You know the drill on all of the beginning stuff.
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Laura needs reassurance.
Laura sat on the edge of Bills rack and watched him sleep. She had so rarely seen him in sleep and it fascinated her how one man with so much on his shoulders slept so soundly. Laura herself tossed and turned most nights. There wasn't a time that she had seen Bill sleep. It was always Laura falling asleep first and when she woke Bill was already up and sitting at his desk. Many times she found herself thinking about Bill during her late nights awake and thinking of 'What Ifs'. This was something she used to distance herself in the beginning. If she thought with her heart then they would have been dead long ago. Laura thought she had shut her heart away in a cold dark box and hidden the key from the worlds, but Bill Adama had found it and opened up the box and allowed her heart to feel again in that short time they were together on New Caprica. now she had to be cold and decisive for everyone, including Adama.
Laura leaned over and rested her head on his chest and closed her eyes listening to his heart beat. "Why did you have to make me feel Bill Adama?" She whispered. He shifted a couple of times as is sensing her there lying with him but he never woke.
Laura laid there and recalled the first time she met him. He hadn't made much of an impression with his gruff manner, but after thy reached and understanding he was very nice to talk to and be around. Then the whole thing with Kobol happened and they went from being allies to players on opposite sides of the board. It was Adama who had come to get her on Kobol. He made the first step towards reconciliation. She had grown closer to him on that day in the woods. More so than she had realized or wanted to acknowledge.
It wasn't until the light kiss he had given her that Laura realized that she had found something special and that death was going to take her away from that. She wanted to live for one more day just to see Bill smile or hear his voice. Then Baltar saved her life with Sharon's unborn child's blood. By some twist of fate she had been given a second chance and she took it. Those months on New Caprica before the Cylons had been wonderful. Bill had come down to see her and they could be together like two normal people without the weight of her office staring them in the face.
Most people had suspected the Admiral and former President were involved but when Bill had first come to New Caprica Laura had been in the square watching a pick up game of Pyramid. Bill had walked right over to her and pulled her into his arms and whispered he had missed her. She wanted to cry right there in his arms but she was so happy the he was there the tears made themselves scarce and she enjoyed the little time she could get with him.
"Laura?" Bills voice broke through Laura's thoughts and she sat up to look at him.
"Did I wake you?"
"No, the wheels turning in your head did." He offered her a sleep filled smile and Roslin couldn't help but return it.
"Sorry, you should go back to sleep." Laura moved but was halted when Bill wrapped him hand around her wrist and pulled her back into the rack with him. He wrapped her in his arms and held her close.
"I missed you." Bill whispered and Laura felt tears well in her eyes.
"I missed you too." Laura replied and wrapped one arm around his neck while she threw her right leg over his to align most of her body to his as she could.
Those three little words took her back to the dark tent and a cold night where Adama warmed her bed then to the morning where she had to kiss him goodbye because Baltar only allowed him down there when they had a meeting. The rest of them time he had to be on Galactica manning the lighthouse as he called it.
Now they were back on the road to Earth and she was losing all over again. Soon she would die and there would be no third chance this time. She would just be gone and there would be no more pain and no more Bill Adama and his wonderful smile and they way he made her feel would be gone as well. Laura could feel herself falling in to the dreamless oblivion of sleep. "I love you." dropped from her lips as she succumbed to sleep. Laura never heard Bills reply and she somehow knew how he felt so he never had to say anything.
