The following are (McSpirk) Prompts or Drabbles from my tumblr. Click a link to jump down to a section.
Hands (separate entry)
Alpha/Omega
Almost Human AU
Spock
Jealousy
Phobia
Losing Someone
Fight
First to Bed
Trapped
Watching
Cuddles
Never Forget
Caring
A Legend
Dating
Pre-Surak Spock
Cowboy Bones
Bondmates
Dress Up
Spock Cares
STID Twist
Christmas I
Christmas II

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Alpha/Omega ‘Verse
Yesterday I really, really wanted to find a McSpirk story about the following but I don’t think it exists.

Alpha/Omega universe. Bones is an omega (although most people mistakenly think he’s an alpha at first because of his personality). Jim and Spock are both alphas BUT somehow Jim, Spock, and Bones are in a relationship that works for them. Maybe Spock as a Vulcan is comfortable as either alpha or omega when properly bonded to someone, despite that his human side leans more toward alpha. Bones is really happy and in love with them both, except sometimes Jim and Spock knock heads in that alpha-way of theirs and then Bones is miserable. He tends to stay away during these times (it’s not like he can choose a side) and that makes him vulnerable to all the other unattached alphas that cross his path (think diplomatic meeting or something, y’all). Maybe people don’t believe it’s possible for an omega to have two alphas so Bones isn’t considered to be bonded.

Now, Bones is a badass omega – in fact, omegas can be really badass in general if they have to be, i.e. Uhura and Chekov scare the living daylights out of crew members by simply smiling at them – and normally can fend off his would-be admirers. But wouldn’t you know it? There’s this one alpha who won’t take ‘no’ for an answer. Bones’ alphas don’t realize their omega is in serious trouble until it’s nearly too late.

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Almost Human AU
I don’t know why I’m thinking about this but has anyone written an Almost Human/STXI fusion where Jim and Spock are synthetics – Jim being the decommissioned “synthetic soul” version and Spock being the current, supposedly “souless” version (but boy is he sassy) – and Leonard, the human detective, ends up having to work with them both because of his proclivity to get into serious trouble all the time? And then of course we have McSpirk in the AH crossover, and both fandoms become a better place.

Just sayin’.

EDIT: OR switch it up a little, Jim is the human detective and Leonard is souriest DRN ever and Spock has to sit in the back seat of the squad car because he won’t stop questioning Jim’s decisions?

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Spock
Let me explain a thing to you.

Spock understands how to take care of his humans. He sees to it that they stay healthy, he pays attention to them when they want attention, and he lets them be if they start to spit and glare. He saves them when they are in trouble, and he keeps an eye on them in between. He offers them loyalty and faith until his last breath.

And all he needs in return for his hard work is to be called ‘friend’.

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Jealous Boyfriends?
Imagine Leonard is having a drink at a hotel bar by himself when suddenly this woman sits down next to him. They flirt a little, and she says she is waiting on her fiancé, who is usually too preoccupied with other things to much care if she chats up a handsome man.

“You don’t say,” Leonard remarks, and then – spying new arrivals at the opposite end of the room – proceeds to lean in and place a hand on her arm and give her his most charming smile. “I’ve got a couple of knuckleheads who are just the same – and who might be heading this way.”

She tells him she’s game. They proceed to flirt outrageously: her, doing things like taking a sip of his drink and adjusting his shirt collar needlessly; him, drawling that he’s a doctor and, when she laughs and challenges him, taking her pulse in a way that is more sensual than professional.

What happens next when Jim and Spock spy Leonard getting a little too friendly at the bar with a lovely stranger? Do they even care?

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Leonard has a phobia…
I had this (probably totally unrealistic) thought: what if Leonard was afraid of something… like spiders?

Jim and Spock only discover this when they’re all on shore leave on some Terran colony, and there’s a spider in the bathroom. Leonard is the one to come across it. He reacts badly; one minute seeming normal, the next pale, sweaty, shaking, hyperventilating. It takes them a while to figure out exactly what he is reacting to. It takes even longer to calm him down, even after Spock removes the (rather harmless) spider from its corner and takes it outside. Jim stays wrapped around Leonard the entire time, trying to warm his husband’s deathly cold hands. Later, Leonard refuses to talk about it in detail, saying only that he can’t stand the things. Jim and Spock let it go. They don’t think less of Leonard for having an irrational fear.

