Laura sat relaxing in a nice hot bubble bath.
Normally she would come home from work take a quick shower to rinse the stress away, drink a cup of tea while watching the evening news and then go to bed.
Today had been different for her though, because today she had given her resignation letter to Adar.

After spending the last 5 years as secretary of education Laura was ready for a change of pace. She quit her job and her affair with Richard Adar in one day. Laura thought about Richard when she handed him her resignation letter.

"What's this Laura, a love letter?" Richard gave her one of his smart ass smirks that made her want to slap him as hard as she could. "Oh yes Richard. I thought since I am so madly in love with you I would resign so we could finally be together without it causing issues for our jobs." Richard glanced up and Laura could see the panic in his eyes at the thought that she might quit. "Laura your joking right? I mean you are not considering quitting are you? I need you Laura, the colonies need you." Richard stood and walked around his desk until he was standing next to Laura. It was Laura's turn to smirk, "Richard I assure you I am serious. So serious in fact that if you read my letter you will see that as of today I am on vacation since I have not had one in 5 years. Use my vacation time to find my replacement because when my vacation is over I won't be coming back." Laura walked out of the Presidents office leaving him with a shocked look on his face.

Laura smiled to herself as she reflected on the day she had had.
Her thoughts however were interrupted when she heard her front door open. It was already 11pm and there were only two people who would show up that late.

The first was Richard but after what she had done to him she was sure it was not him.
The second was Amy but she was away at school and was not due back for another week.
Laura placed her wine glass on the edge of the bath tub and picked up her phone ready to dial for help if needed.

Her bathroom door flew open and in walked her best friend.

"Kara what in the gods names do you think you are doing? You nearly gave me a heart attack."

Kara ignored the fact that Laura was submerged in bubbles and proceeded to sit on the tiled floor.

"Sorry I would have called but I had to tell you about my day as quick as I could and I just got off work about 20 minutes ago."

Laura felt a little awkward sitting in the bath with Kara right there staring at her.

"Okay well why don't you go in the living room and give me a chance to get dressed and then you can tell me about your day."

Kara shrugged and got up to walk out but paused at the door.

"Hurry up though cuz it's really important."

Laura nodded and waited for the door to close until she got up out of the bath. After Laura dried off with a towel she slipped into her fluffy white bath robe and then began to walk out to the living room.
Kara had helped herself to a glass of wine and was reclining comfortably on the couch that sat next to the window; it showed a wonderful view of Caprica City.

Kara lifted her feet as Laura sat down. Once Laura was comfortable Kara placed her legs across Laura just like she always did and like always Laura laid her arm across Kara's legs.

"Okay Kara what is so important that you had to walk in on me taking a bath?"

Kara looked up and smiled, "Well first off I got promoted today. The LT in charge of training nuggets was found hammered in his cockpit today and so he was canned. They needed a replacement and I got the job. You are looking at Lieutenant Thrace."

Laura smiled; she was so proud of Kara's accomplishment and knew how much she deserved the promotion.
She leaned over and hugged Kara,

"Congratulations hun you deserve it. I now understand the urgency so I will forgive you for intruding into my home. Now what was the other news?"

Kara's smile faltered a little bit and Laura could tell she was nervous.

"Well you know how I told you about that guy I was dating?"

Laura nodded, "Yeah well he is a nugget and he is in the batch of nuggets I was assigned. Now it would be unethical to continue the relationship because superior officers are not suppose to be involved with their charges."

Laura nodded her understanding as she sipped on her wine, she knew better than to try to advise Kara on anything until she heard about whatever crazy scheme Kara had concocted to get around this rule.

"So we were talking and my group of nuggets have been assigned to train on the battlestar galactica in three weeks.
The commander of the battlestar will be my head boss so I figured I should tell him about my relationship with Zak, that's the nuggets name by the way.
Only thing is Zak already told the old man because Commander Adama is Zak's father. So the old man, that's the commander, wants to go to dinner with Zak to discuss this and Zak wants me to join them but I am really nervous and so I suggested we fix the old man up so that it's not as awkward.
Zak agreed so Me, Zak, The old man, and you will be going to dinner tomorrow night at 8."

Laura spit out the wine she had been about to swallow when she heard Kara mention her going to dinner as The Commanders date.

"Kara Thrace I can not believe you! I am not going on any blind date! I have told you a thousand times that I do not want to date anybody, I'm not going Kara. I won't do it."

Kara was determined to get Laura to agree, "Laura I already told him you would go and he is going to come pick you up at 7:30.
So sorry there is no way you are getting out of it because I won't call him to tell him you're not showing up. You don't want to go then you will have to tell him yourself when he is at your doorstep tomorrow."

Laura glared at Kara knowing that this was a battle she was going to lose.

Kara continued "Besides it would be good for you to go on a date. The only person you've frakked in months is Richard and for the thousandth time He's MARRIED!"

Kara was the only person that knew of Laura's relationship with Richard, and she hated it. Kara had been telling Laura to drop him for the last two years and Laura decided that maybe by sharing the news of the breakup she might be able to weasel her way out of the blind date.

"Kara as of Today Richard and I will no longer see each other. I broke things off with him this morning when I handed in my resignation letter. Besides I can not go on a date, think about how Amy might feel about it."

Laura took a sip of wine as she side glanced to see Kara's mouth dropped open in shock.

"You quit your job!"

Laura shot Kara a quick glare, "I tell you I stopped my affair with the president, and you're more shocked about me quitting my job?"

Kara rolled her eyes, "I knew you would stop frakking that loser eventually,"

Now Laura rolled her eyes she hated when Kara used the word frak to describe her relationship with Richard, she just hated the word in general and tried not to use it.

"So that's not a huge surprise, but you quitting your job is a huge shock. What are you going to do for money? And don't even try to pull Amy into this.
It's not like you and her dad got a divorce and you starting to date would be awkward for her.
You had her thanks to a sperm donor and have never been in a real relationship since you had her. She can handle her mom going out on a date, and besides she's at school its not like she would have to know about it."

Leave it to Kara to make a logical point when you really didn't want her to.

"Well Kara I have money saved up, two weeks of paid vacation money coming in, and I have my inheritance that my parents left me. So I don't think money will be an issue. Think of it as early retirement! As for Amy you don't know how she might take all of this, and of course she would need to know. I don't keep things from her."

Kara finished the last of her wine and stood up looking at her watch.

"Okay well if not working is going to make you happy then I am all for it. If you want to tell Amy about the date then go for it. Well it's late and I should let you get some sleep. Call me early tomorrow so that we can discuss what you are going to wear to dinner."

Laura had stood up so that she could hug Kara goodbye and did not hide the look of shock that appeared when Kara mentioned the dinner again.

Kara glared at her, "Did you really think just because you told me you decided to stop frakking that moron that I was going to let you off the hook for tomorrow?"

Laura put on the most child like face she could muster, "Well I was hoping that you would be so proud of me that you would let me off this once."

Kara shook her head, "Not a chance in Hades. You are still going to go whether you like it or not. Look at it this way; you get to be there when I meet my boy friends dad for the first time and knowing me I will probably make an ass out of myself."

Laura smiled and finally caved. "Well why didn't you mention that right away, count me in. Night hun, love you."

Kara hugged Laura and Laura returned the hug, planting a kiss on Kara's forehead as they parted. "Thanks Lolly, you have no idea how much it means to me." With that Kara took off down the hall way, and Laura headed to bed.