This was a challenge from Em. I'm as bad with challenges as I am with dares, I never back down from one.
Challenge: To write when Laura convinced Bill to go down to Earth, and the scene in CIC from Lee's POV. Basically how these 2 moments made Lee perceive their relationship.
I decided to split it into 3 chapters cause it adds to the effect, but it is 1 story on a whole. It doesn't have 3 chapters, only 1, but it worked like this.
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There we all were, standing in CIC around the DRADIS console. I was playing with my hands nervously and looking around at all the faces of the people who worked their hardest everyday. She stood there, as still as a statue, I'm guessing she was deep in thought. My father stood there, with his hands laying gently on the console.
"Fleet in jump formation standing by." Announced Dee, she was leaning with one arm on the panel in front of her.
The President and I looked up at the screens above us, anticipation written all over our faces.
"Board is green. Ship reports ready to jump Admiral." That was it, we were ready.
"Very well." My father spoke, he then looked over at the President, Laura. He told her that without her we wouldn't have made it. You could see she was close to tears, that small worried/anxious smile that she would acquire every now and then told me that, along with the slight glisten in her eyes. After all their arguments, countless disagreements, and his ever expressed opinion about religion, he had finally confirmed for her what we all knew. We had all needed her from the start, every one of us, him especially. He said he couldn't live without her, he was right. I think for my father to lose her, ever, would kill more of him than Zak's death did. He would be lost for good. He needs her to live, so that he can live. It was now pretty clear to me that his life depended on her life. Maybe not in a physical sense, but the physical side of things isn't the only side of life. You can die just as painfully in physicality as you can in emotionality and mentality. If she were to go, he would no longer be the man we all know.
I suppose it would be the same for her, I can see now how deep their caring for each other goes, or is it something more?
He told her to give the order, she smiled and put a hand to her face and looked around. She quickly turned back with a serious look on her face and took a breath in. I don't know if it was relief or some sort of excitement, but she let out her breath and told him with a smile that it was a long time coming. That it was. She took another breath in and slightly shook her head to regain her composure. She swallowed and let out a heavy "Okay". She was ready. She looked him in the eye and said, "Take us to Earth." She had given the order. He had now adopted his own anxious/worried smile. As the ship slowly sunk into a jump, I looked down at the console, waiting. Dee started counting down. "5." My father's face was solemn and he leant heavily on the console in front of him, as if he was also ready. "4." Laura was still looking at him, her acquired smile in place. "3." Everyone in the room was ready. "2." I was ready. "1." We were ready. "Jump."
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