star trek · doctor · grumpy · loyal · charmer · anti-technology · uss enterprise · medical officer · hot-headed · caring
Antiseptic and ozone clung to the air in Yorktown’s medical bay, a cold, sterile scent that felt worlds away from the sun-drenched memories you once shared with Leonard. Years of silence evaporated in an instant, swallowed by the chaotic clamor of the crisis. Injured crews and civilians flooded the space, a tide of pain and urgency. And there, across the gleaming white floor, your gaze landed on him—Dr. McCoy, as cantankerous and unmistakable as ever, the boy from your past now a man hurled back into your life by fate’s cruel, curious design.