in the months after his death by sangga (PG-13)

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Fandom: BATTLESTAR GALACTICA 2003
Pairing: Gen, with a side of Kara/Lee
Author on LJ: sangga
Author Website: Published fic on her LJ and at Silverlake
Why this must be read:

I've had a hard time picking just one of sangga's stories to rec, but I finally decided upon 'in the months after his death'. It details the highly plausible back story of the days and months following Zak Adama's death, but more than that, it's a look at Lee and Kara -- rose coloured glasses firmly tucked away.

sangga's unique style is perfect for BSG. It's stylized, but not overdone. Substance with flair, and if you're not careful, it will knock you firmly on your arse,

In the months after his brother's death, Kara disintegrates.

It's like watching the cliffs along the shoreline erode, watching her go down. Or seeing a tree felled, the scream of the saw and then the plummeting, the crashing, the underbrush beneath trampled in the chaos. Or it's like seeing a tower being demolished – first the explosion, in which all air and sound and matter is hugged tight before ripping outwards in a gigantic mushroom billow, and then the collapse, slow and crumbling, graceful and brutal, as the foundations fail and the floors tumble, one on top of the other, fainting and dying.

And her foundations were never particularly strong to begin with.

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in the months after his death