Our House, for kappamaki33

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Title: Our House
author: millari
Summary: “I just didn’t think this would come up so soon,” Louis sighed.
Characters: Gaeta, Hoshi, Sharon, Helo, Cottle, OCs
Pairings: Gaeta/Hoshi
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: none
Title, Author and URL of original story: Mr. Gaeta Builds His Dream House, by kappamaki33
Beta Thanks: Thanks to daybreak777 for her careful shepherding of this

Comments

[brennanspeaks]

Awww . . .
This is a very sweet story. I really enjoyed it.

[millari]

Thank you! I didn't comment on it yet (because I am made of fail) but I did rec "The Gift of Hermes" in my journal because it was amazing. I was totally engrossed in it. I stayed up until 2:30 am reading it. :)

[rebelliousrose]

Oh, wow. This is neat; the slow evolution of Penny's trust, the inevitable struggles any parents go through, Helo and Athena still being angry.

You have Cottle's voice 100%- every line he spoke I could hear him exactly. Awesome work there.

I also liked the use of "long-tempered". I've never seen that before and it's really cool.

Great job- I really enjoyed this.

[millari]

Thank you for your comments on this. I was afraid that the "slow evolution of Penny's trust" as you put it would try people's patience, but I'm glad to know that it worked for you. I felt like the resolution just wouldn't be earned unless we got to see enough of the journey.

Cottle has always been an absolute blast for me to write. It just flows out of me, which is funny, because I don't pay that much attention to him as a character. But I guess I always hear his voice in my head too. :)

Thanks for reading, even when you didn't know who it was.

[rebelliousrose]

Didn't know who it was? Well, yeah, but good is good.

[lls_mutant]

This is such a beautiful story. I love how you took a story intended to be cracky and made a very real story out of it. (Not that the premise of the original was all that cracky.) But this just feels so real, and so them. I love how their relationship is written, that they're a completely normal couple in their way, that they bicker and argue and love each other very deeply. (It also makes me so sad that this is totally a believable AU in that Adama could have easily made the decision just to imprison Felix instead of executing him.)

And Penny! Oh, I just wanted to hug her. The way you depicted her trauma rang very true to me, and how she'd seem to get better and then it would flare up... it really drives home how terrible life must have been for the children in the Fleet.

And I totally read this one when you sent it in, and reread it now, and the ending where she shows Felix and Louis the house still makes me cry in such a good way.

Lovely stuff!

[millari]

Thank you so much for your lovely comment! I was so nervous when I sent it off to you the first time, and it was so encouraging to get your enthusiastic note back so soon after I'd sent it. I was really afraid that people would find it tedious and not as fun as the original

[lls_mutant]

I will always be a Baltar/Gaeta girl, but somehow, I've ended up with my last two major fics being about Gaeta/Hoshi. :) I'm so glad that they come across to you as a believable, loving couple.

Heh, I'm both. For me, Baltar/Gaeta and Gaeta/Hoshi are not mutually exclusive, because I can't ever put Baltar and Gaeta back together as more than friends after New Caprica, and I don't put Hoshi and Gaeta together as more than work acquaintances until after New Caprica. And especially because I now ship Hoshi/Narcho extremely hard, to the point where I had them almost get married back before the attacks, Hoshi still works :)

I remember reading a really great fic in another remix a year ago or so (the hiatusthon, I think) that did this as well. I need to find this. I started really getting interested in the idea when I wrote "I'm No Superman" for the LGBTfest, and had two OCs that were 16 and orphaned. It occurred to me that they were really a little young to be on their own, but too old to be adopted. I'd like to explore their little

[grey_sw]

Aw, this is nice. I like the domestic scenes with Felix, Hoshi, and Penny -- the one by the river was especially sweet. The scene with Sharon and Helo was also great... you really captured that scary mama-bear aspect of her personality, along with her capacity for forgiveness. And Simon lives on, sort-of! Hurrah.

[millari]

Thanks. I've never really written Sharon very much before, only in one fic, and as in this one, she was very much a side character, because writing her kind of intimidates me. But I wanted Felix to confront his anti-Cylon bias, and so I made Penny a hybrid, and then it just seemed natural that they would go visit the Agathons for advice. I'm glad you felt I captured her well enough.

And also, I'm glad that I discovered your writing in this remix. :)

Yay for Simon! He was so underutilized, and he seemed the least psychotic of all the male Cylons, too....I'm curious to see what they do with him in "The Plan."

[grey_sw]

Thanks. I've never really written Sharon very much before, only in one fic, and as in this one, she was very much a side character, because writing her kind of intimidates me.

She's scary, isn't she? Actually, your icon pretty much sums it up, right there. :P

Yay for Simon! He was so underutilized, and he seemed the least psychotic of all the male Cylons, too....I'm curious to see what they do with him in "The Plan."

Hopefully they'll give him more than one line!

[kappamaki33]

Oh my gosh, I LOVE this! I can't believe you took my silly little fic (and one that I must admit I was never really satisfied with the end result) and turned it into something so sweet and heart-rending and surprising and...I'm running out of superlatives

[millari]

Now I can finally reveal myself. :D