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[ 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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That's not what happened. And-- Starbuck? Seriously? Frak Starbuck.

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We all went a little crazy one time or another. I remember how she used to be.

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Before she married her Cylon husband, you mean.

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...yeah. Before that.

[ ugh. ]

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[The one who shot his leg off, he does not add, although it hangs nicely in the static between them for a second.]

And if I'd been there, I might have reminded you that Apollo is the one who got Baltar acquitted. We've all made choices.

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Yeah, and he's probably still mad about the rebellion trying to kill his father.

We've all made choices.

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I wasn't discounting myself from that.

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Doesn't that mean you know why you're an inmate, then?

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I know that somewhere along the line, I made a choice the Admiral, this Admiral, disagrees with. I just... was wrong about which choice that is. [And the more he considers it-- if he let himself care about graduation, the more worried he'd be. Is it about Gaius? Sharon? New Caprica? There's a lot of history in the last four years.]

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Well, where did you a choice that felt wrong?

Felt wrong then, not like, for example, the election. People voted for Baltar because it felt right. Turned out wrong. But I don't think that's really wrong. I mean, we're human, we can't figure out everything that'll happen from what we do.

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[Now he looks a little agitated.] I don't know. [What if it is New Caprica? Sharon said he'd known all along, but he hadn't. He swears he hadn't. How could he have? It must be something else.

Except what?

He's not sure it's not Gaius. Or Tom. Maybe he'd known from the start how bad they both would be. Maybe it's helping Dee with her mutiny three years ago. Maybe it's not helping her steal the election. Maybe it's not doing more to save her. He's been questioning his own decisions so much lately, and those are the ones he's making now, much less the ones he made then. He shakes his head suddenly, annoyed.]

I don't know. I don't want to talk about this. I don't care-- how do you even know it has anything to do with right and wrong? It's whatever the Admiral thinks.

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Sounds like maybe it's easy to say that.

[ Easier to believe the Admiral just decided something than that he might have really frakked up. ]

Listen, I don't really want to do this either. I'd rather just be friends than a warden and an inmate. Can we do that?

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Or a commander and his angry CAG? [There's a little heat behind it, but not necessary rancor. He's just upset now, firing off in stress, the question punctuated with an anxious little huff as he rakes a hand through his hair.]

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Is there any other kind of CAG?

[ lbr, Felix. ]

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[He smiles thinly, trying to shove his feelings down again.] I don't know -- I was actually still debating between you and Narcho.

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He would've been a better choice.

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Do I get any special warden favors if I say I would have picked you?

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How dare you suggest that? I am completely unbiased and would never give favor to anyone.

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