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Hera is mine, mine and Helo's. Nobody is going to take her away from me, ever again. Not after everything that happened during that year when I thought she was dead and I had to have my husband kill me in order to resurrect and get her back. No, I've tried too hard. She belongs with me, and I don't care about the visions that President Roslin and Caprica are sharing with me. I did, at one point, but no. Not now.

It was stupid. I thought I could keep her safe by going on the Demetrius mission with Helo and leaving my daughter in the daycare at Galactica.

Maybe Cally was right. Maybe the only way to keep your child safe is for you yourself to watch over their welfare, always.

I was so tired, and frankly, after all that business with the other Six that came onboard, she scared the frak out of me. How did she know Hera's name? What else did the Cylons know about my daughter that they weren't telling me? Then I saw her, my little girl. I'd had another of those projections of the Opera House, with Hera running away into the arms of a Six. I couldn't stop her. President Roslin couldn't… and she was with Gaius Baltar. The Six just picked up my daughter and walked away with her into some light with our former president.

No. No, I was not going to allow that, but that nightmare usually ended with me screaming. Instead, it ended with me waking to see Hera by my bed, saying, "Bye-bye" to me. In that moment, I wanted to wake Karl up and hold them all close to me. Never let any of them go. Had Hera shared the nightmare? I don't think so, because later when I saw her, there were scribblings, over and over and over in her book of a blonde woman and the number "6". Over and over, until it ended with the image of a small girl holding the blonde's hand and they looked happy.

Then she was gone.

I just ran, chasing after my daughter. I ran into Dee, but she hadn't seen her… I saw Tyrol, but he didn't seem interested… every step I took in the corridors of Galactica reminded me of the hallways of the Opera House on Kobol.

I was going to lose her.

That's when I saw the Six before me, reaching out to hold my daughter. Motherly instinct took over. I could get sent to hack (or worse) for what I was about to do, but it didn't matter. Not as long as Hera was safe.

Colonel Tigh told his men to stand down. I told Tyrol to take Hera away so she wouldn't have to see what her mother was about to do, and once he told me she was gone, I did it. The sidearm that I had pulled out and pointed at the Six went off easily in my hands, without regret or remorse. I didn't think about Caprica in her jail cell, or me, or even Helo. My thoughts were only of Hera. Hera, safe and away from the frakking Cylons who have kept trying to take her away from me.

I shot her twice, and I'd do it the same, all over again.

Nobody takes my daughter. Ever. Again.



Muse: Sharon "Athena" Agathon
Fandom: Misc. TV/"Battlestar Galactica"
Word Count: 561 (not including direct quote)

Date: 2008-05-20 08:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] model-numbersix.livejournal.com
You had no right. What had she done to you except hold Hera? While you were gone, I asked after her time and again, knowing that I would risk my life to save her.

This is how you thank us?

Date: 2008-05-20 08:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] number-eight.livejournal.com
How was I to know which one of "you" was the one in the dream?

It doesn't matter. That Six wanted to start some sort of "treaty" with the fleet, according to her. For all I know, she was using it to try and kidnap my daughter -- yet again.

Hera is my daughter. I want her to have a normal life, not be passed around from Cottle to Roslin to the woman who "raised" her on New Caprica to the Cylons.

If you had a child, you would understand why I feel this way.

Date: 2008-05-20 08:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] model-numbersix.livejournal.com
I understand you all too well.

So be it, Athena.

Date: 2008-05-20 08:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] callsign-helo.livejournal.com
Is she dead?

Date: 2008-05-20 08:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] number-eight.livejournal.com
I don't know. I hope so.

Why do you ask?

Date: 2008-05-20 09:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] callsign-helo.livejournal.com
I wanted to know if I needed to finish the job or not.

Date: 2008-05-20 09:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] number-eight.livejournal.com
I'm sorry for worrying you back on the Demetrius. You know that, right? I chose to go with her, and I don't know now if I made the right choice, and the whole time, I just worried you while Gaeta was getting worse...

