Author note: for this chapter I made up the antibiotic streptococcicllin.
Chapter Twelve: Two days and counting part two
It has been three whole days since the Cylons attack the home worlds and the fourth day has just started with the ninety-seventh jump complete about ten minutes ago. The viper pilots that are not flying CAP around the fleet are in the hanger deck doing a post flight check on they vipers. The members of the deck crew are busy fixes any vipers that were damage during the last fight with the Cylon basestar and raiders. The three viper pilots on CAP duty are Joker, Kara and Krista Thrace and Flat Top and his ECO Carouse are also on CAP duty too. In outer space Flat Top is flying his raptor below the ships and looking for any sign of enemy ships, as Carouse sits on the ECO seat in the back of the raider watching the radar. Carouse sees that Joker is flying his viper around the west end of the fleet and Krista is flying her viper around the ships at the south end of the fleet, but Kara has her viper position in front of the north end of the fleet, but is not flying around. Flat Top looks at his radar screen and sees the same thing that Carouse does. Flat Top push down the button that broadcast his voice over the intercom.
"This is Flat Top to Starbuck. You do know that you have been sitting in the same position for about five minutes now. Maybe you should start flying your viper around the ships."
"Huh what did you say Flat Top I only catches the first five words sniffling and the last word?"
"I say you do know that you have been sitting in the same position for about five minutes now. Maybe you should start flying your viper around the ships."
"You are not the CAG coughing and cannot tell me sniffling where I should be flying sniffling my viper."
"I was just let you know that you have not moved in awhile and maybe you should move around the fleet, you do not need to bite my head off Starbuck!"
"If I want to bite your head off, I coughing will Flat Top now leave me alone."
"Not a chance Starbuck I am having too much fun and beside talking to you is keeping me awake. Boomer raptor just went into the launch and landing bay of the Astral Queen. I bet you Boomer is going love having to help the group of marines and the few deck crew members searching the prison ship for a tracking device or a person hiding in the cargo bay of the ship. How much do you want to bet me that Boomer already out of her raptor and is searching the launch and landing bay for the tracking device or do you want to bet against me and say that Boomer asleep in her raptor Starbuck?"
"I am not making a bet for or against Boomer coughing, now stop talking to me because you are giving me a headache!"
"This is Boomer to Flat Top and Starbuck, the two of you do know that I can hear you right? And to let you know Flat Top the launch and landing bay is clear. I do not know about the rest of the ship but I will find out after I use the head and Starbuck you were right I shouldn't have eaten the clam soup last night, I had a stomachache since I ate dinner last night."
"Ahem why does no one ever listen to be about not eating sea food coming from coughing Galactica galley?"
"(Flat Top and Boomer) Maybe because we hope that it better then the last time the cook made it."
"I have to go Starbuck and Flat Top talk to you later."
"(Flat Top and Starbuck) Bye Boomer."
"Yawning so Starbuck what did you have for breakfast this morning?"
"Coughing I had a bowl of oatmeal and a bowl of applesauce, now stop talking to me like I said before Boomer joined the conversation you are giving me a headache."
"No way Starbuck if I stop talking to you, I will fall asleep and I know you will fall asleep too."
"Flat Top I am sick and feel like I have been run over by two large trucks and I need to keep my focus on looking for Cylon raiders, will you stop talking to me?"
"No, I am having too much fun and you normally love talking on the intercom when on duty."
"Ah-choo, please stop talking to me, Flat Top coughing."
"Flat Top this is Phoenix your CAG. Leave Starbuck alone and stop talking on the intercom."
"Yes Sir."
Flat Top, Starbuck and Phoenix stop presses on the buttons that allow them to talk into the intercom and it because quiet inside the raptor, vipers, port side hanger deck and the CIC and Bridge who was also listening to Flat Top and Starbuck talking. Then the vipers, port side hanger deck, CIC and Bridge were listening to Starbuck, Flat Top and Boomer, then listen to Starbuck and Flat Top and then Phoenix and Flat Top talking. Kara flies her viper forward a little and then turn the viper to the right. Then Kara flies the viper toward the Olympic Carrier.
At the same time Krista flies her viper at top speed through the fleet ships and toward Kara viper. A few moments later Krista pulls her viper up along side Kara's viper on the left side and Krista slow down to fly at the same speed as Kara. Krista then press down the button to talk into the intercom.
"Phoenix to Starbuck how are you hold up because if you need to be relieved from duty you can, seeing that Joker flying CAP too?"
"Coughing like I said to Flat Top it feels like I have been run over by two large trucks, but I do not need to be relieved from duty sir, sniffling."
"That all I need to hear."
The two pilots stop presses down the buttons to talk into the intercoms and then Krista and Kara looks at each other for a few moments. Kara gives her sister two thumbs up and then Krista flies her viper away from her sisters' viper and to the middle of the fleet. At the same time one of Galactica raptor decks to the air hatch on the back side of Celestra and another one of Galactica raptor has decks to the air hatch on the base of the Gemini Freighter. In addition a third raptor from Galactica decks to the air hatch on the Zephyr.
Meanwhile in the CIC of Galactica Saul Tigh and commander Adama is lean against the control table and both of them are yawning. When the commander and the XO stop yawning a minute later the two of them look at they watch, then look up at each other. Commander Adama then starts to fill out some paperwork and at the same time he starts to talk.
"Sauls go take a ten minute break before the next jump. You look dead on your feet."
"I am fine and I will stay in the CIC."
"Take the ten minutes Saul. I cannot have my XO getting sick or passes out from exhaust."
"I do not need ten minutes off to rest, beside I won't get sick because I have been keeping my distance for Kara Thrace to avoid catching whatever she has. But I have to hand it to Kara, because Kara has been tough it out and during her job without complain to either of us or her sister or Lee, which is being a positive role model for the lower ranking pilots and crew of Galactica. What form are you filling out Bill?"
"I am filling out a form ordering the use of stims for two or three viper pilots and one raptor pilot and ECO when there are on CAP duty."
"Do you think that is necessary Bill?"
"Yes the pilots are starts to fall to sleep on CAP and that is not safe. Dualla I want you to run the main form to Dr. Cottle and then take the carbon copy of the order down to the chief of the deck, so he can give it to Krista Thrace after the next jump."
"Yes sir."
Dualla stands up from her seat and walks over to commander Adama. Commander Adama finish writing out the form really fast and by the time Dualla reach him the form is completely filled out. Dualla takes the form and carbon copy from commander Adama. A minute later Dualla walks out of the CIC closes the hatch door behind her. Dualla starts to walk down the hallway and walks all the way to the sickbay yawning into her right elbow. Anastasia Dualla walks into the sickbay a short time later and sees a few marines laying on beds and nurses take down symptoms, which the only symptom the marines have is being tired. Anastasia Dualla walks up to the doctors' desk and hand him the form. Dr. Cottle takes the form and look at it to see that commander Adama has wrote out an order for stims to be used by the raptor and viper pilots and ECO of raptors when on CAP duty.
"I will gather up the bottles of stims and have a nurse take them down to the port side hanger deck."
"I will let the chief of the deck know."
Anastasia Dualla walks over to the hatch door of the sickbay. She turns the wheel locker to unlock the door and then pulls open the door. Then Anastasia walks out of the sickbay and walks through the hallway. A minute later she is walking down the staircase to the ground level of the ship. A few minutes later Anastasia Dualla walks into the port side hanger deck and looks around the hanger deck for the chief of the deck. A few moments later Anastasia Dualla sees Galen Toyl working on a viper mark two, which number is 289 and that is parked in the center of the hanger deck on Dualla right side. She walks over to the viper and Galen Toyl and when Anastasia Dualla walks up to the viper, the chief of the deck stop working on the one of the three thrust engines that is near the back of the viper and located near the top. The chief of the deck looks at Anastasia Dualla who is climbing up the ladder that is on the right side of the viper seeing that the chief is standing on top of the ladder on the left side of the viper.
"What bring you to the hanger deck Dualla?"
"Commander Adama asked me to bring you the carbon copy of this form to give to Krista Thrace after the next jump."
Anastasia Dualla hands the carbon copy of the form to the chief of the deck, he takes the carbon copy of a form out of Anastasia hands and then looks over the form to see it is an order for stims to be used by viper and raptor pilots and raptor ECO that is on CAP duty. The chief of the deck set the carbon copy of the form down on the top step of the ladder beside him and then he gives Anastasia Dualla a smile.
"I will give the form to Krista Thrace when I see her."
"A sickbay nurse will bring the bottles of stims to the hanger deck, make sure that each of the pilots and ECO get a bottle because Krista will not have time to pass out the bottle to everyone."
"I will."
"Then I will see you around. I have to get back to the CIC."
"Bye Dualla."
Anastasia Dualla climbs down the ladder and at the same time the chief of the deck goes back to working on the thrust engine. Anastasia Dualla walks away from the viper that the chief of the deck is working. A minute later Anastasia Dualla walks out of the hanger deck. Once in the hallway that the pilot ready rooms are in, she starts to walk toward the staircase that lead up to the level of the ship that the CIC, commander quarter, XO quarter, officers' duty locker and officers' head is on.
