Title: Reflections – One Step Forward Two Steps Back Chapter 8 Untrustworthy
Author: GEM
Date written: 5/22/06
Rated: K+
Word count: 363
Story Timeline: season 1
Category: Drama
Warnings: none
Characters: Roslin/Adama
Summary: Denial and Realizations
Spoiler: Flesh and Bone
Author's Note: Something different, a reflection on how the relationship between Laura Roslin and Bill Adama has changed. We start with 33 and we will finish with Lay Down Your Burdens Each Chapter I have written will be in either or Both of the Character's POV's and has been started by a one or two word prompt I have picked based on the happenings in each episode. I hope you enjoy. It might get sticky please just hold on for the ride.
Laura was caught in his embrace; his breath was hot against her ear. She was terrified she was in the embrace of a cylon. She held back the guards. She knew that this was important and she could live with the personal discomfort. She had become curious about what was so important that he pull her so close to tell her and her alone
"Laura, Adama is a Cylon." His words poured over her like venom from the mouth of a snake. Her world was spinning out of control. She pushed back from the cylon so fast it was as if he had burned her with his words. Laura's mind was racing, Adama a cylon. Was it even possible or not? She couldn't wrap her mind totally around the idea.
Laura knew from past reports about this cylon that he mixed lies and half-truths. He plays with his victim's heads or does he? Is it all a ploy? Is it what Adama wants everyone to think? After all he wrote the only report on Leobeon Conroy.
The cylons words kept playing over and over again in her head, "Adama is a cylon, Adama is a cylon." Those words broke her heart. Laura had come to rely on Bill Adama and his people to protect the fleet. If he was a cylon and the possibility seemed absurd. She felt positively sick thinking about it.
Cylons did look human. She was driving herself crazy with this she needed to know for sure. She needed the cylon detector. She was sitting alone in her private room on Colonial One feeling sick. She was heart broken. She had just begun to sort out how she felt about Bill Adama, at least she knew they were becoming friends. she is unsure of her feeling for him, because of a cylon planting lies and half-truths in her head. Laura laid her head against the pillow shedding tears of sorrow and frustration all the while Conroy's words running though her head "Adama is a cylon." Her better angles shouting her demons down, "he is not." The cylon, Leobean is just untrustworthy. Adama is not a cylon or is his?
