"You may be half Cylon but you still have to eat, Laura."

She heard Ellen Tigh's voice and the slam of the hatch but refused to turn to look at her. She hadn't seen her since the day she slapped her. She didn't know how long ago that had been but other models had come in the meantime, Sixes and Eights and even a Two, with trays of food and comforting words. She'd only spoken to ask each one of them to put her out an airlock. So far her requests had been denied.

Ellen rounded the bed and crouched down near Laura's face.

"I'm sorry, Laura," she said softly. "I didn't mean to hurt you. As hard as it might be to believe I really thought I was doing you a favor."

Laura snorted into the pillow but didn't turn her head.

"Laura, I need you to look at me."

"No." She flopped onto her other side.

"It's about Bill."

Laura's body tensed.

"I told you never to speak his name to me again," she said sharply.

"Open your eyes, Laura. Please. If you really love him, open your eyes."

She hesitated for a moment before opening her eyes. When she did the room had transformed into the lush landscape she'd glimpsed moments before the world went black and she woke up in the frakking tub of goo. The sun beat down so harshly she could immediately feel it burning her fair skin.

She gasped when she caught sight of Bill stumbling from the Raptor and falling roughly to the ground. His face and arms were sunburned and he looked thinner than she'd ever seen him.

"Bill," she whispered, her voice cracking with emotion. Tears began to flow down her cheeks as she watched him slowly lever his body back up and, with obvious effort, make his way the few feet to a pile of rocks nearby. He collapsed down beside it and buried his face in his hands.

"Laura, he's given up. He's decided he can't live without you and he's just waiting up there on that mountain to die."

Laura cried harder, forcing her eyes shut against the damning evidence that what Ellen said was true. Bill was going to die and she wouldn't be there on the Shore to meet him.

"You can save him, Laura. You can go down there and you can nurse him back to health and help him build that cabin Saul says he was always going on about."

Laura shook her head even as she continued to sob.

"No. That will kill him. To know he led the fleet with a Cylon. Know he fell in love with one. To do that to him would be more cruel than anything. I won't do that to him."

Ellen tutted and laid a hand on Laura's shoulder.

"He led the fleet with Saul. Loved him too. And he accepted he was a Cylon. Why deprive him, why deprive yourself, of a second chance?"

Laura opened her eyes again and saw Bill struggling to get up and failing before he collapsed back to the ground, his head lolling to the side as his eyes fluttered shut.

Her chest tightened painfully.

"Take me to him."