Fic: "Ear Tuned To The Roar" (BSG)

[inlovewithnight]

Ear Tuned To The Roar
Written for the brains_in_a_jar challenge.
Characters: Helo, Lee, Six. Canon pairings.
Rating: PG-13
Goes AU before "The Eye of Jupiter"
Summary: What is human, what is Cylon, what is choice?
So very, very many thanks to glossing, who audienced and beta'd and held my hand through a lot of flailing. I really can't thank you enough for your help,

Comments

[poisontaster]

I love the growing dynamic between Vox and Helo. It's intimate but awkward, which is HOW IT SHOULD BE and it's just so perfectly done. And then the weird triangle growing between them, equally awkward, infinitely fragile and yet still visible and there. These are master strokes.

[And you want to? Stay, I mean? You want to stay?]

"It's safe here."
More uncontrollable wibbling and not-quite crying on PT's part.

[I want you to stay.]
*shatters into tiny crinkly pieces* OMFG. *hands* You BITCH. You're making me CRY. I hate you. You're making ME CRY.

He'll come back here again. He'll be their advocate and their connection, and if it ever comes down to it, he'll keep his promise.

But he needs to go home.
In my brand new OT3 heart, I am choosing to believe that he's going home to wrap things up, dammit, and I will not be persuaded otherwise!

Gods, honey. It's endlessly amusing to watch you flail SO HARD and then come up with something as brilliant as this. It's just... It's a masterpiece. A true masterpiece of craft and emotion and I feel so proud to even KNOW you in this moment.... *hugs*

[sabaceanbabe]

What she said! All of it! But especially:

And I understand what he thinks he's offering. And for someone else, it might be an answer. But not Helo. Helo is life personified. Helo is the persistence of life. And in many ways, that's the harder road.

and

It's endlessly amusing to watch you flail SO HARD and then come up with something as brilliant as this. It's just... It's a masterpiece. A true masterpiece of craft and emotion and I feel so proud to even KNOW you in this moment.... *hugs*

including the *hugs*