Fic: Even Here We Are (BSG, Adama/Roslin)

[pellucid]

Title: Even Here We Are
Spoilers: through "Crossroads, part 2"
Pairing: Adama/Roslin
Rating: PG
Summary: "I don't expect you to forgive me, Laura."

About 1700 words. Many thanks to gabolange for the beta!

Comments

[miss_atom]

That was SO good. Gah, I don't really know what to say appart from: you made my stomach flip flop.

[pellucid]

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[alesia027]

this is really sweet. I love the vaguness of the status of their relationship. I could easily see this fitting into Canon. Really really good.

[pellucid]

Thanks!

[pellucid]

Thank you!

[gabolange]

Well, you already know what I think of this, but I'll tell you again: awesome job! I continue to love your writing and the way you think about these scenes. :-)

As for the way I thought of the scene, which I can explain now that you've posted, I think I saw it as angrier and harder than you did; the version in my head was less conciliatory but, I think, ended in exactly the same place.

[pellucid]

Thank you! And thanks again for the beta--as I said, it's always so helpful to have a second set of eyes, particularly when it's a set of eyes whose judgment you trust. :)

This was originally much angrier. But when I re-watched the episode, I was struck by the fact that this all happened the same day, and god, how tired must they have been at the end of it! And once I started trying to factor in the exhaustion, especially taking into consideration possibilities for what happened after the end of the episode...well, the fight left them, somewhat. If I'd let them sleep first, they definitely would have been angrier.

And I think Keats had a good thing going with "negative capability"--the ability to hold contradictory ideas in your head at the same time without really coming down in favor of one or the other--so even having written this, I find it no more likely than any number of other possibilities.

[gabolange]

I'm always more than happy to beta for you, and I'm glad you trust my judgment! I signed up for the A/R Month of Love, which is in July, and may just send you my fic for that, whenever it gets rolling.

I see what you mean about the exhaustion; I hadn't thought about it from that perspective, but I think you're right. With everything that happened, they probably would have had the conversation you envision--unless they tabled the argument entirely for another day. By the time they finally had the conversation, it would have been much, much nastier. So perhaps it is best for them that it worked out this way! ;-)

The thing that keeps me really enjoying Adama and Roslin together, as a team or as a couple, is that like in any real adult relationship they are open to a multitude of interpretations, each equally valid and viable. Having to really think about where things will go keeps it interesting.

[pellucid]

I signed up for the A/R Month of Love, which is in July, and may just send you my fic for that, whenever it gets rolling.

I'd be more than happy to look at it for you when the time comes. Though I will be incomunicada for parts of mid-June and mid-July, so I guess it will partly depend on timing.

And I definitely agree that it's the complicated, multivalent nature of Adama and Roslin's relationship that I find so appealing. I'm so pleased that the show hasn't ever reduced it to a mere romantic relationship (*knocks very soundly on wood*), and I think the best explorations of their relationship in fic hold all those possible interpretations in the background, even if an individual fic will pick one or another of them.

[altitudeandwine]

I was reading (listening to) Elizabeth Kostova's 'The historian' on my way home, and when I read your fic shortly after arriving, the same pleasantly thoughtful and unobtrusively eloquent quality seemed to emanate from you story.

I checked your LJ and wiki to be at least reasonably sure you are not her.
*looks away and coughs*

Please write more A/R

[pellucid]

*goes to look up this Elizabeth Kostova person* Cool. And no, obviously she and I are quite different people! ;)

Thank you for the kind feedback! I'm glad you enjoyed the story!