Brightness Burns
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Started with the premise, there is no such thing as an evil McCoy, no matter the universe. And it went from there.
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Leonard doesn’t expect Kirk to say yes when he demands to tie him up. That’s mostly why he asks. To get some proof that this Kirk isn’t as open as he seems. As trusting as he seems. That he isn’t crazy enough to trust him. It’s almost the same reason Leonard leans in for that first savage kiss...
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- Part 1 of Brightness Burns
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In the Mirror Universe McCoy is out of Kirk's reach. His daughter isn't.
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Jim doesn’t have any kind of a plan formed when he goes Earthside to visit Joanna McCoy at the Vincentius Institute, the top preparatory academy of the Empire. He’s acting on the emotions that have been roiling away inside of him, eating holes into his gut since the day his chief physician had disappearedbeentakenescapedwherethe*#()#%areyouMcCoy? Since the day Spock had informed Jim calmly in the face of his lethal rage that without additional data the probability of retrieving Chief Physician McCoy was less than 0.0027%.
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WARNINGS: Please note this is Mirror!Universe fic from Mirror!Kirk's point of view and his is NOT a nice guy. While I will state up front that nothing actually happens to Joanna McCoy in this fic, please note that it is told from Kirk's point of view and he is very, very displeased that his Leonard McCoy is gone. And he is contemplating taking it out on Joanna as the only part of McCoy that's within his reach. So, contemplated danger to a minor.Series
- Part 2 of Brightness Burns
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So this is, uhm, Mirror Universe schmoop. Sort of??
Jim is exhausted. First contact with an alien race under the mistaken impression that they’re the badasses and just close enough to actually being the badasses that it’s taken a full three days of non-stop cat and mouse warfare to drive home the lesson that they’re the mice. So now the Empire has a new subjugated people to exploit and he’s been running on ten minute naps for three days straight and he is *#*(#%** tired...
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- Part 3 of Brightness Burns
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She reminds Leonard of sunshine, her bright yellow skin tone and bubbling brook of a voice. She’s a tiny thing, following him around the encampment, determined to assist him even though she’s some sort of minor princess of the T’Vharan ruling dynasty and—based on the disapproving gazes she garners from some of the lower born workers—is supposed to be above such things. The T’Vharans are well behaved and useful long time subjects of the Terran Empire and, as such, are determined worthy of assistance when a plague starts decimating their people.
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- Part 4 of Brightness Burns
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Preventive Medicine by graceandfire
Fandoms: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)
06 Jul 2013
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There are worse things out there than James T. Kirk
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Leonard knows the instant Kirk walks into Sickbay. It’s partly the subtle tensing of his staff and patients at the appearance of the ship’s biggest predator but it’s personal too. Leonard guesses he’s been *%@#% too many times by the other man and Kirk’s on his radar for good.
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- Part 5 of Brightness Burns
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McCoy finds out that Kirk slept with his doppelganger from the Mirror Universe. He is not happy about it. Things happen.
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Despite quick reflexes and years of hard won experience in bar room brawls—and, lately, Starfleet brawls, although Starfleet uses more respectable terms like ‘interplanetary disputes’—Jim barely sees the fist coming his way. Sure as %#@ not fast enough to dodge it, as he’s sent sprawling backwards into an undignified heap with the impact of fist on face. Jim stays sitting on the floor where he lands, raising a finger to gingerly probe at the tender flesh around his jaw. Bones throws a mean punch.
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- Part 6 of Brightness Burns
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MirrorMcCoy returns to the Mirror Universe. MirrorKirk is waiting for him.
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- Part 7 of Brightness Burns
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A Little Restraint by graceandfire
Fandoms: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)
13 Jul 2013
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- Part 8 of Brightness Burns
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Mirror!Kirk takes possession of the Enterprise. That's not all he takes possession of.
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From the moment Jim sees the gorgeous possibility of the Enterprise laid out in the cold hard science of schematics and diagrams he knows, down to his marrow, that he’s meant for this ship and nothing—nothing—can or will take it away from him.
And when his feet hit her decks for the first time, it’s so right. The corridors curve in welcome and the barely perceptible hum and vibration of the mighty engines settle into his bones in permanent synchronicity. It’s stupid and weak to get attached to something—anything—this way, this much, but she’s his. His like it’s an immutable law of the universe.
