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James T Kirk ([info]jimmytkirk) wrote in [info]dunwichgame,
@ 2025-06-02 00:16:00

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Entry tags:!log/thread/narrative, star trek: christine chapel, star trek: james t kirk

Jim & Christine
decisions were made
Jim hadn't set out to get into a fight that night, though he knew he'd been on that path for a few days now. Either that or he was going to find someone to take him home and make him stop thinking that way - and really he wasn't sure either of those options was the right one. But then he'd been at some bar and this guy just would not take no for an answer. And unlike Khan or Spock or anyone else, Jim didn't feel any particular compunction about this man seeing him in less than upstanding form.

And one thing led to another and Jim was now sitting around at MIST rather than the local police precinct thanks to their local sheriff - who was apparently someone just like him, trapped here in a life he didn't choose. He was just handling it a little better than Jim was currently.

He didn't know why he'd called Christine to come spring him, maybe because the alternative was Spock - and he couldn't let his first officer see him like this anymore than he could allow Khan to see him like this. He'd be just as likely to end up in another fight if he'd called him. So Christine had been the only choice. Khan's words that she had a kind heart rang in his ears in that moment while he waited - that and the throbbing in the back of his head. A part of him still missed this, the familiar ache of a good fight.

But he knew come morning he wouldn't be thinking the same thing. He exhaled slowly, letting his head tip back his eyes closing as he waited, counting out the seconds in his head.

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[info]nurse_hijinks
2025-06-03 12:54 pm UTC (link)
Christine made short work of getting the bruising and abrasions on Jim's face healed up, leaving the nose for last because i would take a bit longer. She held the device there for several long moments before it beeped the completion cycle. "Now I'm not telling you anything you don't already know, but try not to break your nose again in the next week or so while your body finishes its natural healing processes," she said as she put the device away. Then she got up and went to what passed for kitchen storage for a washcloth, soaking it in warm water then wringing it out before returning to her patient to clean the blood off of his face and see if there was any more damage that needed attention.

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[info]jimmytkirk
2025-06-04 05:06 am UTC (link)
There was something comforting about the same sort of speech he'd heard any number of times from medical professionals throughout his life. Bones and others had said as much to him time and time again and now here he was once more, with someone new offering him the same advice. "Yes ma'am." He chuckled and offered her a small salute, hardly regulation but considering the circumstances he thought it was probably allowed. "This isn't really the kind of first impression I'd want to make on you," Though he supposed they were past first impressions, even here. He'd mucked things up with the Christine of his world already, and now here he was falling right back into bad habits here.

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[info]nurse_hijinks
2025-06-04 06:51 am UTC (link)
Christine chuckled at Jim's words. "And what sort of first impression would you like to have made on me?" she asked. "Because from where I'm sitting, I'm not being threatened with a lirpa or a bat'leth or any sort of live ammunition, so it's coming up roses."

She finished with his face then picked up one of his hands to wipe away the blood there as well.

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[info]jimmytkirk
2025-06-04 07:51 pm UTC (link)
"Maybe something with a little less blood," He suggested in an off handed kind of way. It wasn't so bad really he knew, it just looked bad, "Maybe It'd be aboard my ship," He imagined, the Captain thing was always a very good first impression in his experience. "Something more like that." Not that anything even remotely like that was possible here, or even in his own world, they were from entirely different places, the Jim she knew wasn't a Captain yet - he did take some small amount of satisfaction knowing he'd gotten there first, but if Prime!Spock's memories were to be believed he'd get there soon enough.

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[info]nurse_hijinks
2025-06-04 08:10 pm UTC (link)
Christine smiled at him as she worked on cleaning the rest of the blood off of his hands. "Ah, now there's the goldshirt I expected to meet." When the blood was scrubbed off, she tossed the washcloth into the kitchen sink for later dealing with. "Which lovely lady is yours? My Jim's first officer of the Farragut. I expect they'll bump him up to captain in a few more years. If we get back, that is."

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[info]jimmytkirk
2025-06-04 09:00 pm UTC (link)
The Farragut. Jim supposed maybe if things had gone differently he'd have ended up there too at some point, but the Enterprise had always been his goal. He wondered if the same was true for the other Kirk, maybe Pike was even still the Captain in his world. He didn't know, he hadn't asked anyone who might know - which he realized now was only Christine. "The Enterprise." He answered, pleased to be able to claim her. "It was a bit of a chaotic situation that got me to the captaincy ahead of schedule, but I've been at the helm for a few years now." He told her.

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[info]nurse_hijinks
2025-06-04 09:12 pm UTC (link)
Christine looked at him in total shock for about three-quarters of a second -- and then she grinned. "Well then. It's no wonder Spock defers to you like he does," she remarked. "The Enterprise is one prestigious posting. Only the best of the best of the best even stand a chance of serving on her. Congratulations on your monumental achievement." She did wonder if his Captain Pike had given up his post willingly or if he'd been promoted in absentia ... and she refused to think that he might've died in battle, even though that was more than a little likely. Even lucky cats ran out of lives eventually.

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[info]jimmytkirk
2025-06-04 09:19 pm UTC (link)
"Spock is my first officer." Even the brief amount of time that had changed had been nearly too much to handle for him, he hadn't been quite so aware of just how much he'd relied on Spock until Starfleet had conspired to separate them. But then fate had stepped in to put them back together, though Jim wondered if the trade off had been worth it. "I like to think I live up to her reputation." He said instead of voicing any of his more maudlin thoughts, he'd been letting them linger too much recently, and he needed to find a way past them.

