Announcing our Fourth Mission - 2012 - The Twelve Days
Yes, with the end of summer drawing near, and with thoughts of long evenings, log fires, snow, egg-nog, and Jim and Bones naked, except for Santa hats and tinsel, kissing under the mistletoe, it must be nearing the holidays...
Well, thankfully, it isn’t quite yet, nevertheless, we wanted to announce the doors opening on space_wrapped, the Kirk/McCoy advent calendar comm four years on!!!!
This year we're tightening things up just a bit. It's been awfully quiet in these parts what with the Captain and the Doctor off playing at Law & Order and being Secret Agent Man, so this year we've reduced posting to the Twelve days before Christmas, inclusive. So we should have lots of fun reading right during that hectic time. Awesome!
Yes, the holidays are many weeks away but it pays to make plans so, here’s the deal:
From now, until October 2nd, we will be taking prompts. Please reply to this post with your ideas for fics, art and vids.
After the cut, we've listed all the previous years' prompts, just in case you felt like using an old stand-by.
Prompts will be up for grabs beginning October 5th on a first come, first serve basis.
And posting will start on December 14th. Because of the short duration, we'll have lots of goodies posted per day, but that should be even more fun!
The Schedule for 2012
19th September - 2nd October - PROMPT TIME! please come up with fabulous prompts - remember, the overall theme is Winter/Winter Holidays - which includes Christmas, Hanukkah, New Years, and any others you can think of. But don't forget that some folks live upside down and get to surf or picnic for the holiday season.
5th October - 19th October - claim your prompts!
20th October - 26th October - claim your dates!
14th December to 25th - The Fest is a-go-go
We've had a few great years with Jim and Bones's sacks days bulging with glorious Kirk/McCoy fills. Let’s make this year even better! Watch for announcements along the way on here as well as on jim_and_bones, mccoy_and_kirk, kirk_mccoy, and trek_news.
And, unlike last year, we're giving everyone a free pass. We pride ourselves on running a laid back fest so in the spirit of all that is slashy, even if you wanted/planned to participate in the past but RL got in the way as it does at this busy time of the year, we’d love to have you be part of our fun fest.
Now back to your regularly scheduled drooling over Jim and Bones.
space_wrapped is bffs with jim_and_bones and you will recognise the mods from the bridge crew.
Your mods, sangueuk, abigail89, and weepingnaiad
And this year, we're kick starting prompting by opening up all of the previous years' prompts to start you off:
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SEXY TIEMS
Jim shows McCoy that sex in a sleigh is A. cold, B. not all that private, and C. surprisingly good fun.
Jim makes obscene balls to hang on the community fake tree. McCoy rolls his eyes....and then makes obscene candy canes.
Pike hosts a Christmas thing and somehow thinks Jim and Leonard haven't gotten together yet and lectures them on how they need each other and not to take things for granted and stuff. Little does he know they're just being discreet, and also that if he's going to be Mr. Nosy, they're just going to have to implement the Invite Chris Into Our Bed plan all the sooner.
Academy era: Jim brings Bones home for the holidays. Bones is not happy with all the damned white stuff falling from the sky. Jim shows him exactly how fun snow can be. *wiggles eyebrows*
Gaila thinks the winter holidays are the best human invention ever. Santa help her two unsuspecting boyfriends, Jim and Bones.
For the 12 days of Christmas, Jim and Bones decide to try a different new kink every day. Some are more successful than others.
McCoy keeps threatening Jim with a Lump of Coal for being naughty...Jim takes it as a challenge.
Jim shows McCoy that sex in a sleigh is A. cold, B. not all that private, and C. surprisingly good fun.
Jim makes obscene balls to hang on the community fake tree. McCoy rolls his eyes....and then makes obscene candy canes.
McCoy: my favorite holiday item? Yule log. Stick that heats up and goes all night.
Jim: O Bones!
McCoy: That's one word for it.
Existing relationship: Jim thinks they should do a sex advent calendar. A different sex act or position each day up to Christmas. McCoy's a little worried about Jim's creative brain being put to use in this fashion, but like he's going to turn down a lot of sex.
Someone somewhere is throwing a Christmas orgy and Jim wangles an invitation.
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SWEET COUPLE-Y
Jim and Bones are trapped on an abandoned ice-bound planet, with only the comfort of their own body heat, a few blankets and the fire to keep them warm. They're not rescued until after Christmas Day.
Jim asks Leonard what he wants for Christmas. Leonard says how 'bout you refrain from doing anything completely idiotic and non-regulation that lands you in my sickbay and makes me worry for a month? Jim does his very best, but he's still in there like once a week. Which is okay because Leonard misses him, damn it.
Jim brings something that looks like mistletoe up and hangs it for smooching, but alas, it's completely poisonous (or, you know, itchy-making). Jim being Jim doesn't mention his symptoms until the stupid thing has shed pollen/sap/whatever on both of them, and they end up being miserable in bed (together or not) for the holiday. But then there is a happy ending.
After the Enterprise suffers a nasty attack (Klingons, Romulans, etc.), losing a large number of crew members (I've heard somewhere that the Reboot Enterprise has a crew complement of 1000, so let's say that they lost 150 to 200 people in the attack), Jim decides to improve crew morale by holding a secret santa. Only thing is, according to the Terran calendar, it's almost Midsummer's Day. But Jim's not going to let that little fact get in his way. Jim, of course, gets Spock (perhaps he turns to Uhura for help?), instead of getting his Bones. The doctor, on the other hand, isn't telling a single soul who he got (but of course, it's Jim).
12 Days of Christmas. Jim sends Bones a partridge in a pear tree, two turtle doves, etc...in plushie form. Cue bitching and secretly loving it and 'how the hell did you even afford all this?' on Bones' part.
Bones tells Jim about a treasured possession (a childhood toy, for example, although it can be anything you want) that he had but lost. Cue Jim going through hell and high water to find him a replacement in time for Christmas.
Jim and Bones spend a holiday week in a cabin - nothing but domestic bliss
Jim's having trouble figuring out the perfect gift for Bones.
Jim Kirk has never had a good Christmas and doesn't expect to ever.
The crew conspire to get Jim and Bones under the mistletoe.
Jim avoids holiday parties. Bones wants to know why.
Pagan Winter Solstice celebrations are often about the returning of the Light. Space is (disease and danger wrapped in) darkness (and silence).
Either Jim or Bones comes from a tradition who treat Winter Solstice as a day to mourn the passing of the Dark, before celebrating the coming of the Light.
Jim, as captain, has to attend/preside over the various holiday dinners and celebrations of the diverse crew of the Enterprise. He drags Bones along to all of them, only to be surprised at how much a " simple country doctor from Georgia" knows about Diwali, Eid (I'm not going to calculate it, but it could be in December that year), Winter Solstice, Chinese New Year, and/or your holiday of choice (Andorian, maybe? :D )
The Enterprise was scheduled for shore leave on Earth during the holiday season, but another ship's engine problems force them to cover a patrol on the Federation's distant, desolate border instead. How does Jim keep morale up, both in general and for a particularly surly Bones who was looking forward to getting out of space for a bit?
Jim & Bones (and anyone else you'd like) end up on modern day Earth a few days before Christmas due to an ion storm/transporter screw-up/temporal disturbances a la the Guardian of Forever. They're working on getting back and trying to blend in as best they can, but the way the holidays are celebrated has changed a lot in the past 250 years.
Hanukkah-themed story: They're stranded on a planet, but they have something life-sustaining that's meant to last only one day, but somehow lasts for eight days, just in time for them to get rescued.
Amanda Grayson celebrated Hanukkah. To honor her, and to do something nice for Spock, Uhura gets together with Kirk/McCoy - since the two couples are good friends by now - and plan a quiet, thoughtful celebration in her memory.
TOS prompt! Kirk and McCoy observe Christmas or Hanukkah (your choice) with Kirk's orphaned nephew Peter. (Following Sam and Aurelan's deaths in "Operation: Annihilate!")
PLANET CHRISTMAS: The Enterprise visits a planet where they're celebrating a winter festival remarkably like Christmas (perhaps with a few tweaks here and there), and it's snow/presents/cheer/mistletoe/candy canes/fat man alien in a red suit EVERYWHERE. The whole thing predictably turns Bones into a total Scrooge...until he realizes how delighted Jim is.
