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twilight_sad in ar_drabbles

Repentance

Jul 30, 2010 23:19

Title: Repentance
Author: twilight_sad
Rating: T
Word Count: 300
Timeframe: missing scene, set during Crossroads, spoilers for New Caprica. Companion piece to Through a Glass Darkly

( “Bill, you will eventually have to forgive yourself for saving humanity.” )

challenge 020: cut scenes, author: twilight_sad

Comments 10

sczep84 July 30 2010, 23:00:36 UTC

So, so very well written *claps* Very poignant, very them.

twilight_sad August 1 2010, 09:16:46 UTC

thanks! it means a lot that you see it as in character for them, so important for so much dialogue.

pandj1958 July 31 2010, 06:10:10 UTC

I'm definately feeling Laura's frustration here. I think I was as pissed as she was when he aquitted Baltar.

I love the dialogue, wish we'd have gotten a longer scene like this in the show. Love this.

twilight_sad August 1 2010, 09:18:52 UTC

gods yes, laura's frustration was soooo palpable in Crossroads II, even during the short confrontation that we did see on the show. i am glad it comes across in this, too! and i really do think that the thing that frustrates her most IS that bill only acquits baltar because his guilt outweighs anybody else's in the whole godsdamned fleet.

love that you love this, thanks!

mimine666 July 31 2010, 06:38:50 UTC

I've always been very frustrated by Bill's decision about Baltar. You're making it tolerable. And I really think Laura would have been this frustrated. thanks

twilight_sad August 1 2010, 09:34:23 UTC

thank you for the comment! yes, laura certainly was frustrated by bill's decision, and i think not so much because she hated to see baltar up and running again (well, that, too), but really because she feels and empathises with bill's pain and guilt over what in his eyes was running away and leaving his people to suffer.

sln1 July 31 2010, 14:23:26 UTC

There was a lot of truth in what Lee said at the trial but I didn't feel that he excused Baltar's actions on New Caprica. I'm no lawyer but it seems to me that there were plenty of ways to make a watertight case against him for treason which makes Bill's acquittal of him all the more galling ( ... )

twilight_sad August 1 2010, 09:41:13 UTC

>Laura's palpable frustration at Bill's infuriating and self indulgent guilt alongside his deep-seated pain at having been unable to spare her from the horror of the occupation ( ... )

kastari August 10 2010, 07:40:15 UTC

"...About you and how you embrace guilt instead of shouldering responsibility."

Ouch.

“I ran.”

And right here is your power.

Fabulous line.

twilight_sad August 11 2010, 10:24:52 UTC

thanks! although i want to hit bill for his self-centred guilt trip, and could totally understand laura's palpable frustration in that short CIC scene..