ficlet: BSG, Helo, Hera, post-Daybreak

[lyssie]

Happy Birthday, Sbabe.

(fluffy fluff is fluffy)

Karl Agathon woke to the sound of his daughter giggling. Rolling up into a sitting position, he peered into the dim light of their hut, trying to find her. When that failed, he got up and headed for the doorway, rubbing the sleep from his eyes.

There was no spark of terror at the lack of Hera. That was taking getting used to, but after a year, he was sort of enjoying it.

"Hera?" He called softly, trying not to wake Sharon.

His daughter was chasing an invisible something around and around in a circle in front of their hut. She paused when he spoke, looking towards him and waving before returning to her pursuit, still giggling.

If Karl squinted, he could see nothing. He rubbed his eyes again, wondering if it were a butterfly or something similar. Hera had a fascination with them which sometimes worried him. After she'd brought four home, he'd had to tell her to stop. They couldn't have butterflies constantly in and out of their hut, and dead ones weren't as pretty.

Something smacked into his chest, spraying him with water.

"The frak?" he sputtered, eyes wide as he tried to find the source. Hera was clapping and giggling, dancing in a circle, her hands in the air.

Swiping his hands down his chest, Karl found a piece of rubber that looked suspiciously like a balloon. But who the hell would have water balloons on Earth of all places? He shook his head, "Hera, this isn't funny. Come back inside."

"Funny!" Was Hera's objection, though she danced over to him and leaned into his hip, her head turned up as she smiled at him.

Kid was getting taller every day, it seemed like. Sharon sometimes joked that she'd grow tall enough to surpass both of them. Karl ruffled her hair and sighed, "Where'd you get the water balloon, Hera?"

Shaking her head, Hera grinned and looked back out into the clearing, pointing with one hand at nothing.

Karl started to say something else and then paused. Just for an instant, he could swear he saw Kara Thrace standing there, laughing at him, water balloon in her hand as though just waiting for him to turn his back.

Then she was gone, and Karl glanced up at the sunlight, almost reflexively.

"Not funny, Starbuck."

It wasn't her. Kara was dead and gone. But maybe Hera was learning to project. Sharon had told him about projection once. He wasn't sure he'd ever want to try it, but Hera was young enough to enjoy the fiction. Absently, he fiddled with the piece of rubber, then dropped it.

"C'mon, let's wake up your mom, ok?"

"'K."

Hera was giggling before she pounced on Sharon, tickling her. Karl grinned as he watched them, Sharon so gentle with her daughter, her eyes filled with happiness, despite the primitive conditions they lived in. Maybe someday they'd regret it. But for now, the simple things in life wre more than enough.

Comments

[mamaboolj.livejournal.com]

Very cute!

I can't help but wonder if some archeologist finds the balloon 150,000 years later too ;)

[sabaceanbabe.livejournal.com]

*sniffle*

This is beautiful, Lys. I love it and that Hera can see Kara and interact with her and OMG WATER BALLOONS FTW! :)

[frolicndetour.livejournal.com]

Fluffy fluff is good! They're so adorable. <3

[samstareagle.livejournal.com]

Oh yes!!! In my fandom I imagine that Hera can interact with A LOT of "crossed over" characters that everybody else thinks are her "imaginary friends"...;)

Cute...:)

[mrsdrjackson.livejournal.com]

SO CUTE OMG. <33333

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

But it is her birthday, and she should get loads of presents! ';]

Thank you =)

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Thank you =)

You are giving me bad Stargate crossover ideas now. *amused*

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Awww. Thank you!

of course Hera can see Kara! (Nicky can, too--suck it, Ron)

;]

And other people maybe can, depending on if God is feeling capricious that day.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

heee. Thank you =)

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

*snerk* Thank you. =)

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Thank you =)

And it's my belief that all hybrids have that touch of 'otherness', so to speak. In another culture, she might just be a seer, or a witch or a wise-woman.

But right now, she's just a child.

[rhianona]

sbabe's birthday is to hour benefit. THis is adorable and cute!

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Heee. Thank you =)

[raincitygirl.livejournal.com]

Aaaaawwwwwww! Auntie Starbuck would so bust through little problems like physics to throw water balloons at the living!

[noybusiness.livejournal.com]

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

If I lived on a cloud, I think I would drop water balloons.

[samstareagle.livejournal.com]

EXACTLY... Which is why I have no problem totally flipping around the show and saying that Kobol was the first NEW home of the original race from Earth, and for a time "the Gods and men lived together"...and then God/Not-God screwed it up for everybody, and it all started...the original Cylons flew off under God/Not-God's deranged guidance, and the Humans flew off to the Colonies guided by the dwindling few who still had the ability to project, to see over to the "beyond" and exist in harmony with the universe around them via their crossed over ancestors, i.e., the LOK, the original race from Earth. (Which helps to explain Kara;s Dad...he was FROM Earth and materialized long enough to create Kara and teach her the way back...and somewhere along the line got taught Sam the same song ;) )

Seriously, Hera is able to see and even interact with all these people that "died" as Humans (and even some of the Cylons like Natalie *NOT the EvilCylons of course, they're just gone*), and the whole REAL point of her being "special" was that she could restore that ability to interact with the "beyond" to Humanity through her Cylon lineage.

That's MY canon, and YES, you can have it too...heehee...:D

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Physics are no problems to girls who come back from the dead. ;]

Thank you =)

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

I would, too! Thank you =)