At the same time Lee Adama walks over to the viper that the chief of the deck is working on and he climbs up the ladder across from the Galen Toyl. Lee grabs a tool from the tool box sitting on the cockpit seat and then Lee gets to work helping the chief of the deck fix the thrust engine.
"I over hear what you and Anastasia Dualla was talking about and I will help you pass the bottle of stims out to the pilots and raptor ECO."
"Thank you."
The two of them stop talking and work on the viper in silent. The minutes fly by fast and when Lee watch starts to beep, he jumps and drops the tool he is using and the tool land on the floor of the viper cockpit. Lee looks at his watch and then let out a long sigh. The chief of the deck smile at Lee and Lee smiles at the chief f the deck.
"It is time to do a fast preflight check on my viper."
Lee climbs down the ladder that is on the right side of the viper. Then Lee walks to the other side of the hanger deck and over to his viper, which is parked four space over on the right and across from the viper the chief of the deck is working on. Lee starts the preflight check by checking the cannons of the viper. At the same time the rest of the viper pilots start doing preflight checks on the vipers they will be flying.
Meanwhile, in outer space, Flat Top has start flying toward Galactica. Krista is checking the time on her wrist watch and Kara has start blinking. Kara is thinking the next four and half hours of CAP duty is going to go by slowly. Kara lay her head against the back of the cockpit headrest and start coughing, which makes her sore throat hurt worse. Kara eyelids start to close and she just let the eyelids close because she has a pounding headache again. By the time the rest of the viper fighter squadron has joined the CAP vipers in outer space Kara has gone to sleep sitting in her viper, but jumps when her sister voice comes over the intercom.
"See you back in space after the jump Flat Top and viper pilots jump ninety-eight has just begin. Remember to stay out of Galactica firing range and keep the Cylon raiders away from the civilian ships as the ships jump away from us, good hunting."
Kara yawing a few times as looking around outer space for any sign of Cylon raiders or a basestar. At the same time a Cylon basestar jumps into orbit with Galactica and the fleet a few feet from Kara's viper. The Cylon basestar start launching raiders from the basestar launch bays and at the same time Galactica start firing at the basestar. The viper pilot's start flying they vipers toward the Cylon raiders and Kara shoots down the first Cylon raider. Kara then flips her viper around and chases after a raider that is flying after Lee's viper. The raider is firing his cannons at the viper, but so far all the shoots have missed Lee's viper. A few moments later Kara is firing her cannons at the raider, which explode a few seconds after the two cannon shells hit the raider. Kara presses down the button that allows you to talk into the intercom.
"Ahem Apollo that was a close one that Cylon raider was about to take out your viper, coughing."
"Thank you for the save, but I knew that the raider was behind me and that the reason I keep flying to the side or drop below the raider to avoid being hit by the raider artillery shells."
"Ahem yeah right Apollo."
At the same time Joker viper fly by Kara and Lee viper and rounds from one of raider cannons hits the left wing of Joker viper and the wing fly off the viper and slams into the cockpit canopy, which break the glass on the left side of the mark two viper canopy and the glass and wing slams into Joker left shoulder. After a few moments Joker knows he is hurt because he is unable to move his left arm and his shoulder hurt really badly. Joker takes a deep breath and then using his right-hand he press down the button that allows you to talk into the intercom.
"Phoenix I have a broken wing on my viper and need a tow and I can't move my left shoulder."
"Sit tight Joker."
"I will Phoenix."
"Starbuck and Apollo keep Cylon raiders away from Joker viper."
"(Starbuck and Apollo) Yes Sir."
"Phoenix to Galactica Actual, Joker has a bent bird and he needs a tow into Galactica and he needs to be taking to sickbay right away because he cannot move his left shoulder."
"Galactica Actual to Phoenix and Joker a raptor is on it way."
Joker sits in his viper and he is watching Apollo and Starbuck that are firing the cannons of the vipers at any Cylon raider that comes near them. At the same time the rest of the vipers are keeping the Cylon raiders away from the civilian ships that are jumping away and there are only six civilian ships left. A minute later a raptor that is piloted by Flat Top is pulling Joker viper toward Galactica. Joker is sitting in the viper holder his left arm and watching the civilian ships jump away as he is being tow toward the battlestar. Lee and Kara are chase raiders away from Flat Top raptor and Joker viper and at the same time Krista shoot down a heavy raider that was launched out of the basestar a few moments ago. Two minutes later the last two civilian ships jump away and Krista voice comes over the intercoms of the vipers, one raptor, CIC and the rest of Galactica.
"Vipers break away from the raiders and head home now."
All of the viper pilots stop firing at the raiders and flip they vipers around, so the vipers are facing Galactica. The viper pilots then speed off toward the battlestar and a minute later all the vipers are making they combat landing on the part side launch and landing bay behind Flat Top raptor and Joker viper that landing a few moments before. The flight pod's doors close and then the flight pods retract into the ship. Once the flight pods are in Galactica jumps away from the Cylon basestar and raiders.
A minute later inside the port side hanger deck Lee, Krista and Kara viper have just been pulled into the hanger deck and the three viper pilots are open up the canopy on they vipers. Kara is the first to get her canopy open fully and the first thing that Kara does is to take off her helmet. At the same time Cally push a ladder up against the right side of the viper if standing in front of the viper nose, once the ladder is up against the viper Kara set her helmet on the top step, then open up the pocket that is on the center of the left arm of her flight suit and pulls out a handful of tissues. Kara starts to blow her nose into one of the tissue as Cally climbs up the ladder with a small clipboard in her hand that has Kara's post flight check list on it.
"Are you weapon safety on?"
Kara shakes her head yes and continues blowing her nose. Cally put a check mark by the first question and then looks at the next question, but does not start to read the question because Kara has starts coughing. A few moments later Kara stops coughing and lay her head on the headrest and close her eyelids, at the same time Cally start to ask the next question.
"Intercom switches off?"
"Yes."
"Navigation systems turn off?"
"Yes."
"Engines turn off?"
"Yes."
"Is the escape pod unarmed?"
"Ahem yes."
"Are your fuel tanks full or are your fuel tanks low on fuel?"
"Needs refuel before coughing going out to do CAP."
"I will go get the fuel right now and you can get out and check your undercarriage and then sign the post flight check list."
Cally hook the pen onto the clipboard then hands the clipboard to Kara, who takes the clipboard with her left hand. Kara slowly stands up from the cockpit seat, as Cally climbs down the ladder. At the same time Krista Thrace walks into the center of the hanger deck and clear her throat, all the pilot and deck crew turns and look at Krista.
"Commander Adama has ordered the use of stims for the pilots and raptor ECO. I, Kara, Lee, Flat Top and Carouse are the first group to take stims. When I know what pilots and ECO is taken the next CAP, I will let them know so they can take two stims before going on CAP duty. Go see the chief of the deck to get a bottle of stims and then go back to working on your vipers or raptors."
The electronic countermeasure's officers (ECO) who is in the hanger deck and almost all of the pilots beside for two of the pilots that are Joker who is in the sickbay and Kara that checking her viper undercarriage, walk over to the chief of the deck. Krista sees that Kara is bent down looking at her viper undercarriage, so she grabs two bottles, one for herself and one for Kara. Lee looks at Krista and points to the bottles in her hands and shake his head no.
"Lee's it was an order and I have to follow the order, I am only going to take one and that will not harm me or make me too hyper."
"(Fireball and Spinner) Lee's why are you worried about the CAG taking stims?"
"The two of you must have never seen Krista when she drinks energy drinks, pop or coffee that has caffeine and how hyperactive energy drinks and caffeinated drink make her. Two stims pills would have her bounce around the cockpit of her viper and Krista would be unable to fly the viper, much less aim the weapons and hit the Cylon raider and she could end up hit her follower viper pilots or Galactica and we do not want that."
"And that is the reason way I am only take one."
With that Krista Thrace walks away from Lee, the chief of the deck, ECO and the rest of the pilots and walks over to Kara's who viper is parked in the first spot on the left-hand side if walking toward the front of the battlestar. Kara looks up from the undercarriage of her viper when Krista stops in front of her and holds out a bottle of stims toward her.
"Kara did you hear me giving the order for the use of stims that come from commander Adama?"
"Sniffing, yes I did, but I do not fly with stims because the stims blunt reflexes, reaction time and can make a parson hyper coughing."
"Kara I give you an order to take two stims and you are going to take them right now."
"Kris come on, I am sick and already took cold medicine and you know that I hate flying when I am taking a bunch of medicines, do not make me do this?"
"Kara you will do as order!"
Krista pushes the bottle of stims into Kara hands and then open up the bottle in her right hand a pour a white round tablet out of the bottle. Krista puts the stims tablet into her mouth and swallows the tablet without water. Kara watches her sister put the lid back on the bottle and Kara cross her arm across her chest. Lee walks up beside Krista and look at Kara with a look on his face that say can you give your sister a break and take your stims tablets Kara.
