The Love You've Lent Me [a Leonard McCoy and Christine Chapel fanmix]
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I’m not sure where this exactly came from, but here it is! I present to you, mad_teagirl (and to you too, general public) a McCoy/Chapel fanmix!
It’s been ages since I’ve done anything for the Star Trek fandom, and I’ve never written McCoy/Chapel before. Heck, I’ve never even read McCoy/Chapel before. So hopefully I didn’t get them horribly, horribly wrong with the accompanying fic. But if I did, hopefully you will still be able to enjoy the mix? Haha.
I had been working on a different fanmix and the idea for this just kinda hit me. I blame mad_teagirl for her casting choice of Anna Paquin as reboot!Chapel. And then it was pointed out how the actor that played Alcide resembled Karl Urban. Seriously, after that, everytime Sookie and Alcide were on the screen during True Blood I couldn’t stop imagining them as Chapel and McCoy. It was a bit ridiculous.
But enough rambling, on with the mix!
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The Love You've Lent Me
a McCoy/Chapel fanmix
Act One
Christine decides to win over the cantankerous doctor McCoy.
One Less Bell to Answer / A House Is Not a Home + Where Gravity Is Dead + Blue Skies + Young Folks
“Well, Leonard H. McCoy, fancy meeting you here.”
“The third time this week, I believe. Have you been following me? Or have you just been coming here every single night hoping you’ll have the chance to pester me?”
“Why, I have been doing no such thing, doctor McCoy.” She sat on the stool beside him.
“I really wish you’d stop trying to figure out how to fix me, nurse Chapel.”
“Face it, Leonard, we’re a divorcé and a widow in a sea of fresh-faced adolescences. It might as well be just be you and me against the world from here on out,” She held her bottle out in front of her, signaling a toast. The doctor simply stared at her. Christine leaned forward and clinked her bottle against the one McCoy was holding and flashed him a toothy grin.
“I don't need anymore friends”
“And here I was under the impression that you don't have any friends to begin with.”
“I most certainly have friends,” McCoy paused, “Well, alright, I only really have one friend,” He then gave a salute to the young man hitting on an Orion at the opposite end of the bar, who in turn gave him a thumbs up and a wink. McCoy rubbed the bridge of his nose and turned back to Christine. “He might be an idiot, but I still like him. He fills my friends quota."
“I'd like the be your friend. We’re the same, you and I.“
“I doubt that, kid.”
“When Roger disappeared I enlisted with the hope that if I was out there, if I was in Starfleet, I could find him. It’s a ridiculous notion, I know. Like one extra member of Starfleet could make the difference in the search for a man in deep space?” She looked down at the bottle between her hands, “But I still have hope. Not much, but… enough. You’re like that too, aren’t you? It’s the first thing I saw etched on your face when we met in the lab. That you almost gave up, but then decided you had too much pride to throw in the towel completely.”
“Oh really,” He took a swig from his bottle.
“Yes really. The world chewed us up, spit us out, and what do we do? We go right along fixing up other people. And I say it’s about time we try to fix ourselves.”
“Oh do you?”
“I do.”
"You're never gonna leave me alone until I agree to be your friend, are you?"
"Absolutely not, honey.”
"Fine. We're friends. Happy?"
"Very."
They start sleeping together one week later.
1. Kristin Chenoweth & Matthew Morrison - One Less Bell To Answer / A House Is Not A Home
[Chapel and McCoy]
Though I try to forget it just can't be done
Each time the doorbell rings
I still run
2. Laura Veirs - Where Gravity Is Dead
[Chapel]
But doesn't it get lonely
Riding up there to the sun
On a single raft for one
Don't you wish for someone
To pull you on a string
Down from atmospheres
Down into a clearing
To kiss and box your ears?
3. Noah and the Whale - Blue Skies
[McCoy]
This is the last song that I write while still in love with you
This is the last song that I write while you're even on my mind
'Cos it's time to leave those feelings behind
Oh, 'cos blue skies are coming
4. Dawn Landes - Young Folks
[Chapel and McCoy]
If you knew my story word for word
Had all of my history
Would you go along with someone like me?
Act Two
Their time at Starfleet academy.
Constant Knot + Ghosts + My Hands Are Shaking + Buckets Of Rain
“Leonard?”
“Hm?”
“Love makes people act like idiots, correct?”
“Correct.”
“Then let’s never fall in love. Promise me that, Leonard H. McCoy, that you’ll never fall in love with me.”
“I promise you that I will never fall in love with you.”
“Good. And I, in turn, will never fall in love with you,” She linked her hand with his and squeezed, “Now let’s go to dinner.” Christine looked up and shot him a beaming smile.
While staring at that damn gap between her two front teeth McCoy was positive he’d never be able to keep that particular promise.
5. City and Colour - Constant Knot
[McCoy]
A classic case I suppose
A haunted man
Who can’t outrun his ghosts
There in my skin and my bones
6. Laura Marling - Ghosts
[Chapel]
Opened up his little heart
Unlocked the lock that kept it dark
And read a written warning
Saying I'm still mourning
Over ghosts that broke my heart before I met you
7. Sondre Lerche - My Hands Are Shaking
[McCoy]
My heart is poundin’ yes yes yes
My mind just second guess
My love is so articulate
But I am such a mess
8. Neko Case - Buckets of Rain
[Chapel]
I been meek
And hard like and oak
I seen pretty people disappear like smoke
Friends will arrive friends will disappear
If you want me, honey baby
I'll be here
Act Three
They are both assigned to the starship Enterprise.
