Across The Universe, a fanmix from yours truly!

[lily_winterwood]

Yay, another soppy, emo fanmix. ;]

Miniseries-Meeting Laura (from Perfume: the Story of a Murderer)

[instrumental]

Frakking schoolteacher.

That’s how Bill first percieved it. Frakking Laura Roslin, Secretary of Education. How dare she flounce onto his ship and demand that he network his ships computers for an "education friendly" environment?

He glares at her retreating back, tempted to yell, "Good riddance!" as well. But he doesn't. There is something about her, something enticing.

"It's just the legs," he mutters to himself as he walks away. "Just the legs and nothing more."

 

"Colonial Day"-An Irish Party in Third Class (from Titanic)

[instrumental]

Commander Adama can dance. He said so himself. Laura Roslin soon finds out that he wasn't lying.

"Stop, stop! I can't catch up!" she gasps as they dance to a more lively tune.

Bill laughs, setting her off on a giggle fit herself. "Sorry," he finally chokes out.

"It's alright," Laura replies in between her giggling. "I changed my mind. Do go on."

 

Sometime in Season Two-The Call (from the Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian)

It's just a feeling and no one knows yet

But just because they can't feel it too

Doesn't mean that you have to forget

"It's just a feeling," Bill tells himself as he looks at his reflection in the bathroom mirror. "Nothing more. What would Laura Roslin want from me anyways? What would she see in me?"

Sighing, Bill commences brushing his teeth. He had never felt anything like this since his first crush in first grade. "It’s just a silly crush," he tells himself. "I'll get over it."

He doesn't.

 

Post "Resurrection Ship"-I Won't Say I'm In Love (from Hercules)

It's too cliche

I won't say I'm in love

I thought my heart had learned its lesson

It feels so good when you start out

Laura is glaring at thin air again. "I am not in love with Bill Adama," she growls as she paces the wardroom. "I have never been and I never will be. It was just a kiss, nothing more."

It's sad how she says one thing and feels the opposite. Laura sighs and buries her face in her hands. "I thought that relationship with Adar had taught me never to put my emotions into the mix," she whimpers. "Why am I so weak?"

There is the soft thud of footsteps and then the newly-promoted Admiral walks in. Laura almost feels like groaning as her knees weaken once again. "I won't say I'm in love," she mutters to herself as she takes a seat. "It's too cliché anyways."

 

"A Day In The Life"-If I Fell (from Across the Universe)

If I give my heart to you

I must be sure

From the very start

That you would love me more than her

Laura knew that Bill was married. She also knew that she was jealous.

"He probably still loves her," she murmurs. "He must, if he still wears that ring."

Laura wishes that her feelings were just lust. Lust can be satisfied with a frak. But love couldn't.

"I wonder what he'd say if I told him I loved him," she muses. She doesn't act on it, though. She couldn't find the guts to do so. Not yet.

 

"The Hub"-All I Ask Of You (from Phantom of the Opera)

Then say you'll share with me one love,

One lifetime

Let me lead you from your solitude

Say you want me here

Beside you

Anywhere you go, let me go too

That's all I ask of you

This embrace, this kiss…

"I love you," Laura chokes out between her tears.

The smile on his face makes her heart feel like its gravitational pull has gone. "About time," he says, hugging her.

Laura clings on as if she's drowning and the only thing keeping her afloat is him.

 

"Sine Qua Non"-'Till There Was You (from the Music Man)

There was love

All around

But I never heard it singing

No I never heard it at all

'Till there was you

Romo Lampkin has a point, Bill had to admit. He had never really accepted or even known just how much Laura had meant to him. Now he realizes it when she is gone, maybe even floating in space like all those people she had airlocked.

He doesn't want to recgonize the implications of that, however.

"Why are you doing this?" Lee asks.

"Because I can't live without her," Bill replies, and it's the truest thing he's ever said in his life.

 

"A Disquiet Follows My Soul"-Magic Works (from Harry Potter)

And make

Your final move

Mmm, don’t be scared

She’ll want you, too

Yeah, it’s hard

You must be brave

Don’t let this moment slip away

Bill had never regarded sex as a dance.

Yet that's what it seems to be at this moment—he thrusts, she arches, they move to a common, unspoken rhythm. All he feels is her, all he feels is love.

It's the most primitve of dances, but that thought is soon lost, drowned out by all his feelings and all the feelings he sees in Laura's eyes.

It's been a long time coming, really. But Bill doesn't mind as he holds Laura in his arms at last.

They've come a long way.

 

"Island Stranded In A Stream Of Stars"-For Good (from Wicked)

But I know I'm who I am today

Because I knew you...