"Sniffling Lee's do not coughing starts with me too."
"Kara the three of us need to head out on CAP duty, so take your stims and get into your viper."
"No."
Kara starts to blow her nose into a tissue and gives her sister and Lee and sad look at the same time. Krista put the bottle of stims into the pocket on the left arm of her flight suit. Then Lee hand Krista his blue steel water bottle and she take the cap off the bottle and take a drink of water.
"Thank you and I hate the taste of stims because stims taste like chalk."
Krista put the cap back on the water bottle and then hands the bottle back to Lee. Krista then walks over to Kara and pull the bottle of stims out of Kara left hand. Krista then open up the bottle and pour two tablets into her right hand and hold the hand out toward Kara, as Kara tosses the used tissue into the trash can across from her.
"Kris I can't take any more tablets or pills and still fly."
Lee walks over to Kara and put his left arm around Kara's shoulders and gives her a smile. Kara gives Lee a weak smile and then start coughing into her right elbow. Lee then looks at Krista and then looks back at Kara.
"Kara it is safe for you to take the two stims with cold medicine and you will still be able to fly your viper and the stims will help you stay awake."
"Lee stop trying to get me to take ah-choo the stims."
Kara pulls another tissue out of the pocket on the left arm of her flight suit and blows her nose into the tissues. Lee and Krista look at each other and Krista start to talk.
"Kara It is great to hear my childhood nickname again, but stop fighting me about taken the stims and just take them or I will write you up and sent the report to commander Adama."
"Fine."
Kara takes the two tablets from her older sister and puts them into her mouth, as Krista put the bottle of stims into the pocket on the left arm of Kara flight suit. At the same time Kara starts to choke on the stims tablets and Lee and Krista gives each other a worried look and then give Kara a worried look.
"Lee give Kara your water bottle!"
"No she is sick."
"The stims tablets are stuck in her throat Lee!"
"Fine."
Lee hand the water bottle to Kara, who take it from him really fast and take the cap off of the bottle. Kara then takes several sips of water from the water bottle. After the third sip of water Kara puts the cap on the water bottle, then hands the water bottle back to Lee. At the same time Kara is thinking this is not good now I am having trouble swallowing. Kara takes a breath and then looks at Lee who still has his arm around her shoulders, then Kara gives him a weak smile.
"Ahem thank you. I was having a hard time swallowing the stims tablets dry."
"You are welcome."
Lee takes his arm off of Kara shoulder and then he walks away from Kara and Krista and over to his viper that is two spaces away from Kara's viper. Krista gives her little sister a worried look and then walk over to her viper that is parked across for Kara's viper. A minute later Lee, Kara and Krista vipers are being moved into launch tubes.
Meanwhile, in outer space Flat Top is flying his raptor around the fleet waiting for Lee, Kara and Krista to join him in space. Carouse is sitting in the ECO seat and tapping the sides of the seat as he watches the radar and is thinking the stims pills start to work fast, I am no longer tired but my eyes feel weird.
"Flat Top have you taken stims before?"
"No, why are you asking?"
"Because it feels like there are ants' crawl on my eyes and I want to know if it is normal for it to feel like ants crawling on your eyes?"
"I have no idea."
At the same time Lee, Kara and Krista viper launch out of the launch tubes and into outer space. Kara starts to fly her viper north, as Lee starts to fly his viper to the south. Krista starts to fly her viper to the west and press down the button that allow you to talk into the intercom.
"This is the CAG to the viper pilots and raptor pilot and ECO. Let get through the next four hours of CAP duty and the jumps and then we will get a break between jumps. Carouse to answer your question I have heard other pilots say it feels like they have ants crawling on they eyes when on stims, but for me stims just make me hyperactive."
"Thanks for letting me know that Phoenix."
"You are welcome Carouse."
"Carouse to Starbuck what does taking stims do to you?"
"Coughing normally stims blunt my reflexes, reaction time and sometime make me hyperactive, sniffling."
"(Carouse and Flat Top) What are the stims doing for you right now Starbuck?"
"Ahem so far the only think there are doing is keep me from fall asleep coughing and making me tremble. But then again that might not be the two stims tablets because I am freezes, so it more likely that I am shaking because of being cold, sniffling."
Flat Top flies his raptor by Kara's viper and look at Kara as he flies by and sees that Kara is sweating and that Kara has dark blueish black bags under her eyes. He also notices that her right hand is shaking as she moves the joystick of her viper. At the same time Apollo voice come over the intercoms of the vipers and raptor.
"How are you really hold up Starbuck?"
"I am doing fine Apollo, but I am going to stop talking because talking coughing is only making my sore throat hurt more."
"That is fine."
Lee and Kara stop press the button used to talk into the intercom and go back to watching for any enemy ships among the fleet ships and see raptors fly into or decking at ships, so crews can check the ships for a tracking device or people hiding in the cargo bays of the ships, but so far all of the ships have been clean. Lee, Kara, Krista, Flat Top and Carouse see no Cylon raider between jumps ninety-nine through a hundred and five. But during the jumps Lee, Kara and Krista shoot down countless numbers of Cylon raiders before landing in the port side landing bay and Galactica jump away from the Cylon ships.
There are only eight minutes until the next jump, which is the hundred and sixth and Boomer is flying her raptor beside the Olympic Carrier. Kara, Lee and Krista are flying they vipers toward the Olympic Carrier because Boomer has been trying to get the pilot of the Olympic Carrier to let her deck, so a crew can search the ship, but the pilot is not letting them deck and the pilot has stop talking to Boomer, Phoenix and Galactica Actual too. In addition the Olympic Carrier is flying toward Galactica at a very fast speed.
"This is Galactica Actual to Phoenix. Dualla is sent a message to the civilian ships, but not the Olympic Carrier telling them to jump to the jump coordinate for the hundred and seventh jump."
"Phoenix to Galactica Actual, what do you want us to do?"
"I want you to have a viper pilot fire a warning shot over the cockpit windows of the Olympic Carrier."
"Yes Sir. Starbuck fire a warning shot over the cockpit widow of the Olympic Carrier."
"Yes sir."
Kara who is the nearest to the front of the carrier flies the rest of the way to the carrier and when she reaches the left side of the carrier cockpit thirty second later she hit the fire button on her joystick and sent a warning short over the cockpit window. But the Olympic Carrier flies by Starbuck viper a few second later and at the same time Boomer, Apollo, Starbuck, Flat top and Galactica warning systems all pick up that the Olympic Carrier is emitting signals of radiation, which means they have nuclear weapons. At the same time Dualla voice come over Boomer and Flat top raptor and the viper's intercoms.
"The Olympic Carriers nuclear weapons have gone hot."
"Galactica Actual to Phoenix, I am giving you an order for you, Apollo and Starbuck to shoot down the Olympic Carrier."
"Yes Sir. Boomer and Flat Top head back to Galactica. Starbuck and Apollo you hear Galactica Actual, let head to the back of the carrier and shoot down the Olympic Carrier."
Boomer and Flat Top start flying they raptors toward Galactica and at the same time Krista, Lee and Kara's flies they vipers to the back of the Olympic Carrier, then line up with Krista is in the center, Lee on the left side of Krista and Kara on the right side of Krista's viper. Lee and Kara look over at Krista and the CAG see that her sister and Lee have sad looks on they face and know that the two of them are thinking how can we take the life of all the people aboard that ship and live with ourselves afterwards. Krista takes a deep breath, thinking to herself there is no one in the ship that is alive, the Cylon has killed them already and I am not taking anyone lives by shoot the carrier down. This is not like Lt. Daniel Novacek or Bulldog as all the pilots called him, at the same time Krista press down the button to talk into the intercom.
"On the count of three we will shoot down the carrier Apollo and Starbuck."
"Frak there is more than a thousand and thirty-four people on the Olympic Carrier Phoenix. We cannot shoot her down coughing."
"We were giving an order by the commander and we will follow the order Starbuck."
"But all the souls aboard the Olympic Carrier how can we take they lives, Apollo you can be thinking of shooting the carrier down?"
"The commander that happens to be my father gave me an order Starbuck and I have to follow the order, and beside we do not know if there is anyone on the ship and if there is a Cylon on the ship then the passengers and crew or likely already dead."
"Apollo right Starbuck. Now on three we will shoot down the Olympic Carrier. One, two, three!"
Krista and Lee hit the fire buttons on the joysticks right away, but Kara hesitation for a second before she hit the fire button. Lee and Krista cannon rounds hit the ship first and a second later Kara's viper cannon rounds hit the carrier and the Olympic Carrier explodes in front of Kara, Lee and Krista eyes. Lee, Kara and Krista flip they vipers around and fly away from the ship they just blow up and speed toward Galactica with pieces of the Olympic Carrier flying through outer space and the pieces are flying above and below they vipers. Boomer and Flat Top lands they raptor on the port side landing bay first and a few second's later Krista, Lee and Kara vipers land they vipers on the landing bay. The flight pods' doors close and the pods retract into the ship and few moments later Galactica jumps away.