Then the away mission happens, and spiders are everywhere. They aren’t really spiders, Spock points out, being a species native to a never-before-encountered M-class planet. And they’re large – large enough that some of them are the size of a small child. The moment Jim sees one, even at a distance, he orders McCoy to transport back to the ship. Leonard doesn’t argue the point; in fact the doctor cannot seem to speak at all. Concerned about him, Jim makes the mistake of dividing his attention for a split second.

Then the spider-things attack. Twice as many replace the ones they manage to stun. For some reason, the ship doesn’t respond to Jim yelling into his communicator for emergency beam-out. They have to run, find ground they can defend.

In the end, Jim nearly has his arm ripped off and Spock is bleeding profusely from a head wound. Two security officers are dead; the rest are terrified but still trying to drive the creatures back. Jim has a moment in which he thinks he might die, because two of the things are attached to his legs and trying to drag him off into the wild blue yonder or, more likely, their nest.

Leonard saves him by knocking the creatures off with a heavy branch. His normally steady hands are shaking as he pulls Jim back into the circle of officers. He’s crying, too, but without noise. Yet still he binds Jim’s arm, despite looking like the kind of sick Jim has never seen from him before.

They survive by setting fire to the brush around them. Jim hates to do it on principle, destroying a landscape they are only meant to survey, but he wants to lose those who are left even less. By the time they make contact with the ship, everyone is high-strung and exhausted. Jim watches Leonard try his best to patch them up, until there’s nothing left to be done and the doctor sits on the ground and stares between his feet. That’s how they form on the transporter pad, a ragtag team of damaged individuals.

After, Jim learns that Leonard hands over his medical duties to M’Benga and isn’t seen again in the medbay once Jim and Spock’s treatment is underway.

What happens next?

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Losing Someone
There’s nothing worse than losing someone. Leonard has to tell Jim this time and time again as he patches the kid up from jumping into the fire yet again. But it’s those damn Klingons, Jim replies. They don’t know when enough is enough. Leonard jabs Jim a little harder than necessary with a hypospray and retorts, “Well, you aren’t Klingon, Jim. You should know better!” Jim rolls his eyes.

There’s nothing worse than losing someone. Leonard points this out to Spock while he’s examining Spock’s burned hands. Spock’s eyes crinkle faintly at the corners in a wince. Whether it’s because of the pain or the lecture is unclear. Leonard goes on to say things like a Vulcan is supposed to be the logical one, damn it, and following their Captain’s lead is one thing but taking the lead in the whole blasted disaster is another. He doesn’t want to run after two knuckleheads who don’t have an ounce of common sense between them. At that point, Spock reminds Leonard the other doctors and nurses would fix his hands without unnecessary running commentary.

There’s nothing worse than losing someone.

There’s nothing worse.

Jim hasn’t said this to his friend before. He does so now, repeatedly, clutching a cold hand in his. Spock stands on his left without words. But despite the silent sorrow and the broken repetition, Leonard is beyond any plea or chastisement. He told them both as best he could that he didn’t want to lose them. It is most unfortunate that no one ever told him the same.

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Fight
Imagine Jim, Spock, and Leonard having a fight over ship’s business. Jim is snappish, Leonard is defensive, and Spock is clearly at the limit of his tolerance for human illogic. They can’t agree on a course of action before the shift is over. But as they walk into their shared quarters, as they have dinner and get ready for bed, they don’t seem upset at all. It’s because they learned long ago not to bring their work home, since problems can’t be solved overnight and what little personal time they have together is precious enough not to be wasted. Imagine that they are still able to say ‘love you’ and hold onto each other through the night.

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First to Bed
Jim is usually the first to bed, much to his dismay, because there’s always something to keep Leonard in Sickbay past the end of his shift and Spock really likes to work – like, loves it. So Jim climbs into the bed and scuffles around and flips over a million times, counting the specks in the wall paneling. Eventually his body can’t cope with his restless mind and his thoughts shut down one by one until he’s asleep.

But the best part after going to bed by himself is the waking up: there’s a heavy, warm arm draped over his stomach and a nose pressed between his shoulder blades; he can open his eyes, see a serene face close to his with lips slightly parted and listen to the soft breath whistling past them.

