I ONLY OWN JESSICA... But the good doctor is my dream man :).
I was asked to expand on my one-shot a suprise for bones. So I decided to do a how they met type thing... So please enjoy
Dr. Leonard McCoy was drunk. No that was an understatement. Dr. Leonard McCoy was completely smashed. That is the only explanation to why he would join Starfleet, OK so not the ONLY explanation. His wife, ex-wife he reminded himself, got him fired from his job at the top hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. She got him blackballed from every hospital that the Atlanta General worked with, and it wasn't even because he was a bad doctor. No Leonard McCoy was an amazing doctor. His record was almost spotless, he had no complaints, and he could preform any surgery whenever needed.
But when Leonard was eighteen he did something stupid, he got his high school sweetheart pregnant. Heather Darnell's parents demanded that the two kids get married, so they did. The baby, Joanna McCoy, was born just three months after Leonard turned nineteen. She was the light of Leonard's life, and even though Leonard was going to collage and working a part time job to support his family, that little baby made it all worth while. Alexander Darnell made a deal with McCoy, Alexander and his wife would pay for McCoy to become a doctor and would get him a good job, and as long as Heather was happy the Darnell's were happy. That was easy enough to do, Heather loved Leonard. She was a simple eighteen year old who was happy to be a stay at home mom and make her husband's home life easier.
When Jo was three that changed, Heather started drinking and when she was drunk she was not happy. But then things changed again, a few months later, Heather was happy and quit drinking, and Leonard didn't question it. The next nine years of there married lives were happy, or so Leonard thought. Then the problems started again, Jo would come home from school and her mom would be gone, the twelve year old would call the hospital from her neighbors house, and inform her dad that she was locked out and was at Mrs. Mayson's house. Mrs. Mayson, an elderly widowed woman with no, kids would spoil Jo with cookies and stories of time long since past. And at night Heather and Leonard would fight about Jo being locked out of the house.
A year later Leonard found out why his wife was so different, he came home from work to find Heather crying on the couch.
"Where is Jo" Leonard asked.
"I sent her over to Mrs. Mayson's" Heather said. "I have something to tell you and I thought it better if she wasn't here." Leonard took off his coat and sat in a chair across from his wife and waited.
"I didn't mean this to happen." Heather started, "I really did love you when it started."
"We haven't loved each other in years Heather. We're only together for Jo." Leonard corrected.
"I'm having an affair. Have been since I was twenty one. And Clay is leaving his wife, for me. He wants us to marry, and I want that to."
"You've been cheating on me for ten years?" Leonard roared, "Is that why Jo has been stuck out of the house for the past couple of months. and why you wouldn't let me give her a house key?"
"Yes. I didn't want her to see me and Clay together. And I think i'm pregnant, since me and you stopped having sex months ago... Well" Heather said. Leonard got up and walked to the bedroom he shared with his wife and packed a bag of clothes. Heather followed him, "I think Jo should stay here"
Leonard looked at Heather like she had lost her mind. "Set up a custody agreement during the divorce. But her things and school are close by so." Heather quickly finished. Leonard grabbed his now packed bag and walked out the door. After putting his things in his car he walked next door. Mrs. Mayson opened the door when he knocked, and the older woman escorted the doctor into the house.
"Jo is in the Kitchen, and she is scared. Heather has never sent her over this late before." Mrs. Mayson explained.
Leonard entered the kitchen, to see his daughter sitting at the table, he knelt down beside her. "baby, we need to talk." Leonard said. "Is this about mom's special friend that she told me not to tell you about. Anger surged through Leonard, Heather had made there daughter keep a secret from him. But looking at his little girl the anger cooled.
"yeah baby it is. You see me and your mom are going to break up. And she is going to be with her special friend." Leonard explained.
"Does that mean you wont be my daddy anymore" Jo asked, tears in her eyes.
" Joanna McCoy, I will always be your daddy. Nothing will ever change that." Leonard said in a gruff voice.
"I love you daddy" Jo cried, throwing her arms around Leonard. Leonard held his crying child until the tears stopped. Then he kissed her and left, but not before stopping in the living room to ask Mrs. Mayson to watch over Jo for him. The elderly lady agreed, then held Joanna as the thirteen year old watched her daddy drive away.
The divorce went quickly, with the Darnell's money and Clay Treadway as there lawyer, McCoy lost everything. Alexander Darnell, the chef of surgery at the hospital that Leonard worked, fired him, and no-other hospital in the area was willing to go against the Darnell's money and power. So Leonard wasn't able to get another job. The man was four days into a drinking binge when Dr. Adam Roncall found him. Roncall had heard of Leonards record and wanted to recruit Leonard into Starfleet. So Dr. Roncall sobered him up and convinced him to join Starfleet. And two days later he was in Iowa, boarding a shuttle to San Francisco. That is where he met the kid that would change his life, or more accurately introduce him to the woman that would become his life.