And You May Tell Yourself
The Enterprise has been enlisted to deliver supplies to a pair of xenoarchaeologists that have been living and working on the uninhabited planet M-113 for five years. Nancy and Robert Crater are good friends of Leonard McCoy's... and, okay, during med school they may even briefly have been more than friends of his. They're good people, and he's thrilled to have the opportunity to catch up with them-- until an ensign turns up dead, and Nancy is the only suspect.
Every answer they find throughout the course of the investigation only turns up more questions...
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(Yes, yes, I'm posting about this fic again. Last time, I promise; I just figured it wasn't a bad thing to make a general summary post now that it's fully published.)
This fic is an AOS twist on the Original Series episode "The Man Trap", but don't let it fool you. The further the plot progresses, the less it resembles its source material. It's got DRAMA and BAD JOKES and BANTER AS FLIRTING and not one but TWO emotionally resonant moments in a turbolift. It's a Spones fic, but it leans just as heavily on Bones's relationships with Jim Kirk and Christine Chapel as it does his relationship with Spock, plus there's a fun background cast of OCs and canon characters alike.
It's the longest, plottiest piece of writing I've ever produced, and I'm wildly proud of it.