They’re both so relaxed, so peaceful – his Spock and his Bones.
And he is reminded then that he is never truly alone.

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Trapped
Imagine Jim, Leonard, and Spock are trapped or imprisoned in a room and rescue is taking some time. Eventually Jim stops circling like a caged tiger, and Leonard stops fiddling nervously with a broken tricorder while picturing various ways that Jim and Spock are going to die. Imagine them finally sitting down side-by-side, Spock in the middle. Inevitably Jim and Leonard fall asleep, one head on each of Spock’s shoulders. However Spock stays awake, quite calmly plotting how he must protect them.

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Watching
Spock watches Jim and Leonard often. At first, it seems like he is confused by them. Their affection for each other is obvious and genuine and very unusual to a Vulcan. Jim throws his arm around the doctor’s shoulders and it never prompts an outburst (whereas if someone else brushes up against the man he bows up like an offended feline). Leonard, on the other hand, has a tendency to give the captain all of his attention whether it is to coax Jim, berate him, or worriedly inquire after his health, none of which Jim seems to mind. So it is that these two humans operate within a private little world of their own, and Spock is puzzled by it.

But then his observation begins to shape itself into interaction, and people realize the Vulcan isn’t merely studying what Kirk and McCoy have, he is attempting to discover the best way to become a part of it.

It starts with a game of chess with Jim, then a shared lunch with Leonard. The First Officer is seen in Dr. McCoy’s office more than once, and often in the company of the Captain. Where Jim and Leonard are walking side by side, Spock will trail close at their heels. The three of them end up lost on a planet survey together. They save lives together. They face down enemies together. They host a dinner for a diplomat and his wife together. They fight a Command decision for a righteous cause together.

At one point a deity with indeterminate power and a wily sense of humor exclaims, “Ah, you three – together – I might have known!”

And then Kirk, Spock, and McCoy go on shore leave, stepping onto the transporter platform as one and arranging themselves in a tight huddle, and no one in the room blinks an eye.
After that, it isn’t simply Spock watching Jim and Leonard. It is each of them watching the other two with something distinctively secretive and amused in his eyes or playing about the corners of his mouth.

It is, the rest of the ship decides, just the way things were meant to be: Jim with one arm around Leonard and the other around Spock; Leonard dividing his attention between the two; and Spock – most of all Spock – who appears satisfied to have both humans by his side.

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Cuddles
Imagine cuddles. It’s like regulation to cuddle on the ship and all crew members wind up in cuddling pairs except for Spock. People just assume more than two people can’t cuddle together, so Jim being the rebel that he is makes a plan with his cuddle buddy Bones. The next day Spock rather shockingly finds himself in the middle of an exuberant cuddle, Jim and Leonard on either side, and they cuddle with him until he gives up saying it is an illogical pastime.

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Never Forget
It’s been a while but they never forget. Jim is first. He pulls the white rose from the vase and lays it across the top. For a moment, he can be seen bowing his head. It’s one of his biggest regrets, never once knowing if he would have been approved of.
Leonard is second. He too offers one of the roses. His fingers skirt the stone as he positions it just right and says a prayer. He feels sad as he always does, not for himself but for the woman and the man waiting his turn.

Spock is last. He does not speak. He does not place flowers on her grave, despite that he comes to Earth so rarely. He knows his mother’s spirit needs none of these things, only his presence. He also knows that his grief, less painful over time but not lessened, serves her memory best. He misses her, but he lives on.

Jim and Leonard stand to the side, respectful, quiet and supportive. When Spock is ready, he goes to them, and they each take one of his hands. It’s the only way he can leave her behind, letting them gently guide him away.

Would she be glad that he is not alone when he visits? He does not know.
Nonetheless, Spock himself is very grateful.

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Caring
Imagine that when Spock visits Leonard in his office only to find that the doctor has fallen asleep midst a litter of old coffee cups and stacks of reports in varying stages of approval, he quietly tidies the desk and goes through the data padds, reviewing them and making notes to help speed up the process since he has no medical authority to sign the reports outright. Imagine that on the occasion Spock visits Jim and finds the man asleep in much the same state as the CMO that Spock adds Jim’s unfinished paperwork to the staggering amount he’s already responsible for. Now imagine that there are often times when Spock is working diligently through gamma shift and Jim and Leonard shuffle into his room and cajole him to rest a while instead, saying they miss him. Those are the times Spock sleeps best, though he never tells them that.

