#im also still sad that they made her shorter than jim

[saturnniidae]

Jlaire (or just Claire as a character, tbh) wouldn't be any be anywhere near as popular as it is if Claire was chubby like she is in the book.

Anyways, I love both book and show Claire with my entire heart, but I'm still kinda salty with how much they slimmed her down in the show

[pennywaltzy]

Serendipity & Coincidence (4/?)

So this is the first of the updates that @strangelock221b asked for! No Molly in this, just a bit of father/daughter bonding, but the next chapter will be the dinner party and then after that the fortune teller, and THEN the real plot can kick in. I may get both those parts up before WIPBB starts.

Serendipity & Coincidence - Bones knows one thing: he likes Dr. Molly Hooper and doesn't want his friendship with her to change...even if the voice in the back of his head says he'd like more than just a friendship with the female Starfleet officer. But a dare from Jim leads to more than he had expected and certainly more than he wanted...or could ever have hoped for.

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He was about an hour and a half late for getting to see his daughter. Not all of it had been because of Molly; she had suggested his daughter might like a gift of flowers and they had gone to a florist nearby to pick something out for her. Molly said roses were best, and so now he had a dozen white roses for Joanna as a belated congratulatory gift for getting into the Academy.

He was more nervous than he wanted to admit, to be honest with himself. While he knew Joanna had gone against her mother’s wishes to join him in Starfleet, and also knew that she was helping Carol while they had been gone, it still made him nervous because he had missed so much of her life, between her mother keeping them apart in Georgia and the time he’d been on the Enterprise and in San Francisco.

But when she saw him she had a wide smile on her face and stood up, arms open wide as she moved closer. “Daddy!” she replied before hugging him, being careful not to crush the flowers.

“Hey, sweetie,” he said, his voice thick. She was nearly as tall as him, maybe just a few inches shorter, and she’d turned out to be a lovely young woman. She was in a dress in the same sort of style Nyota liked to wear, floral on a black background, and it was paired with a black cardigan. Her hair was long but pulled back into a high ponytail, and he saw at some point she had run red highlights through her black hair, giving it a rather distinctive look. “You look beautiful.”

“Aww, thank you,” she said as she pulled back. “Are those for me?”

He nodded. “Sort of as a congratulatory gift for getting into the Academy.” He handed her the flowers. “I’m sorry I’m late. I was taking a friend home so I would know where to pick her up for dinner at Carol’s tonight.”

“Well, I’m doing double duty with medical school and the Academy and helping Carol with James, but today was one of those rare free days so I have all the time in the world.” Her eyes were sparkling. “This friend of yours, Dad...was she the one Carol said Jim said you’ve been making goo-goo eyes at?”

He rolled his eyes and muttered a curse under his breath. “I’m going to kill him,” he said a bit louder.

“Don’t you dare! That would make Carol real sad,” she replied. “But it’s fine. Mom’s a bitch--”

“Watch your language,” he said almost automatically.

“Well, she is. She had no right to keep us apart all those years. I mean, I know your time on the Enterprise and all that you wouldn’t have gotten to see me, but I could have come to visit!”

“Yeah, I know,” he said, putting an arm around her shoulders. “But you’re here now, so that’s something.” He turned and gave her a grin. “Med school, huh?”

“Figured if I was going to follow in my Daddy’s footsteps I should go the whole nine yards,” she said with a smile. “Plus it pisses Mom of more.”

“You aren’t just doing it out of spite, are you?” he asked.

She shook her head. “I was a volunteer nurse back home at the hospital. I liked it a lot but I wanted more. Took the nurses training at a vocational school while I was finishing my high school education, and so I’m a Licensed Practical Nurse. I’ll tell you, it’s helped with the stuff in med school. Some of my classmates know nothing about how to treat patients.”

He stopped and hugged her, not caring who saw them. “I’m so proud of you, sweetie.”

“Thanks, Dad,” she replied. When he let go she nodded to the restaurant. “Let’s go eat. I’m starving and we have so much to talk about.” He nodded and they headed towards the restaurant she had picked out. All in all, this had gone much more smoothly than he had ever anticipated it would, which was nice. He just hoped having Joanna and Molly together at the dinner tonight wouldn’t be awkward. That was the last thing he needed.