Disclaimer: I do not own Star Trek...just the lovely Ivory Scott, little Sikari, the vigorous Captain Reich...and a few other minor characters I don't care too much about to mention. :D (On and dibs on Bones.)
Ivory looked over at where Spock walked with a blanket wrapped tightly around him harboring their child trying to keep her warm, Uhura walked next to him pushing against his shoulder, Sulu was on the other side of her a blanket draped across both their shoulders. Ivory gripped Chekov's arm tighter as a gust of wind blew against them; she had been walking between McCoy and Kirk, but dropped back when the two wouldn't stop bickering.
"I-i-it's freezing," Chekov chattered over the wind.
"I know, we need to find somewhere to stop before it gets dark," Ivory reached over grabbing the blanket that had begun to slip from his shoulder, she pulled it back to the center of them and brought his hands up. She balled the two corners of the blanket into her hands and he reached up covering her hands with his then ducked their heads close together continuing to walk.
"I think when this is all over, I'm moving to Africa," Chekov said through a chuckle and Ivory laughed with him.
"Couldn't agree more," she stopped laughing and looked ahead to see that McCoy and Kirk had stopped walking. They stopped next to them; Scotty (who had been behind her) wrapped an arm around her shoulder. The other three adults stopped by them too.
"Why are we stopping?" Uhura shouted.
"Because we've hit a dead end!" Kirk pointed towards where the ground gave out into a long drop that probably had ice shards along it.
"What do we do now, Keptin?" Chekov asked.
"We back track some and go a different way," the wind had begun to die down some, but the cold still bit at their exposed faces.
"We'll be out here all night if we do that, Jim!" McCoy protested.
"Then what do you suppose we do, Bones, because apparently I'm incapable of making decisions!" Kirk snapped at him.
"I never said that," McCoy sneered.
"No, but you sure as hell wanted to," Kirk glared at him.
"Maybe I did Jim, maybe I wanted to tell you that from the moment I sat down by you on that damned shuttle!" McCoy shouted.
"Well maybe you should've, because then we wouldn't be here now would we!" The others stayed silent as the two men's voices raised.
"No, we still would be because you're too headstrong and impulsive! You would still be standing here yelling at me in the freezing cold because you're so sure of yourself!" McCoy grumped.
"Well at least I have faith in myself! You just stand around and wait for others to think of something for you to do! The only reason you're here is because your wife left your sorry ass and took everything from you! You ran away, Bones, you scared piece of shit! Maybe if you stuck around back home in Georgia you'd be living with your daughter! Instead you're here and she's there hating you more every passing second because you ran away when she needed you the most!" Kirk roared over the noise and McCoy paled, he clamped his mouth shut and looked down not saying anything. Kirk took a few more deep breaths before realizing what he had said, "Oh shit, Bones, I'm sorry. I didn't mean any of it…"
McCoy held up a hand silencing him, "You're right, Jim, about all of it. I just don't need the constant reminder that I fucked up years ago and ran away from everything."
"Bones," Kirk sighed stepping towards him, "I'm sorry." Kirk kept walking towards him, but McCoy's fist flew at his face knocking him back onto his ass, "Okay I deserved that."
"Your damn right you deserved it."
Kirk started to get back up, but McCoy leaned down and sent another fist into his face.
"What the hell, Bones?" Kirk looked at his friend, but could only see pure anger, "Look I know you're pissed about what I said, but I said I was sorry. I should've never said it."
McCoy stood up and kicked Kirk in the ribs making him cough, "Impulsive, Jim, that's why you said it. You don't think before you speak." He turned walking away, but Kirk was on his feet and he barreled into the Doctor sending him to the ground. He sent a punch into the side of his head and McCoy, still caught off guard, shook his head in a sudden burst of shock, "Get the hell off of me, Jim!"
Kirk rolled McCoy onto his back so he could hit him in the cheek, he raised his other fist, but McCoy jerked up quickly sending Kirk onto his back McCoy returned his punch, Kirk forced his fist under McCoy's chin and the Doctor fell off, they both got to their feet, but they weren't done. Kirk jumped at him again and this time they rolled around in the snow trying to punch one another finally Kirk had McCoy pinned under him and punched his friend on the opposite cheek, McCoy tried pushing him off, but the younger man didn't budge as he straddled his hips bringing another punch down onto his face. McCoy caught his fist the second time and pushed back on it getting a yelp out of Kirk, he shoved hard and Kirk rolled off. They were on their feet again glaring at one another.
