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A/N: So, this is a snippet from one of my German fanfictions. It's an AU in which Scotty was born blind and Bones was born deaf and silent. They find a way to communicate with their hands and touches. This is the moment the pair has apparently been waiting for a long time. Warning: Scones fluff all the way!
~ To feel you here with me ~
After they had danced about half an hour the two of them had fallen onto his bed. Scotty was still laughing, but at some point, he was even too exhausted for that. He felt his soft bed under his back and recognized the body lying next to him.
Dr. McCoy.
To be honest, he had been very surprised when the CMO suddenly stood in his room, but he couldn't say that he had been uncomfortable with it either. On the contrary, the presence of the man did him very well and even if his body still hurt at times from the accident, he had a few days ago, he still felt quite alright and healthy when the other was near him.
What did Leonard McCoy look like? Since their first meeting, he had always found himself asking the same question. There was only one way to find out. His hands basically served as his eyes. He had to touch things to get an idea of their shape. But he knew that it would certainly be strange for the doctor if he just touched his face.
And yet... he longed to know who was really lying next to him. Was this man exactly who he imagined? Or maybe he looked very different from what his hands and the skin of his cheek indicated. Scott slowly turned to the side and he decided that he at least had to try to figure it out. He carefully moved his hands towards the CMO's face and began to let his fingertips slide over the skin. For a moment he feared that McCoy would retreat and at first there seemed to be a kind of escape reflex, as the head was slightly retracted, but finally the doctor allowed the touch.
Scotty touched every part of the face. Eyelids, brows, cheekbones, forehead. He felt small wrinkles, which were certainly caused by age on the one hand and by the permanent stress in the doctor's professional life on the other. He felt soft stubble on the chin and he suspected that the man in private life probably preferred to wear a beard. When Scott finally touched the other man's lips and let his fingers rest there for a moment, he winced and was startled when he noticed McCoy grabbing his hands. He almost expected the CMO to push them away, which was why he was all the more surprised when he felt his lips pressing soft kisses on his fingers.
He was disappointed for a moment when these caresses stopped, but the feeling was short-lived, because only a little later these same lips, which had been hanging on his fingertips, now touched his own. The doctor returned the kiss. First slowly and timidly and then more and more passionate and the CEO gave in completely to the chief physician's kiss.
And in that second, he realized how much he had longed for that one gesture. Each of their touches, each of their rituals – everything had led to this very moment that finally took place here and now. And it was worth the wait.
Scotty felt McCoy's fingers buried in his hair, he perceived the smell of a strong aftershave, heard the rustle of the blanket lying under their bodies. It was a wonderful moment and it could have lasted forever if Bones' bracelet had not suddenly reacted at the same time as Scotty's PADD.
"The captain calls in a meeting of the commanding officers," the computer voice said, and Scotty slowly pulled his head back, ending the kiss he would have loved to continue. They stayed for a moment and enjoyed the moment until they set off.
Well, hopefully that was an emergency!