DPP: Holidays

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Wow! Yesterday's DPP was so fun! You are all so funny and sweet and get pilots in the most delicious ways. For those that haven't read it, it is worth expanding every comment to see the wonderful bits of Shipper Subtitles. Bravo!

Since it is a holiday weekend in the U.S., I was inspired to create a post about holidays, family, and the ordinary daily bliss that BSG never provided. So, for each holiday below, give a drabble, a few lines about how they might have spent that holiday, or maybe a FaceInHole. Whatever you desire.


SILLY BUNNIES!

Note: I'm going to list the major holidays here, but of course there are more. If your favorite holiday is not listed, please feel free to make a comment. If it requires explanation, please add it.

Tomorrow, I'll be posting a weekend activity, so keep your shipper hats on! Have safe travels everyone!

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EASTER

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"You look totally beat." Kara said, eyeing Lee as he slumped in his favorite chair, lids half closed already.

He cracked one eye open wider. "Mmm. Well someone had to get up at the asscrack of dawn to hide the eggs, while other people indulged in their beauty sleep."

Kara grinned and plopped herself down in his lap, kicking her legs up over the arm of the chair, as Lee slid his arms around her. "I've got a good excuse." She peeled the wrapper off a huge solid chocolate bunny she'd pilfered from Nicky's easter basket when he wasn't looking (not like the kid needed more chocolate anyway) and bit off half an ear.

Lee raised an eyebrow. "Do you now?"

Kara nodded, chewing as she tilted the rabbit towards Lee. He leaned in and took a normal-sized bite then looked at her expectantly. "Yeah," she mumbled, mouth full. "You're better at handling eggs. I always break 'em."

It was true. His less-than-delicate wife had made Hera, Nicky and Liam all cry last year when she'd dropped the carton just minutes before the egg toss contest. Lee and Karl had had to do an impromptu puppet show just to keep the peace.

"Convenient excuse," Lee grumbled, but he also grinned and tugged Kara closer, so he could brush her chocolate-smeared lips with his own. The quick kiss turns longer, hotter, deeper, as it always does, until Kara pulls back.
She grins triumphantly and lifts the slightly mushy chocolate bunny again and chomps down on its entire head.

Lee shakes his, and says, "You're gonna get sick if you eat that whole thing."

"Nah," she answers, her mouth full again. The light from the window is dancing along the sweep of her jaw as she chews, illuminating her skin with a rosy glow, and Lee thinks the beauty sleep was worth it. But then, he always thinks she's beautiful. He's about to tell her, when she gets this look in her eyes that he can't read, and then she smiles and says, "I'm eating for two now."

The words take a minute to sink in, and Lee is poleaxed. His brain gropes for clarity. "What? You're--? Kara! Really?"

She nods and her smile is suddenly shy and soft, and so un-Kara-like that it's the proof Lee needs to believe. "Saw Cottle on Tuesday. Six weeks." A hand curves over her stomach and he reaches too, his fingers brushing hers tentatively. Kara slides her hand out and covers Lee's, holding it against her, and they both stare at their fingers laced together over her stomach for a long minute.

Lee breathes. Then he leans forward, his forehead brushing Kara's and he whispers, "Thank you."

She's smiling when she whispers back. "I promise not to break this one."

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While they weren't observant of any of the Earth religions the spring celebrations of new life still spoke to Lee most especially this year. He stood in the doorway watching his sleeping wife and son. His first son, the first one he got to know anyway, had been born on the holiday known as Easter. From what he'd learned the holiday had an element of resurrection to it and that spoke to him deeply. It wasn't anything he could talk to his wife about. He just didn't feel it would be appropriate, but he still needed to think about it. He couldn't dwell on the past for too long however.

Kara had just fed Charlie for the first time, and the whole experience had been like nothing he'd ever felt before. That was the important thing. That was the feeling he should be concentrating on. Once she was asleep though he felt the sigh building up inside himself again. He managed to push it down and reach back within himself for the joy. Lee walked into the room and sat down in the recliner pulling the small cart where his son slept toward him. Dropping his chin to his hand he sat and watched the sleeping infant.

He finally moved his hand to gently stroke his son's cheek. Something clicked with that touch. This child evoked so many emotions in him, but of one thing he was certain. New beginnings were a gift to be embraced wholeheartedly. He would always remember the past but he couldn't change that. Going forward together was what he needed to do for his family now.

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PASSOVER

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MOTHER'S DAY

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Kara sighed. She'd hated this holiday for so long. How could you celebrate mother's day when every memory of her mother was bitter and full of pain? She knew that at least she had a kindred spirit in Lee. Long talks on quiet nights had revealed to her the true nature of his relationship with Carolanne and the mixed feelings he had whenever he thought of her.

She was torn out of her quiet contemplation by a tiny cry. As she leaned back against the pillows having picked the baby out of the bassinet Lee stirred beside her, waking just enough to sleepily smile with contentment at the image of his wife and child.

Kara grinned back, her contentment complete. Her first mother's day with her child. A new start with no need to dwell any more on the pain of the past. Finally a mother's day memory to cherish.

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FATHER'S DAY

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COLONIAL DAY / 4TH OF JULY

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I'm thinking something about fireworks and, uh, fireworks. Someone needs to write that fluffernutter for me! I enjoy fluff, but can't write it.

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RAMADAN

[dannicawebb.livejournal.com]

After the whole sunrise/sunset issue is worked out, I think they'd spend the entire day waiting impatiently til "sunset"...not because they're hungry, but because they can't have sex :P Or they'd claim that since there is no sun to rise OR set, they shouldn't have to abstain from sex and smoking during the day, and they'd sneak quickies in supply closets.

