julepsnmedicine | How to Save a Life (RP with doesntdosheep & <user site="livejou

Life was very, very good for Leonard McCoy.

Not that long ago, he had thought that his life was basically over. Everything had been taken away from him, and all it seemed he had left was drink. Which he had been more than happy to drown himself in.

But then Tonia had come into his life. Now he had his daughter, his home, his practice and her. Even if she hadn't literally been an a guardian angel sent to him, he would have thought her one anyway. She was his angel and always would be. Because of her, he was actually living again.

"Bye, Daddy! Love you!"

"Bye, sweetheart," Leonard said with a smile after giving Joanna a hug and kissing her head.

Standing back, he then watched as his daughter climbed on the school bus. Once she was seated, the driver pulled away from the end of the drive leading to their cabin. Leonard watched as the bus disappeared down the road, a smile spreading across his face as Joanna waved to him through the back window. He waved back, so glad that she was happy at her new school and thriving.

Once the bus was gone, he turned to head up the drive back up to the cabin, barely registering the sound of a motorcycle coming around the curve down the road.

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Current Location: Iowa

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As they waited for his mom to show, Jim felt his stomach start to churn. His eyes continued to tick toward the clock, and he got more nervous by the moment. Not because he didn't want to see her; Jim was worried she'd gone out to the house and Frank had done something to her.

When she finally arrived, Jim found himself reaching out to her. He took her hand and thickly swallowed. "I'm going to be okay but promise me you won't go back there," he said. "I went out there to tell him to stop touching you, and he shot me. Then I got into a motorcycle accident but Leonard and Tonia found me. Just don't go back there, Mom. Please."

Tonia looked from mother to son and cleared her throat. "If you need help getting your things out and a place to stay for a while, we can help you," she said.

"You two have already done so much," Jim said.

"We like helping people," Tonia said as she glanced at Leonard.

"I'm not going back," Winona promised her son as Leonard watched from across the room with Tonia. "We got into another fight this morning, and he hit me again, so I left. I was at your place to find you, so I could tell you when Tonia called me."

Leaning over, she kissed his forehead. "I'm so sorry, Jim. For everything he did to you, I'm so sorry. Thank god you're going to be all right."

Leonard felt his throat tighten as he watched, and when Tonia told them that they could help them, he looked over at her, nodding in agreement.

"We're certainly not gonna walk away," he said. "Anything we can do, we're glad to help."

Straightening up, Winona gave them a grateful smile and nodded. "Thank you," she said softly. "I don't want to go back there by myself."

"Then one of us'll go with you," Leonard promised. "First, though, why don'cha let me look at that eye and check to make sure he didn't do any other damage."

She nodded and went over to sit down so he could examine her.

As Tonia watched Jim with his mother, she reached down and took Leonard's hand into hers. It still confused her as to how some humans could treat others. Especially when it came to men being bullies and abusing others.

"Good," Jim said when Winona said she didn't want to go back by herself. "I don't trust him."

When Leonard went over to check Winona over, Tonia went over to Jim's bed to ask him where the house was. If anyone could handle Frank, it was her. However, before she could, two police officers came in to question Jim.

They asked how he'd gotten the gun shot wound, and he was honest with them. He then said Frank had hit his mother, too.

After taking his statement, they told all of them they were going out to arrest Frank. Tonia nodded and watched them leave before she looked over at Winona.

"Do you want to wait until they're done before going out there?" she asked.

Winona closed her eyes as Leonard checked her eye while listening to Tonia speak to Jim. No matter what had happened to her, she was more upset that she had let Frank hurt her son for so long, and she swore that she was going to make it up to him somehow. She wasn't completely sure how at the moment, but she would.

"You've got a pretty good shiner there, but I can take care of that easy," Leonard told her. "Looks like you're okay otherwise."

Just then, the police arrived, and Winona steeled herself as they questioned Jim and her about what had happened. At least it seemed that what had happened to Jim wouldn't been in vain, and Frank would be out of their lives.

"Yes," she said when Tonia asked if she wanted to wait to go out to the house. The last thing she wanted was to be there when they arrested him since she didn't know what he might do.

While they waited, Leonard got what he needed to fix her eye. Soon, she could see clearly again, and not that long after, the police called the room to inform them that Frank had been arrested.

"Thank god," she murmured, reaching over to take Jim's hand.

Tonia was glad the cops were able to arrest Frank. She knew this wasn't over for Jim and Winona, but it was a step in the right direction. They would be safe now and wouldn't have to worry about him hurting them.

Of course, she was still curious as to how Leonard played into all of this. From the get go, Tonia knew he was destined for something great and that he would change the course of events. Had saving Jim's life done so? She really couldn't see how saving his life would have a huge impact on things.

Only time would tell, she supposed.

