Bored Now

[lls_mutant]

I'm bored today.

Working on my Big Bang, because I posted chapter 14 of A Lot to Live Up To, and Fridays tend to be Big Bang days. It's going slowly right now, though. It's funny- I know exactly where this scene is going, but I'm finding it harder to build the suspense. No, not so much suspense. Feeling of dread. ::must go back and read brennanspeaks's

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The Best Medicine (Part 1)

[kappamaki33]

The breeze was getting stiffer, ruffling through his hair and tipping the waves with whitecaps. If it hadn’t been for the wind, the beach would have been completely motionless with Felix standing there on the shore, gray as the world around him.

Felix didn’t even turn at the sound of Louis crunching across the sand to stand beside him. “Helo says we need to be back at the Raptor in fifteen minutes.”

Felix didn’t say anything. He kept his gaze fixed on the ruined skyscrapers on the opposite shore.

Both Doc Cottle and Louis had initially insisted Felix stay on Galactica, knowing full well that he really shouldn’t have even been back in CIC yet. But when Louis saw that Cottle and Felix were too drained to trade their usual sarcastic barbs with one another and Cottle throw his hands up in surrender so quickly, Louis had given in, too. He still didn’t understand why Felix wanted to see the burned-out husk of Earth so badly, though

The Best Medicine (Part 2)

[kappamaki33]

Felix shrugged and shook his head. “If this is going to be how it ends, again, why do we even want to start again? Even if destiny is just another word for human nature…maybe the Cylons were right. Maybe the universe would be better off without us, since all we seem to be good at is wreaking apocalypses on it.”

He was losing Felix. He’d felt it most acutely since Dee died, that Felix was slipping away into some dark place where Louis couldn’t follow. He wanted nothing more than to pull Felix back from the brink and hang on to him for dear life, but he had no idea how.

“No. You’re wrong. Scripture’s wrong.” Felix turned, brow furrowed. Louis was certain this was the first time Felix had ever heard him even question the Sacred Scrolls.

Louis locked eyes with him and pressed on. “People can be better than this. People have been better than this. I don’t give a frak what scripture says about a ‘caravan through the stars.’ Even if this has happened before,” he said, holding one hand out to indicate the horizon, “

Re: The Best Medicine (Part 2)

[lls_mutant]

Oh, LOVELY. So bittersweet and sad and you can almost feel the end coming, but you can still feel the hope and how they fit together, and how things should have been different. I think the webisodes and the fact Felix breaks off with Hoshi means so much more if he does truly care deeply for Hoshi, or even love him, just because then you really see what a sacrifice Felix is making, and how strongly he believes in what he's doing that he gives up love for what he believes is right. And this... this is just so... Hoshi is SO what Felix needs. ::sniffs and hugs them both::

Re: The Best Medicine (Part 2)

[kappamaki33]

Exactly. I wanted to get the sense that, had Earth been the worst of it, they could've made it, though if they did it still wouldn't have been easy. I just like the idea that they were a good match for one another.

Glad you liked it!

PS: I had completely forgotten that this was the first line from "Softly Tread" when I wrote it. Kinda eerie, that this fic was on Earth I and the original was on Earth II...