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10. Cannot

Telling Jim that he cannot do something was setting that person up to be eating their words. A discovery that Bones had made when they were back at the academy. It wasn't by seeing it happen to someone, it happened to him… several times. He always smacked his head after he said it too, because, well Jim was Jim and he was going to do it whether or not it was even physically possible.

The first time that Bones had said Jim couldn't do something went a little like this…

Jim and Bones were lounging in their dorm. Well Jim was lounging, Bones was studying his but off because their first set of exams were within the week. The doctor was irritated with Jim laid back attitude and he finally snapped.

"Jim, why aren't you studying?" McCoy asked.

"It boring." Was the clipped reply.

McCoy let out an exasperated sigh before saying " You cannot pass exams without studying!"

Jim gave him this look. Bones couldn't really describe what it meant. It passed over the captain's face quickly and Jim shrugged. "We'll see then."

Bones scoffed. Deciding that he would rather spend what little time he had before the exams productively instead of arguing with a man who didn't care about his grades.

When the results came back, it was about two weeks later. Along with the rest of the cadets Jim and Bones crowded around the score sheet to see their grades. Bones felt his jaw drop, not because of his score the medical track cadets had little to no medical experience so it made sense that he would be a the top, but when he looked at the command track's scoreboard there were three words that made him want to smack someone; James T. Kirk - 100.

The grouchy doctor turned and looked at the kid next to him. Jim was looking smug with his arms crossed and he had that smirk on his face. The one that said told you so.

"How the hell did you pull that off?" Bones waved his arm exaggeratedly towards the board. Nearly smacking a girl in the engineering track.

"You told me that I couldn't do it." Jim said, as if that explained everything.

Bones shook his head, trying to fight off a smile. He really couldn't be mad at Jim, it was in the kid nature to prove people wrong he supposed.

As the memory finished Bones saw the captain do what his first officer had so politely implied. Spock had said that the captain couldn't go one day with flirting, and Jim had easily done it. Astounding Uhura who was the target for most of Jim's good nature flirting and Spock was actually too surprised that they had gone a full shift without hearing any of the captain's comments.

Bones smirked. Served the hobgoblin right.

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