Disclaimer: I own nothing of BSG except the character of Tari.

Summary: This is about Tari Adama, the child of Bill and Laura. I know that this was already created but think of it as a re-imagined series. The BSG characters I don't own. Tari I own and there area few characters that I don't own either. I merely borrowed them from people I know on a Forum site that I now play on for BSG.

Rating: T+ through M

Tari Adama stood on the Galactica flight deck and watched as Chief Tyrol readied her Viper. She was supposed to be flying the CAP but he had told her to wait while he made sure everything was sound with her So Captain Tari Adama waited patiently. Her mind wandered back to when she was first here on Galactica more than two months before.

Admiral Cain stood in front of a man she knew all too well; William Adama. Tari made sure she was out of sight of her father. It wasn't that she didn't want to see him she just wasn't ready for him to see her. Tari was still sporting a black eye and swollen lip from getting into a fight with another pilot over a matter of opinion.

"There is someone I think you would like to see." Cain said over the din of noise. "Ares, front and center." Cain ordered.

Tari took a moment and then complied working her way through all the people before she came to stand next to her Admiral across from her father and mother and brother. "Admiral?"

"Tari." Laura Roslin breathed out and barely restrained the urge to pull her daughter into her arms and hold her. Bill beat her to that action. He took a second to look her over and then pulled her in close. Laura noticed that Tari stiffed at the close contact from her father. He pulled back from her and saw the distance in her eyes. Bill Adama hadn't seen his daughter in nearly seven years.

"Commander." She said and moved back out of reach...

"Tari!"

Tari turned to see Destiny coming towards her with a little pep in her step. 'She must have bedded another nugget.' Tari thought and smiled at her friend. She couldn't remember the last time she had smiled here on Galactica. Every time she saw one of her family members or Kara Thrace she wasn't sure how to act. But being here around her friends from Pegasus and not having to think about everything made it a little more bearable.

"Yeah Destiny?"

"I thought you had the CAP Starbuck and Apollo?"

"I did, but the Chief wants to make sure everything is ok with my Viper before he sends me out there. He's run it up twice." Tari responded and watched the Chief check the gun ports on her Viper.

"Sorry about this sir but you are going to have use another Viper while I figure out what is wrong with yours." Tyrol replied and looked her way.

"Well Ares you can take Adam out if you want. Serviced him myself so that I know he is in tip top condition.' Destiny offered and Tari smiled again at her friend.

"Thanks." Tari said and went to find another knuckle dragger to ready Captain Fan's Viper for launch.

"Captain Adama?"

Tari froze at the voice behind her.

"Tari, please turn around and look at me."

"Why should I?"

"Because I am your mother."

"Really?" Tari rounded on Roslin and couldn't help but see all the similarities between them. She had the same red hair, pale skin, and bone structure her mother had. The one defining difference between them was the eyes. Her eyes were all her father. They were the same striking blue that reminded Tari of deep blue lake water shining in the sun of a summer day.

"Yes." Laura shot back.

"I don't know you." Tari growled and headed towards the waiting Viper leaving Laura standing there stunned. She would have to talk to Bill about Tari's behavior later.

ADAMA'S CABIN:

Laura sat with Bill at the table going over reports. She wasn't sure how to broach the subject of their daughter. It had been playing out in her mind all day. The blatant hate she had seen reflected in her child's eyes hurt Laura deeply.

"Something wrong?" Bill asked. When Laura didn't respond her touched her hand lightly causing her to jump.

"What?"

"Is something bothering you?" Bill asked again.

"Tari." Laura replied and looked away from Bill Adama.

"She's been rubbing a lot of people the wrong way lately. Lee tries to talk to her like a brother and she gives him the cold shoulder. Kara can't even talk to her without coming away with frost bite." Bill informed her. Tari had even given him the cold brush off the other day. He tried to let it go but this was his daughter.

"Tari has such a chip on her shoulder." Laura commented. "I want to try and talk to her when no one else is around but..." Laura trailed off looking at Bill for help.

"She has private quarters."

"Private? I thought she would be with the rest of the pilots?"

"No. I read her file from Pegasus."

"What do you mean?" Laura asked.

"You should ask her." Bill responded. Laura was about to try and get more information out of him when the wireless buzzed signaling Laura had to return to Colonial One.