Decades later, long after they’ve become a permanent fixture in each other’s lives, he comes to realize this seemingly sentimental human desire for company has always been their way of taking care of him, just as he has always, automatically cared for them.

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A Legend
“Polyamory is not considered abnormal; it is a way of life for some, and often thought of as a fortuitous omen by the more religious. In truth, multi-partner relationships are the result of people with the determination to succeed, the finesse to balance out many personalities at once and the capacity and willingness to share their affection equally.

Captain Kirk and his Commander Spock were never t’hy’las who decided to accept a friend named Leonard McCoy into their hearts. Kirk and McCoy were never lovers who sought to change the lonesome nature of a Vulcan. McCoy and Spock were never the men who recognized a mutual need for Kirk and agreed to share him.

No, these three were so much more… in a sense which not many of us can comprehend. They were three sets of hands driven by the same purpose, three pairs of eyes sharing the same vision, three hearts made of the same emotion, and three individually brilliant minds that, when united, put all which is considered beautiful and glorious in the galaxy to shame.

They were harmony and grace, power and precision, justice and compassion. Never could there be the like of this balance again, until the universe sees fit to restore them. I tell you now, if that happened, I do not doubt they would be drawn together to become another legendary triumvirate, for no one is whole without the pieces of himself which allow him to fully experience his existence, especially when they better him as a person.

And that, my dear cadets, is why we remember the lives of James T. Kirk, S’chn T’gai Spock, and Leonard Horatio McCoy. Not separately—no, never separate—but as they truly were: an indomitable team, a dynamic partnership, and a marriage of three perfectly matched souls.
With this said, please open your books to page one. We will begin.”

Imagine this is the opening speech of the most popular class at Starfleet Academy, in which teachers fight for the chance to instruct it and wherein students vie for the opportunity to take it.

In other words, the Federation celebrates the existence of the Triumvirate and treats it as an integral part of their history.

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Dating
Leonard is nervous, and he hates it. This isn’t how a grown man should feel. And even if a grown man does get nervous, it shouldn’t be on the fourth date when there have already been plenty of awkward silences, fidgeting and bad jokes—and time to wonder what the hell they had been thinking.

But the truth is that despite all of the not-so-good parts, the first three dates were successful: not only in discovering new things about each other but also in reaffirming why they work so well together. Leonard thinks back on those dates with great fondness and growing hope. Maybe that’s where his trepidation comes from. He wants this to work out so badly that he is almost certain it’s doomed to fail.

If his worst fear does come to pass… well, he’s just going to give up on being happy altogether. He honestly doesn’t believe that he can watch them build a life without him. He thinks for a moment about how painful that would be—just a single moment—and it nearly rips his heart out.

It’s a miserable thing, actually, to love somebody: to know that you want to wake up beside them each morning and fall asleep in their arms at night; to feel it, deep down, from just a glance that they are something which complements you; to believe that their world is yours as much as yours is theirs.

So at length Leonard supposes this nervousness of his is natural. He readjusts the collar of his uniform, checks the lay of his hair for the fifth time and grimaces at the bags under his eyes that never seem to disappear. Then it is time for the date and he can’t stall any longer unless he wants them to think he isn’t going to show up.

Jim meets him at the entrance to the lavishly decorated room. He is all charisma, from his clothes to the timbre of his voice, murmuring, “Bones.” Across the room standing next to their reserved table is Spock, as always impressively immaculate and serene in just the way he stands.

Leonard dips his head and feels his face heat. He’s too old for this, he chastises himself, and far too clumsy and less confident compared to his two companions. How in blazes did he manage the first three dates!

Kirk’s hand drops to rest at the small of his back and Leonard allows himself to be led to his seat. It’s only then, as he fumbles with the chair, that he accidentally catches the way Jim’s hand trembles next to his. Only once he is seated (and Jim and Spock are as well) does he notice that the Vulcan takes a very long time in unfolding a napkin to place on his lap.

Then Leonard looks again with a clearer vision, first at Jim and then at Spock. He sees what he missed: they are nervous too.

He sits back, smiling all of a sudden, and says, “Well… how’s this one going to go, do you think?”

“I don’t know, Bones,” admits Jim right away.