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- Part 9 of Brightness Burns
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The composition of a man (or, MirrorKirk's origin story)
"Listen carefully… I don’t know what kind of horror that other Kirk was raised in to turn out the way he did but you could never become him.” Leonard McCoy, ‘The Other Side’
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- Part 10 of Brightness Burns
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Mutiny on the ISS Enterprise
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When Leonard first meets Lieutenant Uhura, his initial impression—because he’s not dead—is that she’s staggeringly beautiful. And then those stunning dark eyes of hers sweep over him like she’s wondering how much she can get for his dismembered body parts and he amends his first impression to ‘staggeringly beautiful and *#^*(# scary.’
Nothing has happened since that first meeting to change his mind on either count.
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- Part 11 of Brightness Burns
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Ensign Chekov arrives aboard the ISS Enterprise. Doctor McCoy is having a bad week. The two are most definitely related.
Or, the one where it’s real darn useful that Kirk apparently speaks baby sociopath.
Or, the one where Graceandfire hesitantly asks her beta, "Uh, is this postable? Can I even...should I???" and her beta is snickering too hard to respond.
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- Part 12 of Brightness Burns
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Having James T. Kirk as your mentor is not an easy thing.
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“I’m going to do something that you’re not going to like.”Muscles tense up and anxiety pitches a fit in Leonard’s stomach because Kirk doesn’t give warnings. Not unless he’s playing mind games. But Kirk isn’t wearing his ‘I’m *#%@# with you’ smirk. He’s wearing his ‘I will do what needs to be done’ look.
People tend to bleed when Kirk’s wearing that look.
So what is Kirk planning that’s so bad he considers a warning necessary?
Whatever it is, Leonard knows he can’t stop it, just…“Whatever you’re going to do, it’ll wait until we get back to the Enterprise.” His voice is firm, the plea showing only in his eyes. They’ve been on earth for five days on leave. They drop Joanna back at school tomorrow before heading back to their ship. Surely Kirk will wait.
It’s taken Leonard a long, wary two years to really believe that Kirk isn’t going to hurt Joanna, or use her against him. To accept that somehow in the months he’d been gone, a strange connection had been forged between the ruthless killer and his little girl...
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- Part 13 of Brightness Burns
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Well, Hello There by graceandfire
Fandoms: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)
10 Aug 2013
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Joanna interns aboard the ISS Enterprise and runs into Sulu who finds himself...intrigued (plus a small side helping of 'Chekov is McCoy's fangirl')
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“Well, hello there.”
At the husky voice, Joanna looks up from where she’s working on a routine system diagnostic and sees a lieutenant commander in command yellow staring at her, unmistakable interest in his dark eyes. She automatically calls up his memorized dossier even as she straightens, careful to keep her face smooth and emotionless. She can feel the sudden tension coming off of Pell, her assigned partner for this shift, but she doesn’t look over at him. The break in eye contact could be seen as a weakness.
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- Part 14 of Brightness Burns
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A Little Light Conversation by graceandfire
Fandoms: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)
10 Aug 2013
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Three Mirror Universe conversations between Joanna and Kirk, Sulu and Chekov, and Sulu and McCoy about the interest Joanna and Sulu have for each other (plus, Chekov is still McCoy's fangirl).
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- Part 15 of Brightness Burns
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Kirk and McCoy are having a domestic argument, Mirror Universe style.
So this is a weird combination of almost schmoop, only sort of not, with angry sex, only sort of not, all wrapped up in the hostile, psychotic package of Mirror Universe-land. Uhm, yeah, giving up on the descriptions now.
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- Part 16 of Brightness Burns
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Mirror Universe Captain Kirk gets turned into a kid. But he's still...Mirror Universe Kirk.
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Kirk’s bed is more comfortable than his own. And bigger.
Over the years Leonard’s learned to appreciate and enjoy these facts in spite of himself. He’s half awake, drowsing, when he feels the kiss of a blade at his neck.
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- Part 17 of Brightness Burns
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Three People Who Fantasize About Dr. Leonard H. McCoy (and the one who doesn't have to) by graceandfire
Fandoms: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)
30 Aug 2013
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Yeah, this one's pretty self explanatory *cough*
It's also extremely explicit. Fair warning (invitation?)
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- Part 18 of Brightness Burns
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Four Times Leonard McCoy Didn’t Really Have a Choice (And One Time He Did) by graceandfire
Fandoms: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)
31 Aug 2013
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Title pretty much says it all...
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“Sign here.”Leonard looks away from the recruiting officer’s shark-like smile and down at the enlistment contract, thirty screens worth of legalese that boils down to: ‘We will *(#$^ own you.’ The seemingly innocuous PADD sits there while fury, depression and the remains of last night’s whiskey roil in his gut.
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- Part 19 of Brightness Burns