It's the first Christmas/holiday Jim and Leonard spend apart from each other ever since they met. They both soon realize that it pretty much sucks not to spend the holidays together. Cue some angsting and moping before the two of them pull their heads out of their cute little butts and get o wherever the other one is asap for a big schmoopy holiday reunion. (Friendship or more)
Kirk and McCoy were together, but have been fighting. Chapel (or whoever) manages to first rig the shipboard holiday gift exchange so they get each other, then engineer gossip that gets each to believe the other is going to try to outdo him for best/most thoughtful/most meaningful gift--and neither is going to let thremarkably like Christmas (perhaps with a few tweaks here and there), and it's snow/presents/cheer/mistletoe/candy canes/fat man alien in at happen because they are stubborn. Result: in order to outdo each other for thoughtfulness, each has to consider the other carefully and be, y'know thoughtful, which makes them want to be back together.
Jim & Bones spend the Terran holiday season on a tropical planet. Bones really wants a traditional Southern celebration, but you can't get good fruit cake that far out in space. Jim gets very creative.
Years and years from now, when they're adorable old admirals who've been married forever,at a christmas party, a (great?) grandchild asks them how they tied the knot.
This leads to fond reminiscing, as well as good-natured bickering about how the whole thing really went down because, come on, it's been like eighty years or whatever, and they both remember it differently.
They accidentally go public with their relationship at Enterprise's holiday pageant, like David and Natalie in Love Actually. Maybe some angry sap inspired by The Pogues' Fairytale of New York? Or, failing that, evil Christmas trees?
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FAMILY
Jim wants to cook Bones a traditional holiday meal, with all his favorites, on the Enterprise. So Jim comms Granny McCoy and gets as many of the old recipes as possible, but it's not getting the recipes that's the problem it's finding the ingredients in space. Jim's not sure it can be called pecan pie with almost pecans.
It's Joanna's first Christmas home after leaving for college and while she's unfortunately used to finding Jim and her father in compromising positions, she has forgotten how often it can happen, especially with all the holiday mistletoe.
Jim arranges for Joanna to be able to comm her father for a longer period of time on Christmas day.
So, after they saved the whole planet, there were seriously thousands of invitations to ravish all manner of people. Leonard's a doctor and Jim's no idiot, so it's not like they weren't careful in their joyful celebrating all over creation, but still, a year and a bit later, each of them finds himself with one or more heretofore unknown offspring (preferably without this being about the mothers of these offspring being stupid, bitchy, manipulative, etc; just, they have babies, and what the hell are they going to do with babies on a damn starship?!) So they join forces and in the process figure out that they want to raise their kids together for real. tl;dr: Brady Bunch on the Enterprise.
In which they somehow end up going with Spock to visit Sarek on the new Vulcan colony world and realize that there were holiday traditions from Earth Amanda had incorporated, and Sarek and Spock won't either of them admit it, but they're feeling all woe-eye about the absence. Clearly it's time to introduce some Kirk-and-McCoy holiday traditions, even if they have to make them up on the spot, so it will break the tension. And naturally, then they're going to have to keep those traditions.
They get Joanna (age seven or so) for just four hours on Christmas Eve. The evening is highly imperfect, but Joanna has a lot of fun.
Kinda AU Jo asks Santa to take her to her Daddy. Jim and Bones are VERY surprised (and kinda frantic) when they wake up Christmas Eve to Jo bouncing on them to wake them up. Panic and hilarity ensue as they scramble to A.) make a Christmas that is good enough for her and B.) get her home cause Bones is pretty sure Jocelyn is going to flip her lid when he breaks the news to her.
Jim/Bones, established relationship. Bones has Joanna over Christmas. Jim invites Jocelyn - for Joanna - behind Bones' back because he knows how much Christmas sucks if the other parent is missing.
Bones wants to propose to Jim on New Year's, but hold on, turns out there are several people he has to ask for permission first. What the hell?
Jocelyn brings Jo onto the Enterprise for the holidays. Jim wonders what this could mean. No bitchy!Jocelyn please.
Bones celebrates Yule (a nonreligious winter holiday by then) by feeding his loved ones. But his loved ones on the Enterprise are picky eaters - Spock's vegetarianism and Jim's allergies and Chapel's distaste for anything green... How does Bones demonstrate his appreciation for all the nourishing relationships he has without losing his crusty exterior? (Bones isn't secretly a marshmallow - he is just both grumpy AND sweet.) Hot holiday porn w Jim is always welcome, first time or established relationship.
Bones is greatly amused by the lengths Jim will go to to make a great first impression on Joanna at Christmas.
Jim dresses up like Santa to surprise Bones and Joanna who are spending Christmas together.
Jim helps Bones find the perfect Christmas present for Joanna ... while they're out in space.
Visiting Sam on Deneva, where the quirks of planetary rotation and orbit mean that the end of the calendar year lands in different seasons each year. This year, it's early spring, and instead of snow there's a carpet of snowdrops (or local equivalent thereof) on the ground. It's pretty and fragrant and makes Jim want to be outdoors a lot. So they have an adventurous holiday period, take Sam's kids out hiking and suchlike, maybe even camping. Bones grumbles a lot, but really he loves having his feet on solid ground for an extended period--and seeing Jim with those kids is just the sweetest thing ever...
Jim is looking forward to the crew's first holiday season together as well as his and Bones' first as a couple. But it's a hard time for both Bones and Spock: Joanna is back on Earth, and this used to be Amanda's favorite season. So they're taking it out on each other (perhaps they're both on the decorating committee?) The bickering that normally amuses Jim escalates to the point where he loses his temper and blows up at them. With Uhura's help, they pull their heads out of their asses and join forces to pull off a great celebration.
Bones is trying to fulfill his family's holiday tradition of doing an anonymous good deed, but of course no good deed goes unpunished.
Joanna bringing her new boyfriend home to meet her fathers for the holiday season. Bones is maybe freaking out about it, while Jim is cool (or the other way around).
Bones takes Jim to Georgia for a McCoy family Christmas.
Bones's elderly grandmother is utterly nonplussed to get a Christmas video-call from her dear little Leo in which he's on a beach wearing shorts and Jim's idly fanning them both with a palm frond while she's watching the snow come down all around her little house and hoping the power doesn't go out while the bird's still roasting--because that's what Christmas is all about, isn't it? Turns out for Bones, it's actually about spending time with the people you love, doesn't really matter where you are, how cold (or not) it is, or what's for dinner.
It's the end of the year on the Enterprise, and everyone's in a celebratory mood. Unfortunately, Jim has to settle an argument between several factions of crew--some of them are determined to spray fake snow all over the place and make everyone drink hot cocoa, some of them have only known a handful of cold Christmases/Hanukkahs/New Years in their lives (the years they spent at Starfleet Academy) and don't particularly enjoy the reminders, and another faction who find the disruption of ship-board activities a most illogical waste of resources, Captain, not to mention a distraction from the work people have signed on to perform. But, really, the extended (Enterprise) family arguing? Really not such a break with Christmas tradition as far as Jim's concerned. He tells Bones as much. Bones quizzes him about what such family gatherings were like for Jim as a boy. What he hears upsets him, and he decides to give Jim the perfect family Christmas experience, even if they are on a giant tin can hurtling through space light-years from home.
Jim starts listening to "Last Christmas" on repeat, like in Mid-November, and it drives Bones crazy. Maybe he starts listening to his own (Jazz? Classical Rock? idk, run wild with this) christmas music in order to annoy Jim? stmases/Hanukkahs/New Years in their lives (the years they spent at Starfleet Academy) and don't particularly enjoy the reminders, and another faction who find the disruption of ship-board activities a most illogical waste of resources, Captain, not to mention a distraction from the work people have signed on to perform. But, really, the extended (Enterprise) family arguing? Really not such a break with Christmas tradition as far as Jim's concerned. He tells Bones as much. Bones quizzesMaybe they end up finding a Christmas song they both like, maybe they don't. I see this academy-era but it doesn't matter, really.
Jim accompanies Bones on a Christmas trip to Georgia, despite being anti-Christmas and Bah Humbug. On Christmas Eve Bones' old school does the Hallelujah chorus, and all choir alumni are invited to join in and sing. Bones does this every year, and it means a lot to him, but Jim doesn't want to join him.
