palimpsest verse
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“Skip to the point, Jim. The sooner you spit it out, the sooner I can refuse and get back to work.”
“It’s really no big deal,” Jim says as the door slides closed behind them. “I just need you to come down to Hearth with us…as my husband.”
The Enterprise has been sent to negotiate reaccession to the Federation with an isolationist religious group known as the Kindred. While there, Jim notices that some of the children seem to be gravely ill. The problem is, the Kindred practice faith healing and refuse to allow a doctor to be brought in. So Jim does what he does best: he improvises.
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- Part 1 of palimpsest verse
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Seven short fics in the palimpsest verse.
These will jump all over the timeline and include major spoilers for palimpsest, so please please PLEASE read the main story first.
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- Part 2 of palimpsest verse
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If he had any pride left, he’d probably feel humiliated by the way his voice cracks at the end, me-e-e, like a whiny little kid – but his pride’s long gone, coughed up and flushed away along with everything he’s even thought about eating in the past decade.
In which shore leave on Kropturia VI doesn't go exactly as planned.
Major spoilers for palimpsest. PLEASE read the main story first. Trust me on this.
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- Part 3 of palimpsest verse
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Leonard may be more than half asleep still, but he ain’t stupid. He knows an invitation when he hears one.
In which Jim behaves himself until he doesn’t, and breathing is overrated anyhow.
Spoilers for palimpsest. Please, please read the main story first.
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- Part 4 of palimpsest verse
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By far, though, the most peculiar thing about this insolent, loudmouthed, paradoxical confusion of a man is that Leonard’s not sure he’s ever really seen him smile.
In which even the most convincing masks have to crack eventually.
MAJOR SPOILERS FOR PALIMPSEST. Please read the main story first.
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- Part 5 of palimpsest verse
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Leonard doesn’t have too much of a preference for where they end up on any given night, though "protected from the elements" and "not being actively hunted" are qualities he’s learned the hard way not to take for granted.
Written in response to a Tumblr anon who asked: who handles thunderstorms worse, jim or bones?
No real spoilers for palimpsest this time, but I'd strongly suggest reading that first anyway.
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- Part 6 of palimpsest verse
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“Wow,” he murmurs. “That’s some view.”
“Sure,” Bones says behind him, with that desert-dry tone that tells Jim he means the exact opposite. “If you like sleeping inside a goddamn carnival funhouse mirror.”
In which it doesn't click until it does.
MAJOR SPOILERS FOR PALIMPSEST. Please read the main story first.
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- Part 7 of palimpsest verse
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“God, enough already,” says Christine, who’s been sulking beside Uhura for a while now with a face like sour milk. “Can we please have one conversation that doesn’t turn into the Kirk and McCoy relationship hour? Some of us stopped caring like two weeks ago.”
“Speak for yourself,” Sulu says. “Their whole thing is weird as hell. It’s like the what the fuck gift that just keeps giving.”
In which change can be a good thing, but some traditions are worth keeping.
This picks up pretty much right where palimpsest left off, which means there are MAJOR MAJOR MAJOR SPOILERS FOR PALIMPSEST. Please, please read the main story first.
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- Part 8 of palimpsest verse
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Even with Leonard’s head start, Jim is the one who goes visibly gray first.
In which Jim ages gracefully, for the most part. (A.K.A., another response to the remarkably efficacious anon prompt of how Leonard and Jim react to seeing their first gray hairs.)
No real spoilers for palimpsest this time, but as always, I recommend starting there.
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- Part 9 of palimpsest verse
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Here he’s spent years assuming that he must have gotten the short end of the karmic stick, when it turns out the trade-off for slogging through all that shit was hitting the existential jackpot with Bones.
In which Jim has never been happier - so, obviously, he's freaking out.
MAJOR MAJOR MAJOR SPOILERS FOR PALIMPSEST. Please read the main story first.
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- Part 10 of palimpsest verse
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It’s deep into gamma; he hardly saw a soul on his trek up from the shuttlebay. Jim must have forgotten to order the lights off when he headed to bed.
In which Leonard comes home.
No major spoilers for palimpsest this time, but as a general rule I strongly recommend starting there.
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- Part 11 of palimpsest verse