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Leonard laughs a little, feeling at ease with the situation he leans down and kisses Jim. "Ya know...meeting her is gonna be a big step Jim. You sure you're ready for that?" He had to ask, as much as he loves Jim, he has to put Jo first. 

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"We'll leave her in school, but we should go in when we drop her off tomorrow, let them know that this is her last week." Jim said, moving onto the bed next to Bones.

"Well, like I said before, with the schedule we have worked out with the judge, she'd been seeing her mom more than she would be seeing her on the Boarding school schedule. But I guess we just have to sit her down and give her a calender, give her specific times and dates."

Sitting up on his elbow, Jim tucked his hand above Bones' head, stroking his hair gently. "You can't let yourself get worried and beat up over Jocelyn being too busy traveling to answer Joanna's calls. That's on Jocelyn. And yeah, its gonna hurt Joanna, I know this from personal experience, when my mom was too busy in space to answer my calls. It's gonna hurt and she's gonna cry and brood and be upset for a few days. But the difference between Joanna and I is that I didn't have anyone. Joanna has you and me and Eleanor and when we get back to the ship, she'll have Nyota and Christine at the very least."

Leaning down, he kissed Bones' nose. "I know its your job to worry, baby. But you shouldn't. I told you, everything is going to be okay." He smirked. "Haven't you learned to trust me by now?"

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"But anyway. What'd your mom say?" Jim asked.

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"She said she hopes you're not as perfect as you seem." He laughs a little, "I told her not to worry, she also seemed a little worried about how quickly Jo has taken to you, considering she ignored Clay, to be honest I am a little worried too, not that she shouldn't love you Jim, but she just met you, 'm not sure if she fully understands what's going on. it's gonna be a big change for her." He sighs a little, "I am not saying it will happen, but we should be ready for a freak out at lest a small one." He says leaning in a giving Jim a small kiss, "She loves you the way I do." He adds "But she's six, we need to figure out how to talk to her about this so she really understands what's going on."

He pauses for a moment putting an arm around Jim. "Maybe I just worry to much."

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"I'm not." Jim said. "I'm allergic to every damn thing and I have a habit of jumping into dumb situations and it always seems like I just can't be diplomatic because every "diplomatic" mission turns into a fight. But I'm guessing you didn't tell her that."

He turned, flipping off the bedside lamp before slipping into bed. "I don't know what to tell her, Bones. I don't have much experience with telling kids how best to accept new...boyfriends of fathers. I just remember my mom met Frank, married him and brought him home and I was just expected to listen to him. And I definitely don't suggest that..." he lay back down, tucking his head under Leonard's. "Maybe you do worry too much."

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"Someone has to worry." He laughs kissing the top of Jim's head "We'll make her a calendar, or something, I don't know if that's lame or not, but it might help her." He sighs a little... "So I think we should get all the shopping out of the way tomorrow when she gets out of school." He says pulling the blankets around them a little tight closing his eyes, it had been a long day. "Night Jim."

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"All of that sounds good to me." he leaned over, planting a sweet kiss on Bones' lips before laying down to sleep himself. "Night Bones."

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"DADDY! POPSICLE! Get up, I gotta go to school!" Joanna took on the bed with a flying tackle and Jim woke up laughing, rolling out of the way of flying knees and elbows. "Oof, Jo! Good morning to you too!"

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Leonard laughs... and looks at the clock, "Mornin' JoJo, Jo...it's 6 you don't have to be to school until nine, which means we don't leave until eight." He laughs again and climbs out of bed rubbing his eyes.

"Sorry daddy." She grins still sitting on the bed.

"Wadda you want for breakfast kiddo?" He says picking her up.

"Pancakes. I want pancakes for breakfast." She says happily swinging her legs and squirming in her dad's grip.

"You gonna help me make 'em?" He asks arching and eyebrow, tickling her stomach.

"Yes!" she laughs leaning backward looking at Jim upside down her hair hanging everywhere. "My Daddy is a good cook, like Gran. Can you cook Jim?" She says righting herself.

Leonard leans over and stage whispers in her ear, "He burns ramen."

"You let him eat Ramen...Daddy." She looks a little shocked.

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"Yes, your father lets me eat Ramen. He should be ashamed of himself Jojo." Jim pouted. Jojo shook her head and patted the top of Jim's. "Its okay, Popsicle. You don't have to eat ramen no mores."

Jim blinked. "Popsicle?"

"Yeah! Like Pop, but you're frozen 'cuz the hobgoblin marooned you on Delta Vega." Jo explained. Jim glanced over at Bones. "Please don't tell me you've been referring to my first officer as a hobgoblin in your vid-chats with Jo..."

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"It slipped out once." He says heading down the stairs to the kitchen. "JoJo, I don't want you callin' him that." He says with a smile.

"But you call him that, The Damn Hobgoblin, that's what you said...but then you told me never to say that." She says leaning her head on his shoulder.

"Yes Jo, but he knows I don't mean it in a mean way...Okay Jo? There are somethings that grown ups say, that kids can't, but I'll try not to call Spock that anymore okay?"

"Alright Dad." She says as he sets her down in the kitchen.

Leonard gets out all the fixings to make pancakes, then stands Jo on the back of the chair so she can mix them.

