Witchcrafting-kitten - Kit The Witch

Just Like Clockwork

("Bones" McCoy x gn!engineer!reader)

Trigger Warnings: fluff?; mentions of injuries; descriptions of injuries; mild swearing; mentions of alcohol

It's kind of short and might not exactly be perfect, but I hope it's ok...

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Bones looked over at the clock. "Any minute now", he thought. "Any minute, Y/N will walk through those doors from engineering with a burn or a sprained wrist."

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Down in engineering, you were busy working on fixing something that Scotty was worried about. Your mind started to drift off to if you'd make it through the day without landing yourself in medbay. It's not that you were extremely clumsy, you just happened to accidentally hurt yourself a few times a week. Scotty made a chart for how many times a day per week you specifically got hurt.

A thud followed by pain snapped you out of your thoughts. You had absentmindedly dropped the tool you were using on your foot. "Ow, fuck!" You muttered. Without thinking, you kicked the closest pipe with your hurt foot with a bit too much force. "Again — ow, fuck!!" You groaned as you put some weight on your throbbing foot.

You painfully walked past Scotty as you approached the door. "You hurt yourself again, lass?" Scotty let out a sigh.

"On my way to Bones right now." You stopped just before the door, looking back at Scotty knowing full well what he was about to say.

"Fifth time this week, Y/N. You're a great engineer, but I'm just worried you're gonna get yourself hurt real bad one of these days," Scotty crossed his arms and gave you a look of genuine concern.

You walked back over to him and gave him a hug. "Thanks for worrying about me, Scotty."

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Bones was just finishing up rebandaging a science officer's wound they had gotten from an away mission not too long ago when he heard the medbay doors opening. He dismissed the science officer, turning around to see you standing at the end of a medbay bed, favoring one foot over the other.

"What'd you do to your foot, Y/N?"

"I think I bruised it for sure."

"Let me take a look," he let out a very audible sigh.

You hopped onto to the side of the bed, and took off your shoe and sock. Your toes were subtle shade of red. There was a nice redish sore spot on the top of your foot.

"I'm going to guess by the look of that Scotty should assign me some light stuff that keeps me off my feet for the rest of my shift. Then, after I clock out, I head immediately to my room and keep my feet up?" You asked calmly.

"Your nearly correct. What I was thinking is that, like you started with, Scotty gives some light stuff to work on that'll allow you to keep your foot up, and, afterwards, I was hoping you'd like to get a drink with me?" That last part caught you off guard a little.

"Bones, are you asking me on a date?"

"I might be."

"When does your shift end?" You both couldn't stop smiling, trying to figure out which drink you'd both be getting.

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The End

obsessed with this muppet clip where Gonzo breaks a piece of machinery and then just stares at the camera in an empty room and says ‘GUILT’ in the most harrowing way possible

Had a lot of fun using this picrew! [Here]

[Cred to picrew artist, hunbloom]