Ficlets: Sixes!

[embolalia]

These were written for today's bsg_epics game, but as I only just now finished them I thought I'd post them here :)

Caprica on New Caprica for sunshine_queen


Even during the initial unpleasantness, all she can see is him. Her body is alight with awareness, vibrating like a plucked string. After more than a year, she has the proof of her own eyes that he’s alive, that he still looks at her with awe, that she wants him.
When they get alone though, she sees his wariness. At first she thinks it’s that he never quite got used to her being a Cylon, to the secret she kept. But when she pulls off her shirt he turns away, and he’s never done that before. “What is it?” Caprica asks, humiliation behind her words.
Gaius reaches out for her hand, and when he takes it, studies it, the feeling eases.
“There was another Six, I met. Gina.”


Faith and Jean for rirenec


For weeks she follows the human woman up and down, all the hours of the workday. She guides her when she’s off task, reminds her what the consequences are of failing to meet her quota. The shadows of the Centurions stand tall in the afternoon sun.
Her sisters tease her uneasily about it, until she bursts out that peace will come the way Caprica and Boomer have said, and she’ll like a human if she wants to. When the words pass her lips, she knows they’re true: she’d like to run her fingers through red hair, to press her lips to a pair unlike any of her sisters’ or brothers’. The others are silent, staring, then go back to their business. Later Boomer passes her in the hall, presses a kiss to her cheek and murmurs in her ear. “Have faith.”


Six on Earth for lorrainemarker


There are long days, weeks perhaps, when Elena doesn’t leave her cabin. The very first time she dared to go into the marketplace, a woman came at her, screaming about having broken her baby’s neck.
Elena ran, fled the growing crowd, found herself at the edge of the settlement, retching in the grass at the vaguest of memories of an infant’s spinal column snapping beneath her touch. Not for the first time she thought this might all be a mistake.


Gina in hiding on New Caprica for letterstonorah


It’s stranger than she would have thought, being outcast from two races at once. The humans plot underground at night and the Cylons profess to want peace and love and roses. No one is on her side.
Gina hasn’t spoken to Gaius since he left her to become President, but she sees him with the Six, the woman he used to go to Pyramid games with, and it crushes her more than she ever meant to allow.
The dog is sweet to her still, at least, and she brings him meat when she can get it. Two weeks have passed since the Cylons’ arrival when she makes her decision: she and Jake are going to hike over the ridge and find out what this planet has to offer. Either it’ll be death, or a better life than this.

Comments

[kleenexcow.livejournal.com]

Awesome! I've always had affection for the theory that the bad blood between Jean and her Six was romantic in nature. And I loooove the Gina one! I want all of this fic! :D

[embolalia.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'd never thought too hard about Faith and Jean before, but I liked this angle. I'm unlikely to continue them at the moment, but there's more Six fic in my master list if you haven't read it :)

[kleenexcow.livejournal.com]

Heh, it's just a natural byproduct of my (completely never mentioned in canon but never disproven by canon, either!!) personal canon that Jean liked the ladies in general :)

[sunshine-queen.livejournal.com]

SO MANY FEELINGS! What beautiful sections! <3

[embolalia.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :D

[embolalia.livejournal.com]

Isn't that awful? Though now that I think about it for more than a minute, if she didn't set off the nuke, the Cylons wouldn't have found them. (Oops!) I guess they might have found them another way...

Thanks!

[rirenec.livejournal.com]

Lovely! I really liked the Jean one - how she's so naive about the situation. Gina's one reminds me of Lee's soul searching.

[embolalia.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Some of the sixes are oddly innocent to me at times. Did you ever read that Gina/Lee story? I can't think who wrote it (possibly sunshine_queen?) but it was fabulous!

[lorrainemarker.livejournal.com]

These are so good. I especially like Elena retching in the grass on Earth. It's a wonderful visual combined with mini-series mother surviving (it's my head canon she did - she was at the Caprica spaceport to pick up her parents for the baby's funeral service).

[embolalia.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Deborah and I discussed once how there were Cylons who were off on a baseship during the attacks and never played a hands-on role. It was interesting to me to imagine what it all might have been like for one of them in the end.

[nicole-anell.livejournal.com]

GINAAAAA. Gina going off with Jake. *sobs* Also that she thinks of Caprica as the one who went to pyramid games with him - *sob* again. I love all of these. Poor Six on Earth too, sharing the same face and sins of all her people.

[embolalia.livejournal.com]

Only the dog is her friend :( She is pretty devastating, all the time. I'm glad you liked these!