DPP: How to Save a Life
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no_takebacksLet's talk today about all the ways that pilots save each other. There's the actual physical acts of saving, like Kara ramming her plane into his and bringing them home in the Miniseries and shooting the marines that are about to put a bullet in Lee's head in The Oath or kicking that bottle to Lee when he's being strangled in the bar in Colonial Day.
Sadly I don't think Lee ever is in position to physically save Kara that we see. (Though an argument can maybe be made that he keeps her from dying/being killed on a few occasions perhaps, like all the effort he expends in AOC/YCGHA gives her enough time to get off the red moon and make it back to the fleet, or maybe talks Bill into giving her that Demetrius mission rather than an airlocking). But I always think of his faith in her as saving her emotionally at various points, like the Six of One brig scene and at the memorial wall in Islanded. Or even earlier, when he makes Tigh bully her out of bed/brooding headspace/giving up in Litmus. Or when he stands up at the end of Scar and finishes her toast. Or even when he says without hesitation or question that he will back her up when she goes to shoot Cain. How about the same for Kara--does she save Lee emotionally at any point that we get to see? I think we see her try a few times...in Revelations, when Dee dies, when he comes back from his little "spacewalk", but they're all aborted attempts or we don't really see much of it. (ooh just thought of one more--in the deleted scene from Razor when Kara sits with Lee as they watch the Olympic Carrier footage and she tries to stop him from obsessing over and blaming himself.)
There's a few instances where we see them actually physically working together to save each other's lives too--like shooting out the glass in the oxygen-deprived firing range in Final Cut or backing each other up in The Oath or on Kobol when the cylons find them.
It's easy to imagine though that there were millions of small ways that they saved each other every day, just by managing to give each other faith and comfort and friendship and understanding to keep themselves going. To keep going out there every day, to lead the pilots in battle, to hold on to their belief that they would find Earth someday, that they wouldn't always be at war, that maybe their would be porch swings and bright shiny futures someday.
Talk about some of the ways, in both canon and your own personal headcanon, that they did or might have saved each other. Write (or prompt) a drabble (just a 100 words exactly) that shows one saving the other--or better yet, them both saving each other or trying to.
Sadly I don't think Lee ever is in position to physically save Kara that we see. (Though an argument can maybe be made that he keeps her from dying/being killed on a few occasions perhaps, like all the effort he expends in AOC/YCGHA gives her enough time to get off the red moon and make it back to the fleet, or maybe talks Bill into giving her that Demetrius mission rather than an airlocking). But I always think of his faith in her as saving her emotionally at various points, like the Six of One brig scene and at the memorial wall in Islanded. Or even earlier, when he makes Tigh bully her out of bed/brooding headspace/giving up in Litmus. Or when he stands up at the end of Scar and finishes her toast. Or even when he says without hesitation or question that he will back her up when she goes to shoot Cain. How about the same for Kara--does she save Lee emotionally at any point that we get to see? I think we see her try a few times...in Revelations, when Dee dies, when he comes back from his little "spacewalk", but they're all aborted attempts or we don't really see much of it. (ooh just thought of one more--in the deleted scene from Razor when Kara sits with Lee as they watch the Olympic Carrier footage and she tries to stop him from obsessing over and blaming himself.)
There's a few instances where we see them actually physically working together to save each other's lives too--like shooting out the glass in the oxygen-deprived firing range in Final Cut or backing each other up in The Oath or on Kobol when the cylons find them.
It's easy to imagine though that there were millions of small ways that they saved each other every day, just by managing to give each other faith and comfort and friendship and understanding to keep themselves going. To keep going out there every day, to lead the pilots in battle, to hold on to their belief that they would find Earth someday, that they wouldn't always be at war, that maybe their would be porch swings and bright shiny futures someday.
Talk about some of the ways, in both canon and your own personal headcanon, that they did or might have saved each other. Write (or prompt) a drabble (just a 100 words exactly) that shows one saving the other--or better yet, them both saving each other or trying to.
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Light of Day, PG
Date: 2012-03-31 03:07 pm (UTC)"Come on, Lee. Get up." She's yanking him hard under the arms. He hurts everywhere.
"Kara?" His voice, unused for weeks, sounds raw.
"We don't have a lot of time. Come on." He manages to stand, wavering, holding on to her as she leads them towards a door. Outside he hears shouting, an explosion.
“How long?” He almost doesn’t want to know.
“Cylons had you six months.”
“You came to get me.” Wasn’t she married to someone else?
“Yeah.”
She drags him into the light.
Re: Light of Day, PG
Date: 2012-03-31 04:31 pm (UTC)Re: Light of Day, PG
Date: 2012-03-31 04:36 pm (UTC)(Thanks for prompting something that got me to write! *happy*)
Re: Light of Day, PG
Date: 2012-03-31 04:52 pm (UTC)Re: Light of Day, PG
Date: 2012-03-31 04:33 pm (UTC)Re: Light of Day, PG
Date: 2012-03-31 04:36 pm (UTC)Re: Light of Day, PG
Date: 2012-03-31 04:42 pm (UTC)This is reminding me of unfreezing Han from the carbonite in Jedi.
Re: Light of Day, PG
Date: 2012-03-31 04:50 pm (UTC)(I tried not to think about that part!)
Thanks!
Re: Light of Day, PG
Date: 2012-03-31 05:39 pm (UTC)This is so sweet, though. Love it!
Re: Light of Day, PG
Date: 2012-03-31 05:45 pm (UTC)Thanks so much. I love her saving him and their roles being reversed.
Re: Light of Day, PG
Date: 2012-03-31 06:52 pm (UTC)Re: Light of Day, PG
Date: 2012-03-31 06:55 pm (UTC)Re: Light of Day, PG
Date: 2012-03-31 07:50 pm (UTC)Re: Light of Day, PG
Date: 2012-03-31 08:00 pm (UTC)Thanks!
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Date: 2012-03-31 05:52 pm (UTC)The closest Lee ever got to physically saving her was the aborted writers'-room plan to have them both trapped in Maelstrom - I don't remember whether the plan was for them to save each other or for Lee to talk Kara out of her dive, but at least they considered the possibility.
And the scene under the wing....it destroys me every time because 'whatever it takes' is as close as we'll ever get to Lee saying he is going to save her.
Unknowing Savior
Date: 2012-04-01 12:29 am (UTC)But it’s not until the first time Lee yells at her that she begins to feel herself again. Soon every glare, every sharp word brings her closer and closer to alive.
Until finally she goads him into the ring. And finally he loses it. Fighting every bit as hard to get her back as she fought once to run away.
It’s a sick way of being saved but it’s hers.
Re: Unknowing Savior
Date: 2012-04-01 01:46 am (UTC)Re: Unknowing Savior
Date: 2012-04-01 02:58 am (UTC)Thank you.
Re: Unknowing Savior
Date: 2012-04-02 02:18 pm (UTC)I was watching "August Rush" last night and there's one part were the Male Lead picks a fight with his brother, "Hit me! Come on, hit me!", the grabs his brother's shirt and whispers, "I'm suffocating here!" and that's when the brother punches him - and OMG! That's so Kara.
Re: Unknowing Savior
Date: 2012-04-02 08:40 pm (UTC)Thank you.