Author: Deathsheadx
Word Count: 1861
Rating: T
Characters: Tigh, Adama Boomer, Caprica Sharon
Date Posted: 01/09/2006
Category: AU Stories
Story Timeline: Second Season
Spoilers: Season one and Season two
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: CHOICES AND CONCEQUENCES
By Deathsheadx
A/n this is an AU which deviates from the canon at the shooting of boomer by cally in this story boomer managed to survive the shooting.
Chapter 1
Boomer sat in her cell looking at the woman in the cell opposite her.
"Its rude to stare," she softly said to boomer
Boomer grimaced "you even sound like me! Gods… this is soo hard!" she said
"What's hard?" said Cylon Sharon
"Accepting this! Accepting I'm a cylon!"
"You think that's hard? Try this on for size, I know who I am, I've always known and I wish now more than ever I was human."
"You wish you were human?"
"Yes if I was human I would have to worry that I will never see Helo again, that they won't experiment on my baby. If I was human it wouldn't bother me when I killed those Cylons."
Boomer sighed "frak! This its so damn confusing, I should hate you, I really should but I'm just grateful to be alive."
"Why?"
"A couple of weeks back I was shot by Cally of all people I nearly died well they say I died and then came back."
"You wouldn't of died either way."
"What?"
"Cylons don't die that easily you see our consciousness is transferred to a new body when our current body expires… unless they box you."
"Box?"
"When they annex renegade persona's lock them away… that will probably happen to me if I die."
"You? Why?"
"Well with you they will say it's a glitch and try to fix your mind if they cant they'll box you but with me I'm a traitor. I consciously betrayed them for Helo, for my baby."
Boomer sighed, "Helo…I feel guilty you know, for leaving him behind."
"I have your memories up to a point and I… I its strange sometimes I go into your state of mind I think like you in those moments I feel guilt."
Boomer nodded.
"Boomer you have a visitor." Said the guard
Boomer looked to the side to see chief Tyrol "chief." she said, her voice filled with pain "I'm sorry you shouldn't come see me."
"I… I can't help it," said Tyrol "you're on my mind all the time. When you nearly died I didn't see a cylon, I saw my Sharon, my boomer dying in my arms but I don't understand this. Please explain it to me."
"May I explain?" said Sharon.
Tyrol and boomer looked over at the other cell "I'm listening," said Tyrol
"Its about choices and control. Boomer never had a choice in her predicament she was created just like other Cylons were but she was made to believe a life a reality that wasn't true she thought she was human she believed it completely. boomer is loyal to the colonies to Adama, she loves you. However she had no choice in shooting Adama like a post hypnotic suggestion she was made to shoot Adama. She neither wanted or desired what happened she had no control over her body in that instant. Its funny really I think the Cylons did a better job than they expected."
"What do you mean?"
"They wanted your Sharon, boomer to act like a human to infiltrate the colonies."
"The thing is boomer doesn't think like a cylon they made her think like a human all her choices her feelings are human."
Tyrol sighed "I can't see her as a cylon," he said ruefully.
"Don't then, see her as what she is, someone you love." said Sharon
"You seem to be pushing the love agenda a lot," muttered boomer."
"Love is the only thing I have now. I thought I knew what love was as a cylon but Helo changed all that. For Helo I betrayed all I had believed in I find I can no longer stomach the path I had followed to this point" said Sharon.
Tyrol was deep in thought as he tried to rationalise it all he tried to reconcile what he knew with what he wished was true his thoughts drifted back to the history books he remembered the story of the terrorist cells that had existed in the colonies past, he remembered the red dagger cell they had used a horrifying form of attack they would kidnap civilians and brainwash them into sleeper agents/saboteurs and when the time was right they would activate the brainwashed civilians…
As Tyrol thought about this he finally had a way to rationalise boomer. She was a victim. a victim of brainwashing. It didn't matter to him that she was born cylon the other Sharon was born cylon and chose to fight against her people. To him boomer was brainwashed into committing those heinous acts if it wasn't her will, her choice, then she was innocent. "Boomer" he said softly "I don't care what you did you weren't responsible, what I care about is that you're safe, that you're alive I love you boomer and this time I'm not letting you go I'll stick with you and help you deal with this."
