number_eight | 265 - What did you dream last night?

The dead don't dream.

She smiles to herself as she thinks about it, watching the others aboard the Raptor sleep peacefully in order to conserve air, before she kills them, one by one. It was all to survive. Survival is the most important thing, she tries to tell Felix, her Felix, the Felix who has changed since she saw him last and who now takes morpha to ease the pain of his leg but is never able to touch the pain in his heart.

She wonders if they had a dream at all before each one died, and then that thought vanishes into the stars along with the trust that the human had placed in her. Oh, Felix! Felix, why must you be so blind? There's a slight curve of her lips as she recounts the tale and tells him that he is the true traitor.

He is the one who had given her the lists of people to die back on New Caprica, while she had made sure only a small number of them lived so he could keep giving her more lists of humans.

The horror on his face is almost worth the trouble she's gone through. War. They were at war then, she tells him, and she was doing her job. Still, he doesn't understand. Then she whispers a name.

Gaius Baltar.

The look of recognition on Felix's face is enough, and she knows he finally understands the truth. What she never finds out, though, is exactly what Felix is remembering. What is he thinking of, in that flash of shock? That moment of clarity?

Yes, Felix knows he is an unwilling collaborator, but he's known that all along. He remembers a talk with Gaius Baltar, the man he so often admired, and he is shaken to the core from the whispered words in Baltar's jail cell... words that she never hears.

"I know what your Eight did."

A pen flashed and stabbed the man in the neck after hearing those words, and because she doesn't know, she never understands why Felix takes a scalpel and stabs her in the same spot on her neck. The blood drips to the floor, and all she can think of is...

The dead don't dream.

Muse: Sharon/Number Eight
Fandom: Misc. TV/"Battlestar Galactica"
Word Count: 389, not including direct quote.