Try me.

[number_eight]

1 question.
1 chance.
1 honest answer.

Comments

[special-destiny.livejournal.com]

If you hadn't fallen for Helo, would you have gone through with whatever mission they had planned for you?

[number-eight.livejournal.com]

Wow. Cut right to the chase, huh?

It's like I told the Old Man. I'm self-aware, not like Boomer was. I'm different. So yes, I had a mission, but the mission was for Helo to fall in love with me so I would have Hera. Even without Karl in the picture, I think once she would've been born, the love I would have had for her would make everything else sort of moot.

It was all my choice, though. I guess the point is, I don't know, Kara. I'd like to think not, but we'll never know, right?

[weissman.livejournal.com]

In the future, what do you want for your family?

OOC

[number-eight.livejournal.com]

I think that Sharon Agathon would want a normal family, and for everyone to leave her alone so that she could be happy with Hera & Helo. I think that Sharon Valerii is still jealous of Athena and doesn't want to have a family at all.

[arrow-of-apollo.livejournal.com]

What do you think your daughter means to the future?

[number-eight.livejournal.com]

I don't know. My best guess is the hope that Cylons and humans can really live together peacefully -- hey, look at my marriage.

For all I know, though, it could be some form of evolution, and I don't want that for her. Not my Hera.

[arrow-of-apollo.livejournal.com]

Would it surprise you if I told you I'm a little jealous of your marriage?

You wouldn't?

[number-eight.livejournal.com]

Actually, yes.

No. I just want her to be normal.

[arrow-of-apollo.livejournal.com]

Don't know if there's anyone who isn't, at least a bit. You work. Even in this insanity, you make the marriage thing work.

I think I can imagine that.

[number-eight.livejournal.com]

I do my best. We both do.

[arrow-of-apollo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've gotten a pretty solid education on the collaborative nature of marriage.

[callsign-helo.livejournal.com]

When you went back to the base ship for Hera, were you ever tempted to not come back?

[number-eight.livejournal.com]

I...

Yes. No. I was scared she might die if I came back. I love you, so how could I leave you behind?

[callsign-helo.livejournal.com]

You would do anything for Hera. And if you felt she was safer and better off there... I'd understand.

[number-eight.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't want you to understand.

[callsign-helo.livejournal.com]

Well, I didn't say I would like it. But Hera comes first.

[cpo-galen-tyrol.livejournal.com]

[locked to Sharon]

If I asked you to, if it became necessary for their safety, would you look after Cally and Nick for me?

[number-eight.livejournal.com]

[Locked to Galen]

*sighs*

Yes. I would.

[cpo-galen-tyrol.livejournal.com]

[locked to Sharon]

Something's going on with me. I don't know what it means. I don't know what it will mean, for anyone. I can't let Cal and Nick get caught in whatever happens next.

I know what asking this of you means and I'm not doing it lightly. You might be the only one who can protect them.

[number-eight.livejournal.com]

[Locked to Galen]

You're being pretty cryptic. You better not be dying, Galen, and not talking to anyone about it. If something is "up", go see Doc Cottle.

I'll... I'll do the best I can. For you. No child should live without a mother and father.

[cpo-galen-tyrol.livejournal.com]

[locked to Sharon]

*snort* How much easier would just dying be? If I'm being brutally frank, the only reason I'm still breathing right now is because I haven't had the time to take steps to be otherwise.

I don't know what to do. Stay the course? Trust my people?

And before you ask, this isn't about Cally. I'm happy with her. Maybe it's because of her and Nick I haven't taken those steps.

[number-eight.livejournal.com]

[Locked to Galen]

What is that supposed to mean?

Your people? What are you talking about?

[cpo-galen-tyrol.livejournal.com]

[locked to Sharon]

Maybe we should sit down and have a talk.

I'm not asking this as the Chief, but do you know anything about the Cylons who haven't been identified by the fleet yet? I'm sure you don't, let's get that straight off the bat, but that's the only place I know where to start.

[number-eight.livejournal.com]

[Locked]

If we need to talk, I'm here to listen.

Uh, no. Not really. There's five other models, and we don't talk about them. Well, the Cylons don't talk about them, to be more specific. I don't know what they look like -- no one does. Although I heard something from Caprica -- the Cylon prisoner that we have? She said the Model Threes were acting strangely lately, and there was a possibility of boxing the entire line due to the Final Five. That's all I know, really.

Why are you asking me this? Do you know something about them? Is there going to be an attack, or...?

[cpo-galen-tyrol.livejournal.com]

[locked to Sharon]

I want you to know that if you need to break my confidence to do what you think is the right thing, then you shouldn't have to worry about telling someone what I'm about to tell you. Just let me know so I can talk to Cally first. She doesn't deserve to hear this from anyone else but me.

*deep breath* I'm reasonably certain that you're talking to one of them.

[number-eight.livejournal.com]

[Locked]

*laughs* Funny. Very cute. Did someone put you up to this to make me feel bad? Trust me when I say there's plenty that I go through in one day already, and I don't need anymore jokes played on me.

I thought we had moved on and become friends, finally.

[cpo-galen-tyrol.livejournal.com]

[locked]

Look at my face right now.

It's like a switch went on and I just... knew it was true. No warning, no weirdness. One minute I was me, and the next minute... I wasn't.

[number-eight.livejournal.com]

[Locked]

You still look the same to me. There's no possible way that you could be... that would mean that Nicholas would be like Hera.

I wouldn't want any of the trouble that's happened to Hera to happen to your son -- besides, I still don't think you're right. How do you know? How do you really know?

[cpo-galen-tyrol.livejournal.com]

[locked]

Just do. Can't explain. It's like, nothing's changed, but everything's changed. Like, don't expect to join hands with the rest of the models or start believing in one true god or whatever it is they believe in, but I just know. It's not changing what I think or what I believe in or how I feel, but I just... know.

In my heart, or whatever the hell it is in here masquerading as a heart, I know it's true. And it's always been true, I just didn't know it until now.

Now the only question is what do I do about it?

[number-eight.livejournal.com]

[Locked]

You don't do anything stupid the way Boomer did as soon as she found out. I'm still not sure I believe you. It can't be true.

There is one God. That's what I believe, despite what everyone else in the Fleet thinks. I'm in the minority, but since when is that news, right?

I know you'll disagree with me, but your wife deserves to know if this is the truth.

[doc-cottle.livejournal.com]

Do you hate me?

[number-eight.livejournal.com]

I used to. There were times when all I could do was blame you for Hera's death, because I didn't want it to have been some fault of my own. Going into labor too early, not caring for myself the right way which resulted in her "underdeveloped lungs"... and then she was alive. Alive and whole and with the Cylons, and when Admiral Adama told me...

Yes, I wanted to hurt you. You and President Roslin, both. I think it finally went away once I had her back, and you started seeing her. You took care of my daughter when she was sick, and I think that helped heal the anger.

I'm sorry, for what it's worth, for attacking you right after.

[doc-cottle.livejournal.com]

Thank-you.

That helps ...

[admiral-adama.livejournal.com]

Do you have any idea what it was that convinced those first sentient Cylons that humanity had to be exterminated?

OOC to mun: Not necessarily an answerable question, for either you or Sharon, but it's been preying on his mind ever since the fall of the Colonies.