McCoy got preggers (How : planned? surprise? established relationship? or first time?) Possessive!proud!happy!Captain. they decide to do a low key marriage alone before they tell anyone else (someone outside of the bridge crew (Pike?) marries them by outside ship communication). McCoy continues working till the end (and wobbling in the Sickbay). Bonus point if he gets sick from seeing some patients/diseases. Protest from being banned from surgeries (toward the end because it's too tiring/stressful). Confrontation with McCoy ex "you got knocked up?" at the McCoy Xmas dinner.
Finding the perfect present for Joanna.
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FUN TIMES
Jim and Bones aim for a Christmas wedding! Of course, everything that conceivably could go wrong, does go wrong. There’s a mix-up with the food, typo’s in the wedding invites, a misunderstanding with the required clothing, the priest gets drunk then kidnapped etc etc. After many trials and tribulations, Jim and Bones are finally, successfully married.
Academy Era - Jim decides to throw a Christmas party for Bones, but, of course, things don’t go as planned, initially.
Someone bakes all sorts of naughty cookies during the holidays. Jim is determined to get to the bottom of the mystery. Bones is just as adamant that he doesn't find out.
Someone hijacks the comm system and blasts obnoxious holiday music around the ship. Bones is... less than pleased. Jim finds his reactions hilarious.
Mistletoe shenanigans!
Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours."
Bones is actually the one that loves Christmas and Jim is the one that hates it.
Somebody is playing Secret Santa for Spock, who is passing his first Christmas since his mother's death. News has gotten around the ship and the entire crew is watching every day to see what the next surprise is. Nobody seems to know who's behind this -- except the Captain, and he's not telling. (He's not stupid; Bones would kick him out of bed if he snitched. He might even be helping. Shhhh.)
When you live in a tiny cubicle of a cabin, and your partner's cubicle is only slightly larger, where do you hide the gifts? A certain amount of ...creativity is called for...
James Kirk, reprobate and occasional inebriate, just happens to know the words to every Christmas song in existence. Even the obnoxious ones. And will sing them to anyone in range -- in key, even. The real Christmas miracle? Would be if someone could get him to shut up.
The Enterprise was scheduled for shore leave on Earth during the holiday season, but another ship's engine problems force them to cover a patrol on the Federation's distant, desolate border instead. How does Jim keep morale up, both in general and for a particularly surly Bones who was looking forward to getting out of space for a bit?
Cultural misunderstandings. Due to a limited knowledge of Earth history, some well-meaning alien representatives assume that all humans celebrate Christmas, and proceed to throw the landing party a Christmas celebration. (Level of taste / secular traditions / religious over- or undertones up to the writer.) Do Kirk and McCoy bite their lips and go along with it? Are they charmed? What about the rest of the away team? Is some attempt made to correct the misunderstanding?
Kirk and McCoy have shore leave on Earth over the holidays, but after all those months in space, they want some SUN damnit. So they head for the southern hemisphere.
Bones is an excellent cook, and Jim just knows he'll do wonders with the local turkey-substitute. Only Bones refuses to "slave over a hot stove, damn it" in 30°C/86°F heat. Jim pouts.
All night New Year's Eve outdoor toga party!
Jim is a Christmas elf who "works" for Santa delivering presents to his assigned quadrant. And every year he has a nice Christmas Eve conversation with Joanna who keeps wishing for the perfect gift for her papa (total Nice List behavior). As she gets older, Joanna realizes that the perfect gift for her daddy is someone to love and take care of him and Jim smitten with the other McCoy can't help but agree.
Sledding on an ice planet (or icy part of a planet). Could lead to h/c if someone is injured, or snuggly happy times.
McCoy is literally Santa Claus, which turns out to create a bit of a schedule problem come Christmas.
Jim is a Christmas elf who "works" for Santa delivering presents to his assigned quadrant. And every year he has a nice Christmas Eve conversation with Joanna who keeps wishing for the perfect gift for her papa (total Nice List behavior). As she gets older, Joanna realizes that the perfect gift for her daddy is someone to love and take care of him and Jim smitten with the other McCoy can't help but agree.
Jim and McCoy beam down to Earth to spend Christmas in Iowa with Jim's family, however there is a transporter malfunction which de-ages McCoy. McCoy is now his six-year-old self, though he retains his memories. Jim is torn between mortified and amused, while McCoy is just pissed. They hang around for a day but the transporter is going to take longer to get fixed, so they go on ahead to Jim's home and wait for a call to come back. The longer McCoy stays in his child body, the more child-like he acts, and the two grow closer as McCoy becomes more and more dependent on Jim. Could be an established relationship or a first-time, or just a friendship fic.
In which they somehow end up going with Spock to visit Sarek on the new Vulcan colony world and realize that there were holiday traditions from Earth Amanda had incorporated, and Sarek and Spock won't either of them admit it, but they're feeling all woe-eye about the absence. Clearly it's time to introduce some Kirk-and-McCoy holiday traditions, even if they have to make them up on the spot, so it will break the tension. And naturally, then they're going to have to keep those traditions.
Obligatory non-denominational holiday party aboard the Enterprise.
The Enterprise All-Holiday Year-End Festival
Finding what seems like the perfect present until it activates and attaches to the ship's computer/comes to life and tries to eat a yeoman/is otherwise disastrous.
Jim starts listening to "Last Christmas" on repeat, like in Mid-November, and it drives Bones crazy. Maybe he starts listening to his own (Jazz? Classical Rock? idk, run wild with this) christmas music in order to annoy Jim? Maybe they end up finding a Christmas song they both like, maybe they don't. I see this academy-era but it doesn't matter, really.
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SAD FACE
The 12 Days of Christmas that Bones is missing, and how Jim manages to find him.
Bones gets hurt on an away mission, one that Jim doesn't go on for some reason. Unfortunately, for some reason or other, the away team is stuck on the planet and the Enterprise can't send down anyone else until Scotty, Spock, and Chekov figure out a way around the problem--which they estimate to take several days. Also, it's Christmas Eve, the first one Bones and Jim have spent (physically *hint, hint*) apart since they first met on that shuttle.
Bones, being a maladjusted yet completely functional asocial medical genius, can't just come out and say what he really wants. But he's got some interesting ways to get his point across. Jim, with years of Bones-watching behind him, eventually gets the idea.
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AUs
AU: Jim is traveling around and takes a job as a mall Santa; this is where he first encounters Joanna McCoy, where all she asks for Christmas is someone for her dad, Dr. Leonard McCoy.
AU: Jim is a baker who gets really busy during holiday season, but he still has time to flirt with his favorite customer, Bones (with cute "Bones" inspired gingerbread cookies).
AU: Jim works in a pizza parlor in the mall and can’t help but flirt with one of the customers, Bones. Bones is oblivious at first, or so Jim thinks, but there’s a reason why Bones spends so much time at the parlor and it’s certainly not for the pizza. Jim, although flirty, is too shy of rejection, so is surprised when Bones asks him round his house for the requisite McCoy family Christmas party. Jim accepts and discovers that Bones likes him more than he actually likes pizza!
AU: Jimmy hates going caroling almost as much as he hates being called "Jimmy"; it's especially bad now that they are in a new town in Georgia - where it isn't even cold now that it's Christmas time. Jim just knows that he's going to get it at school when everyone learns that he does holiday caroling. Although, maybe it won't be so bad, really hot Senior Leonard McCoy seems to also be being forced to carol this year.
AU: Leonard hates staffing the emergency room during the holiday season; if it's not stupid people falling from ladders while hanging lights or pretending to be Santa on the roof, it's someone slicing open their hand trying the carve the family goose. When the whole Kirk family comes in with acute food poisoning, Leonard knows it's bad form to flirt with one Mr. Jim Kirk over an emesis basin, but he can't help it.
AU: Jim and Bones are misfit toys, hoping/wishing to go together to a nice family with children who will love and play with them.
AU: Jim is a doll maker who Bones goes to to get a custom made doll for Joanna for Christmas; Jim can't help but want to learn more about the sweet man who seems to love his daughter so much.
McCoy used to be literally Santa. He was on the shuttle in the first place because when Jocelyn got the whole damn planet that included getting him fired from the Santa gig. But he misses it.
AU: in which Jim is a snowboarding champ stuck at the lodge with a knee injury, and McCoy is there on a Christmas ski vacation with his daughter.
AU: Jim Kirk, reclusive physicist. Leonard McCoy, frustrated artist who makes his living illustrating textbooks and stuff. Together, they fight crime put on a hell of a show at the mall for kids that don't have much.