Spock glances between them and replies slowly, “I am not certain.” It is not clear if he is addressing the question.

Leonard sighs, pleased with both responses. It is a happy sound.

“It’ll be fine,” he tells them. “Trust me. It’s going to be just fine.”

And in the end it is, because they can only be themselves; and that has always been more than enough.

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Pre-Surak Spock
One of the wonderful Anons had this headcanon about pre-Surak Spock that ends up in modern Vulcan and then meeting Jim and Leonard, his mates, and offers himself to them and they all live happily-ever-after. I think about this way too often and now I have a twist on it.
Pre-Surak Spock is actually from an alternate dimension where Vulcans are still a warrior race without much interest in space travel although technically they are part of the Federation and agreeable to trade, etc. Somehow Pre-Surak Spock ends up on a small Federation ship in nu!Verse and the crew can’t handle him because not only is he cursing at them in Ancient Vulcan but he thinks he’s been kidnapped because he is a Prince among his people and terrifies everyone and the crew manages to get him into the brig. Their frantic captain hails the nearest vessel which happens to be the Enterprise, saying they have this Vulcan whose gone crazy and god please help us. When Pre-Surak Spock is beamed aboard on the Enterprise in the custody of a team of security officers, Jim takes one look at him and sucks in a breath. At his side, Leonard says something like “oh god another one” because this is not the first Spock from a parallel time they have met obviously. Everyone else is shocked speechlessly, including their Spock, with the exception of the prisoner.

Pre-Surak Spock only needs to see Jim and Leonard once to know they are his, and then suddenly he isn’t fighting his bonds anymore, he’s on his knees and, like Anon said, offering himself for their pleasure and Vulcan-kissing the ground Jim and Leonard stand on and NOBODY knows what to do. And Spock – Spock knows Ancient Vulcan well enough to understand what his counterpart is babbling on about and he has no f-ing clue how to proceed. Jim and Leonard turn to him for help and THAT’S when pre-Surak notices the other Vulcan in the room. At first he thinks this is the Vulcan who has betrayed him to pirates among his own people and then it occurs to him that the Vulcan looks just like him, only without his traditional braid of hair and different garb, and suddenly he knows something stranger is going on that a kidnapping. But that doesn’t matter because he’s met his mates and he must have them. Pre-Surak Spock overthrows his guards in a moment of inattention and wedges himself in between Jim and Leonard and this look-alike Vulcan and declares a challenge – a combat to the death – and the winner wins the right to woo the beautiful humans. At this point someone has had the sense to get a universal translator, and pre-Surak Spock is saying, “You will not have what is mine, and once you are defeated, I will lay the universe at their feet and serve them for as long I shall live.”

Leonard butts in with no one is fighting with anyone whatever the reason, and especially not with Spock, and Jim agrees. Pre-Surak Spock thinks this means that they accept him without the challenge and tells them their hearts are as generous as their minds are beautiful and they will not regret choosing him. He crowds into them and purrs for the m, promising to please them with his body. Jim and Leonard are red-faced, and their Spock takes advantage of pre-Surak Spock’s preoccupation with wooing to nerve-pinch him into unconsciousness.

From there on out, they work hard to figure out what to do about this Spock that does not belong in their universe, how he got there and how to send him back to his proper time and place. But pre-Surak Spock is a big distraction, because he does not like to be separated from Jim and Leonard and if they aren’t around, he goes feral and sedation doesn’t work well on him, not that that anyone wants to risk a limb getting close enough to hypo the out-of-control Vulcan. So Jim and Leonard take turns staying near him to keep him from hurting anyone (which he obeys them without question), and pre-Surak Spock keeps on with his wooing and promises. He sings to them and caresses them with his eyes because he cannot touch them physically, and tells them of his proven prowess and virility. He begs to touch their minds and their bodies, and really it’s tough for Jim and Leonard to bear because they’ve never been courted by someone so determined and moreover he is a version of their Spock and even if they have never once admitted their attraction to their Spock, not even to each other, this wild Vulcan is a great temptation.

But they try to explain again and again that they are not this pre-Surak Spock’s Jim and Leonard; that he must return to his universe. Pre-Surak Spock says he cannot mistake his mates, that his mind recognized them instantly, those which complete him, that he will not leave them even if it means giving up his world and all that he once was.

