In Totidem Verbis (002: Middles)
Title: In totidem verbis
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica
Characters: Galactica
Prompt: 002. Middles
Word Count: 186
Rating: G.
Author's Notes: My series focuses on one character without an actor: the Galactica. Features Dee.
Thousands of conversations take place in the ship everyday. Between all the ships of the fleet, probably millions, maybe billions.
Galactica has enough to carry her own, words bouncing down the hallways. Dee hears them all, or she thinks she does. She walks into the middle of conversations, walks through them, and puts pieces together in her mind.
Apollo and Starbuck are kidding one another as she passes by, and they wave. She hears them continue to talk-
“-botched that landing. Worst I’ve seen since you flew down from Aerilon.”
“You weren’t there to see that.”
“I had pictures.”
“If he was still-“
The conversation leaves off and Dee continues along the hallway, missing what Apollo would have done, but she can guess that he has stopped mid-sentence and left his thread unvoiced and she guesses that Starbuck has not ceased her teasing.
Dee passes, too, Baltar, with his head against the bulkhead, muttering to himself. He never looks up.
So Dee continues down the hallway to her bunk, where she closes her eyes, wondering at all the words.
Only Galactica hears them all.
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica
Characters: Galactica
Prompt: 002. Middles
Word Count: 186
Rating: G.
Author's Notes: My series focuses on one character without an actor: the Galactica. Features Dee.
Thousands of conversations take place in the ship everyday. Between all the ships of the fleet, probably millions, maybe billions.
Galactica has enough to carry her own, words bouncing down the hallways. Dee hears them all, or she thinks she does. She walks into the middle of conversations, walks through them, and puts pieces together in her mind.
Apollo and Starbuck are kidding one another as she passes by, and they wave. She hears them continue to talk-
“-botched that landing. Worst I’ve seen since you flew down from Aerilon.”
“You weren’t there to see that.”
“I had pictures.”
“If he was still-“
The conversation leaves off and Dee continues along the hallway, missing what Apollo would have done, but she can guess that he has stopped mid-sentence and left his thread unvoiced and she guesses that Starbuck has not ceased her teasing.
Dee passes, too, Baltar, with his head against the bulkhead, muttering to himself. He never looks up.
So Dee continues down the hallway to her bunk, where she closes her eyes, wondering at all the words.
Only Galactica hears them all.