[WOW WHAT no not gonna happen excuse you. Jim's fingers flex in surprise against Spock's shoulder, and his mouth thins. Getting in a fight? Fine, whatever, self-defense is normal even if Spock could (can, has) flatten him in one.
(He thinks about the way he looked with the Gorn venom in his system, one eye nearly black, and that frown deepens. It was necessary, back then.)
But Jim doesn't hit people - his friends - unless he has to, and he's not going to start now. It's a dark road he's not and will never be interested in going down. Always another way.
He flings open the mental door to their bond and just dumps the force of his personality into it like an intravenous transfusion. The James Kirk equivalent to a bucket of ice water to the face. And through it all, it's an anchor point. Jim saying, come home. And maybe a faint echo, I'm not going to hit you, are you crazy?]
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(He thinks about the way he looked with the Gorn venom in his system, one eye nearly black, and that frown deepens. It was necessary, back then.)
But Jim doesn't hit people - his friends - unless he has to, and he's not going to start now. It's a dark road he's not and will never be interested in going down. Always another way.
He flings open the mental door to their bond and just dumps the force of his personality into it like an intravenous transfusion. The James Kirk equivalent to a bucket of ice water to the face. And through it all, it's an anchor point. Jim saying, come home. And maybe a faint echo, I'm not going to hit you, are you crazy?]