have i come to - too soon for you?

Teen And Up Audiences | Major Character Death | Star Trek: The Original Series (Movies)

Multi | for bongbingbong | 100 words | 2023-01-20 | the lamb | AO3

Leonard "Bones" McCoy & James Tiberius Kirk & Spock (Star Trek)

Leonard "Bones" McCoy, James Tiberius Kirk, Spock (Star Trek)

Drabble, Inspired by Music, Source: Genesis, Source: Peter Gabriel

"I hope he remembers you."

Jim says it the way people talk about their children, their pets. Difference is, when people talk about their kids, that's all it is.

Here, it's "I hope he loves you." Shorthand for, "I love you, and I think somehow I forgot."

(He'd had the dependent bent before, on Omicron Ceti III. When he'd said to Bones, I thought you said you'd like him better once he mellowed out, with distinct aura around accusation: I like him all the time, when and as no one else does. By God, I hope someday you learn to.)