TARI ADAMA'S QUARTERS:

Tari stood looking at herself in the small mirror hanging on her wall. She was in a black service bra just staring at the scars that littered her abs. Every time she looked at the old wounds her hate for Lt. Thorne grew and burned her heart until she thought it had turned black. There were even more on her back. She had been suspected of Cylon collaboration and handed over to Thorne to get the truth out of her. When she wouldn't talk Thorne had taken a knife and cut a deep gash into her flesh.

As Tari stood there she loosened her hair out of the pony tail and allowed her hair to cascade down her shoulders. With her hair down Tari looked so much like her mother that she had contemplated cutting all of her hair off, but every time she had held the knife to her hair she had stopped.

Tari wasn't paying attention when she suddenly felt a presence behind her. It was that of Ghost Rider. She had met him her first day aboard Galactica. He seemed nice enough to her but Destiny had told her some stories that Kara herself had overheard from some of the Galactica crew.

"Enjoying the show?" Tari turned and watched as Ghosts eyes traveled over the rest of her scar ridden body.

"Admiral Adama asked to see you." He informed her.

"Really?" Tari snarled, "Since when?"

"You will have to ask him." Wolfe replied and turned to leave the bitter young woman alone. 'Something terrible must have happened to her on the Pegasus.' he thought as he left her quarters. When Wolfe had showed her to her private quarters, Dylan wondered why she was so special to have her own billet and not her brother who was CAG or someone else of higher rank. Now he knew why. He felt a stirring of pity for the young pilot. Time would tell if she really belonged on Galactica or not.

Lee and Kara sat in the Pilots Rec Room and watched the youngest Adama laughing with Pilots from Pegasus. After Cain had died some of the pilots from the Battlestar had decided to come to Galactica; Tari was one of them. She was still avoiding the family as much as she could. When they finally managed to corner her Tari looked around for an escape. 'What had they done to her?' Lee thought and missed what Starbuck was saying.

"Lee?"

"Yeah... sorry I missed what you said." He responded and turned to face Kara Thrace.

"I tried talking to Tari the other day and she just blew me off."

"She's been doing that a lot lately." Lee mentioned. With his mind made up he rose from his seat and walked over to his half sisters table.

"Hey CAG, you wanna drink man?" Narcho asked sliding away from Tari to make room for Lee.

"Sure, Tari how are you?" Lee asked conversationally taking the offered drink from another Pilot he knew as Destiny.

"Just fine." Tari said flatly and looked away from Lee. She looked towards the hatch and decided to make her escape.

"It's been great fun but now I have to go." Tari got up from her set and nearly ran from the room.

GALACTICA GYM:

Tari pounded on the aging bag they had in the center of the gym. When she had arrived there had been no one in the part so she felt comfortable in only sweat pants and the work out bra. Right, right, left she pounded on the bag again and again. Why was her family trying too hard to get her to talk to them? If she had wanted to talk to them then she would have. But all their pushing was making it harder and harder for her to like them. Tari brought her leg up and kicked one side of the bag swinging it while she pivoted to backhand the other side. She thought back to the last time she had been in the same room with her brother, father, and mother. Even Starbuck was there.

"Tari, you look like you've seen a ghost?" Lee said to her as she stood in the middle of their father's cabin.

"More like the ghost of a family I never thought I would see again." she replied and looked away.

"Tari..." Laura Roslin came closer to her daughter and stopped when Tari backed away from her putting herself closer to the hatch should she need to run.

"What happened to you.... on the Pegasus?"

"Nothing." Tari replied automatically. With her hands behind her back they couldn't see her fingers run along one of her numerous scars.

"Are you sure?" Bill Adama asked. He stayed where he was. There was a chance that if he got closer than she would surely run.

"Yes." Tari answered.....

"You're beating that thing like you have a score to settle."

Tari turned to see her brother looking at her with a shock expression on his face. She watched as his eyes mapped the scars that littered her abs and back.

"What happened to you?" Lee asked.

"Nothing."

"Nice try. Another answer please." Lee said.

"I don't owe you Gods damned explanation." Tari snarled putting the bag between her and her bother so he would stop looking at the scars.

"I'm your brother...'"

"Not good enough. You and I are only connected by blood. There is nothing other than that."

