End of a Day, Battlestar Galactica, Athena/Helo, welcome homeninamazingJanuary 26 2009, 16:37:06 UTC
It's been another rough day. Helo's gone for fourteen-hour shifts as Galactica's tactical officer, but she - the Cylon - has nothing to do. They've imprisoned her, assaulted her, nearly executed her husband, and actually executed her baby, while in return she's politely saved all their lives; but they're still not sure if they can trust her. She left once, midmorning, to borrow a book from Admiral Adama's quarters, but the soldiers in the corridors gave her ugly stares and she dashed back. For the rest of the day she hasn't gone out again, not for so much as a slurp of water from the bathroom fountain.
She settles for doing a few hundred crunches, a few dozen push-ups, and then she just stares at the metal ceiling, waiting for her husband. Something creaks in the pipes above her head; a muffled voice shouts in the hall. And the keypad of their door lock beeps outside.
Always, she knows a moment of panic - it's marines, one of the Eights out there has done something and I'm back in the brig - but today the hatch rattles open and it's
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She settles for doing a few hundred crunches, a few dozen push-ups, and then she just stares at the metal ceiling, waiting for her husband. Something creaks in the pipes above her head; a muffled voice shouts in the hall. And the keypad of their door lock beeps outside.
Always, she knows a moment of panic - it's marines, one of the Eights out there has done something and I'm back in the brig - but today the hatch rattles open and it's ( ... )
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*sigh*
I love Helo/Athena!
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I do too!
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