33 Apocalypse Avenue, Mid-Day Saturday

[nomoreveruca]

Cally Tyrol was having a pretty okay day. Since she worked during the week, it was always nice to have a day home with Nicky. The house was big, and felt a little empty on a weekend like this

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[chiefamongmen]

Galen Tyrol hadn't expected a warm welcome. The last time he'd seen his wife, she'd cracked him on the back of the skull with a wrench and disappeared. Oh, Tory had claimed to see Cally airlock herself and Nicky, but he hadn't believed that.

A lot had happened since then. And now he'd finally tracked her down.

"Look, don't shoot me, okay? I'll stay out here and you can stay inside and... I just want to talk, Cally. Just clear things--"

[nomoreveruca]

"No," Cally said, cutting him off. There was no way she'd listen to the lies again. Listen to all that false emotion and false love that had poisoned her for too long. "You're going to turn around and go away before I actually do find something to kill you with you stupid frakking toaster."

[chiefamongmen]

He'd expected that, so he put up his hands and took a step back.

"Look, I didn't... I didn't knowingly lie about anything," Galen said. "I didn't know I am what I am. I know that hurt you, and I'm sorry I couldn't tell you about it when I found out, but--"

[nomoreveruca]

Cally couldn't believe this. Her head was pounding with the thump-thump of her heartbeat, ringing in her ears so loud she could barely hear him. She again interrupted, not wanting to hear him, not wanting to see him.

"I'm not joking," she choked out through her gritted teeth. "You're a cylon. Everything about you is evil. Why are you even here?"

She was wondering how fast she could run to the kitchen or grab a phone or how hard she could slam the door in his face. Anything to get him away.

[chiefamongmen]

"Look, I just wanted to see my son," Galen said, trying not to be hurt by it all. It had been hard hard to reconcile his nature, but he knew that he wasn't the enemy, he wasn't an 'evil' Cylon, he was just who he was. "I wanted to know you were okay, and then I was just going to--"

Yet again, he wasn't allowed to finish his statement.

[nomoreveruca]

Cally slammed the door shut, and fumbled for a moment to lock the deadbolt. She clasped her hands over her ears, and collapsed to her knees as the dizzy feeling surged over her.

She began to cry, cry with a flurry of repressed emotion bubbling through and erupting out of her.

She'd thought she had been safe here, and that everything was behind her. And now Galen Tyrol had taken that away from her, too.

[chiefamongmen]

Galen knocked again. "Cally, please. Just let me..."

He trailed off, and listened. He could hear her crying through the door. He hung his head, and he walked away.