It took a few minutes for Lee and Kara to reach 'their spot'. Once again, they had kept running into familiar faces before being able to leave the city and proceed to that little place that neither of them would ever forget.

"Well, here it is," Kara said when they arrived there. She pictured it at night, only illuminated by the moonlight with Lee shouting to the skies his love for her…

"Maybe we should get a flag," Lee jokingly suggested. "Mark the place with a warning."

"Yeah," she agreed, now sitting on the ground in order to rest a bit. "I'm already imagining it: 'Starbuck and Apollo's spot. Lay off!'"

Lee sat by her side but during the few minutes they just sat there enjoying each other's presence he ended up lying down.

Things had been so simple that night. No cylons, no battlestars… they were the only human beings in the universe, or at least that was how they felt at that moment. Then, of course, Kara had been overwhelmed by a whole bunch of issues and doubts, but (Thank the gods, she thought) she had ended up with Lee.

"So," Lee murmured, still lying down on the sandy ground. "You never told me what exactly you did that morning before I woke up."

Kara didn't even have to think in order to find out which morning he meant. "Why is that so important to know?" she inquired, lying by his side. "We ended up together, didn't we?"

He propped himself on his elbow. "Well, yeah. But I'm just curious. When I saw that you were not sleeping by my side, it scared the frak out of me…" he confessed.

She turned her face to him. "You thought I had left you for Sam," she murmured in a sad voice. Deep down, knowing he had thought that hurt her. But why wouldn't he? She had always been the one to keep sabotaging her own happiness…

"I was afraid that, after you had sobered up, you'd regret what he had done," he told her in a very low voice. He was ashamed of even considering that she could have ran away scared. "But when I saw you sitting against that rock with a bottle of booze by your side, I felt the stupidest guy in this universe for thinking it."

Kara smiled at him also feeling nostalgic about that morning. "Don't worry; I like them stupid. Actually, when guys are around me, they get less stupid by the minute, which is good 'cause it gives me time to get used to their increasing smartness," she joked in order to break the tension.

Same old Kara, always preparing a joke… "Lucky me, I intend to keep you around for all eternity," Lee pointed out. "That will make me what? A genius?"

Her heart skipped a beat when he said the words 'for all eternity'. She had never believed that one day she would get so attached to someone. Actually, she had never intended it. But the truth was that, currently, having Lee taken away from her would be like ripping her heart out. And surprisingly, she didn't mind, simply because she knew he would always be there, either she wanted it or not – he was as stubborn as she was. "As long as you don't turn out like Baltar, you can become a walking brain for all I care," she continued bantering, so to avoid showing how emotional she was inside.

"But seriously, what did you do that morning? Feed my curiosity," he requested.

Why not? She thought. "Well, believe it or not, I was getting advice from our very own Colonel Tigh," she declared.

He raised an eyebrow. Kara had to be joking. He was sure that even if Tigh was the last man in the universe, she would never consider asking for his advisement. "You asked Tigh for advice? Tigh?!"

"I didn't ask him," she told him. "I just unconsciously blurted that we had slept together and he offered me some advice. Well, only after he laughed his guts out." She still wondered what had possessed her to tell that to Tigh. Her brain had to be broken at that moment.

Lee abruptly sat up. "You told Tight we had sex?!" The idea of Kara discussing their intimate life with Tigh was just sickening.

"Don't ask me why. I wasn't thinking. Blame the hangover. Plus, he has Ellen Tigh as his wife, so he can't such a prude," she immediately explained, looking as uncomfortable as he did. "Anyways, he told me to get myself together, pick you or Sam and never look back. He actually used some kind of combat metaphor to tell me all this." She knew that she would be in debt with Tigh for the rest of her life for that advice. Deep down, she had promised herself to lay off him. "Then, you know the rest of the story."

"Imagine that," Lee murmured in surprise. Galactica's XO had just won several points in his consideration.

"Now, is your curiosity fed, Flyboy?" she inquired, pulling him to her, so their mouths were less than two inches apart. "'Cause I'm kind of cold and craving for human heat, especially if it is supplied by you."

"Human heat? That is what it is called these days?" he questioned, finally joining their lips.

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The hours passed and, after their exchange of 'human heat' Lee and Kara were sitting by a table next to the makeshift stage – that was supposed to have been removed after founder's day – along with Cally and the Chief waiting for the raptor to pick them up.

"I've got to tell you Chief, my viper misses your caring," Kara told Tyrol, who was helping himself with a drink. "The deckhands in Pegasus leave a lot to wish for…"

"They're just fine, Starbuck, don't be whinny. Your viper will have to get used to them," he replied, taking a sip of his drink.

"Don't you miss an actual bunk to sleep in?" Lee asked, trying to convince Tyrol to leave that muck they called a city. "We have plenty of them in Pegasus. Imagine: your own quarters, with two rooms, real showers, a warm rack…"

"Quit trying, Apollo," Cally told him, punching him lightly in the arm. She was currently three or so months pregnant. "We want our baby to know how natural light looks like."

"You could always show it to him in a movie," Kara suggested. Part of her understood their point: a battlestar was not the best place to raise a family. Still, considering the conditions of that planet, she wondered if the surface would be better…

"It's not the same. We'll be happy down here," he declared, kissing his wife's cheek.

