Fandom: BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (NEW)
Pairing: Seelix, Barolay, Anders, Gaeta, Racetrack, a very insensitive Six.
Length: 3023 words
Author on LJ:
nicole_anellAuthor Website: archived hereWhy this must be read:I love stories that delve into the perspectives of underused characters, especially those who've been cast in the role of antagonists. Seelix had been part of the ensemble since early Season Two, and while it was easy enough to imagine her reasons for mutiny, the show never had time to really explore them. This fic is structured as a series of scenes set just after the
Demetrius mission, the destruction of the Hub, and just before the mutiny. It's a reminder of how much characters like Seelix lived through and how much they lost; to them, peace seems like just one more defeat.
After Demetrius, she went to the head and sat down on the floor of her shower stall and let the water run over her forever. They end up in a box, she kept thinking. That's where we used to end up. There's no ground to put the dead in anymore. They had to adjust their religions, tell themselves it was just as well to send them out into space in sheets. That the gods could still find them there, and find their fathers and nieces and college roommates incinerated in some trash heap back home. Find Jean on the baseship, whatever they did with her.
It was bullshit, though. She'd known this since Kobol, standing over Socinus while his lungs collapsed. He came up with her and Cally in basic, and his mother was a housecleaner, and he did an amazing impression of the XO. Chief put a needle in his arm, and then everyone stood around looking useless and limp. Seelix smudged the tears and dirt deeper into her face. She was thinking about his soul. She said, "We have to bury him."All the Poise of a Cannonball