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[info]nurse_hijinks
2025-06-04 09:26 pm UTC (link)
"If you didn't, then Spock would be the captain," Christine pointed out with a mischievous sparkle in his eye. She turned her attention from Jim just enough to put her equipment back into the medkit. "So, how much did you have to drink before you got into that fight? Am I going to be treating a hangover over breakfast?" The implication being that she wouldn't mind it at all if he stayed over.

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[info]jimmytkirk
2025-06-04 09:37 pm UTC (link)
"Perish the thought," Jim feigned horror at the idea of Spock as captain, as if he wasn't fully aware of how stellar a job his First Officer would do, especially when he didn't have Jim goading him into emotional outbursts. They may have gotten off to a rocky start, but Jim thought they had a good foundation under them now. As for his head? He shook his head, "Can you believe I didn't even get through my second drink?" He asked her, like that was the real shock of the night.

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[info]nurse_hijinks
2025-06-04 09:45 pm UTC (link)
"Oh, that's criminal," Christine agreed with a look of sympathy. Then: "Rum or tequila? The bar is meager but open." She would've offered some of her grandfather's prize-winning moonshine, but alas she was in a world where it didn't exist yet. And she sure as hell didn't want to take up valuable floor space with a still of her own.

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[info]jimmytkirk
2025-06-04 10:00 pm UTC (link)
"That's what I said," Jim agreed easily, relieved that she wasn't holding his transgressions against him as they talked - instead offering him another drink. The bar really was meager, he'd have to buy her something as thanks for her help tonight he decided, making a mental note before he considered his options. "Hmmm probably should stick with rum if we don't want things getting out of hand." Tequila tended to bring out the worst in people in Jim's experience, including himself. So unless that was the aim of the night he trended toward other options.

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[info]nurse_hijinks
2025-06-04 10:49 pm UTC (link)
Christine smiled and pulled down a bottle of Kraken Classic and a pair of rocks-glass-sized mugs. One day she'd have proper barware, but for the moment she was living like a college student again. She brought the offering over, filling the mugs with a liberal pour of the dark spiced rum. "To bar brawls and new friends," she said and saluted him with the mug of rich alcoholic goodness before taking a long sip.

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[info]jimmytkirk
2025-06-05 08:16 am UTC (link)
"To new friends," Jim echoed only part of her toast - because well it was probably poor form to raise a glass to brawls, no matter how fun or how needed they might have been. Just because he had poor self regulating skills didn't mean he needed to inflict that on everyone around him. But he took a sip of the dark rum savoring the heat of it on his tongue, "I really am sorry for dragging you out tonight," Though MIST was hardly far in the grand scheme of things, after putting herself on the so called night shift for Khan the last few weeks he could just imagine how fiercely she might guard a night that was fully her own.

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[info]nurse_hijinks
2025-06-05 01:05 pm UTC (link)
Christine waved off the apology. "Don't worry about it, Jim," she replied with an easy smile. "I've gotten so accustomed to waking up to the Meow Mix jingle that it's actually refreshing to hear a normal ringtone." She pulled out her phone, flipped through a few screens and selected something from the screen. Then she hit play so he could hear the zydeco version of Jambalaya that served as her ringtone. "See? At least halfway normal. Because that cat food jingle gets into your brain and stays there."

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[info]jimmytkirk
2025-06-05 11:18 pm UTC (link)
He chuckled when she assured him she didn't mind - preferring a call for help to the jingle that told her it was cat time. "So," Jim began, swirling his glass a little, watching the dark liquid cling to the side of the class just slightly, "Your Jim." It wasn't a question yet, not entirely - but he couldn't say he wasn't curious. Khan and Spock were from his own time and place, they both only knew him in his natural habitat. And while yes they'd both met the other Jim, Christine was different - she was from his world. She'd seen him in his element. "How close are the two of you?"

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[info]nurse_hijinks
2025-06-06 02:13 am UTC (link)
Christine smiled at his question, knowing there could be a number of reasons for it. "About as close as any of the crew, I suppose, barring Captain Pike," she replied. "Jim was on temporary assignment to the Enterprise, and he was supposed to go back to the Farragut but the mist grabbed him out of the transporter beam and he wound up here instead. I will say that he managed to stay out of sickbay for the most part. The majority of the time we spent together has been here in Dunwich rather than in our own reality. But I like to think we're good friends."

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[info]jimmytkirk
2025-06-06 06:43 am UTC (link)
Temporary assignment to the Enterprise, that was interesting - but really he could ask questions about that other Jim endlessly if he let himself. What he was more curious about was exactly how friendly Christine and that Jim were. If it was just the friendships formed among crew, or if he'd been a little more like this Jim. Not that he wanted that Jim to run her off in the same way that he'd done with his Christine - he was just kind of a mess at times. He was trying to be better, not that tonight was really proof of that. "Good friends," He echoed. "I wish I'd been a better friend to the Christine of my reality." He admitted. "Not that we didn't enjoy one another's company." He added just as quickly. "But -"

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[info]nurse_hijinks
2025-06-06 08:00 am UTC (link)
Christine chuckled knowingly. "But she caught a solid case of the feels and you weren't about that life?" she guessed. She knew herself well enough to know that she could harbor some serious emotions when it came to romantic entanglements or even just the sort of friendship that came with some benefits. Adventuress she might be, but she was only human and Jim was rather captivating. "I'm not exactly impervious when it comes to that sort of friendship," she confessed, "but there were other considerations to account for." Like Carol and the baby she and Jim were expecting. "My Jim was pretty steady with someone, and ending up here complicated that quite a bit. And as much as I care for him, I am not going up against a woman who builds torpedoes for a living."

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