Lawyer AU: Jim is the hotshot lawyer in Manhattan's best law firm, Bones is the grouchy doctor that gets dragged to the firm’s Christmas party by ex-wife Jocelyn because Clay is off at a conference and his ex still has the ability to get him to do exactly what she wants. Cue kisses under the Mistletoe and slow dancing
DJ AU: Bones is a radio DJ, Jim is his celebrity boyfriend/crush who sends in suggestive emails/texts every week, something that only gets worse at Christmas, when he moves onto sending in bad poetry and even more awful stick figures. Bonus if the rest of the crew are involved in finally getting them together
Rockstar AU: Jim and Bones used to date, way back when. Then Bones left to become a huge rockstar. Unable to forget about Jim, he sings "I'll be Home for Christmas" and Jim recognizes his voice on the radio. Then schmoop of some sort occurs.
AU: Bones is a mall santa, Jim is his husband/"elfin assistant". Bones also does not like bringing his work home with him ("Dammit, Jim, I'm not going to be your 'Sex Santa'!").
AU: Jim and Bones meet as two lonely men in a bar on Christmas Eve.
AU: Jim is a Christmas elf who "works" for Santa delivering presents to his assigned quadrant. And every year he has a nice Christmas Eve conversation with Joanna who keeps wishing for the perfect gift for her papa (total Nice List behavior). As she gets older, Joanna realizes that the perfect gift for her daddy is someone to love and take care of him and Jim smitten with the other McCoy can't help but agree.
AU: Jim and Bones both have demanding jobs that keep them apart on a regular basis. They make each other a promise that they'll be home together for the holidays. When things suddenly pile up, one or both of them suddenly have to race and beat the odds to make it home in time.
Baker!AU. Holiday times are super busy for any bakery, but especially Leonard's favorite little hole in the wall cafe/bakery. It makes wooing the hot, blond baker inside a little tougher, but considering all the classic books in the cafe's bookcases, he thinks he's got a start on what to get for a Christmas present.
AU-prompt. Jim and Leonard are single parents both waiting in line for their kids to see Santa. Bones is grumbling under his breath about all the possible germs and dangers of so many kids in one confined area sitting on a strange man's lap. Cue Jim being amused and reassuring (he brought his kid and totes loves Santa). They hit it off and begin flirting. Meanwhile Jim's kid is all "Your dad is weird." and Joanna is like "Yeah, but so is yours." and becoming bff's!
AU: One of them is the mayor of a small town who decides to cancel the annual holiday parade, due to economic woes. The other one is a concerned dad who fights to get the parade back on track.
Could be AU, could be regular-verse. Just want Leonard McCoy hating life and thinking that he has nothing left to live for, until an Angel (Jim, maybe?) shows him what the world would be like if he had never been born. Basically, use “It’s a Wonderful Life” as inspiration for a Jim and Bones HEA.
How about a good old-fashioned Christmas? Historical AU - you pick the time period. I want real candles in the tree instead of blinking lights, homemade presents, a fireplace that's more than just a lovely backdrop, etc. Kirk and McCoy are bachelors living together, each trying to make a life for themselves in these (those?) hard times. Neither has family so they celebrate Christmas together, exchanging presents and one traditional kiss under the mistletoe. Starts as a friendly thing, since kissing under the mistletoe is supposed to bring happiness and luck for the next year. When McCoy actually finds luck and begins courting a lady one winter, Kirk realizes just how much those kisses meant to him. Happy ending - but for who? McCoy and his lady, or McCoy and Jim? Hmm...
Earth!AU - Jim is kinda homeless over the holidays, Bones is too nice to let him freeze outside without offering him a place to stay (especially after Jim comes into the clinic sort of beat to hell). Jim spends the holidays with Bones and Joanna, totally falling for the grumpy doc.
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CROSSOVERS
Doom Xover:
Kirk somehow discovered the truth about Bones before they even got together. That's the main reason he decided to call him Bones all the time (to not slip and call him John).
They slowly get into a relationship over time. When Kirk becomes Captain they realize that what they have together is the real deal, and that Jim is prepared to go away with Bones when he will no longer be able to hide the fact that he doesn't age (hey, he was starved for affection as a child). Jim says that he wants to stay with Bones as long as possible but laughingly says that he will leave when people take him for Bones's father at family reunions.
They discuss it and decide to go search for a C-24 vial (perfect Xmas gift) and destroy the Olduvia dig. Busy Xmas shore time in sight.
If the person who writes that feels up to the challenge he can even write what's going to happen next (marriage...) and how they are going to hide their secret then escape from Starfleet.
A Star Trek version of the WWI 1914 Christmas Eve Truce, except with Starfleet guys, and maybe Klingons and Romulans or something instead of Scottish, French, and German. But Klingons and Romulans don't celebrate Christmas, so I'm not sure why they'd care. But it would be kind of sweet.
"It's a Wonderful Life" fic! It can be set anywhere you want: 1940s like the film, modern day, etc. All that is required is slice-of-life type stuff telling the story of one of the boys from childhood and then something going really bad on christmas eve (it doesn't have to be money, it can be anything) and one of the boys getting a visit from their guardian angel (SPOCK? LOL) and finding out that IT REALLY IS A WONDERFUL LIFE. (I have not explained it well, but i'm sure most everyone has seen the movie!) You decide who gets to be uncle billy, potter, etc. SUPER BONUS POINTS if joanna is zuzu and has a flower.
Some kind of fusion with Hans Christian Anderson's "The Snow Queen"
A Christmas Carol with Bones as Scrooge.
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SONG/POEM FICs
And the night will come but I won't sleep
as I watch the stars that lead him
I cannot place where he is
but still my heart goes with him
And the last words I heard him say were
I shall return for you my love on Christmas Day
(Lyrics from Dido's "Christmas Day")
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I don't want a brand new toy
But if you can hear
I just need a little joy
For Christmas this year
Feels like something's missing
Like my heart's not in this thing
Are you listening
Cause if you're listening
Take me back to when
It really meant something
-Garrison Starr, "Christmas This Year"
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It's the season of grace coming out of the void
Where man is saved by a voice from the distance
It's the season of possible miracle cures
Where hope is currency and death is not the last unknown
Where time begins to fade
And age is welcome home
It's the season of eyes meeting over the noise
And holding fast with sharp realization
It's the season of cold making warmth a divine intervention
You are safe here now
It's the season of scars and of wounds in the heart
Of feeling the full weight of our burdens
It's the season of bowing our heads in the wind
And knowing we are not alone in fear
Not alone in the dark
Don't forget
Don't forget
I love
I love
I love you
-Vienna Teng, "The Atheist's Christmas Carol"
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In the bleak midwinter frosty wind made moan
Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone
Snow had fallen, snow on snow
Snow on snow
In the bleak midwinter, long long ago
What then can I give him, empty as I am?
If I were a shepard, I would bring a lamb
If I were a Wise Man I would know my part
What then can I give him?
I must give my heart.
-In The Bleak Midwinter
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The lamp is burnin' low upon my table top
The snow is softly falling
The air is still within the silence of my room
I hear your voice softly calling
If I could only have you near
To breathe a sigh or two
I would be happy just to hold the hands I love
Upon this winter night with you
The smoke is rising in the shadows overhead
My glass is almost empty
I read again between the lines upon each page
The words of love you sent me
If I could know within my heart
That you were lonely too
I would be happy just to hold the hands I love
Upon this winter night with you
The fire is dying now, my lamp is growing dim
The shades of night are liftin'
The morning light steals across my windowpane
Where webs of snow are driftin'
If I could only have you near
To breathe a sigh or two
I would be happy just to hold the hands I love
Upon this winter night with you
And to be once again with you
Gordon Lightfoot's Song for a winter's night
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I’ll have a blue Christmas without you
I’ll be so blue just thinking about you
Decorations of red on a green Christmas tree
Won’t be the same dear, if you’re not here with me
And when the blue snowflakes start falling
That’s when those blue memories start calling
You’ll be doing alright with your Christmas of white
But I’ll have a blue Christmas
You’ll be doing alright with your Christmas of white
But I’ll have a blue, blue Christmas
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I walked down the dirt road to church
It was simple then
Together on Christmas we prayed
It was simple then
With a candle in my hand
I heard my Daddy singing
In church I wasn't alone
It was simple then
"It Was Simple Then" (from Big Tent)
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Mistletoe by Walter de la Mare
Sitting under the mistletoe
(Pale-green, fairy mistletoe),
One last candle burning low,
All the sleepy dancers gone,
Just one candle bu
Well, thankfully, it isn’t quite yet, nevertheless, we wanted to announce the doors opening on space_wrapped, the Kirk/McCoy advent calendar comm four years on!!!!
