Hello Hello!!!! Okay, so I didn't ACTUALLY look to see if Jim's birthday was in the spring...cause I didn't want to know...because if it wasn't...then this story would be going NO WHERE!!!!!! So....I apologize for being purposefully insolent X3 love ya'll!!

~Yuki-Chan

14. Sunshine

McCoy sat in his seat, the picture of a human time bomb. His eyes never left the soft glow of rich spring sunshine that casted through the transparent aluminum windows. From his perch in the third story, he could see all the flowering trees, and the puddles of water from the warm rain that had killed the rest of the snow.

The bell finally whistled, (That was a thing he didn't understand, why they called the whistle a bell) and he sprang up and grabbed his bag at his feet and took off out of the class with such speed that some people muttered in surprise as he hurried past them and down a flight of stairs to the command class on the second floor.

"Wow! I think you broke a record there Bones!" Jim clapped the doctor on the shoulder when he stepped out of his class to see his red cheeked friend.

"Yeah, well, this is the first sunny day in almost two weeks! C'mon!!!" McCoy hurried through the crowd and grabbed Jim's hand to make sure they didn't get separated in the crowd.

After dropping their bags off at their room, Jim was manhandled out the dorm building and onto the bright, sunny, incredibly warm path outside. The air was sharp and fragrant with spring blossoms on trees. McCoy was smiling.

"So why are we in such a hurry?" Jim raised an eyebrow at McCoy who was still hurrying along, but he was starting to feel more and more excited at the tiny thought in the back of his head.

"Are you really asking me that? I'm telling you now, if we don't hurry we'll be late."

McCoy had made these plans a week ago, when he looked at his little computer calendar to see a very important date coming up. When he had seen the sunny weather report that morning, and felt the rush of excitement that was a rare treat for him, it had made him a little giddy. He was very excited to see the expression that Jim was going to give him here soon.

McCoy and Jim walked into their favorite resteraunt only ten minutes later. A little southern place with wide windows, displaying the joyous spring day outside with all its splendor. The rich smells of Southern food filled the air and reminded the two friends about the lunches they had missed, (Jim had been taking a special placement test and McCoy had been running slow on a diagnoses simulation.)

"Every time we come here I get a little homesick..." McCoy smiled as they took a seat in the corner booth they always occupied.

"And every time we come here you always say that," Jim snorted, snagging a menu flimsy from its holder.

"Hey....I haven't told you the best part of this yet!" McCoy snatched the flimsy away from his friend with unusual good humor in his normally ironic gaze.

"Okay..." Jim felt a smile twist his lips, "Shoot, why are we here."

McCoy chuckled evily, "Okay, first, I'm paying, second," He reached into his pocket and withdrew an envelope, handing it to Jim " Happy Birthday stupid." The grin only got bigger when he saw the confusion on Jim's face.

"But I never told you that my birthday was coming up!" Jim gawked.

"That's what having class A security to patient information is for. I just pulled up your name in the database...and BAM! Birthday!!" McCoy was so excited he was almost out of character.

"You hacked it didn't you." Jim's smile was sly.

"That's noneyadamn, now open that envelope" McCoy grinned.

And Jim did just that...and inside was two tickets to a command seminar that Jim had been talking about for two weeks. The tickets were limited, and he was broke. He stared at the tickets with complete and utter disbelief.

"How did you?" Jim gawked.

"They told me I was going to be going for the CMO portion of things...and I told them their was only one *** way they were getting me on a *** death trap shuttle, and so, after some convincing, I got us both free ride tickets, and our lodging is covered." McCoy nodded, "The only set back will be sitting next to me on the ride their and back..." McCoy made a face that clearly read that he didn't like that portion at all.

Jim finally managed to find some sort of coherent words in his brain.

"You fucking rock." He said firmly. McCoy started laughing so hard that he made a few people look over with quizzical expressions.

"As I've said Jim, I've got friends in low places...." He wiggled his eyebrows. Jim laughed and reached across the table to sock McCoy in the arm.