Lee Adama (startinganew) wrote in thedoorway, @ 2013-10-17 01:14:00 |
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Entry tags: | !log, lee adama / apollo |
Who: Lee Adama
When: October 15, 2013.
Where: [I bless the rains down in] Africaaaaaaaaaa.
What: Lee keeps a promise.
Rating: G.
Status: Complete narrative.
When Lee reaches Uhuru Peak and touches the sign - the sign that thousands and thousands have touched before him - he is struck not by how alone he is in that moment but by how connected he is to everyone who has come before him and everyone who will come after. He felt something similar standing on that hill all those years ago, after Kara left, loneliness overcome by accomplishment and pride for fulfilling their mission and seeing his people to the end. That moment connected the past and the future: he was at a crossroads, ending one journey and beginning another. Maybe that is why he’s standing here now, on top of a mountain not too far from that very hill. He could find that hill, if he wanted to; he knows he has enough information about the locations to get there, but while this trip is about revisiting his past, it is also about letting go of the past. Lee has been stalled at a brand new crossroads for a year now, and it is time to take a step forward. The wind is cold and biting at his cheeks, and as he inhales, he swears he can feel the chill all the way down to his bones. Clouds roll slowly by below him, over the mountainside below, giving him only brief glimpses of the plain that stretches out in front of him, and for a moment, it feels like he's on another planet all-together, some strange alien landscape that hardly seems real at all. He’s on top of the world here, and instead of feeling sad for what he’s lost, he feels like he’s finally come full circle. All this has happened before, all this will happen again. He’s been here before - not here exactly, standing on top of the mountain, but in Africa, miles away out in the plains - and he knows that his whole life has been building to this moment. He’s never been that religious, but here he believes in fate and destiny with a certainty he’s never had before. Lee’s grateful for the relative solitude on the summit. He says a prayer in his mind - one he remembers from his childhood with the Tauron side of his family - and thinks about the people who made it possible for him to be there at all. His family: his grandparents, his uncle Sam, his aunt Tamara; his mother and his father, his brother; Kara, Dee, Laura. His friends, far and wide, in this universe and in another: he spends a moment remembering each of them, from Kaylee, who gave him a reason to love again, to Zoe and baby Serra, who gave him reason to hope for a brighter tomorrow, to Sam and Karl and Galen and Shepard and Mal and everyone else in between, because all he has left now are his memories, and he won’t let any of them be forgotten. The wind whips through his hair and he smiles because he knows what it’s trying to say. He knows she’s there with him, just as she always has been. He knows she will be no matter where he goes. “I finally climbed my mountain, Kara.” |