Goodbye, Captain Apollo

[ladyjanus]

Title: Goodbye, Captain Apollo
Word Count: 2,400
Rating: T (PG-13)
Pairing: Roslin/Lee (friendship) with implied Adama/Roslin
Disclaimer: All belongs to the Lords of Kobol ... the only thing that's mine is my craziness.
Spoilers: To "Crossroads Part 2" ... everything from there is definitely my imagination.

Goodbye, Captain Apollo

Her tears dripped onto

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[ladyjanus]

yet she believes he did it for Lee

I don't know that Laura believes that Bill gave the verdict he did for Lee, only that he followed his conscience and what his sense of honour was telling him--that no matter what he felt about Baltar, the prosecution failed to prove its case. So he had to find Baltar "not guilty", which as he tells her in the episode, is not the same as "innocent".

Where my story sort of got its impetus from the episode (aside from Lee using her Chamalla use to help Romo discredit her testimony), is Laura's realisation at the end that Bill voted for acquital.

While "Laura the President" might intellectually understand it, I don't think that "Laura the Woman", who survived the brutalities of New Caprica, understands it emotionally. I think that given how close their relationship has been getting in the third season (at least to my eyes), the woman in her wanted him to think of her first, and yes, go against his principles.

She also recognises that had it been Lee down on New Caprica, facing detention and Cylon firing squads, Bill would have compromised his honour and his principles to put a bullet in Baltar's brain (though he would never have been on that tribunal in the first place had Lee been on the death-list).

After all, Bill expended nearly half the fleet's fuel supply searching for Kara in "You Can't Go Home Again" and told Lee at the end of the episode that if it had been Lee who had crashed on that planet, he never would have stopped looking for him despite Roslin's orders.

Anyway, I'm just saying that I think "Laura the Woman" of my story--especially since that she's in such a vulnerable place with the cancer returning--might want to know that Bill loves her to the extent that he considers her family (like Lee and Kara), and that he would compromise his principles to give her the justice she needs (namely the legal right to toss Baltar's ass out an airlock).

And it hurts when she feels that he doesn't.

[alesia027]

I agree with you, but its the 'she feels that he doesn't' that pains me because I think he does but she doesn't know it or realize it yet and maybe he doesn't realize it either - yet. And I am not saying you are off canon here because actually I think you are right on it - her pain with Bill is personal not political in that moment. They are on the pecipice of the next stage of their relationship at the end of season 3, if they fall (and I am hoping they will) there won't be anything he won't do for her (which will something that pains and costs him dearly).