This year we're tightening things up just a bit. It's been awfully quiet in these parts what with the Captain and the Doctor off playing at Law & Order and being Secret Agent Man, so this year we've reduced posting to the Twelve days before Christmas, inclusive. So we should have lots of fun reading right during that hectic time. Awesome!
Yes, the holidays are many weeks away but it pays to make plans so, here’s the deal:
From now, until October 2nd, we will be taking prompts. Please reply to this post with your ideas for fics, art and vids.
After the cut, we've listed all the previous years' prompts, just in case you felt like using an old stand-by.
Prompts will be up for grabs beginning October 5th on a first come, first serve basis.
And posting will start on December 14th. Because of the short duration, we'll have lots of goodies posted per day, but that should be even more fun!
The Schedule for 2012
19th September - 2nd October - PROMPT TIME! please come up with fabulous prompts - remember, the overall theme is Winter/Winter Holidays - which includes Christmas, Hanukkah, New Years, and any others you can think of. But don't forget that some folks live upside down and get to surf or picnic for the holiday season.
5th October - 19th October - claim your prompts!
20th October - 26th October - claim your dates!
14th December to 25th - The Fest is a-go-go
We've had a few great years with Jim and Bones's sacks days bulging with glorious Kirk/McCoy fills. Let’s make this year even better! Watch for announcements along the way on here as well as on jim_and_bones, mccoy_and_kirk, kirk_mccoy, and trek_news.
And, unlike last year, we're giving everyone a free pass. We pride ourselves on running a laid back fest so in the spirit of all that is slashy, even if you wanted/planned to participate in the past but RL got in the way as it does at this busy time of the year, we’d love to have you be part of our fun fest.
Now back to your regularly scheduled drooling over Jim and Bones.
space_wrapped is bffs with jim_and_bones and you will recognise the mods from the bridge crew.
Your mods, sangueuk, abigail89, and weepingnaiad
And this year, we're kick starting prompting by opening up all of the previous years' prompts to start you off:
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SEXY TIEMS
Jim shows McCoy that sex in a sleigh is A. cold, B. not all that private, and C. surprisingly good fun.
Jim makes obscene balls to hang on the community fake tree. McCoy rolls his eyes....and then makes obscene candy canes.
Pike hosts a Christmas thing and somehow thinks Jim and Leonard haven't gotten together yet and lectures them on how they need each other and not to take things for granted and stuff. Little does he know they're just being discreet, and also that if he's going to be Mr. Nosy, they're just going to have to implement the Invite Chris Into Our Bed plan all the sooner.
Academy era: Jim brings Bones home for the holidays. Bones is not happy with all the damned white stuff falling from the sky. Jim shows him exactly how fun snow can be. *wiggles eyebrows*
Gaila thinks the winter holidays are the best human invention ever. Santa help her two unsuspecting boyfriends, Jim and Bones.
For the 12 days of Christmas, Jim and Bones decide to try a different new kink every day. Some are more successful than others.
McCoy keeps threatening Jim with a Lump of Coal for being naughty...Jim takes it as a challenge.
Jim shows McCoy that sex in a sleigh is A. cold, B. not all that private, and C. surprisingly good fun.
Jim makes obscene balls to hang on the community fake tree. McCoy rolls his eyes....and then makes obscene candy canes.
McCoy: my favorite holiday item? Yule log. Stick that heats up and goes all night.
Jim: O Bones!
McCoy: That's one word for it.
Existing relationship: Jim thinks they should do a sex advent calendar. A different sex act or position each day up to Christmas. McCoy's a little worried about Jim's creative brain being put to use in this fashion, but like he's going to turn down a lot of sex.
Someone somewhere is throwing a Christmas orgy and Jim wangles an invitation.
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SWEET COUPLE-Y
Jim and Bones are trapped on an abandoned ice-bound planet, with only the comfort of their own body heat, a few blankets and the fire to keep them warm. They're not rescued until after Christmas Day.
Jim asks Leonard what he wants for Christmas. Leonard says how 'bout you refrain from doing anything completely idiotic and non-regulation that lands you in my sickbay and makes me worry for a month? Jim does his very best, but he's still in there like once a week. Which is okay because Leonard misses him, damn it.
Jim brings something that looks like mistletoe up and hangs it for smooching, but alas, it's completely poisonous (or, you know, itchy-making). Jim being Jim doesn't mention his symptoms until the stupid thing has shed pollen/sap/whatever on both of them, and they end up being miserable in bed (together or not) for the holiday. But then there is a happy ending.
After the Enterprise suffers a nasty attack (Klingons, Romulans, etc.), losing a large number of crew members (I've heard somewhere that the Reboot Enterprise has a crew complement of 1000, so let's say that they lost 150 to 200 people in the attack), Jim decides to improve crew morale by holding a secret santa. Only thing is, according to the Terran calendar, it's almost Midsummer's Day. But Jim's not going to let that little fact get in his way. Jim, of course, gets Spock (perhaps he turns to Uhura for help?), instead of getting his Bones. The doctor, on the other hand, isn't telling a single soul who he got (but of course, it's Jim).
12 Days of Christmas. Jim sends Bones a partridge in a pear tree, two turtle doves, etc...in plushie form. Cue bitching and secretly loving it and 'how the hell did you even afford all this?' on Bones' part.
Bones tells Jim about a treasured possession (a childhood toy, for example, although it can be anything you want) that he had but lost. Cue Jim going through hell and high water to find him a replacement in time for Christmas.
Jim and Bones spend a holiday week in a cabin - nothing but domestic bliss
Jim's having trouble figuring out the perfect gift for Bones.
Jim Kirk has never had a good Christmas and doesn't expect to ever.
The crew conspire to get Jim and Bones under the mistletoe.
Jim avoids holiday parties. Bones wants to know why.
Pagan Winter Solstice celebrations are often about the returning of the Light. Space is (disease and danger wrapped in) darkness (and silence).
Either Jim or Bones comes from a tradition who treat Winter Solstice as a day to mourn the passing of the Dark, before celebrating the coming of the Light.
Jim, as captain, has to attend/preside over the various holiday dinners and celebrations of the diverse crew of the Enterprise. He drags Bones along to all of them, only to be surprised at how much a " simple country doctor from Georgia" knows about Diwali, Eid (I'm not going to calculate it, but it could be in December that year), Winter Solstice, Chinese New Year, and/or your holiday of choice (Andorian, maybe? :D )
The Enterprise was scheduled for shore leave on Earth during the holiday season, but another ship's engine problems force them to cover a patrol on the Federation's distant, desolate border instead. How does Jim keep morale up, both in general and for a particularly surly Bones who was looking forward to getting out of space for a bit?
Jim & Bones (and anyone else you'd like) end up on modern day Earth a few days before Christmas due to an ion storm/transporter screw-up/temporal disturbances a la the Guardian of Forever. They're working on getting back and trying to blend in as best they can, but the way the holidays are celebrated has changed a lot in the past 250 years.
Hanukkah-themed story: They're stranded on a planet, but they have something life-sustaining that's meant to last only one day, but somehow lasts for eight days, just in time for them to get rescued.
Amanda Grayson celebrated Hanukkah. To honor her, and to do something nice for Spock, Uhura gets together with Kirk/McCoy - since the two couples are good friends by now - and plan a quiet, thoughtful celebration in her memory.
TOS prompt! Kirk and McCoy observe Christmas or Hanukkah (your choice) with Kirk's orphaned nephew Peter. (Following Sam and Aurelan's deaths in "Operation: Annihilate!")
PLANET CHRISTMAS: The Enterprise visits a planet where they're celebrating a winter festival remarkably like Christmas (perhaps with a few tweaks here and there), and it's snow/presents/cheer/mistletoe/candy canes/fat man alien in a red suit EVERYWHERE. The whole thing predictably turns Bones into a total Scrooge...until he realizes how delighted Jim is.
