"Where are you going?"
"I don't know. I just know that I'm done here... I've completed my journey and...it feels good."
"It feels good?" He shook his head. "It feels good." he said to himself and paused. "You don't want to spend any time with me anymore? You're saying that I'm beneath you... oh high and mighty guide of humanity." His tone was an attempt at playful, but they both knew it was a thin coat of paint atop something else altogether.
"'Want' has nothing to do with it."
"Well, if this is it, it's going to have to be ugly." He said, dropping the pretense of civility that wasn't fooling either of them. Kara gave him a sorrowful look; he ignored it. "This time," He pointed a finger "...this time," more softly. "it's going to look how it feels Kara." He promised her, looking her in the eye.
"You're not being fair. I don't have any choices here." her serenity was cracked and her words were clipped; Lee smiled.
"Then tell me you want to stay. Tell me you wish you could stay." He stopped and stepped into her space, his hand cupping her face. "Or tell me that the most I ever was to you was a pity frak. Tell me that when you look at me all you see is Zak or Sam. Come on Kara. It's not so hard, you've basically said as much before. Shout it this time. I need to hear it loud. Sound off lieutenant." She pushed his hand away firmly.
"It's frakking 'Captain', Lee and shut the frak up."
"Why? What the frak has that ever gotten me. I shook his hand Kara." He showed her his right hand, palm out. "I shook his hand right after he married the woman I love. This is nothing compared to that. An epilogue. I think I may have even managed a polite smile." He added conversationally. "Did I? You were there; did I smile at your inferno-bound husband?" He gestured toward the sun, marveling briefly at how beautiful this world was. Briefly because Kara slugged him before he could get any real awe going. The blow made him stagger back a bit, his hand going to the side of his face. Kara didn't feel any satisfaction though. She'd done exactly what he wanted; her jaw clenched. "Just like old times" He said. "Not what I'm looking for though, I need more. Give me more. We started off pretty bad," He was breaking all precedents; they never talked or even obliquely referred to the night they met. "this needs to be worse." He reclaimed the space right in front of her; the kind of inappropriate physical closeness they'd always shared. "So. I am going to tell you 'I love you' and you're going to say that you don't love me and that you never did. I'm going to say 'I need you' and you're going to say you don't need me and you never have. Does that sound about right to you?" His eyes roamed her face intensely, committing every detail to memory." And... there it was; that special anger only Lee could make her feel.
"This was supposed to be... something else." She ground out. " I was going to wish you all the best; because you deserve it. Tell you that I'll miss you; because I will. I wanted..."
"Frak what you want Kara. You've always gotten that from me. You owe me and I intend to collect now. You said you loved me. You frakked me one way and then frakked me another way the next morning. I never got the 'I hate you and wish you would die' that should have come somewhere between the two. You owe it to me and I want it before you go wherever the frak you're going."
"You've got to make everything a pity party don't you?!" Kara exploded. "'Daddy doesn't love me. Nobody loves me'." She said doing her 'Lee' voice. Kara blinked; It was that old cadence; words coming out of her mouth from someplace she could never locate; a dark and frakked up place she had thought was long gone since she had 'died'. Lee was looking at her with a genuine smile this time. A hopeful smile.
"Kara Thrace, ladies and gentleman. The genuine article." He said softly. "So... are you going to give me what I asked for or not?"
"Frak you Lee." She said through her teeth.
"Right here, right now?"