Fade Away, for rebelliousrose

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Title: Fade Away
Author: trovia
Summary: "She can’t even curl up into herself on her rack. The guards would think she’s malfunctioning. She doesn’t know if they’d be wrong."
Characters: Sharon, Gaeta, Helo
Pairings: Sharon/Helo
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Hera's supposed death, so please beware possible miscarriage triggers
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Comments

[kappamaki33]

I really like this piece, the slow progression in Sharon from directionless rage to, though maybe not peace, at least a place where she doesn't feel so alone, because she can finally empathize with at least a couple people. There were some great little touches, like the observations about why Baltar even tried getting Sharon out of the brig and the image of Adama shuffling in with a teapot (it *is* a bit silly, eh?), too. Well done!

[rose_griffes]

At the beginning I would never have expected just how integral Felix became to this story. Lovely job!
*sniffles*

[puszysty]

Oh I like this one. That was a relationship never explored much in canon and I like how you get into it.
Sharon's trying to escape the box, and poor Felix goes to the box to escape, interesting contrast.

[frolicndetour]

Ah, this is gorgeous.

Those two perceptions mix within her, all the time: Boomer’s human ways, ways that shouldn’t apply because they aren’t hers and yet, they’re all she has left; Cylon ways that feel like hers, familiar like bone and limbs, and those shouldn’t apply either, yet she can’t let go of them anymore than she could shake off an arm. She isn’t an Eight anymore. She’s Sharon. She can’t be Sharon, there already is a Sharon.

This is the part that hooked me in. There's so much storytelling potential in Athena and her various identity crises, and I love to see them explored in fic. The bit about her memory of being three and refusing to eat dinner also really got me. Poor Sharon(s).

And by that flaring pain that is trying to die down, except she can’t let it, too afraid of the pattern the scar tissue might form.Gah. :( Great line though

[emmiere]

This is such a wonderful character study for both Sharon, caged, and Gaeta too. I wouldn't have expected at the start how central he'd be as Sharon moved through her anger and started seeing him.

It felt so natural to fall in love with Helo, she remembers. It felt so natural when she started hating the Cylons, too. The one thing to catch her off guard was how much both of these hurt.

Ah, so many good character moments here, but this is one I especially wish we'd seen more of.

Lovely work.