[Truth_or_dare prompt: 4: Truth]
Truth: Admit to a lie that you feel guilty about.
I killed my fiance with a lie.
I told him and the review board that he passed Basic Flight when he didn't. He went out in a Viper and he came home in pieces.
Hell of a way to call off a wedding.
I told that lie because he wanted to fly more than he wanted anything in the whole frakking world, even me. I thought I could teach him how to fly before it was ever a problem, and no one would have to know. And no one ever did know, not until long after the toasters blew the world to hell. Not about what I did, and for a long time, that Zak and I were engaged. When his father found out, he gave me a commission to Galactica. I killed his son and he made me a Lieutenant, here. Fair frakking trade, isn't it?
I finally confessed because they gave me new pilots to train and I went batshit ballistic. But that's what I learned. You don't lie to make someone happy. You leave them before they can leave you. This gets me in a lot of trouble. It made Lee stop speaking to me, it hurt the man who was dumb enough to actually marry me.
But at least neither of them are dead, and they're still fighting. That's something.
I killed my fiance with a lie.
I told him and the review board that he passed Basic Flight when he didn't. He went out in a Viper and he came home in pieces.
Hell of a way to call off a wedding.
I told that lie because he wanted to fly more than he wanted anything in the whole frakking world, even me. I thought I could teach him how to fly before it was ever a problem, and no one would have to know. And no one ever did know, not until long after the toasters blew the world to hell. Not about what I did, and for a long time, that Zak and I were engaged. When his father found out, he gave me a commission to Galactica. I killed his son and he made me a Lieutenant, here. Fair frakking trade, isn't it?
I finally confessed because they gave me new pilots to train and I went batshit ballistic. But that's what I learned. You don't lie to make someone happy. You leave them before they can leave you. This gets me in a lot of trouble. It made Lee stop speaking to me, it hurt the man who was dumb enough to actually marry me.
But at least neither of them are dead, and they're still fighting. That's something.