"There's nothing wrong with her physically. Mentally, however…"
"How bad is it, Doc?"
"The report says that she was lucid until they got her into the Raptor. Then they got in the air and she just passed out."
"You mean she's comatose?"
"No, but she's catatonic. She's awake but unresponsive, and when she does speak, it's the same thing over and over again."
"What has she been saying?"
"You'd never believe it."
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Kara Thrace slowly gained consciousness to find herself on the floor of a white room. Staying still, she surveyed her surrounding by moving her eyes only. It was a nondescript, empty space. With the exception of a door in one wall, the walls and floor were completely smooth. There was a bright light coming from the ceiling, but she couldn't make out what the light source was. Judging from the walls, there was no way for her to turn it off.
Her head began to throb as she moved to sit up. Leaning up against the wall opposite the door, she realized that she was dressed in a white gown and her tattoos were gone.
Was she dead?
She had to be dead. Her Viper had exploded. She could remember the split second before everything went black when the cockpit disintegrated around her.
But if this was the afterlife, why was she feeling pain?
Kara was trying to figure out what had happened and where she was when the door to the room she was in opened.
He walked in.
No. Not again.
No, no, no, nonononononononono….please, gods, no.
"Hello, Kara."
Leoben.
She began wishing that she was alive. Because if she was dead, then this was hell.
An eternity spent with the one being in the entire universe that made it his personal mission to make her suffer so that she would love him.
Oh, gods, she had let herself go, thinking she was fulfilling her destiny, and she was now the plaything of a twisted sadist with no sense of reality. Tears began welling up in Kara's eyes as one side of her became resigned to her fate while the other insisted that she resist and find a way to escape and return to her people.
Leoben stepped up to Kara and knelt in front of her, a disturbing smile forming on his lips. "No, don't cry, Kara. We're together now, like we were always destined to be," Leoben ran a finger up her arm. "See? I even had your tattoos removed. You're pure, new, and belong to me and me alone."
Kara jerked back at his touch as memories of the dreams-no, nightmares-she'd had of this Cylon came flooding into her mind.
She tried to shrink back…the thought of him touching her like that for real…she wished that she could disappear…wished that she was back on Galactica…wished that she had listened to Lee and found her way to the comfort of his arms once she had safely returned.
She began pushing away from her close proximity to Leoben, moving herself closer and closer into a corner.
"You'll come to love me the same way that I love you, Kara. You'll see. Give it time."
With that, Leoben stood up and walked out of the room-no, the cell-and locked the door behind him.
Only then, did Kara to scream as she pounded and clawed at the walls, the floor, and herself. The desperate, primal scream of someone who, despite the reality of their situation still held onto the small hope that they would be delivered from their fate.
Kara curled herself into a ball in and sobbed into her knees. All the talk of higher powers and destinies had gone to her head. The Cylons had truly been fraking with her all this time and she played straight into their hands.
But she permitted herself one small glimmer of hope as she slowly stopped crying. She was alive and Lee was out there. Unless someone tied him down or killed him, he wouldn't stop at anything in trying to find her.
She was sure of it, because she knew she would do the same for him without hesitation.
Because…
Because she loved him…
And he loved her…
At least she hoped he did…that he still did.
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"So, no change since she came aboard?"
"Yeah."
"And she's been saying that over and over again?"
"Just that and nothing more."
"Any idea why?"
"None whatsoever."
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"You know, I'm pretty sure this wasn't what you meant when you told me you'd see me on the other side."
Kara jerked up her head at the sound of that voice.
"Lee?"
