~BSG: Hard Copy
Title: Hard Copy
Author: kastari
Summary: Reporting was in his blood.
Characters: Adama/Roslin
Rating: T
Word Count: 100
Author’s Note: Written for the 24th ar_drabbles challenge. Prompt: Alternate universe. This is a sequel to Caprican Times, by bsg_aussiegirl.
Disclaimer: I’m just playing in Universal’s sandbox.
Hard Copy
“You can’t grep dead trees, Bill," Laura teased.
Networked computers.
A manual typewriter.
Who, What, Where, When, and Why-these were the main questions a reporter asked when following up and writing a story. Editor-in-Chief of the CAPRICAN TIMES was a good gig, but Bill couldn’t remember his last byline.
And he couldn’t stop thinking about the anonymous tip.
Toasters looked like humans; It wasn’t public knowledge.
Bill stared at the type-written words on the piece of paper.
There are only 12 Cylon models.
Dead trees had tremendous data integrity in proper conditions.
He was going to write the story.
~finis~