Fic: This side of the truth, you may not see, my son

[pforte]

Story: This side of the truth, you may not see, my son
Fandom: Star Trek reboot
Pairing: Kirk/McCoy
Rating: R
Summary: McCoy knew that he had issues, he didn’t have to mull them over every other second to make sure they were still there.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything related to Star Trek. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark

Comments

[acetamide]

“We demand the thing that is dearest to you, Captain Kirk.”

I may have done a retarded seal-clap kind of thing at that point because really, there was only one place that sentence was going and it was to a very, very happy place.

Oh, Bones. You and your issues.

♥

[eumelkeks]

*uses appropriate icon*

It was really hard not to make it too obvious. *lol* Thanks so much for reading.

[lafemmechatte]

Oh, over all, very lovely.

[pforte]

Thank you. :)

[sangueuk]

I loved being in Bones' head, thank you! I like to spend as much time there as I can so thanks for the fix!

As an aside, I found their 'open' relationship interesting. They aren't often represented like this so it was brave of you to go for it. I can't help thinking that this is almost more of a likely scenario for a pair like them than a totally faithful one. Not that I'm pushing for one being more appropriate than the other, just fascinated by the dynamics.

Great fic!

[eumelkeks]

I can't help thinking that this is almost more of a likely scenario for a pair like them than a totally faithful one.

I have nothing against the faithful-foreverandeverandever scenario per se, but I don't think it's a believable scenario, judging from what we see on the show and in the film.

Jim Kirk is a womanizer. It's hard to ignore the fact that there is a flavour of the week with whom he gets intimate. And at least in TOS, McCoy gets some every now and then, too, and it's usually not in a long-term, monogamous relationship. I think that this tendency to portray McCoy as someone who insists on monogamy and Jim as someone who has to give up promiscuity in order to be happy with his Bones, is something that is strongly influenced by the cultural expectations of the female writers. Society tells us, no, indoctrinates us with the convictions that we're supposed to be happy with one person and one person only, that monogamy is good and promiscuity bad. In my view, this worldview is sightly obsolete in the 23rd century because this

[sangueuk]

I have nothing against the faithful-foreverandeverandever scenario - me neither, in fact it has me sighing and swooning like a girly girl

[eumelkeks]

Maybe what some of us might want is to have our very own Bones, all to ourselves, all loyal and horny yet behave like Jim when something takes our fancy? Who knows. I'm sure all/none of the above apply. ;D

Oh, absolutely. That's why in most Kirk/McCoy stories, it's McCoy who tops, and why a lot of fic end with a proposal or marriage.

Maybe we women are missing a trick here? Or maybe it just comes with some kind of bilogical imperative.See, I don't think that women are naturally and biologically more faithful than men. It's just that men having an affair (because they just can't help themselves) and being all for eye candy is still socially more acceptable than women doing the same thing. We've been conditioned to wait for the right man, to control our sex drive, to not sleep around before finding Mr. Right, to be faithful and understanding etc. for centuries in one way or another. It's still on today, e.g. when women objectify actors, they're shallow, when men do the same with women, it's not commented on at all. I'm generalising

[awarrington]

I loved this story -- absolutely wonderful characterisations of Jim and Bones too, great dialogue and a well-paced, well-written plot. What more could a girl ask for? maybe you could have written in some porn Thanks for a great read!

[eumelkeks]

Thanks so much for reading and commenting. :)

I did not write any elaborate sex scenes on purpose, to be honest. I think the fandom is currently sated with gratuitous porn. Not that I don't like gratuitous porn. *lol* Gimme! But, as I see it, what Kirk/McCoy is wanting is quality smut that is not written in ten minutes just to get 'GUH, I'M IN MY BUNK' comments. Seems to me that there is a certain formula of phrases and events that is written over and over again and, personally, I think it's on the same level as visual porn, in which someone delivers pizza just for the sake of having SOME plot before they get down and dirty.

If sex is not necessary for the story - provided that it's not PWP - then it shouldn't have to be in it. *shrugs*

[awarrington]

I hope you know I was teasing! I agree with you that some of the sex has become very formulaic, although that said, all my stories contain at least one graphic sex scene, but I do try to make them different and I do include some kind of plot and characterisation -- I've never actually written a PWP before. As an example you can see here - that is the only K/Mc fic I've written so far (I've been a K/S shipper for 20 years), but I'm about to start a major angty story involving those two today.

What I enjoyed about your story most was the character development and plot. A very believable relationship in which the strength of their feelings and trust for one another allowed them to go off with others in the knowledge they'd always have each other no matter what. That lack of co-dependency in the characters is very refreshing. :-)

[eumelkeks]

I hope you know I was teasing!

Yeah, I am just being very wordy this morning (see other replies). *lol* Sorry about that. Most of my fics have higher ratings as well because I'm just that much of a perv. ;)

[evil_alter_ego]

Oh, that was lovely and fun!

[pforte]

Thank you. :)