#I'm also very fond of the idea that her name is Cain in this au even though its not a traditional girls name and would be an insane thing

[bigtiddygothhusband]

i did a little twins gender swap for funzies. its really fun to me how little i think would change about how they dress lol. Also yes i got lazy with dippers arms i did her sketch last night and wasnt planning on doing anything with it originally lol.

[shadowsong26fic]

Quick TOB snippet

((for context: The Other Battlestar is an AU where Baltar ends up on Pegasus instead of Galactica. Daphne Reed is an OC, and the senior medical officer on Pegasus, meaning she's Cottle's Pegasus counterpart. This is, obviously, a very rough draft/sketch but I'm fond of it and trying to boost my activity/other people's interest in this AU which will hopefully get me to actually posting it like I've been planning for like. two/three years now? Lol))

Reed was unsurprised by the substance of the orders she'd been passed. The civilian ships they'd stumbled upon were to be stripped, both for supplies and parts and to replace personnel Pegasus had lost since the attack.

Being forwarded a list of the seven people on those ships in any kind of medical profession was a little less unsurprising, until she thought about it. The implication was clear--the ship needed more people, with useful skills, and there were few people more useful in wartime than competent medics. But there were only so many resources to go around. And Cain and Fisk didn't have the knowledge or experience to whittle down the list to the absolute necessities.

Which made it Reed's problem.

All right. Let's get this over with.

Maryam Adair; nurse Leona Fox; nurse Alexis Hunter; oncologist Lucas Nyall; nurse Simon O'Neill; pediatrician Tobias Richter; nurse Elina Wey; dentist

The nurses, she'd take. All four of them. Even at the best of times, a good nurse was worth their weight in gold. True, Reed had no way of knowing if these four were good nurses, but she was willing to take that chance.

As for the others...

No surgeons, no emergency medicine specialists, no anesthetists--gods, she would [universe-appropriate 'sell her soul' metaphor] for a halfway-decent anesthetist.

Beggars can't be choosers, I suppose.

Dr. Hunter was a name she knew. Brilliant, by all accounts, but focused entirely on research and first-stage clinical trials for the past decade or more. Reed had read the journal articles, and Hunter's work was solid.

But it also meant at least a decade since Hunter had done any real patient work.

On the other hand, an MD was an MD, and even if it had been a while, Hunter did have applicable training.

...I don't know.

The pediatrician, at least, was an easy call to make. He was actively practicing medicine, with direct patient contact--even if his patient population was pretty far removed from the crew of an active battlestar in wartime--and based on his age, only a few years out from his residency. It wouldn't take too much to get him up to speed. Hopefully.

As for the dentist...

On the one hand, depending on what exactly her practice looked like, there was a decent chance she knew her way around needles and scalpels and moderately-invasive procedures at least as well as O'Neill would. Just on a highly specialized basis. And serious facial wounds were messy. Having some kind of expert in that area of the body on hand wasn't a bad idea. Besides, despite what the civilian medical establishment seemed to think, treatment for dental issues was not a luxury; they could have serious complications.

On the other hand, how much of that was Reed trying to talk herself into finding a dentist useful in an active war zone? Because, yes, all of that was true, but given the situation and the implied priorities in Cain's orders, how much did any of that actually matter?

Of course, Reed thought, once we strip those ships, I know what will happen to the people we leave behind. A quick and violent death, if they're lucky. Slow starvation or suffocation if they're not. If I take Wey and Hunter, I can spare them that.

Then again--if either of them was travelling with family, Cain sure as hell wouldn't take any non-useful civilians onto her ship. If she took Wey and Hunter, if they had spouses or children with them, they might well prefer the certain death.

Frak. How the hell am I supposed to choose?

[apart from the Obvious; the actual names on the list are subject to change, lol.]