There are times during the night when she can't sleep that she allows herself to think. Mostly the thoughts that fill her head when their cabin is silent and the only sounds she can hear are the sounds of their breathing and the constant, comforting rumble of the Galactica which at first used to irritate but after so long is now almost undetectable during the day to her ear. Some of the thoughts she has been having recently are settling on one common theme: missed opportunities. More specifically the opportunities involving Admiral William Adama.
They have known each for close to four years now and for the entire time she has felt this unexplainable attraction to him. What she regrets is waiting so long to tell him how she felt. She knew, somewhere in the back of her mind she would hear this little voice telling her not to be so blind. She regrets not kissing him and asking him to stay with her on New Caprica. This is one regret she finds easy to rationalise. She tells herself quite rightly that if she had asked he would have stayed and when the cylon occupation started he may have been hurt or killed and it would have her fault that because he was on that hell hole of a planet for her.
The next regret is having not taken up his offer of one of his bed when the raptor crashed into the Colonial One. Again easy to justify to herself. People would talk get the wrong impression. One that she knew at the time they weren't ready for.
These regrets fade away tonight when she feels the warm metal against her finger and his warm body against her back. He proposed tonight on the observation deck and Laura can't ever remember a time when she's been this happy, and this is what brings her to one irrefutable fact. She wouldn't give up these four years for anything. Yes, they have no home and face uncertainty everyday and she has at the most a few months to live but all these limping steps in their relationship, all the events have brought them to this moment and this moment is worth all the pain and regret they have endured together and apart and about that she has no regrets whatsoever.