Tears came to boomers eyes as she smiled
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Tyrol sat in the mess hall he looked across to see Cally. Cally had been avoiding him since she had been let out of the brig for discharging a firearm of course that was just a cover for what she had really done, attempted murder. She knew it, and so did he. No matter how she tried to justify it she took it upon herself to kill boomer. But he couldn't let Cally rot in a cell not after kobol so he had made sure her sentence was light.
Once again choices. He chose not to be vengeful, to help Cally instead of hurting her for what she had done, he just hoped she wouldn't make him regret it. He looked round to see Helo sitting by himself he got up and walked over to Helo's table "budge up." said Tyrol
Helo looked up "Galen?"
"Hey Karl," he said sitting down "I'm guessing that you have the same thing on your mind as me. The girls we love."
Helo sighed "I'm so confused chief. I'm in love with a cylon."
"So am I, but I don't see boomer as a cylon she feels, just like your Sharon feels, they love us and we love them. In my book, in the long run that's all that matters to me."
"Toaster lovers." came a murmur from the table next to Tyrol and Helo.
Tyrol turned round "what of it? I love boomer I'm not going to deny it!"
"What the frak he admits it!" said a viper pilot "frakin traitor!"
Tyrol got up, "I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that." He looked at Helo "I've got to get back to work, see you around?"
Helo nodded and continued to consume his meal.
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Adama sat in his office drumming his fingers on the table he looked at the report in front of him.
She was alive.
After all this time he had found her again he knew where she was. He pondered his next course of action. Prometheus she was on the Prometheus which was off the grid as they say he couldn't just barge in she had rejected him and there was also the fact that he had no idea how lee would react.
Adama sighed there were no easy answers. He heard a knock at the door
"Bill its me." came a voice through the door
"Come in Saul said commander Adama as the door opened to reveal Saul Tigh."
"What's the problem bill? I mean you were reading over the latest dispatches and then you excused yourself and locked yourself in your room!"
"Cammi."
"W-wha? Cammi's alive?"
"She's on the Prometheus."
"Well frak me. I'm guessing you want to reconcile?"
"You know I do, Saul but then there's the effect on my position, on lee"
"To be honest bill, screw lee."
"What?"
"The kid is frakked up throwing in with Roslin like some starry-eyed child and as much as he likes to deny it he spends the rest of his time trying to spite you making him too blind to see the big picture. he may be your son but he's got to learn his place. He's your son bill, not your boss."
Adama sighed, "What are we going to do about the two Cylons Saul?" said Adama changing the subject
"Part of me wanted to flush them out the airlock."
"Wanted?" Said commander Adama in surprise "want to tell me why that changed?"
Tigh sighed "after I got over my initial anger I couldn't accept that Sharon would betray us like that I've talked to her, worked with her it didn't make sense to me I wondered if I could of spotted her sooner, so I went over my memories of boomer, I went over video footage I compared her to the new cylon Sharon and you know what I found?"
"I'm guessing it's the same thing I found."
"There's no way she could fake for that long she truly believed she was human it makes me wish there was a way to salvage boomer from the cylon." sighed Tigh
"I try to imagine how I would feel if one minute I was human only to discover in the next minute I'm everything I hated." said commander Adama
"It's a horrible feeling," nodded Tigh. "As for the other cylon I was already to flush her but when I heard she was pregnant I can't justify such an act that baby she's carrying is half human. It's also an innocent. I'm not ready to ad infancide to my list of sins just yet."
"Me neither. But you know the colonies civilians wont stand for this for too long they'll demand we destroy them."
"The civilian fleet should shut up," said Tigh "they don't respect us, they make demands of us without giving anything back."
"I hear you, but this isn't like the first war, this is a war we've already lost. To a large extent"
"Don't talk like that bill!"
"Saul, from a population in the billions, 40 thousand humans are left. We're low on resources, we have a president who's dying and a vice president who's a cowardly snake, we're constantly on the run, hoping we find the fabled 13th colony and we have no idea who the other human form Cylons are."
"It's a frakfest!" swore Tigh "We need some luck, some serious luck if we're going to get out of this."
"No what we need is to take the bull by the horns Saul," said commander Adama with a thoughtful expression on his face
"I know that look bill," said Tigh with a slight smile "what are you planning?"
"We've got to get serious about survival Saul. Not Roslin's vision of survival. I mean true survival. "
"Well bill lets have it" said Tigh.