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One of my favorite BSG fics, Artemis Rising by

stars_like_dust, has pre-mini/Academy pilots spending their break together on a beach. There is banter and fun, and less angst because it is pre-Zak, just fun, flirty pilots on a beach.

Part 1 (http://stars-like-dust.livejournal.com/225866.html)

Part 2 (http://stars-like-dust.livejournal.com/226083.html)

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Awww, I love this!!! Vacation!pilots FTW!!! \O/

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Double triple WORD to all of this. It's a classic. :D

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I can't count how many times I've gone back to reread this, but I love it just as much (if not more) each time. I love minimally angsty baby!pilots so much!

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Yes! Exactly. It captures such a perfect, innocent piloty moment in time. : )

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Unfortunately, that's something that we didn't get much of in canon. Probably why I love the fingerpainting scene from AoC and the water hose scene in Colonial Day so much, because for that moment all of the angsty things that come attached to the world ending are forgotten and we get a glimpse of happy, carefree pilots.

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embolalia.livejournal.com

Alright! You've all convinced me. Off to read this :)

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He shrugs an arm around her shoulders without even thinking. It’s not habit, because it could never be that. Not when the sense of one another is so perfect. Instead it’s comfortable. It’s practiced… it is love.

She sends him a sidelong glance at the gesture as they move into the restaurant. It’s a nicer place than they usually go to, however the occasion called for it. Ten years together was something to be marked. And as soon the waiting staff take their coats and the maître d their name, Kara is glancing around and smirking at the other diners, not quite able to resist people watching and giving a mental laugh at how right she was about who else might be in ‘Saunders’ this evening.

In the waiting area, there were the hip trendy couple, just on the edge of being thrown out for wearing jeans with their artlessly loose white shirts and her elongated artsy jewellery – the cost of their lifestyle branded on their sunglasses and shoes, the reason she assumes, that they hadn’t been turfed out for flouting the dress code already. Sitting sniffily across from them were a group of elder men and women together. The men with sports jackets and cravats and the women with their heads done up in a scarfs and hats like they’d just stepped on the Titanic. They were ordering off the menu by using the actual phrases rather more than their common Caprican counter parts.

Kara grinned.

It was at this point that Lee clocked her look, read what she was thinking and shook his head with a disparaging smirk. She surreptitiously slapped his ass, then leaning in close as they were walked to their table and whispers, “If they see my tattoos, will they kick us out?”

Lee’s mouth quivers, trying to keep a straight face until the server leaves.

“Frak no. Half of these places are still owned by Ha'la'tha members, so I doubt it.”

“How about if I just ask for some cow and rare?”

Lee’s eyes lit with alarm at that, then settled. He didn’t think she’d do it, but then this being Kara, he never could be sure. He decided to play her at her own game for a laugh.

“You do that and I’ll ask for the ‘amusing bush’ instead of the amuse-bouche.”

Kara resisted spitting into her hand, but still held her palm out in challenge. “You’re on.”

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I was hesitant to post this because I figured that everybody had probably read it already since it's so good and is pretty much a classic, like Bee said. I'd love to know what you think of it when you're done.

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Oh, and I am not sure if this only works beyond a Brit smutty pun? Bush = what you think it does given a moment!

Edited Date: 2011-11-12 09:16 pm (UTC)

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kdbleu.livejournal.com

Aw, they're so cute.

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It's true. It was a kind of one-season only thing before it got all srs bzs. I think there's a lot of nostalgia for that period of pilots as a result. : )

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lol, glad you liked. I can NEVER see Kara behaving herself (like me) in a M-starred restaurant, hee.

Edited Date: 2011-11-12 09:16 pm (UTC)

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It totally works. And I love anything that can work an amuse-bouche joke into the mix. Bravo! :D

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Lol, I love being 'amusing!' :)

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I think there's a lot of nostalgia for that period of pilots as a result.

Definitely. I've been rewatching BSG on BBC America, and when they were showing S1 episodes I alternated between smiling at scenes like the ones I mentioned and wondering where those pilots went-- we never really got another one of those moments after S1 was over.

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kdbleu.livejournal.com

Oh, I have the same problem. Like suddenly I want to swear every third word or take my shoes off and wade in inappropriate fountains. :D

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This is so fun and cute and perfectly angst-free!

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Lol, it's not just me then! I am so badly behaved!

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kdbleu.livejournal.com

I almost always control myself as I am married to a very nice and proper Lee, but it's really hard.

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