A Christmas Toy Story
Title: A Christmas Toy Story.
Author: flubber2kool
Rating: NC-17
Warning: Anal Toy Play, Excessive amounts of FLUFF! <- You have been WARNED! :-)
Word Count: 3218
Disclaimer: I have no rights to any of the characters or settings that are contained in this story.
Prompt: 40 - Those are anal beads, not Christmas ornaments.
Summary: Jim finds a toy that reminds both he and Bones of a Christmas past and how they found each other.
A/N: This is being written for the space_wrapped community. This is my first attempt at Kirk/McCoy that I will have had to publish so please be gentle with me. :-) It's also my first attempt at this kind of smut. (Author blushes profusely as she writes!) I would like to thank my long suffering beta phenix_00. She is wonderful and really encourages me. If you notice any mistakes please forgive us both!
This was the second Christmas that everyone had spent on board the Enterprise. Of course, that's not how they referred to it. They called it an All-Holiday Almost-End-Of-The-Year Party. Of course, like last year, there was going to be a Christmas tree and decorations. And like last year, Scotty had elected to get the tree and deal with the drinks. And like last year, Jim had no doubt that there would be many a sore head and outrageous hangover in the coming days. And from the look on Bones' face he was sure that he did too.
And then there was the food. There was going to be so much variety that he was sure that everyone in the crew, no matter what their race, would be able to find something to eat. The decorations had been left to him and Bones, just like the year before.
And just like the year before Bones reaction had been,"Dammit Jim. I'm a doctor, not a decorator."
"Come on Bones. It's only once a year." Jim batted his eyelids at him.
Bones almost growled out his reply. "Dammit Jim. Ya know that I cant resist ya when ya do that to me.", he said, in his hot southern accent.
Not only did it send a shiver down Jim's spine, it was also a signal that he was winning. Or in this case, that he had won.
Jim couldn't help grinning as he led him to a store room. He knew exactly what he was looking for. There were three large storage boxes that contained decorations. Jim found what he was looking for, the first one saying TREE on it.
"Let's take that one out first." Jim said with a smile.
"So now I get to add porter to the list of my attributes." Bones muttered under his breath.
Jim smiled and shook his head. If last year was anything to go by, Bones would enjoy himself just as much as anyone else. Not only that, he would have 'the hangover from hell' to prove it. "But just try to get him to admit it!" Jim thought to himself.
Jim opened the box and had a look inside. As he routed around, he discovered a black box. Opening it he found a set of five black beads all attached to one another. As he weighed them in his hands he felt them move.
Bones grinned as he walked over to Jim. Putting his arm round his waist, Bones whispered in Jim's ear, "Those are anal beads, not Christmas ornaments."
Jim swallowed hard before saying, "Yes. I know."
Bones then rested his head on Jim's shoulder, looking over it to the beads that Jim held in his hands. "Do you remember the first time I saw those?"
Jim looked down at his hands and nodded. "It's not something I'm likely to forget."
Christmas Eve. One year ago ....
Ever since Jim had met Bones he had known that his life would change. There was something about the man that had really gotten under his skin. As their friendship grew, Jim began to notice things about him. His eyes were greeny, brown. Jim could loose himself in them without trying. There was his smile. When he smiled, his face lit up and you could see it in his eyes. When Bones let himself go, his southern accent came out. As time went on, he found that this would make him shiver. Eventually, Jim began to realize that his feelings for Bones were beginning to go beyond that of friendship. He began to find all these things about Bones sexy. Even Bones eyebrows became sexy, as far as Jim was concerned.
These feelings came to a head one day when Jim and Bones were sitting talking. Jim looked at Bones as he spoke and started to wonder what it would be like to kiss those lips. And then he wondered what it would be like to have those lips round his cock, bringing him to a wonderful climax. With these thoughts pooling at his groin, for once, he was glad that Bones had to rush off. It saved him the embarrassment of trying to hide the fact that he was getting hard.
This was when he realized that he had a problem. He had no idea if Bones was gay or how he would react to finding out that Jim was gay. He decided that he would rather keep Bones friendship than risk telling him how he felt. When they were at the Academy, it was easy to deal with. He would pick up female cadets and spend a night or two with them. If things got to serious, he would move on to the next one. He would never admit to anyone that this was a means to an end. Or that as he fucked each one, he was really thinking of taking Bones, of making him his and taking him to the edge and beyond. This attitude got him a reputation as a ladies man who would never fall in love. The kind of guy that would never commit and would break your heart. But it served its purpose.
