Fic: "No Man's Land" (2/?)

[mijan]

Title: “No Man’s Land”
Authors: gone_ashore and mijan
Rating: R
Pairing: Kirk/McCoy
Word Count: 10,000 for part 2.
Warnings: Triggery. References to alien experimentation, graphic descriptions, mpreg.
Summary: A mission gone wrong puts Jim at the wrong end of alien observation, captive to a species that uses him as a lab rat. Helpless and defenseless for nearly a

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[mijan]

I'm glad you're enjoying the story so far! Mpreg is definitely outside of my normal realm of fanfiction tropes, but... I figured this is a slightly different angle than most fics would take. I'm a biologist (not a neuroscientist, although I do know several neuroscientists in the labs, who also happen to be Trekkies), so I've got enough of a grasp of general physiology to be able to get technical. I'm glad you're enjoying the biomedical details!

In any trope, characterization is important to me, and Jim's characterization is something I find particularly important. I like seeing how he reacts to difficult situations, so... what could be more fun than throwing him into an exceedingly difficult situation and trying to make an honest play at how he would react? (I'm so mean to him.) The dynamics of the Jim/Bones relationship is important, too... and I don't normally write them in a typical romantic relationship. In fact, I tend to write them as exceedingly close-knit friends, not romantic partners, so this is yet another deviation from my norm. But I DO ship them, and I'm having a lot of fun with it!

Hopefully, we can do justice to the story line for the rest of this fic!

(Totally off-topic, but are you a neuroscientist as in an MD, or PhD, or...? Just curious, what are you working on? It's not my specialty, but I find it fascinating.)