Comments | sabaceanbabe: BSG fic: Can't Let This Get Away (pg-13)

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BSG fic: Can't Let This Get Away (pg-13)

Jul 03, 2007 10:37

Title: Can’t Let This Get Away
Author: sabaceanbabe
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 798
Characters/pairings: Kara Thrace/Sam Anders
Spoilers: through Torn
Disclaimer: not mine, no money, please don’t sue
Author’s note: written for lyssie just because; beta’d by rebelliousrose (Thank you!!!), all mistakes mine own; title from It’s Not Over by Chris Daughtry.

( What the hell’d you do to your hair? )

my bsg fic, my fic, my bsg fic: s3

Comments 30

rebelliousrose July 3 2007, 15:34:11 UTC

Oh, nice, nice, but you know that.

"Gods, he was so tired. All he wanted was to find a court somewhere and shoot a few balls without anyone around. No sound but that of leather-wrapped rubber rattling into metal before bouncing back into his hand, no smell of recycled air, just a light breeze, maybe a hint of rain in the air."

That's still my favorite. By far.

sabaceanbabe July 6 2007, 15:40:18 UTC

Thanks for your help on this, hon, and I'm glad you like it. :)

centerspire July 3 2007, 15:51:23 UTC

Whoa! Very nice. There's something in the first bit of the story that really got me...but I can't figure out what it is. I'm running out the door, but I'll come back and reread later!

sabaceanbabe July 6 2007, 15:41:24 UTC

Hee. I'm glad you like it and if you figure out whatever it is that caught you, lemme know, m'kay? :)

mrushgdi July 3 2007, 17:57:39 UTC

Awwwwww... yep that about covers it. Love ya!

sabaceanbabe July 6 2007, 15:42:03 UTC

*snerk* Thanks, man!

mamaboolj July 3 2007, 20:35:25 UTC

It's gotta be so tough to be in love with someone who is so frakked up, even if they are frakked up for very good reasons. And you've captured this really well. And Kara so needs her time and space to come to grips not just with New Cap but with so much of her past - and present - life.

Nice job.

sabaceanbabe July 6 2007, 15:45:05 UTC

Thank you. I can't wait to see how she'll be in s4, you know?

spiletta42 July 3 2007, 21:52:44 UTC

You made me feel for Anders in this, and the voices are good, but at the same time I wasn't on board with your setting this after she'd cut her hair. In canon, she did that after she'd made the decision to try to put New Caprica behind her, so it almost felt that she was moving backwards before she went forward again. Maybe she would have, she's a bit of a headcase - understatement - so it's not far off for her, but it's a very quick backward and forward here, so maybe it should have been a tad longer to reduce the whiplash effect. Just my opinion.

The ending was touching.

sabaceanbabe July 6 2007, 15:51:36 UTC

Thank you and also thank you for taking the time to leave feedback. And sorry about the whiplash. I wanted this to be just from Sam's POV, but I think the whiplash would have been greatly reduced had I switched back and forth between him and Kara.

Since we don't have a full time-line on what happened, my thinking here is that after Adama knocked her from her chair, she stalked out pissed and then started thinking after the red haze lifted. Then she cut her hair in a symbolic gesture of returning to what used to be important to her - the Old Man and being a Viper pilot - but that, only minutes later, on her way to change into her blue uniform and seek out Casey to make amends, she runs into Sam and everything is just too raw for her to deal just yet. That's where this fic is.

Maybe once I have the time to truly write it up, rather than just sketch out my thought process, I'll expand this to include Kara's POV and flesh out Sam's a bit more, too.

spiletta42 July 6 2007, 16:20:31 UTC

Yep, what you've sketched out here defines everything much better, and I think this will be really excellent when you've fleshed it all out. I look forward to reading it.

Hmm, I don't have an Anders icon, how about Andrew . . .