Trick or Treat?
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no_takebacksThe Crack
The Costumes
It's tough to find costumes in space, but thankfully the Fleet has that excellent Ikea Ship hanging out in its nether quadrants! Kara and Lee had trouble deciding between some various superhero options, but thankfully, some of their friends found it an easier decision! 
The Tricks
It wasn't Halloween if there wasn't a massive egg fight in my neighborhood as a kid. What sort of tricks do you think the Galactica folk got up to? Whose office got TP'ed? Which nugget got algae bombed on his way through the hangar deck? Who ding-dong-ditched at the commander's hatch? Whose hand got put into a bowl of warm water as they slept, leading to an infortunate rack accident? ;)
Ok, how many of these are NOT Kara-instigated? ;)
After everyone was exhausted, would they sit around and tell ghost stories to each other? Who would get the most scared? (Baltar?)
The Treats
Candy was at a premium on Galactica. What would the fine crew get instead? Socks? Razors? Cigars? Assuming a treasure trove of sweets WAS procured through the black market, how would they be consumed? Would Lee ration his candy out, controlling himself to only eat one tasty morsel per day to make it last as long as possible? Would Kara cram half her haul down that first night, then get a bellyache and dump the rest with the nuggets the next day? Who would get stuck with the gross candy that no one wanted (i.e. Necco wafers or Good and Plenty)? Who would be the killjoy handing out practical items like toothpaste or dental floss instead of candy? Would there be candy swapping going on? What candy would Kara hate and give to Lee? What candy would he secretly like but give to her because she wheedled it out of him? What other "treats" might all that sweet stuff lead to (wink, wink, nudge nudge)? ;)
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Date: 2010-10-21 09:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-21 10:25 am (UTC)So many good questions... I'll need to think about this during work. :)
Costume ideas
Date: 2010-10-21 11:13 am (UTC)I, uh, like firefighters. 8'D
Re: Costume ideas
Date: 2010-10-21 11:50 am (UTC)Lee as firefighter has just made me faint! AHHHHHHHHH!
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Date: 2010-10-21 11:54 am (UTC)I totally have to think of some candy crack now. LOL!
UNSOLICITED KIDFIC AU FOR WHICH I APOLOGIZE, PART ONE.
Date: 2010-10-21 12:01 pm (UTC)For one thing, she's fine with allowing sleepovers on weeknights.
More importantly, she's fine with allowing sleepovers with girls.
Zak is picking up a scribbled-on index card from a stack they made last Halloween, biting off the fringe edges of his Reese's before popping the center into his mouth. Lee eats his peanut butter cups little bite by bite; Kara shoves the whole thing in at once.
"Which of us is..." Zak squints at the fat magic marker handwriting. "Oh: Which of us would last the longest during a zombie attack."
A moment of brief contemplation, and then the brothers point at Kara at the same time. She raises her arms in smug victory, eyes shining behind her mother's aviator goggles. They're authentic vintage Air Force inherited from her grandfather, and she'll probably catch hell later for borrowing them without asking, but it was for a bitchin' costume, even if the corresponding bomber jacket is a little too big on her.
She declares this round Kit Kats, and everybody scrounges in the massive pile of the candy they all dumped out of their pillowcases onto the bed, finding one for everybody. Kara bites right in without even breaking off the pieces. Zak teethes off the wafer layers one by one. Lee eats one piece and tucks the rest into the wrapper and then into his front pajama pocket for later. He and Zak have both changed out of their costumes; Kara forgot to bring a change of clothes.
She wins the next choice too for Most Likely To Be Able To Properly Chop Wood, Lee snickering and marveling at how they ever came up with half of these cards. Zak offers, "I think Dad gave us some suggestions." Kara fondly remembers that previous year when Mr. Adama was home a little more often; he was never exactly nice, but he used to crack her up whenever he gave his occasional interjections.
She says, "Hershey kisses." They assume there are tons, but they can't find a third; Lee is already savoring his, and Zak has already unwrapped the other one. She yells, "Hey!" when he pops it into his mouth.
Then Zak leans in and smudges a kiss on her cheekbone, saying, "There." She grins and wipes him off with a lightly slapping motion.
"Punk," she grumbles.
Re: UNSOLICITED KIDFIC AU FOR WHICH I APOLOGIZE, PART ONE.
Date: 2010-10-21 12:08 pm (UTC)Hey! I eat my Reese's (sometimes) just like Zak does! *high fives imaginary kid Zak*
ZOMG they are so adorable! And there is a part two coming?! AWESOME!
UNSOLICITED KIDFIC AU FOR WHICH I APOLOGIZE, PART TWO.
Date: 2010-10-21 12:11 pm (UTC)"It's got gore. And cannibalism." Lee shrugs, and his smile travels into a smirk as he pays more attention to the TV than he has in many minutes. "Besides, Jessica Alba's hot in that cowgirl outfit."
