Love Letters

[scifishipper.livejournal.com]

Yesterday's post filled me with even more longing for pilots than I already had. But I also felt comforted that all you other shippers get it, too, and that's why you and I keep coming back. Today, I'm going to tap into a little bit of that loving feeling, but from a character perspective.

Write (or create) a letter about love, declaring love, mentioning love, referring to love (or interest!), decrying love, or making jokes about love as it pertains our pilots. You can also write a little drabble about a letter or describing the actions that happened because of a letter. But something about letter should be included.

To do this, you MUST assume ONE THING: These letters take at least one or two weeks to arrive at their destination. Call it cylon interference, or a burgeoning Pony Express, I don't care - but keep that assumption in mind. This is not a chat or email - make it paper. Other forms could be postcards, invitations, announcements, formal reprimands(!), or if you're Kara, something scrawled on a bar napkin. It's up to you.


Some Examples: Assume any backstory, setting, AU or situation. Be as creative as you like. No Takebacks.

1. Lee is stuck on a long distance posting, he and Kara have been dating and he misses her.
2. Teenage Kara is writing to Helo because she's bored and she *might* have to mention this new guy that's transferred to her school.
3. Lee is writing a letter to Kara on their Tenth wedding anniversary. He knows she's going to laugh, but he also knows that she keeps (and re-reads) all of his "stupid" letters.
4. Bill is writing a letter to Lee about his new cabin in the mountains and wonders how pilots are doing.
5. Kara's therapist, the one she finally went to after Lee insisted, tells her she has to write a letter to her dead mother.
6. Kara needs to break the big news to Lee.
7. Lee and Kara are penpals during middle school.
8. Lee and Kara send a postcard to the other pilots from their honeymoon beach vacation.
9. Kara finally answers Lee's last letter.
10. Lee gets a Dear John letter. It's bullshit and he does something about it.

Awwww....Get schmoopy, sad, happy, cracky. There are a thousand more scenarios, of course. I can't wait to see what y'all come up with.

I LOVE YOU SHIPPER NATION! *MWAH*



ETA: I almost forgot that I promised a shout-out to heliotitans's new BSG RPG (Role Playing Game) that will be K/L friendly. For more info, go here.

Comments

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Lol. #7 is ADORABLE. I hope someone writes it. <3

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'll get number 7 rolling with a letter from Lee to his new penpal. I hope someone will write Kara's reply :)

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Dear Kara Thrace,

Hi. My name is Lee Adama. Our teacher gave us our assignments today, and it looks like you’re stuck with me. I’m fairly boring (sorry), but at least my handwriting is clear, which is more than I can say for you (no offense!). Along with our assignments everyone got the questiona (oops!) questionnaires and pictures from your class, and I guess you will get mine, too, before this letter arrives, so I’m not sure what new I can tell you. Thanks for writing PYRAMID in capital letters under your “interests” category, that was the part I could definitely read! I like your picture. You look very energetic.

I have a little brother named Zak. He’s pretty annoying, but we play pyramid together sometimes. Do you have brothers and sisters? My favorite color is blue and my favorite food is chocolate cake with chocolate icing. My favorite real food is chicken cordun blue (sorry, I don’t know if I spelled that right). I like going to movies (have you seen Starship Troopers?) and I’m on the swim team. When I get to high school I’m definitely joining the debate club. I practice now on Zak but he just gets bored and agrees with me, so I have to argue both sides. Sometimes I use different voices, because it’s more fun that way.

Yes, I’m weird. Deal with it.

Nice to meet you.

Sincerely,

Lee Adama

[reginaspina.livejournal.com]

Lee finds the fountain pen his grandfather gave him when he graduated from high-school and one of his college notebooks that has a few empty pages at the end. Maybe writing a letter will help him forget.

14th Gamelion, 2745

Kara,
Do you believe in “love at first sight?” I always thought it was a cheap rhetorical device, used to sell mediocre novels and bad movies. And then you opened the door.

You would laugh if I told you that you looked like the princess from a fairytale, shining in the lamplight. Hair as bright as gold, lips as red as pomegranates, eyes as clear as water and as warm as the sun. I would say all that and more, to hear your laughter again.

I want to know if your skin is as soft as it looks; I want to feel that pulse in your throat against my lips. I never understood how men could destroy themselves for love but if you asked me, I would die for you. If you asked me, I would kill for you.

