I read the following quote in a magazine this summer and immediately thought of Laura. This is just a small, angsty, slightly AU, glance at our favorite couple. Please let me know what you think. (Used kleenex in my inbox would be the highest compliment. lol)
BSG and all the character belongs to Ron Moore and the Sci Fi channel.
"Cry politely. Do not cry like a horse…if you must say mean things, say them in a delicate, lovely voice, the same voice you used to say "I love you", the same voice you used when you made promises you really did intend to keep."
-Rules for Saying Goodbye, Katherine Taylor
As president of the twelve colonies, Laura Roslin had kept her heart locked away where it could not interfere with her duties – where it could not get broken. During her brief respite from the presidency, she made the very grave mistake of taking her heart from its hiding place and offering it to the one man who knew its true value. The one man whose own heart she treasured above all else.
But the day came when Laura had to return her heart to its hidden shelter – or risk losing it to the horrors of her reality. On that day, Laura calmly returned Bill's heart with a gentle smile and some quiet words, words that cut all the deeper for their being so sweetly said. She revealed no more of her pain than a slight mist in her eyes as she rebuilt the barriers between her heart and his. Just as she had once daydreamed aloud about a future for them, so she crushed those dreams irrevocably in a soft and lovely voice. Her heart was dying slowly within its sheltered walls as she ended their love in the same delicate voice she used when she first said, "I love you", when she first made all the promises she thought she could keep.