"You know the President says that we're saving humanity— for a bright shiny future on Earth, that you and I are never gonna see."

Kara – drink in wit out.

They had to stay, the Galactica, to protect the mining ship; by orders of the old man and her.

Kara could never understand why, but she had faith in Laura – or the Madame President as she was supposed to address her. There as a fine line between trust and faith, Kara had crossed that. There was something deep inside of her that she couldn't put a finger on. That something made her care, more than her duties told her to. She surmised that it could be love, but that was so frakked up that it would be near impossible.

She was still hung up over Zak for frak sake!

She was here with Lee, his brother. With a face that so reminded her of her long since dead love.

Then why was it even when she spat out her drunken words all she could see was Laura. Laura and her smile, her anger, her trust – her love.

Kara still had faith. Kara had faith in Laura. Kara had to.

"We're not because we go out, over and over again, until some day, some metal mother frakker is gonna catch us on a bad day and just blow us away."

Another drink and another sentence— another footstep between what was right and wrong.

Here Lee Adama sat, here he listened and she supposed he agreed.

How she wished it was Laura – who listened, who sat with her; who knew her inside out.

She would die for this, this, impossible mission. She would die to find the Earth because Laura believed and Kara believed in Laura.

Good, reliable, dependent Starbuck – she'd do anything for her President, including being blown into atoms.

It would be worth it just for a smile.

Another drink.

"Bright shiny futures are overrated anyways."

Some more words – words that kept pouring from her drunken lips.

She gazed up at Lee, assessing what was to come next. Thinking it would ruin everything, not giving a damn.

Her future was frakked up. Her future meant nothing to the fleet. Who was she? Who was Starbuck?

A future without Laura would be nothing, meaningless. Kara would never know how it felt to hold her, and love her and—

"That's why we gotta get what we can right now."

Maybe tonight she'd settle for Lee.