Lee moved closer and Tari moved back. If she could she might run for the hatch and go back to her quarters. She still wasn't comfortable around her family. Two months she has been on board and she still felt like the black sheep. Tari flicked her gaze to the door and made a mad dash for it but Lee caught her about the waist. She tried to fight him off but Lee just held her until they fell to the floor. Tari just started to cry. She had never had Lee just hug her before and now he was.

"It's ok." Lee whispered while rubbing her back. Tari just continued to cry. This wasn't like her at all. These past two moths she had avoided any close contact with her family and now look what was happening.

"Lee." Tari pulled back and looked at her brother. He just offered up a weak smile and pulled her to her feet.

"Are we ok?"

"Maybe in time. I just have to sort..." Tari trailed off as she walked over to the bench to grab her sweat jacket.

"Dad is offering dinner tonight." Lee mentioned.

"Yeah and..." Tari replied. She had regained some of her attitude when she put on her jacket.

"You could come to dinner."

"Maybe."

ADAMA'S QUARTERS:

Admiral William Adama read Captain Tari Adama's file. She had numerous commendations from her instructors, notes from Cain and many other things. There was even a note about her turning down the position of CAG aboard the Battlestar Urantia under the command of Commander Tyler Standish. There was no rhyme or reason for her to give up a good posting. Instead she joined the crew of the Pegasus. 'Look where that got you Tari.' Bill thought and continued to read. Bill looked to the clock and noted that Tari was taking her time to get here. He had asked Dylan Wolfe to pass the word to her, but apparently she decided to take her time. Just as he was about to go look for her Tari walked into his cabin.

"You took your time."

"Wasn't really in hurry to be in here again. Least it's only you ganging up on me and not mom or Starbuck or Lee." Tari replied and crossed her arms over her chest.

"I wanted to ask you something. I've been going over your file and it says here that you were offered a position aboard Urantia. Why didn't you take it?" Bill asked watching his daughters face. She looked away from him and remembered...

Tari walked alone around the base. Soon she would have to pick a posting. She wanted to serve on the Pegasus but there were other options as well. The Pegasus was so far away from the Galactica. Her father's ship. If she was lucky then a position would still be available on Adm. Cain's ship.

"Lt. Adama?"

Tari turned to see a petty officer, "Yes."

"There is someone here to see you sir in the visitors lounge." He said and walked off.

"Great." Tari whispered and went to see who was looking for her.

VISITORS LOUNGE:

Commander Standish looked up when a young red head walked through the door in a Flight Suit. She looked so familiar but he couldn't place the face, but he knew the eyes all to well. They were the eyes of her father; William Adama.

"Lt. I'm Commander Tyler Standish from the Battlestar Urantia. I've been going over choice candidates for my new CAG and well you name keeps coming up." he said.

"Sir, I'm sorry but I have made up my mind to serve on the Pegasus under Rear Admiral Cain, but I can tell you someone better than me."

"Better than you Lt.?" Standish asked a little puzzled.

"Yes sir. Lt. Grae Azaire.... she is better CAG material than I am. You'll be able to find her cooling her heals at the Goats Head bar here on the base." Tari replied and turned to leave then she turned back and replied, "Thank you for considering me, sir." And then she was gone...

Tari looked to her father and sighed, "I didn't want to be in Urantia. I wanted to be as far away from my fam... mother as possible." Tari said in an angry tone.

"You meant family?"

"Ok yeah, I meant 'My Family' "Tari responded.

"Why?"

"Because I am tired of being the bastard Adama Child. Lee is your son; he is Apollo, but me, I'm the old mans bastard child!" Tari shouted at her father. For a flash of a second Bill Adama looked hurt.

"If I have ever made you feel..."

"No.... don't pity me. I didn't ask for this. You and my mother inflicted this fate on me when..." Tari trailed off and started to pace. She wanted to run, run far away to avoid her problems.

"Tari..."

"Whatever you have to say, save it for Lee." Tari growled and retreated from her fathers Cabin. He stood there stunned at the amount of hatred she had put into her words. Laura came out from the back room to stand next to Adama. She heard the whole thing and knew the pain Bill had felt.

"She's just angry." Laura whispered and Bill turned to her.

"I know. Maybe in time she will come around." Bill replied. He certainly hoped that Tari would come around for Laura's sake. It was hurting her to see all the hate in their daughter's eyes.

