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Trektober 2020 - Day 11: Stars - Leonard McCoy x GN!Reader

This was actually difficult! Which is strange, because i love stars and i should have been able to run away with this. but once i sat down and thought about it, i got this!! I hope that you guys enjoy it!! also @outside-the-government MORE SOFT BONES FOR YOU!!!

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You loved Gamma shift. It was quiet, especially when the Enterprise wasn’t in warp. Everyone was sleeping, dreaming, except for a skeleton crew that kept the ship running and prepped it for the Alpha shift at 0800. You would often take your work to the dining hall, where it was least occupied, and sit at the table by the large window. Half the time, you wouldn’t get anything done, choosing instead to stare at the stars that dotted the galaxy that your crew had already mapped.

That’s where Leonard had found you – staring out the window in the dining hall at the M35 star cluster, the bright blue stars taking up most of the window with how close the Enterprise was to them. Scattered around you were papers – physical papers with pencil sketches – and a PADD with information on the planet the Enterprise was orbiting. He watched you with the same interest that you watched the stars – with adoration and curiosity, admiration; though, he wondered if you harbored the emotion that both warmed his chest and anxiously clutched at his heart.

He cleared his throat before he approached your table. It took a moment for you to drag your gaze away from the stars, and Leonard swore he could see them reflected in your eyes, as though they had imprinted themselves there. You fluttered your eyes and straightened, stretching your arms above your head with a small whine. “Sorry, I didn’t hear you come in,” you murmured. You smiled as he took the seat across from you. “Didn’t know you were on Gamma shift this rotation, or else I would have stopped by to say hello.”

He slid one of the two cups of coffee across the table to you. “Geoff and I switched rotations, since he was on Alpha shift last time,” he explained with a shrug, “Easier on both of us, and at the end I have a week on doubles before going back to Alpha to let him change his schedule.”

“Awfully nice of you,” you whispered.

He smiled. “What are you doing out here, darlin’?” he finally asked. He didn’t look at window, not when he was this close to it. It made him nervous, and he was already nervous from just sitting across from you. “Ain’t your lab empty?”

You took the coffee and took a sip, shrugging at his question. “It is,” you said, looking up with that same gentle smile. “But I don’t have this view in my lab.”

“View,” Leonard grumbled with a roll of his eyes, lifting his cup to drink deeply. His heart fluttered as your lips pressed together in that way that they did when you tried not to laugh. “One crack in that glass and we’re goners. The depressurization would kill us before the cold or the lack of oxygen.”

“Why do you always think of the bad of space?” you asked.

His mouth puckered in a sour pout. “We’re hurtling around a planet at thousands of miles an hour, darlin’. Why wouldn’t I think of the bad?” he grumbled.

You leaned against the table to tuck your legs under you and twirled the paper you had been drawing on before he arrived. “Historically, this cluster of stars was in a constellation called Gemini on Earth,” you said, “The twins, Castor and Pollux, who had a lovely story in mythology back home.” You tilted your head pulled the PADD over, continuing with your lecture, “Down on Castux – the planet we’re orbiting – they say that M35 has a place in their stories, too: they’re the remnants of their gods, the clues that let them know that they’re never really that far from where they came from.”

“You almost make them sound romantic,” Leonard whispered.

You looked down at your PADD as you said, “Hard not to be a romantic when you’re around.”

He was mid sip when the statement sunk in, and his eyes flicked over your face. A small smile played on your lips when you glanced up at him. He cleared his throat and shifted in his seat, leaning over to glance at your PADD. His fingers brushed over the back of your hand. “What else can you tell me?” he softly asked. His heart, the traitorous thing, sped away from him as your eyes traced the nebulae of his iris and took in the little piece of space he carried with him.

“I can tell you a lot, Dr. McCoy, but it would an awfully long time,” you murmured.

“Leonard,” he corrected, “You can start over breakfast?”

Stars, he thought when you smiled, you were brighter than stars and far more beautiful. “I certainly can start over breakfast,” you agreed.

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