[Justprompts: Soul]

[cylon_prophet]

I remember having this conversation with Kara, once. About Cylons having souls. She said, you don't have a soul, you have software. She doesn't believe--or didn't, at the time--that I was anything more than a machine. I trust she has learned, since then, how easily I do in fact bleed. That I am as much a man as anything else

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[burnandrave]

(If you don't believe that yet, Kara--I can show you in a way that will leave no possible doubt.)

Oh, I believe you, Leoben.

Only a man would ever say anything that frakking stupid.

[cylon_prophet]

Kara, Kara.

There is no reason to be so angry at me. Have I not offered myself to you since the moment we met? You know that I am here, waiting, and you know precisely what I want and where I stand. I am not lying to you, I am not demanding that you suffer for me, I am not abandoning you.

Can you see the trueness of my love for you, just in that alone?

[burnandrave]

This entire thing makes me want to torture you again. You have to know that. I am not in any way, shape or form motivated to suddenly love you, why don't you understand that?

[cylon_prophet]

Of course I understand that. This is why I said you were not easy to love.

I never thought any of this would be easy, Kara. Not from the moment I met you, so determined and angry and brave.

But it will make it all so much more worth it in the end.

[burnandrave]

Gods damn you, you make me almost as angry as Sam.

There is really no way to talk to you when you get like this.

Leoben, I--

Never mind.

[cylon_prophet]

What is it, Kara? You can always talk to me.

[burnandrave]

Seriously, when you frakking talk to me like I'm a child, it makes me miss the days I could kill you several times a day.

I don't understand why you want me why you're so convinced we're going to be together why I dream about you you at all.

[cylon_prophet]

You don't want to understand me, Kara. You're afraid of what you might find out. About me. Us. Yourself.

Is it so hard to imagine that I might love you, want to be with you?

[burnandrave]

Yes.

You don't know me, Leoben. You want some fantasy, something that isn't real.

[cylon_prophet]

What I want is you, Kara. You're the one who is making this so complicated, fighting me so hard. I accept who are you.

You should try and do the same.