BSG: Home
08 Jul 2011 Leave a Comment
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A/N: Lee gets the tag from Anders. I’m not sure if Anders ever gave it back to Kara. So, if he did, this is a little bit AU.
Seventh story in The Path to Phoenix Series
Home
By Eugena
Rated: T
Season Three, after Maelstrom.
“Today, we lay to rest our fallen heroes. May they find peace with the gods. So say we all.”
So say we all.
The rest of Roslin’s words swarmed around Lee’s ears, but he did not hear them. He could feel nothing, not even a squeeze on his arm from Cally.
He did not pay attention to the others leaving. He did not hear his father.
“Major,” Adama said.
Lee looked at him, his hollow eyes only responding to the mention of his rank.
“It’s time to go home, Lee.”
“I have no home, not anymore.”
Adama grabbed the third dog tag hanging from Lee’s neck. He pulled. Lee yanked the tag away.
“This is my home,” Lee said. “She is my home,”
“She’s dead, Lee.”
“Then so am I.”
BSG: I See You
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I See You
By Eugena
Rated: T
Sequel to Torn
Sixth story in The Path to Phoenix Series
I see you. You deny the pain. You deny the rage. Her betrayal nearly killed you, but her death truly will.
Why don’t I give you up? Can’t I see what everyone else sees? I’m just another—another excuse.
In a world that never had her, I would be yours. But in a world without her, you will fade to dust.
BSG: Fade (M)
08 Jul 2011 2 Comments
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Fade/Fade II
By Eugena
Rated: M
Fade
Kara’s thoughts Maelstrom. One Shot
Fifth story in The Path to Phoenix series
We all must accept our destinies. I have tried to run away, but in the end I see that you and I will never be unless I pass through the storm. You are not strong enough yet to follow me, but you will be.
oOo
Fade II
Post Finale
(not part of Path to Phoenix)
Lee watched the most important person in his life fade away. In fact, she had not faded as he watched. She had already been dead some time, but he had denied it. He had hoped so badly to see her again, wanted it.
In the end, it was everyone who loved her that revived her ghost. First Leoben found her soul. A part of that unknown being that called itself Gaius’ god revealed itself to her through her image of Leoben. Lee hadn’t known the extent of her vision. He hadn’t known that she had sex with him. But even if he did, Lee did not care.
Lee remembered the day he met her. The day that was most precious to him and filled with the most regret. If Zak had not have died, maybe they would have broken up and she could have ended up with Lee.
They did end up together. Across stars and death itself, Starbuck and Apollo reunited one last time. But life had become ugly for so many. His wife, ex-wife, killed herself. Her husband became closer to the perfect machine he had always known he was.
Even as her ghost walked away and bid Sam farewell, he knew he would see her on the other side.
It’s time to go back, Kara, Sam’s voice came to her mind, He’ll become a ghost after you, a ghost in a living shell.
To be continued in “Rebirth.”
BSG: Finish (M)
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A/N: Choose your own ending. (Either this one or one of the alternative endings.)
Main ending can be considered the fourth story in the Path to Phoenix series.
Finish
By Eugena
Season Three
Rated: M
oOo
He never forgave her for betraying him. For worse, never telling him why.
Lee found Kara at a practice range. Enraged, she hit a few targets. She yelled something deep and guttural, nothing he understood but rage and pain.
She had no right to feel that way. That was how he felt, and she was no equal. Once, Apollo and Starbuck were spoken in one breath. Now their names remained far away
“You missed,” he said, laughing to himself.
“I’m not on duty, Major. I don’t need your opinion.”
“You’ve never needed it, Captain. But you took it once: ‘No point unless you’re getting married.’ You’ve made your point, Captain.”
“What point did you want, Lee? That I’m frakked up?”
“You’ve always been. I’ve been wondering how long you can last without frakking up.”
Kara stepped closer to him and handed him the gun. “Show me how frakked up I am.”
Without missing a beat, he aimed the gun at her chest, calling her bluff. She grabbed the gun, aimed it higher, and she turned to the side.
“Finish it,” she said. “Don’t start what you can’t finish.”
Lee lowered the gun. “That’s your problem, not mine.”
Finish
Alternative Ending 1
“Finish it,” she said. “Don’t start what you can’t finish.”
