Untelevised Adventures

[altariel]

Written for the "Women to the Rescue" challenge at b7friday.


Untelevised Adventures

Late watch. Dayna prowls the flight deck, learning her way round. Stops by the gun rack, again. Keeps half an eye on the alien woman. Fascinated; shy. Cally curled up on the comfortable chairs, cup in hand, bookscreen on knee, no shoes. Hasn’t said a word this evening.

Zen speaks first. “Detectors indicate an intruder aboard—”

Dayna can see: blue-silver light shimmering near the comms station. Turns to Cally. “Should I wake the others?”

Cally, unfolding from her seat, puzzled. Why would we do that?

***

Eleven minutes later, Dayna finishes hosing down the contaminated area. Cally updates the log, eases back into her chair. She takes out her flask, pours, hands Dayna the extra cup. Dayna sniffs the contents. “Is it always like this?”

“Noisier, sometimes.” She looks over the bookscreen. “If we wake the others.”

Comments

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

Beautiful.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Why, thank you!

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

Love it.

Chimes with my version of Cally, of course...

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Glad you like it :-)

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

Wonderfully sparse and beautifully evocative.

(Grumpy Cally icon is grumpy at the others and their noise, not at you and your excellent wordage.)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Praise the efficient introverts!

[matildabj.livejournal.com]

Perfect. You just know the women in that group would get the job done and then go and make a cup of tea. The men would be congratulating each other about it for hours.

Lovely Cally voice, too.

[watervole.livejournal.com]

Giggle. I LIKE this.

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

I don't know the characters at all, but it's still great even from that perspective. Well done.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

:-)

[executrix.livejournal.com]

They should have woken the others to clean up the mess and then turned in for the night!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Bet they wouldn't do a proper job!

[executrix.livejournal.com]

Soddit, it's a holiday rental anyway.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Think you'll try B7 one day, or do you prefer knowing it at a distance?

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I can't see any of the women grandstanding - Cally, Dayna, Soolin, Jenna. The fellas however are shocking drama queens!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Ha!

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

I probably will at some point - it's fairly obvious from what I know of it and from the type of people who tend to enthuse about it that I would enjoy it. But I'll concentrate on finishing Doctor Who first.

[dkpalaska.livejournal.com]

I have never seen a single episode and have no idea about any of these characters, only that it is a sci-fi spaceship show. But I didn't need to know anything else! I could picture each individual so clearly in my imagination, as well as "the others". *g* The ending made me laugh out loud. Excellent!

So fanfiction is definitely not out of your system yet, and I will keep hoping for more in a different universe...

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

Ditto from me. :)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I'll be fascinated to read your reactions when you do get round to it. I can never tell whether it's dated so much that it's now very hard to watch, or whether there's still a certain something that can draw in the unwary viewer... The fanfic is brilliant, however!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :-)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'm glad that it worked for you! Cally (see picture in the original post), is a telepath and former guerrilla fighter who spends most of her time in the show being possessed by alien powers and not getting to do much guerrilla fighting. Dayna (see current icon) is a young woman who joins the ship after her father and sister are murdered by the bad guys. Her hobby is making guns, which we do see a little bit of in the show, but not enough. I liked the idea of the two of them making friends.

And you're right - it seems fanfic isn't quite out of my system yet...!