love in the form of fic for sloane #4 [bsg, helo]

[bantha_fodder]

title: in the shadows of quiet lanes
fandom: bsg
spoilers for KLG

again, this is unbetaed. but it is for SLOANE, so you must forgive me.

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After Starbuck finishes freaking out, she shoots Sharon in the other shoulder.

"What the frak are you doing?" Helo yells as he reaches for her gun. Starbuck swings to aim at him, and he can see her shaking.

"How do I know you're not a cylon, huh?" she says, and she sounds sick but she looks determined, and the Starbuck he knows would never shoot him.

He's not so sure about this one.

"Frak, I'm not a cylon!" he says, and raises his hands in the air. Starbuck looks skittish, so he knows it's a bad move when he says, "are you?"

"Frak no!" she yells, and tightens her grip on her gun. "But you prove it."

"Neither of you are cylons!" interrupts Sharon, and they both turn to look at her. He hadn't forgotten she was there, but he knows Starbuck had. "Now can we just get the frak out of here?"

"Yes!" yells Kara, and as Sharon steps towards her, she shoots again.

Sharon drops, and Helo yells. "Don't touch her," Starbuck says. He looks at her and pauses in his rush towards Sharon.

"She's dead," continues Starbuck, "so her memories will be transferred into a new body really soon now."

Helo looks over at Sharon, and imagines another one.

"So get in the raider, and let's get out of here."

Helo reaches towards Sharon. "If I could just-"

"Get in the frakking raider, Karl," says Starbuck. Her voice is cold, and this Starbuck is unfamiliar.

"But she's-"

"Get in, Karl. We're going home."

He can't see Sharon's body out the front screen of the raider, and he thinks that's a good thing.

Comments

[endlessdeep.livejournal.com]

Oh, I like this, nice little drabble!

Boy, I really hope that's what happens. I'm not ready for Boomer baby at all.

Sheesh that sounded cold blooded of me. But I just don't know about the whole baby thing on the show. Hmmmm..............

I'll just wait and see what they do with it I guess.

I read some spoilers for next season. I'm hopeless. So much for staying spoiler free.

[woodface]

*is unspoiled and wishes to remain so* Babies are evil. They should ditch Boomer out of an airlock. (Both of them if they want to be sure.)

[endlessdeep.livejournal.com]

Aaahh, I see I'm not the only cold blooded one here. ;)

Don't worry, my lips are zipped as far as spoilers go. I've become really aware of spoilers with BSG, because of the people in Australia.

I'm just hoping I didn't inadvertantly spoil someone in the past when I wasn't aware that certain people hadn't seen all the eps yet.

~~Hopes she's not spoiling anyone now.~~

[woodface]

I'm always very conscious of spoilers as I live in a country where I get everything 3 years later. BSG is the only series that I download so I saw it before most other people on my flist.

[sloanesomething.livejournal.com]

<3

[woodface]

I vote for Ron Moore using this. *nods*

So now Kara and Helo can go back to the ship. Helo will angst over Boomer, Kara will kick his ass and then have sex with him. Works perfectly.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

You have such a one-track mind, darling.

[woodface]

That's so not true. Helo/Kara is my back up pairing.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Kara + sex = one-track mind.

*eyes*

[woodface]

If you insist... =oP

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

*sighs happily*

It's always good to wake up to fic.

And, yes, Helo, this isn't the Kara you knew. She's been through hell. And she's still there.

[brynnmck.livejournal.com]

Ooh. Short and brutal and very nice. Am I a bad person that the first line made me giggle? It's all just so twisted and dark, it's funny. Even aside from my twisted sense of humor, though, this was excellent.

[bantha-fodder.livejournal.com]

Not a bad person at all! I've been sitting on that line for several days, desperate to use it because it was just SO FUNNY.

[ilanala]

It's about time someone wrote a fic addressing a) the fact that Helo and Kara should suspect the other of being a Cylon and b) no one (human) except Helo has any particular reason to not shoot Boomer on sight, and you handled it well. Great ficlet.

[bantha-fodder.livejournal.com]

Oh thank you. But I think there will (or should be) even more to it than that. I mean, if Kara and Helo aren't drawing guns and testing one another and STILL being suspicious, then I'm going to seriously frown. And if C!Boomer makes it back to Galactica, there had better be some amazing exposition and theory behind it.