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Canon: Battlestar Galactica
Characters/Pairing: Tory Foster
Prompt: only human
Rating: PG
Notes: Spoilers for season three and four, if you care about that sort of thing.
Cylon.
It's a thing, unfeeling, manufactured. Years ago you'd buy one for a price. It would work for you, serve you, by your command. It's a murderer, a destroyer, responsible for the deaths of millions upon millions.
Even skinjobs - even victims of New Caprica bombings, even Sharon Agathon - were hard to think of as flesh and blood.
Until now.
Is the metallic taste on her tongue from sticking paper clips between her lips?
Was Sam driving his grief away in her arms because their bodies recognized something under their skin?
It's time to figure out what Cylon means.
Characters/Pairing: Tory Foster
Prompt: only human
Rating: PG
Notes: Spoilers for season three and four, if you care about that sort of thing.
Cylon.
It's a thing, unfeeling, manufactured. Years ago you'd buy one for a price. It would work for you, serve you, by your command. It's a murderer, a destroyer, responsible for the deaths of millions upon millions.
Even skinjobs - even victims of New Caprica bombings, even Sharon Agathon - were hard to think of as flesh and blood.
Until now.
Is the metallic taste on her tongue from sticking paper clips between her lips?
Was Sam driving his grief away in her arms because their bodies recognized something under their skin?
It's time to figure out what Cylon means.