"What color do you want them JoJo?" He asks pulling out a box of food coloring.

"Purple please." She says happily.

Leonard adds a few drops of red food color and a few drops of blue and takes over the mixing. A short while later they are seated around the table eating breakfast.

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Purple pancakes...cooked by Leonard McCoy. Jim shook his head, watching the two of them work together. "If I wasn't hopelessly in love with you already, Bones, I'd be completely lost." He leaned over, kissing his shoulder as he carried the plates to the table.

"So, we were thinking about going shopping after school today, Jo." Jim told her, sitting down. "Is there anything in particular you'd like?"

"Can I have a new backpack?! And some barretts and pants for Ralph?" She asked, eyes wide. Jocelyn took her shopping but it was never really about what Jo wanted, just what she needed.

"You can have whatever you'd like, Jobear. Even if your Daddy is going to yell at me later tonight for spoiling you." he winked.

Eleanor came down just as they were finishing up breakfast. "Gran! Daddy and Popsicle said I can have annnnything I want from the mall today!"

Eleanor glanced at Jim, an eyebrow raised. "Popsicle?"

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"Guess this means I am gonna lose my grumpy doctor reputation on the ship." He laughs and ruffles Jim's hair, he smiles at his mother as she comes into the room.

"Don't ask." He laughs.

"Jo we'll see about pants for Ralph maybe you can give him some of your old ones. We need to get you some cloths to where on the ship." He smiles "But a new backpack we can do."

Eleanor sits down at the table and puts some pancakes on her plate, the enjoy a family style breakfast Jo chatting happily about school.

Leonard leans over and whispers to Jim "We should tell her this is gonna be her last week there, then she's on vacation with us, we also need to get her enrolled in the fleet system."

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Jim nodded, then glanced over at Jo.

"Jobear, we need to talk about school for a second."

"Yes?" she sat her fork down, hands folded in her lap.

"Well..." Jim glanced at Bones. "Since you're coming to live with us, you're gonna have to go to a whole new school on the ship. Your teachers are very nice though, some of my closest friends. You'll especially like Ms. Uhura, I think." He smiles and Jo smiles back. She already knew about the moving schools part.

"You won't start your new school until next month but your Daddy and I think maybe its a good idea for you to stop going to school on Friday, the end of the quarter, so you're not in the middle of things."

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Jo nods a little "But what about my friends? I don't min' changin' schools, but I'm gonna miss my friends."

"JoJo, I know it's gonna be hard, but when ever you come back to Georgia you'll get to see them, and before we leave for San Francisco we'll come back here and invite them all over so you can say goodbye okay?"

"Alright." She says finishing her pancakes.

"Don't JoJo, just keep having fun and let the grownups worry about." Eleanor adds. "and I am sure you'll be making a lot more friends on the ship."

"Yeah Jo, you're not losin' any friends, you're just going off to make a lot more." Leonard says kissing Jo on the top of the head, now go brush your teeth and get dressed darlin' "

"I can pick out my own cloths?" She says excitedly, never really liking the cloths her mother picked for her.

"Yes, JoJo you're a big girl, just none of your costumes okay?" He laughs.

"Alright daddy." She says running off upstairs, stomping all the way.

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"That went better than I thought." Jim smiled. "We'll have to make sure to set up comm dates with all of the parents, let all of the kids get together and talk a couple times a month." Jim suggested, standing with his own plate. He really had no experience with this kind of thing, but he knew that if they wanted to make this thing with Jo permanent, they would have to make her as happy and content as possible.

Jo returned downstairs about 20 minutes later. SHe'd chosen a bright pink dress and white and lime green tights, with pink shoes. "Daddy, I'm ready!" she called.

"And bright." Jim smiled. He received a thump for that. "Popsicle!"

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"I guess I do worry to much." He laughed a little "Yeah Jim that is a good idea, we can plan it out more later, lets just get Jo settled into her new life, before we go trying to set up other things." He smiled warmly.

He held back a laugh when Jo came down stairs, she did look cute, tights pink converse, pink dress, at lest she matched. "You look lovely Jo." He said standing an pulling open a drawer in the kitchen taking out a hair brush and some hair ties. "How do you want your hair kiddo?"

"Two pony tales." She said standing in front of her father, Leonard did his daughters hair in a way that only a man who used to have long hair himself could have, quickly and neatly.

While Leonard was putting up Jo's hair out of her face Eleanor looked at Jim for a moment. "You're good for him you know." She paused, "But he can't take another broken heart, and now you've got Jo involved." She paused again taking him in, "If you hurt him, or her, I will end you." The threat only a mother who truly loved her son would make.

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Jim looked down at Leonard's mother and shook his head. "I'd end myself before I hurt either o them, Ma'am, you can believe that. I don't-...I never had a family. And they-..Bones, and my crew, I mean, are the closest thing I've ever had to that. It was just naturally time to add a kid to that. And if I couldn't give Bones the one thing he really deserves for saving my life a million times, then I'm no kind of captain."

"Popsicle! Are you coming? Daddy's going to take me to school!" Jo called from the living room. Jim seemed to forget he was talking, grinning big as he jogged towards her. "Coming Jo!"