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LABOR DAY

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HALLOWEEN

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Okay, could someone please write Halloween pilots? I'll love ya forever. ;)

I've had this prompt floating in my head ever since the LAD word list had "froth" included. As a bsg fangirl, froth makes me think of EJO toothbrushing. As a vet, froth makes me think of rabies.

So...I got this cracky vision in my head of Kara dressing up like a cat, stealing Adama's last tube of toothpaste, and then knocking on Lee's hatch...while using the toothpaste to create frothing at the mouth. When unsuspecting Lee opens his door, Kara lunges and bites him somewhere provocative...an ear, a neck...and then starts cackling as Lee tries to get free to clean the toothpaste off and figure out WTF Kara is doing. (Probably she's spitting toothpaste froth out on Lee's floor.) By then of course Lee's been "infected" from the bite and so Kara convinces him they might as well stay in and frak. (Wouldn't want to spread the rabies you know.)

The AU version is during early teen years with Kara as a cat and Karl as a dog meeting up with Lee and Zak for trick or treating....of course the boys are dressed all Adama-like as president and pilot...so when Kara and Karl break out the toothpaste and start madly chasing the prim and proper Adamas while pretending to be frothing rabid animals, Kara of course gets Lee's costume dirty...and maybe they just have to sneak off by themselves to clean up.

I doubt anyone else finds any of this as morbidly hilarious to picture...but hey, if ya do, feel free to write it. If not, just file it under "you should hear the way my brain works sometimes" and go on with your life. Kthxbai. :)

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LABOR DAY / AUTUMN EQUINOX

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THANKSGIVING

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HANUKKAH

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CHRISTMAS

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NEW YEAR'S EVE

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LEE'S BIRTHDAY

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She found him in the barracks. Alone again. Moping again. Pouring over paperwork and looking in sore need of a little fun. He'd been like this ever since that FUBAR mission and her patience was wearing. Being a thorn in his side wasn't nearly as satisfying when he didn't rise to the occasion of her barbs and baiting.

"Hey, birthday boy." She teased him with a gentle ruffle of his hair and pinch to his cheek. "C'mon, let's go play."

"Not tonight, Kara." He waved her away dismissively.

She pulled him up by the arm anyway. "I'm sorry, did that sound like I was giving you a choice in this? Let's go. You're boring the hell outta me lately AND it's your frakking birthday! Don't tell me you're gonna throw away years of tradition by missing our annual birthday drink off."

"Look around you, Kara. The world ended. We're barely surviving out here. The fleet is a mess. Our leader is dying. Every day we lose more people to the cylons. What is there to possibly celebrate? That I'm not dead yet? That I made to through one more year of hell and misery? I'll pass." He stomped away to his locker.

"What the frak?! Get over it, Lee! Whatever is eating you, we're still here. And you not being gone may not matter to you, but it does to me. So I'm celebrating your birthday tonight. With or without you. I'm going to get blissfully drunk on the chief's gods awful excuse for liquor. One shot for every year until I die or pass out." Kara watched as he continued rifling through the contents of his locker. His back rigid and tense. No response. No acknowledgment of her words.

Suddenly angry, she stormed over to slam his locker shut, barely missing his hands.

"Kara! What the frak!"

"What happened to 'People need this'? What happened to 'my word and your word'? What happen to trust and 'if we don't have this, we really are no different from the cylons'? What happened to you, Lee. Where's my Lee? Snap out of it!"

"I thought you didn't need me after all." He bit out harshly.

"Frak, is this what you're pissed about? I was trying to make you feel better, dipstick. Of course I needed you. I was shaking like a leaf by myself. I was a frakking mess, dummy. If you tell anyone, I'll kick your ass, but I needed you. And I need you back now, too."

Finally, he smiled. "Really?"

Rolling her eyes in exasperation, "Yes, really. Can we go drink now or do you wanna stay here and talk about our feelings some more, Leanne?"

"If it's a birthday party, doesn't tradition dictate that you get me a present?" He joked.

Relived to see him back to his old self, she leaned in and pressed a soft kiss again his lips. It was quick and sweet. He tasted like home. When she pulled back he looked adorably surprised.

"I'm out of Captain Dipstick stationary, so that'll just have to do for this year." She laughed, reaching out to take his hand and pull him towards the door. Still dazed, he took a moment to get his body to respond.

"When you get your legs back," she joked, "there's a Triad table waiting that I fully intent to drink you under."

"Well," he muttered under his breath as she dragged him clumsily from the room, "Happy Birthday to me."

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KARA'S BIRTHDAY

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ANNIVERSARY

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THE FALL (anniversary of the destruction of the colonies)

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OMG BUNNY SUITS! HA HA HA HA HA.

My page was on LAD and I clicked back to go back to my friends list and this picture kind of loaded for a second before the regular list did...OMG I thought I was tripping. heeeee

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LOL! Seeing Lee in a bunny suit would definitely bring the doubletakes over at LAD! That must've been really funny!

CARNIVAL

[damao2010.livejournal.com]

The people in the fleet definetly would need to celebrate carnival. I don't really picture them having masquarades or parades, but a three-day party where you are invited to let go of your everyday self and just be and have fun would do Kara and Lee a world of good. Perhaps it might work as the perfect excuse for them to let go of their fears or their inhibitions (heehee) or both.

(For those who are not familiar with the holiday, it is held immediately before the beginning of Lent, which is a period of 40 days between Ash Wednesday and Easter. During Lent, people are supposed to fast and pray and refrain from lots of fun and pleasurable activities so they can make sacrifices and prepare for the celebration of Easter. So the days before this period, Carnival, are days of celebration and excess. They say the festivites date back to the ancient Roman festivals of Saturnalia and Bacchanalia so you can get an idea of what goes on these days.)

Re: CARNIVAL

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YES!! Mardi Gras pilots FTW!!