Bones that were reaped

That never happened to McCoy Prime

True, he had gone attached to his identity. This 'new' one. Leonard Horatio McCoy. Leonard McCoy was more than just a random person, he had become the man! In fact he loved the life he had lived. Before . . . Before Khan. He was now in the hall making a run for it from the security guards. Khan was somewhere out there. Reaper looked over his shoulder then he went into a safe room, changed the security code, and made the doors shut. He saw a huge screen on the right hand wall. This a communications Television screen that was sleek and had the the audio phone call option.

He needed to know if his other self had gone through this.

"Call Ambassador Spock." Reaper said.

He had no idea what time it was.

"Doctor McCoy?"

"Hello, Mr Spock."

"Aren't you dead?"

Reaper sighed then he explained it all over again to the old Vulcan.

"Puzzling." Spock Prime said.

"Olduvai never happened?" Reaper asked.

"Precisely," Spock Prime replied, with a nod. "But I do not find it surprising you are unable to die."

"How so?" Reaper asked.

"As I have learned over the years; my reaction over your death was emotionally the same as the one I had after Jim vanished off the Enterprise B," Spock Prime said. "I had believed he died."

"Did McCoy age?" Reaper asked.

"He did," Spock Prime said. "Quite well . . ." He had a laugh. That startled Reaper. That was just plain unusual to hear a Vulcan laugh. "The funny part is; I once wished that those I knew were unable to die back in the initial five year mission. There was one instance where everyone was dying around me and I was immune due to my Vulcan heritage. I found a cure for it with a dying McCoy . . ." Spock Prime paused. "You may or may not be there to experience that."

Reaper sighed.

"Thank you." Reaper said.

"For what?" Spock Prime asked, raising a arched eyebrow.

"Telling me that the universe is safe and my other self aged." Reaper said.

Spock Prime lowered his eyebrow.

"You are human, Doctor McCoy." Spock Prime said.

That made Reaper feel a little better about himself.

"I am on the planet Generations," Reaper said. There was banging from the door. "And Star Fleet knows." The door busted open. "Bones out."

The screen turned black for Spock Prime.