Slightly Forgotten
By Samantha Jones
Summary : Okay, so here's how it goes. Lee never returned to the Battlestar Galactica via Colonial One; His viper was heavily damaged when saving Colonial One from certain doom, communications were destroyed and they therefore assumed that the almighty Apollo was dead in his crippled viper. He was later picked up by a civilian ship which was later picked up by the Pegasus blah blah blah… but there's got to be a BUT. Upon his miraculous recovery, one certain Lee Adama had completely lost his memory and civilians being as dumb as they can sometimes be, got rid of all the important stuff on his person…like his dog tags and his clothes which were all covered in blood mind you…but none the less destroying any evidence to who he really was. The only thing they actually did take note of was the name painted on his helmet: Apollo. Oh, and things didn't exactly happen like what happened on the first part of the mini series…
Several MONTHS (like 22 months) later…
"Sir!"
Commander Adama looked up from the logs that Admiral Cain had demanded and spotted his most notorious pilot, "Hi, Kara; what is it?"
"Admiral Cain has requested your presence on the Pegasus, Sir." Kara replied with a sneer, "Is she going to take over Galactica, Sir?"
Adama frowned; frankly, he'd been asking himself the same question for the past eight hours, "That's up to the Admiral, Lieutenant. And none of your concern." he answered sternly.
"But Sir!" Kara persisted, there was no fraking way some second rate Admiral was going to come in, take command, and destroy everything they had come to stand for over the last couple of months following the holocaust.
"Kara!"
Kara came back to reality and met the Commanders eyes, "Sir?"
"You'll be my pilot, get Kat and two Marines and be ready within the hour." He ordered.
"Yes, Sir." Kara replied with a glint in here eyes.
"And Kara,"
"Yes?"
"Kiss my grandson for me before we leave." He ordered with a small smile.
Kara smiled; Tegan was her reason for living. He was the only thing that was left of Lee. Lee who she had loved selfishly and had taken him for granted. She had let him leave without him ever resolving his issues with his father. He had somehow sprung her from the brig and one thing led to another, Zak forgotten, and they had loved one another for that short period of time. Two hours later, he left. No I love you's or I'll see you soon. Just gone. Never to be seen again…ever. Just…dead. She hadn't shed a tear or spoken to the commander of his oldest son's death. She had let it go on as if nothing had ever happened. She'd concentrated on killing as many fraking Cylons as humanly possible and somehow finding Earth.
Four months went by before she realised that her clothes was getting tight around her waist. She had completely shut down mentally, but when she realised the cause of her expanding tummy she'd cried her heart out. Helo found her and having no luck calming her down, he'd contacted life station. The Commander was there when she was brought in and for the first time in months she smiled at him, "I'm having his baby." She had cried.
The Commander had been so confused he had only stared back blankly, "What?"
Dr. Cottle confirmed it. She was four months pregnant. "Who's baby?" Adama had asked, terrified for the women he thought of his daughter…his family.
"Lee's," She had replied tears running down her face.
Dr. Cottle and Kara had been the only witness to the Commanders crumbling emotions. Tears had run down his face silently and he's thanked the Gods for this small gift they had granted him.
Tegan Lee Zakary Adama was born five months later right on time. He had Lee's beautiful baby blue eyes and Kara's smile. He was a heart breaker. He had the whole crew rapped around his little finger and he was Lieutenant Thrace's baby boy…no doubt about it. At a year and a half, he already had the makings of a future viper pilot. He'd sat in his first cockpit at 9 months and his first word had been viper. The apple had really not fallen to far from the tree.
As Kara entered her quarters, she spotted Cally who was working on some viper mechanical part as Tegan slept in his crib not to far away. She nodded to Cally, but went straight for the crib. Every time she looked at her son, her heart melted. With every passing day, Tegan looked more and more like his dad. She leaned down and kissed his forehead; how was it that the only men she had ever really loved were Adama's? It was something in the genes, she was sure. As she was leaving, she spotted a picture of her, Zak and Lee. In this picture she was in Zak's arms and sadly, Lee stood apart. Her love for Zak had been genuine, but was nothing like the love she had always felt for Lee. It had taken Zak's death and the fallout of a family for them to finally come together…and for what? Well, she couldn't complain, she had gotten Tegan, but how she yearned for Lee, for his hugs and his tender kisses, for his easy understanding of her nature and for his love. But Lee was dead…nothing was going to change that.
"Pegasus, this is Raptor 2, permission to board, over" Kara's voice went over the radio, Adama, the Chief, Helo and two other marines were in the back, Kat sat up front with her.
"Raptor 2, Pegasus, permission granted."
Admiral Cain met them in the hangar bay, "Commander Adama, welcome to the Battlestar Pegasus."
"Thank you for the invitation," Commander Adama replied politely, but inside he screamed, what is this woman up too?
Starbuck looked around the hangar bay and took note of the newer mach 7 vipers and their numerous personnel. In the far corner she noticed a viper and instead of a rank and name followed by a call sign all that was visible on the side of the cockpit was a call sign in bold letters. She frowned and started making her way towards the viper. As she came closer she read the call sign and came to a halt, shock written all over her face. Rage quickly replaced the shock. Who would dare use his call sign? She was sure as hell going to find out.
She looked around the viper and noticed a crew member underneath the viper. She leaned over and yanked on the legs. The guys came out from beneath the viper, frowned and looked up at the person who had disturbed him.
Kara took a step back in shock.
"Is there something wrong Lieutenant?" the man asked.
His face was the same, his hair, the shape of his mouth, they were all the same. But it was in his eyes…they weren't the same, the glint of humour was gone. What had been bright blue and full of life was now dull and lifeless…and he didn't know who she was.
"Lee?" she cried out.
The man backed up as he saw the look in her eyes.
"Lee!" she then yelled and advanced on him. She grabbed him by the cuff of his shirt and tried to shake him, "LEE! It's me! It's Kara!"
He tried to shake her off, who was this ball of life that was yelling at him?
"Lieutenant Thrace!" Someone yelled behind them.
Kara paid them no mind, but the man turned around and met the eyes of a Commander. The crazy women still had her arms on him. "Sir, I think there's something wrong with this woman."
"Lee?" Commander Adama whispered.
Who the hell was this Lee? Apollo asked himself. And who was this woman? She seemed so familiar, yet she was a complete stranger.
"What seems to be the problem, Commander?" Admiral Cain demanded, "And tell you Lieutenant to keep her hands off my pilot."
Adama turned to Cain with fire in his eyes, "That Pilot is my son!" he said pointing at Apollo, "And that Lieutenant is the mother of my only grandson, YOUR Pilot's Son!"
Apollo heard all this…yet none of it made sense. And then the Commander's words fully processed, this was his father…and he had a son!"
A/N – hopefully you've enjoyed this chapter so far, honestly I haven't written a story in over two years, so I'm a little rusty, the next chapter is mostly going to focus on Lee and how he got to be were he is now. So bear with me and REVIEWS are really appreciated and any ideas are also nice.