He thought of the one time they made love, then how she twisted his words and ripped his heart out.
He squeezed the trigger, and then squeezed again. This was the only way they would be together.
Finish
Alternative Ending 2
“Finish it,” she said. “Don’t start what you can’t finish.”
Lee lowered the gun. “That’s your problem, not mine.”
She grabbed his hand quickly and pulled the gun back into position. With her hand wrapped around his, she looked into his eyes one final time. She would not hurt him or any Adamas any longer.
Her thumb over his trigger finger, she squeezed.
BSG: The Reason Why
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The Reason Why
By Eugena
Rated: T
During Season Three, with references to “The Cylon’s Secret.”
Third story in The Path to Phoenix series
Tom Zarek remembered the earlier days after the First Cylon War, long before he became known as a terrorist, Vice President, vigilante President, and a Vice President again. Looking back on his life, he thought he had improved since the earlier days. He had no one to prove himself to, only himself. He had long since ignored his well-to-do family’s wishes.
Omega changed his life. Had things gone down like his captain wanted, he would have still lived under Nader’s thumb and always told he was expendable. Other times je was told he was expendable, but after Omega, things were different.
He remembered Laea often. She became the picture of his inner voice—his conscious. Although twenty years had gone by, her face never aged in his mind. Many years that he had been on jail for what colonists called terrorism, he imagined her. He consulted her. Did he make her proud?
Long ago, his fear nearly cost him her memory. Cylons, of all things, companions there were called, saved him. Without Gamma and Epsilon, her memory would have haunted him into his nightmares rather than his pleasant dreams.
He had not met anyone like Laea since. No one he met was beautiful, innocent, and surprising like her.
Some days, he saw Baltar as a cowardly creep. Laea would not like him. Tom often saw her frown in disappointment as he thought back on all of his decisions and actions that helped Baltar win the presidency.
It had been all for democracy, and his own gain. He disliked the fact that Roslin’s term of presidency had been because she conveniently survived.
He learned now that she was more than qualified. Words were not enough for how well she had done.
He had only wanted to help on New Caprica. As they faced their deaths, he saw her smile. She admired him for his captivity for those four months. In her face, he saw Laea.
She needed protection, like Laea. Although she was not innocent like Laea, she was innocent to blood on her hands. During his brief time as President, he cleaned her impending presidency. He executed many of the traitors.
His gift to Laea and Roslin.
BSG: Reflections: 04
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Disclaimers, etc.: see chapter one
Reflections
By Eugena
Chapter Four: Let Go
Did he dare retrieve the second brother, knowing he would send him to his death?
Kara would still kill him, but this self had to live. He had many plans to lie down. He had seen the future, and there were steps to take.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
In the end, he knew his destiny—did he love her enough to let her go?
Together, they would defeat the predestined fate that led to her heartbreak, but only if he could let her go.
BSG: Reflections: 03
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Disclaimers, etc.: see chapter one
Reflections
By Eugena
Chapter Three: Safe
The next day she asked him, “Have you seen Three destroy me?”
“I have seen her try. She doesn’t.”
“Why destroy me? Does she hate humans or is it something about me?”
“You were given an honor she thought was hers.”
“What are you talking about?”
Leoben reached across the table and took her hand. She felt drawn to him and did not pull away.
“There are twelve models, Kara. Each model accountable to the ones before it.”
“Which are you?”
“I am Leoben. I will always be Leoben. Two models came before Three, and she knows that unless the rest of the models side with her, she can’t oppose us.”
“You’re their leader then, the first model or the second.”
“I am Leoben. I will always be Leoben to you. Now that you know, it is time I introduced you to someone. Wait here. Don’t leave, there are others outside that will find you.”
“Then I’m not that safe.”
“The other one is waiting outside. You are safe.”
He left Kara to her thoughts, and she noticed how he never referred to himself or the other of the first two Cylons by model number. It occurred to her that maybe they did not have a model number. One was the first model, one the second, but maybe they used names instead of numbers.
No, they were not human. She had to remember that.
oOo
Two Cavils watched Leoben leave. He looked briefly to them and they nodded. He understood that Three was not around. Looking a different direction, he could see another Leoben standing guard.
