"It's not smart. It's politics."

Title: Madame Butterfly & Her Sailor
Rating: PG
Word Count: 3300
Characters: Laura Roslin, Billy Keikeya, Bill Adama, Kara Thrace, Lee Adama, Hera Agathon
Relationships: Bill/Laura, Kara/Lee
Summary: Most people think Admiral Adama and Laura Roslin met on Galactica. Hera knows different. It sounded like a fairy tale but it had to be the truth...Aunt Laura, she knew, always told the truth.
A/N: I don't know what this is. It started at a kink piece but I couldn't get to the sex. And then there was this other prompt taunting me about Hera babysitting Lee and Kara's kids. And it's Halloween. So this happened. (Also, I'm sure the idea of Laura creating a program in which Kara participated is someone else's idea. (ETA: The name of the educational program is one I accidentally took from lanalucy's awesome Kara, Laura series, The Healing Arts, a wonderful series that is far more nuanced and amazing than this little thing and I'm so glad Ms. Lana is amenable to letting me keep it in this story.) Please do tell me if the whole 'Laura created a program Kara was in' thing was your idea and I will happily credit.)
A/N 2: Here's the pic Laura's butterfly gown in the story is based on.

( Once Upon a Time... )

Title: Meetings
Rating: K
Words: ~2000
Characters: Tom Zarek, Laura Roslin
Summary: Laura, three months into her stint as a teacher on Sagittaron, attends a meeting of the Sagittaron Freedom Movement and meets an idealistic Tom Zarek. She gets an argument and far more than she expected.
A/N: Written in honor of the lovely laura_mayfair's birthday, whose smart thoughts on Zarek have inspired me to wonder what he'd be like as a community organizer in the early days of his activism. Hope this little AU brightens your day, Laura! (Huge thanks to lanalucy for an early beta. All mistakes are mine -- and probably more prevalent in the parts she didn't see!)

( On to the fic... )

Title: A Girl Walks Into a Ball
Rating: M
Characters: Kara Thrace, Laura Roslin
Pairing: Kara/Laura
Summary: Kara never had the luxury of believing in fairy tales. She was the type of girl who figured it best to have no expectations at all. She never, ever thought her life would change in one night, at a ball. (Written for BSG Kink prompt, Kara/Laura, after the president's annual military ball.)

( “A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect.” ― Jonathan Lockwood Huie )

Title: Between Daughters & Sons
Word Count: 850
Rating: G
Characters: Kara Thrace, Billy Keikeya
Summary: After Roslin asks Kara to steal the Raider and before she asks Adama about Earth, she and Billy have a chance meeting. lanalucy asked for meta on her favorite characters for the bsg_epics gift exchange and when the meta on how Billy and Kara might have interacted wouldn't come, this fic did.

( “Did she send you to find me?” )

Title: Bubbling Up
Pairing: Adama/Roslin
Rating: G
Word Count: 300
Summary: Originally written for the now (seemingly) abandoned 12C challenge for the prompt 'bubbles.' Bill has a surprise for his friend in those awful last days before her cancer is sent into remission.

( Forever blowing bubbles/pretty bubbles in the air )

The great BSG Epics community is getting together to give and receive gifts this holiday season! You can check out the moddy post here to drop off your requests and see what others want to get under their LJ tree. Requests for ficlets, prompts, icons, and meta -- as well as anything else you can think to desire -- are welcome from anyone who loves BSG.

Six microfics, each 3 sentences long, in response to bsg_epics community day prompts. We've got Laura/Sam and Felix/Gaius, Billy, D'anna, and Laura solo, and one Ellen fic that's really about Bill/Saul.

( life is short and so are these )

Title: Two Parts, One Whole
Rating: T/PG-13
Pairing: Adama/Roslin
Summary: Laura's cancer returns but not as aggressively as in canon. Can Bill and Laura's nascent love survive a different course of treatment?
A/N: I don't write long fic but I don't write really short ones either so I decided to challenge myself to write an entire story in 100 word drabbles. Here are the first four. There are fourteen completed with a real ending as of now but, gods know, the muse might get inspired to keep it going.

( Chapter One )

( Chapter Two )

( Chapter Three )

( Chapter Four )

Title: New Memories
Rating: M
Pairing: Bill/Saul/Laura
Word Count: 1405
Summary: On a hot, humid night on Earth 2.0, Laura, Saul, and Bill make some new memories under the stars. (Written for the BSG kink prompt, 'B/S/L, a hot night on Earth 2.0.)

( Some old man could come along and ravish you )

Title: Outta Time
Rating: M
Word Count: 360
Summary: Inspired by madampresident's BSG kink prompt, 'Adama/Roslin, Natalia Kills' Outta Time, which might be the most depressing and A/R appropriate song I've ever heard. This painful little piece, set after the fight in Six of One, is what leaped into my head when I listened to it.

( Outta Time )