Of course, that all changed when he became Captain. It wasn't that he was against relationships on the Enterprise. It would be completely naive to think that wouldn't happen. There were also people who were already in relationships when they joined the crew. And even though at first it annoyed him that Nyota had fallen for Spock, he couldn't really see what she saw in him, he couldn't deny them the love that they had. It was just that, as far as he was concerned, he couldn't indulge himself the way that he had at the Academy. He knew there were those who were just waiting for him to fall from grace, so that they could say "I told you so.". But he wasn't going to give them that chance. Especially over something like casual sex.
He also didn't want to let down Admiral Pike. That man had seen something in him that he couldn't see in himself. He had given him the push that he needed to get out of the place where he was and to become something better. Also, Admiral Pike had given him an insight in to his father, George Kirk. As he found out more about him, through Pike's dissertation, he realized that he wanted to be like him.
So he needed to find other ways for sexual release. That was why he found himself naked, lying on his back, with his ass lubed up and a set of lubed up Power Balls anal beads lying beside him. He moved himself so that he could reach his anus with the beads. Slowly, he inserted the first one. It stretched him as it popped in. It filled him, but it wasn't what he wanted or what he really needed. But it was all he had.
"Dammit Bones. I want you." he groaned, as he placed more balls in his ass, "I want you to take me. Make me yours."
****
Bones was beginning to get in to the Christmas spirit. "More likely the Christmas spirit is getting in to me!" he thought with a grin. He had been tasting the brew that Scotty had come up with for the festivities. He had no doubt that it would lead to some interesting injuries and some 'outrageous hangovers'.
Raising an eyebrow he muttered, "Jus as well it's only once a year."
He was on his way to see Jim. Bones enjoyed chatting to the man. There was just something about him that made him feel comfortable and safe. If he had one wish, it was that their friendship could become more. But he could live with it as it was right now as he was happy to have a friend like him. After Jocelyn had decided to divorce him, she had taken everything and that included his friends. When he had met Jim, he really had lost everything. He had never felt so alone as he had done that day on the shuttle. And thanks to Jim he had been able to start finding himself again. Sure, he still had demons to destroy. But somehow they didn't seem so bad as they had been. He was even beginning to believe that he had a chance to be a father for Joanna, a chance that Jocelyn had been intent on denying him.
Bones walked up to the door to Jim's quarters. The two were so comfortable in their friendship, they had given each other their access codes. It was done on the understanding that if they ever really needed privacy, they would find a way to lock the door. In the course of their friendship that had yet to happen. So Bones keyed in the door code and let himself in. He was about to speak when he heard moaning. Walking further in to the room he saw Jim laid out on the bed pleasuring himself.
"Bones. I wish you were here to fuck me." Jim said, as he placed the last ball in to his ass, "Oh shit .... too much. But need ... this feels so good. Bones .... Bones I love you goddammit."
Bones stood and stared. He wanted to say something but he didn't want to spoil the moment. So, instead, he stripped down to his briefs as quietly as he could and made his way to Jim's bedside. Kneeling down between Jim's legs, he watched as he grabbed his cock and began to stroke it. The thought that he, one Leonard H. McCoy, the one that his ex had branded a looser who would never amount anything again, could do this to another person was amazing. It didn't matter to him that it was a man and that that man was his CO. All that mattered to him was that there was someone who really cared about him. Someone who loved him. Bones cock began to respond.
Moving as close as he could, Bones began to kiss his way up Jim's thighs towards his groin. First one, then the other. On reaching Jim's groin he nuzzled his face against his pubic hair. It was soft to the touch. Then he inhaled. The sent was one of arousal mixed with the sweat of the day.
Bones lifted his head. "I'm here Jim, I feel the same way too." he said in an almost reverent whisper.
Jim stopped for a moment. Surely he was hearing things. "Bones. Is that you?"
Bones smiled. "Yes darlin. It's really me. I'm really here."
Jim looked up at him. He didn't know what to say. Bones placed a steadying hand on Jim's stomach and smiled.
