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Accidental truths

I feel reality shifting around me and I know this is it. I am really leaving this time and I won't be coming back. In fact I barely have time for one last goodbye. I am hoping Lee, the Old Man and everyone else I've come to know and care about will be fine but I know I'll be seeing them soon... and not just because human lives are so painful and so painfully short.

A part of me feels almost sad at that thought but as I fade away I realize how futile grief would be.

I remember everything now. I know who I am and I know what I am. I know I will be seeing them soon so there is no point in mourning them. I know my work here is done. I played my part and I brought my children home but even as I let go of the mirage that has been my life for the past couple of decades, a stray memory crosses my mind, one that dates back to the beginning of our journey.

'The pilots refer to me as Starbuck but you can call me God', my own words echo through my mind... a flip comment made without much thought. Funny how accurate it turned out to be.

THE END

From the Rg-Veda (X, cxxix: 'In the Beginning...')

Only he wo is its overseer in highest heaven knows.
[Only he knows,] or perhaps he does not know !


Author's notes (contains spoilers for the show's finale): Hi guys, okay this is me ranting about the finale. First of all I have to say that there were some things I liked and some I disliked but personally I would have preferred it if it had ended after the scene with Adama, Tigh, Cottle, Hoshi and Baltar on the grass. Of course, that wouldn't really solve the fact that that final 'twist' created a huge, retroactive plot-hole (the whole 'Tomb of Athena' thing suddenly makes no sense at all) but it would at least have mitigated dozens of mistakes having to do with history, geography and other sciences that became apparent just by watching the blasted thing once.

Anyway, this ficlet was just a crazy idea that wouldn't leave me alone, now that I've gotten it out of my system I will go back to pretending that the whole thing ended with Adama and company watching the natives (though of course that doesn't mean I don't want to hear from you).

Take care and thanks for reading (and reviewing, of course),

Alec