Spock for his part is deeply disturbed by all of it, and when he can bear his questions no more, he confronts his counterpart when he knows that neither Jim nor Leonard will be in the room they have assigned to their ‘guest’. By then pre-Surak Spock has accepted that this other Vulcan is himself, although not like him, but that also infuriates him. Spock tells his counterpart that his behavior is unacceptable. Pre-Surak Spock counters that he feels only contempt for this version of himself who has rejected the men who are his mates. How can he stand to see them in the company of other males who might take them when he can feel the beauty of their minds? Spock says he does not feel their minds, and pre-Surak Spock is taken aback to learn of this. He asks if Spock has been damaged in such a way that he cannot feel others, and Spock explains to his people it is unlawful to touch other minds without permission and so he maintains his mental shields at all times.

“Then you do not know,” pre-Surak Spock tells him, suddenly understanding, “that they are yours and you are theirs.”

And Spock… Spock for the first time admits haltingly that he knows his mind and Jim’s are compatible from their previous mind-melds. He has never touched the doctor’s mind. But it is not logical to assume both are destined to be mated with him in this universe. It could not be, could it?

“Your doubt is your own,” Spock’s counterpart insists. “For me, there is none. Now that I have met them, I could not part from either. Where one is the sun, the other is water, and I am but the earth in need of both to live.” He refuses to converse further on the matter, because this other Spock who should be him seems cowardly.

Spock leaves, more unsettled than ever.

And it is to Leonard that he goes, who takes one look at him standing in the shadow of his office doorway and says, “What’s wrong?”

“I do not know precisely what troubles me, Doctor,” Spock replies. But then he comes forward.

“It’s the other… Vulcan,” Leonard guesses. “We told it wouldn’t be wise to speak to him. He’s not you, okay?”

“Yet he is as I could be,” murmurs Spock. Then he comes to a decision, for it is clear what must happen next, and asks Leonard for a favor. He asks to meld with him.

Leonard pales, but Spock promises that it would be only briefly, just a touch, because he must have an answer to a question he can get no other way. He also says that if Leonard refuses, and he has the right to do so, that he will understand and he will not ask again.
But Leonard surprises him, by agreeing. “I’ve got my own questions,” he says, not explaining further.

And so Spock initiates the mind meld.

One second, Spock learns in that moment, is all that is required to change one’s world. From the moment their minds join, he comprehends the truth of pre-Surak Spock’s claims. There is a way in which Leonard fits into him which is nothing short of fate.

He pulls back and ends the connection before his thoughts become known. Leonard blinks and only remarks, “That was quick.”

Spock excuses himself and leaves.

The headcanon goes on from here. Basically they figure out how to send pre-Surak Spock back to his time, and by that time Jim and Leonard are starting to be swayed by him. It’s terrible for everyone, because Jim and Leonard know he doesn’t belong with them, and pre-Surak Spock says he will die if they send him away. Spock confronts him again, saying it is not a matter of choice. He even tells his counterpart that there must be two other men like Jim and Leonard who belong to that Spock in his universe and will never met him, that they possibly could live unhappy lives because pre-Surak Spock is not there to care for them as they should be cared for. Pre-Surak Spock is moved when he hears this, but then he is also suddenly suspicious. He asks why does it sound as if Spock accepts that Jim and Leonard are his mates. “Because I have confirmed it,” Spock tells him.

The thought of someone else joining with his mates sends pre-Surak Spock into a rage. “How dare you touch what is mine!” he roars and attacks Spock.

But to his surprise, Spock lets himself be hit only once before he shoves the feral Spock away, into something that shatters, and declares in Ancient Vulcan, “No, it is you who trespasses. They are mine.”

The guards rush into the room, having heard the sounds of the fight, to subdue pre-Surak Spock. Jim and Leonard are called to the scene, and that’s when they realize there can be no more delays because there cannot be two Spocks in their lives, not like this.

They take pre-Surak Spock to the transporter room, preparing to send him home. He struggles the entire way until he is forced towards the platform, and then he throws off his guards and tries to crawl across the floor to Jim and Leonard, begging them not to send him away. It’s worse than either Jim or Leonard imagined, and they visibly have to restrain themselves from going to the Vulcan, who says over and over again that he loves them, he cannot live without them, please no don’t do this. It’s Leonard who breaks first, crying, “Please, Spock, stop!”
Pre-Surak Spock does, tears on his face. Jim orders everyone out of the transporter room, hesitating when he says that their Spock can stay.

