Distance Making the Heart Grow Blind by Gidget ZB (T)

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Fandom: BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
Pairing: Caprica Six/Saul Tigh
Author on LJ: gidget_zb 
Author Website: The Gidget Fic tag at fandom_bitches 
Why this must be read:

For half a season, we had one of the most interesting, underused pairings I know of: Caprica Six, in prison and slightly broken from everything she'd gone through but still looking for someone to love, and Saul Tigh, grieving the wife he'd murdered as a traitor and confused as frak about his Cylonness.  Both of them were screwed up, and it couldn't last long, and yet, for a period of time, they had one another.  Gidget captures their relationship and explores it in painful, honest detail, and the end is so hopeful (even though we know what's going to happen to them once Ellen gets back).  If you liked that relationship you must read this, and even if it wasn't your cup of tea, give it a shot.

She waited.

She was good at waiting – sitting cross-legged and imagining what her little girl would look like. Sweet blonde curls, and intense brown eyes – a sweet smile and a fierce purpose. Or perhaps it would be a boy, rough-and-tumble fearlessness, stout morals – rough play with his father and sweet hugs with his mother.

She waited and imagined – waited for him to come. Of course he would. There was no way the doctor wouldn’t report his findings, and while she cursed her walls and wires and windows, longed to tell him herself – imagined it to be an intimate moment; imagined his reflected joy, even though she had never seen that expression on his face – she could imagine what it would look like. She imagined a family for herself, from thoughts and cells and hopes and dreams and love. Most especially love. Theirs would be a family built on love – love for their child, and love for God – and for each other.

She wasn’t unintelligent, or unrealistic – she knew that her imaginings would never likely come to realization. But –

But they could – Athena had lived in these walls and managed to find her own happy ending, and Caprica could too. She had to be patient. And prove herself. Love others as God would have her love them – help them when she could. It could happen – all she had to do was wait. And work. And she was good at both of those things. Waiting and working, and her baby would keep her company.

Distance Making the Heart Grow Blind