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[landfall]

[ Here, Barge, have Racetrack who has just woken up from being a Navy sailor and fighting pirates and seriously what the frak. ]

I am so confused.

[ Help. :c ]

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[landfall]

I was fighting pirates, and the...

[ dot dot dot

comprehension dawning ]

...Felix?!

[itstopped]

Oh, gods. [On the one hand, a friend. On the other hand, a friend here. He's not enough of a bastard to be happy about that.] Don't tell me he got you, too.

[landfall]

I was just fighting pirates, and now you're here.

[ is this real life.

help. ]

[itstopped]

Fighting... [Is pirates a new code word for Cylons?

Wait, no. Breaches. He blinks, backtracks, rubs his temples.] That happened to me, too. Has anyone explained this place to you yet?

[landfall]

If they had, would I be confused?

The Admiral did a terrible job. [ He did an okay job, actually. ] He did not mention pirates!

And you're alive. Felix! You're alive!

[itstopped]

[He's about to throw in an easy quip about how the Admiral doing a terrible job is par for the course, but then, wait a frakking minute.] What-- mention? What do you mean, mention? He spoke to you?

[landfall]

Well... yeah. He wanted to make a deal.

[ she was also dead at the time, thanks for asking. ]

[itstopped]

[A deal. His blood runs visibly cold: he pales a little, eyes widening-- and then, just as quickly, he's furious.] You're a frakking warden?

[landfall]

Um - yes? I served my time. On the Astral Queen.

You know, after you died?

[itstopped]

[That casual revelation doesn't seem to inspire the shock or horror in him that it probably should. He still just looks angry.]

After I was sentenced. I served just the same as you did. [Which hadn't stopped the Admiral from taking him, and now he does look confused, but not about the death part. He presses his hand to his forehead.] So what-- why--

[landfall]

[ She's starting to realize he's not a warden. And isn't that frakking weird? It doesn't make much sense, not the Felix she knew. ] I died for the fleet. You died for -

I don't know. Frakking losing.

[ She was not prepared to deal with this. ]

[itstopped]

[It's more of a slap in the face than she could even know. Than, irony of ironies, maybe anyone but Gaius -- not the Barge one but the one who knows him -- would know. He stiffens as though she actually did try to hit him, but luckily it's too easy to be angry and disgusted and that means he doesn't have to be hurt.]

And I suppose you stepped neatly in and took the bridge while we were all distracted. Or did you serve out your time and join back up with the Alliance?

[landfall]

I joined back up to kill Cylons. Remember them?

[itstopped]

But only as long as they were the right model, I take it. Isn't that the new order of the day? The Twos, the Three, the Sixes, the Eights... [Seriously, frak the Eights.] Not them.

[landfall]

So I should've sat in a cell and not killed any Cylons?

Because that's what Seelix and Narcho did. For you.

[Threadjack]

[surfaceshine]

Hey, sister, didn't you see the sign?

Check the grudges at the door.

[Threadjack]

[landfall]

It's not a grudge! I followed his frakking rebellion because I respect him.

And why is it so weird that I'm a warden, anyway?

[Threadjack]

[itstopped]

Because if I'm a frakking rebel and a traitor, so are you.

[Threadjack]

[landfall]

You're not a traitor!

[Threadjack]

[surfaceshine]

Yeah this looks like respect.

[Threadjack]

[itstopped]

Oh, frak-- don't, Dean.

[Threadjack]

[surfaceshine]

Don't what.

[itstopped]

[Seelix. Narcho. Gods. He looks a little sick, but the sarcasm shields are still high.]

I don't know, Racetrack-- it's just with four of seven models pretending to be on our side, and four of the Final Five alive in our fleet, it seems like there must have been more to make friends with than to fight. Don't tell me Adama-- [And he very consciously leaves off the title, here.] --let you go around killing off Sixes.

[landfall]

I didn't have much of a chance. I died in the fight.

[itstopped]

Fighting to protect Cylons from other Cylons.