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bantha_fodder ([personal profile] bantha_fodder) wrote2005-11-04 11:43 am
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[fic] feeling so bright [bsg] [pilots in the bunkroom]

ficlet: feeling so bright
fandom: bsg
author: pen

a short story, for [livejournal.com profile] baggers. unbetaed and written quite quickly whilst participating in the second best discussion in my journal ever. which reminds me: for all those new to bsg fandom, you need to read this, the best discussion in my journal ever, otherwise known as Captain Adama wears no (under)pants.

do i post too much fic?

Up so early feel so bright
Didn't get much sleep last night
Freight train rattled through my head
Whistle blowing love is dead
Wish You Well, Bernard Fanning (please comment if you take, just so I know)

*

Kara has her eyes shut, but it's no surprise when Lee pulls her curtains back.

"You've gotta learn to walk quieter," she says, and he laughs.

"Yeah, well, you've gotta learn to stop snoring, so I suppose we're even."

Kara listens as Lee sits back on the table, and rests his feet on her bunk. She opens her eyes, and he's rubbing his hand across his face and over his neck. "Hard shift?" she asks, and he sighs.

"Hard week," he replies. "Hard month. Hard year."

She watches his hands, lets his words flow around the room.

"I'm just sick of all of this, Kara," he says, and he looks up and meets her eyes. "I don't know what to do." He drops to his knees, suddenly, and grasps her hand. "Tell me what to do, Starbuck," he says, faux-earnest. "You are great and almighty, with your hair as of silk and your skills as of the Gods. Tell me how to energise myself, how to conquer."

She smiles at him, and pushes him away.

"I have the solution to your problems, Apollo, weakest of the Gods," she announces, and swings to her feet. She opens her locker door, and rummages around inside. "Ambrosia," she says as she withdraws the bottle, and he grins at her.

"Truly a gift from the Gods," he says, and snatches at the bottle.

"Me or the bottle?" she asks, and dances from his grip.

He chases her around the bunkroom, around and around the table like some sort of Geminon farce, and she darts and pauses and leaps over chairs but she can't go far because if she leaves the room she'll be pounced by pilots demanding liquor, so it's a foregone conclusion when he catches her, wraps his arms around her chest and his hands around the bottle and squeezes tight.

"Give it to me, Kara," he says, voice a low rumble in his chest. She feels his heavy breath on her ear and follows the beating of his heart.

"A little unfit there, Apollo," she says, unwilling to relinquish either the game or the bottle. "You've got to get some exercise in, or you're going to get fatter."

He bites her ear and tickles her. She laughs but doesn't let go.

"Got to do better than that," she gasps out as she laughs, but she gives it up when he leans forward and licks behind her ear and it tickles so much she almost drops the bottle.

Rather lose now than lose it all later, she thinks, and hands him the bottle. Lee cracks open the lid and looks around. "Receptacles?" he asks, and she raises an eyebrow.

"Frak no, Adama!" Kara replies, and he lifts the bottle to his mouth and drinks. He hands the bottle to her, and as she throws her head back he takes a seat on the table.

"Oh," he says, "I hope you have another."

"Only the best for my CAG," she says, and drinks again.

She looks forward to the hangover.

[identity profile] rawles.livejournal.com 2005-11-03 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Random pilotfic makes everything better, I feel.

Not that there was even anything particularly wrong.

Also, I feel ahead of the curve, because I totally found that conversation when I first came into BSG fandom all by myself.

[identity profile] mollymoon.livejournal.com 2005-11-03 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Very nice, feels like it should keep going though. Was nice to listen to the song as I read it.

[identity profile] baggers.livejournal.com 2005-11-03 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Just in time for my self-appointed break time!

This is just what I like to see.! In between all the fighting and ship stealing and mutiny: ANTICS! Drunken antics! Lovely. And thank you!

[identity profile] baggers.livejournal.com 2005-11-03 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
And I took the song, because I want that album muchly, and haven't had a chance to buy it yet.

[identity profile] zeplum.livejournal.com 2005-11-03 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Booze, snark, and childish behavior - all my favourite things.

See, this is the good to us thing I was talking about.

Also, I need a fun Kara/Lee icon. Mmmm, my dysfunctional loves all dorky and pretty. And drunk.

[identity profile] gobsmackit.livejournal.com 2005-11-03 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Wonderful for just heading off to bed - though, playful, licking Starbuck/Apollo is pretty much always enough wonderful. I love the little details you write so well that make fic fit so well with the show, i.e., the Geminon farce beat.

Also: No such thing as too much fic, though there is such a thing as too little time.

Apollo needs no pants ...

[identity profile] queenofthorns.livejournal.com 2005-11-03 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Memories... memoreeeeeees!!! Hee hee!

I like the fic too :)

[identity profile] kathgrr.livejournal.com 2005-11-03 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh that's nice and sweet. I love L/K being (physically) comfortable with each other.

