they never told you it was like this

[brainsqueeze]

CHARACTERS: Maria Hill + anyone boozing up for Shepard + Javik
LOCATION: Space bar
WARNINGS: Swearing + manly tears
SUMMARY: A 'wake' for Lydia Shepard and Javik
NOTES: Be sad, drink and mingle??

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[cabins]

[Obviously? Laura raises an eyebrow. Is it... is it that obvious? Gods, she hopes not. Not when she can't really figure anything out herself.

It is hard being old with a crush, everyone. She doesn't recommend it.]

Well, the leader of the political government, and the leader of the military need to learn to see eye-to-eye, don't they?

[Another drink.]

We came to respect each other, after seeing what the other was capable of. I told you how I was 42nd in line for office. He didn't seem to think that a school teacher was capable of leading the fleet.

[brainsqueeze]

It's a big step up.

( Particularly being 42nd in line. No doubt the other 41 had fallen, leaving Laura in the small numbers that she'd mentioned. Obviously she was capable of doing the job, even if that wouldn't have been everyone's first opinion. A new job always came with difficulties until you settled, though. This was one of them )

How bad did the stand off get?

[cabins]

[She takes a drink, smirking over the mouth of her bottle.]

He had me removed from office and imprisoned, for doing what I believed would lead us all to Earth, even if it was against his orders.

[brainsqueeze]

Were you right about what you were doing?

( Would it have lead to Earth? That wasn't quite so much the important thing as to what happened after. Clearly he reinstated her )

[cabins]

Yes, yes I was.

[Oh, and she's proud of it.]

I sent Starbuck back to Caprica, to find the Arrow of Apollo. I sent her, as I knew she was the best viper pilot, and the most capable of doing such a thing. May she rest in peace, I was proven right.

[brainsqueeze]

( About 95% of that went over Maria's head, other than someone being lost in the cause. Why was someone always lost for a cause - a good, right cause? )

What did you prove?

[cabins]

That not only was Kara Thrace an incredibly competent pilot, and individual, but that the scrolls of Pythia were truly on to something, in regards to the location of Earth.

[brainsqueeze]

How close are you to finding Earth?

[cabins]

That's the problem. We have no way of knowing until we're there. We were stalled for near a year, when we found a planet that could sustain us.

[brainsqueeze]

That would be a problem. ( Particularly when you were stalled and lost time. Although if the planet had been able to sustain them, and it had been for a year, maybe it hadn't been that bad ) What was the planet?

[cabins]

We called it New Caprica. We remained there while Doctor Gaius Baltar [You can feel the disdain] was our president.

[brainsqueeze]

( There's a small frown, a flicker of confusion ) I thought that was you. ( Now is that disdain for the man or because he became president? )

[cabins]

I am president, yes.

I was made president only after all others before me were lost. Subsequently, I was only due to serve the rest of President Adar's term. Doctor Baltar was elected in a very close election. But not long after settling on New Caprica, we were found by the Cylons. Baltar immediately surrendered to them. After a year, there was an exodus, and Baltar was taken by the Cylons as a conspirator.

His vice president, and my former vice president, handed the role over to me, in a move that was considered the best for our remaining colonials.

[brainsqueeze]

I get the impression that you would have done things differently.

( Maria doesn't know too much about the Cylons other than what Laura had told her but Laura was a strong character. Resistance seemed more likely than surrender )

You left the planet?

[cabins]

I would never have surrendered.

[Or a million other things. God damn it, Baltar. You fucked everything up. And then you got to live AND a cult devoted to you and your Cylon god.

Point of interest: he also got a three-some with blonde!Xena and Caprica. Not fair.]

It was our only option. We agreed to push forward, to find Earth.

[brainsqueeze]

( The most unfair )

Then I hope you'll be given the opportunity to get there.

( It could take a while before she went missing, her and her Admiral Adama, but if it did happen they would hopefully be back where they needed to be, and they could finish their journey. They had to get to Earth )

[cabins]

Thank you. I do, as well.

If we ever do make it to Earth, I am liable not to live to see it.