"I don't think I've ever felt truly at home until these last few months here with you," Laura says, her eyes shining.

Bill smiles, his own eyes replying to that with a, "And because I met you, I've been changed for good."

She gets his message.

 

Deleted Scene in "Someone to Watch Over Me"-Think of Me (from Phantom of the Opera)

Think of me

Think of me fondly

When we’ve said goodbye

Remember me

Once in a while

Please promise me you’ll try

"Goodbye."
It's amazing how much hurt that little word can cause. Bill feels the tears come to his eyes. He tries to hold it back, but he can't.

He settles instead for kissing her, letting their tears mingle like their bodies once had.

 

"Daybreak"-You'll Be In My Heart (from Tarzan)

'Cause you'll be in my heart

Yes, you'll be in my heart

From this day on

Now and forever more

She is so frail now. Her hands shake, her eyes are half closed. It's heartbreaking for him to watch her waste away like this.

Bill carries her to the Raptor. It's the closest he'll ever get to carrying her over the threshold of their cabin at the moment, but he hopes he'll be able to do that, too.

Even if that day never comes, Laura Roslin will always be in his heart.

 

"Daybreak"-Into the West (from Lord of the Rings)

Sleep now

And dream of the ones who came before

They are calling

From across the distant shores

Laura's dead.

Bill had always known that this day would come. He didn't want it to be so soon.

"I'm going to build it right there, Laura," he says in a determined voice to her as he lands the Raptor near the site of their future cabin. She doesn't respond, but he knows that somewhere, far away, an angel responded to him.

 

"Daybreak"-There You'll Be (from Pearl Harbor)

In my dreams I'll always see you soar above the sky

In my heart there'll always be a place for you

For all my life

"I laid out the cabin today," Bill says to Laura's grave. "It's going to have an easterly view. You should see the light we get here when the sun comes out from behind those mountains."

He gazes off into the blue sky, trying to make the clouds look like her face in his mind. "It's almost heavenly. Reminds me of you."

 

Post "Daybreak"-Without You (from RENT)

Life goes on

But I'm gone

'Cause I die

Without you

It's been a month already.

The cabin is nearly done. There's a stream at the bottom. There is life everywhere.

Grass grows, clouds move, birds sing…

But Bill died on the inside long ago.

 

Post"Daybreak"-Memory (from Cats)

Touch me

It's so easy to leave me

All alone with the memory

Of my days in the sun

"Was it really that easy for you to break my heart?" Bill asks Laura's grave.

"I never wanted to," a voice in his head replies.

Bill closes his eyes and there she is, smiling sadly at him.

 

Post "Daybreak"-My Heart Will Go On (from Titanic)

Every night in my dreams

I see you, I feel you

That is how I know you go on

Far across the distance

And spaces between us

You have come to show you go on

Laura looks across the river everyday and sees him.

The only time they meet is in dreams, and that is how she knows that he goes on. Nevertheless, waking is painful for them. Laura wishes she was alive.

Across the river, Bill wishes he was dead.

 

Post "Daybreak"-Ballad of a Bitter End (from Grey's Anatomy)

And when it ends, as it must end

I'll write a book, the saddest book

And it will be our story

The ballad of a bitter end

The book is done.

Bill puts the pen down and looks at what he's written. It's a long, epic tale about the fall of the Twelve Colonies—and how it brought him to Laura. It's a bittersweet love story about them.

Centuries later, a girl named Lily sits down in front of the TV at ten o'clock.

"Previously on Battlestar Galactica," a voice says, and Lily smiles.

 

"All of this has happened before and all of it will happen again."-After All (from Chances Are)

After all the stops and starts,

We keep coming back to these two hearts,

Two angels who’ve been rescued from the fall.

After all that we’ve been through,

It all comes down to me and you.

I guess it’s meant to be,

Forever you and me, after all.

"Hello," the woman sitting next to Bill Adams on the plane says.

"Hi," he replies. She seems familiar.

In his mind's eye he sees a woman in a lavender suit, stepping down a ladder. He sees a man looking at himself in the mirror. He sees the two of them kissing in an auxillary airlock.

"I'm Laura Roslyn," she says, extending a hand.

"Bill Adams," he replies, shaking her hand. The gesture seems familiar somehow.

It hits him with all the force of the Galactica ramming into Cavil's Colony. "Laura," he breathes.

She looks at him.

"I remember."

Download the whole frakking thing (songs, album art, and lyrics) here. Some of the songs are in mpeg4 format, and there is one in wmv. The majority of the songs are in mp3, though.

Edit: Remember Another Now? You can download it here now!