All our yesterdays

Not so good news

"Good mornin' " Bones said without letting him go.

"Good morning" Spock replied. Letting be seen for a second what Leonard would have sworn was a smile.

"Ready for going outside?" The vulcan asked. Bones nodded.

"I think we should go first to hunt in order to get some food and maybe something to use as a coat, it still quite cold" Spock suggested.

"Okay, let's go then" Bones said standing up. They did so, and after eating, and making some coats they went out again looking for the place where the library used to be. It wasn't as far as Spock remembered, I guess yesterday I gave a big detour before finding the cave he thought.

"Jim!" Bones yelled when they arrived. No answer

"Jim" Spock repeated.

"Spock?!" They heard Kirk's voice

"Jim" They both say at a time

"Are you alright?" Bones asked

"Yes, I've found a flop and I'm doing fine. Are you alright?" Kirk said

"We are in the ice age, there's no one but us here, we had some trouble yesterday but Spock founded a cave and I would say we are safe now" McCoy explained.

"Fine...but I have some bad news" Kirk started. There was something in his voice that Leonard didn't like

"What's that Jim?" He enquired concerned.

"I had discovered that... there's no turning back" Kirk finally said

"Do you mean...we're trapped here?" Bones asked alarmed.

"I'm afraid that's exactly what I mean Bones" Jim answered. Leonard just give a look to Spock who was silently reflexionating the subject, although he looked concerned too. Bones didn't like the idea at all but he found he wasn't really upset about it as he thought he would be.

"Guys, I can't stay much longer, or the people on the street would think I'm talking with spirits" Jim said with a chuckle.

"I think we should meet here in a periodic amount of time" The vulcan was now speaking.

"Yes, I like that idea" Kirk said through the wall

"Here every two days at midday?" He continued

"Okay, that sounds good, see ya in two days then" Bones said finishing the conversation and making his way back to the cave with Spock.

"Are you okay?" The vulcan asked while walking

"Who me?" Leonard said raising his eyebrows. Spock nodded and then explained

"You have been very quiet since we talked to Jim, it's because what he said, isn't it? because we can't go back"

"Well...yes. To be honest I'd never imagined myself ending like this, in an inhabited planet in the ice age, ya know, the people on the Enterprise may think we are dead, my family, I'm not goin' to see them again, never goin' to fly on a starship again" Leonard told him with a little sorrow.

"I understand" Spock said

"At least we aren't completely alone" Bones added turning his gaze to Spock. A small smile grew on the doctor's face.

"Besides, if I have to pass the rest of my life alone with someone... I'm glad it's with ya" Leonard said glancing Spock looking for his approval. Spock looked back at him, the tips of his pointy ears were green, he looked into his friend's deep baby blue eyes. There was an awkward moment before they blushed and looked away. After that they continued walking silently. 

Bones' mind was busy, first, the thought of being there the rest of his life filled his mind, then the thought of whether it had been or not a good idea to have said that to Spock  I had made him feel uncomfortable, if I'm gonna spend the rest of my life with that hobgoblin I don't want him to thought that I'm in love with him or somethin', but am I? No, no, that's impossible, it is? damn it! stupid brain, stop makin' such questions! he chuckled at the fact that he was thinking of that things, he felt as a kid. They finally reached to the cave and spent the rest of the day normally, nothing worth reporting, except for the fact that both were too quiet, they needed time to assimilate Jim's news. When Bones started feeling tired he sat on a corner in order to sleep, when he had his eyes already closed he suddenly felt an arm around him, to be honest at first he panicked a little, he wasn't sure why, so he immediately relaxed, it felt comforting, he cuddled with the vulcan and they spended like this one more night.They went over the days, they were somehow beginning to get used to it, they went to talk with Kirk as agreed (Jim was alright, he was with some medieval woman and had a job), they went hunting some days, they usually slept together, they spended a lot of time just talking, you know, that pointy-eared vulcan really knew many interesting things, they even talked one day about Spock's childhood in vulcan and Leonard's in Georgia, Bones didn't knew how much his friend had suffer for being half breed since then, he was sorry for him, and he felt bad for making fun of his ears, he actually liked those ears. Spock didn't knew eather about McCoy's past, he realized that he had never mentioned it before, neither to him nor to Jim, when the doctor told him he understood why, it was painful for Bones to remember, when Leonard explained him what had happened to his father the vulcan's chest ached of sorrow, the doctor had lost in one way or another everyone he once loved.

Just like that a week passed, then two weeks and then three.