The Alphabet Series
This was a little experiment, inspired by bsgrpapollo's '50 sentences' about Lee,Kara and Adama. I know there are a few of those floating around livejournals, so I decided to try one something like it myself. I tend to think more in letters (primarily the first 7 letters which are the musical alphabet) but I tried to do all 26. This one is from Lee's point of view. There will be another set from Kara's.Lee
A - Admiration
He was loathe to admit it but she was a much better pilot than he, counting on instinct and intuition to get her through every tough situation.
B - Beauty
He watched her when he didn't think she saw him, and though she would sooner die than agree with him, he thought her scars were the most beautiful thing about her. They showed she was human.
C - Confidence
Something she seemed to have in spades, though he knew that if you found just the right spot, her confidence faded away and only vulnerability existed.
D - Dogtag
A pang of jealousy like a jagged hunting knife tore through his heart every time he looked at her and saw the missing tag she'd given him.
E - Enjoyment
Her capacity for enjoying life was surpassed by no one. If life was all about indulging in the sins of the flesh, then she was definitely going to die a happy woman.
F - Fractured
Not only did it describe what had happened to her knee when she crash-landed on the moon, it was the perfect word to describe his life when he realized he was going to have to go on without her.
G - Gun
No one had better aim than her - a fact he knew well from personal experience. Had he not chosen that exact moment to spring into action, she'd have had the hostage taker clearly through the heart. Her verbal shots didn't wound any less accurately most of the time either.
H - Heat
The way his body responded every time she was nearby made a sauna feel chilly. Her presence almost literally burned him alive sometimes.
I - Ice
She had only two emotions - hot as fire and cold as ice. Either could destroy with only a brief glance.
J - Joke
She was such a fan of practical jokes, and she got him every time. He pretended to be angry but inside he loved that she cared enough to bother.
K - Karl
Just what it was she shared with Karl Agathon - aka Helo - he'd never understand. It was like friendship but more. Like lovers but less. Whatever it was, she was completely comfortable with it, even though the thought of it disturbed him.
L - Love
Love. Something two frakked up souls like theirs could never quite comprehend, much as they kept on trying.
M - Midnight
The time of day he knew she liked best. The ship was quiet, almost devoid of activity and it was easy to believe you were the only person left in the universe.
N - Nothing
He was only too happy to let go and leave the shackles of life behind. To descend into the nothingness that surrounded him and become a part of it. Until he remembered her.
O - Overreacting
Why was it that when anyone else did something wrong he could shrug it off but when it was her he went through the roof?
P - Punch
Something she was only too willing to give and he only too willing to return. Letting their feelings out physically had always been easier for both of them than talking.
Q - Quarry
She was definitely a predator, you could see it by the gleam in her hazel-green eyes. Beware to any man who was her prey. On the other hand, he'd never heard any of the men she'd captured complaining afterwards.
R - Raider
In the beginning he loved it - it was what had saved her from dying on that inhospitable chunk of rock, but now it was her set of wings, her way to escape and know she couldn't be followed. Now, he hated it.
S - Samuel
Samuel T. Anders. A name heretofore unknown to him, not being much of a pyramid fan, but now very familiar. The man who'd taken his place in her heart.
T - Timing
He had the worst timing of anyone in the twelve colonies. Always, he discovered too late that what he'd just let go of was what he really wanted.
U - Ugly
He knew women found him attractive physically, but he couldn't understand why. Inside, he was ugly, not anything like his namesake Apollo, whose beauty radiated outwards from his inner soul.
V - Victory
Victory was theirs to share. They fought, killed and celebrated the victory together - every time.
W - Waiting
Those two weeks were the longest he'd ever lived through in his entire life, and he knew while suffering, that if she ever came back in one piece he wouldn't make her wait for those three words he needed to say to her.
X - X-ray
Half his lung had been torn apart in the accidental shooting - a freak accident that had changed his life forever. And hers too.
Y - Yell
He wanted to scream at her - make her say something, but all she did was just look at him with unreadable eyes, uncharacteristically silent for her.
Z - Zack
Zack. Zachary Adama, his younger brother. The one thing that bound him and her together, yet kept them apart. It was sad that a man who inspired such love when he was alive could inspire such discord in death.
TBC