To the Rescue!

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

Happy Thursday, everyone! 

I don't know about you, but when I have two heroic characters who are in love with each other, I often feel the temptation to put one of them in danger just for the pleasure of seeing the other one come to the rescue.  Kara's 'beyond insane' maneuver in the miniseries and her 'I could do this all day' bling during the mutiny are classic examples. 

Today, I'd love for you to share an idea about how Lee might rescue Kara, or Kara might rescue Lee (or both could work together to rescue themselves, buddy-cops style).  Your idea can be a comment, or a drabble or ficlet if you feel inspired.  It can be canon, AU, crossover, anything!  You can put them in physical jeopardy, emotional jeopardy, or anything inbetween.  Let's watch Kara and Lee save each other the best way they know how, because that's clearly what they're meant to do :)

"Damsel in Distress, currently on fire." //  "Would you like to be rescued?"  //  "Skip polite, go right to action." 
(Twice Upon a Time)

Comments

[damao2010.livejournal.com]

Pilots in jeopardy (and hurt)is a secret weakness of mine. To have them save each other ... I have no words. To have them do that while angry at each other, doing something incredibly risky just because they can't leave the other behind - well that just makes my day. Maybe it's a bit cliched but who cares? NOt me, that's for sure.

I totally agree with Tara about the show needing more of Lee physically saving Kara and Kara psychologically/emotionally beign there for Lee. It shouldn't be so difficult. Kara and her beyond insane moves should put her in difficulty pretty often. And Lee's many bottled up issues and his depression tendencies could easily provide opportunities for some emotional rescue. Not that Kara didn't need that as well.

Does anyone have any good recs that deal with this topic?

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

I've written a ton of pilots saving each other. LOL. It's a thing for me. Here's a couple of my favorite ones:

Blown Away (http://taragel.livejournal.com/48706.html) (Smutstrav Chapter 5 ) - this is my favorite and most literal instance of Lee physically saving Kara's life and Kara's reaction to it...kind of says it all I think)

A BSG/Bionic Woman crossover (http://users.livejournal.com/wisteria_/853934.html?thread=16513454#t16513454), where Kara and Lee save themselves from the evil Sarah Corvus

Being Alive (http://taragel.livejournal.com/7690.html#cutid2) & Nine Lives (http://taragel.livejournal.com/164307.html#cutid1) -- where Kara takes drastic moves to pull Lee out of his funk after his little spacewalk

Some other peeps' great saving fics:

daphnaea's The Reasons and its remix by Fahye: A Sunny Day In Tartarus (The Nameless Things Remix) (http://mercurial-wit.livejournal.com/38860.html) --in which Kara writes Lee a letter with reasons to live after his spacewalk


Gah my memory is failing. That's all I got right now.
(http://daphnaea.livejournal.com/4348.html)