Devil Never Met by lyssie (R)

[anjali-organna.livejournal.com]

Fandom: BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
Pairing: Kara/Anders
Length: 1000+
Author on LJ: lyssie 
Author website: BSG fic tag on her lj
Why this must be read:

Sam Anders was one of those characters that I automatically hated at first, simply because I was a fan of Kara and Lee.  At first I was just annoyed because Lee was So Sad and Sam was just The Obstacle To Their Love.  Then I wondered why he was being such a little bitch and letting Kara use him as her whipping boy post New Caprica, then I just felt bad for him during the Quado'Doom.  But then they turned him into a Cylon and sent him on the Demetrius and he was the only one who really  understood how to react to Kara and tried to help his crazy bitch wife on her crazy bitch mission of Crazy.  And I sat up and said, Hey, who is this Samuel T. Anders guy, anyway?

This fic is an exploration of Sam's "awakening" as a Cylon and of his relationship with Kara while onboard Demetrius.  Sam has lately struck me as pragmatic and practical; even when he knew his wife was cheating on him, when he found out what he was, he didn't go off in a corner and drink himself into a stupor or anything but simply kept on living the best that he knew how.  That's the tone that lyssie strikes in this fic, and it plays just right.  Sam's a little bit sad, a little bit depressed, a little bit angry, and then the ending, which I won't spoil but which totally made the fic for me.   I'm such a sucker for the great one-or-two line ending that pacts an emotional punch.  Hee.

Devil Never Met

Comments

[frolicndetour.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you recc'd this: lyssie is definitely the foremost Kara/Anders writer out there and I think this is one of her best. Great choice!

[anjali-organna.livejournal.com]

I'm glad I'm slowly awakening to Sam as an interesting character in his own right (and one who I think is, in his own way, a fitting equal to Kara).