"I heard ya Jim. I feel that same way about you." Bones stood up so that Jim would be able to see him, "I want this as much as you do darlin. I have felt this way about ya for the longest."
Jim looked up at him. "Wishes do come true." he said, with the kind of smile that Bones hadn't seen since he was promoted to Captain.
"Sometimes darlin, sometimes." Bones said as he knelt back down between his legs.
Slowly, he began to lick Jim's balls, sucking each one in to his mouth. Nipping and tasting as he pulled at the string that held the balls in Jim's ass. Jim began to writhe and moan. As he did the balls began to move inside him and that made him writhe even more. Bones lent back and watched as Jim began to stroke his cock hard. He held on to the string and watched intently. Jim's balls drew up to his body. As his breath began to shorten and his stroke began to falter, Bones knew that he was going to come. With the first splatter, he pulled the string and removed the balls one by one, watching as each one stretched Jim's anus and popped out.
Bones could barely contain his own erection. When the last ball had popped out, he pulled off his briefs and prepared his cock.
"May I darlin?" he asked quietly, not being sure of the answer.
In the midst of coming down from his orgasm, Jim managed to gasp, ""Yes ... yes Bones. Fuck ... fuck me ... please."
Bones got Jim to move on the bed so he could get to him, then he pushed his legs back and entered him. He knew that he wouldn't last long, not this time. But somehow, that didn't matter. All that mattered was the fact that he was making love to someone who loved him. Not like the last few times had been with Jocelyn. That had just been going through the motions. But this, this was something else. As Jim lifted his head to gaze at him, Bones felt that he could see his emotions reflected in his face. They were ones of want, need but more importantly love.
Each thrust that Bones made was punctuated with one word. "I ... love ... you ... James ... Tiberius ... Kirk!"
With the last thrust, Bones came and came hard. Afterwards, as Bones lay in Jim's arms, he asked, "Why didn't ya tell me Jim?"
Jim stroked his hand through Bones hair. "I didn't know if you felt the same way. Your friendship meant too much for me to risk ruining it for something that may never have happened."
Bones smiled as he said, "Well it wasn't like ya gave me any signals darlin."
Jim sighed. "Yeah. I know I got a reputation. But that was because I never thought I'd have you, that I would have this. I just went from person to person. But I always thought of you. It was just easier that way. Or at least that's how it felt until I took command of the Enterprise."
Bones managed to raise his head, along with an eyebrow. "Really?"
"Yes." Jim said, "When I got my Captaincy, I didn't think it was right to carry on the way I had been. But I still had feelings for you. That's why you caught me doing what I was doing."
Bones raised himself up on an elbow and looked at Jim. "Are you blushing darlin?"
"Maybe."
Bones smiled and lent over and kissed him passionately. This was more than he could ever have hoped for.
"Ya know that ya never have to ask me again. I'm yours darlin." he said, as he broke the kiss.
"And I'm yours too. Forever." Bones raised his eyebrow at that, "Look Bones, I know that I have had a reputation as being a love 'em' and leave 'em' kind of guy. But that was because I wanted you. Now that I know that I have you, I don't need or want anyone else."
Bones smiled and snuggled in to Jim's side. ....
Present day.
"... and here we are, nearly a year later. Don't know how, but we've done it." Bones said with a smile.
"Yes. We have." Jim said as he moved to kiss Bones.
Bones responded in kind and then said, "We'd better get these to the mess hall and get the tree decorated, or Scotty 'll send someone looking for us."
Jim nodded as he placed the beads back in the box and tucked them out of sight on a shelf.
"Hey Bones, you got time to give us a hand?" Jim asked, as they made their way to the turbo lift.
Bones raised and eyebrow."No. Sorry darlin. Got too much to do before the festivities kick off tomorrow, it being the start of our All-Holiday Almost-End-Of-The-Year Party an all . I want to check that we have plenty of supplies ready in the sickbay just in case. Not only that, I need to make sure I got me some willing, or not so willing as the case my be, volunteers to stay sober during the festivities."
"Yes I can imagine how that would go." Jim grinned, "Not so much a case of the blind leading the blind, more like the drunk tending the drunk!"
Bones groaned, "Thanks for that asshole. Well as long as I am CMO on this ship that ain't going to happen."
