Author's Note:

Hello everyone and welcome to another chapter. This one is nice and humorous and features McCoy battling a most serious affliction with the help of Jim and Pavel. Thank you everyone for your support and thank you those who put suggestions in their reviews, they are really helpful when I'm trying to think of new ideas for chapters.

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A Unique and Shared Language

It was one of those odd times when there was very little going on and there were no pressing concerns in the Medbay. At first Leonard had enjoyed the peace and quiet but now it had been two days since anything unusual had happened, the paperwork was all done and the medical stocks had all been taken care of so McCoy was now in the worrying position of being bored. He looked around the empty Medbay and sighed, with nothing interesting materialising he decided to head for the bridge and see if anything more exciting was going on there.

When he got there he found a room full of people at their stations seemingly doing nothing much but staring out of the veiwscreen at the blur of subspace. Jim greeted him as he entered and then returned his attention to the PADD in his hands. The doctor made his way over to his friend and stood next to his chair; he stood there for several minutes and soon decided that there wasn't much going on up here to alleviate his boredom here either. He entertained the thought of going back to the Medbay and reading on of his books but he'd just finished the entirety of the Lord of the Rings saga for about the fifth time in his life and really didn't feel like reading.

He was then struck by an idea that might just keep boredom at bay for a short while and then spoke to Jim in an entirely different language, "Isn't there anything interesting going on up here Jim?"

The young captain looked at him briefly in surprise before smirking and answering in the same language, "I thought you'd be pleased that everything is so quiet at the moment. You always complain when the fun stuff is happening."

"That's because what you think is fun is usually dangerous, terrifying and potentially fatal and I do like it when it's quieter. However there is quiet and there is this which is as dull and stagnant as three week old ditchwater."

Jim just laughed, "I get the feeling that you're bored Bones."

"Bored isn't the word, I'm considering stabbing you with something so I can drag you to the Medbay and attack you with several hypos to make the day more interesting."

By this time most of the bridge was staring at them in confusion with the exception of Pavel who was just grinning as he listened to their conversation.

Jim answered in mock worry, "You wouldn't do that to your favourite captain would you?"

Bones grinned, "No but I'd do it to my idiotic, infantile child of a captain."

Jim clutched his heart dramatically, "You mean I'm not your favourite captain, you wound me Bones and I thought you were my friend."

"No I'm your babysitter and I'm about the only person who can stay sane enough to do it."

At this Jim folded his arms and pretended to sulk and McCoy just snorted, "Knock it off kid; you look like a four year old when you do that. Besides you should take a look at the expression on Spock's face, its something to behold."

Jim turned to look at his first officer and saw that Spock had raised an eyebrow looking baffled for a Vulcan and it was quite clear he didn't know what was going on. He turned back to his friend, "For once I think we've found something Spock doesn't know."

"Why do you think I started speaking in this language, it must be driving him mad that he doesn't know what we're saying and I have to find a little fun somehow on this metallic death-trap. Irritating Spock is one of the few ways in which I can do that."

Jim looked round and saw that baffled expressions on the faces of everyone else including Nyota who seemed a bit put out that they knew a language she didn't; he looked back at Bones and grinned, "Not even Nyota knows what we're saying and I think she's pretty annoyed about that, everyone else seems just as baffled but the by the way Pavel's grinning I think he understands us."

Leonard snorted again and answered, "Of course he does I taught him this language myself."

Jim looked surprised, "When did you teach him that?"

It was Pavel who answered in exactly the same tongue further confusing the rest of the bridge, "It was when I was laid up with that virus for three weeks, Grandpapa taught me when I was bored from lying in bed all day."

McCoy sighed, "Aren't you ever going to stop calling me that kid?"

Pavel grinned cheekily, "You like me calling you that really Grandpapa."

"I only put up with it the first time because you'd just been rescued after being kidnapped; it does not mean I like that title."

"But you had no issues with it when I had been de-aged."

"You were a young child at the time, I wasn't about to upset you and make you cry. Everyone else would have probably killed me if I did."

By this time Jim was laughing his head off and everyone else was wondering what Pavel and McCoy were talking about to make him do that. Obviously having had enough Spock spoke up from his station, "Captain, might I suggest that you, Doctor McCoy and Ensign Chekov finish your conversation, it is distracting the rest of the bridge and disturbing their work."

"Uh-oh, it looks like the hobgoblin is going to have a Vulcan hissy fit soon."

Jim burst into another bout of laughter at McCoy's comment and Pavel tried valiantly to suppress his own giggles. Jim managed to control himself to answer the doctor, "I suppose we better stop before he thinks of a logical reason for nerve pinching us out of sheer irritation."

"I'm almost tempted to keep going just to see what reason he comes up with."

Pavel finally lost the battle and began laughing at McCoy's reply which caused the Vulcan in question to stand up and approach the captain and doctor. Seeing him coming Jim quickly spoke to his friend with mock urgency, "Quick Bones, I'll sacrifice myself so you can make your escape while the going's good."

McCoy dramatically answered as he headed for the door, "Your sacrifice will not be in vain, there shall be songs sung about how you bravely faced your demise at the hands of an irritated Spock."

Jim was just as dramatic as he replied, "I know my friend, do not forget me or our friendship."

"It was an honour to be friends with you Jim, I will never forget you nor shall I meet a finer man. Goodbye my friend goodbye."

With McCoy's parting words the doors to the turbolift closed leaving Jim and Pavel giggling hysterically, an irritated Spock and a very confused bridge crew who had no idea what had just happened.

They never did either since most of them never found out that Jim, Leonard and Pavel were fluent in Lord of the Rings elvish.

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