BSG: Taken, Cleaning Crew
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grey_swTitle: Taken
Author: grey_sw
Characters: Caprica Six
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: 4x16, "Deadlock"
Prompt: Empty
Cottle had taken her Liam.
He'd been gentle, had held her hand and told her: I'm so sorry, Caprica.
Then he put her to sleep for a while. When she woke up, she was empty and sore.
She screamed and fought. Finally they tied her down. A while later, they put her back to sleep.
When she woke again, her Gaius was there, warm eyes full of compassion.
"Don't cry, dear," he told her, squeezing her hand, as if he were really there.
"Don't cry. We'll get our baby, and we'll take her to the Opera House together, and all will be well again."
Title: Cleaning Crew
Author: grey_sw
Characters: Simon
Rating: G
Spoilers: 4x09, "The Hub"
Prompt: Empty
After the Hub was destroyed, the bodies on the Resurrection Ship began to rot. The Ones, Fours, and Fives voted to dispose of them. The Simons and Dorals spent three days helping the Centurions airlock the bodies, while the Cavils drained and mopped each tub.
At first, Simon was uncomfortable with it. The bodies were limp and heavy in his arms; hundreds of brothers who didn't live, who would not live. Fours, like him, but dead, forever.
By the time they were finished, he didn't care anymore. He couldn't.
They left the Resurrection Ship as-is, endless rows of empty tubs.
Author: grey_sw
Characters: Caprica Six
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: 4x16, "Deadlock"
Prompt: Empty
Cottle had taken her Liam.
He'd been gentle, had held her hand and told her: I'm so sorry, Caprica.
Then he put her to sleep for a while. When she woke up, she was empty and sore.
She screamed and fought. Finally they tied her down. A while later, they put her back to sleep.
When she woke again, her Gaius was there, warm eyes full of compassion.
"Don't cry, dear," he told her, squeezing her hand, as if he were really there.
"Don't cry. We'll get our baby, and we'll take her to the Opera House together, and all will be well again."
Title: Cleaning Crew
Author: grey_sw
Characters: Simon
Rating: G
Spoilers: 4x09, "The Hub"
Prompt: Empty
After the Hub was destroyed, the bodies on the Resurrection Ship began to rot. The Ones, Fours, and Fives voted to dispose of them. The Simons and Dorals spent three days helping the Centurions airlock the bodies, while the Cavils drained and mopped each tub.
At first, Simon was uncomfortable with it. The bodies were limp and heavy in his arms; hundreds of brothers who didn't live, who would not live. Fours, like him, but dead, forever.
By the time they were finished, he didn't care anymore. He couldn't.
They left the Resurrection Ship as-is, endless rows of empty tubs.
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Date: 2009-02-24 04:31 pm (UTC)I've got a couple day-in-the-life Basestar stories/crackfics with those three in the works. That said, I'm feeling rather once-bitten-twice-shy after No Exit -- judging by recent experience, if I write too much Simon, the show will probably rewrite him into an [overemotional] [firefighter] who is secretly behind everything [Seelix] and [Socinus] have ever done, motivated mainly by an entirely hitherto-unhinted-at [love] of [baked spaghetti]. :P
As useful as the "scraps of paper in a hat/Mad Libs" method of characterization may be for the show, it drives me up the wall as a writer.