Here you go! I didn't spend as much editing time on this as I usually do, so I hope it's good! Enjoy!
"Would ya hand me the socket wrench, laddy?" Scotty asked the closest ensign in the transporter room where he was desperately trying to fix the transporter.
"Aye, sir," nodded the ensign, handing Scotty a wrench from his tool bag.
The engineer frowned at it. "That's a crescent wrench."
"Oh! I'm so sorry, sir. I don't know what I was thinking!" He quickly handed Scotty the correct wrench.
After a few more minutes of messing with the consul, Scotty sat up and wiped the sweat off of his brow. "That should be it. If not, I dunno what we're gonna do."
Standing up, he commed the bridge. "Scott to bridge."
"Yes, Mr. Scott?" Uhura replied.
"Do you have the coordinates of the landing party?"
"Yes, sir, I have three life forms, two human and one Vulcan, in the location of an abandoned Starfleet outpost on the planet's surface."
Scotty smiled slightly to himself. He knew they would be resourceful enough to keep themselves alive but it was still good to hear they probably weren't freezing to death. "Aye, we'll have to divert all power to the transporters if we're gonna make this work. We've only got one shot at this."
Uhura nodded briefly before remembering Scotty couldn't see her. "Aye, sir," she replied.
Something was wrong, Jim decided as he slowly awoke from his sleep full of fever dreams. He had expected to feel better but he felt worse. He had a throbbing headache, he felt lightheaded, and when he opened his eyes the room spun briefly. Yep, something was definitely wrong.
Jim took a deep breath and composed himself so he could turn around to wake up Bones. But when he rolled over and laid eyes on the doctor, he found that Bones was already awake. 'It's worse than I thought! I'm hallucinating!' Jim told himself, because that was the only logical way for him to explain what he was seeing.
His CMO and best friend was lying on top of his first officer and other best friend, passionately making out with him. And Spock was kissing him back, eagerly! And with emotion! In fact it looked more like they were trying to eat each other's faces off! Then, McCoy pulled away from Spock's lips and brought the Vulcan's hand to his mouth and began sucking on his fingers, both were completely unaware that they were being watched. Jim's jaw dropped as he heard Spock moan softly.
His mind was unable to form coherent thoughts as all of his blood was currently elsewhere, so Jim was only able to stutter out one word. "What? !"
Instantly, Spock and McCoy pulled away from each other. Spock's expression was calm as ever but Leonard went beet red and his eyes widened to the size of dinner plates. "Jim!" he exclaimed in shock. "We, uh, we thought you were asleep!"
All the times they had pulled away from each other when he walked into the room, the way Spock had acted when Bones slipped, how he had found them cuddling yesterday morning, the meaningful glances; it suddenly all made sense to Jim. They were a couple.
Leonard began to grow nervous as Jim stayed quiet while he slowly processed this new information. Sensing the doctor's anxiety levels skyrocketing, Spock soothingly caressed the back of Leonard's hand with his thumb.
"I'm sorry, Jim. Please don't be mad at us…" Leonard finally said after several moments of silence from the captain.
Jim decided to put his concerns for his own health aside; they could wait. He shook his head in confusion. "No. No, Bones, why are you sorry? I'm not mad at you! How could I be mad at you? You two are my best friends. Why should I stop supporting you just because you're together?"
"I… I dunno…"
"I guess I'm just feeling hurt because you didn't tell me. Why didn't you tell me?" asked Jim.
McCoy felt his face grow hot. If he and Spock were ever going to admit their love for Jim, it would have to be now. But he just couldn't find the words.
"Jim," Spock began calmly. "We did not inform you of our relationship because we were planning on asking you to join us."
The captain had never been more confused and turned on at the same time. "Like just for a threesome or like… for real?"
"To use your term, Jim, for real," the Vulcan replied.
"Like the Tevisians," Leonard clarified, finally able to speak.
All at once Jim was hit with a flood of intense emotions and a wave of dizziness. As much as he wanted to throw himself at the two beautiful men next to him and tell them how much he loved them, all he could do was cling to the bed as the room spun violently.
"Jim? What's wrong?" Leonard asked, suddenly switching to doctor mode.
"I… I don't feel—" was all that the captain managed to say before the room went black.
"Jim!" Two alarmed voices cried out in unison.
"Bridge to engineering!" Uhura shouted into the comm.
Scotty quickly answered it. "Scott here, what's wrong?"
"Scotty, scanners indicate one of the human life forms on the planet just lost consciousness!" she cried urgently.
Heart pounding, the engineer checked the transporter's power levels. "We've got just enough power to beam them up now. Send a medical team to the transporter room to be ready for them," he ordered.
"Aye, sir!"
Anxiously, Scotty stepped behind the transporter consul, locked onto the coordinates of the three men, and beamed them up…
Instinctively, Leonard reached out to Jim's unconscious body to check his pulse, but that was all he had time to do before the world sparkled out of view around him and he was lost in the familiar sensation of being transported.
The three men landed with a large thud on the transporter pad. "God dammit!" Leonard growled. While his hands were tightly gripping the unconscious captain's shoulders, he was still, for the most part, lying on top of Spock and his legs were sufficiently tangled up with the Vulcan's. There was no misinterpreting their position.
All of the crew members that were assembled in the transporter room just stood and stared for a second before McCoy turned around and glared at them. "Well don't just stand there! Help him!" he yelled.
Everyone quickly snapped out if it and got to work. The medical team had rushed Jim off to sickbay before McCoy even had time to awkwardly clamber off of Spock and stand up.
"Are you two alright?" Scotty asked them as they stepped off of the transporter pad.
"We are unharmed," Spock assured him.
"Sickbay will still want us down there though," said Leonard. "Besides, I've got to go help Jim." Spock nodded and the pair quickly made their way to sickbay.
Reviews will help Jim feel better!
Also, bonus points to anyone who knows where I got the "That's a crescent wrench!" thing from. ;)
