Back on Caprica: President Adar's office: Just before the destruction of the 12 colonies.

"This can't be happening!" Adar yelled. "For frak's sake! The Cylons can't be back!"

"Sir, they are. The meeting station was destroyed. And now an 'unknown' force is attacking us. It has to be-" He was shot in the back.

Adar spun around, finding himself face to face with the barrel of a gun. The gun belonged to a blonde woman, a beautiful blonde woman. "Who are you?" He asked.

"Your worst nightmare." She answered sexily before hitting him over the head with the butt of her gun.

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On a Cylon baseship: Richard Adar's cell: Just after the destruction of the 12 colonies.

Adar came back into conciousness slowly, his head pounding. The first thought that entered his mind was Laura. Where is she? Is she okay? Did she survive the attacks? She was supposed to be on the Battlestar Galactica for the decommisioning ceremony. What happened? Where am I? His eyes searched the cell, finally resting on the blonde woman that had hit him over the head.

"Who are you?" He asked loudly. "Where am I? What's going on?"

"I think the correct question would be 'What am I'. And the correct answer would be a Cylon."

"A Cylon? You can't be. The last time we saw the Cylons, they looked like toasters."

"It's a thing called evolution. Now we look like this. Or, some of us do. As for you, you're on one of our baseships. Congratulations, you've survived the destruction of the 12 colonies."

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On New Caprica: During the exodus from New Caprica

Adar ran into mass confusion. The Cylons were letting him go, and he didn't understand why, but right this second all he cared about was getting as far away from them as possible. He joined a group that was running for a nearby raptor, thrilled that he was finally among humans again. He looked around, searching for a familiar face, but not finding one. I'm crazy to think that Laura will be okay. She's probably long dead, along with everyone else the Cylons killed back on the Colonies.

Laura was all he could think about. He could kick himself for not telling her how he truly felt when he still had the chance. He had always loved her, and he would never get to tell her just how much. He climbed into the raptor, surprised that no one had noticed him. Then again, he had changed a lot from when he was President. He'd grown older, his hair slowly graying. He had numerous scars from where he'd been hit and tortured by the Cylons.

Adar craned his neck to look out the front of the raptor. They were soon in orbit, and preparing to jump. With the jump brought the feeling of being stretched out. He never really could get used to that feeling. It felt so weird to him. So unfamiliar. He never liked unfamiliar things. It was one of the reasons that he could never let go of Laura. She was a symbol of everything that was familiar to him. They had met when he was elected mayor of Caprica City, when she was president of the school board. He was immediately attracted to her, flowing auburn hair, long, sexy legs, deep, electric green eyes. That was long before he was married, and he acted on that attraction. At first she fought against him, not wanting to get involved with a man that she worked with, but, eventually, she gave in to the attraction that they both felt strongly.

When he was elected governor of Caprica, he made her the head of education, wanting to keep her close. They kept their relationship a secret, not wanting people to think that she slept her way into her position. She hadn't, of course. While it was true Richard had wanted to keep her close, she earned her job by her actions with the people and students, not by her performance in the bedroom. He asked her to marry him several times, but each time she refused. She had never been very good at relationships, ever since her parent's own marriage had fallen apart. She was content to keep their relationship what it was, to her, purely sex.

It was just after he started his second term as governor that he met Samantha. He didn't love her by any means, but her family was of great political standing. He knew that if he married her his chances of being elected president would increase greatly. The day he told Laura was the hardest of his life, and it resulted in the biggest fight they ever had. She told him that if he married Samantha, that she would never, ever forgive him and that he'd never get into her pants again. He told her that if she would marry him, then he wouldn't have to marry Samantha. Again she refused, saying that she couldn't marry him.

So he married Samantha, but still Laura kept his heart. At first, he and Laura decided that things would be better if they remained only friends, so that he could try to make his marriage work. But Samantha didn't really want that, because she knew that his heart didn't belong to her. So, after she gave birth to their first, and only, child, she kicked him out of their bed and told him to go back to Laura, she herself going back to the man she really loved. Richard begged and begged Laura to take him back, but she was insistent that she would not sleep with a married man. When he was elected President of the 12 Colonies, he appointed her Secretary of Education. It was then that she admitted to him that she still loved him, and they spent a blissful night making sweet, passionate love to each other.

But even spending the night in Richard's arms, being told how much he loved her, couldn't change the fact that he was married, and not to her. They continued with their affair, stealing time to be with each other whenever they could, but it wasn't enough for Richard. He wanted more, he wanted to be with her always, to share a bed, to call her his wife. But he knew that if he left his wife for the Secretary of Education, there was no possible way that he would be re-elected. So he stayed with Samantha, stuck in a marriage with no love, a marriage where both partners loved someone else. He knew that Laura wasn't happy either, and she never missed an opportunity to express this feeling to Richard.

It seemed like everything he did anymore reminded him of Laura. He had spent most of his time with the cylons dreaming of her. Her long, sexy legs that had a tendancy of tangling up with his when they were sleeping. The long, reddish hair that his fingers would tangle up in when he was kissing her. The way she would moan when he nibbled on her ear. The way she would scream his name when she reached her climax.

"Sir?" A voice in his ear asked.

"Yes?" Richard snapped out of his memories. Right now was not the time to fantasize about Laura. He looked at the person who had adressed him. It was a young woman holding a baby boy.

"I was just wondering if I know you. You look very familiar." The woman said.

Richard thought for a moment about telling her who he was, but then decided against it. He didn't want to draw attention to himself just yet. "No, you don't. You must have me confused with someone else." He said.

"Oh, sorry. Didn't mean to bother you." The woman apologized.

"It's fine. What's your name?" Richard asked curiously.

"Cally. This is my son Nicholas. What's yours?" Cally asked

"Richard." Richard replied, hoping she didn't realize who he was but not wanting to lie to her.

"Nice to meet you Richard." Cally said, offering her hand. Richard took it, glad to once again feel human hands.

"Nice to meet you too, Cally." Richard replied, smiling warmly. "Do you have any idea where we're going."

"To the Battlestar Galactica. My husband and I are on the deck crew. We fix the vipers and stuff like that." Cally explained.

"Oh, great. I've always wanted to see the inside of the Battlestar Galactica." Richard lied. He had seen the inside once before.

"It's a magnificent ship." Cally raved. "It's my home. And I'm excited for Nicholas to grow up there."

"Oh." Richard replied. "Maybe he'll grow up to be in the military."

"Maybe. Hopefully we'll be to Earth by then."

"Earth?"

"Yeah. You know, the planet that the president and the admiral are taking us to. Or, they were before Gaius Baltar won the election." Cally said bitterly.

"Oh, not I remember. Sorry. A little out of it lately." Richard apologized.

"It's fine. We all are." Cally replied.

After a few minutes of silence, the raptor was landing. The passengers filed out one by one, stepping into the mass confusion that was the Battlestar Galactica.