The Book Of Love + Night Time + Desire + Love Will Tear Us Apart
“Christine, remember last night when I was an idiot and very nearly ended what ever this is going on between us?”
“Why yes, doctor, I do.”
“If I try to do that again in the future, don’t listen.”
“You like me, Leonard H. McCoy.”
“I like you, Christine Chapel. You’ve caught me.”
“I knew it.”
“It really shouldn’t come as a shock, I have been sleeping with you for over three years now.”
“Just because you are sleeping with someone, doesn’t mean you like them.”
“That’s true, but it does help. Makes the whole ordeal less awkward.”
“I suppose you’re right about that.”
“I know I’ve never said it, but I’m glad you decided to stalk me all those years ago.”
“Stalk you? I didn’t stalk you.”
“Yes you did.”
“Alright, I did. But it was my first week at the academy and you seemed like you knew where to get a decent drink.”
“I knew it.”
“Plus, you looked as miserable as I felt.”
“I was as miserable as you felt.”
“I know. I fixed that.”
“You did.”
9. The Magnetic Fields - The Book Of Love
[McCoy]
The book of love is long and boring
No one can lift the damn thing
It's full of charts and facts and figures
And instructions for dancing
But I, I love it when you read to me
And you, you can read me anything
10. The XX - Night Time
[Chapel and McCoy]
You mean that much to me
And it's hard to show
Gets hectic inside of me
When you go
Can I confess these things to you?
Well I don't know
Embedded in my chest
And it hurts to hold
11. Ryan Adams - Desire
[McCoy]
Two hearts fading, like a flower
And all this waiting, for the power
For some answer, to this fire
Sinking slowly, the water’s higher
12. Worm Is Green - Love Will Tear Us Apart
[Chapel]
Is it something so good
Just can't function no more?
When love, love will tear us apart again
Act Four
A year into their deep-space assignment, Chapel discovers the truth of what happened to Roger. In the aftermath, she takes some time for herself.
Buckets of Rain + Only Skin + 3 Rounds and a Sound + Home
“Leonard H. McCoy, what are you doing here?” she stepped out onto the porch and crossed her arms.
“Making a grand romantic gesture,” he shrugged his shoulders, “Jim said following you was either gonna be a complete disaster or the best decision I ever made, and he gave me leave because he was curious to see which outcome it would be.”
“I wasn’t going to stay here.”
“I just though… you didn’t know. I though you might, but I’ve never been very good at these things and I just thought I couldn’t let you leave without me telling you. That maybe you wouldn’t stay away if you knew. You do know what I’m trying to tell you, don’t you? Of course you do. You’ve always been more clever than me. Like that time you realized that ambassador Haynes simply had a case of---”
“I wasn’t going to stay here, you rambling fool.”
“What?”
“I’m simply on extended shore leave.”
“An extended shore leave.”
“After we found Roger, well… The captain felt I deserved a mourning period.”
“A mourning period.”
“Leonard,” She wrapper her hand around his chin, forcing him to meet her eyes, “I wasn’t going to stay here.”
“Oh.”
“I told you I was coming back, remember?”
“I didn’t believe you.”
“You never believe anyone.”
“I’m working on that.”
“Good,” She gave him a quick kiss before she let go of his chin, “Now would you like to come inside?”
“You’re not mad?”
“I’m not mad.”
“I'm glad.”
“So what exactly is it I’m supposed to know?” She wrapped her arms around his waist.
“You know.”
“Doctor McCoy, I most certainly know no such thing.”
“You know.”
“I know what?”
“That I…” He rubbed his hands over his face, “That I love you.”
“Oh.”
“That I fell in love with you four years ago even though I wasn’t supposed to.”
“You broke a promise to me, doctor.” She broke out into a smile.
“I hope you’ll forgive me”
“You’re forgiven, but only because I wasn’t entirely honest with you back then.”
“Wasn’t entirely honest how?”
“When I promised you that I’d never fall in love…” She let out a laugh, “I was already so in love with you at that point that I was terrified you were going to see through my charade and call me on it that very night.”
"Oh," McCoy’s face broke into a disbelieving grin as he pulled her up into a kiss.
13. Bob Dylan - Buckets of Rain
[McCoy]
All ya can do is do what you must
You do what you must do and ya do it well
I'll do it for you, honey baby
Can't you tell?
14. Joanna Newsom - Only Skin
[Chapel]
Scrape your knee; it is only skin
Makes the sound of violins
When you cut my hair, and leave the birds the trimmings
I am the happiest woman among all women
15. Blind Pilot - 3 Rounds and a Sound
[McCoy]
Now I see you, til kingdom come
You're the one I want
To see me for all the stupid shit I've done
16. Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - Home
[Chapel and McCoy]
Home
Let me come home
Home is wherever I'm with you
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This McCoy/Chapel fanmix was created for you (But mostly for you, mad_teagirl!) with love by suchaprince.