I want to drown in you; I cannot breathe without you. When you kissed Zak, I wished he were not my brother.

I have taken a posting on Aerilon. We won't see each other again.

Lee

***

Kara’s mail is usually composed of reminders of unpaid bills; that’s why she rips open the thin cream envelope addressed in an unfamiliar handwriting.

14th Gamelion, 2745

Dear Kara:
It was a pleasure to meet you. Thank you for a lovely dinner.
Regards,
Lee

The water in the vase is turning green and the stems are slimy when she throws them in the bin. She washes her hands, and notices the note from Lee on the counter. With a shrug, she throws it into the bin on top of the dead flowers he brought.

[scifishipper.livejournal.com]

HEHEHE! This just made me giggle and grin! SOOO CUTE!

[scifishipper.livejournal.com]

Nice juxtaposition. Wow. So like Lee to write a thank you note. Gods, the man just never says what he feels. *hugs leland*

This makes my heart hurt.

[reginaspina.livejournal.com]

Heee! This is fabulous :D I love that Lee uses different voices for his debating and that Zak is bored by the whole thing.

[reginaspina.livejournal.com]

You know I gotta bring the angst! (I'm sorry!)

[kdbleu.livejournal.com]

OMGs, this is so completely adorable! *grins*

[kdbleu.livejournal.com]

Not only would Lee write a thank you note, Kare wouldn't think twice about receiving it and tossing it aside. Very nice.

[reginaspina.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much!!

[rdave1.livejournal.com]

This is so adorable!! That sounds so like our Leland.:D

[amaliak.livejournal.com]

*sputters* still of my favorite icons ever.

[rdave1.livejournal.com]

Awww! Poor Lee! Of course, it so like him to send a thank you note! Personally, he should've send the first letter.:D

[amaliak.livejournal.com]

I LOVE THIS.
This is exactly what BOTH of the would have done.

I'm all achy for them again today.

cheers.
--Lex

[reginaspina.livejournal.com]

Hee! Well, I in turn ADORE yours :D (I feel like it speaks to me; I'm honestly quite a happy person in real life, but man, I do have this BSG/Angst ship like mad :P)

P.S. I friended you - I have no idea how I managed not to do this before, especially given how much I love your fic and icons :D

[reginaspina.livejournal.com]

Personally, he should've send the first letter.:D

Well, but he wouldn't be our beloved Lee if he had, now would he?

[reginaspina.livejournal.com]

Aww, thanks so much, my dear! I'm glad you liked it. I'm kind of achey for them too after all the discussion yesterday about their star-crossed romance/epic anst etc.

[amaliak.livejournal.com]

I'm a pretty cheery person IRL too, but I do love me the good angst!fest every so often. And what better than pilots?
FRIENDLIES!!

[reginaspina.livejournal.com]

OK, your version of that shot - my favorite! They're surrounded by darkness and yet lit up and ... just guh! I love it SO much.

[thegreenkitty.livejournal.com]

Lee,

PYRAMID.

Kara

p.s. My teacher said I had to write you a longer letter before I could go outside. I don't really see the point since you said you couldn't read my first one. I'm not really the friendly type anyhow. You probably aren't missing much.

You're lucky you have a brother. At least you have someone to talk to. I don't have any brothers or sisters but really it's better for them that way. My Dad left last year and my Mom...well, she's my Mom.

I sneak over to my friend Karl's house whenever I'm able. We play Colonial Fleet and shoot cylons out of the sky. Have you learned about the cylons yet? They sounded badass. I'm going to be the best viper pilot in the 12 colonies when I grow up. Well, after I finish my professional pyramid career.

I'm sorry you're stuck writing to me but I'll try to make it easier on you by making the important parts stick out like this:

YOU ARE REALLY CUTE in your picture. Thanks for sending it, Adama.

Kara

[thegreenkitty.livejournal.com]

LOVE this. So perfectly nails both characters...and the UST...and the angst...and the inability to admit any of it. Guh.

[rdave1.livejournal.com]

That is also true!

[kdbleu.livejournal.com]

Oh, Kara, you have to do the whole assignment.

So cute, bb.

[thegreenkitty.livejournal.com]

*indignant*

Well, HE is the one who said he couldn't read it. ;)

*hopes Rachel, I mean Lee, responds* :D

[scifishipper.livejournal.com]

*GRINNING*

I LOVE THIS!!!