Falling In Love With Dr. McCoy {ON HOLD...AGAIN}

Chapter 1

It is 5:00 a.m. and a PaDD keeps on ringing. A young woman in her early 20s wakes up grumbling loudly and goes to check the message and turn the PaDD off for the rest of the morning. The message read:
Miss Clarissa Reinders
I am sorry to inform you that your friend Mr. Jim Kirk has been in a serious bar fight with certain anonymous cadets of StarFleet Academy and needs medical attention immediately . Thank you for your cooperation.
Admiral Christopher Pike
Clarissa mumbled under her breath and changed into some jeans and an old shirt. She grabbed her medical scanner and tricorder and put them in a bag. She hated it when the StarFleet authorities had to call her when her best friend Jim Kirk got into a pickle. It was only the second year here at StarFleet Academy and Jim already had been to sickbay maybe more than 100 times. That boy certainly had a nack for getting into trouble. Well at least he had someone to drive crazy. But neither the less Clarissa still hated having her sleep interrupted by anyone.

Clarissa entered into Room 408 and gasped at the sight. Jim was lying in the bed with his right eye purple and his left wrist swollen. It looked broken. She immediately began to ready a hypo for the pain.
Jim opened his left eye and smiled "Nice to see honey. Why don't we go out sometime?" Claris rolled her eyes and injected him with a hypo that put him out for a while.
He was clearly very much drunk, per usual. He had been given a long weekend; all cadets under Admiral Pike had been given the same privilege. Except they knew how to be normal and not get drunk and Jim didn't.
After finishing the cast on Jim's hand, Claris went outside to the steps and stayed there lost in her own thoughts. She was thinking of home and her wonderful family the Claris missed every day;she thought of her beautiful little sister that in 2 days would be joining her at StarFleet and would be her new roommate. 2 days seemed a long time for the homesick girl. As lost as Claris was in her thoughts she did not realize the misstep that there was between the last step and the sidewalk. Claris placed her left foot right in the hole and winced at the excruciating pain that quickly shot up her leg. She carfully removed her foot from the hole and holding onto the hand rail, she hoisted her body back to sickbay. Just as Claris was opening the door, a young woman was walking out.
She happened to be a nurse and asked " What happened here? Is it broken or sprained?"
Claris answered " I think it's broken and badly." The young woman put her arm around her waist and helped her into sickbay. Claris limped, every step becoming more painful. The nurse then helped her onto the biobed and then said " Stay there. I will be back shortly; I have to notify the doctor on duty."

Claris was in too much pain to answer so she nodded her head to show the woman that she understood. Five minutes later the lady appeared with a man. She introduced them both " I am Caitlin West and this is Dr. Leonard McCoy, the doctor on duty."

Claris jerked as cold hands were placed on her swollen, hot ankle and felt as they maneuvered over it, feeling the extent of the damage. Dr. McCoy now spoke saying" Nurse West, I need a hypo and 2 painkillers now please."

He sounded grumpy but there was something about him that made Claris laugh. Dr. McCoy turned at her and asked "Are you drunk or what? No one laughs when they break their ankle like you did."

Claris answered still laughing "No. I am not drunk. I...I...just...you made me laugh." She felt her face turning red as she began to measure the young man in front of her. He was tall maybe 6 ft, dreamy eyes and they twinkled as Dr. McCoy smiled at her.

Nurse West came back and Dr. McCoy told Claris " I am going to inject you with a painkiller. You wouldn't be able to feel your leg for at least one hour. You will also have to stay overnight since you would not be able to walk on it for a while." Claris nodded ok and let the doctor set her ankle. When Leonard was done he looked at the patient but Clarissa was exhausted at having to wake up early and was already in sound asleep. "She looks beautiful in her sleep." whispered Leonard to Caitlin.