elite_muses #36 - Photograph

[number_eight]

Here, choose a favorite picture. It could be a screencap, promo image, candid, anything involving your muse. Muses, explain why this picture is important and why it was chosen.





I think this is just about my favorite picture, ever.

The two most important people in the whole frakking galaxy, together finally? How could it not?

I didn't get to hold Hera. Doc Cottle had said her lungs were too small, that she'd been born prematurely, and then came the lie. President Roslin had her "killed", and I grieved for over a year. Helo... well, I'm not sure exactly how he felt. Probably the same as me, but it was a topic we just didn't talk about. Hera had been special in more ways than one, so to lose her?

Yeah. Not talking about it was the best.

I asked Helo to kill me once we were in range of a Resurrection Ship and I knew for certain that my plan would work. Boomer had told me she was alive, Three had told me, but I hadn't believed them. Not until Admiral Adama confirmed that she was alive on the Cylon Baseship near us did I even dare to hope. Hope makes you do desperate things, though, so when I woke up taking deep breaths, surrounded by other Cylons, all I knew was I had to see my daughter. I had to.

I never even thought about my husband. Again.

Luckily, I was able to escape with Caprica's help back to Galactica with a very sick, but quite alive Hera in my arms. As I saw Helo standing there, I wanted to tell him so many things, about how selfish I'd been in my depression, how I'd shut him out of our shared grief, but instead? I handed Hera to him.

Finally, finally, he got to hold his daughter. Our daughter. And the smile on his face let me know that despite all the frakking mistakes I'd made along the way, everything was going to be okay.


Muse : Sharon "Athena" Agathon
Fandom : Misc. TV/"Battlestar Galactica"
Word Count : 307

Comments

[stuck-in-cic.livejournal.com]

They're beautiful, Sharon.

[number-eight.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Dee. I have the picture on the table in our quarters so I can see them every time I wake up.

[arrow-of-apollo.livejournal.com]

I've never seen Helo look so happy. You've got a hell of a family, and you do a hell of a job looking out for them.

OOC: Great choice!

[number-eight.livejournal.com]

Yeah, when he cracks a smile, it's always a huge one.

Thanks, Apollo. I do my best.

[leobenconoy.livejournal.com]

OOC: Oh my god, the cute! It kills x_x Leoben wants one... *sniffs*

[stuck-in-cic.livejournal.com]

[leobenconoy.livejournal.com]

OOC: They are! Or, well, could have been! It's strange but adorable and, and, and...I don't care how underplayed it was in the show; Leoben loved his little stolen pop-tart! He could totally do the domestic thing...in his fake apartment that creepy built. Starbuck would obviously just have to have been one of those stay-at-home mommies, which WORKS in real life >.< He's NOT an unrealistic guy!

[number-eight.livejournal.com]

[leobenconoy.livejournal.com]

OOC: It's all part of my super-secret-only-not-so-secret-now-because-I'm-telling-you plan to make him more relateable and less "omg! crazy, stalker guy!" Even if, yeah, he's still that, too. But, uh, he's a crazy, stalker guy with a heart? ^_^* And those are always hard to dislike.

[stuck-in-cic.livejournal.com]