The moustache made him do it (A/R drabble)
Title: The moustache made him do it
Author: bsgroxmysox
Rating: K
Word Count: 300
A/N: Wrote this for the Challenge no 47 "I see dead people" at ar_drabbles - Thank you bsg_aussiegirl for reading over it for me with your speedy skills!!
We have certain responsibilities.
Laura considered the words as a pen twirled aimlessly in her hand and the report waiting for her signature lay ignored on her desk.
“You ever think about the times on New Caprica, Billy?”
She could see her question puzzled her aide.
“I like thinking about the good times we had there.”
She tried not to smile at the answer he gave which unknowingly mirrored her own answer.
“What makes you ask, Madame President?”
“Oh just wondering...you know...anything to avoid these reports waiting for me.” She laughed. “What would have happened with the crew of Galactica and Pegasus. Would they have moved to the surface?”
He was getting suspicious of her questions now, she could tell by the narrowing of his one remaining eye.
“Well I do know you would have seen a lot more of the Admiral, as for the others I don-“
“What?”
“The Admiral, he was looking at a piece of land to build on. He’d been gathering supplies before the...occupation.”
“He never said anything.” Laura’s thoughts were racing as she pictured where Bill was thinking of building his home.
“That’s strange, he said you gave him the idea. It was right beside that lake you liked to visit.”
Laura could only stare open mouthed at her aide as she realised that Bill wasn’t preparing to build his home, he was preparing to build her home.
Her cabin.
She quickly plastered on a practiced smile for her aide and brought his attention back to the work at hand. She waited until he had adjusted his eye patch and was firmly focused on his reports before she let her thoughts wander once more.
It seems she had a lot to talk to Bill about when she returned to Galactica in a few days.
Author: bsgroxmysox
Rating: K
Word Count: 300
A/N: Wrote this for the Challenge no 47 "I see dead people" at ar_drabbles - Thank you bsg_aussiegirl for reading over it for me with your speedy skills!!
We have certain responsibilities.
Laura considered the words as a pen twirled aimlessly in her hand and the report waiting for her signature lay ignored on her desk.
“You ever think about the times on New Caprica, Billy?”
She could see her question puzzled her aide.
“I like thinking about the good times we had there.”
She tried not to smile at the answer he gave which unknowingly mirrored her own answer.
“What makes you ask, Madame President?”
“Oh just wondering...you know...anything to avoid these reports waiting for me.” She laughed. “What would have happened with the crew of Galactica and Pegasus. Would they have moved to the surface?”
He was getting suspicious of her questions now, she could tell by the narrowing of his one remaining eye.
“Well I do know you would have seen a lot more of the Admiral, as for the others I don-“
“What?”
“The Admiral, he was looking at a piece of land to build on. He’d been gathering supplies before the...occupation.”
“He never said anything.” Laura’s thoughts were racing as she pictured where Bill was thinking of building his home.
“That’s strange, he said you gave him the idea. It was right beside that lake you liked to visit.”
Laura could only stare open mouthed at her aide as she realised that Bill wasn’t preparing to build his home, he was preparing to build her home.
Her cabin.
She quickly plastered on a practiced smile for her aide and brought his attention back to the work at hand. She waited until he had adjusted his eye patch and was firmly focused on his reports before she let her thoughts wander once more.
It seems she had a lot to talk to Bill about when she returned to Galactica in a few days.