Wife. The idea of Cally and the Chief married was still kind of strange to Kara. Personally, Kara didn't have anything against marriage. It was a sacrament and, like she believed in the gods, she believed in the sacraments that faith involved. She believed in this one particularly, as long it was taken with the right person – The Person. She had been engaged to Zak years before, which had been a mistake. She knew he wasn't her Person but she wanted him to be. She tried to convince herself that it wasn't the other brother that she really wanted, so she had said 'yes', however it hadn't come from the heart…

"Kara," someone called behind her waking her from her deep thoughts.

She shivered. Kara had hoped being able to avoid him during that visit to the surface. Sam. She slowly turned around to face him. He looked relaxed, unlike she did. "Sam," she acknowledged his presence.

"Can we talk?" he asked in a calm voice.

Kara gulped and looked at Lee, who was sitting by her side. He also looked tense. "If the raptor arrives…"

"…I'll hold it for you," he assured her, unsuccessfully trying to hide how nervous he also was. "Go."

She nodded and got up, approaching Sam. He mentioned for her to follow him and they entered a nearby tent. Kara was getting ready for the most awkward talk of her life – conversations with exes were so cliché…

"Lee, hum?" he questioned, sitting down on a makeshift bed.

Kara opted to stay up. "Yep," she replied curtly.

Sam nodded and looked away. "I knew you wanted him since the first time I saw you two," he confessed, refusing to look her in the eyes. He had hoped she would change her mind, even preyed. "I guess there is just no use fighting destiny…"

"Sam, I'm so sorry," she apologized, like she had done the day they had broken up.

He shook his head. "Don't be. Actually, I wanted to thank you. For ending things between us, I mean. I would have never got the guts to do it, to move on."

She didn't expect that. She was ready for a 'Why, Kara? Why?' session, but he was thanking her. Has the universe gone completely insane? she asked herself. "You're welcome?" she said in a question tone, still confused by his reply.

Sam got up and removed something out of his pocket. "You left this behind," he told Kara, handing her the dog tag she had gave him back in Caprica.

"Thanks," she murmured as she accepted it back. Receiving that small item back meant a definite end to their history, not that it saddened her. It had been good while it lasted but she just couldn't picture a future to the two of them. Deep down, both of them that there wouldn't be a 'forever' attached to their relationship.

"It was never mine…" he said. A cold silence filled the place for several seconds. "This was awkward, wasn't it?" he finally questioned, mirroring her thoughts.

"Very," she completely agreed.

"Okay, so good luck," he told her, once again, avoiding her eyes.

"Yeah, you too," Kara replied and exited the tent as soon as she could. She felt like she could freeze in there.

Gods, that was so weird, she thought. She put the missing dog tab back in its place and returned to the spot where she had left Lee, Cally and the Chief.

When she arrived there, she noticed that Lee was alone this time.

"Where are Mr. and Mrs. Tyrol?" she questioned when she reached him.

"Cally was tired and the Chief took her back to their tent," Lee informed her. "How was it?"

She sighed. "Unconfortable…" she said and reached for her dog tags. "He gave my dog tag back and thanked me for the breakup."

"Thanked you?" he questioned, also confused. That had to hurt her ego, he considered. "Well, that went better than my reunion with Dee," he pointed out. Anything would have gone better than that…

"So, where's the raptor?" she inquired.

"Late," he stated. "Hoshi contacted Duck, who contacted me, saying that it will take one more hour or so."

"We should have asked Helo to come get us…" she murmured, sitting by his side and leaning her head against his shoulder.

From there, they could see the night starting to fall. The sky was in a tone of orange as that system's star set behind the mountains, turning everything darker by the second. Then, at that moment, an idea came to Kara's head. Something that only felt right at that moment because she was sure that it would work with Lee – he was her Person.

"Do you wanna get married?" she asked incredibly out of the blue.

He stopped breathing. Lee had assumed it would take a lot of convincing, maybe bribing, in order to get her to marry him, so it had completely taken him by surprise. Kara Thrace, who didn't like commitment, was proposing. He was sure he was dreaming, so, discreetly, he pinched himself. Nothing. He gulped – that was actually happening. "Are you serious?"

She looked up at him. "Of course I am," she told him in the surest voice he had ever heard from her.

"Like… eventually?" he questioned again. Maybe she was just checking.

"More like now," she told him, lifting her head and looking at him in the eyes. "Look, if we are going to make this work, let's do it the right way. So let's do it now before I regret it."

"So, we find a priest and just get married right now?" he asked, even more surprised. Say yes, please say yes, he said in his head.

"That's the plan," she confirmed, also pleading mentally for him to agree. "Are you in?"

"You bet I am," he declared to her relief, as he pulled her to a passionate kiss – the last they would share while they were still single.

A/N: Here is the second part of this chapter. As I said last chapter, I have a new livejournal page - the link is in my profile - and from now on, every 10 reviews I get, I will post a preview of the following chapter in there. It's just that, now that College is really taking most of my time, the updates will take a bit longer (once or twice a week), so I will keep ypu warned about the status through that page.