Star Trek ficlet: Reminiscent [Kirk/McCoy, general]
Title: Reminiscent Author: celandineb Fandom: Star Trek XI Pairing: Kirk/McCoy Rating: general Length: 323 words Warnings: language, small spoiler for the film Summary: Bones talks about Jim. Note: For emiime, who knows why. (This is not necessarily connected to my "Heart of the Matter" series, although it's not incompatible, either.)
The thing you have to remember about Jim Kirk is that he's cunt-struck.
I heard that term while watching some obscure film from the early twenty-first century, and knew immediately that it was the perfect description for Jim.
I'm not saying that to be insulting, either; it's simply a fact of his life. He's no more able to keep from scoping out a woman's tits and ass than he'd be able to stop breathing.
Uhura told me once that he had his hands on her tits less than five minutes after they first met, which sounded like pretty fast work even for Jim, until she explained that he'd gotten into a fight and it wasn't exactly on purpose. Even so, how many men do you know who manage to cop a feel of a hot babe while in the middle of a brawl?
So, like I said, cunt-struck.
Sure, it bothers me sometimes. I've been his best friend for half our lifetimes, his lover almost as long. But he's never pretended to be anything else than what he is, and that helps a lot. We agreed a long time ago that other men were off-limits, too, but I knew better than to try to put any restrictions on him when it came to women.
It's been good for his career. No, not that he went around seducing superior officers or anything of that sort. More that he's always been able to flirt whole-heartedly and unselfconsciously, and a little subtle flirtatious flattery never hurt, whether with other Starfleet personnel, or with friendly civilians, or even occasionally with enemies.
I have to admire it, in a way, even if I don't always like it and sure as hell can't do it myself.
Do I get to mess around with women, if Jim does? Of course. Fair's fair. But I don't, very often. I'm just not that interested.