Laura was standing in her kitchen in flower white and green pajama's pants and grey loose T-shirt, covered by green matched robe; making herself sandwiches for a dinner. She was putting a cheese on the bread when she heard a knock. She put the finished sandwiches on the plate and then she cleaned her hands, before she headed to the door; it took her several second. She opened it and saw Bill. Her heart started beat faster, after their last meeting, she thought she lost him and their friendship or something which could have grown from their feelings.

"Uhm… hi." He started not really knowing what to say. "Can I... uhm come in? Is it the right time, I could come back later, if… I just wanted to talk to you…"

"No, please come in." She smiled lightly when she saw his confused expression. She stepped back and opened the doors wider.

Bill pressed his lips together and made a step forward walking into her house. After he said goodbye to his sons and others, he took a cab and came here; he had to talk to her. He closed the door behind him and looked at her. She immediately looked down and wrapped her robe tightly around her body. Laura crossed her arms on her chest and turned around walking into her living room, Adama followed her. They walked into the room and he did exactly what she told, sat down on the couch. In the mean time Laura went to the kitchen and took the plate with the sandwiches, two mugs and bunch of tea. She walked back to the living room and put the mugs, bunch and the plate on the table. She filled the mugs with the tea and gave one of them to Bill. He smiled as he took the mug from her.

"I haven't eaten dinner, yet. If it's ok…" she looked at the plate and then back at him. He gave her a small smile as she took one of her sandwiched and put it into her mouth. She chewed the piece of the sandwich and then swallowed the food. She did it one more time, and the first of the sandwiches disappeared from her plate. "I can make you some of these, if you want."

"No, I'm good. I already ate with my sons. Please, don't stop, the baby needs to be strong." He said looking at her eyes.

They went silent for a quite a long period of time. Laura was absorbed with eating dinner and Bill with staring at her; admiring her beauty. She was more stunning since their last date. Her face, even without makeup was glowing; she looked younger. Her red hair was loosely tightened in the ponytail. He went further on her tempting body, wanted to run his fingers by her skin, bury his head into the crook of her neck and kissed all the way down to her incredible breasts.

"Is everything all right?" she asked when she heard a quiet moan escaping for his lips. Bill looked at her and realized what he had done.

"I... uhm, yeah. I wanted to talk to you. Laura, I'm sorry for the way I reacted back then. I was, well truth to be told, I was shocked."

"I can't blame you for that. I know…" he stopped her by standing up. He made a step forward and kneeled in front of her smiling slightly. He reached up and covered her hands with his. His thumb rubbed gently against her knuckles.

"Shhh… Let me finish, please." He said looking directly at her eyes. When she didn't say anything, he continued. "I hate Adar and I don't know why you chosen to be with him. But it doesn't matter to me, Laura. Maybe it's a little bit early because we don't know each other very well, but from the moment I saw you I can't stop think about you. I'm falling in love with you and I'm willing to take care of you and the baby. Please give me a chance. I know we can make it right, Laura. The baby needs a father and you someone who will be taking care of you. Beside the press…"

"Bill I don't want you to give up your life because of me. You have a family who need you."

"I have two old enough sons, and they don't need me like you do. I can offer you my support, my love, the security and the family to the baby, but if you don't want me just say it." He said looping their hands.

"Bill, are you serious? I mean why? It's not your baby; it's not your responsibility." She asked.

"Because I'm in love with you Laura and I will love this baby like my own flesh and blood." He smiled helping her stand up; when she was facing him, Bill closed their distance in a security hug. She placed her hands on his chest, looking directly at his eyes.

"I'm sorry Bill. You are a wonderful man but…" he heard her voice started to break and few seconds later he felt tears on his shoulder. "I can't let you do it; you don't have to take care of me…"

"Shh…shh Laura, it's ok. It's ok. I know that I don't have to, but I want to. I love you and I want to be with you and if you want me, I would be more than happy to take care of you and our baby."

"Really? You're serious?"

"Yes, Laura. Yes, I am."

"If you really want to be with me, take care of me and the baby, I will be the happiest woman in the Twelve Colonies, Bill. I'm in love with you too and I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry."

"Hey it's ok." He looked at her eyes and wiped her tears away; she smiled. "I love you Laura."

Bill's hand went from the small of her back to her hips and the second one he tangled into her hair. He pulled her closer to his body, so she could feel his heartbeat under her hands, which made their way to his neck. Laura looked into his eyes and saw his admiration toward her, pure love and hope; she gave him a small smile and caressed his cheek with her fingers. Then she closed their distance by pressing her lips to his, gentle and shy. It took her few seconds to melt into his arms and then their kiss deepened; they started domination's battle with their tongues. Bill hands traveled from her hips, mapping her body through her pajamas.

They had to broke off the kiss, when they were in the need of the air, but they didn't pulled away from each other; still wrapped in a comfortable and intimate hug , they took a quick breath. Laura's eyes closed, her lips forming into grin, she placed her head between the crook of his neck and his shoulder; a little hum escape from her mouth. Bill smiled too, placing a small kiss into her hair and whispered into her ear:

"So I guess it's time, you tell me about our little pride and joy." His hand found her abdomen. Carefully he started making small circles with his thumb; she shivered, clearly enjoying his caresses.

They sat down on the sofa and Laura brought a white folder with baby's medical documents and first sonogram photo. She told him about everything about baby and her life. He on the other hand told her everything she didn't know about him; she put her head on his laps while she was listening.

"Laura, would you be angry if I tell you I mention someone we're dating." Bill stopped stroking her hair. She sat down and looked at him.

"Uhm Bill in our current situation I would say that we will have to make public appearances with our friends. Of course I can't make you to do it, but it would be impossible to… Ok who knows?"

"My sons. I told you we had dinner together. Well my younger one, Zack is getting married and we, I mean he, his fiancée Zoey, her friend Kara, Zoey's parents, my ex wife with her husband and Lee had some sort of family dinner. My ex wife was teasing me about date to the wedding and let's just say I told them I'm dating you." Laura smiled at him. "Carolanne, my ex didn't believe me."

"In that case if you want to take me to that weeding, I would be more than happy to prove her wrong. And I would love to meet your sons." She said.

"Thank you, you're amazing." Bill kissed her lips, when they pull away from each other, he smiled to her one more time; in his eyes were pure love and joy. "As much as I would love to stay with you like this forever, it's getting late and you need to sleep. So I'll go now."

Adama stood up, holding Laura's hand; he looked at the clock once again, checking the hour and then he looked at his woman. She was trying to stop the yawn which escape from her mouth despises her efforts. Laura rubbed her eyes and stood up, going after him to the door.

"I don't think taking a cab in the middle of the night is a good idea, it's dangerous." Laura put a hand on his shoulder, which made him turn to face her. When she achieved the result she wanted, she smiled. "Come on, I have two spare bedrooms, you may stay here, and tomorrow we will eat breakfast together."

"You sure?" she rolled her eyes.

"Bill not so long ago you wanted to take care of me and the baby, be his or hers father and now you're afraid of sharing a house with me?" she teased.

"I'll take it as a yes." Bill said and then grabbed her hand, as she leaded him to the bedroom next to hers. "Sounds like a plan to me, Roslin."

TBC