Leonard says to the kneeling Vulcan, his voice heavy, “Don’t you understand? You’re not here to be with us – you’ve come here so that you will know we exist for you.”

Jim lays a comforting hand on his friend’s shoulder before he goes to pre-Surak Spock and pulls him to his feet, saying simply, “We can’t be yours, Spock. I’m sorry.”

Pre-Surak Spock looks back to Leonard with a heartbroken expression.

“I’m sorry,” the doctor says too.

Gently Leonard and Jim walk him onto the transporter pad. They say something else to him in a low tone, and then step off.

Spock moves behind the control console, grateful for once that his Vulcan control keeps his hands steady. He inputs the settings to send his counterpart back to his universe, and then – just before he activates it – looks up at the Vulcan with his head bowed, at this great warrior broken by the fact that his mates do not want him.

He says in their native tongue, “Do not grieve. I am Spock, son of Sarek. I am you. This, you have taught me.”

Pre-Surak Spock lifts his head. “Will you honor them? Will you protect them? Tell me, Spock, son of Sarek, who is I and yet not, will you give all that you are to these men until your last breath?”

“And beyond,” Spock promises.

His counterpart nods, grieved though he still is. “Then I give them to you – and find my own.”

“Thank you,” Spock replies in Standard, and then he activates the sequence. Pre-Surak Spock de-materializes and is gone.

…I could go on from here. How Jim, acting so strong, is close to breaking down in the turbolift later on, and Leonard holds him. How their Spock drops to his knees at the sight of their pain, and asks for forgiveness. How, shocked, they make him stand up again. How Spock confesses that he hates that he cannot be the same, that he cannot express his feelings so openly or sing to them in the corridors or kiss their hands. He is not his counterpart. He is unworthy.

And that is how they fall-in-love, all of them. That is my McSpirk headcanon.

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Cowboy Bones
Imagine Leonard walks into the transporter room in a cowboy outfit, complete with a hat and spurs on his boot, and for a long moment everyone is stunned into silence, at which point Leonard gives them a slight nod and a polite touch to the brim of his hat then steps up onto the pad to take his place between Jim and Spock. Eventually Jim realizes the tech is saying, “Captain, Captain?”, waiting on him to give the order for the landing party to beam down. Jim has to clear his throat and peel his eyes away from his doctor in those chaps before he can say anything. Imagine that Spock doesn’t bother to stop staring at Leonard and when they materialize on the planet, his head is still turned in the doctor’s direction.

And despite all the attention Leonard hardly reacts – just activates his tricorder in one hand, draws out a phaser from the holster on his hip with the other, and says with a slightly different twang to his voice, “Take a picture. It’ll last longer. Now let’s get goin’.”

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Bondmates
Rather than being bonded at a young age, all Vulcans go through a time when they must determine who their bondmate is. Sometimes this is done hastily before the pon farr; sometimes a Vulcan will search throughout his lifetime. Other times it takes both partners by surprise. Spock knows he must do this one day, stays conscious of the thought, but otherwise does not actively begin his search. After all, there are but a handful of Vulcans in the whole of Starfleet, and none of them in space except him.
But on the day that his captain—or at the time, acting captain in place of Pike—slaps him on the shoulder, Spock feels a strange something stir. He doesn’t think about it again for a long time.

Until, that is, it starts to occur each time Jim casually lays a hand on him. Then Spock begins to wonder if indeed he has quite coincidentally come upon the person he is to be bonded to.

But not long after that, on an away mission gone awry, another person touches him and he feels the same thing. It’s McCoy.

Cue a very confused Vulcan.

Since Spock is the type to need an answer and a logical path to follow, he decides he cannot remain confused and must determine who is the actual bondmate and who is the false-positive. So, logically of course, he begins rather discretely to touch each human.

Now this kind of increased physical contact signifies something much different than a Vulcan experiment to humans: it signifies interest.