“How is she brother?” the first Cavil asked.
“She is well. She begins to think of me as a human.”
“Then all is well,” the second Cavil said.
“Our brother waits for you,” the first Cavil said.
BSG: Reflections: 02
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Disclaimers, etc.: see chapter one
Reflections
By Eugena
Chapter Two: All In Good Time
The next day began nearly the same way. This time the meal was chicken and the vegetables were different. Everything felt the same.
She preferred the chicken. She could eat it with her fingers and Leoben did not have to cut it for her. She kept telling herself that he was a Cylon, but as the minutes passed on, she began to believe the scenario he set up for her. Leoben became the star chef husband who prepared the food for his wife and watched her eat.
“Why don’t you join me?” she offered. “I didn’t see you eat anything.”
“I have already eaten. I have to make sure you eat.”
“Why?”
“So you don’t hurt yourself, Kara. The cycle of pain can stop. You deserve happiness.”
“How are you going to give that to me?”
“You’ll see soon.”
“Why not show me now?”
“All in good time.”
BSG: Reflections: 01
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A/N: Like in my Battlestar Galactica: Phoenix story, Leoben is Model One and Cavil is Model Two.
Reflections
By Eugena
Rated: T
Based on Season 3 spoilers – Kara reflects
Second story in The Path to Phoenix series
Chapter One: Trust
Kara felt his hand brush against her shoulder as he set the plate of food in front of her. How different this was from the time she interrogated him. He seemed almost human, like a loving husband setting down a meal for a tired wife. Her tattoo on her arm itched. It was her last reminder that she was already married. She did not know if Sam still lived, but right now, she had to believe that he did.
If she didn’t have Sam, right now she’d have Leoben talking sweetly to her. He smelt so human, even somehow found cologne to wear. In their own world, everything was as it should be. A loving husband fixed his wife a meal, and he waited to see how she liked it. The other colonists might kill for this meal. It was not rations, rather a large steak – from where she did not know – and vegetables. She always hated vegetables before the war, but now anything not a MRE was a delicacy.
Leoben leaned over her and began to cut her meat. “You should eat,” he said, leaning near her ear. “You need your strength.”
“Why not take me back to the prison cell?” she asked.
“That was for your own protection,” he said.
“From who? You? You don’t seem to eager to hurt me. Why bother cooking all this if you just wanted to kill me?”
“I don’t want to hurt you, Kara. Others do. Model three will kill you on sight.”
“I thought all Cylons were on the same team.”
“Not always. Three is dangerous. She is the one you knew as D’anna Beirs. She’ll destroy you, Kara, but I won’t let her do it.”
Kara looked up into his face, almost forgetting he was not human. “Why tell me this?”
“I have seen the future, Kara. This has all happened before, but this time, you get your chance at happiness. I will give that to you. You sent my soul back to God, and now I have returned for you. I will protect you.”
“There is always another agenda,” she said bitterly.
“Is there?” he asked.
“What’s yours?”
“You will see in time, but I assure you, it is not to hurt you.”
“Why should I trust you?”
“Because you already do.”
BSG: Torn
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Torn
By Eugena
Rated: T
Season 3.5 preview. Lee/Dee, Lee/Kara One shot.
First story in The Path to Phoenix Series
oOo
How could she live as a wife and as a soldier? Her husband ordered her to risk her life Starbuck. He covered it up well, saying that Anders would give them all away if she didn’t. That would never fly with her. She knew he was breaking more than Anders. Right now he didn’t break. But he would. She thought of him as he was months ago. He lost his edge; he was soft, and not just about the weight. He had lost her to another man. Now he would lose her forever.
If humanity had children, if they survived the cylons, the children would know of Apollo, named for one of the gods. They would tell his stories over and over again, and Apollo would not be alone. Her husband, the man named for the god, would forever go down in history tethered to another. Apollo and Starbuck. His legend would not survive without her, and neither would he.
She could not bear all the times he walked way, all the times he slept with her. Every time, she competed with the memory of Starbuck. If Starbuck became a memory, Apollo would soon follow.
When she came before the gods, she knew she would say she chose to be a wife. A wife who loves her husband gives all. She will bring her back. She will bring back her husband’s will to live. She’s going to
Bring Starbuck back to Apollo.
