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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]

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.

[landfall]

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.

[landfall]

Maybe there was something about it that was wrong.

Only you know everything that happened.