Libra 8 years ago

Dark clouds covered the sky and only now and then the clouds broke a bit and allowed small beams of light to come through. The swing in the backyard of the Moore's house was only slightly moved by the arising storm. Yellow balloons from the birthday party three days ago still hung on the swing but no child was left to be happy about their bright colour. Alexia, Thereza and Caleb Moore's eleven year old daughter had vanished without a trace only one day after her birthday and still the police had no explanation for her absence or a clue what had happened to the kid.

Thereza sat on a chair near the phone and waited. She hoped the police would call and tell her they had found Alex alive but deep in her heart she knew that something bad had happened to her little girl and that she wasn't going to come back yet. The young woman felt like being trapped in a nightmare and it took her a moment to focus on what was reality and what was stuck in her head when the doorbell rang. For a few seconds she hesitated and whished her husband would have been there, but he was working. Fear threaded to overwhelm her. With shaking hands she pushed herself up from the chair, afraid the police would be outside her house, telling her Alex was dead. She could almost see the bloody face of her daughter sticking out of a black body bag.

Thereza forced herself to calm down as she dragged the door open, already tearing up although she didn't know who exactly would be standing in front of the door. When she recognized the man that had rang the bell, she felt even more like fainting. "Dreilide," she asked, her voice sounded weary and breathless, all because of the shock she experienced by seeing him. The handsome man in the black suit in front of her just nodded, traces of sadness in his eyes as his gaze met hers. "I'm sorry to… show up before having announced my appearance, but I heard of Alexia's disappearance two days ago and I just…damn, she still is my daughter and I just wanted to know if I can do anything," he said calm and rubbed his hands.

Thereza felt her face blush red in anger. "You've given a damn about your daughter, Dreilide! You haven't even seen her once in 11 years, you haven't sent her even one card to her birthdays or Christmas! All you did was paying the alimony, but you've never been Alex father! She has a father, Caleb cares for her as if she was his daughter. You have your own family you didn't want to leave because of Alex and me, so don't dare to step into my life like that, only because she is gone. We don't need your help or your pity for frak's sake. Just leave us alone and please – don't ever come back," she yelled, trying hard not to lose control. Dreilide Thrace shrugged. "I didn't come to upset you, Thereza. I know I have made so many mistakes, I have never been a father to Alex but I just can't sit around at home when my kid is missing. My family now knows about her, she's no longer a secret but my legal daughter, so please – let me care, let me help," he begged but Thereza wouldn't listen. She just shook her head and closed the door a bit. "Thanks for coming here but Alex doesn't need you. And we don't need your help. Help me by staying away from me and Alex!" With these words she slammed the door, kneeling down on the floor and starting to sob uncontrolled.

Battlestar Galactica 8 years later

Kara Thrace sat in front of a huge stack of paperwork and sighed. For nearly one week she had refused to do her paperwork and now it had absolutely gotten out of hand. "Frak it," she mumbled in anger. Paperwork just wasn't something for a Thrace!

She heard someone knock on the door and yelled: "Come in," a little bit louder than needed to vent her anger, then got up to see who came in. It was Lee Adama, smirking all over his face when he saw her room being covered in sheets of paper. "You really shouldn't wait so long to do the paperwork or it…;" he started but couldn't go on because he was hit by a pillow Kara had thrown at him. "Shut the frak up, Adama, I'm pissed enough so don't come here with that smirk to bother me! What do you want?"

Lee chuckled.

"You really should work on your anger problems, Kara! But I've come to show you something, something serious. This is a passenger list of the Rising Star I've read to locate the family of one of the pilots and I stumbled over this by chance…;" Lee said and pointed at a name he had underlined.

"What? You found a hidden Cylon or something? Give me the file, your hands are so damn shaky that I can't make out the words," Kara demanded and took the file out of Apollo's hands.

She stared at the white sheet of paper in disbelieve. "Alexia Thrace," she read out loud the underlined name and breathed. This name had hunted her throughout her whole childhood, it had ruined her life even though she had never met the person the name belonged to.

"This can't be true, Lee. Alexia died 8 years ago, this has to be a Cylon copy," Kara firmly said and handed the file back to Lee who was obviously surprised that Strabuck knew the woman on the list.

"Who is she? A relative of you? Not that I knew you had relatives at all…," he admitted and set down on a chair that could barely carry him.

He could tell that he had gotten into a bad situation by the expression on Kara's face. She just stared at the wall, her eyes were glassy as if she was far away with her thoughts. Lee was wise enough to not interrupt her in her thoughts, he just gave her a few minutes.

After a while she looked at Lee and sighed. "It's a long story but I'll make it as short as possible. My father had … some difficulties with my mother so he had several one-night stands. Alexia was the result of a funny frak with Thereza Moore. Until this girl disappeared 8 years ago my family officially didn't know about her because my father had kept his daughter a secret but when she vanished without a trace he told my mother. I had know about he for a long time…had found a letter from Thereza in which she had told him about his daughter's existence. My whole childhood I feared my mother would find the letter because he would have kicked him out. Well…she finally did and so I was alone with her, she could do whatever she wanted to me! You have no idea how much I hated this girl, Lee. But nevertheless it can't be her, it has to be a Cylon because she was pronounced to be dead 6 moth after her disappearance," Kara hesitatingly told him, her voice sounded throaty and it seemed to be tough for her to tell him something about her past, especially something of that importance.