Kara looks at Lee sidelong and gets an itchy feeling that makes her swallow and look away from him. She noticed him starting to notice girls (notably quite belatedly) about a couple months ago, seemingly the very moment it began.
That moment involved Anastasia Dualla and gym class, and Kara had tormented him by muttering, "Woah there, sparky," into his ear.
"Besides," Kara adds, "none of us really like scary movies anyway." It's no fun; none of them get scared. She knows she's had enough of the real monsters in life; she's not sure why it would be the same for Zak or Lee but she's never asked.
That night in their triangular tired sprawl on the queen-size when Kara's borrowed and changed into one of Lee's t-shirts, she pouts for Zak to put a pillow on her cold feet. Some hour after he's slapped it on her with a well-aimed toss, she's opening her eyes again for some reason. She's opening them to see Lee's eyes looking at her.
Next Halloween they will do nothing together because Zak will get beat up in a fight at school. She will realize what made him easy to set off when the rumors about the divorce boil up. Less than a month after the Adamas will move away and they will not write or call and she will miss them more than she thinks is really fair for her to have to feel. Karl Agathon's mother will scowl at her when she picks him up in her mother's truck a couple years later.
Several years and she will get a call from Zak Adama and meet him at a diner with their arms going around each other, and he will be in town to see his brother, which will make her say: "What?"
Some more months and she will see Lee and they will be all "What are the chances?" about him studying law in the same city where she's training to fly. She will be surprised when he starts calling her after that. They will be older and certain rather than pondering what the real monsters are, the ones they never talk about with each other, but she will wonder if she had a hibernating creature in her closet after all, if it could have crept out while she was sleeping and crawled between her ribs and into her chest, because it does this glorious terrible roaring every time she sees the man Lee is now.
There will come a year when she will call him and he'll say that his plans for Halloween are to stay in and cram for an exam. Just before he's about to step out for some coffee, Kara will appear on the doorstep of his condominium and open her jacket to reveal a studded bra and leather chaps and the most wonderful menacing smile on her face that says You better fucking appreciate this.
What she will say to his gaping expression is "Woah there, sparky."
"Uh..." Lee will have trouble sorting through his breathlessness, and will stammer, "Trick or treat?..."
"That's my line," she'll say and step close just enough for him to absolutely have to kiss her.
Tonight, she opens her eyes in the middle of the night and sees Lee looking at her and knows none of this. She gives an almost demure, accusing look from under her sleepy lashes, smiles, and turns away to lay on her other side.
Re: UNSOLICITED KIDFIC AU FOR WHICH I APOLOGIZE, PART ONE.
Date: 2010-10-21 12:13 pm (UTC)Part two is below, LJ wouldn't let me reply to myself. WTF, eljay.
Re: UNSOLICITED KIDFIC AU FOR WHICH I APOLOGIZE, PART TWO.
Date: 2010-10-21 12:14 pm (UTC)But oh this got me too:
if it could have crept out while she was sleeping and crawled between her ribs and into her chest, because it does this glorious terrible roaring every time she sees the man Lee is now.
I have such a kink for childhood friends stuff. There is not nearly enough of that (AU) in this fandom. Gah. Wonderful! <3
Re: UNSOLICITED KIDFIC AU FOR WHICH I APOLOGIZE, PART ONE.
Date: 2010-10-21 12:17 pm (UTC)And now I want some Reese's.
(I read part two in my email as a notification and went to comment only to find it had been deleted! I'm glad you triumphed over the eljay's silly silly ways!)
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Date: 2010-10-21 12:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-21 12:22 pm (UTC)The Superman one really came out the best I think!
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Date: 2010-10-21 12:23 pm (UTC)Lee as Batman is kinda for Rachelindeed. I know she wrote some Batman AU fic for them a while back...
Re: Costume ideas
Date: 2010-10-21 12:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-21 12:34 pm (UTC)YES COME BACK WITH CANDY CRACK!
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Date: 2010-10-21 12:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-21 12:36 pm (UTC)Re: UNSOLICITED KIDFIC AU FOR WHICH I APOLOGIZE, PART TWO.
Date: 2010-10-21 12:48 pm (UTC)*does happy dance*
Re: Costume ideas
Date: 2010-10-21 12:48 pm (UTC)Re: Costume ideas
Date: 2010-10-21 12:50 pm (UTC)Re: UNSOLICITED KIDFIC AU FOR WHICH I APOLOGIZE, PART TWO.
Date: 2010-10-21 12:52 pm (UTC)Re: UNSOLICITED KIDFIC AU FOR WHICH I APOLOGIZE, PART TWO.
Date: 2010-10-21 12:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-21 12:54 pm (UTC)Re: Costume ideas
Date: 2010-10-21 01:03 pm (UTC)