people you've been before - kara/tigh, pg - bsg

[krickets]

Title: people you've been before
Fandom - Characters: Battlestar Galactica - Kara/Tigh
Rating: pg
Author's Notes: I am so screwed up. I know this. Set sometime around Collaborators & Torn. Prompt "You were right about me," from un_love_you.
Summary: There used to be music.


There used to be music.

Back on Galactica, dark hallways fill her head, silent, and they remind her: she got away (but not really, not whole.)

In the cold of New Caprica, back in her murky prison, those notes, small, but bigger than anything she's ever felt, dance in her ears. Every day, and the piano's always in tune. She remembers her father's hands; magic, she used to call them, before they disappeared along with him, drowned in a pool of ambrosia and Virgon Brew. (She knows that, now.)

It's after a game of triad in the rec room and they're alone. (They're alone.) His breath smells like Daddy, whose songs she can no longer hear, and maybe that's the reason that she kisses him, Saul Tigh, full on the lips. Or maybe it's because he tells her about Ellen (just not with words), or because Sam can never know the sacrifices they had to make back on that planet, just how much of themselves they left behind, or maybe it's because she can't seem to get the taste of Leoben off her tongue. Whatever the reason, she wants him to kiss her back, even though she knows he won't.

He pushes her away, dry, awkward lips parting, and looks at her, searches her eyes. "No," is all he says. And it tells her everything.

She looks away, "I know, just some frak-up viper jockey..." she mumbles as she collects herself and turns to go, but not before he grabs her hand, his skin like Daddy's.

"No," he says this time, but somehow the word is different, because this time it means something else. It means that she is not what he thought. And her look tells him that he is not what she thought either. And yet they were, perhaps somewhere forgotten now, hidden in those dark halls.

-fin

Comments

[danniisupernova.livejournal.com]

Jeez I love the work you do (graphics and fic).

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Oh, well thank you very much. *blush* I'm flattered.

[latrex.livejournal.com]

Oh, that is awesome. I love Tigh and Kara's relationship on the show, and this seems very much in character.

[crickets.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad it does. I realize it's wow!out there, kinda but it just kinda popped into my brain and I had to write it. (Don't you love it when that happens?)

Thank you!

[barefoot-chick.livejournal.com]

ooo...That is frakked up, man. lol

I think my brain just twitched.

Then again...*twists the story around like a kaleidoscope* I think I just got goosebumps.

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, kaleidoscope's rule! I have to be honest, Sara. I totally thought of you the entire time I was writing this! Hahaha.

[barefoot-chick.livejournal.com]

I find that comment both oddly flattering and oddly disturbing.

*mutters* Fandom freak...

And I mean that in the nicest possible way, since I'm a fandom freak, too.

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Haha, well it's the May-December aspect of it, I suppose. Not that I'm insinuating that you have the hots for Tigh...

Do you... have the hots for Tigh? LOL

[barefoot-chick.livejournal.com]

I don't have the hots for anyone on BSG. Okay, Tricia Helfer in that scene with just a t-shirt and jeans and then naked. Yeah, there's a little something there. Of course, Mary McDonnell is just gorgeous, but you knew that already.

Saul Tigh...meh

Hugh Laurie on the other hand?

*faints*

*gets back up and takes a cold shower*

Hee.

[crickets.livejournal.com]

That is really sad cause there is so. much. pretty. on that show!

Oh, Hugh. Hahaha. He's definitely a hottie. And the accent! (And as discussed, even without the accent.)

[gigglemonster.livejournal.com]

Only you could make me love a pairing like this - and I mean that as a compliment! :D
I know I say this to like every fic you write, but your way with words just astounds me, everything you write has such depth and it's simply gorgeous.
Definitely with this one, because as odd a pairing as it is, I autually believe it when I read this - especially considering the time it's set during.
This line

She remembers her father's hands; magic, she used to call them, before they disappeared along with him, drowned in a pool of ambrosia and Virgon Brew

Dude..*loves*

[crickets.livejournal.com]

*gets all serious*

This is the work that I have to do, Dayln.

Heheh. No really thank you so much! You really don't have any idea
(or maybe you do) what your support means to me. *draws hearts*

i r smart.

[spikeyboots.livejournal.com]

GAH. Gosh, I don't have words to describe my love for this. I have been pondering Kara/Tigh for a while - but I didn't quite know how it might work -- but this really does. It's elegant, and Tigh is beautiful. Nice work!

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow. Thank you so much for the kind words. :D

[slybrunette.livejournal.com]

I swear to god if this wasn't yours I would be running away. Swear.

However:

His breath smells like Daddy, whose songs she can no longer hear, and maybe that's the reason that she kisses him, Saul Tigh, full on the lips.

There are so many things stunningly wrong with that sentence. Then again they say women tend to go for people that have some quality in common with their fathers. So apparently it's also stunningly right.

Dude, Kara was screwed up post New Caprica so I can totally understand where this is coming from. It's very her. It's very broken and messed up and all the things she kind of was.

Love it! (And I'm not kidding either, I really do)

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Well I'm glad you didn't run in the other direction. Thank you so much!

And yes I agree, New Caprica changed them all. (And, fyi, if you haven't seen it, there was a bit in the Unfinished Business director's cut that made this seem even more plausible, Hahaha.)

[slybrunette.livejournal.com]

I've never seen anything but the director's cut. Think about what I ship. I would have that episode in full.

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Adama/Chief?

(I just can't think of another pairing that has an emotionally charged boxing match in that episode...)

I kid! I kid!

[slybrunette.livejournal.com]

OMG YES THAT'S IT EXACTLY.

*blinks*