They eventually made it to the mess hall. Scotty was waiting for them with his hands on his hips looking very impatient.
"Where the hell have you two been. I havnea got all day you know." Walking over to the two men, he took the storage box from Bones. "Well come on then. Let's get started."
Jim turned to Bones and said, "I'll come and get you from sickbay when it's done. You can admire my handiwork!"
Bones nodded and walked out to the sound of Scotty saying, "What the f...? Your handiwork? Oh so it's not like I'm going to have anything te de with it. You know your trouble laddie, you just dinnea have enough respect for your Chief Engineer...."
Bones couldn't help laughing as he left the mess and headed back to the store room. Looking around him he managed to retrieve the black box that Jim had so carefully hidden.
He smiled wickedly as he tucked it under his arm and headed for sickbay. He hadn't been completely truthful to Jim as there was one other thing that he intended to do before he left that day. Bones was intent on sterilizing the beads and taking them back to their room. As it was Christmas eve back on earth tomorrow, as well as the first anniversary of their relationship, Bones had something special in mind. He was going to get Jim to give him a repeat performance with the beads and then he was going to make love to him. But this time it would be long and slow, just the way that he knew Jim liked it. It would be a way of confirming their love for each other.
"But this time, we're in love. We don't have to ask for what we want for we both know. We want each other." Bones thought to himself with a smile.
When he got back to his office, he broke out a bottle of the best Kentucky Bourbon he had ever had the pleasure to know, and poured himself a measure.
Raising his glass he said, "To my darlin Jo. I know that your mother wont let me see ya but I can only hope that you realize that ya daddy is thinking of ya."... And I hope that your mother hasn't convinced ya I'm a complete looser and a bastard. ..."To Jocelyn. Thanks for divorcing me. Bringing me to me knees was the best thing ya ever did!" ... I loved ya once and I still can't bring myself to hate ya. Even now after everything. ... "To James Tiberius Kirk, Captain of ma ship, ma heart and now ma life. I know this is a cliche but what the hell, I love ya, truly madly, deeply." ... Sometimes I wish I had met ya earlier in ma life. But most of the time, I'm glad I didn't. ...
Then, after downing his drink, he added, 'Happy Christmas to one all!"
Author: flubber2kool
Rating: NC-17
Warning: Anal Toy Play, Excessive amounts of FLUFF! <- You have been WARNED! :-)
Word Count: 3218
Disclaimer: I have no rights to any of the characters or settings that are contained in this story.
Prompt: 40 - Those are anal beads, not Christmas ornaments.
Summary: Jim finds a toy that reminds both he and Bones of a Christmas past and how they found each other.
A/N: This is being written for the space_wrapped community. This is my first attempt at Kirk/McCoy that I will have had to publish so please be gentle with me. :-) It's also my first attempt at this kind of smut. (Author blushes profusely as she writes!) I would like to thank my long suffering beta phenix_00. She is wonderful and really encourages me. If you notice any mistakes please forgive us both!
This was the second Christmas that everyone had spent on board the Enterprise. Of course, that's not how they referred to it. They called it an All-Holiday Almost-End-Of-The-Year Party. Of course, like last year, there was going to be a Christmas tree and decorations. And like last year, Scotty had elected to get the tree and deal with the drinks. And like last year, Jim had no doubt that there would be many a sore head and outrageous hangover in the coming days. And from the look on Bones' face he was sure that he did too.
And then there was the food. There was going to be so much variety that he was sure that everyone in the crew, no matter what their race, would be able to find something to eat. The decorations had been left to him and Bones, just like the year before.
And just like the year before Bones reaction had been,"Dammit Jim. I'm a doctor, not a decorator."
"Come on Bones. It's only once a year." Jim batted his eyelids at him.
Bones almost growled out his reply. "Dammit Jim. Ya know that I cant resist ya when ya do that to me.", he said, in his hot southern accent.
Not only did it send a shiver down Jim's spine, it was also a signal that he was winning. Or in this case, that he had won.
Jim couldn't help grinning as he led him to a store room. He knew exactly what he was looking for. There were three large storage boxes that contained decorations. Jim found what he was looking for, the first one saying TREE on it.
"Let's take that one out first." Jim said with a smile.
"So now I get to add porter to the list of my attributes." Bones muttered under his breath.
