In the following morning, after Lee had gone get breakfast, Kara was in her room finishing dressing. Minutes later, she was ready and went to the living room, where Kacey was in her bunk, awake.

"How are you feeling, Kace?" she asked the little girl, kneeling next to the bunk.

"Hungry," she answered.

"Well, then I guess your appetite is back. Don't worry baby, Apollo will bring the food," she said.

"'Pollo here?" Kacey asked excited.

"Yep," Kara confirmed. Would the little girl feel the same enthusiasm after she was told that Lee was her father? Or would she feel confused?

Lee opened the hatch with their breakfast in his hands and put it in the table.

"Good morning, Ladies," he greeted them both.

"'Pollo!" Kacey shouted and ran to his arms.

"Hi, little girl," he said, lifting her from the floor and giving a meaningful smile to Starbuck.

Kara got the message. That was the moment to tell their daughter the truth.

They sit by the table, Kacey in her father's lap.

"Listen, Kace. Mommy needs to talk to you about something," Kara told her in a calm voice.

Kacey looked at Kara, interested.

"You know that the other boys and girls in the daycare have mommies and daddies," Starbuck started.

Kacey nodded in Lee's lap.

"You also have a mommy and daddy like the other children, Kace, although you've only been living with mommy 'till now," she continued.

"I have daddy?" Kacey asked.

"Yes, Kace, you have a daddy. Apollo is your daddy," Kara said finally.

Kacey shifted in Lee's lap and looked at his face. "You my daddy?"

"Yeah, Kacey, I am," he confirmed, caressing her soft blond hair. The little girl smiled and snuggled closer to him. Lee wrapped his arms around the little girl.

"Are you happy with Apollo being your daddy?" Kara asked her.

Kacey nodded excitedly. "Wov Apollo," she said.

Lee's face was covered by a huge grin. He hugged his daughter tightly. "I love you too, Kacey. I love you too."

Kara was melting seeing that scene. That was too good to be true. This must be the part of the dream when I wake up and it is all gone. But it was not. She even pinched herself to be sure. Kacey was really there and Lee was really her father. She had a family of her own.

"You don't mind sharing me with Lee, do you? Because he is moving here with us," she told her daughter.

"Evewy day?" Kacey asked.

"Every day," her mother repeated. "But you'll have to stay in your bunk, like a big girl, because daddies stay with mommies."

"I'm big gal," Kacey corrected.

"Nope, you're a little girl," Lee said. "Our little girl."

She giggled and hugged him. "Mine."

Apollo looked at Starbuck with an eyebrow raised. "Looks like she inherited your possessiveness."

"Well, she'll have to share this time," she stated.

"The question is: Can you share?" he told her.

"Fr… I mean, politely shut your mouth," she said, unable to curse in front of her child.

"Oh, look at Mommy using fancy words to tell me to shut up," he joked. "Should we get a curse-jar, Kara. One cubit for every swear word. Wait, in this case, maybe you should get a bucket."

"Weren't you supposed to be trying to convince me to marry you? Believe me, you won't succeed if you keep mocking me this way," she threatened.

"Accept my apologies for this mistake, Captain Thrace," he apologized in a cordial voice.

"As long as it does not happen again. Now, give me that food, I'm hungry," she said.

--

Bill Adama was walking to the CIC when he saw his son in the corridor.

"Lee," he called. Apollo immediately turned and joined his father.

"Good morning," he greeted, unable to hide his grin.

"You seem very happy today," the admiral said. "Any special reason?"

"Can we go back to your quarters?" Lee asked. "I'd rather talk about this in private."

The Old man nodded and they returned to his quarters. "So, what is the reason for that smile."

"Kacey is my daughter," he said immediately.

"Excuse me?" Bill asked.

"Kacey is my daughter. Biologically," Apollo added.

"But…how?" he asked again.

"The cylons used their technology to fertilize Kara's egg using my blood. Don't ask me how. Cottle confirmed it. Kacey is my kid," he said.

The old man was still looking incredulous, but that didn't stop him from approaching his son and give him a manly hug.

"Also, Kara and I are together now," he told his father, while hugging him.

Bill sighed and broke the embrace. That was bound to happen.

"You realize that you are breaking basically half the fraternization protocols, don't you?" he asked.

"If you want me to resign, I will, dad. I won't think twice," Lee informed his father.

"I don't want you to resign. Fraternization regs are the least of everyone's priorities, Laura even suggested that maybe we should loose them a bit," the admiral mentioned. "Just be careful. Remember, now you have a child that can be affected by your actions."

