Catch-all for October

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Characters: Korra (alphatar) and OPEN.
Date: All throughout October.
Location: Various.
Situation: All the things.
Warnings/Rating: N/A, will edit if necessary.

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"Jesus!" Well there goes half of McCoy's coffee. The cup in his hand sloshes over the lip and splatters across his desk, still steaming. It only aggravates his swearing further as he tried to dab what he can of the scalding liquid off his hand. With a long suffering sigh, he turns around to give the sneak a withering look.

"Just who in their right mind sneaks up on someone like that?"

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That hadn’t been what Korra was expecting, and her amusement was reigned in by the fact that she just cost him his drink.

"Well, not Jesus." She said with a wry smirk, that scornful look wasn’t unlike others she had received throughout her life. That was a topic she had discussed with Tony Stark before he left and later returned. "Just me. I’m Korra."

With some languid hand movements, Korra waterbended the coffee of the desk and the dark liquid hung in the air with steam rising off it.

"You probably don’t want this anymore, huh?" Her tone drops slightly, she knew the answer.

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Korra. That name seems vaguely familiar to him. He can't exactly put a deed or face to her--

"What the...?" When she actually picks up liquid with her mind or magic or whatever the hell it is, now the alarms start ringing in his mind. She's the girl that helped heal Jim's leg. The knowledge actually stains his mouth with a bitter twang, pursing his lips into a flat humorless line. It seems like everyone here is healing his Captain except him.

"Cute trick," he grumps, trying not to look terrified or impressed. Because he isn't! "And no, not really. God knows what bacteria's been crawlin' on these desks." It's hard to disinfect the important things when you've got limited resources.

Setting down his cup of coffee, McCoy turns around completely to engage with this girl. Here's hoping a sour face and added height do something for him. "Well, now that you've got my undivided attention, what do you want? How do you know about Starfleet?" It's a silly question to ask since he knows the answer: Jim.

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The huffy-adult alarm was ringing in Korra’s head, and the irritableness was strong with this one. Sending the coffee to a nearby sink, they’re everywhere for sterilization purposes, Korra looked at the badge on his shirt and grinned.

"You mean aside from the uniform?" Sliding that one in as quickly as possible, Korra followed up with "I know Jim and met Pavel." But if anyone had ever spent more than three minutes in Captain Kirk’s presence, it’d be obvious that Jim was the reason. As if Ensign Chekov would ever willingly break the Prime Directive.

"I just don’t know all the staff yet since I’m volunteering part time. So, what’s your naaame?" She put her hands on her hips and still had that same grin on her face. It was easy to already take a liking to people you haven’t met yet when Jim Kirk’s already rolled out the carpet for them.

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As he suspected. Well, there's no point in keeping tight-lipped if the cat was out of the proverbial bag already. "McCoy. Leonard McCoy. I'm Jim's Chief Medical Officer." And that's all he's going to say on that subject matter, Missy.

"And what, exactly, are you volunteerin' for? You have any medical experience? Nursing?" It really isn't his place to say who or who cannot work at the clinic. The place is a temporary home for the doctor as well, and he isn't here to kick up sand like a strutting rooster, but that isn't going to stop him from grilling newbies just to see how much compensation he'll need to use with them. Or what he'll need to teach them.

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It was actually nice to know that Jim had to deal with his own stick in the mud on a daily basis. He had McCoy and Korra had Tenzin. Which made her grin and that probably wasn’t the normal reaction one would get from being grilled by a grouchy doctor.

"I’m volunteering to heal patients, and I’ve healed quite a few people." Off the top of her head, he was the only doctor in the clinic now and that probably meant he would need to know which volunteers could do what in case of an emergency.

Like Aang.

"If it helps, my teacher is the best healer in the world." The training she received from Katara, both waterbending and healing, was like a badge Korra wore with pride.

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"Right. Best healer in the world." Sure she is, and McCoy has the best bedside manner from here to the Neutral Zone. Please! What gives people the right or need to call themselves the best? Sounds like a sad, stagnant state of existence to him. Best healer. Best surgeon--Okay, actually, Natu may have been in the ballpark with that one he has to, unfortunately, admit. Still, it begs to wonder why this kid thinks she can call her teacher "the best".

"Alright, Miss Korra," he tries for something neutral, that doesn't burn around the edges as he tries to scraped together as much patience as he can. "And you do that how? Do you have a ring too?" Oops, sarcasm coming through on that one.

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It really is a good thing that Korra’s fond of the Enterprise crew and used to dealing with grumpy people. Otherwise she’d have done something stupid by now.

But Korra speaks sarcasm very fluently, let her show him.

"I’m not big on jewelry."

That would be her holding up her hands and wiggling her ringless fingers, right in front of her smirking face.

"On my world, some waterbenders can heal. Only the purer the water the more effective it is. So your coffee wouldn’t be that great to use." And why did people even want to drink that stuff?

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"Water... That's all you need to use?" Okay, he's trying to remain impartial to this girl's magic show, but goddamn if the mechanics of this supposed healing don't have him already interested. With his arms tightly folded over his chest, McCoy rests back against the edge of his desk like he's getting ready for a lecture at the Academy.

"And just how does the water heal patients? Is the water a medium?" It's the only thing he can extrapolate off the top of his head. Maybe she uses it like osmosis: The water is filtered through permeable membranes to transport the medicine or "magic" into the body, which actually cures her patient.

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She simply nodded at water being the only thing required and gave a slow grin when he leaned back.

“A medium would be a good way to put it. Some waterbenders are able to redirect the energy in chi paths to help heal a wound, makes it heal a lot faster than normal. There’s other stuff, but that’s the main use.” She explained it casually and put her hands behind her head, leaning against the wall.

“But it’s got it limits and there’s stuff it can’t do that doctors can with surgery.” She learned that from Natu back when the satellite crashed.