It's the first Christmas/holiday Jim and Leonard spend apart from each other ever since they met. They both soon realize that it pretty much sucks not to spend the holidays together. Cue some angsting and moping before the two of them pull their heads out of their cute little butts and get o wherever the other one is asap for a big schmoopy holiday reunion. (Friendship or more)
Kirk and McCoy were together, but have been fighting. Chapel (or whoever) manages to first rig the shipboard holiday gift exchange so they get each other, then engineer gossip that gets each to believe the other is going to try to outdo him for best/most thoughtful/most meaningful gift--and neither is going to let thremarkably like Christmas (perhaps with a few tweaks here and there), and it's snow/presents/cheer/mistletoe/candy canes/fat man alien in at happen because they are stubborn. Result: in order to outdo each other for thoughtfulness, each has to consider the other carefully and be, y'know thoughtful, which makes them want to be back together.
Jim & Bones spend the Terran holiday season on a tropical planet. Bones really wants a traditional Southern celebration, but you can't get good fruit cake that far out in space. Jim gets very creative.
Years and years from now, when they're adorable old admirals who've been married forever,at a christmas party, a (great?) grandchild asks them how they tied the knot.
This leads to fond reminiscing, as well as good-natured bickering about how the whole thing really went down because, come on, it's been like eighty years or whatever, and they both remember it differently.
They accidentally go public with their relationship at Enterprise's holiday pageant, like David and Natalie in Love Actually. Maybe some angry sap inspired by The Pogues' Fairytale of New York? Or, failing that, evil Christmas trees?
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FAMILY
Jim wants to cook Bones a traditional holiday meal, with all his favorites, on the Enterprise. So Jim comms Granny McCoy and gets as many of the old recipes as possible, but it's not getting the recipes that's the problem it's finding the ingredients in space. Jim's not sure it can be called pecan pie with almost pecans.
It's Joanna's first Christmas home after leaving for college and while she's unfortunately used to finding Jim and her father in compromising positions, she has forgotten how often it can happen, especially with all the holiday mistletoe.
Jim arranges for Joanna to be able to comm her father for a longer period of time on Christmas day.
So, after they saved the whole planet, there were seriously thousands of invitations to ravish all manner of people. Leonard's a doctor and Jim's no idiot, so it's not like they weren't careful in their joyful celebrating all over creation, but still, a year and a bit later, each of them finds himself with one or more heretofore unknown offspring (preferably without this being about the mothers of these offspring being stupid, bitchy, manipulative, etc; just, they have babies, and what the hell are they going to do with babies on a damn starship?!) So they join forces and in the process figure out that they want to raise their kids together for real. tl;dr: Brady Bunch on the Enterprise.
In which they somehow end up going with Spock to visit Sarek on the new Vulcan colony world and realize that there were holiday traditions from Earth Amanda had incorporated, and Sarek and Spock won't either of them admit it, but they're feeling all woe-eye about the absence. Clearly it's time to introduce some Kirk-and-McCoy holiday traditions, even if they have to make them up on the spot, so it will break the tension. And naturally, then they're going to have to keep those traditions.
They get Joanna (age seven or so) for just four hours on Christmas Eve. The evening is highly imperfect, but Joanna has a lot of fun.
Kinda AU Jo asks Santa to take her to her Daddy. Jim and Bones are VERY surprised (and kinda frantic) when they wake up Christmas Eve to Jo bouncing on them to wake them up. Panic and hilarity ensue as they scramble to A.) make a Christmas that is good enough for her and B.) get her home cause Bones is pretty sure Jocelyn is going to flip her lid when he breaks the news to her.
Jim/Bones, established relationship. Bones has Joanna over Christmas. Jim invites Jocelyn - for Joanna - behind Bones' back because he knows how much Christmas sucks if the other parent is missing.
Bones wants to propose to Jim on New Year's, but hold on, turns out there are several people he has to ask for permission first. What the hell?
Jocelyn brings Jo onto the Enterprise for the holidays. Jim wonders what this could mean. No bitchy!Jocelyn please.
Bones celebrates Yule (a nonreligious winter holiday by then) by feeding his loved ones. But his loved ones on the Enterprise are picky eaters - Spock's vegetarianism and Jim's allergies and Chapel's distaste for anything green... How does Bones demonstrate his appreciation for all the nourishing relationships he has without losing his crusty exterior? (Bones isn't secretly a marshmallow - he is just both grumpy AND sweet.) Hot holiday porn w Jim is always welcome, first time or established relationship.
Bones is greatly amused by the lengths Jim will go to to make a great first impression on Joanna at Christmas.
Jim dresses up like Santa to surprise Bones and Joanna who are spending Christmas together.
Jim helps Bones find the perfect Christmas present for Joanna ... while they're out in space.
Visiting Sam on Deneva, where the quirks of planetary rotation and orbit mean that the end of the calendar year lands in different seasons each year. This year, it's early spring, and instead of snow there's a carpet of snowdrops (or local equivalent thereof) on the ground. It's pretty and fragrant and makes Jim want to be outdoors a lot. So they have an adventurous holiday period, take Sam's kids out hiking and suchlike, maybe even camping. Bones grumbles a lot, but really he loves having his feet on solid ground for an extended period--and seeing Jim with those kids is just the sweetest thing ever...
Jim is looking forward to the crew's first holiday season together as well as his and Bones' first as a couple. But it's a hard time for both Bones and Spock: Joanna is back on Earth, and this used to be Amanda's favorite season. So they're taking it out on each other (perhaps they're both on the decorating committee?) The bickering that normally amuses Jim escalates to the point where he loses his temper and blows up at them. With Uhura's help, they pull their heads out of their asses and join forces to pull off a great celebration.
Bones is trying to fulfill his family's holiday tradition of doing an anonymous good deed, but of course no good deed goes unpunished.
Joanna bringing her new boyfriend home to meet her fathers for the holiday season. Bones is maybe freaking out about it, while Jim is cool (or the other way around).
Bones takes Jim to Georgia for a McCoy family Christmas.
Bones's elderly grandmother is utterly nonplussed to get a Christmas video-call from her dear little Leo in which he's on a beach wearing shorts and Jim's idly fanning them both with a palm frond while she's watching the snow come down all around her little house and hoping the power doesn't go out while the bird's still roasting--because that's what Christmas is all about, isn't it? Turns out for Bones, it's actually about spending time with the people you love, doesn't really matter where you are, how cold (or not) it is, or what's for dinner.
It's the end of the year on the Enterprise, and everyone's in a celebratory mood. Unfortunately, Jim has to settle an argument between several factions of crew--some of them are determined to spray fake snow all over the place and make everyone drink hot cocoa, some of them have only known a handful of cold Christmases/Hanukkahs/New Years in their lives (the years they spent at Starfleet Academy) and don't particularly enjoy the reminders, and another faction who find the disruption of ship-board activities a most illogical waste of resources, Captain, not to mention a distraction from the work people have signed on to perform. But, really, the extended (Enterprise) family arguing? Really not such a break with Christmas tradition as far as Jim's concerned. He tells Bones as much. Bones quizzes him about what such family gatherings were like for Jim as a boy. What he hears upsets him, and he decides to give Jim the perfect family Christmas experience, even if they are on a giant tin can hurtling through space light-years from home.
Jim starts listening to "Last Christmas" on repeat, like in Mid-November, and it drives Bones crazy. Maybe he starts listening to his own (Jazz? Classical Rock? idk, run wild with this) christmas music in order to annoy Jim? stmases/Hanukkahs/New Years in their lives (the years they spent at Starfleet Academy) and don't particularly enjoy the reminders, and another faction who find the disruption of ship-board activities a most illogical waste of resources, Captain, not to mention a distraction from the work people have signed on to perform. But, really, the extended (Enterprise) family arguing? Really not such a break with Christmas tradition as far as Jim's concerned. He tells Bones as much. Bones quizzesMaybe they end up finding a Christmas song they both like, maybe they don't. I see this academy-era but it doesn't matter, really.
Jim accompanies Bones on a Christmas trip to Georgia, despite being anti-Christmas and Bah Humbug. On Christmas Eve Bones' old school does the Hallelujah chorus, and all choir alumni are invited to join in and sing. Bones does this every year, and it means a lot to him, but Jim doesn't want to join him.
McCoy got preggers (How : planned? surprise? established relationship? or first time?) Possessive!proud!happy!Captain. they decide to do a low key marriage alone before they tell anyone else (someone outside of the bridge crew (Pike?) marries them by outside ship communication). McCoy continues working till the end (and wobbling in the Sickbay). Bonus point if he gets sick from seeing some patients/diseases. Protest from being banned from surgeries (toward the end because it's too tiring/stressful). Confrontation with McCoy ex "you got knocked up?" at the McCoy Xmas dinner.