Jim smiled and shook his head. If last year was anything to go by, Bones would enjoy himself just as much as anyone else. Not only that, he would have 'the hangover from hell' to prove it. "But just try to get him to admit it!" Jim thought to himself.
Jim opened the box and had a look inside. As he routed around, he discovered a black box. Opening it he found a set of five black beads all attached to one another. As he weighed them in his hands he felt them move.
Bones grinned as he walked over to Jim. Putting his arm round his waist, Bones whispered in Jim's ear, "Those are anal beads, not Christmas ornaments."
Jim swallowed hard before saying, "Yes. I know."
Bones then rested his head on Jim's shoulder, looking over it to the beads that Jim held in his hands. "Do you remember the first time I saw those?"
Jim looked down at his hands and nodded. "It's not something I'm likely to forget."
Christmas Eve. One year ago ....
Ever since Jim had met Bones he had known that his life would change. There was something about the man that had really gotten under his skin. As their friendship grew, Jim began to notice things about him. His eyes were greeny, brown. Jim could loose himself in them without trying. There was his smile. When he smiled, his face lit up and you could see it in his eyes. When Bones let himself go, his southern accent came out. As time went on, he found that this would make him shiver. Eventually, Jim began to realize that his feelings for Bones were beginning to go beyond that of friendship. He began to find all these things about Bones sexy. Even Bones eyebrows became sexy, as far as Jim was concerned.
These feelings came to a head one day when Jim and Bones were sitting talking. Jim looked at Bones as he spoke and started to wonder what it would be like to kiss those lips. And then he wondered what it would be like to have those lips round his cock, bringing him to a wonderful climax. With these thoughts pooling at his groin, for once, he was glad that Bones had to rush off. It saved him the embarrassment of trying to hide the fact that he was getting hard.
This was when he realized that he had a problem. He had no idea if Bones was gay or how he would react to finding out that Jim was gay. He decided that he would rather keep Bones friendship than risk telling him how he felt. When they were at the Academy, it was easy to deal with. He would pick up female cadets and spend a night or two with them. If things got to serious, he would move on to the next one. He would never admit to anyone that this was a means to an end. Or that as he fucked each one, he was really thinking of taking Bones, of making him his and taking him to the edge and beyond. This attitude got him a reputation as a ladies man who would never fall in love. The kind of guy that would never commit and would break your heart. But it served its purpose.
Of course, that all changed when he became Captain. It wasn't that he was against relationships on the Enterprise. It would be completely naive to think that wouldn't happen. There were also people who were already in relationships when they joined the crew. And even though at first it annoyed him that Nyota had fallen for Spock, he couldn't really see what she saw in him, he couldn't deny them the love that they had. It was just that, as far as he was concerned, he couldn't indulge himself the way that he had at the Academy. He knew there were those who were just waiting for him to fall from grace, so that they could say "I told you so.". But he wasn't going to give them that chance. Especially over something like casual sex.
He also didn't want to let down Admiral Pike. That man had seen something in him that he couldn't see in himself. He had given him the push that he needed to get out of the place where he was and to become something better. Also, Admiral Pike had given him an insight in to his father, George Kirk. As he found out more about him, through Pike's dissertation, he realized that he wanted to be like him.
So he needed to find other ways for sexual release. That was why he found himself naked, lying on his back, with his ass lubed up and a set of lubed up Power Balls anal beads lying beside him. He moved himself so that he could reach his anus with the beads. Slowly, he inserted the first one. It stretched him as it popped in. It filled him, but it wasn't what he wanted or what he really needed. But it was all he had.
"Dammit Bones. I want you." he groaned, as he placed more balls in his ass, "I want you to take me. Make me yours."
****
Bones was beginning to get in to the Christmas spirit. "More likely the Christmas spirit is getting in to me!" he thought with a grin. He had been tasting the brew that Scotty had come up with for the festivities. He had no doubt that it would lead to some interesting injuries and some 'outrageous hangovers'.
Raising an eyebrow he muttered, "Jus as well it's only once a year."
