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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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[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.

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Fighting to kill Cylons! To make sure that humans never have to deal with that kind of war ever again. To destroy their colony because they destroyed ours.

[itstopped]

And what were you going to do when the smoke cleared and there were just as many of them as us on our side?

[landfall]

I don't know! Okay? I don't.

[itstopped]

[The confession mollifies him slightly; he still looks angry, but he quiets down for a second, glancing away.]

I tried doing things that way once. It didn't work out very well.

[landfall]

You knew what you were doing right up until you let Adama scare you.

[itstopped]

It had nothing to do with Adama. That's not even what I was talking about. [New Caprica, he meant. New Caprica: work from the administration, make connections on both sides... What then? He'd never really known, even before it had turned out that his so-called connections were murdering children on his behalf.]

How long after the insurrection was it?

[landfall]

Months. I don't know. I stopped keeping track of time.

[ Very much on purpose. ]

[itstopped]

Months. [He's back to being more like himself, now: quieter, more restrained, more thoughtful. She was right to say he was passionate, but that depth of feeling in him has always been kept under wraps, let out in small bursts -- or big explosions.]

So... what, then? The Alliance worked? Seemed to be working?

[landfall]

Seemed like it.

I don't know. I really don't. There was a lot of rumor flying around on the Queen, and not a lot of hard fact.

[itstopped]

What rumors?

[landfall]

Adama is a Cylon. Roslin is a Cylon. Roslin is dead. Zarek is alive. The Cylons have replaced everyone on Galactica. We are all Cylons.

All the idiots in that ship have to do is talk.

[itstopped]

[Okay, that's enough to make him smile. Well, not exactly, and not for very long, but at least it's enough to really settle him back down.]

They think Zarek is alive, but not me? I feel like I should be insulted.

[landfall]

Zarek was their idol a long time before you were. Frankly, I think that's what kept those of us from the rebellion from getting roughed up. It was all men on that ship, originally, and...

[ She'd been scared. Determined, angry, scared. ]

But we were Zarek's people, apparently. It was a kind of status. Though I don't like thinking I owe him anything, even posthumously.

[itstopped]

I was never anyone's idol. You're right about that much... there's a reason I went to him in the first place.

[landfall]

Being the idol of those people isn't something you should want.

[itstopped]

No, I mean... [He doesn't know what he means, exactly. It's an idle thought that occurred to him -- the idea, again, that they were destined to fail, because who else could he have even gone to?]

I don't know. There's a part of me that's amazed anyone kept fighting at all after we lost.

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Well, it stood for something important. I guess.

[itstopped]

It did. We did. [That much, he still believes.] I don't regret it, I really don't. Do you?

[landfall]

I... no. I thought it was right. Even though I didn't like all of it.

[itstopped]

And yet you're there and I'm here.

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Maybe there was something about it that was wrong.

Only you know everything that happened.