( Exchanging anything more than basic intros with the locals could wait, as he'd set himself to the task of getting warmth back into all extremities. Unaware he's anything more than another unknown in a sea of strangers, Bones looks askance at the woman when she draws near, and turns where he's standing by the fire to listen to her.
Command gold catches his eye first, then the firelight gleaming off the familiar delta, a trace of home on this unfamiliar Earth.
Except...
'Noonien-Singh' catches in his rising sense of relief like a sudden barb. It's a quick sting, gone again just as fast. Khan is only a fading memory now, and the scars he left have long since healed.
There are a hundred questions he wants to ask her, but he shoves them to the back burner, and opts to take her as she is: Starfleet, lost like him, and now his responsibility.
Bones releases a sigh, and can't help the gruff complaint: )
If you call waking up half-frozen in a cave an arrival, Lieutenant.
( He manages a sort of grim smile, the kind reserved for crowded medbays and all hands on deck. )
Lieutenant Commander Leonard McCoy. I'm guessin' you just got here too. ( with a gesture at her own uniform, though odds are she's more insulated than him. ) Make it all here in one piece?
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Command gold catches his eye first, then the firelight gleaming off the familiar delta, a trace of home on this unfamiliar Earth.
Except...
'Noonien-Singh' catches in his rising sense of relief like a sudden barb. It's a quick sting, gone again just as fast. Khan is only a fading memory now, and the scars he left have long since healed.
There are a hundred questions he wants to ask her, but he shoves them to the back burner, and opts to take her as she is: Starfleet, lost like him, and now his responsibility.
Bones releases a sigh, and can't help the gruff complaint: )
If you call waking up half-frozen in a cave an arrival, Lieutenant.
( He manages a sort of grim smile, the kind reserved for crowded medbays and all hands on deck. )
Lieutenant Commander Leonard McCoy. I'm guessin' you just got here too. ( with a gesture at her own uniform, though odds are she's more insulated than him. ) Make it all here in one piece?