DPP - Game on!

[aurora-0811.livejournal.com]

The posting rules are simple.

• You can only post reactions and dialog for your chraracter
• Give others a chance to respond (If it takes too long, I'll try and jump in and move things along w/out trying to do too much altering to the character)

That's it!  I know this may or may not work and if it doesn't then at least we tried.  Also, we sadly have no Adama or Roslin so if you want to write appearances by them then go for it....they are the wild card characters open to anyone. For now let's say they are both in sickbay and Doc Cottle is getting Adama patched up post fight.

Some people won't be around until later tonight so try to remember that!  Our Starbuck might be modded a bit by Tara until Ray gets home so that we can keep pilots in motion.  To get the game going I'm going to post as a deckhand (so excuse the poor writing skills please)

We start our game at the very end of UB.  Starbuck and Apollo are laying bloodied and battered on the mat of the boxing ring.  Slowly the crowd starts to thin out and all the crew can talk about is Maj. Adama and Capt. Thrace.  The whispers and theories about what happened so long ago on New Caprica to cause their rift echo off the bulkheads.  Finally Col. Tigh steps out of the ring and orders everyone but the knuckledraggers off the deck and for them to get it back to combat ready status.  It’s 15 minutes later, the bleachers are stacked, tables are stowed and the only thing left to dismantle is the ring but Starbuck and Apollo are still laying in it.  The deck gang is trying to decide who is going to be the one to say something to them….

ETA:  Rooms are added, if there is any place you specifically want to work from let me know. I'm adding an OOC comment at the end so put all your comments, needs or questions there....i figure its best to have it all in one place.

EDIT 11:30PM EST:  Hey everyone!  Thanks so much for joining in, we've started it a bit and kind of established where everyone is.  We've been discussing keeping this going for a few days and posting jumps ahead and what not in the coming days.  Please continue to add anything into this thread, make your character interact in the established places or if you want to start a new "room" just let me know.  Tomorrow there will be a post about continuing the story.  Thanks again for all your patience while we figure it out, I hope you enjoy playing and reading!

The No Takebacks RPG Cast List

Character	Role Player
Starbuck	rayruz
Apollo	taragel
Helo	amaliak
Sam	ninety6tears
Dee	lotus79
Chief	ddt73
Cally	thrace_adama
Adama	sci_fi_shipper
Cottle	thegreenkitty
Racetrack	ninjamonkey73
Kat	jeneviverose
Athena	angelicalangie
Tigh	mserrada
Specialist 22	nazkey
Guest Starring	stripes13

Comments

Re: GYM

[rayruz.livejournal.com]

Move forward. Yeah, that was about the only place she could go right now, but forward into what? She had no idea. Back in the ring, all the anger she'd carried (at Lee, at herself) had faded. She had gotten Lee back, but what the hell did that even mean? The most she probably deserved was his forgiveness, let alone his friendship. And then in the head, he'd told her he loved her and... asked her to leave her husband. Lee had a lot of nerve to ask for so much from her when they had just gotten back on speaking terms... and back into each other's arms. Gods, if it hadn't been for frakking Gaeta's announcement butting in, they probably would have frakked right there up against the sinks without a second thought for anyone else who might have gotten hurt.

"Gods, I really am a screw up," she muttered under her breath. Kara shook her head, and after a moment finally said, "I'm leaving Sam."

Re: GYM

[amaliak.livejournal.com]

His movement of bandaging her hands stilled.

Was she serious? This wasn't what he'd expected her to say....or was it? Really, if he was honest with himself, this is exactly what he'd wanted to hear.

He was...relieved.

He placed his hands on Kara's shoulders. "Does Lee know?"

Re: GYM

[rayruz.livejournal.com]

"No." But I won't have an affair. Lee's words rang in her head. She hated him a little for that. Hate him for how much she wanted him, how badly she couldn't stand to see him go, how much he wanted from her that she wasn't sure she could give him. But her marriage to Sam... it was hardly a marriage anymore anyways.

"Marrying Sam was..." Frakking stupid? She'd loved Sam. Sam was easy and fun and never made her feel like she didn't know what the hell she was doing, hell he'd do anything for her like he was some kinda dumb mutt. Sam just was. But the one thing he shouldn't be was her husband. "I married him for all the wrong reasons."

Re: GYM

[amaliak.livejournal.com]

Helo frowned at her words. They all knew that her marriage had been a mistake. He knew for a fact that at this point, Sam was sorry it ever happened too.

He wanted to tell her that there was more to this than just Sam. There was Dee too, and even the old man. Hell, the whole damn ship would be affected by this.

But here in front of him was his best friend, the best pilot in the fleet...just a woman who was lost.

He pulled her into his arms, something that he felt he hadn't done since she'd come back and tried to tell her silently that he understood. That he was on her side, no matter what.

"I know you think you don't know what you're doing," he said to her quietly, "But I know you can do this. Trust yourself, Kara."

Re: GYM

[rayruz.livejournal.com]

Kara wanted to relax into the hug and believe him. But she had a feeling this bomb had yet to go off. "I made a big frakking mess here, huh?" she hadn't even called things off yet with Sam yet, didn't know what would happen with Lee. If she was going to be able to keep any of the promises she wanted to make.

Re: GYM

[amaliak.livejournal.com]

He was going to smack her upside the head. He settled for laughing instead.

He laughed until it became an almost hysteria, pent up stress and just the ridiculousness of the whole thing getting to him finally.

"Buck, the things that are worthwhile began as messes. Trust me. I'm married to a cylon."

Re: GYM

[rayruz.livejournal.com]

Kara shook her head snortif an incredulous laugh. It was ridiculous. The entire frakking thing was totally ridiculous. "Yesterday Lee and I could barely get through a briefing in the same room and now..." No. She wasn't leaving Sam for Lee. She was doing it for herself and for Sam because whatever they had once was broken now. "He says he loves me." She shook her head. "After I frakked him and left him, the idiot still loves me. Can you believe that?" She barely could.

Re: GYM

[amaliak.livejournal.com]

He didn't hesitate for a second. "Yes, I can."

He made sure she was looking at him when he said the next part. "I need you to remember that you might actually deserve it."

He dropped a loud smack in her hair and pulled away, feeling better about this whole thing now that he understood her headspace a little better. It would still be rough time, but he knew they'd get through it.

He paused at the door of the gym. "Don't hurt him."

Re: GYM

[rayruz.livejournal.com]

Kara sank down onto the weight bench watching as Karl left. Don't hurt him? When had she done but? She didn't exactly have a good track record in that regard. Wasn't that why she left in the first place?

Finally alone, Kara realized she had never actually taken that shower she'd needed so badly. It was early still, she had gotten out of her last shift and had nothing really to do until her lunch date. She grabbed her towel and headed off to the head.