99 Bottles of Ambrosia

[scifishipper.livejournal.com]

Hello Kara/Lee Lovers! I am sci_fi_shipper and I'll be your happy driver this week. I'm gonna start us off with a game of sorts. We're going to do a variation on a theme taragel did a few months ago with the alphabet (here), but we're gonna use numbers instead.




Instructions: We'll count up from 1 to 99 (or higher if you want). For each number, write something about Kara/Lee that corresponds to it.

As the numbers get higher, there is no expectation of accuracy, so do some Starbuck thinking outside the box and get creative, e.g. 69 is well, we all know what it is, or 27: number of times Starbuck wanted to kiss Lee during the briefing, or 87: the year they got married - whatever makes your shipper heart happy!

We can do our best to keep the numbers in order, but don't worry if they're mixed up a bit and I totally expect duplicates - it's all good!


I'll get us started:

1: the One True Pairing: Kara and Lee

2: the number of spouses that got in the way

3: Bill, Lee & Zak: the three Adama men she loved

4: the number of months Kara was held by Leoben

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

22. It's the number on her first pyramid jersey, but she swaps with a teammate in under a week. She hates symmetry -- she's already decided her end won't resemble her start.

23. Her first roster of nuggets overfills their small classroom; the twenty-third comes in late and has to sit on the floor. Grinning, he picks a spot at the head of the class, directly in front of her podium, and informs her that Adamas are alphabetically fated to come first. So she calls him by his first name, alphabetically last, to beat him at his own game. It takes her awhile to realize that he's playing a different game.

24. The hours per day that she crosses Lee's mind.

25. There are five players with five cards each and there's plenty of room for one more. It's not a pirate ship they're running, but as she walks away he feels the floor drop from under him and notices for the first time what a narrow plank he's been walking all this time.

26. He's twenty-six when they lose Zak, but he feels older.

27. She does push-ups in hack to take the edge off, but gets bored quickly.

28. There's a pile of forty pilot evaluation forms on his desk, and he's more than halfway through when he pulls hers from the stack. He carefully notes her reaction times, her kill rates, her strategic finesse. More than that, he writes of leadership, of morale, of innovation and responsibility. He lays out her objective merits, plain and incontrovertible, made out in triplicate on papers that will probably survive him. They are the only love letters he ever writes.

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

Sorry, that last was me. And I took so long that I overlapped. Sorry!

[nazkey.livejournal.com]

Dude. Are you kidding? You're SO prolific. They are beautiful Rachel.

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much! So are yours -- the memorial hall one hits me hard, but in such a good way :)

[damao2010.livejournal.com]

You have an amazing talent for breaking my heart, girl. And boy, do I love it!
I thought 22 was incredible until I read 24 and 26, but the love letters in 28... I have no words. *sniffs*

[scifishipper.livejournal.com]

Nicely done! I love 22, 24 and 26. Wonderful!

[kdbleu.livejournal.com]

#28 is making me weepy.

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you! That was my favorite one, too.

[scifishipper.livejournal.com]

I didn't read 28 very closely the first time (r/l distractions). It is really lovely. And sadly, true.

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

Thank you, too! I'm sorry, I appreciated your comment before as well, I just got distracted myself before responding, but thanks so much! And you picked out the ones before that actually related to the numbers :)

[scifishipper.livejournal.com]

They are all so perfect and I always anticipate your comments. They are often a highlight in my LJ day. *HUGS* <3

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

Ditto. Between DPP and LeeAdamaDaily, I feel extra lucky each day this week! <3

[swamp-ariadne.livejournal.com]

uhm new to this comm, and just watching but 28 really got to me. the only love letters he ever writes...