[There's a hundred reasons why they haven't gone public with-- whatever this is. They're both too old and busy to play the game of boyfriends and while it's far past the fling stage, it's not like he's putting a ring on it because well. Bones would probably chop off his dick if he tried. Or at the very least, isolate him in the medbay under suspicion of a terrible disease because it's not like Jim is known for his history of monogamy and commitment. Bones gets that about him, but Bones also has to know that Kirk hasn't been getting his rocks off with anyone else for over two years now. So there's that. Maybe he doesn't think that Bones ever wants to get married again either.
They're also the Captain and CMO of a starship with four hundred crew members. At best, the whole damn ship will gossip and pry and at worst, Kirk will probably have to fill out paperwork about the whole thing because of an imaginary abuse of power because let's be honest, if anyone's in charge here, it's Bones. Let's be double honest, Kirk hates paperwork.
So yeah. They're something. They're more than just best friends who fuck sometimes (because they fuck a lot) and neither one of them has tried to put a label on it. He's not going to tell people about something that is going to open him up to a hundred questions that he hasn't answered with the man that he (probably, definitely) loves. It feels trivial to call Bones his partner, when it's so much deeper than that and soulmates is well-- just plain fucking girly.
Kirk himself doesn't really know exactly when things shifted. Sometime after he died and Bones snatched him back, it just did. It was different. The sex was different and waking up with his face pressed into a shoulder started happening more often. Or maybe they were just heading this way all along and neither of them saw it coming because Bones is stubborn and Kirk is stupid when it comes to his feelings.
His mom is the one who points out that it's obvious there's something between him and his best friend, during their yearly vidcall for his birthday (which is a day a late, but he gets a free pass for that because he was saving the world again) and if it's clear to her, probably other people have noticed too. Since, you know, she only sees him a few times a year.]
Do you think people know? [is the first thing out of his mouth when Bones steps inside his-- their, it's their apartment because it's a joke to pretend like they hadn't been spending almost every night together in his quarters on the Enterprise. Captain's quarters were bigger, it made more sense. He's been given a similar luxury on Yorktown, while they wait for their ship to be built. He also realizes that he sounds like a lunatic without context, but that's not really far off the norm either.]
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They're also the Captain and CMO of a starship with four hundred crew members. At best, the whole damn ship will gossip and pry and at worst, Kirk will probably have to fill out paperwork about the whole thing because of an imaginary abuse of power because let's be honest, if anyone's in charge here, it's Bones. Let's be double honest, Kirk hates paperwork.
So yeah. They're something. They're more than just best friends who fuck sometimes (because they fuck a lot) and neither one of them has tried to put a label on it. He's not going to tell people about something that is going to open him up to a hundred questions that he hasn't answered with the man that he (probably, definitely) loves. It feels trivial to call Bones his partner, when it's so much deeper than that and soulmates is well-- just plain fucking girly.
Kirk himself doesn't really know exactly when things shifted. Sometime after he died and Bones snatched him back, it just did. It was different. The sex was different and waking up with his face pressed into a shoulder started happening more often. Or maybe they were just heading this way all along and neither of them saw it coming because Bones is stubborn and Kirk is stupid when it comes to his feelings.
His mom is the one who points out that it's obvious there's something between him and his best friend, during their yearly vidcall for his birthday (which is a day a late, but he gets a free pass for that because he was saving the world again) and if it's clear to her, probably other people have noticed too. Since, you know, she only sees him a few times a year.]
Do you think people know? [is the first thing out of his mouth when Bones steps inside his-- their, it's their apartment because it's a joke to pretend like they hadn't been spending almost every night together in his quarters on the Enterprise. Captain's quarters were bigger, it made more sense. He's been given a similar luxury on Yorktown, while they wait for their ship to be built. He also realizes that he sounds like a lunatic without context, but that's not really far off the norm either.]