He was on his way to see Jim. Bones enjoyed chatting to the man. There was just something about him that made him feel comfortable and safe. If he had one wish, it was that their friendship could become more. But he could live with it as it was right now as he was happy to have a friend like him. After Jocelyn had decided to divorce him, she had taken everything and that included his friends. When he had met Jim, he really had lost everything. He had never felt so alone as he had done that day on the shuttle. And thanks to Jim he had been able to start finding himself again. Sure, he still had demons to destroy. But somehow they didn't seem so bad as they had been. He was even beginning to believe that he had a chance to be a father for Joanna, a chance that Jocelyn had been intent on denying him.
Bones walked up to the door to Jim's quarters. The two were so comfortable in their friendship, they had given each other their access codes. It was done on the understanding that if they ever really needed privacy, they would find a way to lock the door. In the course of their friendship that had yet to happen. So Bones keyed in the door code and let himself in. He was about to speak when he heard moaning. Walking further in to the room he saw Jim laid out on the bed pleasuring himself.
"Bones. I wish you were here to fuck me." Jim said, as he placed the last ball in to his ass, "Oh shit .... too much. But need ... this feels so good. Bones .... Bones I love you goddammit."
Bones stood and stared. He wanted to say something but he didn't want to spoil the moment. So, instead, he stripped down to his briefs as quietly as he could and made his way to Jim's bedside. Kneeling down between Jim's legs, he watched as he grabbed his cock and began to stroke it. The thought that he, one Leonard H. McCoy, the one that his ex had branded a looser who would never amount anything again, could do this to another person was amazing. It didn't matter to him that it was a man and that that man was his CO. All that mattered to him was that there was someone who really cared about him. Someone who loved him. Bones cock began to respond.
Moving as close as he could, Bones began to kiss his way up Jim's thighs towards his groin. First one, then the other. On reaching Jim's groin he nuzzled his face against his pubic hair. It was soft to the touch. Then he inhaled. The sent was one of arousal mixed with the sweat of the day.
Bones lifted his head. "I'm here Jim, I feel the same way too." he said in an almost reverent whisper.
Jim stopped for a moment. Surely he was hearing things. "Bones. Is that you?"
Bones smiled. "Yes darlin. It's really me. I'm really here."
Jim looked up at him. He didn't know what to say. Bones placed a steadying hand on Jim's stomach and smiled.
"I heard ya Jim. I feel that same way about you." Bones stood up so that Jim would be able to see him, "I want this as much as you do darlin. I have felt this way about ya for the longest."
Jim looked up at him. "Wishes do come true." he said, with the kind of smile that Bones hadn't seen since he was promoted to Captain.
"Sometimes darlin, sometimes." Bones said as he knelt back down between his legs.
Slowly, he began to lick Jim's balls, sucking each one in to his mouth. Nipping and tasting as he pulled at the string that held the balls in Jim's ass. Jim began to writhe and moan. As he did the balls began to move inside him and that made him writhe even more. Bones lent back and watched as Jim began to stroke his cock hard. He held on to the string and watched intently. Jim's balls drew up to his body. As his breath began to shorten and his stroke began to falter, Bones knew that he was going to come. With the first splatter, he pulled the string and removed the balls one by one, watching as each one stretched Jim's anus and popped out.
Bones could barely contain his own erection. When the last ball had popped out, he pulled off his briefs and prepared his cock.
"May I darlin?" he asked quietly, not being sure of the answer.
In the midst of coming down from his orgasm, Jim managed to gasp, ""Yes ... yes Bones. Fuck ... fuck me ... please."
Bones got Jim to move on the bed so he could get to him, then he pushed his legs back and entered him. He knew that he wouldn't last long, not this time. But somehow, that didn't matter. All that mattered was the fact that he was making love to someone who loved him. Not like the last few times had been with Jocelyn. That had just been going through the motions. But this, this was something else. As Jim lifted his head to gaze at him, Bones felt that he could see his emotions reflected in his face. They were ones of want, need but more importantly love.
Each thrust that Bones made was punctuated with one word. "I ... love ... you ... James ... Tiberius ... Kirk!"
With the last thrust, Bones came and came hard. Afterwards, as Bones lay in Jim's arms, he asked, "Why didn't ya tell me Jim?"
Jim stroked his hand through Bones hair. "I didn't know if you felt the same way. Your friendship meant too much for me to risk ruining it for something that may never have happened."
Bones smiled as he said, "Well it wasn't like ya gave me any signals darlin."
