The interview with Juno, though fruitless in the end, had set Caprica thinking.  She burned with the need to love, to fulfill her part in God's plan, to replace visions with reality.

She needed a lover and, through him, a child.

And though Gaius must have known what the fulfillment of this wish would mean for him, he had been surprisingly encouraging ( Read more... )

Juno was using the Council office for talking to prospective adoptive parents, which made her feel kind of weird, like she was a boss doing job interviews. Maybe she should ask for resumes. Experience with poopy diapers? Check. Must love babies? Check ( Read more... )

...whether we fail or pass the test, is up to us.Standing in a reverent silence, D’Anna wondered how long it took for the consensus to be made, if any of the other models had even a moment’s hesitation before casting his or her vote in deciding the fate of her entire line. The more she thought about it, the less sure she was about actually wanting ( Read more... )

After Juno's conversation with Dale, she waited a couple of days and then finally got to work on a very neatly-penned flier. In retrospect, maybe she should have left out the hearts about the i's, but she thought the doodle of the baby was kind of cute.


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Jeet Kune Do removes emphasis on forms as an inadequate reflection of the dynamic nature of combat and so Spike, as a practitioner - or adapter, really, as Jeet Kune Do done right is entirely personalized, a process rather than a style - doesn't bother with them ( Read more... )

It had started as a dull pain between her shoulder blades that turned slowly to hot, sharp, occasional agony.  The pain would last sometimes minutes, sometimes hours, and the day it migrated to her upper abdomen, she'd vomited from the stress.

All through it, Gaius whispered his speculations in her ears.  That this was punishment.  It was penance.  ( Read more... )

The midday sun beat down heavily on her shoulders, dappled though it was by the overhanging leaves of the forest.  Hot enough that Six had taken to the jungle rather than the shore; her skin refused to pigment any darker, and she refused to lie down on the sand and squint against the sun.  An uneasy truce between mind and body.

She was following a ( Read more... )

The island had done it again. Whether it was pure chance or benevolence none of them would ever know, but somehow, someway, the place had seen fit to give them all booze again ( Read more... )

The island had done it again. Whether it was pure chance or benevolence none of them would ever know, but somehow, someway, the place had seen fit to give them all booze again ( Read more... )

The island had done it again. Whether it was pure chance or benevolence none of them would ever know, but somehow, someway, the place had seen fit to give them all booze again ( Read more... )