"We know," Lee said.

"Congratulations, son," Adama said. "Try to be a better father than I was."

"I will do my best, sir," Apollo said. "Maybe you were not that bad."

"I was not there, make sure you are," Bill instructed his son.

"Alright," Lee agreed. "I was going to get my things from my quarters, so if you don't mind, I'll leave."

"Sure," the admiral agreed. Lee turned to the hatch's direction. "And Lee, good luck."

"Thanks, dad," Lee said, turning around before he left.

After his son left, Bill Adama served himself with a cup of Ambrosia. He had a lot to celebrate.

--

Lee had finished packing his things and was about to start carrying them to Kara's quarters when Helo showed up.

"Congratulations, Apollo," he said. "Kara just told me everything. See if you make an honest woman of her, alright?"

"I'm doing a lot of persuasion, Helo. Let's just expect she step my webs into," he stated.

"She will. I bet she's itching to get the title of 'the CAG's wife'," Helo guaranteed him. "Need a hand with those boxes?"

"Definitely," Lee accepted.

In the corridors, they bumped with three pilots who were coming from the hangar deck.

"You're moving, sir?" Racetrack asked.

"Yes, Racetrack, I am," he confirmed.

"Oh, can I get your quarters? Hotdog snores like a pig," Kat asked.

"Shut up, Kat," Hotdog replied.

"That is up to my father," Apollo told them.

"But are you moving back to the Bunkroom?"Racetrack inquired. "I think it is already full."

"Nope," someone said behind them. They turned to see Starbuck with Athena and Kacey. "He's moving in with me so we can live in sin."

"Yeah, right," Kat laughed with Hotdog and Racetrack.

"Fine, don't believe me," Kara told them.

Athena tuned to Lee. "Are there any more boxes to carry?"

"Yes, one more and a suitcase, but I can go back and get it later," he said.

"No worries, we'll go," she said. "Come on, Starbuck."

Racetrack, Kat and Hotdog were left in the middle of the corridor alone.

"You don't think she was telling the truth, do you?" Kat asked.

"Nah," Hotdog replied. "I mean, no frakking way."

--

"Did you see their faces?" Kara asked Sharon, amused. "I imagine how they will react when they realize that I was not kidding."

"I have to confess that I was not expecting that either" she replied, lifting the box from the floor. "You and Apollo together. Kacey is Apollo's. I mean, when I was with the other cylons, I did not have access to the labs; that was up to number four."

"Simon," Starbuck murmured, putting Kacey in the floor, so she could carry the suitcase.

"Yeah, Simon," she confirmed. "Anyway, I didn't know that they could use blood to fertilize an egg."

"Insane, isn't it?" she asked.

"Totally," she agreed. "At least I got to make Hera in the conventional way."

"Sometimes I wonder what else they can do," Kara said.

They exited the room and walked back to Starbuck's quarters, where Lee was taking his things out of the boxes. Helo, instead of helping, was looking curiously at a book.

"You look so stoned in this photo, Apollo," he was saying.

"What photo?" Kara asked.

"His yearbook," Helo showed her. She put the suitcase in a chair and approached her friend in order to see the book.

"You're right!" she laughed.

"I was eighteen!" Lee protested.

"You could at least have waited and take the photo before you got high," she said.

"Well, I bet your yearbook's photo is not that charming as well," he stated.

"I had my hair painted in black, but apart from that I was perfectly normal."

"You in black hair?! That is creepy enough," Helo stated. "I have to go; our stupid CAG is stuffing us in work."

"I'm sure your CAG loves to know that you find him stupid," Lee said, sarcastically.

"Good for him," Helo told him. "Come on, Sharon. Let's leave the happy little family alone."

After they were left alone with Kacey, who was playing with her stuffed bear in the bunk, Kara turned to Lee.

"Can I frame this photo, please?" she jokingly pleaded.

"Don't you dare!" he answered.

"And I thought that you refused to breathe without checking the rules. This is pretty illegal, Major. Check out, Kacey. Daddy is a badass."

"Daddy nice," the little girl said.

"See? Kacey knows best," he declared.

"I'll get you back in that when she starts dating," Starbuck concluded.

"At least I already have a gun to shoot every guy who dares to look at her," Lee said through his teeth.

A/N: I hope you liked this chapter. Please, keep reviewing. Your reviews are the muse that gives me inspiration to write.