Finding the perfect present for Joanna.
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FUN TIMES
Jim and Bones aim for a Christmas wedding! Of course, everything that conceivably could go wrong, does go wrong. There’s a mix-up with the food, typo’s in the wedding invites, a misunderstanding with the required clothing, the priest gets drunk then kidnapped etc etc. After many trials and tribulations, Jim and Bones are finally, successfully married.
Academy Era - Jim decides to throw a Christmas party for Bones, but, of course, things don’t go as planned, initially.
Someone bakes all sorts of naughty cookies during the holidays. Jim is determined to get to the bottom of the mystery. Bones is just as adamant that he doesn't find out.
Someone hijacks the comm system and blasts obnoxious holiday music around the ship. Bones is... less than pleased. Jim finds his reactions hilarious.
Mistletoe shenanigans!
Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours."
Bones is actually the one that loves Christmas and Jim is the one that hates it.
Somebody is playing Secret Santa for Spock, who is passing his first Christmas since his mother's death. News has gotten around the ship and the entire crew is watching every day to see what the next surprise is. Nobody seems to know who's behind this -- except the Captain, and he's not telling. (He's not stupid; Bones would kick him out of bed if he snitched. He might even be helping. Shhhh.)
When you live in a tiny cubicle of a cabin, and your partner's cubicle is only slightly larger, where do you hide the gifts? A certain amount of ...creativity is called for...
James Kirk, reprobate and occasional inebriate, just happens to know the words to every Christmas song in existence. Even the obnoxious ones. And will sing them to anyone in range -- in key, even. The real Christmas miracle? Would be if someone could get him to shut up.
The Enterprise was scheduled for shore leave on Earth during the holiday season, but another ship's engine problems force them to cover a patrol on the Federation's distant, desolate border instead. How does Jim keep morale up, both in general and for a particularly surly Bones who was looking forward to getting out of space for a bit?
Cultural misunderstandings. Due to a limited knowledge of Earth history, some well-meaning alien representatives assume that all humans celebrate Christmas, and proceed to throw the landing party a Christmas celebration. (Level of taste / secular traditions / religious over- or undertones up to the writer.) Do Kirk and McCoy bite their lips and go along with it? Are they charmed? What about the rest of the away team? Is some attempt made to correct the misunderstanding?
Kirk and McCoy have shore leave on Earth over the holidays, but after all those months in space, they want some SUN damnit. So they head for the southern hemisphere.
Bones is an excellent cook, and Jim just knows he'll do wonders with the local turkey-substitute. Only Bones refuses to "slave over a hot stove, damn it" in 30°C/86°F heat. Jim pouts.
All night New Year's Eve outdoor toga party!
Jim is a Christmas elf who "works" for Santa delivering presents to his assigned quadrant. And every year he has a nice Christmas Eve conversation with Joanna who keeps wishing for the perfect gift for her papa (total Nice List behavior). As she gets older, Joanna realizes that the perfect gift for her daddy is someone to love and take care of him and Jim smitten with the other McCoy can't help but agree.
Sledding on an ice planet (or icy part of a planet). Could lead to h/c if someone is injured, or snuggly happy times.
McCoy is literally Santa Claus, which turns out to create a bit of a schedule problem come Christmas.
Jim is a Christmas elf who "works" for Santa delivering presents to his assigned quadrant. And every year he has a nice Christmas Eve conversation with Joanna who keeps wishing for the perfect gift for her papa (total Nice List behavior). As she gets older, Joanna realizes that the perfect gift for her daddy is someone to love and take care of him and Jim smitten with the other McCoy can't help but agree.
Jim and McCoy beam down to Earth to spend Christmas in Iowa with Jim's family, however there is a transporter malfunction which de-ages McCoy. McCoy is now his six-year-old self, though he retains his memories. Jim is torn between mortified and amused, while McCoy is just pissed. They hang around for a day but the transporter is going to take longer to get fixed, so they go on ahead to Jim's home and wait for a call to come back. The longer McCoy stays in his child body, the more child-like he acts, and the two grow closer as McCoy becomes more and more dependent on Jim. Could be an established relationship or a first-time, or just a friendship fic.
In which they somehow end up going with Spock to visit Sarek on the new Vulcan colony world and realize that there were holiday traditions from Earth Amanda had incorporated, and Sarek and Spock won't either of them admit it, but they're feeling all woe-eye about the absence. Clearly it's time to introduce some Kirk-and-McCoy holiday traditions, even if they have to make them up on the spot, so it will break the tension. And naturally, then they're going to have to keep those traditions.
Obligatory non-denominational holiday party aboard the Enterprise.
The Enterprise All-Holiday Year-End Festival
Finding what seems like the perfect present until it activates and attaches to the ship's computer/comes to life and tries to eat a yeoman/is otherwise disastrous.
Jim starts listening to "Last Christmas" on repeat, like in Mid-November, and it drives Bones crazy. Maybe he starts listening to his own (Jazz? Classical Rock? idk, run wild with this) christmas music in order to annoy Jim? Maybe they end up finding a Christmas song they both like, maybe they don't. I see this academy-era but it doesn't matter, really.
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SAD FACE
The 12 Days of Christmas that Bones is missing, and how Jim manages to find him.
Bones gets hurt on an away mission, one that Jim doesn't go on for some reason. Unfortunately, for some reason or other, the away team is stuck on the planet and the Enterprise can't send down anyone else until Scotty, Spock, and Chekov figure out a way around the problem--which they estimate to take several days. Also, it's Christmas Eve, the first one Bones and Jim have spent (physically *hint, hint*) apart since they first met on that shuttle.
Bones, being a maladjusted yet completely functional asocial medical genius, can't just come out and say what he really wants. But he's got some interesting ways to get his point across. Jim, with years of Bones-watching behind him, eventually gets the idea.
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AUs
AU: Jim is traveling around and takes a job as a mall Santa; this is where he first encounters Joanna McCoy, where all she asks for Christmas is someone for her dad, Dr. Leonard McCoy.
AU: Jim is a baker who gets really busy during holiday season, but he still has time to flirt with his favorite customer, Bones (with cute "Bones" inspired gingerbread cookies).
AU: Jim works in a pizza parlor in the mall and can’t help but flirt with one of the customers, Bones. Bones is oblivious at first, or so Jim thinks, but there’s a reason why Bones spends so much time at the parlor and it’s certainly not for the pizza. Jim, although flirty, is too shy of rejection, so is surprised when Bones asks him round his house for the requisite McCoy family Christmas party. Jim accepts and discovers that Bones likes him more than he actually likes pizza!
AU: Jimmy hates going caroling almost as much as he hates being called "Jimmy"; it's especially bad now that they are in a new town in Georgia - where it isn't even cold now that it's Christmas time. Jim just knows that he's going to get it at school when everyone learns that he does holiday caroling. Although, maybe it won't be so bad, really hot Senior Leonard McCoy seems to also be being forced to carol this year.
AU: Leonard hates staffing the emergency room during the holiday season; if it's not stupid people falling from ladders while hanging lights or pretending to be Santa on the roof, it's someone slicing open their hand trying the carve the family goose. When the whole Kirk family comes in with acute food poisoning, Leonard knows it's bad form to flirt with one Mr. Jim Kirk over an emesis basin, but he can't help it.
AU: Jim and Bones are misfit toys, hoping/wishing to go together to a nice family with children who will love and play with them.
AU: Jim is a doll maker who Bones goes to to get a custom made doll for Joanna for Christmas; Jim can't help but want to learn more about the sweet man who seems to love his daughter so much.
McCoy used to be literally Santa. He was on the shuttle in the first place because when Jocelyn got the whole damn planet that included getting him fired from the Santa gig. But he misses it.
AU: in which Jim is a snowboarding champ stuck at the lodge with a knee injury, and McCoy is there on a Christmas ski vacation with his daughter.
AU: Jim Kirk, reclusive physicist. Leonard McCoy, frustrated artist who makes his living illustrating textbooks and stuff. Together, they fight crime put on a hell of a show at the mall for kids that don't have much.
