“Are you going to tell me what happened?” Bones knelt before Jim, examining the tear of his uniform and his bloody scraped knee.
They were on a short wall in a quad area of Starfleet Academy campus.
“I fell.”
“You fell. You didn’t have help falling?”
Jim shrugged.
“Jim—”
“I ran into one of assholes that tried to beat the crap out of me at the Riverside bar,” Jim replied. “Or he ran into me. He stuck his foot out deliberately and I tripped and well…you see the results for yourself.”
“Who is this dickhead? You should report him.”
“I know how to deal with bullies, Bones.”
Bones gave him a look and then ran a regenerator over the scrape. “Fixed up good as new. Though that doesn’t fix your pants.”
“I can sew the tear. Thanks, Bones.”
“You tell this boyfriend of yours. Or whatever he is.”
“Boyfriend, significant other.” Jim smiled. “Spock, Bones. His name is Spock.”
“Yeah, yeah. Have you told him about these clowns?”
“No, of course not. There’s no reason to. That was just …a one off thing.”
“Mm. When do I get to meet Spudnick?”
Jim laughed. “Spock. Geez, I’m going to smack you.”
Bones snorted. “Well? When?”
“We’ll have you over for dinner soon.”
“Good. And I mean it, Jim. Tell him about these guys harassing you.”
“One guy, Bones.”
“Tell him.”
“Okay,” Jim agreed, just to get Bones to leave it alone. He stood up and smoothed out his uniform pants. “I’ve got class and so do you.”
“Yeah, yeah. Let me know when for dinner.”
“Will do.” Jim smiled faintly as Bones moved off. Then he winced as he lifted his uniform shirt. He was getting a big fat bruise on his abdomen. He was going to have a hell of a time explaining that to Spock.
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8 responses to “Flash Fic, September 16, 2022”
Oh no no no. Jim! No keeping secrets.
Except I totally get it. Poor dude. That’s a rough situation to be in. Spock is going to be quite unhappy with this turn of events!
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I don’t think there’s any way Spock won’t know that’s for sure!
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I HATE those guys. Sheesh. Have for almost 13 years now.
Shoulda been thrown outa starfleet and into jail.
Well, since they got away with it, I guess now this one thinks he can just bully all he wants. I dunno. Maybe HE was mad HE couldn’t hook up with Nyota. Some be like that. if I can’t have you, nobody can. Or maybe just jealous of Kirk’s good looks. Cause, who wouldn’t be?
Spudnick. Heehee!
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Bullies always suck and that’s what they were pure and simple. It wasn’t a funny, lighthearted scene or whatever JJ thought it was supposed to be, it was big ugly bullies trying to assert their authority. You know what a funny lighthearted bar fight scene is? JJ should have watched the Trouble With Tribbles when Scotty, Chekov and the rest fought with the Klingons at the space station. THAT was funny and harmless.
But yes, Poor Jim, Spudnick will know for sure 😀
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Massively great point!!
(But since JJ didn’t like to watch ST, no surprise there, huh? He probably never WILL watch it.)
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Jim keeping secrets even from Bones! Like bro tell the doctor! What if there’s internal bleeding!?
At the very least, if you wanted to keep it hidden from Spock why didn’t you have Bones scan you and to take care of it? I hope Spock reads the fool that’s harassing Jim the riot act! Certainly not Starfleet material.
Bones mis-saying (is that a word?) Spock’s name wrong made me chuckle. My husband will do that sometimes, on purpose. This has occasionally made me say his version of the word or name at the wrong time!
Yikes! Lol!
❤️💚😘🖖
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Yep Bones is funny that way LOL
He probably should have had Bones look but Jim’s trying to downplay the whole thing!
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Oh Jim 😦
Def don’t hide that from Spock.
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