DPP: Show and Tell

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Everyone's busy and things have been getting quieter on LJ in general, so let's stoke our fandom fires a little! Post a sneak preview snippet of anything (or several things) pilots-related that you're working on. Ideas for a vid, sketches or partial drawings, sentences or paragraphs from fic--whatever! It's all good! Show 'em if you got 'em!


Pilots can't wait to see what you've got!

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[embolalia.livejournal.com]

This is from a multi-chapter piece that I started more than a year ago. I'm going to try to finish it for the Pentathalon if I have time. It refers a little bit to my story Prologue, which is my head pre-canon, but you don't need to have read that. PG rating, but major angst warning :)

Her last load of belongings is stowed in storage and Sam is already down on the planet as Kara prepares to leave Galactica. The prospect of living on the ground after so long in space is thrilling and she's saying her farewells to the pilots with only a hint of sadness.

And yet when she sees Lee across the hangar deck, over from Pegasus for whatever reason, all thought of Sam and New Caprica slips her mind and Kara's grinning so hard it hurts. He loves her. For just a second she's giddy.

“Starbuck!” Tigh barks off to the side, and she goes blank as she turns, remembering. How she doesn't want to ruin Lee’s life or get him killed; how she couldn't survive without him; how she broke his heart already. When she looks back Lee's heading toward the corridor to C-deck, and in spite of it all, she still follows him.

“Hey, Lee,” she calls after him as they reach an empty stretch of hallway.

He turns to her, reacting for a moment as strongly as she did, as strongly as the night they met. Then he withdraws. “What do you want?”

Words fail her for a moment. “I'm just--I'm heading down. Going away party was yesterday, got my nice little plaque, hugs and handshakes all around.” She hesitates over the last two words. “Missed you.”

He snorts in disbelief. “Well, you got everything else you wanted. That should be enough.”

Starbuck takes over, her old defense. Her tone turns to mocking “And you've got Dee, I hear she's quite something.”

“Don't even talk about her,” Apollo snaps.

“Feeling guilty?”

He shakes his head. “Frak you.”

Kara grimaces as he turns away. She doesn't know what she expected. She picked Zak, before, and he never said anything. Though she knows all the ways this is different.

“Lee,” she tries again, and he stops but doesn't turn back to her. Something about his posture just radiates pain and she can't breathe. She wants to comfort him, wants him to comfort her. It’s irrational and she has no right to it, but she broke her own heart when she broke his, and she can’t tell her husband that. He meant everything he said that night. And so did she.

He speaks to the bulkhead beyond them. “If you changed your mind, Kara, you should have told me.”

There are tears in his voice and she can't stand it. For a moment Kara can't speak. Then she tries. “I--”

Lee turns back, not wanting to hear the apology on her lips. “It was the best night of my life, Kara,” he finally growls at her, and the words are not romantic but cruel. “And you took that away.” He sees her flinch and presses on. “You did exactly what you did after Zak died. Here I was thinking, again, that you loved me, and then you got scared or whatever it is you get and you ran as far the hell away as you could. Again!” He shakes his head at her in disgust. “You said once that Zak was the only one who saw you as whole. Well, you were right. I always knew you were broken. I guess I just never knew how badly.”

With that he turns and strides away, leaving her alone.

As she flies down to New Caprica, her ties to Galactica fall away. She'll see the old man again, and Helo, and even Tigh. And she and Lee are dead to each other, so it's a good thing Kara has a fresh start all lined up. She doesn’t look back.

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Oohh so angsty. Intriguing too. That one moment where she sees him and is so joyful is so interesting, but she's already married to Sam! And yet they still had a "night!" And then Lee being so honest for once...and twisting the knife by calling her broken! Oh kids!! **hugs them**

[embolalia.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Back before I got hooked on LJ (which is a CRAZY long time ago) I was thinking about writing a whole parallel-canon series, following from Prologue, about what it would really have meant if what happened in Daybreak was true. But...then I got distracted :) My favorite arc of the parts I did write was basically the season 3 chunk, so I'd like to go back and finish it off.

[cosetteferaud.livejournal.com]

The angst whore in me is very intrigued. I love Lee being so blunt and straightforward! Hoping here you find time and finish the piece :)

[embolalia.livejournal.com]

Me, too! Perhaps that'll be one of my tasks for the weekend :)

[winegums.livejournal.com]

**no words**

[embolalia.livejournal.com]

In a good way, I hope! :)

[winegums.livejournal.com]

if you call making me want to whimper with the sadness good, then yes :)

[embolalia.livejournal.com]

I'll take it :D

[kdbleu.livejournal.com]

You do write the most delicious angst. Angry!Lee and defiant!Kara both covering perfect hurt. Oh, those kids.

[embolalia.livejournal.com]

Thanks, hon! They're both so reactive when they're wounded :(

[damao2010.livejournal.com]

OMG... the angst... Lee is so open and direct...

I can't wait for you to post this. :)

[embolalia.livejournal.com]

I'll work on that... :) Thanks!

[scifishipper.livejournal.com]

As much as I hate the idea that she left him on NC, I love that they actually talked about it. Guh. MORE TALKING MORE CHANGING MINDS. GO PILOTS!

[embolalia.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I just finished this chapter this morning...SO MUCH ANGST. But that can be fun too :)