As soon as the FTL jump is over members of the deck crew are moving the vipers into the hanger deck and the pilots that were working on vipers before the jump goes back to working on the vipers. At the same time Galactica actual voice comes over the intercom of the ship.
"We are going to condition two. Members of the deck crew make sure you have vipers ready to launch at a moment notice. Krista Thrace's pick out two viper pilots and a raptor pilot and ECO to fly CAP and hold a post flight briefing for the rest of your pilots and raptor ECO."
The intercom goes silent and in the port side hanger deck Kara, Lee and Krista are getting out of they vipers. Lee, Kara and Krista climb down ladders that are up against they vipers. Once off of the ladder Krista set her helmet on the bottom step of the ladder and then takes a deep breath. Krista then looks around the hanger deck for a few moments, thinking over who should be on CAP for the next five hours. Krista walks into the center of the hanger deck and puts her hand on her hips. Then Krista clear her throat and the pilots and ECO all turns to look at her.
"Spinner and Fireball you are fly CAP with Boomer and her ECO Crush Down, take your two stims and then get back out there and keep the fleet save. The rest of the raptor ECO and pilots meet me in pilot ready room one in thirty-six minutes."
Krista walks over to her viper that in the last space on the left if walking to the back of the hanger deck. She passes Kara on the way, who viper is parked in the third to last spaces on the left and Lee standing beside his viper that is in the second to last space on the right. Krista walks over to her viper and start to check her viper for any damage. At the same time Lieutenant Alex Quarrorto (Crush Down) walks through the hatch door of Sharon raptor and see she has the red med. kit out and is kneeling in front of the med. kit that is open and the lid of the med. kit is up against the far right wall of the raptor if standing in the hatch door. Alex walks up to Sharon back and sees that Sharon is taking her two stims tablets and four pink capsules of pick me up for tummy trouble, which is for nausea, upset stomach, heartburn, indigestion and diarrhea. Alex taps the pilot left shoulder and start to talk, thinking her stomach must really be bothering her if taking four pick me up from tummy trouble.
"Do you want me to go tell Krista that you are having stomach issues and can't fly CAP?"
"I can fly CAP Alex beside Krista will not let me off for just a little stomachache."
"Sharon you had a stomachache since last night and all you have ate today is two pieces of toast and an apple. In addition you have been in and out of the heads on all the ships that we search today and now you are taking something for nausea, upset stomach, heartburn, indigestion and diarrhea."
"I am fine Alex and I can fly CAP."
Sharon close the med. kit and put the kit away in the space under the radar counter, on the right side of the ECO seat, if sitting on the seat looking at the radar screens. Sharon then stands up and she starts to walk toward the front of the raptor, but stop right behind the pilot seats and wrap her arms around her abdomen at the same time Sharon stomach start making a rumbling sound that is very loud. Sharon turns and walks toward the hatch door of the raptor.
"Are you sure that you can fly CAP?"
"Yes, I just need to use the head and while I'm using the head go through the preflight check and get the raptor ready to launch."
"Yes Sir."
Sharon walks out of the raptor and onto the wing. She hops off of the raptor wing and then start to walk toward the back of the port side hanger deck. The chief of the deck runs over to Sharon with an unopen bottle of water in his right hand. When Galen Toyl reach Sharon he taps her on the left shoulder and Sharon stop walking, Sharon turns and looks at Galen and sees the bottle of water in his hands.
"Sharon the water is for you, because you have not been drink enough to day."
"Thank you, Galen and I will drink the water after using the head."
"Are you feeling all right Sharon because your arms are wrapped around your stomach and you hardly eaten anything today?"
"Yeah I just need to use the head really badly."
Sharon stomach start making the loud rumbling sound again and she takes the bottle of water from Galen and then start runs through the hanger deck. The chief of the deck watching Sharon running to the exit of the hanger deck and Galen has a worried look on his face. When Sharon is out of sight, the chief of the deck goes back to work and at the same time Sharon runs into the officer head.
Back in the hanger deck Kara has been looking at the undercarriage of her viper between coughing and sneezing fits and she sees notice wrong with the underside of the viper. Kara put a check mark in the no damage boxes for each part of the undercarriage, she then looks at the wings, the viper tail and the nose of the viper really fasts. Kara finishes filling out the check list then sign the check list, fighting the urge to sneeze and cough. A few moments later Kara grabs her helmet and walks over to the chief of the deck coughing into her right elbow.
"Your post flight check is complete?"
"Ahem yes ah-choo."
"Bless you, Kara. Your voice is very hoarse and it looks like you feel awful, how are you feeling?"
"Ahem like I been hit by five trucks and then Galactica crush landing on top of me coughing."
"That not good, what symptoms do you have?"
"Fever, dry cough, chills, nasal congestion ah-choo, sore throat, feeling weak, headache, achy all over, loss of appetite, exhaust, nasal congestion, sinus pressure and last time I check I had thick yellowish nasal discharge too."
"You should be in bed resting and should not be on active flight duty."
"Sniffling I am doing what I am ordered to do because coughing commander Adama need every pilot in they bird and fighting the ah-choo Cylon when they jump into the orbit."
Kara start coughing and cover her mouth with her left elbow and the chief of the deck take the check list for Kara. The chief of the deck then takes a close look at Kara Thrace and sees that she has dark blueish black bags under her eyes, shivering, sweating, flushed and her teeth are chatter. Galen Toyl puts his right hand onto Kara's forehead, which feel like it is on fire and the forehead is clammy to the touch too. At the same time Kara start sneezing into her elbow, Toyl takes his hand off of Kara's forehead and gives her a worried look.
"Kara I think you are over due for a dose of cold medicine, go take another dose before going to the post flight briefing and I would take your temperature when you are in the officer bunk because your forehead feels like it is on fire."
"That sound like a good idea, see you around."
"Bye Kara and feel better soon."
Kara walks away from the chief of the deck and over to the close staircase. Krista stop doing her post flight check on her viper and looks up. She then watches Kara walks up to the staircase to the catwalk coughing and sneezing into her left elbow. At the same time the chief of the deck wave at Jame Lymna, who call sign is Jammer and he comes run over to the chief of the deck.
"What do you need me to do Chief?"
"I want you to go over Kara Thrace viper and make sure she did not miss anything when doing her post flight check."
'Why she knows how to do a post flight check Chief?"
"Because she is really ill and feels like she has been hit by five trucks and then Galactica crush landing on top of her and I do not think that she really took the time to notice the smell things that could lead to major issues like fuel leaks, hydraulic leaks, et cetera."
"Yes Sir."
Jammer takes Kara Thrace's viper post flight check list from the chief of the deck and then walks over to Kara's viper. Once at the viper he starts the post flight check over. Jammer notices that Kara did not put the yellow flags onto the block locking indiator. Then he notices that Kara did not put the orange flags onto the weapons, but that is easy to misses seeing that the last five hours she has been on CAP duty and did not have to do it because the post flight check was also a preflight check. Jammer then notices that the seals for the hydraulic line that are on the underside of the viper have come loose, but everything else seems to be fine.
Meanwhile, in the officers' duty locker Kara has taken another dose of Caprica feel better severe cold and flu medicine and she has changes into a pair of heavy drawstring sweatpant that are gray and have loose legs. On the right hip of the sweatpant there is a patch with the logo for the Battlestar Galactica. Kara has also put on a heavy gray hoodie sweatshirt that says viper pilot in navy blue across the chest and then an outline of a viper in navy blue under the words viper pilot and on the front of the sweatshirt hoodie there is a pouch on the bottom. In addition Kara has the hood of the hoodie sweatshirt up and is sitting on her bunk with the oral glass thermometer in her mouth and is trying not to cough, sneezes or let her teeth chatter, so she can take her temperature. She does not keep track of how long the thermometer is in her mouth for, but take the thermometer out of her mouth when she can't hold back the urge to sneeze or cough anymore. As soon as the thermometer is out of her mouth Kara start to sneeze, cough and her teeth start to chatter again. Kara looks at the thermometer and sees it says a hundred and three point nine degrees Fahrenheit. Kara set the thermometer onto the top shelf of her bunk and then lays down on the bunk and pulls the blanket up, to warm up a little before having to leave for the post flight briefing. Kara starts to hold the front of her neck with her left hand and is thinking this is just great now my lymph-nods are swollen. Kara then starts to think over the symptoms she has, which are fever, chills, headaches, achy all over, loss of appetite, exhaust, dry cough, nasal congestion, think yellowish nasal discharge, sinus pressure, a sore throat, feeling weak, swollen lymph-nods in my neck and thinks my tonsils might be swelling too. Kara set her wrist watch alarm, so if she falls to sleep she will wake up when the alarm goes off and then she can head to the post flight briefing. Kara lets her eyelids closes and a few second later Kara is sound asleep, at the same time the pilots in the port side hanger deck are finishes up they post flight viper check.
