There are levels of awareness, levels of consciousness, levels of understanding. FILSS has always known this. It's how she's been programmed.
Connie and Carolina make a supply run on an isolated colony. Written for the RvB Ladies' Night on Tumblr, for the prompt "drive."
"She won't like that injury part." "She never does." Turns out York's journal entries weren't the only Freelancer logs Epsilon recovered. Set shortly before Carolina's reappearance in s12.
The thing nobody tells you about having an A.I. destabilizing in your brain is that it's not all bad. Carolina, Epsilon, and their half-remembered dreams. Spoilers for 12x11.
In the early days of the Project, Carolina and Wash are the sole survivors of a mission to a planet under attack by Covenant forces. As it turns out, imminent death by plasma fire has a way of bringing people together as a team.
This entire rescue mission's been nothing but disaster; now all that's left is a last-ditch assault on the Fed base in the Capital City. Casualties could be high. Morale is low. But Lieutenant Smith has absolute faith in his captain's ability to lead them through the worst of it. After all, Captain Caboose is the wisest and most compassionate leader he's ever known.
Vanessa Kimball has always had a weakness for lost causes. The trick is not to let it get you down. Contains mild spoilers for episode six of season twelve.
S6 AU. After the events of Recovery One, South finds help in the form of an unexpected ally. Better lucky than good, any day.
Look, sometimes you're just a glorified cab driver, trying to catch up on your reading between fares. Sometimes you're dropping into a hot zone, trying not to get exploded into tiny pieces. There's not a lot in between. Early in the Project, Pilot 479er swoops in to save the day.
Happiness, her mother always said, is complicated. Four snapshots of Carolina and the long road back to good.
Tucker, after the hit-and-run. (spoilers for s12e02)
After the defeat of the Meta, Blue Team adjusts to their new leader's command style. Which, y'know, would be a whole lot easier if a mysterious shadowy figure didn't keep trying to assassinate him. It's gonna be a long trip home. (Set during the stuff we didn't see in season 9.)
The Freelancers unwind after a successful mission early in the Project.
As it turns out, being a freshly-minted lieutenant in the New Republic army involves taking on a whole lot of unstated responsibilities. Like, say, figuring out what to do when your CO wakes up screaming.
There are a lot of ways this story goes south. (Written before season 12 aired.)
In the first few weeks with the New Republic, Tucker's been acting weird. Simmons draws the short straw.
Scenes from the universe where Agent Connecticut is paired with Epsilon.
Grif's shipping out, whether he wants to or not. Kai catches up with him to say goodbye.
The first implantation can feel a little... odd. Eight standalone stories in which the Freelancers meet their AI fragments for the first time.
Set shortly after the season 11 finale; Tucker and Caboose take stock of what's here and what's gone.