its soft edge might cut you

Title: Bringing Up Baby
Series: Star Trek AOS (slight AU where Jim and Bones didn't stay in touch after the shuttle ride)
Rating: Pg-13 from Bones' swearing habit
Warnings: Aside from Bones cursing, and Jim stealing cars, there's pretty much nothing to warn for.
Beta: abigail89
Words: 3997 (this part, projected 25K)
Summary: Leonard McCoy is putting together a skeleton of an important specimen for Starfleet. To continue with his work, he's depending upon getting a million dollar endowment. Unfortunately, Jim Kirk's just stepped back into his life and things are going to Hell in a handbasket.
Notes: Bringing up Baby, now with more Jim and Bones. Womp Womp.

I saw this movie on New Year’s Eve 2010, and all I could think of was how well it fit Jim and Bones. My roommate at the time agreed with me when I said it, and thus this was born.

There’s something about Jim that lends himself really well to Katharine Hepburn. And I dunno, I like the thought of Bones wearing glasses and being stressed out. So there.

It also gave me a chance to do something different with Jim’s family and Pike and Boyce.

So here we have it, Bringing Up Baby, Starfleet Academy style.

I called my dad a million times to get the golf scene right. Dad’s been golfing since the 1950s, so I figure he knows what the hell he’s talking about. And yes, Jim’s dressed like (unfortunately deceased) golfer Payne Stewart, who was known for his flamboyant golf attire. I’m sorry, but Jim Kirk doesn’t do anything halfway and that includes being dressed for golf.

Also, just for the sake of this story…pretend that in the 23rd century, car theft is a nonexistent problem. Pretend also that it’s such a nonexistent problem that cars don’t have keys anymore; they have push buttons for ignition. (This is actually true in a lot of cars today, like BMWs and even Toyotas, although you have to have the remote in the car in order for them to start.)

So basically what I’m getting at is…just go with it every time Jim steals someone else’s car, okay? There kind of was like no way around it because of the plot of the movie, and waiting on him to hotwire every car would be kind of not funny.

(Honestly, Jim constantly stealing cars should be the part of this fic that needs the least amount of hand waving, what with the leopards and all.)

Intercostal clavicle is totally made up, but it was made up by the person who wrote Bringing Up Baby. No messaging me about how there’s no such anatomical part, it’s not my fault.



( It had been a long day at Starfleet Medical, and Leonard McCoy sat quietly in one of the examination rooms. )

Part Two