Fic: but at length the truth will out

[nikki4noo]

Title: but at length the truth will out

Beta: Many, many thanks to dizilla and aquila_star for beta duties

Rating: R

Word Count: 5,226

Pairings/Characters: Kirk/McCoy, Spock/Uhura, Scotty

Warnings: major spoilers for Star Trek Into Darkness under spoiler tags -[Spoiler (click to open)]Mention of Major Character Death, Angst, Jealousy

Disclaimer: Not mine, dammit!

Summary: A breath is

Comments

[ramar_1975]

Beautiful follow-up to STID and truthful from Jim's perspective. He does know Bones and was trying to protect Bones from himself. Also, I'm sure it would have hurt Jim too much to have to say goodbye to Bones, to see the grief on his face. And Bones would be jealous of all the others surrounding Jim and would feel unappreciated in his part in saving Jim's life. So it was cathartic for Bones to finally get it all off his chest. And I'm sure Nyota told Spock to assist with the opening of the dialogue between Jim and Bones. Lovely story as usual. Can't wait for your next STID inspired writing.

[nikki4noo]

Oh thank you so much! That was all that I was trying to portray in this, but all through Bones' pov. The poor man was feeling so much, as he does and was a bit clueless. I adore Nyota, and in STID you really got the feeling that her, Spock, Kirk and McCoy are friends. I loved it.

[jem80]

Oh my god. The FEELS, Nikki, the FEELS. This broke my heart for Bones, you could feel his pain in his thought that Jim didn't want him there. And then you made it better.
I <3 you and this and them.

[nikki4noo]

*hugs* Oh man, I actually cried while writing this! I have gotten emotional before when writing but never actually cried while I had the voices in my head. I wanted to do justice to Karl's performance when Bones pulls back the body bag cover.

[laeliacatt]

Wow. Very powerful and very beautiful. Spot on dialogue and characterizations, too.

It doesn't make sense that Scotty didn't call the CMO when Jim was dying. Maybe this is why. :)

[nikki4noo]

Thank you so much.

As soon as I started to think about the scene and why I was mad at Scotty, this idea was born. This will always be my head canon now.

[severinne]

Oh, that was all sorts of achy wonderfulness, and very healing to my own whilring post-STID headspace. I'm right with you regretting Bones' absence at Jim's death and this is such a heartbreakingly perfect interpretation of what may have happened.

“Bones...you touch me all the time. You ground me with your touches. You need to touch. Could you stand to have a simple plane of glass between the two of us if I was dying?”

Yes. This, exactly.

Loved reading this, thank you :)

[nikki4noo]

Thank you so much for the lovely comment!

One of my beta's pointed out about that line that Jim would have needed that touch too. He would have, but there is no way he is going to admit it.

[tsarina_sofia]

I was so happy to see this last night!!

I absolutely love your headcanon because this was so cathartic and I'm really happy you didn't end it the way you'd suggested. Lol I think I would have cried and demanded a sequel if you had.

[nikki4noo]

I'm kinda thinking of a follow up to this anyway...but no not with that initial idea. :D

It was very cathartic to write it, I can tell you. *hugs*