Jim sighed. "Yeah. I know I got a reputation. But that was because I never thought I'd have you, that I would have this. I just went from person to person. But I always thought of you. It was just easier that way. Or at least that's how it felt until I took command of the Enterprise."
Bones managed to raise his head, along with an eyebrow. "Really?"
"Yes." Jim said, "When I got my Captaincy, I didn't think it was right to carry on the way I had been. But I still had feelings for you. That's why you caught me doing what I was doing."
Bones raised himself up on an elbow and looked at Jim. "Are you blushing darlin?"
"Maybe."
Bones smiled and lent over and kissed him passionately. This was more than he could ever have hoped for.
"Ya know that ya never have to ask me again. I'm yours darlin." he said, as he broke the kiss.
"And I'm yours too. Forever." Bones raised his eyebrow at that, "Look Bones, I know that I have had a reputation as being a love 'em' and leave 'em' kind of guy. But that was because I wanted you. Now that I know that I have you, I don't need or want anyone else."
Bones smiled and snuggled in to Jim's side. ....
Present day.
"... and here we are, nearly a year later. Don't know how, but we've done it." Bones said with a smile.
"Yes. We have." Jim said as he moved to kiss Bones.
Bones responded in kind and then said, "We'd better get these to the mess hall and get the tree decorated, or Scotty 'll send someone looking for us."
Jim nodded as he placed the beads back in the box and tucked them out of sight on a shelf.
"Hey Bones, you got time to give us a hand?" Jim asked, as they made their way to the turbo lift.
Bones raised and eyebrow."No. Sorry darlin. Got too much to do before the festivities kick off tomorrow, it being the start of our All-Holiday Almost-End-Of-The-Year Party an all . I want to check that we have plenty of supplies ready in the sickbay just in case. Not only that, I need to make sure I got me some willing, or not so willing as the case my be, volunteers to stay sober during the festivities."
"Yes I can imagine how that would go." Jim grinned, "Not so much a case of the blind leading the blind, more like the drunk tending the drunk!"
Bones groaned, "Thanks for that asshole. Well as long as I am CMO on this ship that ain't going to happen."
They eventually made it to the mess hall. Scotty was waiting for them with his hands on his hips looking very impatient.
"Where the hell have you two been. I havnea got all day you know." Walking over to the two men, he took the storage box from Bones. "Well come on then. Let's get started."
Jim turned to Bones and said, "I'll come and get you from sickbay when it's done. You can admire my handiwork!"
Bones nodded and walked out to the sound of Scotty saying, "What the f...? Your handiwork? Oh so it's not like I'm going to have anything te de with it. You know your trouble laddie, you just dinnea have enough respect for your Chief Engineer...."
Bones couldn't help laughing as he left the mess and headed back to the store room. Looking around him he managed to retrieve the black box that Jim had so carefully hidden.
He smiled wickedly as he tucked it under his arm and headed for sickbay. He hadn't been completely truthful to Jim as there was one other thing that he intended to do before he left that day. Bones was intent on sterilizing the beads and taking them back to their room. As it was Christmas eve back on earth tomorrow, as well as the first anniversary of their relationship, Bones had something special in mind. He was going to get Jim to give him a repeat performance with the beads and then he was going to make love to him. But this time it would be long and slow, just the way that he knew Jim liked it. It would be a way of confirming their love for each other.
"But this time, we're in love. We don't have to ask for what we want for we both know. We want each other." Bones thought to himself with a smile.
When he got back to his office, he broke out a bottle of the best Kentucky Bourbon he had ever had the pleasure to know, and poured himself a measure.
Raising his glass he said, "To my darlin Jo. I know that your mother wont let me see ya but I can only hope that you realize that ya daddy is thinking of ya."... And I hope that your mother hasn't convinced ya I'm a complete looser and a bastard. ..."To Jocelyn. Thanks for divorcing me. Bringing me to me knees was the best thing ya ever did!" ... I loved ya once and I still can't bring myself to hate ya. Even now after everything. ... "To James Tiberius Kirk, Captain of ma ship, ma heart and now ma life. I know this is a cliche but what the hell, I love ya, truly madly, deeply." ... Sometimes I wish I had met ya earlier in ma life. But most of the time, I'm glad I didn't. ...
Then, after downing his drink, he added, 'Happy Christmas to one all!"