Leonard McCoy looked at the boy next to him, maybe twenty-one and completely beat up, and warned him. "I may throw up on you." when the guy didn't argue Leonard introduced himself and gave the boy, now known as Jim, a swig of the whiskey from his flask. The rest of the flight passed in the two getting to know each other, and Leonard found he liked the cocky kid. When the shuttle landed in San Francisco the two were met by a short blonde girl in a red cadet uniform. Jim looked excited as he scooped the woman into his arms, and hugged her tight. Leonard briefly wondered if this woman and Jim were in a relationship, but that thought was blown out of his head when he saw her eyes. They were the same crystal blue as Jim's, but when she looked at him with those eyes they sent a shiver down his spine. Jim pulled the girl over to him where Leonard was standing.
"Jessica Kirk, Meet Leonard McCoy. We met on the shuttle." Jim said. "Bones, This is my twin sister Jessica"
"Bones" The woman laughed.
"yeah, Because his wife took everything in the divorce. All he has left are his bones." Jim explained.
"Well its better than my nickname." Jessica laughed.
"What is that?" Leonard asked,
"Bug. Now lets go get you two settled in and I will explain the Red's" Jessica said. Leonard grabbed his one bag and the trio went and got Jim and Bones, as Jessica was now calling Leonard too, set up in the enrollment office and got there room numbers. Turns out because they were both last minute add on's that they would be rooming together, something very rare for a command track cadet and a medical cadet.
"Now Dr. McCoy, I see here that you have already been through medical school and interned at Atlanta General, according to Roncall you have impecable records. So he would like you to have a normal rotation in the med-bay as well as classes. This means that you will also have interns following you around in the med-bay. Is that OK with you." The gray haired woman in the enrollment office asked.
"Yeah." McCoy said gruffly.
The woman made some changes in the computer and handed McCoy his class schedule . "You are expected in the Med-bay tomorrow after classes." With that the Kirk twins and Leonard left and went to the dorm's. The group entered the room, plain with two bed's two small desk's and a bathroom. A PADD sat on each desk, sheets and blankets on the beds.
"You need to go down to laundry for your red's, I can take you there" Jessica explained. "And I have extra blankets from my collage days, you boys can have. Anything else is avaliable in town. And you can test out of classes if you already know the material. I've already tested out of several classes."
"Collage days?" Leonard asked.
"Yep. I've been in San Francisco going to the local university for the past two years." Jessica explained.
"How old are you?"
"Me and Jamie are 23. Ever heard of the Kelvin baby's?"
"That is you two. The twins born in an escape shuttle just as the Kelvin was destroyed. Their father still on the ship?" Leonard demanded.
"Yep." Jessica said.
After that the conversation was over and the trio made up the beds. Jessica brought the men to get there red's. Then Leonard used the com in the dorm room to call Mrs. Mayson and give her the number to reach him. He then called his ex-wife's house. Clay answered on the first ring.
"What do you want?" The man demanded.
"It's Wednesday. I'm calling for my kid." Leonard shot back.
"Hi daddy." Jo said showing up on screen. "I knew you would call."
"Every Wednesday baby girl," Leonard said. "I have some new's. I joined Starfleet."
"No way. Dad that is so cool." Jo gushed. Then she got a sad look on her face. "Does that mean I don't get to spend my summers with you?" She asked.
"No baby. It means you will spend the summers here in San Francisco with me." Leonard said. "I have summer visits. Nobody is taking those away." Joanna brightned up after that. The two McCoy's talked for a long time about everything that they could think of. Then Jo looked over to the side with a scowl that made Leonard proud. Then looked back at her dad.
"There having a baby. I don't want a sibling. Mom says that her and my new dad wanted a complete family. But I refuse to call the jerk dad. He is the devil." Joanna snapped. "I hate him and mom"
"Don't hate your mom baby." Leonard told his daughter softly. "You don't have to be happy about Clay or the baby but don't hate her."
"I can't help it daddy. I want to come be with you."
"I wish you could baby." Joanna's head snapped to the side again.
"I have the right to talk to my dad. The custody agreement says so, I can contact him when ever I want and he can call on Wednesday afternoons. Well its Wednesday" Joanna snapped at the person outside of Leonard's view.
"I love you daddy." Jo wisphered when she turned back to him. "But mom is making me hang up."
"Write this down baby." Leonard said and then gave her the number to the room. "now I have a roommate so he might answer but you can tell him you need me and he will get me. His name is Jim."
"OK daddy."
"I love you." Leonard said, then the connection was cut.
"Hey." Jessica said sticking her head in the room. "You hungry?"
"Yeah. Going to the mess?" Leonard asked.
"Nope. Pizza." Jessica said handing Leonard his jacket. "Then to get some things you and Jamie need."
"Jamie?" Leonard asked.
"I'm the only one that can call James that. He gets pissed if anyone else does." Jessica laughed and dissapeared out the door again.
The trio shared a extra large pizza with everything on it at the local pizza place, Leonard noticed the twins sneaking pieces of food onto each others plates and his.
"Why do you two keep doing that?" He asked the twins, pointing at the toppings Jim had just slid onto Jessica's plate...
"Habit. Maybe one day we will tell you why Bones" Jim said, then turned to his sister. She had discarded her red jacket to show a white tee-shirt that hugged her tiny body. "You never explained the cadet red's"
"When you called and told me what you were doing I decided to join to. This is something that we need to do together." Jessica said "So I dropped my classes at university and signed up at the academy . I thought Archer was going to pee his pants when I told him what I wanted."
"He recognized you?" James asked.
"Yep. Did Pike recognize you?"
"Not until the bar tender told him who I am. Then he couldn't wait to recruit me." James said
"Because of who your dad was?" Bones asked.
"That is part of it. The other part is how we met, back when me and Jessica were fifteen we met Dr. Roncall, at the time commander Chris Pike, and at the time Captain Jon Archer." James started.
"Lets just say we made an impression" Jessica finished.
After the pizza was polished off the trio went shopping. Jessica helped Jim find some clothes he would need and bathroom things that the two men would both need. And Leonard went and got some extra PADD's just in case of emergency's and then the group went back to the dorm. Sitting together and talking, Leonard was surprised. All the women he had ever met had been spoiled and wanted everything, even Heather had turned into that kind of woman by the time she was twenty-one. But it seemed that Jessica was the opposite, and he found that he liked that. After Jessica left for the night Jim looked over at his roommate.
"Don't hurt her." Jim said "She hasn't has been hurt badly and she is skittish about men, she seems to trust you. At least a little, and I can tell you have a thing for her, So don't hurt her."
"I'm not looking for a relationship Jim, but I do think she is a nice girl. I can be friends with her, and I don't hurt my friends." Leonard said, then the duo went to sleep.
Leonard woke up to screaming, only to discover it coming from his roommate. He was up and over to the kid, shaking him awake in seconds. Jim came awake with a start,
"you OK kid" Leonard asked. It took a minute for Jim to remember where he was, but then he smiled.
"Yeah, Nightmares happen." Jim shrugged it off. But Leonard could tell it was worse than just an avraige nightmare. It was something that had really happened, and it was haunting James T. Kirk. But he nodded anyway and climbed back into his bed, and quickly fell asleep.
Over the next few days Leonard McCoy grew closer to the Kirk twins, and he found that he liked the constant companions the twins seemed to be. It seemed that either Jessica or Jim was in all of his classes, and when they were they sat near Leonard. Jessica even started coming to sit in the Med-bay with him when things were slow, and McCoy found he liked not being alone.