At the academy, Jim "celebrates" the evacuation of Tarsus every year by holing up in the library searching for signs of Kodos in anything. Then, he goes out looking for someone to fuck. He never twigs why it's Bones he's always bringing home with him.
Leonard McCoy thought he was on the fast track towards that perfect life until one day he realized he had fallen from it a long time ago. It takes one Jim Kirk who tumbled his way into Leonard's life to make him realize that there is more to life than what he once believed.
Even at a young age, Jim had known he was different but sometimes different is okay. Sometimes different is better. Sometimes different saves you. These are Jim's early years. The years Jim wishes he could forget but can't because he lived and they didn't. The years that lead to the best thing in his life, even if it's fleeting. These are the before during and after Tarsus years.
It's Jim and Bones' first Christmas as parents aboard the Enterprise. Or... Jim plans a extravagant Christmas for his family until a mission goes horribly wrong.
The five times Jim and Leonard accidentally get married, and the one time it wasn't an accident.
While taking Joanna to the end of summer fair, Leonard finds a little magic where he wasn't expecting... Or... A modern AU where the Enterprise is a Ferris Wheel.
After five years, Jim Kirk thought he had had seen it all. It isn't until an encounter with an alien race on the edge of the Beta Quadrant that turns Jim Kirk and Leonard McCoy's world upside down. Or This is Jim Kirk and Leonard McCoy's journey to parenthood as they await the birth of their children that they never thought they would have.
A stupid husband and a civil war...those were the only things Leonard could blame for his current predicament... Or... The baby was half Kirk of course its birth had be dramatic.