Do you want to do AU or normal? What genre sounds interesting? Fairy tail again? Murder mystery? Western? Medieval? Modern? If you’re not sure how about a murder mystery party where everyone works at the same company and it’s the Christmas party. Everyone has to work in groups to solve it. Or what about an alternate universe where they’re all members of a royal court preparing for the Winter festival? Or maybe just a modern (or even ST universe) story of everyone preparing for the winter holidays full of family goodness? Just people being nice to each other and wrapping up a long year of good and bad things? Jim and Bones’ first Christmas at the academy, away from home, away from family, maybe they’re just now becoming friends. Or ooooh. Modern fic. Set in a school either high school or college where Jim Spock and McCoy are teachers. Jim has a crush on Spock and asks McCoy to help him woe the man. McCoy has feelings for Jim but because Jim is his best friend offers to help anyway. McCoy does so by befriending Spock which leads the each of them developing feelings for each other. Wicked love triangle with their mutual friends (Uhura, Sulu, etc) getting them together on Christmas. Or maybe none of these. But hopefully something will have given you some ideas.

I presume from “Jim and Bones” that’s it’s Reboot, not TOS (somehow I can’t refer to TOS characters as anything but their last names in my mind, and exactly the opposite for AOS), which admittedly isn’t really my thing, but…maybe something here in this silliness will then spark something awesome from the even-more-awesome which is your brain. 1. Jim has always loved winter/Christmas/whatever-holiday-you-want-to-call-politically-correct-in-that-century a little too much. Unfortunately for the crew of the Enterprise (and one particular sunshine-loving Southern boy), his computer programming skills do encompass reworking Environmental Control to let it snow. In the corridors, yes. (Spock applauds his new captain’s skills, if not his enthusiasm, before he decides that retreating to his cabin for a sweater is the more logical form of valor against a less-than-impressed CMO.) 2. You do know that there’s a positive dearth of Jim/Spock/Bones non-porny cold-and-therefore-sensible-cuddling fic, right? *makes with the puppy eyes* 3. (STID Spoilers) The senior command crew of the Enterprise has, unbeknownst to Jim, secretly adopted the poor tribble that led to his miraculous resurrection. As the animal is considered contraband aboard a Federation starship, they must take various drastic measures to ensure it is not discovered by their entirely too inquisitive captain, who is cheerfully tearing apart the ship in search of his hidden Christmas presents. 4. Every time I hear that lovely McCoy quote from TOS, something about “in all the billion billion universes, there’s only one of each of us – don’t destroy the one named Kirk” I always think of snowflakes, and how they are all individual. Maybe you could work that analogy in your fic somehow? Yeah, can you tell I’m in the mood for silliness and fluff? *goes back to hiding under fandom rock*