Battlestar Galactica Fanfic-'Reconciliation'-1/6
Title: Reconciliation
Author: Azura Nyx
Characters: Lt. Felix Gaeta, Lt. Anastasia Dualla, Lee Adama, and Chief Galen Tyrol
Pairings: Anastasia Dualla/Felix Gaeta
Type: Romance/Sci-Fi/ Sort-of AU
Length: ~4,800 words, 5 chapters + Epilogue
Warnings/Author’s Notes: Spoiler for “Someone to Watch over Me” because I do include a small scene from the episode. These characters are property of Universal Studios and Ron Moore. Therefore, they do not belong to me.
Rating: PG
Summary: What would have happened if Felix had saved Anastasia?
Chapter 1
Tears were streaming down Felix’s cheeks as he saw the lifeless corpse of Anastasia Dualla lying on the morgue’s slab. The only emotions he could feel right now were anger and guilt. The latter being the stronger of the two. Felix had lost a very good friend. He just couldn’t shake the memories of the times he had spent with her in the officer’s lounge; drinking some ambrosia, talking bullshit and listening, sometimes even dancing, to music.
Gaeta had discussed his feelings about Anastasia’s death with some of his colleagues before: all of them had comforted him and mentioned that it wasn’t his fault- that Dee hadn’t been emotionally stable for quite some time. Some even inferred she hadn’t been “normal,” whatever that term was worth, ever since her divorce from Lee Adama. Regardless of what Felix’s comrades thought, however, there was always the lingering notion in his head that he could have saved her. I was right outside the door, Gaeta frequently thought to himself. I talked to her just before she killed herself, left the room unaware of what she was going to do, and I could have stopped her. The question was: what would have happened if Felix had? If Gaeta had insisted to Anastasia that she could tell him of what had been bothering her, would she have killed herself? Would he be in the morgue, staring down at Dee’s carcass, if he stayed in the room and they discussed what was on her mind?
Chapter 2