Date: 2008-05-21 04:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] callsign-helo.livejournal.com
No, I understood. I didn't really want you to leave, but I also wanted someone on that mission I could absolutely trust, and that's you.

Date: 2008-05-22 05:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] callsign-helo.livejournal.com
Of course. I love you.

Date: 2008-05-22 06:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] number-eight.livejournal.com
I love you, too.

Date: 2008-05-20 09:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cpo-galen-tyrol.livejournal.com
You do realize she was on her way to meet with the Old Man, right?

I'm sorry I didn't get there sooner. It took a minute to realize what the hell was going on. You need to get a grip. She was scared and she wasn't scared of the Six. Frak, that's your child and you raised a gun and you could have so easily shot her. She's old enough to understand, to know what you did. She didn't have to see it to know.

So much for the frakkin' alliance.

He shakes his head.

I'm sorry. I understand how you felt. When the Admiral told me about Cally, all I wanted was the person who had done it in front of me so I could wrap my hands around their neck and snap it like a twig. Turns out all I had to do was look in a mirror.

Now all I have left is Nick and if someone tried to take him away from me... I would've done the same thing.

You know, frak the alliance. It's not gonna work anyway. Even if it would have, it won't now.

I know you probably want Helo, or one of your other friends right now, but if you need to talk, I'm here.

Date: 2008-05-20 09:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] number-eight.livejournal.com
No. I could care less what she was doing. You don't know what it's like, having these images in my head, knowing that it could be the Cylons trying to take her away from me again. No one's trying to take Nicky away from you.

*sighs*

Thank you. For taking care of her for me. It doesn't matter, like you said. Those Cylons... I didn't ever really trust them the way that Kara did.

It's weird how you were right there for me when I needed someone.

Date: 2008-05-20 10:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cpo-galen-tyrol.livejournal.com
I'm sorry if it seems like I'm dumping on you. Just too many things running through my head. Frak. But I understand how you feel and if I don't get my act together soon, they might try to take my son. Maybe he'd be better off.

I don't trust them, either, but I can't get the look on that Six's face out of my head.

Too bad that habit didn't kick in before I drove Cally to suicide.

Frak. I'm doing it again. I didn't mean that I'm not glad I was there for you and Hera. I am. It's just... I miss her. I know you and she didn't have much use for each other, but she was a damn good mechanic, a damn good mother, and a better wife than I ever deserved.

Date: 2008-05-21 07:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] number-eight.livejournal.com
Yeah, you're dumping on me. I promised to talk to you, but frak, you've got lousy timing.

Nicky is better with his family. End of story. We both know that, as parents.

Forget the Six. She wasn't the one who helped me save Hera, anyway. They're different.

Things'll... well, things'll be fine. I hope.

Date: 2008-05-21 07:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cpo-galen-tyrol.livejournal.com
Sorry.

Nick's not Hera. And I'm certainly not Helo. But I'm gonna keep trying.

And I'll be happy to forget about the Six. About the whole frakking thing.

I hope things'll be fine for you. I left fine behind a while ago, I think.

Date: 2008-05-21 07:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] number-eight.livejournal.com
No, he's not. He's not a half-human, half-Cylon child. I can't imagine the problems Hera will have growing up.

And I'm not Boomer.

We can only do what we believe is right now.

Date: 2008-05-22 10:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cpo-galen-tyrol.livejournal.com
Uh.. Yeah. I guess you're right.

[locked]

Frak! I hadn't even thought of that!

[/locked]

Don't. Just don't. If I start thinking about Boomer too, I'll really go nuts.

What is right is a matter of opinion. And it gets even murkier when we bring belief into it. You and I might think what you did was right, and so do a lot of other people. But you think the Admiral's going to throw you a party?

Date: 2008-05-22 04:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] number-eight.livejournal.com
No, he probably won't.

