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bandearg_rois ([personal profile] bandearg_rois) wrote2011-03-23 12:33 am

Facing Eternity Reaper!Bones

 Title: Facing Eternity
Author: [livejournal.com profile] bandearg_rois 
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Warnings: "death" fic, extreme angst
Summary: John "Reaper" Grimm must once again leave someone he loves, though this time, he loved by choice.
Author's Note: This is totally unbetaed, written at Midnight. You have been warned.

This would be the hardest thing John has had to do since he fought alongside and watched men he'd considered brothers die in a veritable Hell. He had been Leonard McCoy for 12 years, longer than he'd spent in any other identity, and it was time to move on. He fingered the vial of C24 in his pocket, but didn't make any other move to pull it out. He had no reason to use it.

He looked down at the PADD, and then out the window, staring at the San Francisco skyline. He didn't want to write this letter, had never had to write one before, but this time, he couldn't just slide out of his current life. He was too well-known now, to too many people that had too much power. He continued to stare for a few minutes, before finally picking up the stylus.

Dear Jim,

This isn't how I want to say this, but face to face isn't exactly an option. I need you to know that I love you, I've loved you since the day we met on that god-forsaken shuttle. Part of me wishes we could have been more, but it's not in the cards. I have to go away, and I'm going to ask you not to look for me. I won't be anywhere you can think to look.

Thank you, for being my best friend, really the only one I've ever had, and know that I treasure that, and it will stay with me to the end of my days. Please tell the Hobgoblin that if he goes looking for me, he'll get a nasty surprise. And apologize to Nyota. I was supposed to help her with something, and I never got the chance.

I love you, Jim Kirk, even though you're an infant brat who drove me up the bulkhead more often than not. Please, move on, find someone, do your version of settling down. I don't want you to end up alone and unhappy. I'll miss you, kid.

Bones

The PADD was untraceable, a throwaway he'd had stashed for years, waiting for a need to use it. He sent the message from an anonymous account, hours later, from a cafe across town from his apartment. And then he finalized his plans. The next morning saw one Conor Grimm heading out on passenger freight to Corinthium IX, one planet the Enterprise would never visit, and a twisted, burned out heap of metal with Leonard McCoy's DNA inside of it at the bottom of a ravine a few hours outside of San Francisco.

And something John didn't know: one man, a blond human, approximately 30 years old, clutched his PADD in a white-knuckle grip, silent tears sliding down his face.

[identity profile] amine-eyes.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 05:42 am (UTC)(link)
OW MY HEART (but in a good way)

Like the take on the whole C24 trope, it's a shame it ended so sadly!!!! :'( *hugs Jim and Bones*

[identity profile] bandearg-rois.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 05:49 am (UTC)(link)
Boy are you fast!

I was just feeling a little down and this somehow cheered me up.

Thanks for reading!

[identity profile] shameless-klutz.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 06:23 am (UTC)(link)
Oh my heart. This was painful but really lovely. And if my heart already in fragments from Bones' letter it would have been by that last line. :( Loved it!

[identity profile] bandearg-rois.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 06:25 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you for reading and sorry for shattering your heart...

[identity profile] ebilchickens.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 07:00 am (UTC)(link)
Ouch. But very well written. Thanks for posting this.

[identity profile] bandearg-rois.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 01:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks for reading! ♥

[identity profile] belladonnamccoy.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 07:27 am (UTC)(link)
Q.Q

WHY DURN YA'LL?!?!?!

Winnie chose to live her life and not wait for Jesse/drink the water and now John is leaving Jim to live and die as is proper even if it is WERY, WERY SAD! I lurve you and your wonderful tales, but the ANGST. It killlllllls us.

Q.Q Good story, bb.

(It's early in the AM here and I just got done making a doll for an art class. This may or may not be entirely lucid.)

[identity profile] bandearg-rois.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 01:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks!

(and it's okay, I wasn't quite lucid when I wrote it)

[identity profile] vivid-moment.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 08:47 am (UTC)(link)
ohmygod ... *clutches heart* So beautiful and descriptive, in so few words. ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT!!!

[identity profile] bandearg-rois.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 01:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! I wanted to try out the side of the coin where Bones doesn't stay

[identity profile] bandearg-rois.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 01:08 pm (UTC)(link)
*hands you a tissue* Thank you for reading?
avictoriangirl: (sad)

[personal profile] avictoriangirl 2011-03-23 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh my heart. *sobs*

[identity profile] bandearg-rois.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
sorry for your heart! *hands over bones to help fix it* Thanks for reading!
siluria: (Men_Karl_Reaper sad)

[personal profile] siluria 2011-03-23 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
You really know how to break a person, don't you?! *sobs*

[identity profile] bandearg-rois.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
I do try. Thank you for reading! *hands you a tissue* good thing I bought these e-tissues, huh?
siluria: (Men_Karl_Reaper_gold)

[personal profile] siluria 2011-03-23 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
*blows*

Why do I think they're going to be very useful when reading your fic ?? ;)

[identity profile] bandearg-rois.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
well, at least my angsty ones... *needs to write something happy to counteract*
siluria: (Men_Karl_exclusion)

[personal profile] siluria 2011-03-23 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Why yes, yes you do!! :)

BTW - do you mind if I friend you - I can't believe I haven't done it already!

[identity profile] bandearg-rois.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I can't remember whether or not I friended you yet but go ahead!
siluria: (Men_Karl_White Suit)

[personal profile] siluria 2011-03-24 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
Yay - consider it done :)

[identity profile] cookiechris80.livejournal.com 2011-03-24 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
*wibbles, wibbles, BAWLS* :'( it's all just a vicious joke, right? RIGHT?! poor boys. very fitting, given the situation. but. i wants happy boys!

[identity profile] bandearg-rois.livejournal.com 2011-03-24 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
Hm, I'll get back to you on happy boys (like a little later tonight, as in 20 minutes from now) but *hands you a tissue* thank you for reading!

[identity profile] cookiechris80.livejournal.com 2011-03-24 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
:O *gasps* really?! *hugs, dances, smishes* yay! :D

[identity profile] umbrellas-can.livejournal.com 2011-03-24 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
Gah ! Just break my heart why don't you? ;) This is beautifully done, so sad and so wonderful. ♥

[identity profile] bandearg-rois.livejournal.com 2011-03-24 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
*hands you a container for your heart* Thank you for reading! ♥

Hey!

[identity profile] shinny-sama.livejournal.com 2011-03-25 02:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow! This part of the Star Trek fandom was unknown to me. I even had a little trouble to know who is this "Reaper" but I loved it.
I go to see if I can find more fics with this crossover.

But you had no one who was called "Reason For Being Dangerous"?
I found this on bottom_mccoy, but was not available in our Livejournal .
Where can I find it? I'm on a mirror!verse fixation now.

Tanks!

[identity profile] hyde-the-body.livejournal.com 2011-03-27 03:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Finally getting around on commenting to tell you just how much I loved this! Which is a lot, obviously. =D

[identity profile] treksnoopy.livejournal.com 2011-03-28 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm all wibbly.