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Hello everyone, and welcome to today's post! Yesterday's DPP yielded us two lovely fics, Buzzing The Beast by [livejournal.com profile] useyourlove and Mustering Out by [livejournal.com profile] word_vomity - if you haven't read them yet, please show them some love! (we have such a talented fandom, don't we?)

Continuing with the speculation about canon blanks in the story of pilots, today I'd like to ask y'all what exactly you think happened in the time that elapsed between the end of Unfinished Business and beginning of The Eye of Jupiter, a.k.a. between the most heart-wrenching reunion/reconciliation in the history of storytelling (and this is not really hyperbole, we are talking about pilots after all) and the time when we finally found out that they'd stopped fighting their feelings and were outmaking like two people who couldn't get enough of each other.

Visual aids this way (just look at their faces, poor bbs):



And this (slightly happier sight to look at, at least in this still):



We never, ever get any idea from canon about how the affair began, other than that our favourite CAG and ace have been at it for a while by the time we see them, since they've spent at least a week on the algae planet with Kara flying donut runs to the surface every chance she gets.

But going by the fact that in The Passage, neither of our pilots has so much as a mark on them from their knock-down, drag-out fight in UB (and for all its other faults, BSG didn't make injuries sustained in one episode just vanish in the next, the scraped cheek and battered knee Lee and Kara sustained in early Season 1 stay scraped and injured for several episodes), some time did pass - Lee's black eye, Kara's potentially broken nose, and the cuts on both their faces wouldn't have healed without a trace in anything under two weeks, I'm guessing (if anyone knows how fast facial injuries heal, please feel free to correct me).



Anyway, I didn't mean to turn this into a boring medical discussion, because the real question is, what do you think happened during that time, Shipper Nation? How did Lee and Kara finally stop fighting themselves, at least for a little while, and give in to what they really wanted? It's a pilots landmark in so many ways, and we do not get to see nearly enough of them before the angst set in. All discussion, fic and fic recs are highly welcome, and wanted - and here are a few recs (some of which are fandom classics) to get started with:

Gold To Iron by [livejournal.com profile] fahye and [livejournal.com profile] stars_like_dust
Deadly by [livejournal.com profile] fahye
Lift Me Up by [livejournal.com profile] shah_of_blah

This one?

Date: 2011-11-23 04:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kdbleu.livejournal.com
Kara stands in front of Kat’s picture after hanging it. A long time. Longer than she has to spare. She can’t seem to move though, caught between numbness and tears.

Someone moves at the end of the Memorial Hall. It’s him. Kara keeps her eyes trained on the photograph. She raises a hand to her lips as though trying to feel Kat’s bravado on her face.

He comes up and wraps around her, pinning her arms awkwardly. Kara inhales and sighs. Lee presses his lips into her neck. She sinks back, safe for the first time in days, months, years.


(originally posted 1 Sept)

Re: This one?

Date: 2011-11-23 11:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] workerbee73.livejournal.com
That's lovely! (I don't think I'd seen it before), but this one was where they were sparring and Kara says something to the effect of "complicated enough for you?" Does that ring any bells?

Re: This one?

Date: 2011-11-23 04:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kdbleu.livejournal.com
Thanks. Glad you liked it.

The other rings many bells. Alas I did not write it.

Re: This one?

Date: 2011-11-23 05:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] workerbee73.livejournal.com
I know! I'm so bad about bookmarking sometimes. I just need to go back through the old DPPs until I find it.

Re: This one?

Date: 2011-11-23 04:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kdbleu.livejournal.com
You're very welcome. Glad you enjoyed.

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