Jim catches on immediately that Spock has taken a liking to him. He touches Spock back with increased frequency, less friendliness and a lot more flirting. Leonard, sad to say, is slower on the uptake. Once he does cotton on to the fact that it is a strange state of affairs for Spock to ‘accidentally’ grab his hand in Sickbay, Leonard has to give this some thought. And even though he’s supposed be thinking about what it all means, he ‘accidentally’ touches Spock back one day. And then does it again – not that he is responding with an interest of his own. He thinks.

None of this goes unnoticed by the crew, because when three senior command officers start showing lots of PDA between them, people are bound to clarify what that means. And it means that the Captain, First Officer, and CMO are dating.

Jim and Leonard catch wind of this and at first it’s a little awkward. One had no idea Spock was interested in the other. They don’t say anything to each other about it, naturally, and are one day pretending everything is fine while enjoying lunch at the mess hall. Spock shows up, takes the empty seat between them, and begins to eat.

Eventually this leads to Jim and Leonard sizing each other up and, in unison, they both lay a hand on Spock, one on each arm. Spock drops his fork.

Because what the Vulcan had not realized up until then is that an inkling of a bond which is only partially correct is nothing in comparison to the full effect of knowing exactly who you need, how, and why. Suddenly it makes perfect sense why he could never feel certain who is better suited.

While Jim and Leonard look on, Spock declares with a sense of triumph, “I have solved it!”

For this Vulcan surely has. Little do Jim and Leonard know, it won’t be long in coming until the rumor aboard the Enterprise is in fact true.

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Dress Up
Just… it’s time to go out in public, Spock is standing neat and trim in his very proper attire by the door, and behind Spock is Jim, who is defeated by all the buttons on his uniform front and can’t put them in the right holes but refuses to ask for help because it’s embarrassing to be a captain who can’t dress himself.

Cue Leonard’s appearance from the bathroom, whereupon he rolls his eyes at the situation. He goes to Jim, slaps Jim’s hands away and fixes Jim up. Then he pokes Spock hard in the back and says, “Pay more attention. We’re ready.”

Spock blinks as Leonard drags a red-faced, muttering Jim with him through the door. He slowly follows.

Next time Spock is the one to dress their captain.

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Spock Cares
One thing Spock learned from his parents is that taking care of your bondmate is very important. Because he has two bondmates, he puts a lot of effort into caring for them equally. This includes tucking them in when it’s bedtime. Despite that the work schedules of Jim, Leonard, and Spock don’t always coincide, Spock is proud of the fact that he never fails to find a moment to stop by the captain’s quarters or the doctor’s quarters (or even his own if Jim or Leonard has decided to sleep there in his absence) and make sure they are properly covered by their blankets and sleeping peacefully. The best part, of course, is when he is able to tuck one or both of them in and then stretch out alongside them to keep them company while they rest. Jim and Leonard are very appreciative of this attentiveness, and in return bring Spock hot tea and Vulcan kisses when he works long hours in his office.

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STID Twist
The beginning of STID is the same up until Jim’s in bed and his comm goes off, but instead of the Caitian twins, Bones and Spock sit up. Then the rest of the movie is spent trying to convince us it’s all utterly platonic.

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Christmas I
The beauty of Christmas for Jim is Spock with mittens and three layers of coats and all but his eyes and nose covered by a deep green, handcrafted scarf. The beauty of Christmas for Jim is Leonard who dresses Spock up in those mittens, coats, and scarf and who then kisses the tip of Spock’s nose before wrapping an arm around Jim and declaring that they’re all ready to go. The beauty of Christmas for Jim is Spock waddling through the snow like an oversized marshmallow and Leonard surreptitiously making a snowball while eyeing the back of the oblivious Vulcan’s head.

The beauty of Christmas for Jim is really quite simple: it’s the ones he loves best, his Spock and his Leonard.

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Christmas II
On Christmas morning, Leonard just wants to sleep in as late as he can, Jim is up before the sun rummaging through the pantry in an attempt to find ingredients to make cookies, and Spock awakens at the same time like every other morning, not convinced that this day warrants a change in his schedule. Unfortunately he fails to check on their errant partner, and right when Leonard is about to fall into the deepest part of his sleep, the apartment smoke detector starts to blare. Suffice to say, the rest of this morning is spent with a kitchen fire, a singed Kirk, and a very, very grumpy Southerner. That’s when Spock decides to bundle up the humans and take them out in search of breakfast on every Christmas day thereafter.

[ Next Set of Drabbles]

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