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Here is some McCoy beauty.


Leonard McCoy knew from the very first moment what was going on, and he hated that pointy ears Vulcan on the spot, just like Jim liked him in an instant. The infatuation took place in matter of seconds and all Leonard could do is stand by and watch helplessly. He hated his friend sometimes, but he resented him that cold calculating alien most of all. Now he wasn't prejudice man, he didn't have anything against extraterrestrial species, he loved to study them and to meet new forms of life; it was his passion. Nor it was different types of love, he was a doctor after all, he had seen it all. It was Spock personally that bothered him, precisely Spock in relation to Kirk.

Leonard knew Jim for years now and he considered him a good friend, one of rare one that could appreciate his grumpy approach to life. Leonard returned that with his aggressive care, and setting him straight. He set him straight more than once, that boy wouldn't get far if he hadn't had McCoy to pull him out, sometimes with some needles and false disease, but here they were boarding their new space ship with Jim as Captain. No one was more surprised than Leonard McCoy when that happened, but obviously some of his previous adventures didn't get across higher structures of Star Fleet, or they considered it a bonus to a space Captain that was responsible for hundreds of people, and with commands to go into something unknown. Unknown was always Jim's favorite adventure.

Leonard thought that unknown was the key factor in Spock's case, but that was so severe case of fascination that even Leonard McCoy couldn't find a cure for it. So he kept quiet most of the time pretending he doesn't know. It was the easiest of medicines, when your patient is beyond your help you just keep your reassuring smile on. But it was a hard to smile sometimes when he just wanted to punch that green blooded cold bastard. He tried to find something tolerable on him, and he would succeed sometimes, but most of the times he just argued with the damn man trying to get him to understand that he is not the most perfect of all beings.

The fact that Leonard understood on the spot, and that Jim failed to see, or saw it like a challenge, was that it was impossible to get Spock to feel anything. In interest of his friend Leonard tried to provoke that damn immovable face to respond, make him wrong, but most of the time nothing happened. Impossible missions seemed to be Jim's favorites, and Leonard submitted his defeat to that, if it wasn't Spock it would have been something more deadly. Unfortunately those two things, Spock and deadly didn't exclude each other. More than once on this mission good old country doctor wished he had listened to his all impulses and stay behind grounded, but when Jim asked for him specifically he couldn't really refuse. It would be treacherous to leave your friend to drag along vast universe on his own, and being the Captain he needed someone he didn't had full authority on. Someone to keep him sane and that's what Leonard did, he kept him sane, but he wasn't sure he had stayed sane throughout whole journey. It started to seem to him that some emotions are getting through that cold exterior of their First Officer and in those moments he could almost like the guy, but it would always be shattered on next occasion. He would swore it was trick of light and shadow, but in time those moments would pile up and what started to frustrate Leonard was denial that they exist. Why did he have to be so stubborn? They all could have much easier time if he was what he claimed to be, honest.

No one was more surprised when that impossible objective became more and more reachable, but it was even more frustrating to see that game of catch and fail between those two. Those two could drive man to drink, if McCoy was weaker character and drinking habit wasn't his own choice.

That's why he hated Spock, but he was like that, he hated people easily, they made problems for him to solve, but he couldn't deny that little green pointy ear computer has affected him. It was proximity problem, he was always at Jim's other side, it was impossible to even speak to Jim without him sometimes. He began to tolerate the man, he did keep Jim safe most of the time, and sometimes it seemed like he do cares in his strange way. That seemed to be enough of the company for Jim, two of them, and McCoy considered his mission on this ship successful one. Still, the urge to punch Spock in the face never really left him. It was impossible to change that fact even after he realized he had genuinely liked the guy behind that irritating face.