Then again, if it had been about one of his children, I guarantee he would have done the same thing I did. Any parent would.

Date: 2008-05-21 12:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] leobenconoy.livejournal.com
Her name is Natalie; use it. For a Cylon so determined to have others see her as an individual, as something other than just another Eight, you're really frakkin' quick to pass judgment. It's like you want the claim to yourself, the one who defied her nature and any possible programming. In order for you to be 'different' the rest of us have to be exactly the same.

She was there for peaceful reasons, not take Hera away from you. On the other hand, Laura did take her away, all we did was find her. Why didn't you shoot her?

God. There's no Resurrection Ship out here. If she dies... that's it.

Date: 2008-05-21 12:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cpo-galen-tyrol.livejournal.com
Now you know how we've been living ever since you slaughtered most of the human race.

Doesn't feel too good, does it?

Date: 2008-05-21 01:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] leobenconoy.livejournal.com
She isn't part of that 'we'; she's one of ours. So, no. I don't know what it's like to have a different race slowly eliminating us. I just know I've seen enough of my own kind slaughtering each other.

If she were a Colonial, I'm not saying her actions would have been justified there either, but I'd know better than to be vocal about it.

Date: 2008-05-21 02:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cpo-galen-tyrol.livejournal.com
I've seen it from both sides of the fence. Cylons come en masse with nukes and slaughter billions of people. We run, you chase us. We find a place to hide, you find us.

Then we turn against each other. The Resistance, the New Caprican police, any of that ring a bell? Then we come back together.

[locked to Leoben]

I can't believe I'm about to say this, but I think I understand what you mean. We've been there. We've been individualistic, unique, for so long that fighting amongst ourselves is normal. Of course there's going to be disharmony, disagreement, because you don't all think the same way anymore.

We don't always react well to our differences, human beings, I mean, but we've learned to find some sort of middle ground between being clones of each other and constantly killing each other.

[/locked]

Date: 2008-05-21 04:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] leobenconoy.livejournal.com
To be fair, I don't think any member of the New Caprican police was out for the blood of his or her own. I stayed out of as much as I could, but from what I understand, they were led to believe that they were helping. Anyone not wearing one of those uniforms probably had a hard time seeing it that way, which is understandable.

[locked to Tyrol]

There's no middle ground here, not that I can see, not that Cavil will allow. We're two parts of a former whole that's been splintered well beyond repair.

[locked]

Date: 2008-05-21 07:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] number-eight.livejournal.com
Yeah, I heard this story from the Eights on your ship. I'm the first one to say "no"; I'm different. Well, I'm not a leader, and neither are you. God, just... stop treating me different and leave my daughter alone. It's not that much to ask for.

[Locked to Leoben]

You think I didn't want to shoot Roslin, too? You think I'm not tired of everyone -- human or Cylon -- saying they're here for peace and then using Hera for their own purpose?

[/Locked]

And if I die, that's it. It's called mortality. I thought that was what you wanted.

Date: 2008-05-21 09:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] leobenconoy.livejournal.com
It's not. And had Natalie been aboard Galactica, determined to take Hera from you, then you could bask in the glow of knowing you thwarted her plan. But she wasn't.

[locked to Athena]

But you didn't. There is no further argument needed than that.

[locked]

It is what we want. It's not likely that this is how she wanted to realize it, though. Punished for a crime she didn't commit.

Date: 2008-05-22 04:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] number-eight.livejournal.com
I thought only Caprica had a "name" amongst the Sixes.

[Locked to Leoben]

Shut the frak up. You want me to shoot you next? Just... *sighs*

[/Locked]

And how was I supposed to know whether or not she would commit it? How do you expect us to trust you, really trust you? You say we unbox the Threes and she'll identify the Final Five who'll take us to Earth. What if she doesn't?

This whole thing is frakked up. I don't care how you try and rationalize it. You have no idea what I'm feeling right now unless you actually felt something for Kacey like Kara told me you might have.

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