He can do this. He has to do this. leaves me intrigued. I wonder if you're doing the David McCoy/guilt trip route or thinking of playing around with the issue of divorce and whether in this 'verse there is/ever was a Joanna (oooh, kill the kid! lots of mangst and h/c there!) that Bones "failed" to save. (Also, is he a pediatric surgeon? A general surgeon? Thoracic/cardiac? Trauma? Inquiring minds want to do research!)
And then the Y is for Yuppies prompt. I wonder if you'd be interested in/think about the potential issue of class clash between Doctor McCoy/Pilot Kirk, since Pilot Kirk has the potential to be ex-military/working class background and therefore challenge some of the doctor's bourgeois assumptions and (perhaps even) whatever psychological wallow he's in, much less other issues of his everyday life where he thinks he's only got "basic needs" until he meets Kirk and learns otherwise.
I'm reading "Appetites" by Caroline Knapp, and she talks about how excess shopping/overeating/anorexia and other female compulsions are often diseases of privilege, because the sufferer has time to worry about something besides mere survival. It makes me wonder if you have some thoughts about Kirk's particular background/damage (if any) to contrast with McCoy's, and what is driving McCoy's issues.
Is there going to be the white, gentle knight coaxing McCoy back into normal life, or the "snap out of it, you could be in Kabul" kind of confrontation, and how would McCoy respond? Does Jim have his own issues that he lets slip during some more stressful, less blue-skies flight (and gee, won't that be a test for poor Leonard-- or ooh, shootout in the E.R. and Jim freaks out, maybe triggers/goes catatonic and McCoy has to figure it out for them both, and that's the point at which he realizes he has been self-indulgent, and this pilot he hates with a hatey-hate passion but gets him where he needs to go has been right all along?)
The way you've written them here (the world's out to get McCoy and he knows it, Jim's seeming amusement at McCoy's sickness/discomfort and McCoy's responding by feeling more ill) it seems like there's a few ways McCoy could respond. They could really dislike each other at first because McCoy lets his resentment/shame at his reaction simmer and build and Jim has no patience for people who don't just get on with their lives because there's something more important than looking at your belly button all the damned time (even if you build in some issues that he hasn't resolved and is stolidly ignoring until they snap to)-- or Jim's seeming amusement could be sympathy that McCoy failed to discern, and over the course of their working relationship, McCoy slowly works the stick out of his ass.
And I'm a sucker for they're on the verge of getting it all together until one of them really puts their foot in it, somehow, and nearly ruins it all stories. The make up sex is just awesome.
Also, supply closet sex.
And Janice Rand as Kirk's snarky but knowing and soothing dispatcher (eep, maybe she talks Kirk down during the bad flight and McCoy's just sitting there helpless, all WTF?) and/or next door neighbor with Chapel/Rand bonus pairing. Because this fandom needs more lesbian sex.
Ok. So. Maybe that was more than a couple of questions.
ETA: Also, for some reason, this cries out for Moonlighting-type banter, complete with "Fine!"/"FINE!" level door-slamming.
With Bones as Maddie and Jim as David. But not Janice Rand as Agnes Depesto-- just as Janice Rand a la yeomanrand and shinychimera, and Chris Chapel as the BAMF-iest lipstick dyke ER-nurse-in-charge you ever did see. Dunno why, but I would love Chris to tell raunchy, filthy jokes and constantly sexually harass everyone while looking FANTASTIC and completely embarrass McCoy while making Jim giggle with glee.
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He can do this. He has to do this. leaves me intrigued. I wonder if you're doing the David McCoy/guilt trip route or thinking of playing around with the issue of divorce and whether in this 'verse there is/ever was a Joanna (oooh, kill the kid! lots of mangst and h/c there!) that Bones "failed" to save. (Also, is he a pediatric surgeon? A general surgeon? Thoracic/cardiac? Trauma? Inquiring minds want to do research!)
And then the Y is for Yuppies prompt. I wonder if you'd be interested in/think about the potential issue of class clash between Doctor McCoy/Pilot Kirk, since Pilot Kirk has the potential to be ex-military/working class background and therefore challenge some of the doctor's bourgeois assumptions and (perhaps even) whatever psychological wallow he's in, much less other issues of his everyday life where he thinks he's only got "basic needs" until he meets Kirk and learns otherwise.
I'm reading "Appetites" by Caroline Knapp, and she talks about how excess shopping/overeating/anorexia and other female compulsions are often diseases of privilege, because the sufferer has time to worry about something besides mere survival. It makes me wonder if you have some thoughts about Kirk's particular background/damage (if any) to contrast with McCoy's, and what is driving McCoy's issues.
Is there going to be the white, gentle knight coaxing McCoy back into normal life, or the "snap out of it, you could be in Kabul" kind of confrontation, and how would McCoy respond? Does Jim have his own issues that he lets slip during some more stressful, less blue-skies flight (and gee, won't that be a test for poor Leonard-- or ooh, shootout in the E.R. and Jim freaks out, maybe triggers/goes catatonic and McCoy has to figure it out for them both, and that's the point at which he realizes he has been self-indulgent, and this pilot he hates with a hatey-hate passion but gets him where he needs to go has been right all along?)
The way you've written them here (the world's out to get McCoy and he knows it, Jim's seeming amusement at McCoy's sickness/discomfort and McCoy's responding by feeling more ill) it seems like there's a few ways McCoy could respond. They could really dislike each other at first because McCoy lets his resentment/shame at his reaction simmer and build and Jim has no patience for people who don't just get on with their lives because there's something more important than looking at your belly button all the damned time (even if you build in some issues that he hasn't resolved and is stolidly ignoring until they snap to)-- or Jim's seeming amusement could be sympathy that McCoy failed to discern, and over the course of their working relationship, McCoy slowly works the stick out of his ass.
And I'm a sucker for they're on the verge of getting it all together until one of them really puts their foot in it, somehow, and nearly ruins it all stories. The make up sex is just awesome.
Also, supply closet sex.
And Janice Rand as Kirk's snarky but knowing and soothing dispatcher (eep, maybe she talks Kirk down during the bad flight and McCoy's just sitting there helpless, all WTF?) and/or next door neighbor with Chapel/Rand bonus pairing. Because this fandom needs more lesbian sex.
Ok. So. Maybe that was more than a couple of questions.
ETA: Also, for some reason, this cries out for Moonlighting-type banter, complete with "Fine!"/"FINE!" level door-slamming.
With Bones as Maddie and Jim as David. But not Janice Rand as Agnes Depesto-- just as Janice Rand a la yeomanrand and shinychimera, and Chris Chapel as the BAMF-iest lipstick dyke ER-nurse-in-charge you ever did see. Dunno why, but I would love Chris to tell raunchy, filthy jokes and constantly sexually harass everyone while looking FANTASTIC and completely embarrass McCoy while making Jim giggle with glee.
/shutting up now.