Do I Even Want To Know The Full Story?

by Loony Gryphon

100 drabbles mostly featuring Kirk with repeat appearances by Bones, Pike, Spock, and the rest of the Enterprise crew. Drabbles take place while at the Academy as well as after Nero's defeat. Short little tidbits that let your imagination run wild.

2. Promise

2.) Promise

He had learned a long time ago to never believe in promises made to him. It was probably why he only made promises he could keep.

So when he had found Bones drunk before they even left for the bar, Jim knew something was wrong. It didn't take him long to find out that the flight he had booked so he could make his daughter's birthday had been overbooked and it was too late to book another flight.

'"I promised I would be there."

Pike had lectured him until he was blue in the face, not to mention the numerous essay and physical training he had been assigned in punishment, but Jim regretted nothing. If it meant Bones would keep his promise to his little girl, Kirk wouldn't hesitate to borrow another shuttle-craft and fly the man to Georgia himself.

Like Jim, Bones never made a promise he wouldn't keep.

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Written: 6-28-2011
Word Count: 151