Once Jim and Winona were finished talking, Tonia offered to drive Winona out to the house. "We'll come back once we have her things at the house," she told Leonard.

They had an extra bedroom and Tonia had no problem with letting Winona stay there for a few days. Once Jim was out of the hospital, they would help them find a more permanent place to stay.

"Which way do I go?" she asked Winona once they were in the car.

Winona still wasn't sure how her son had gotten so lucky that he had made it to a place where he would be found by a doctor before he had finally crashed, but she was glad that he had. Somehow, it seemed, someone had been looking over Jim ever since the day of his birth.

When Tonia offered to go ahead and take her out to the house so they could get her belongings and get it over with, she nodded in agreement.

"Let's get this over with," she said softly.

Heading out with her to the vehicle, she climbed in and took a deep breath. Soon she was guiding her to the house she had shared with Frank - or more the house she shared with him when she was on Earth. Knowing what had been going on there when she hadn't been around hurt more than she could even say. She had thought she was doing the right thing, continuing to serve after George had died, thinking it was what he would have wanted.

Now, though, she was thinking that she should have stayed. Then she would have known.

When they arrived at the house, Winona took a deep breath and reminded herself that Frank wouldn't be in there. She then went inside with Tonia and quickly started gathering everything together, putting them into several bags. As she emptied one of her drawers, she pulled out a holo of her and George that had been taken while she had been pregnant. Pressing the button to turn it on, she watched them, smiling and laughing as George embraced her from behind, resting her hands over her stomach.

Reaching up, she wiped her eyes.

Following Winona's directions, Tonia drove her out to the house. When they got there, she went inside with the other woman but stayed in the living room. Sitting down on the couch, she folded her hands on her lap and waited for the older woman to finish with her packing.

After some time, Tonia started to get a little worried so she went to find where Winona was. She peeked into the bedroom and saw her watching a holo so she was silent. When it finished, she stepped inside and gave Winona a soft smile.

"Is there anything you need help with?" she asked as she reached out to take her hand into hers, trying her best to comfort her in any way she could. She knew she couldn't change the past but she could be there for her now.

"Does Jim have anything here that he may like?" she quietly asked.

When Tonia stepped into the room, Winona shut off the holo and gave her a smile before putting the base away in the bag. Taking a breath, she looked around the room.

"I think I have everything I want from in here," she said before giving her a bag. "There's a couple of things downstairs I want, and a box of George's things in the basement. There's some things in there that I was to give to Jim."

She had never been able to bring herself to get rid of the things that were in that box, but she had always kept it downstairs out of the way of Frank. She wasn't sure if he even knew it was there.

Going downstairs with her, she set her other bags down. "Could you get the dreamcatcher and the books on the shelf?" she asked. "I'll go get the box."

Going downstairs, she shoved some of Frank's things aside and found the box where she had hidden it. After pulling it out, she picked it up and took it upstairs.

"I think this is everything," she said. "Anything else can be left behind."

Nodding, Tonia did as Winona asked and got the books and dreamcatcher. She found an empty box and put them inside before taking the packed boxes and bags to the car. Once they were inside the trunk, she went back inside to help with the rest of the stuff.

"All right. We can drop all of this off at the house, then go back to the hospital," she said, knowing Winona would want to see her son.

It didn't take them long to get to the house. Tonia opened the door and they placed the boxes and bags in the guest bedroom before leaving again. Getting back in the car, Tonia started to drive them toward the hospital.

When they got there, they went back to Jim's room and Tonia smiled before going over to stand with Leonard.

"We got everything needed and took it back to the house," she told him as she reached down to take his hand. "How are the two of you doing?"

"Bones was telling me about his homemade moonshine," Jim said with a smirk.

"Bones?" Tonia said as she raised her eyebrows.

Jim softly shrugged. "I think it fits," he said.

While Tonia and Winona were gone, Leonard went and got changed out of his scrubs back into his own clothes. Once he was done, he headed back to Jim's room and sat with him, talking to him while they waited.

The kid turned out to be a damn good guy despite the things he had been through. Sure, he still had some growing up to do, but Leonard was sure that he was going to be something once he decided where he was going in his life. As they talked, he found that he also appreciated a good drink, so he ended up telling him about his family's moonshine recipe, which of course they all referred to as whiskey so as not to draw attention to it.

"I'll have to get you a bottle or two sometime," he told him just before Tonia and Winona came back.

When Jim called him Bones, he found himself smiling. "I actually kinda like it."

"So how long do you think Jim is going to be in here?" Winona asked as she sat down in one of the other chairs. Leonard was glad to see that the trauma to her eye looked to be completely gone now.

"The end of the week, I think," he told her. "Just want to make sure that he doesn't have any complications."

"That's not too bad," she said.

"You all hungry?" Leonard asked. "I wouldn't want to subject a healing man to hospital food, so maybe we could order something in?"