Title: Last – Epsilon Sentence Ficlet
Author: Monti
Date: July 16, 2007
Rating: PG
Pairing: Lee/Kara
Word Count: 286
Category: Drama
Warnings: None
Spoilers: Through Exodus
Author's Note: Just wanted to try some thing a little different so I pulled out the sentence sets.
Additional Note: Kara's point of view.
Summary: Watching a planet burn can make one reflect on past mistakes.
04 – Last
She was the last one off the planet, their frakked up new home, and while looking down at the surface she muttered a final 'good riddance'.
LAST
As the Raptor lifted off, Kara stood watching the black smoke roll off the burning piles of rubble. She couldn't say she was sorry to see the end of New Caprica…not with what she'd been through…but she wasn't sure she could face returning to Galactica either. It didn't seem to matter where she was…a path of destruction always followed along behind.
Kara couldn't seem to escape it. Even now. She was the last one off the planet, their frakked up new home, and while looking down at the surface she muttered a final 'good riddance'. It didn't matter that she'd had nothing to do with the Cylons showing up…to her it just showed that she failed at everything.
New Caprica was only one more thing to add to the list.
Because she'd failed before settling on the planet.
Way before.
For as long as Kara could remember she'd let the people she loved down. Nothing she did ever measured up. She was never enough.
She was constantly screwing up.
Her mother.
Biggest disappointment of the woman's life.
Zak.
Cut his time way too short.
The Old Man.
Never could replace what he lost.
Sam.
Married her based on a lie.
And Lee.
Lee…she'd failed in the worst way. By killing any chance they had before it even got started.
But the gods were having the last laugh.
Because regardless of everything she'd tried…leaving the military and marrying Sam…
…no matter what she'd been through…being held captive and finding out about Casey…
…she couldn't forget her love for Lee.
It was always there in her head and heart.
And because it was…
…it meant living with the knowledge that she'd failed herself most of all.
FIN