"Why was there moronic excuse for a captain ever aloud anywhere? And I mean anywhere?" grumbled bones softly to himself, looking over at the nearby biobed.

Earlier in the day….

"Hey scotty" beamed an ecstatic captain down to his chief engineer" What can I help you with?"

(Although Jim had plans to make himself busy in engineering for the next hour, not that had anything to do with his first officers plans to go through a load of grass samples for the next hour and discuss their unique anatomies he was delighted when he got the call from Scotty requesting help.)

"Hello ca'pn" Called scotty "Some lummox got some really important piping stuck in a jefferies tube and the kid that I normally send up is in sickbay , fancy a climb ?"

"Of course I do ! " Stepping closer to scotty he smiled" Guide me over "

Jim was good at climbing thought scotty to himself, as he watched his captain and best friend clamber through the tubes. I really need to get a lesson from him at some point.

But of course because it was Jim, just doing the job couldn't just be done. It had to have an accident halfway through

"Scotty?" called Jim sheepishly from the inner tubes….

"Aye cap'n ? are you stuck?" cried scotty through the start of the tubes "Shall I call the doctor?"

"Yeah please just do it quickly" Ouch. Jim sounded hurt.

Slamming on his comm badge " Doctor , you better get down here quickly . He's hurt himself again."

(queue the ever so familiar grumbles for mccoy for Jim being careless again , I mean really he was like a bid kid really)

"Damnit Kid" grumbled bones down the tube to a really quite uncomfortable Jim "You know I'm gonna have to tranq dart you so we can get you out of there! Actually tranq you ! Why can't you look after yourself for 5 minutes?"

"Sorry bones" moaned the increasingly uncomfortable man" But can we do rescue me first then moan later?"

"Hang on kid just loading up, you'll be in sickbay before you even know it "

The Jim's world faded to darkness

And there went Bone's hopes for a quiet day in the office. He was going to need a rulebook for that kid, who was still passed out on the bed.

Rule number #1 : no climbing around in engineering, even if Spock was doing a briefing on some supposedly fascinating piece of information.

That was his job to get himself out of it and in more healthy ways then needing to be sedated in engineering. Jim can sit through the briefings for the next month . Hmm . He was gonna let Chapel tell the kid that.