And there can NEVER be too much fic! Especially L/K fic!!

[identity profile] bantha-fodder.livejournal.com 2005-11-03 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
DID THE SONG WORK FOR YOU YET?

Honestly, you need to focus on the important questions. And also stop bullying me.

[identity profile] bantha-fodder.livejournal.com 2005-11-03 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
You must buy it! I'm really liking it, and the album art is lovely, also.

[identity profile] bantha-fodder.livejournal.com 2005-11-03 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Also, I love how you totally didn't like PilotLove a month ago, and now you are REQUESTING it. I would have written anything for you! And you picked pilots.

[identity profile] bantha-fodder.livejournal.com 2005-11-03 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I think it should keep going, but I set myself a time limit, so.

Did you like the song?

[identity profile] bantha-fodder.livejournal.com 2005-11-03 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Pilotfic = JOY.

[identity profile] mollymoon.livejournal.com 2005-11-03 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, I did. I'm burning a CD for a 7 hour drive tomorrow and added it to it! Thanks for sharing, I love hearing new artists.

[identity profile] bantha-fodder.livejournal.com 2005-11-03 09:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I KNOW. It was great. The other day I bookmarked some fic because I had to dash to work, then forgot about it, so when I got home I was pleasantly surprised by having more fic to read!

Re: Apollo needs no pants ...

[identity profile] bantha-fodder.livejournal.com 2005-11-03 09:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Apollo needs no pants! That was a fabulous day indeed.

[identity profile] bantha-fodder.livejournal.com 2005-11-03 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I too love it when Lee and Kara are physically comfortable with one another, and it doesn't seem to happen enough. It should happen more, but alas, I suspect it will not.

[identity profile] bantha-fodder.livejournal.com 2005-11-03 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, Bernard Fanning is less a new artist and more an Australian artist, but my goal in life is to convert all of fandom to loving Australian artists, so GO TEAM ME.

[identity profile] mollymoon.livejournal.com 2005-11-03 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Hee! I meant new as in new to me. And all things Aussie rock, especially my beloved Sugar Gliders.

[identity profile] baggers.livejournal.com 2005-11-03 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Hee! I know! It's not that I didn't like, it's that I just was not at all interested in it, and was against it becoming more established on the show.

What was I thinking!?! YAY PILOTLOVE!

[identity profile] liath-darkstar.livejournal.com 2005-11-04 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
I just joined LJ, and the first thing I am doing is going around and commenting on all the beautiful pilotfics. The need to comment on pilotfic is what convinced me to join.

This is so beautiful and sweet ... le sigh.

[identity profile] zeplum.livejournal.com 2005-11-04 06:38 am (UTC)(link)
Heard it. Probably not much my thing, but good all the same.

What are the important questions?

What bullying? Where? Mild poking if anything.

Re: Apollo needs no pants ...

[identity profile] queenofthorns.livejournal.com 2005-11-04 08:13 am (UTC)(link)
Aaaah! It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; a Prince with no pants gamboled on Galactica and fandom was united in its love for Captain Commando!

[identity profile] queenofthorns.livejournal.com 2005-11-04 08:14 am (UTC)(link)
What was I thinking!?! YAY PILOTLOVE!

I see [livejournal.com profile] bantha_fodder’s re-education program is working out nicely!

[identity profile] bantha-fodder.livejournal.com 2005-11-04 03:59 pm (UTC)(link)
OH NOES!

You admitted it already! You cannot take back your admission of bullying.

[identity profile] starringsarah.livejournal.com 2005-11-04 04:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I want to put my arms around this fic. My pilots are teh cute, when they act twelve.


[identity profile] leda13.livejournal.com 2005-11-07 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
yay for our subtextually overendowed buddy!pilots!
Yay for you! *hugs fic and smooches Pen*

[identity profile] voleuse.livejournal.com 2005-11-11 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Aw! Also:

"Give it to me, Kara," he says, voice a low rumble in his chest.

*swoons*

[identity profile] bantha-fodder.livejournal.com 2005-11-12 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
I KNOW!

Kara was thinking about sex too.

[identity profile] bantha-fodder.livejournal.com 2005-11-12 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
*smooches you back*

PILOTS!

[identity profile] serendipityxxi.livejournal.com 2005-11-14 11:06 am (UTC)(link)
Squeeeeeeee!!!! Awesomely cute!!!!! I'm grinning like a shipper fool over here *G*
Perfect last line :)
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[personal profile] anr 2006-05-17 10:22 am (UTC)(link)
This is ten shades of awesome and then some. *gleees*

[identity profile] bantha-fodder.livejournal.com 2006-05-18 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
eeeeeethankyou!

i notice you were reading at three am, or something. slow night?
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[personal profile] anr 2006-05-25 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
More like a "in the mood for some good bsg fic" night. :)