McCoy's names suited him. All of them.

Leonard, first of all. It suited him best when he was a kid, but it still did, mostly. He'd been the brave one of his friends, pulling every kind of stunt he could to drive his parents crazy. He fell out of trees that were fifteen feet up, and nearly drown in the local lakes because he dove too long. He'd help every pretty girl in the class, all the way up to high school, when they were pestered by the jock that was three times his own size.

And the second part suited him better as he got older.

After the divorce he was… cold. Hard. Just like his name. No one got past the sarcastic and annoyed extirior. Except Jim Kirk, but not many others.

Which lead him to the next name. The one that was picked -against his will- for him.

Bones.

He was a doctor. He healed and mended the flesh wounds and tried to help with the psychological. He was, in a way, the bones that kept his patients strong and fully there. Without those bones, they'd be dead and gone. So yes, Bones suited him, not that he'd ever tell Jim that.

But what really fit was his last name.

McCoy meant original, real, not a substitute. Well he sure as hell wasn't a copy of anything. People said that, in the world, everyone was different. That wasn't true. There were carbon copies everywhere. People tried to be the same; to fit in. Even in adulthood they all tried to fit in. That wasn't him. He was different. Jim had said many times that he was happy there wasn't anyone out there just like his Bones, or else he'd be getting hypoed a lot more than he already was. It was meant as an insult, but Len took it as a full on compliment.

There wasn't anyone out there just like him. Not with the same quarky sense of humor, or the prickly exterior hiding a warm heart. No one with the same skill, who put their all into saving every life, and grieved when they couldn't/

He was the real McCoy.


A/N: I'm gonna try to do this with all the characters. Not just with names, but as general character studies. It's possibly some might be the same, or intertwined, but probably not. I'm gonna try for different themes. Hopefully everyone will like. =3

~Piki :B