Fic: The Strange Dividends of Parapraxis

[daphnaea]

Yes, I know I've disappeared off the face of the earth. But I am in fact still alive, and today there is even fic. I wouldn't necessarily count on it happening again soon...

Title: The Strange Dividends of Parapraxis
Author: daphnaea
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: Takes place in the timespan from "Kobol's Last Gleaming" to "Home."
Characters: Kara and

Comments

[indigo419]

Eeeeeeeeeeee! Daphnaea!fic!!!!

Starbuck was gone and his father was shot and he was sitting in a cell and he laughed (quietly, so as not to wake the President), because he’d been right after all. It hadn’t changed a thing.

and

“I might,” she said after a minute of companionable silence, still hunched over her weapon. “I mean, if I had to say, one way or the other, then maybe I do. Too."

Yeah. Pilots. Always.

So glad you're back! *hugs*

[daphnaea]

*hugs back* Thanks for commenting! It's good to be back.

Pilots > Everything

[empirex1020]

*grins* =D

Daphnaea is made out of awesome!

That was really long! I was expecting a short scene, but THIS...!!! This is infinitely better.

It's strange, because now that I've finished season three, I look back at those season 1 and 2 episodes and get a feeling of nostalgia for the old StarbuckandApollo relationship. It really was simpler back then - before she had a Destiny and he became a Commander and they both were Married.

*sigh*

But back to your fic - great scenes and great dialogue. Beautiful exposition. It's nice to see them comfortable - dare I say hopeful? - together. I hope season 4 will give us more of that sort of relationship between them.

OMG! 12 Days Until Season 4!!!

[empirex1020]

Did I remember to say thank you!?! THANK YOU!!!

*pets fic* I loves you, my precious!

[daphnaea]

You're welcome! I'm glad you liked it. As you may have noticed from my prior efforts, I'm incapable of writing anything short. But thanks for getting me writing in fandom again. I had to go back and rewatch some old episodes to write this, and I too got nostalgic for the good old days, right after the apocalypse, when it was just 49,000 odd people in a ragtag fleet against a huge army of genocidal robots, and no one was married, and no one was back from the dead. Oh, show. How you mess with our heads.

[karie22]

This is beautiful, and poignant, and perfect. I wish it had really gone this way, and then seasons 2 and 3 might have turned out a lot differently.

[daphnaea]

Thanks so much! The thing about happy endings is they don't make for such great drama in the next episode. Hence we have fanfic...

[mylittlepwny]

Ahhhhhh. Completely perfect.
You've somehow managed to maneuver outstandingly around a situation that pilots are usually far too emotionally fucked up to do in canon, and I just.
Barely have words.

Man, I wish you'd write more often. BUT I WILL TOTALLY TAKE WHAT I CAN GET, WHEN I CAN GET IT.

[daphnaea]

Thanks so much! I'm glad it worked for you - the first half of season 2 always seemed to me like this window where if one of them had stepped up and acted like a grown up, everything could actually have come together for them, so I took this prompt as an opportunity to look at what could have given them a push like that, and what it might have looked like. Because they are both fucked up, but if they got over themselves a little and realized they were both in the same boat, they could have been a little less fucked up, together.

I know I've been gone forever - a bunch of RL stuff came up in the middle of last season, and by the time I actually started watching TV again it was already hiatus and I still felt kind of out of step. We'll see how it goes with the new episodes coming up...

[canadiangirl_86]

It's really late and my brain isn't functioning on the higher levels right now so forgive the lack of quality feedback.

But this is a lovely story, and that was a really great and unexpected change to the classic playground scene. The way you tied it up at the end, it was all just a wonderful exploration of the unconditional love Lee offered to her in that scene/episode.

My pilots are too cute. And that last line is perfect.

[daphnaea]

Thanks, and thanks for commenting despite the lateness of the hour. I'm glad the emotional tone and the last line worked for you - I think big sappy declarations are excellent in their place, but often what counts more are the little moments of being close to someone without having to spell it all out.