This was a challenge from Em. I'm as bad with challenges as I am with dares, I never back down from one.

Challenge: To write when Laura convinced Bill to go down to Earth, and the scene in CIC from Lee's POV. Basically how these 2 moments made Lee perceive their relationship.

I decided to split it into 3 chapters cause it adds to the effect, but it is 1 story on a whole. It doesn't have 3 chapters, only 1, but it worked like this.

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"We've projected a course towards the signal. It will probably take some revising as we go but, this is our destination right here." I placed my finger on the star chart in front of me. "Earth." I stood up straight. "So, what are your orders Admiral?" I asked.

"Orders?" He said it like I was asking a stupid question.

"Are you ready to take us to our new home?" I continued.

"Ahh, I don't know." Was he giving up?

"You don't know what? Hmm?" He'd lost hope, maybe she could convince him to go down.

She walked closer to him and placed a hand on his left shoulder, sliding it across his back and off his right. As she sat down, her hand found his arm. I could tell that things were different between them. That little gesture could say so much about their relationship, yet if everything was as it use to be, she wouldn't show that kind of thing in front of me. Or would she? Even though her hostility towards me has seemed to dissipate, I feel like I am still not entirely back on old ground with her.

"What don't you know about? Hmm?" She had that tone, that tone that could get through concrete. At times Bill Adama was concrete, but to her he was an open book, she knew him, and she knew everyway to get through to him.

He looked at her, his face was a picture at seeing her again. Something had definitely changed. Admirals are never that glad to see their Presidents, even after a kidnapping. I could tell they were sharing a moment and I almost felt like I should leave, but I didn't. "It's good to see you." He told her, but I had the strangest feeling that inside he was screaming his joy. His joy that she was home safe.

"Bill?" It wasn't the first time I had heard her use his first name in front of me, but it didn't cease to surprise me every time. "This is it. This is it." She waited for her words to sink in, and then continued in nothing but a whisper. "This is everything that we have been working for." I stared with utter interest, my chin resting between my index finger and my thumb. It was amazing that a woman who he spends a good deal of his time disagreeing with, could do what I, his own son couldn't.

"I wanna see you pick up that first fist full of Earth. C'mon." Her voice wasn't telling him, it was asking him. Persuading him. He looked from her to me, he said he'd be back, and got up to go get dressed.

Still looking after him, she folded her hands and spoke to me.

"I see." She saw how he had lost hope, and I was right, she could convince him. She was the only one who could.

I agreed with her and thanked her, she thanked me back. What for? I dismissed it.

"But anyway I'm.. ah.. glad to see you again Madame President. So is the Quorum." I laughed a little, they were definitely glad to see her. Maybe now that she has been gone for a while, they will accept how much they need her. How much the fleet needs her. "And I guess I just finished the shortest Presidency in Colonial History."

"Yes well don't look so relieved Mr Adama." She smiled as she spoke. "Because you were dealt a crisis and you knew exactly what to do, you faced it boldly." Not old ground but awfully close. "This fleet is going to need that in the days to come, so you are not off the hook yet." I remember when my father told me that she had thought that Billy would make President one day. Was she putting me on the same page as the boy she once saw as her only source of family? I just thanked her, it meant a lot to me, considering what I had done to her in that court room.

My father walked back into the room, as he picked his glasses up from the table and put them on he asked "You guys just gunna sit there flapping your lips or are we gunna go find Earth?" She smiled at me, a smile of success. I stood and went to tell him the Kara and I had been working on a recon mission. But before I could finish, he told me to frak it and said that it was the end of the line and we had no where else to go. He told me that if we gave the alliance to much time, that it would fall apart again, we had to roll the hard six. She nodded in agreement. He also said that we would all go together, as fast as we could. He turned and headed for the hatch. I looked at her and as she smirked back, I smiled and said "Yes sir."

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