Ocean Eyes - A Leonard "Bones" McCoy x Reader Fic

Chapter 8

Bones POV

Spock and Jim had been acting weird. Like, they have always been slightly off their hooks, but today, there was an air of urgency about them.

That is extremely discomforting with Spock, because usually he is the patient one preventing Jim from running around like a headless chicken.

I was pacing around my quarters. I had been asked to stay inside until called. "Captain's orders.", Jim had said.

I huffed. Did he really think I was going to listen to him? It had been a while since they had left, and I decided to get some work done.

Before I could decide what was the agenda for today, my intercom whistled. "McCoy here."

"Uhura here." Her voice was strained. "Doctor, please hurry to the Bridge. There is an emergency. Y/N has fainted." Cursing under my breath, I picked up my medical kit and rushed out of the door.

The doors of the turbolift slid open and I walked out, worried what had happened. I looked around but there was no one. Perplexed, I scanned the bridge for any signs of hastened evacuation. My eyes landed on a head poking from the Captain's chair.

I walked to the chair and turned it around. Y/N was slumped unconscious in it. I took her pulse, but it was really faint. I took out a hypo and filled it with cordrazine. This was risky material, but it would wake Y/N up for sure. The hypo hissed as it pressed it into her forearm, and she stirred.

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Y/N's POV

My head was throbbing. My eyes fluttered, but they won't open. "Too bright", I mumbled. Someone standing next to me said, "Computer, dim the lights." The voice mumbled something, then stopped. My eyes opened, and then focussed on the person kneeling beside me. "Doctor?" I said, voice cracking.

"Yeah Y/N. What happened? Why did you faint? Why are you sitting in the Captain's chair? Do you remember anything?"

I looked around, a bewildered look covering my face. I didn't remember coming to the bridge. "I don't know Doc... I don't even remember coming to the bridge..." McCoy got up quickly and started examining me with his tricorder.

"No signs of mental trauma. Are you sure you don't remember coming here?" I nodded. Looking around, I now noticed that the lighting was pinkish. "Hey Doc... why is the lighting here pink?" I failed to keep the smile off my face.

He chuckled. "I don't know. When you woke up, I ordered the computer to dim the lights. It did, but the lights also became pink."

Suddenly, it hit me. "Oh my God. I just remembered. This has something to do with Jim. And Spock. Jim had come to my quarters to invite me for breakfast. When I was about to walk out, somebody said, 'I am sorry Y/N.', and then I fainted."

McCoy's eyes had grown wide. He seemed angry. "Come on. Let's find the two devils."

I tried getting up but stumbled. McCoy held my forearm and held me up. Then he stopped. "Y/N. There's a piece of paper stuck to your back." Confused, I asked him to remove it. "It won't come off."

"What does it say?"

"Um... It says, 'I've been watching you for some time; Can't stop staring at those ocean eyes.'"

I froze. I turned around to face McCoy and opened my mouth to say something, but nothing came out.

I couldn't decipher the expression on his face, but I could see the gears turning in his mind. Would he be angry? Or upset? I half expected him to just shrug and walk away, when surprisingly he held my hand and kissed it.

I tilted my head like a confused squirrel, giving him a look of *almost* disbelief.

He chuckled, "Yeah I get it now. But before we get all sweet, I really wanna hunt down both the red-blooded and the green-blooded devils. They are not going to get away with this."

I looked into his eyes, for the first time today.

And I felt myself sinking deep into the ocean of his eyes.