222 - Sleeping on the couch
Mar. 17th, 2008 01:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
number_eight[Locked from Helo]
Helo doesn't know, but I can tell when he's moved out of our bed and onto the couch. I don't blame him; they've shoved so many different jobs at him lately that I'm surprised that he's managed to stay sane.
Our marriage isn't as bad as other people onboard Galactica,like Major Adama and Lieutenant Dualla, or Kara and Sam but we still have our problems. At first, I thought it was anything dealing with Hera or the fact that I'm a Cylon, but I think (and I could be wrong) that it's more of outside sources forcing pressure on us. Typically, our day starts out fairly normal. We wake up (and he always sleeps on the outside of the bed while I'm right up against the cold of the wall), and we figure out who has to take Hera to daycare. Then, we kiss and we're off to our own jobs – his, though, has been in Dogsville lately.
I feel bad for him. There's nothing I can do to make him feel better. He's gone from ECO to XO and practically everything in-between. But his job at Dogsville? He hates it with a passion. It keeps him up at night, and he ends up on the couch in our personal quarters, staring off while he thinks I'm asleep.
It's funny. We've slept at a make-shift campfire site on Caprica together just fine. We've slept in a hammock. The floor… our racks back before we had our personal quarters.
Back before I was Athena and married, back when my memories take me to Boomer and the crush that Helo had on her
These days, the hardest place for us to sleep comfortably is our own bed. I wonder, at times, if I should stop feigning sleep and just join him on the couch. Maybe then, he'd know that yes, his job sucks, but its no reason to get so upset about it. All of us have our problems.
You never see me trying to sleep on our couch, after all.
Muse : Sharon "Athena" Agathon
Fandom : Misc. TV/"Battlestar Galactica"
Word Count : 343
Helo doesn't know, but I can tell when he's moved out of our bed and onto the couch. I don't blame him; they've shoved so many different jobs at him lately that I'm surprised that he's managed to stay sane.
Our marriage isn't as bad as other people onboard Galactica,
I feel bad for him. There's nothing I can do to make him feel better. He's gone from ECO to XO and practically everything in-between. But his job at Dogsville? He hates it with a passion. It keeps him up at night, and he ends up on the couch in our personal quarters, staring off while he thinks I'm asleep.
It's funny. We've slept at a make-shift campfire site on Caprica together just fine. We've slept in a hammock. The floor… our racks back before we had our personal quarters.
Back before I was Athena and married, back when my memories take me to Boomer and the crush that Helo had on her
These days, the hardest place for us to sleep comfortably is our own bed. I wonder, at times, if I should stop feigning sleep and just join him on the couch. Maybe then, he'd know that yes, his job sucks, but its no reason to get so upset about it. All of us have our problems.
You never see me trying to sleep on our couch, after all.
Muse : Sharon "Athena" Agathon
Fandom : Misc. TV/"Battlestar Galactica"
Word Count : 343