It is now time for the post flight briefing and pilot ready room one is full with all the viper pilots and ECO that are not on CAP duty, but one of the pilots has not arrived yet. Krista is standing behind the podium looking at her wrist watch, thinking where is my sister at. Krista takes a deep breath and looks around the room at all the tried pilots and ECO.
"I am going to start the briefing despite one of the pilot not been here yet. I get an update from Dr. Cottle on Joker. He is doing fine but has to have Image screens done to see if he has a dislocated left shoulder, but there are waiting for the Morpha to start working fully before taking him to the image scanner."
At the same time Kara Thrace walks into the pilot ready room coughing into her left elbow and Kara see all the seats are full. Kara walks over to Lee who is sitting on the center seat of the front row and she sits down on the floor in front of. Kara lean her back against Lee legs and Lee can feel the heat coming off of Kara body, Lee knows by the amount of heat he is feeling through his flight suit that Kara is running a high fever. Kara pulls a handful of tissues out of the pouch on the front of the hoodie sweatshirt and then start sneezing into the tissues. Lee and the rest of the pilots and ECO can hear Kara teeth chatter as she is sneezing into the tissues in her hands. Krista notices that her sister is shivering despite sweating and look very feverish too. At the same time Kara stop sneezing and when she stops sneezing she starts to blows her nose into a tissue, when Kara stop blowing her nose, she looks at the tissue and sees that the nasal discharge now has a little green in it, but is still mostly a yellow color.
"Lieutenant Thrace you are late for the post flight briefing and are out of uniform. Why are you late for the briefing and why are you out of uniform?"
"Ah-choo I am cold and the sweatshirt and sweatpant are warm then coughing any of the uniforms and I fall to ah-choo sleep after taking my temperature, which is a hundred and three point nine degrees Fahrenheit."
"Lieutenant Thrace I want you to go back to the officers' duty locker and lay down and rest."
"I can coughing make it through the briefing."
"I am giving you an order to go get some rest."
"Ok, but only because all of a sudden I really have to use the head really badly."
Kara slowly stands up from the floor because she is too achy to stand up any faster and then walks over to the hatch door coughing into the tissues in her hands. The pilots and ECO in the ready room watch Kara Thrace's walk out of the ready room and close the hatch door behind her. At the same time Krista Thrace run her hands through her hair and then start yawning, which cause everyone in the room to start yawning. Krista is the first to stop yawning and she waits for everyone else to stop yawning, then start to talk.
"I am going to make this short, you all did a great job fighting the Cylons since the attack on our home worlds started. We do not know if the Cylon attacking us everything thirty-three minutes is finished, but so far we have made it thirty-nine and half minutes and a Cylon basestar has not jump into orbit. I want you to go take showers and then go get some sleep for now. Red Devil and Bingo you are the next viper pilots on CAP and Swordman you are the next raptor pilot on CAP, dismissed."
All the pilots and ECO that are sitting stands up and start walking to the hatch doors. Lee stop walking when he reaches Krista who is still standing behind the podium. Lee puts his left arm around Krista's waist and she grabs her helmet off the podium with her left hand, then the two of them walk over to the hatch door. As the two of them walk out of the hatch door, Lee can tell that Krista is thinking about something.
"Krista what are you thinking about?"
"The first time you meet Kara when she showed up at my apartment on Sunday, June first during the year four BCH."
"That seems like so long time ago and so far from here. Kara had just gradations from the fleet Academy that morning, as a junior Lieutenant and was about to start the six weeks of basic training before have to report to the Triton and she came to your apartment upset about a few things that afternoon."
By now Lee and Krista have reached the staircase, as the two of them start to climb the staircase they drift off in thought about the first time Lee meet Kara in the year four BCH and the events of that day start flash in front of both of they eyes, it is early afternoon at Krista Thrace's apartment. Lee's who is wearing a pair of lite blue jeans and blue polo tee shirt, is standing in the door of Krista Thrace's bedroom and he is watching his fiancée sleep. Krista has the lavender bedspread pull all the way up and Lee notices the white gold engagement ring, which has a high pong setting with a round diamond that is seven-point four karat. In addition the ring has a woven band and has become very loose on her left ring finger over the last month. Lee looks down at the mug of hot herbal tea in his right hand and the bag from the drug store in his left hand.
A few moments later Lee walks through the door and into the bedroom. He then walks over to the nightstand on the left side of the bed if standing at the end of the bed and set the mug of tea down on the nightstand and then set the bag from the drug store on the nightstand too. Lee sits down on the edge of the bed and puts his right hand onto Krista's forehead, which is still very warm, but no longer burning up like the last time that he checked her forehead. Lee takes his right hand off of Krista's forehead and at the same time Krista eyelids open up. Then Krista's sit up in bed and starts coughing, which sound nasty and wet. Lee pulls a tissue out of the box of tissues on the nightstand with his right hand then hands the tissue to Krista, who now has her arms out from under the bedspread, Lee can see the sleeves of Krista's pink bathrobe. Krista takes the tissue from Lee and start coughing up thick mucus into the tissue. When she stops coughing, Krista set the used tissue on the nightstand and then Lee hand Krista the mug of herbal tea.
"How long have I been asleep for, because the last thing I remember is calling the Admiral who was in change of the gradation ceremony to tell him I was too ill to take part in the air show before the ceremony or hand the diploma to my students and that he need to find someone to cover for me at the ceremony this morning because I was running a high fever, had nasal congestion and was coughing up thick yellowish green mucus and my chest hurt when I take a deep breath?"
"You sleep through the morning and fall to sleep as the Admiral was responding to what you said and I had to finish the conversation."
"How did the admiral respond to that?"
"Krista's he understands, because the officer you report to had let him know that you been working sick since the beggaring of May and in the last week have got really ill and had to get someone to cover the last group of flight tests because you were too ill to conduct them."
At the same time Lee grabs the bag from the drug store off the nightstand and then he pulls the box of Caprica feel better for severe chest cold out of the bag. Lee then open the box and pull a sheet of gel capsules out and push two of the pink gel capsules out of the sheet into his left hand and then he put the sheet back into the box. Lee set the box onto his lap, then holds out his left hand that the capsules are in. Krista just looks at the capsules in Lee left-hand and start coughing. Krista pulls a tissue out of the tissues' box with her right hand since the mug is in her left hand. Krista covers her mouth with the tissue and cough up more mucus.
"Krista you need to take some Caprica feel better for severe chest cold, which is for cough, sore throat, body aches, fever, nasal congestion and chest congestion because it will help you feel better."
"No Lee."
"Krista you need to take some Caprica feel better for severe chests cold, so you can feel well enough to pack your clothing because you are reporting to Galactica tomorrow."
"Ok."
Lee hands Krista the capsules and she put the capsules into her mouth and then Krista takes a drink of tea to wash down the Caprica feel better for severe chest cold capsules. Krista then set the mug down on the nightstand and lay her head against the pillow that is on top of the stack of five pillows. Lee takes his fiancé right hand with his left hand and runs his right hand through Krista hair.
"Lee's I am so sorry this week was suppose to be used for finding a bakery, a flower shop, finding a place, pick up invitation and announcement card catalog from stationery stores to get married and we got none of that done coughing."
"Krista's you do not need to be sorry about that, you did the right thing by stay home and resting when you were not at work, we did get the planning done that could be done from home started. We can request or next leaves from our Battlestars at the same time to work on the rest. I am going to go into the kitchen and make you some vegetables soup."
"I do not have appetite Lee."
"You need to eat Krista."
"Ok. I will try."
Lee set the box of Caprica feel better for severe chest cold capsules on the nightstand and then he stands up from the bed. Lee walks out of the bedroom and head into the kitchen, which is in the far right-hand area of the living/kitchen area if coming out of the master bedroom. In addition the kitchen is across from the spiral staircase that leads up to the apartment door if standing in the master bedroom door. Once in the kitchen Lee gets to work gathering up vegetables for the soup. At the same time in the master bedroom Krista starts to drift off to sleep, because of the high fever she is running, which is making her feel weak, exhaust and have the chills.
Ten minutes later there is a knock on the apartment door. After the sixth knock Krista gets out of bed because she knows Lee is busy cooking in the kitchen and he has music playing on the radio, which mean he might not be able to hear the knocking coming from the apartment door seeing that the person at the door has knock six times. Krista walks out of the master bedroom and then walks over to the spiral staircase coughing into her left elbow. The person at the door knocks a seventh time and Krista start to walk up the staircase.
"Ahem hold your horse coughing. I am coming coughing."
