The Obstinate Tin Soldier Ch. 7, draftAuthor: C.Taylor...

The Obstinate Tin Soldier Ch. 7 by C.Taylor

Word Count: 390
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Sharon
Date Posted: 1/3/2006
Category: Characters/Relationships
Story Timeline: Middle of 2nd Season
Warnings: Main Character Ressurection
Story Timeline: Middle of 2nd Season

Boomer talks with another Cylon like her on the Cylon ressurection ship.

For those wanting to read the previous chapters, they are online in Word format at: http://xrl.us/bsgffTitle: The Obstinate Tin Soldier Ch. 7, draft

Cylon Mobile Depot Ship #8
Sharon Valerii
Callsign: Boomer
10th Day Onboard

"I didn't want them to look like me," Amy said as she touched the bandages covering her self-inflicted face wounds, "They aren't like me; they shouldn't look like me."

Lt. Valerii sat at Amy's bedside and held her copy's hand. "You sure fixed that," she responded.

"Let me guess," Amy continued, "you love me and you want to help me."


"No," Lt. Valerii said, "I think you're something of a jerk."

"Really?" Amy asked.

"Yeah, but don't take it personally. I don't like anyone here," Sharon answered.

"I don't like them either," Amy agreed. After lying quietly for several minutes, she then asked, "What did you do when you were a person?"

"I... um... I'm a Raptor pilot for the Colonial military," Sharon answered.

"I was an engineer with Olympic Interstellar's mining fleet," Amy said as she stared at the ceiling, "We were scouting star systems for exploitable resources when the attack came. Since we had a convoy of ships set up for a long-duration mission we figured we'd stay away from port until the raid was over. But it wasn't a raid. We were searching for a habitable world to set up an outpost on before our supplies ran out. We thought we had left the Cylons behind. But we brought one with us. I didn't know. If I had known, I'd have killed myself first."

"I did figure it out," Sharon said, "and I tried to kill myself.

Even that doesn't work."

The two lapsed into silence again. Amy stared at the ceiling. Sharon looked blankly past the hospital wall into the unseeable distance. Finally, Lt. Valerii turned her head back to Amy and said, "If you were resurrected here, then it must mean that this is the closest Cylon facility to your convoy."

"And your ship too," Amy responded.

"Yeah, but I don't have..." Sharon's voice trailed off without finishing her sentence. "You said they would need water."

"Yes, most of our reserves got vented into space." Amy did not mention the details of how it had happened. "Is that important?"

"No, probably not," Lt. Valerii said. She wanted to tell Amy what she was thinking, but with the Cylon spies inside them aware of their every action she didn't dare say anything out loud.

POCKET REVIEW: I started reading this story with this short chapter and was totally captivated. I think the line, "What did you do when you were a person?", hit home. The cylons are not human, but they are so human-like, perhaps on a different level. Maybe they are just less tainted by human temptations; however, they have such intense emotions, they are a different species but not inanimate. I started reading the rest, and its well worth a read. A really good fanfic.

Tags: Battlestar Galactica