McCoy wiped the blood from off his chin and grinned, "Is that all you got Jim?"
Kirk roared and ran at him, but his arms were grabbed stopping him, "I think you've had quite enough time beating each other up."
Kirk looked at Scotty then at Spock, "Let me go."
"I don't think so, Jim," Spock looked over at Sulu and Chekov holding McCoy's arms.
"Fine," McCoy snapped, "I'm done. Just let me go." Sulu and Chekov looked at Spock, he nodded and they released the man, "Thank you." He walked past Kirk, but stopped nailing him in the side of the eye with another punch. Kirk cried out in obvious pain as Chekov and Sulu grabbed McCoy again, "Alright, alright, I'm done!" McCoy got out of their hold and glared at Kirk before continuing to walk on.
Kirk was released and he began wiping the blood off his face as he followed after, "Let's go."
The others exchanged looks and got comfortable again, but this time Ivory walked next to Spock with an arm around his lower back and the other plastered to Sikari's back holding the corner of the blanket as Sikari held the other wrapped tightly around her. Spock held Sikari with one arm the other around Ivory. Sulu and Chekov walked together shoulder to shoulder each under their own blanket. Uhura and Scotty shared a blanket doing as Ivory and Chekov had before.
"Why didn't you stop them earlier on?" Ivory asked.
"Because they needed to do that," Spock answered.
"They were fed up with one another for the longest time," Scotty said coming up next to her, Uhura eyed her and gave a nodded agreement, but confusion filled her eyes.
"It was only reasonable to let them hit each other for a while," Sulu said from the other side of Spock.
"They've fought before," Chekov added.
"Yes, but it was never this bad," Spock admitted, "I have seen them bicker and shout, but never in the past two years have I seen them attack each other like that."
"They did the same back at the academy," Uhura inputted her comment, "they'd walk side by side whispering an argument or sometimes just plain flat yelling. There were times when the people who had their dorms around those two would leave late at night just so they wouldn't have to hear them fight."
"And yet they're friends," Ivory stated.
"That's because they both know they need one another, though neither will admit to it," Spock sighed, "Dr. McCoy is right about Jim, he is impulsive and headstrong that's why the Doctor is his perfect counterpart. Dr. McCoy thinks before he does things and acts when he sees necessary and by being like that he talks Jim out of a lot of things that could possibly get him killed. And while on the other hand Dr. McCoy does things accordingly and the way it should be, he does what he's told right down to the last point, because he doesn't know what else to do, but by having Jim he relaxes more and does things his own way. Those two would be lost without one another."
"What about you, Mr. Spock?" Chekov asked.
"Why I'm the logic in it all, I'm the reason those two get through a lot of things, I'm the, how do you put it, the brains of the relationship," Spock said.
They all laughed at the comment and Spock smiled a little, "But to be honest I believe they need all of us to survive just as we need them."
"Yeah," they muttered softly.
They looked ahead at the previous boxers to see they were walking next to each other, McCoy pulled something out of his pocket and turned Kirk's head aggressively getting a yelp, he muttered something they couldn't hear then dabbed at the cut on Kirk's cheek with the cloth before placing a bandage over it. McCoy patted it and Kirk swatted his hands away protesting something that made McCoy laugh, he flicked Kirk in the head and Kirk gave him a shove, but Kirk was saying something though a large grin that made them both laugh.
"How do men do that?" Uhura asked.
"Do what?" Sulu asked.
"Make up so fast," Ivory answered.
"Because we don't hold grudges as long as women do," Spock stated.
"We're just more forgiving is all," Scotty added.
"Throwing punches is called forgiving?" Uhura raised an eyebrow.
"Yes, that's how we apologize," Chekov grinned.
"If we didn't do that, then we'd be sitting down eating chocolate, drinking wine, and crying so hard that it'd take hours to apologize," Scotty said.
Ivory gaped at him and Uhura hit his chest, but they were all smiling at what he said and continued forward arguing over how men are just not as understanding.
A/N: Okay so it was shorter than normal I apologize for that, but it had to work this way. This chapter and the few to follow were the hardest to separate...like really hard. So Review if you want the next chapter! (Please!)