Two minutes later Krista reaches the top of the spiral staircase and walk over to the door. She then looks through the peephole in the door and sees Kara standing outside the door wearing her duty blue uniform and Krista sees that Kara is crying. At the same time Kara start pressing the door bell, which start to ring in Krista ears, Krista quickly unlocks the apartment door and then pulls the door open. Krista steps aside to let Kara into the apartment and at the same time Krista cover her mouth with her right elbow and start coughing into the elbow. Kara walks into her sisters' apartment and closes the apartment door. Kara then locks the door of the apartment and looks at her sister who is wearing her pink bathroom over a pair of thick navy blue sweatpant and sweatshirt and has start walking down the spiral staircase. Kara can tell by just by listening and looking at Krista that she is really ill. Kara follows her sister down the stairs and when Kara steps onto the bottom step, she sees Krista sitting on the tan couch beside the left arm of the couch if sitting on the couch and Krista is trying to catch her breath and has her right hand on her chest. In addition the couch is up against the center of the right-hand wall between the master bedroom door and the kitchen if standing in the living room area with your back to the spiral staircase.
As Kara wipes tears from her face with both of her hands, she looks into the kitchen that is across from the staircase, there is a breakfast island that divides the kitchen and living room. In addition the kitchen has black upper cabinet and base cabinets that are up against the far wall across from the spiral staircase. There is a silver freezer and refrigerator unit that is up against the right-hand wall if your back is to the spiral staircase. The silver stove and oven range are across from the freezer and refrigerator unit on the left-hand wall if your back is to the spiral staircase. The base cabinet start right after the refrigerator and ends right before the stove and oven range. The upper cabinets start after the refrigerator and when you get to the first corner there are four half circle shelves, which is one shelf above the other shelf and has Krista's bottles of Ambrosia, plexus, Leonis Estates sparkling wine and other wines on the shelves. Then the upper cabinets begin again until the next corner where there is four more half circle shelves, which has Krista wine glasses, shot glasses and beer glasses on them. The upper cabinets start again and the upper cabinets end right before the stove and oven range. In addition the counter tops for the base cabinets and the breakfast island are concrete counter tops that are stained a coal color that is a light black.
Kara listens to her sister coughing as she looks around the apartment that has all white walls and natural stain wood floors throughout the whole apartment. The flat screen tv is on the wall across from the couch with the door to the main/guest bathroom on the right-hand side of the flat screen tv if sitting on the couch and the second bedrooms is on the left-hand side of the flat screen tv, if sitting on the couch. In addition on the wall behind the couch is a painting that Kara paint of Krista playing in her final Caprica Buccaneers pyramid game against the Picon Panthers and in the painting Krista has just scored the winning goal of the game. At the same time Kara notice the guy standing behind the breakfast Island and cutting vegetables on top of Krista white cutting board. Kara walks over to the couch and sits down on her sister right side. Lee Adama puts the knife down and walks out of the kitchen and into the living room area. He stops in front of Kara Thrace and holds out his right hand and Kara takes his right hand in her right hand and the two of them shake hands.
"I am Lee Adama and I am your sisters' fiancé."
"I am Kara Thrace, your fiancée sister."
"It looks like you have been crying, is everything all right Kara?"
"No, Lee do you mind if Krista and I go into Krista's bedroom and talk in private for a few minutes?"
"No."
Lee walks into the kitchen and turns the music off and at the same time Kara and Krista stand up from the couch. Then the two sisters walk to the master bedroom door. Krista walks into her bedroom coughing into her right elbow. Kara follows her sister into the bedroom and closes the bedroom door behind her. At the same time Krista sits down on the left side of the bed if standing at the end of the bed. Then Krista put her leg up on the bed and pulls the bedspread up to her should because she has the chills. Kara walks over to the bed and sits down on the right side of the bed if standing at the end of the bed. Kara takes off her combat boots and at the same time Krista lay her head onto the pillows. A minute later Krista turns her head and look at Kara that is laying on the bed beside her and sees that Kara is crying again.
"Ahem what do you need to tell me?"
"Mom is dying of lung cancer and only has five weeks left to live."
"Coughing she is not going to get treatment for the cancer?"
"The oncology says that moms' cancer is stage four and that the cancer has metastasize."
"But they still can try coughing."
"She told them she does not want any treatments, so they give her pain medicine to control the pain and make her comfortable the last five weeks of her life. Can you please go sees mom before shipping out tomorrow and try to talk her in to getting treatment because I am not ready from mom to leave us and she will not listen to me Kris?"
Kara puts her hands over her eyes and start crying harder, at the same time Krista start coughing and grabs a handful of tissues. She covers her mouth with a tissue that in her right hand and gives the tissues in her left hand to Kara. Kara using one of the tissues to wipe the tears off her face and then use a second tissue to blow her nose. When Krista stop coughing she set the used tissue on the nightstand and then looks at her little sister.
"I will go talk with her coughing in the morning but I ah-choo can't promise you anything."
"That is fine Kris. Can I start here tonight?"
"Sure."
"You missed my gradation ceremony."
"I am sorry about that Kara coughing but I was too ill to get out of bed this morning."
"That is fine, at lest you had a good reason for not coming, mom just forgot the gradation ceremony was this morning."
"I am going back to bed until dinner is ready, how about you help Lee make the soup."
"Sure, it will be nice to get to know him."
Kara stands up from the bed and grabs her boots from off the floor. Kara then walks over to the master bedroom door. Kara open up the bedroom door, but does not walk out of the bedroom, she turns around and looks at her older sister. Kara sees that Krista has started to cry, but despite crying Krista is drift off to sleep because she is just too tired to stay awake any longer. Kara walks out of the master bedroom and closes the door behind her. Kara set her combat boots by the staircase and then walks across the room and into the kitchen. She walks over to the kitchen double sink that in the center of the counter top of the base cabinet that is across from the breakfast Island. Kara turns on the water and washes her hand. A few moments later she is cutting carrots and Lee is cutting the corn off of the cob.
"I over hear what you and Krista were talking about. I am sorry about your mom."
"Thank you, has Krista gone to the doctor yet?"
"No, she says that if she is feeling really ill tomorrow she will report to the sickbay on Galactica after meeting with the commander and the ship XO."
"She should have already gone to see a doctor, see has been sick since the start of May and it is now the beginning of June!"
"I know and I have been trying to get her to make a doctor appointment and let me take her all week, but she will not make an appointment or let me take her to the fleet base medical center either."
"She hates doctors."
"Kara I can handle making the soup on my own, but would you go into your sisters' bedroom and quietly pack her large tan duffel bag and make sure to leave a duty blue uniform out for tomorrow?"
"Sure."
Kara set the knife down on the counter and then walks out of the kitchen. Kara then walks through the living room and over to the master bedroom door. Kara open up the bedroom door and look at the cast-iron headboard that is up against the center of the wall across from the bedroom door. Kara walks into the bedroom and start walking over to the wardrobe and the dresser that is on the far right-hand wall if standing in the bedroom door. The wardrobe is nearest to the headboard of the bed and the dresser is nearest to the footboard of the bed. Kara walks up to the bed and then pulls the large tan duffel bag out from under the bed. Kara then open up the wardrobe and she take the uniforms out of the wardrobe, all beside one of the duty blue uniforms, a gray sleeveless shirt and a brown tank top. Kara set the uniforms onto the bed. She then gets a few pairs of jeans, shirts, skirts and a couple dress out of the wardrobe that way Krista has them if she needs' them. Kara set the clothing onto the bed and then close the doors of the wardrobe. Kara then walks over to the dresser and gets out some underwear, sport bra, lace bra and socks out of the dresser. A few minutes later Kara is folding the uniforms, clothing and underwear to put them into the duffel bag. Krista start coughing and sits up in bed and grabs a handful of tissues from the box of tissues on the nightstand, then Krista starts to cough up mucus into the tissues and notice that her sister is packing for her. Two minute later Krista stops coughing and set the used tissues on the nightstand.
"Thank you for packing my clothing for me, I have ah-choo be meaning to pack all week, but I have just been too weak and tired to do anything ah-choo by the time I got home form work."
"You are welcome, just rest because you are going to have a long day tomorrow."
"Thank you again, Kara."
Krista lays her head down on the pillows and start fanning herself off with her left hand. Kara stop packing and goes into the master bathroom and get two white washcloths and wet the washcloth down with cool water and then walks out of the bathroom fold one of the washcloths. Kara walks over to the edge of the bed and wipe Krista's face off with the washcloth that is not folded, which cool Krista down enough that she stops fanning herself off. Kara then set the folded washcloth onto her sisters' forehead, then Kara walks into the bathroom and lay the wet washcloth on the side of the soaker bathtub. A minute later Kara walks into the bedroom and goes back to packing her sister clothing, at the same time Krista drift off to sleep again.
At this point Lee and Krista are brought back to present time when Kara walks up to them coughing into her right elbow and Lee and Krista notices that Kara has her left arm wrapped around her abdomen. The three of them walk into the officers' duty locker and Kara walk over to her bunk and sit down on the bunk. Krista takes off her duty belt and hands the duty belt to Lee. Lee walks over to Krista's locker and he open up the door, then hangs the duty belt in the locker. At the same time Krista walks over to her little sister and put her right hand onto Kara's forehead, which feels like it is on fire.
"You can add a new symptom to the long list of symptoms I already have, because I now have diarrhea."
"That not good."
"No its not."
