TAKE THE KEY and LOCK HER UP (the My Fair Lady Remix) [BSG; Kara Thrace, Leoben Conoy, Kacey Brynn]

[lex-zeppelin.livejournal.com]

Title: Take the Key and Lock Her Up (the My Fair Lady Remix)
Author: 2ndary_author 
Summary: Now I lay me down to sleeping head, my love, human on my faithless arm, Jack fell down and broke his crown, and Jill came…
Rating: R
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica (new series: 2003)
Spoilers and/or Warnings: Spoilers up through Exodus II (season 3, ep 4)
Notes: Unsuccessful in my beta-begging, so any errors are mind. One line stolen from William Shakespeare, one line from W.H. Auden, various lines from the anonymous originators of several nursery rhymes
Title, Author and URL of original story: “Pop Goes the Weasel” by anotherjuxtaposition (LJ name: furies) found at http://www.sparkgirls.com/tulips/popweasel.html

tumbling after

Comments

[emmiere.livejournal.com]

Oh so very excellent and creepy! Leoben's sort of dryly humorous, clinical thought process is perfect and makes Kara slowly going insane that much more unsettling. So many nice touches with the burned potatoes, the toaster, and his invented rhymes.

Can't get those rhymes out of my head now though. *shivers* ;)

[2ndary-author.livejournal.com]

The rhymes started me on this whole story, actually: I thought it would be kind of sweet in a bizarre and obsessive way if Leoben tried to understand the rhymes Kara repeats to herself in 'Pop Goes the Weasel.' But, of course, if you're not human and you don't get the concept of a nursery rhyme, they won't make any sense and it's easy to mix them up and sound totally psychotic....

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