no_takebacks | DPP: Quick! What do you think of?

DPP: Quick! What do you think of?

In lieu of thinky stuff, let's play a game today!

Scan the list of Pilots-related prompts below and choose one or more, and identify the first thought or concept related to it that comes to your mind. Then free write on the topic for five minutes, or make an icon or a macro, or post a 100-word (or longer) drabble, or rec a fic or vid that it reminds you of... ANYTHING GOES! The list includes some specific stuff but also some vague words that could have double meanings.

Apollo and Aurora (or Artemis)
beyond insane
close quarters
dance
eye contact
faith
guilty secret
hands
"l missed you."/"I missed you too."
journey
Kobol
last time
missed chances
no takebacks
oxygen depletion
pulling rank
quarters
ring
survival
"This seems familiar."
unison
viper jocks
wings
"Except me."/ "Especially you."
yin and yang
Zak

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For the first time in years, he is flying.

Or at least, Lee thinks he's flying. He's in the clouds again anyway, that much he knows. It's been so long. But the sky is blue and there's a bright sun shining on him and he wonders what happened to the dark of space.

But that's not right. Because his brain is suddenly telling him Galactica's been gone for years. For a moment, Lee loses all sense of time and place. After Galactica, there was Earth, he knows...or was it Kobol? His pulse races and his brain is fuzzy suddenly, like a picture that just won't come into focus, and he is alarmed.

Then he looks down and realizes he's not in a flight suit. More troubling still, he's not in a viper. Lee pushes back the sense of panic, and tries to focus. He seems to be in some sort of cart or carriage. A horse whinnies nearby and Lee looks up with shocked eyes to find a pair of stallions before him. The horses rear up suddenly in their harnesses and a familiar voice drifts to him.

"Come on, Apollo!" his head turns and his breath catches as he sees her face. It is not fuzzy, but distinct for once and achingly familiar. She's smirking, eyes wide and expectant, and she rolls them as he watches, her head tilting slightly. "We've been waiting for you," she chides, more gently than he's used to, and turns to a set of gates. She pushes them open and waits on the other side, beckoning him forward with pink-tipped fingers. He follows the line of her arm to her shoulder, bare and round and gleaming in the sunlight--and brushed by the feathery tips of a pair of enormous wings. Lee blinks. Those are new.

She catches him looking, like always, and winks, then turns her back to him and shifts her shoulders so the wings waggle. He laughs and Kara does too, the sound streaming back to him on the wind as she leads the way.

He follows.

Lovely! They totally dropped the ball on the Aurora element.

They really did. :(

Thanks!

I would love to know where they were going with that after the extended brig scene, and what they cut from the Demetrius mission (there was lot more of kara and the Aurora idol).

I *love* the angelic wing waggle! Too perfect!

This was lovely :)

Hehe. :) Thanks.

&hearts Kara is absolutely Aurora in my Personal Canon. **nods** What a fun little drabble!

I can't decide if I like her better as Artemis or Aurora. :)

*sigh*

I just love the voice of your writing. It's always so descriptive without being wordy. Mmmm... Nice! :>D

Thanks very much! This is probably the first time ever I've been called "not wordy". Heh! :)

This is coming from a person who posts 2 to 3 chapters A NIGHT. I may not be the silver standard of non-wordiness myself. :>D

Beautiful! Flying with wings in the sky like they are mean to!

Indeed! :)

Oh my goodness... this was so achey... sweet but sad... and now I'm crying.

Will it make you even sadder if I told you this was (in my head) Lee dying? Though maybe that's obvious... I'm not sure I got that across very well.

Oh yeah, it was clear. Hence why it HURT SO FRAKKING MUCH. Like... yay! they're together.. but oh gods, Lee's dead... but... they're together... but he's dead... they're both dead... WAAAAH

Ah okay! I wasn't sure I really conveyed that well. I originally had another part that was on Galactica of them running together and then it turned into this but...I couldn't make it work.

ETA: Lee dying is one of the saddest things, IMO. Whenever it happens in a fic (which granted isn't very often) I feel a little piece of my soul start crying. I was in so many tears when I read Reality and Immortality...

It made me sad in Reality, but only because Kara hadn't gone yet.

Life or death, they should go together. Always.

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I got that out of it. Like he was at THOSE gates. *sniff*

Awww, beautifully done.

Wing waggles, and Kara and Lee together at the end :D

So good! She's saucy even in the afterlife!

This makes a weird connection in my brain with the recent Buffy comic and its pages of crazy!flying!sex with Angel. Plot bunny!

That's gorgeous and bittersweet. I love it. *sighs*

For the first time, I can actually picture Kara as an angel. Well done.

Aw they're together again! As it should be. Always. ♥

Aww, this was bittersweet and lovely. Perfectly them. And the wing waggle! ♥ They will always be Apollo and Aurora (or Artemis) for me.

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