Kara jumps off the bunk and runs out of the duty locker with both arms wrap around her abdomen. Lee walks up beside Krista and pull Krista into a hug and Krista start crying onto Lee right shoulder. Lee lead Krista over to her bunk that is across from Kara's bunk, then Lee and Krista sit down on Krista's bunk. Lee rubs Krista back and just let her cry, because he knows that she is just worried about her sister, over tired and with the pregnancy hormone her emotions are working over time. Ten minutes later Kara walks back into the officers' duty locker and walks over to her bunk and kicks her tennis shoes off her feet. Then Kara lay down on the bunk and pull the blanket up and goes right to sleep. Lee and Krista watch Kara sleep for a few minutes and then Krista lays down on her bunk without taking off her boots. Krista close her eyelids and a minute later she is asleep too. Lee stands up from Krista's bunk and walk out of the officers' duty locker closes the hatch door behind him.
Meanwhile, inside of Sharon Veleril raptor number 312, Lieutenant Alex Quarrorto is sitting in the ECO seat in the back of the raptor and he is rubbing his eyes, which feel like ants are crawling on them and Sharon who is siting on the pilot seat on the left side of the raptor, if standing behind the pilots seats that are at the front of the raptor. Sharon turns on the autopilot and then take her helmet off. She set the helmet onto the copilot seat that is on the right side of the raptor if standing behind the pilot seats. Sharon then lays her head against the headrest of the pilot seat and closes her eyelids. Sharon then wraps her arms around her abdomen and at the same time Alex starts to talk.
"Did you hear the rumor going around the fleet that Cylon looks like human now?"
"No, I have not heard that one."
Alex lean forward and look into the cockpit of the raptor to see that Sharon has her eyes closed and her arms wrapped around her abdomen. He also notices that Sharon is sweating. The ECO stands up and then he walks up behind the pilot seat and stands behind the two seats.
"How are you holding up Sharon?"
"My stomachache has getting worse and the nauseous worse too, I do not think the pick me up for tummy trouble is help with the nauseous, but at lest I have stop having to use the head because of diarrhea ever fifteen minutes. Is it cold in the raptor?"
"No it is hot like normal."
"I am freezing."
"That not good, it sounds like you are run a fever."
"I do not get sick."
"There is a first time for everything and you had a stomachache all day and also had diarrhea all day."
Sharon does not say anything, because she is having stabbing pain shoot through her abdomen. She takes a deep breath and is trying not to cry as Alex place his left hand onto her forehead, which feels warm to the touch and a little clammy.
"It feels like you are running a fever."
"I am never eating the clam soup gagging again."
"That does not sound good, do you think you are going to be sick to your stomach?"
"I hope not gagging, will you bring me one of the brown vomit bags we keep in the raptor for passengers who get motions sickness?"
"Do you think you are going to need one?"
"I'm gagging not sure, but it is better to be safe then not have one gagging and throw up all over the raptor."
"I guess you are right."
Alex walks away from the pilot seats and goes to find one of the vomit bags, which is keep by the med. kit. A minute late Alex walks up behind the pilot's seat and open up the brown vomit bag and set the bag on the control panel that is between the seat and lift up, so the pilot and copilot can get to the seat or out of the seats. Sharon opens up her eyelids and looks up to see Alex standing behind the pilot seats and lean over the control panel looking at the radar.
"Just check to make sure no Cylon raider jump into orbit as I was getting the vomit bag."
"That is a good thing to check gagging."
Sharon closes her eyelids again, hopes that it will help ease the nauseous and the pain from the stomachache. Alex walks over to the ECO seat and sits down on the seat. He then starts to watch the radar again and at the same time Sharon open her eyelids and take the raptor off of autopilot. Sharon then flies the raptor to the east side of the fleet and turns the raptor so the back is to the ships, then puts the raptor back on autopilot at the lower speed and Alex start to talk.
"Sharon maybe I should get on the intercom and connect Galactica actual or the chief of the deck to find Krista assigns someone to take over CAP duty for us?"
"No I am gagging fine."
Sharon grabs the vomit bag and then start throwing up into the vomit bag. Alex stands up from the ECO seat and then walks over to the pilot seats. He stands beside the pilot seat and hold Sharon's ponytail out of her face, as she throws up into the vomit bag. Three and half minutes later Sharon stops throwing up and Alex let go of her ponytail. Sharon wraps her arms around her stomach. Sharon then close her eyelids, as take a deep breath.
"Sharon I am going to get a hold of Galactica actual and get someone to take our place on CAP now."
"No, I feel better now and should be able to make it through our time on CAP duty."
"Are you a hundred percent sure about that because you look like you are going to passes out and you are pale?"
"I say that I am fine Alex!"
"Ok."
Alex walks over to the ECO seat and sits down on the seat. He looks at the radar and does not see anything. At the same time Sharon take the raptor off of autopilot and start flying the raptor around the fleet to make Alex thinks that she is better now that she threw up the two pieces of toasts, apple and all the water she drank before going out on CAP, but in truth she still very nauseous and the pain from her stomachache has getting worse and she now has the chills and her teeth are chatter.
Meanwhile, on Galactica and in the officers' duty locker Kara has wakened up and she is sitting up in her bunk coughing and sneezing into a tissues and crying. Kara is also having a hard time breathing through her nose and mouth. A few minutes later Krista wakes up to the sound of her sister coughing and gasping for air. Krista sits up in her bunk and at the same time Lee walks into the officers' duty locker. Krista put her legs over the side of the bunk and then stands up from the bunk. Krista walks over to Kara's bunk and sits down on the edge of the bunk.
"Kara open your mouth, I want to take a look at your throat."
"Ok."
Kara open up her mouth and at the same time Lee hands Krista his flashlight, Krista turns the flashlight on and shines the flashlight into Kara's mouth. Krista takes a long look at Kara's throat, which is very red and swollen. Krista also notices that Kara tonsils are very swollen too and have white patches on them. Krista turns off Lee's flashlight and hands the flashlight back to Lee and Kara close her mouth. Kara then grabs a tissue out of the box of tissues on the top shelf of her bunk and start to blow her nose into the tissue.
"Kara I think you need to go see Dr. Cottle because your throat is very red and swollen and your tonsils are swollen too and that the reason you are having a hard time breathing. In addition you have white spots on your tonsils."
"I feel too weak to make it to the sickbay on my own."
"I will help you to the sickbay Kara."
"Thank you."
"Lee's go let your fathers' know that I am taking Kara to see Dr. Cottle in the sickbay and that I am taking her off of flight duty until Dr. Cottle clears her to fly a viper again."
Lee does not say anything, he just runs over to the hatch door and turn the wheel lock until the door is unlocked. He then grabs the handle and pulls open the hatch door. Lee runs out of the officers' duty locker leaving the hatch door open. At the same time Krista stands up from Kara's bunk and Kara puts her legs over the side of the bed. Krista kneels down in front of Kara and puts her sisters tennis shoes on her feet. A minute later Krista finishes tying the right tennis shoe and then she stands up. Krista then pulls Kara to her feet and then Krista puts her left arm around Kara's waist. Kara lay her head on her sister shoulder and then put her left hand over her mouth and start coughing into her hand. The two of them start walking to the open hatch door and Krista can feel the heat coming off Kara body through her flight suit and know that Kara is running a very high fever. Kara and Krista walk out of the officers' duty locker and Kara legs give out, at the same time Cally walks down the hallway. Cally see that all of Kara's weight is being support by Krista and walk over to Kara left side and put her arm around Kara's waist.
"Krista where are you taking Kara she is really ill and need to be in bed resting?"
"I am taking her to the sickbay to see Dr. Cottle."
"I will help you take Kara there."
"Thank you."
The three of them start walking, but Kara is mostly dragging her feet because it feels like her shoes are full of lead and her legs feel like lead too, which means her feet and legs feel too heavy to lift up. The whole walk to the sickbay, which normal take four minutes take ten and half minutes and the whole time Kara coughing, sneezing and gasping for air. When they reach the hatch door to the sickbay, Cally pulls her arm free from Kara and then walks over to the hatch door. She grabs the lock wheel and turns the wheel until the hatch door unlocks, then Cally grabs the handle. Cally pulls open the heavy hatch door until the door is open all the way. Cally walks over to Kara and put her arm around Kara's waist again, then Krista and Cally help Kara through the hatch door and into the sickbay.
