~BSG: Continuum, Part I: Last Day Past

[kastari]

Title:  Continuum, Part I:  Last Day Past  
Author:  kastari
Summary:  All our troubles seemed so far away.
Characters:  Adama/Roslin
Rating:  T
Word Count:  200
Author’s Note:  Written for the 14th  ar_drabbles challenge.  Prompt:  Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
Disclaimer:  I’m just playing in Universal’s sandbox.

Comments

[frakcancer]

How great, the contrast between staccato!Bill and long, drawn out, Henry James Laura.

Interesting that they both left their mothers out of the litany of the dead. On purpose?

[redrockcan]

Can I say I love your comment and how true it is? This made my chuckle and gods Henry James drove me crazy!!! And I hadn't noticed the mother neglect until you wrote this. Hmmmm, I look forward to the answer from our writer.

[kastari]

Laura & Bill are such a contrast. And their love of literature & how they share it with each other makes it so easy to write them.

As for the mother love, see reply I posted to frakcancer mention of it.

[kastari]

I will forever be indebted to bugsfic for suggesting staccato!Bill way back when. It's so him.

I had to think about the voices they'd miss. I almost went with Mrs. Roslin, but I'm not all that convinced Laura had a close relationship with her mother. I think the death of her father & her sisters affected her on a much deeper level. And I really wanted to include Billy.

As for Bill, I did think about using his mother. His mother, his sister, his son. I loved the sound of the 's' words. But having used Billy for Laura, I wanted to use someone who had been on Galactica for Bill. Hence, Kara (before she returned in He Who Believeth.)

That & I think Bill was closer to Tamara.

[frakcancer]

I'm not all that convinced Laura had a close relationship with her mother

Now this is a theory I;d like to hear more about. Why do you think that?

[kastari]

Maybe I'm influenced because we know she was close to her father & her sisters. What I wonder is why Laura took care of her mother when her father was still alive. And she had younger sisters. Maybe it was the 'oldest child' thing. It's just a feeling I have. That her mother's illness was long & painful & ugly & that at some point, she resented the situation. Could have been angry at her mother for dying as illogical as that is. It's real. We can always discuss in depth PM.

: )

[frakcancer]

Being angry at her mother isn't illogical at all -- it's one of the standard grief coping mechanisms.

Oh, self help books. How you all repeat the same things over and over....