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A brief interlude.
It has been three months since the Cylons arrived on New Caprica.
Superficially, not much has changed for Adia. She still works on infectious disease control in her lab. She still lives with her friend Maggie, and Maggie’s boyfriend, Seth. They are the closest thing to family that she has.
There is talk of resistance. Her boyfriend, Will, actively participates in their clandestine meetings. It terrifies Adia — she doesn’t want to see him get hurt. But she has an even deeper fear that a resistance movement will make everything worse. But if not a resistance movement, then what? What will free the humans from the Cylon occupiers?
People have started to go missing.
~*~
There are seven Cylon models, and sometimes they visit the human settlement.
The Sixes and Eights do not scare her, she sees them the most, and they seem the most willing to work with humans. There is a Six in her lab named Julia, and she will not shut up about her God. Sometimes Adia hates her, and imagines slapping her sanctimonious smile right off her beautiful face. But then she remembers the vision that her friend April had shared with her — a Six tortured to suicide by her human captors — and then she just feels bad.
A Four is officially in charge of Adia’s lab, and he treats her with distant politeness, occasionally complimenting her on her work the way someone might give a dog on the street a friendly pat or a child a lollipop. Otherwise, he ignores her.
She rarely sees a Three, or a One. The Ones terrify her in a way she can’t explain.
The Twos keep to themselves, although one smiled at her once, like they were sharing an inside joke. She just looked away and kept walking.
The Fives — Caspar’s model — all look through her. If the Fours act distant, the Fives might as well be pretending that they are on another planet. It reminds Adia of when Caspar would be so wrapped up in his work that she’d have to call his name at least twice to get his attention.
He’d always smile sheepishly at her and say he was sorry.
She doesn’t dare call his name. Not here.
Superficially, not much has changed for Adia. She still works on infectious disease control in her lab. She still lives with her friend Maggie, and Maggie’s boyfriend, Seth. They are the closest thing to family that she has.
There is talk of resistance. Her boyfriend, Will, actively participates in their clandestine meetings. It terrifies Adia — she doesn’t want to see him get hurt. But she has an even deeper fear that a resistance movement will make everything worse. But if not a resistance movement, then what? What will free the humans from the Cylon occupiers?
People have started to go missing.
~*~
There are seven Cylon models, and sometimes they visit the human settlement.
The Sixes and Eights do not scare her, she sees them the most, and they seem the most willing to work with humans. There is a Six in her lab named Julia, and she will not shut up about her God. Sometimes Adia hates her, and imagines slapping her sanctimonious smile right off her beautiful face. But then she remembers the vision that her friend April had shared with her — a Six tortured to suicide by her human captors — and then she just feels bad.
A Four is officially in charge of Adia’s lab, and he treats her with distant politeness, occasionally complimenting her on her work the way someone might give a dog on the street a friendly pat or a child a lollipop. Otherwise, he ignores her.
She rarely sees a Three, or a One. The Ones terrify her in a way she can’t explain.
The Twos keep to themselves, although one smiled at her once, like they were sharing an inside joke. She just looked away and kept walking.
The Fives — Caspar’s model — all look through her. If the Fours act distant, the Fives might as well be pretending that they are on another planet. It reminds Adia of when Caspar would be so wrapped up in his work that she’d have to call his name at least twice to get his attention.
He’d always smile sheepishly at her and say he was sorry.
She doesn’t dare call his name. Not here.