PILOTS REC ROOM:

Tari stomped into the rec room and grabbed a seat next to her friend Destiny who was on the lap of her flavor of the month: Roadkill. He was a special pilot; great shooter but lousy with the landings. It was Destiny's job to straighten him out. Apparently she was doing more than getting him to land. Next to them was Vixon and on her left was Ghost Rider. To his left was Hephaestus. Matt was an interesting sort of person, but Tari hadn't cared enough to get to know any of the crew from Galactica.

"Girl, what's up with you?" Destiny asked leaning over Tari.

"Nothing, I just yelled at my father. Besides that I'm as fine and dandy as a Caprican Sunrise." Tari said with heavy sarcasm.

"Well I think you're lucky." Vixon spoke up.

"Oh yeah, how so?" Tari asked.

"You have your family. Most of us aren't that lucky." Vixon snapped leaving the table with Ghost following after her. He had been glaring at Tari ever since she sat down. Maybe she had gone a little overboard with her attitude earlier towards him.

"How can I be lucky when..."

"Tari what you need to do is forget about it, find a pilot, bed him for the night and be done with it." Destiny said and leaned her forehead against Roadkills.

"Easy for you to say. The minute they look at the scars they run." Tari commented and sighed as Roadkill poured her a drink. What was she going to do? She had a family that made her feel like the odd man out.

"Well that's my advice anyway." Destiny said and she and Roadkill got up leaving Tari alone at the table. Tari downed her drink a looked around the rec room for an eager pilot and found many but none that she wanted to bed. She tossed the glass back on the table and left. As she walked by she heard a few whistles directed at her.

"You better behave Hotdog." Kat punched him in the arm.

"Why, she is hot."

"That's the Old Man's daughter." Kara said from behind Hotdog making him jump out of his chair.

"Damn." Hotdog cast one last glance at Tari as she headed out the door. Whether she heard everything he wasn't sure. He still had to fly with her and everything. They didn't need anymore animosity between the two crews.

COLONIAL ONE:

Laura Roslin sat at her desk and waited for Bill to say something, anything about last night. He just sat there stone faced as usual. The tings that Tari had said last night had not only hurt him but her as well. She had no idea the extent of her daughter's pain, but now she did. How could she convince her daughter that she loves her?

"What are we going to do about Tari?" Laura asked. She had to get up and move around.

"I don't know if there is anything we can do. The more we push the more Tari pulls away. She needs to learn to live with out the fear."

"Fear?"

"If you look beyond the blind devotion she had to Cain you will see fear. You can see it in all of the crew from Pegasus."

"Hmm. Maybe I can try and talk to her in her quarters." Laura mused as she stood in front of one the small windows they had on Colonial One.

"Are you sure you want to do that?" Bill asked rising to stand behind Laura as she looked out at the stars.

"Bill she is my daughter. I have to try." Laura responded and looked at his reflection. Bill only nodded.

VIPER 452:

Tari flew wing man to her brother Apollo going on ten hours. She had made it a point to only answer when asked a direct question. It was bad enough that she had cried in the arms of her brother. Now she was even more standoffish than normal. Maybe that pilot Vixon was right. Maybe she was lucky enough to still have a family intact.

"Ares you awake over there?" Starbuck commed.

"Yeah, why?" Tari replied.

"You've been pretty quiet."

"I've had nothing to say."

"Well, that's..."

"Alright enough." Lee cut in, "Time to head back to Galactica. Tari you're to land on Colonial One."

"Great." Tari muttered and pealed away from the other two Vipers.

CIC:

Bill Adama stood at the DRADIS console and listened to the chatter over the wireless. He was thinking back to what Laura had said when he was on Colonial One. He didn't think that pushing Tari into accepting them was a good idea but Laura was going to do it anyway. She probably knows their daughter a little better than he did. Maybe one of the reasons Tari never fully accepted him as a father is that he ever fully accepted her as his daughter.

"You ok there Bill?" Saul Tigh asked as he came up next to his friend and Commanding officer.

"Family problems." Bill sighed looking up at the DRADIS screen.

"Which one, or should I ask?"

"Umm... Tari today. It might be Lee next week."

"It will all work out." Saul said and went about his day to day routine. He just hoped that things for his friend worked out soon.