Contained fire

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• Buried currents by TheIcedCaffeine

  Fandoms: Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek  

  • General Audiences
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  20 Dec 2025

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Leonard "Bones" McCoy/Spock
  • Spock (Star Trek)
  • Leonard "Bones" McCoy
  • Pre-Slash
  • Slow Burn
  • Unresolved Sexual Tension
  • emotional tension
  • Angst
  • Hurt No Comfort
  • Mutual Pining
  • Internal Conflict
  • Character Study
  • Trauma
  • Moral Ambiguity
  • Banter
  • Flirting
  • Late Night Conversations
  • Science Lab Setting
  • Canon Compliant
  • Leonard McCoy POV
  • dark themes
  • psychological exploration
  • Duality
  • Vulcan Culture
  • Human/Vulcan relationship

  Summary

  Late-night shifts in the science lab force McCoy and Spock into close quarters over a shared experiment. What begins as their usual sharp-tongued debate slowly shifts into something neither of them can name.

  Series

  • Part 1 of Contained fire

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  1,488

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  7

  Kudos:

  30

  Bookmarks:

  1

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