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It's Lion Turtles all the way down ([personal profile] lettered) wrote2008-06-03 04:17 pm

Drabble: BSG

Title: Children of the Stars
Summary: Sharon, Hera. Occurs near end of season 2.
A/N: Written with [livejournal.com profile] my_daroga's prompt: undergrounds either literal or figurative. You can still prompt here; just don't include a fandom.


Children of the Stars

Mother earth is alien to her, its teeming life, natural cycles, hot womb that births and tomb that holds the dead. She is a machine. She wasn’t born; she has no childhood; she has no mother. Athena sprang from Zeus’s head fully formed. That’s not much of a family tree. Sharon never felt very grounded.

Then there was Helo.

Then there was her.

Which is why she wishes that instead of scattering Hera in the stars, they’d buried her in the ground. It would have meant much to leave daffodils at the grave.

The roots, though not deep, are strong.