
my work is done then! 🙂
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August 9, 2019 at 11:11 pm
No shouting it from the rooftops, huh, Jim? haha
I had to wait all day to get to read, and wow, it’s even sweeter than I had hoped. Well worth the wait, but I HATE waiting!
Thank you for writing this. Feel free to add on, at any time! 🙂
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August 13, 2019 at 10:57 am
This one was stuck in jail too. Maybe because it’s not recognizing your user name? Not sure! ha. I should have looked. I just thought you hadn’t commented! Bad me
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August 13, 2019 at 11:04 am
I don’t know, since I’ve been using weird user name things for weeks and weeks, and it usually works fine.
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August 13, 2019 at 11:11 am
The mystery remains then!
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August 14, 2019 at 1:26 am
I’ve never seen an option to change my user name. Unless that’s something you can do on a computer. I’m only on my phone.
However every comment requires me to enter my email and user name. It wasn’t like that originally.
🤷🏻♀️
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August 14, 2019 at 8:10 am
Yeah, I only use computer. I would add a screen shot to show you what I see and how I change it, but I don’t know how to do that, an ability Iv keeps closely guarded, the bum. (on ao3, though my youngest friend can do it there too, and nothing I try works. I’m beginning to think it’s me. hahaha). But yeah, like below this there are 3 lines. Top is my email, 2nd is user name. I just delete that and put in what I want. And the 3rd has my supposed webpage which I not only don’t have but have never seen.
(1) blahblah@gmail.com
(2) whatever I wanna put
(3) http://gravatar.com/myusername
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