Lawyer AU: Jim is the hotshot lawyer in Manhattan's best law firm, Bones is the grouchy doctor that gets dragged to the firm’s Christmas party by ex-wife Jocelyn because Clay is off at a conference and his ex still has the ability to get him to do exactly what she wants. Cue kisses under the Mistletoe and slow dancing
DJ AU: Bones is a radio DJ, Jim is his celebrity boyfriend/crush who sends in suggestive emails/texts every week, something that only gets worse at Christmas, when he moves onto sending in bad poetry and even more awful stick figures. Bonus if the rest of the crew are involved in finally getting them together
Rockstar AU: Jim and Bones used to date, way back when. Then Bones left to become a huge rockstar. Unable to forget about Jim, he sings "I'll be Home for Christmas" and Jim recognizes his voice on the radio. Then schmoop of some sort occurs.
AU: Bones is a mall santa, Jim is his husband/"elfin assistant". Bones also does not like bringing his work home with him ("Dammit, Jim, I'm not going to be your 'Sex Santa'!").
AU: Jim and Bones meet as two lonely men in a bar on Christmas Eve.
AU: Jim is a Christmas elf who "works" for Santa delivering presents to his assigned quadrant. And every year he has a nice Christmas Eve conversation with Joanna who keeps wishing for the perfect gift for her papa (total Nice List behavior). As she gets older, Joanna realizes that the perfect gift for her daddy is someone to love and take care of him and Jim smitten with the other McCoy can't help but agree.
AU: Jim and Bones both have demanding jobs that keep them apart on a regular basis. They make each other a promise that they'll be home together for the holidays. When things suddenly pile up, one or both of them suddenly have to race and beat the odds to make it home in time.
Baker!AU. Holiday times are super busy for any bakery, but especially Leonard's favorite little hole in the wall cafe/bakery. It makes wooing the hot, blond baker inside a little tougher, but considering all the classic books in the cafe's bookcases, he thinks he's got a start on what to get for a Christmas present.
AU-prompt. Jim and Leonard are single parents both waiting in line for their kids to see Santa. Bones is grumbling under his breath about all the possible germs and dangers of so many kids in one confined area sitting on a strange man's lap. Cue Jim being amused and reassuring (he brought his kid and totes loves Santa). They hit it off and begin flirting. Meanwhile Jim's kid is all "Your dad is weird." and Joanna is like "Yeah, but so is yours." and becoming bff's!
AU: One of them is the mayor of a small town who decides to cancel the annual holiday parade, due to economic woes. The other one is a concerned dad who fights to get the parade back on track.
Could be AU, could be regular-verse. Just want Leonard McCoy hating life and thinking that he has nothing left to live for, until an Angel (Jim, maybe?) shows him what the world would be like if he had never been born. Basically, use “It’s a Wonderful Life” as inspiration for a Jim and Bones HEA.
How about a good old-fashioned Christmas? Historical AU - you pick the time period. I want real candles in the tree instead of blinking lights, homemade presents, a fireplace that's more than just a lovely backdrop, etc. Kirk and McCoy are bachelors living together, each trying to make a life for themselves in these (those?) hard times. Neither has family so they celebrate Christmas together, exchanging presents and one traditional kiss under the mistletoe. Starts as a friendly thing, since kissing under the mistletoe is supposed to bring happiness and luck for the next year. When McCoy actually finds luck and begins courting a lady one winter, Kirk realizes just how much those kisses meant to him. Happy ending - but for who? McCoy and his lady, or McCoy and Jim? Hmm...
Earth!AU - Jim is kinda homeless over the holidays, Bones is too nice to let him freeze outside without offering him a place to stay (especially after Jim comes into the clinic sort of beat to hell). Jim spends the holidays with Bones and Joanna, totally falling for the grumpy doc.
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CROSSOVERS
Doom Xover:
Kirk somehow discovered the truth about Bones before they even got together. That's the main reason he decided to call him Bones all the time (to not slip and call him John).
They slowly get into a relationship over time. When Kirk becomes Captain they realize that what they have together is the real deal, and that Jim is prepared to go away with Bones when he will no longer be able to hide the fact that he doesn't age (hey, he was starved for affection as a child). Jim says that he wants to stay with Bones as long as possible but laughingly says that he will leave when people take him for Bones's father at family reunions.
They discuss it and decide to go search for a C-24 vial (perfect Xmas gift) and destroy the Olduvia dig. Busy Xmas shore time in sight.
If the person who writes that feels up to the challenge he can even write what's going to happen next (marriage...) and how they are going to hide their secret then escape from Starfleet.
A Star Trek version of the WWI 1914 Christmas Eve Truce, except with Starfleet guys, and maybe Klingons and Romulans or something instead of Scottish, French, and German. But Klingons and Romulans don't celebrate Christmas, so I'm not sure why they'd care. But it would be kind of sweet.
"It's a Wonderful Life" fic! It can be set anywhere you want: 1940s like the film, modern day, etc. All that is required is slice-of-life type stuff telling the story of one of the boys from childhood and then something going really bad on christmas eve (it doesn't have to be money, it can be anything) and one of the boys getting a visit from their guardian angel (SPOCK? LOL) and finding out that IT REALLY IS A WONDERFUL LIFE. (I have not explained it well, but i'm sure most everyone has seen the movie!) You decide who gets to be uncle billy, potter, etc. SUPER BONUS POINTS if joanna is zuzu and has a flower.
Some kind of fusion with Hans Christian Anderson's "The Snow Queen"
A Christmas Carol with Bones as Scrooge.
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SONG/POEM FICs
And the night will come but I won't sleep
as I watch the stars that lead him
I cannot place where he is
but still my heart goes with him
And the last words I heard him say were
I shall return for you my love on Christmas Day
(Lyrics from Dido's "Christmas Day")
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I don't want a brand new toy
But if you can hear
I just need a little joy
For Christmas this year
Feels like something's missing
Like my heart's not in this thing
Are you listening
Cause if you're listening
Take me back to when
It really meant something
-Garrison Starr, "Christmas This Year"
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It's the season of grace coming out of the void
Where man is saved by a voice from the distance
It's the season of possible miracle cures
Where hope is currency and death is not the last unknown
Where time begins to fade
And age is welcome home
It's the season of eyes meeting over the noise
And holding fast with sharp realization
It's the season of cold making warmth a divine intervention
You are safe here now
It's the season of scars and of wounds in the heart
Of feeling the full weight of our burdens
It's the season of bowing our heads in the wind
And knowing we are not alone in fear
Not alone in the dark
Don't forget
Don't forget
I love
I love
I love you
-Vienna Teng, "The Atheist's Christmas Carol"
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In the bleak midwinter frosty wind made moan
Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone
Snow had fallen, snow on snow
Snow on snow
In the bleak midwinter, long long ago
What then can I give him, empty as I am?
If I were a shepard, I would bring a lamb
If I were a Wise Man I would know my part
What then can I give him?
I must give my heart.
-In The Bleak Midwinter
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The lamp is burnin' low upon my table top
The snow is softly falling
The air is still within the silence of my room
I hear your voice softly calling
If I could only have you near
To breathe a sigh or two
I would be happy just to hold the hands I love
Upon this winter night with you
The smoke is rising in the shadows overhead
My glass is almost empty
I read again between the lines upon each page
The words of love you sent me
If I could know within my heart
That you were lonely too
I would be happy just to hold the hands I love
Upon this winter night with you
The fire is dying now, my lamp is growing dim
The shades of night are liftin'
The morning light steals across my windowpane
Where webs of snow are driftin'
If I could only have you near
To breathe a sigh or two
I would be happy just to hold the hands I love
Upon this winter night with you
And to be once again with you
Gordon Lightfoot's Song for a winter's night
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I’ll have a blue Christmas without you
I’ll be so blue just thinking about you
Decorations of red on a green Christmas tree
Won’t be the same dear, if you’re not here with me
And when the blue snowflakes start falling
That’s when those blue memories start calling
You’ll be doing alright with your Christmas of white
But I’ll have a blue Christmas
You’ll be doing alright with your Christmas of white
But I’ll have a blue, blue Christmas
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I walked down the dirt road to church
It was simple then
Together on Christmas we prayed
It was simple then
With a candle in my hand
I heard my Daddy singing
In church I wasn't alone
It was simple then
"It Was Simple Then" (from Big Tent)
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Mistletoe by Walter de la Mare
Sitting under the mistletoe
(Pale-green, fairy mistletoe),
One last candle burning low,
All the sleepy dancers gone,
Just one candle bu