Love and War

Chapter 7: Blood and Tears

"Commander Adama" Cottle said looking over towards where Adama and Kara were seated. "The antiserum is gone. We don't have any more. There isn't much I can do for him now."

"You have to do something because I'm not going to just let you sit there and watch him die! If he dies you die Cottle!" Kara screamed at him.

"Lieutenant, I wasn't finished. I'm going to try to flush the poison out of his system. He's going to need a blood transfusion" Cottle continued. "Commander what's your blood type?"

"I'm an A just like Lee." Adama responded and rolled up his sleeve so that Cottle could draw blood.

Cottle cleaned his arm and started to draw blood.

"There, that's the most that I can take" Cottle said pulling out the needle and giving him a cotton ball to hold on his arm. "Know if you'll excuse me, I have a life to save."

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"That's all that I can do for the moment. We are trying to flush out his system; we gave him a blood transfusion, and drained the fluid out of his lungs. His temperature is also down to 103°, which is an improvement" Cottle said as he took off his rubber gloves and threw them in the trash. "It's a waiting game now."

Adama and Kara sat in silence by Lee's bedside. Kara was holding Lee's hand and crying silently, while Adama was sitting quietly to the side watching them. A nurse came in made a few notes on the clipboard and left. A few more hours passed by like this, with nurses coming in and out, making a few notes on the clipboard and then they would leave again in silence.

"Commander" someone called from outside the curtained area. Adama walked out to see whom it was.

"Madame President," Adama said startled. "I'm sorry I was not aware that you were aboard."

"It's fine, I made an unannounced visit," Roslin said. "I came to see how Captain Apollo was doing, I heard that he has become seriously ill."

"Yes, he has. Please come with me," Adama said gesturing towards Cottle's office. "There is something that I want to talk to you about."

Adama closed the door when they were both inside Cottle's office.

"Lee has been poisoned. This is the second attack, and the only bottle of antiserum was destroyed" Adama said with a stern look. "We don't know who is try to kill him, but we have reason to believe that it may be a cylon. This information is not public yet, we don't want people to start accusing each other of being cylons."

"Are you sure that it is poison?"

"Yes, Cottle ran a blood test."

"Is there anything that I can do?" Roslin asked.

"Well, since I'm guessing that you don't have any antiserum laying around…" Adama trailed off.

"I will pray Commander. I know that you don't believe that prayer will do anything, but it can't hurt," Roslin said and exited the room.

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"K-ra?" Lee's voice was barely audible.

"Lee?" Kara asked surprised that he was awake.

"What happened?"

"You were poisoned again. How are you feeling?"

"Like" –cough-cough- "a viper is docked on my chest." Lee said as he patted the bed next to him signaling Kara to lay down. Kara laid down next to him and he put his head on her should. She could feel the heat radiating of his skin from the high temperature he was running.

"Get some sleep Lee, you need it."

"But I just woke up." Lee said with a weak smile and then fell back asleep.

"Commander," Kara said looking up as Adama entered the room. "Lee just woke up he asked me to sit with him…"

"It's fine." Adama said cutting her off. He smiled and then looked back towards the President only to see that she was smiling as well.

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A few days later Lee's condition hadn't improved much. But, he hadn't gotten worse so Cottle said that was a good sign. Slowly life started to return to normal, Kara couldn't stay with Lee all the time. She still had her patrols and had to cover most of Lee's, but every night Kara came back to Life Station and slept with Lee. She didn't want to leave him alone, even though there was a guard posted in Life Station now; Kara just knew that if she left him alone something bad was going to happen.

"Kara?" Lee said when he woke for the first time in two days. Kara had been talking to one of the nurse to see if there were any changes while she was out on patrol. She rushed over to Lee's bed, but it was to late, he had already fallen back asleep.

"FRAK!" Kara yelled in frustration, mad that she wasn't there when Lee woke up.

"Kara," Cottle said as he entered the room and saw Kara. "I looked at your file and it said that your blood type is also A. I'm going to give him another blood transfusion, hopefully that will help some."

T.B.C

A/N: (I wrote this last night but didn't have a chance to post it until today) okay sorry this isn't the long chapter that I promised you guys. I work 6 days a week so it's hard to find time to write. Hopefully since tomorrow is Sunday I can write that long chapter I promised. I'll try to write another one later tonight because this one was really short, but I don't know if I'll have time. Again thanks for the reviews, I really appreciate them, and I'm sorry I don't reply to them like I should, I just thought that you would prefer a new chapter then a response to reviews. Sorry again but thank you for reading and please review. (I will probably post another chapter later today)