Fic: Cold Light of Day (BSG, Caprica/Tigh)

[pellucid]

Title: Cold Light of Day
Pairing: Caprica/Tigh
Spoilers: 4.10 "Revelations," and everything leading up to it
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 1660
Summary: They have no script for this, for what comes after.

Author's Notes: I think I have well and truly fallen. This pairing should not work, and yet...
Many thanks to beccatoria for the enabling and to gabolange for the

Comments

[alias424]

The OTCP love! They're so wrong, but so right. Oh, I love it! And was insanely excited to see a fic update from this community.

This was fantastic---what with how you brought Bill into it... let him and Saul forgive each other (without having to actually do that at all) and then have Bill be the one that brought Saul closer to Caprica. Loved it all!

[pellucid]

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[pellucid]

Thank you!

And yes, clearly the fact that they're so very fucked up is a big part of the appeal, yet somehow I just want them to LOVE EACH OTHER. I suspect this can only end in tears!

[daybreak777]

Ooh, I liked this. Something about the pacing. Measured, but tentative. Kind of like how I imagine Saul thinks when I think of him well. Which I do most of the times now. I really like his characterization in this. And there lines that just feel right and are so evocative:

She wraps herself in the bedsheet, follows him to the table.
That's Six, sensual even when she may not want to be.

In one perfect moment, he thought he knew.
That was a perfect moment. I loved that scene and here Saul remembers it true.

Hey, I never called him Saul before! But I liked getting insight in what he might be feeling. Honestly, this pairing really bothered me in the beginning and still does on some level. But once she's free, and they both seem to choose one another, the unsureness and tentativeness sort of works.

Thanks for writing this. I will be thinking about it.

[pellucid]

Thanks! I'm glad this worked for you.

I see Saul as sort of circling around, making decisions unwillingly and sometimes by accident, yet having them somehow be good decisions, at least much of the time. And he's this curious mix of courage and hesitation, fumbling around and avoiding responsibility until he fixes on something that he must do, and then following it through to its conclusion, however horrifying. If you'd told me back in season 1 or 2 that I would come to be so very fascinated by Saul Tigh, I wouldn't have believed it, but he's become my second-favorite character on the show, behind Laura.

As for the pairing, it definitely bothered me in the beginning, and it still holds for me something of the fascination of a car wreck: I know it's going to go badly, yet I can't look away! They have so many issues, and there's such possibility for skeevy gender stuff, among other problems, yet I have this strange hope that if they could ever learn, slowly and haltingly, to really see each other, they could actually be surprisingly

[daybreak777]

Yes, Tigh has really come along. It has been such a treat to watch his character grow and develop. I was totally transfixed by him on New Caprica. And I do love that scene with him and Bill to pieces. One of my favorite parts of the last ep.

They both have such capacity for love, and they've bestowed that love on fairly unworthy objects, and I want to see each of them loved, and especially Caprica.
Oh yes, me too! I want her to be loved too and I worry about her. I worry about all the Sixes and my main concern was that they hooked up when she was behind bars. But maybe things could be different now. Maybe things could be real between them. You've helped me see that possibility with this story. They both do deserve it. Mmm, I love fanfiction that makes me think.

I want Saul to learn to love her, cheesy as that sounds
It's not cheesy! I want to hope too, but this is BSG and they just landed on a destroyed, barren landscape. But maybe. :-)

[pellucid]

Tigh rocked the entirety of that last episode: the scene with Bill, the scene in the airlock, and then the two at the end, first alone in his quarters as they arrive at Earth, and then standing on the planet as Caprica approaches him. It's really astounding what they've done with him.

And yes, this is BSG, and any shred of hope is sure to be dashed. But there's this little sliver of possibility with these two characters, and I'm going to hang onto that for as long as I can (which will, of course, make the inevitable doom all that much worse!).

[altorogue]

oh YES, I was hoping somebody would write this, because the last episode did NOT deal with the two of them enough! One assumes that she was let out of the brig with the truce, but what happened when she found out he was a Cylon? The implications of the baby?

It shouldn't work, but it does anyway. And I LOVE this.

[pellucid]

Thank you! I'm glad you liked it.

And I think I was happy enough not to actually have seen a conversation between them in the last episode, just because I loved the way she reaches out to him in the last scene, with all the ambiguity of it, and the way he doesn't reach back but doesn't turn away, either. I think I'd rather have it unknown, but at the same time, it was begging to be poked at in fic.

[beatrice_otter]

I was hoping the last ep wouldn't deal with them--BSG has to make everything depressing, and I wanted to keep my illusions for something, at least.

[altorogue]

Very true. I'm one of those people that likes to see confrontations and such, even though the show works so much better when they don't show them. This is why I can never be a writer!

[babylon_whore]

OMG. I mean...OMG.

This is fucking amazing.

Clarity is impossible, so he seeks its opposite.

You like owned all their voices and the language you used was astounding. I really want to quote back large heaping chunks of this and spazflail all over it!!!

[pellucid]

Hee! Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it.