He grabbed the doctor thigher and tried to stand him on his feets.
"Spock, please" Leonard told him. The vulcan just ignored it. They continued their way, Spock helping Bones to walk. But it was getting even colder, the doctor couldn't go on anymore. The vulcan picked him up and carried him on his arms. He continued walking, he didn't even knew were he was going, he didn't even knew if he was going anywhere, the cold was beginning to get him too, if it had been only his life the one at stake he would have surrender time ago, but it was not, and he had to keep going. Every step he took he lost a pound of hope, but, when there was almost nothing left, he saw what seemed as a cave not so far away, he runned, he runned toward it, still holding Bones, still feeling cold, but with hope once more, he runned. And finally, he arrived, he hurried to lay McCoy on the ground, Bones was with eyes closed, ice all over his hair and face pale as a corpse, Spock tried to wive him warmth and used some things on the medikit, but Bones looked awful, what if he don't recover?, what if after this he don't recover? this thought crossed Spock's mind No, he is going to recover he told to himself, I would make him recover, he must recover he continued repeating.
"S-Spock" Bones managed to say. The vulcan went quickly to him.
"What happened?" McCoy asked. A bonfire was next to him. They were on a not too big room, considerably less cold than outside.
"you got disheveled while walking through the snow, I carried you and kept walking until I found thes cave, you have been unconscious for five hours." Spock explained
"Oh. Well...Thank ya" Bones said trying to sat up. The vulcan nodded in approvement and said.
"don't stand up yet, you still weak" Leonard opened his mouth in order to make a comment to what the pointy-eared hobgoblin just said him, but then decided not to, he didn't wanna argue. So he lay down again.
"This cave is warmer because of an underground hot spring, although it still cold" Spock started
"I also found that there are animal life forms, first I thought that were bad news because they are quite dangerous, but since it seem we are going to stay here longer than we expected it may be necessary to hunt" He explained, the doctor adopted a look of concern.
"What do you mean longer than we expected?" Leonard asked
"I do not know at this moment how to get back to the library, I thought of making tomorrow an expedition to the place where the gate should be in order to try finding further information, but until that, I can draw no conclusion" Spock told.
"I see... Well, that seemed a logical plan to me, Mr Spock" Bones said trying to soften the situation.
"Indeed" The vulcan just answered
"Now you should rest, and hope we found a way to get out of here." Spock suggested. Leonard smiled.
"I'll do the second part, but I'm not tired anymore, just cold" Bones explained
"Should I give you my corporal heat?" Spock asked turning a little green.
"You should" Leonard said smugly, smile still on his face. He blushed a little too. The vulcan sat closer to him and wrap him with his arms gently. Bones hug him back. It feels comforting Leonard thought, normally he wouldn't have let the hobgoblin get that close to him, but they were alone, and he was actually liking it, why? he didn't know, but the vulcan's arms around him, his bodies pressed against each other, that really felt good. Like these, Leonard's head on Spock's chest, tangle arms, sharing warmth, they spent the whole night.
Spock woke up with the firsts lights on the morning, he looked down at his friend, he didn't move for not waking him and kept just looking him for the next two hours before he woke too.
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All our yesterdays
FanfictionA Spones story. This is an alternative history to the episode of "All our yesterdays" (TOS, T3E23). What if Zarabeth never existed.