Prompt: McCoy, Joanna - Playing in the sprinklers
Family Matters
His daughter, Leonard mused, had an incredible sneaky streak in her.
He truly hadn't expected Joanna to appear from the corner of the house wielding the hose and douse him with chilly water the moment he'd cleared the porch. Jim was supposed to be entertaining her with the lure of an afternoon spent running through the sprinklers, after all, and Joanna's hero-worship of the man was usually enough to keep her amused while Leonard finished reviewing the rarer of his case-files with Starfleet Medical so he could be free to enjoy their shoreleave.
In this case, however, Jim was lying in the grass in the shade of the large tree by the side of the house and Joanna was shrieking with laughter as she sprayed him repeatedly and skillfully evaded his attempts to snatch either her or her weapon of choice. By the time Leonard managed to capture Joanna, they were both soaked to the skin and breathing heavily, both from exertion and unrestrained laughter. Leonard sent his daughter inside to gather up some towels for each of them, and went to gather a few supplies himself before walking over to Jo's supposed caregiver.
Gazing down at Jim, recumbent in the grass in a partial snooze, Leonard has a pretty good idea where she'd picked up her new skills.
Jim cracked one eye open and grinned when he found Leonard standing above him. ″Having fun, Bones? You're dripping a bit there.″
Leonard smiled and picked up the bucket sitting at his feet, upending its cold contents all over Jim's sputtering, goose-pimpled form. ″Bones!″
As Leonard examined the yard for his best escape route, he had to admit that perhaps Joanna's devious nature wasn't learned entirely from Jim.