Title: history
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: child abuse; implied sexual abuse
Pairings: implied stepdad/Jim
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 363
Point of view: third
Notes: to the prompt Five of Kirk's scars he didn't want to talk about, and the one time he told someone about a scar.
v
There was this one time he fell down the stairs. He wasn't drunk or stoned, and no one pushed him(that time). He just lost his balance and fell.
He cut his arm wide open on the final step. He doctored it himself. He never told anyone(he'd already been to the hospital too many times) and it was—it was just embarrassing, okay?
Falling down the stairs. How lame is that?
iv
Dad's sister's dog(golden lab/rottweiler/wolf hybrid) took a disliking to him for some reason. Jim still isn't sure why.
She tore a chunk out of his thigh and Mom was off-planet, so Aunt Marianne was the one who took him to the hospital. Then Frank took him home.
There is no scar from the dog bite. There is a scar from the bottle Frank used to cut him where the dog's teeth had ripped him open.
iii
After he got home from juvie for the car and cliff stunt, Jim went back to where he almost died. He stretched out on the dirt and gripped where he'd pulled himself up. He held on so tightly, for so long, that his skin broke.
There's still just a faint line along both his palms.
ii
On his shoulder, there's a faint indention of teeth marks.
i
Frank is a mean drunk, but he's not so bad sober. The one time he lashed out while not smashed, he broke Jim's arm in three places. It was an accident(Jim's almost sure) and so bad that he had to go to the hospital.
After they got home, Jim locked himself in his room and dragged a knife down the formerly broken arm. It barely broke the skin. He spent all night slowly making it deeper, leaving enough time for his blood to clot.
By morning, he'd decided he was done with Frank and Mom, so he packed up everything that mattered and left as the sun rose.
o
"Jim," Bones asks during Jim's first physical as CMO. "Where'd this scar come from?" He traces his finger down Jim's calf.
Jim shrugs. "I overbalanced on my bike one time. Landed on some scrap metal."
It's not a lie.