Once through the hatch door the three of them stop so Krista and Cally can reposition Kara. Then Krista and Cally help Kara walk past the bed on the left and right of the hatch door. Joker is laying on the first hospital bed on the right and he is wearing a tan sickbay gown and a black shoulder stabilizer that provide shoulder immobilization and controls the range of motion for glenohumeral dislocations, subluxations, rotator cuff tears and acromioclavicular separations and the brace is designed to protect and stabilize the shoulder after an injury or after surgery. Krista and Cally then help Kara walk over to Dr. Cottle's desk in the center of the sickbay. Doctor Cottle points to the last bed in the row of beds behind his desk, the headboards of the beds are up against the wall that is across from the hatch door that Krista, Kara and Cally come through. Krista and Cally then help Kara walk across the room and then over to the last bed. Once at the last bed Cally take her arm off of Kara and then leave the sickbay, because she needs to get back to the port side hanger bay. At the same time Krista help Kara sits down on the bed and then take off Kara's shoes and a nurse raises the back of the hospital up a little, so Kara will not be laying all the way down. Once Kara shoes are off Kara lays down on the bed and then Krista help Kara sits up and a nurse puts two pillows that have lite blue pillowcases on them under Kara head and another nurse cover Kara legs and lap with a lite blue unfitted sheet that matches the fitted sheet and pillowcases, then the nurse that put the pillows under Kara head lay a navy blue blanket over the unfitted shirt. Krista sits down on the second to last bed facing Kara with her back to Dr. Cottle's desk and one of the two hatch doors in the sickbay. Kara turns her head and looks at her older sister and gives her a weak smile.
"Thank you for help me to the sickbay Krista and you coughing do not need to stay if you ah-choo don't want to stay."
"I am not going anywhere until the doctor has seen you and I know what is wrong with you."
"Coughing good because I did not want you to leave."
At the same time doctor Cottle walk over to the left side of the hospital bed if standing at the end of bed or right side if laying on the bed and doctor Cottle has his silver and black stethoscope around his neck and Kara Thrace's medical folder, a metal clipboard that hooks onto the end of the bed with a form on it and a pen hook to the clipboard. When he reaches the hospital bed Kara is laying on he set the medical folder, metal clipboard and pen onto the end of the bed and take the stethoscope off from around his neck and puts the eartips into his ear.
"I am going to listen to your lungs first Kara."
"OK."
Dr. Cottle put the diaphragm of the stethoscope on Kara's chest over her right lung and listen to that lung first and then he moves the diaphragm of the stethoscope over to the left lungs. He takes the diaphragm of the stethoscope off of Kara chest and help her seat up. Dr. Cottle then listens to Kara lungs from the back. A few minutes later he takes the stethoscope off Kara back and then take the eartips of the stethoscope out of his ears. Dr. Cottle puts the stethoscope around his neck and then he makes a note in Kara's medical folder and on the form that is on the clipboard.
"There is no fluid in your lungs, which is a good thing Kara. Can you tell me what symptoms you have?"
"Ahem I have a fever, chills, headaches, achy all over, ah-choo loss of appetite, exhaust, a dry cough, nasal congestion, think yellowish nasal discharge that has started turning green, sneeze, sinus pressure, a sore throat, feeling weak, swollen lymph-nods in my neck, swollen tonsils with white patches on them, a hard time swallowing cold medicine, stims tablets and water coughing and I also have diarrhea too."
At the same time Dr. Cottle takes a forehead thermometer strip out of his right pocket of his lab coat and then pulls the paper backing off. Doctor Cottle then put the forehead thermometer strip onto Kara's forehead and at the same time Kara start coughing into her left elbow. Doctor Cottle then takes a penlight out of the left pocket of his lab coat and wait for Kara to stop coughing, but when she stops coughing Kara start sneezing, so Dr. Cottle waits for her two stop sneezes. As he waits, Dr. Cottle writes her symptoms in her medial folder. He then checks the forehead thermometer and sees Kara is running a fever of a hundred and four degrees Fahrenheit, he writes her temperature down on the form on the clipboard and also in Kara's medical folder. He then takes the forehead thermometer stripe off Kara's forehead. By now Kara has stopped coughing and sneezing and has lay her head down on the pillows and her eyes are closed.
"Kara I want you to open your mouth, so I can look at your throat and tonsils."
Kara's open up her mouth and at the same time Dr. Cottle turns on the penlight. He shines the penlight into Kara's mouth and sees that her tonsils are very swollen and have white spots like she said and that Kara throat is very red and inflamed too.
"You can close your mouth Kara."
Kara close her mouth and pull the blanket up to her shoulder because she is cold. She then starts sneezing into her left elbow and at the same time Doctor Cottle start to talk again.
"I am going to get some swabs and when I come back I am going to take three swabs of your throat and three swabs of your tonsils and then a few swabs from you nose because I am going to run a throat culture and a nasopharyngeal culture. In addition a nurse is going to come over and put an IV into your left hand because I am going to start you on intravenous fluids because you are dehydrated."
"Ok."
Doctor Cottle walks away to talk to a nurse about start Kara on intravenous fluids and then to get the swabs. At the same time Lee and commander Adama walks into the sickbay and over to the bed Krista Thrace is sitting on. Lee sits down on Krista left and takes her left hand in hands, as commander Adama sits down on Krista right. Then Lee, commander Adama and Krista look at Kara, who has her eyes closed.
At the same time Nurse Sashon walking over to the hospital bed Kara is laying on and the nurse is pushing a metal tray with supplies for an IV on it. Nurse Sashon pushes the tray over to the right side of the bed if standing at the end of the bed or the left side if laying on the bed. A few moments later the nurse puts on a pair of purple medical gloves and then open up the bottle of isopropyl alcohol and flips open the top. She picks up the bottle of isopropyl alcohol and a cotton ball and pours some isopropyl alcohol onto the cotton ball. The nurse set the bottle of isopropyl alcohol onto the tray and then wipe the whole back of Kara's hand off with the isopropyl alcohol. The nurse set the used cotton ball on the tray and then pick up the package that the intravenous catheter is in and open up the package and then Sashon gets the intravenous catheter out of the package. A minute later nurse Sashon is looking for a good vein in Kara's hand and chose the center Dorsal metacarpal vein. Nurse Sashon then places the intravenous catheter into the center Dorsal metacarpal vein. Then nurse tapes down the intravenous catheter into place, so the intravenous catheter cannot move and then hooks the iv tubing to the intravenous catheter. Then hook the other end of the iv tubing to the connected port at the bottom of the plastic IV bag of intravenous fluids. The nurse then slides the hole at the top of the IV bag onto the hook at the top of the iv pole, on the side close to the bed and the IV pole is next to the hospital bed on Kara's left-hand side. The nurse unclasps the clasp on the IV tubing, so the fluids start to run and Kara open her eyes and see that the iv tube connected to the intravenous catheter has three ports for IV bags, the main port is in the center and is the one the intravenous fluid is hooked into. In addition there is one port on each side of the center port. Kara looks up at the iv pole and sees there is hook for three iv bags. At the same time Nurse Sashon push the metal tray away from the bed Kara is laying on and Kara start coughing into her right hand.
A few minutes later doctor Cottle walks over to Kara carrying a tray of swabs on it. He walks over to the left side of the bed if standing at the end of the bed and set the tray on the end of the bed on top of her medical folder and clipboard that are still setting on the bed. He put on a pair of medical gloves and he picks up two of the swabs. He takes a swab from each side of Kara's nose for the nasopharyngeal culture. Kara then open her mouth and doctor Cottle takes three swabs from Kara's throat and then he takes three swabs from the white spots on her tonsils.
"I am going run a fast acting flu test from one of the throat swab, a fast acting strep test from of one of the throat swab. Then I will start the throat culture using the rest swab from your throat and I will start running nasopharyngeal culture. But I am ninety-nine percent sure that you have Tonsillitis cause by streptococci or also called strep throat and a sinus infection because of the streptococci. I am going to have nurse Sashon come over and hook up an IV bag of streptococcicllin."
"Coughing then what is cause the bowel movements of diarrhea that I had?"
"I would say it is the result of the bacteria from the streptococci that cause your strep throat sinus infection."
Doctor Cottle sets the swabs on the tray and then he picks up the tray and medical folder. He then walks away from Kara, Krista and Lee and he stops to talk to nurse Sashon for a few moments then goes to run the tests. Lee let go of Krista left hand, then he stands up from the bed he is sitting on and walks over to the bed Kara is laying on and gives Kara a smile.
"I think the cold medicine you take is started to work because you are not coughing or sneezing, or blown your nose as much now."
"Sniffling I think the cold medicine is starting to work too and you look tired."
"I am Kara."
"Go get some rest Lee."
"Yawning sound like a good idea, I will see you later Kara and Krista's I think that you should come to the officers' duty locker with me and get some rest too."
"I am fine Lee and I am not leaving anytime soon."
"Krista will be fine Lee and if she gets too tired she can lay down on this bed and rest by her sister."
"Ok dad."
Lee walks away from Kara, Krista and his dad and walks over to the hatch door across from them. At the same time nurse Sashon walks over wearing medical gloves on both of her hand and carry a plastic IV bag and IV tubing in her hands. The nurse walks over to the iv stand by the hospital bed that Kara laying on and hangs the bag of streptococcicllin up next to the bag of IV fluids. Nurse Sashon then hooks the iv tubing to the connected port at the bottom of the bag of streptococcicllin and then connects the other end of the iv tubing to the iv port that is on the side of the hand by the pinky finger. Nurse Sashon then unclasps the clasp on the iv tubing and the antibiotic start to run. Nurse Sashon grabs the clipboard off of the end of the hospital bed and she makes a few notes on the form. The nurse hooks the clipboard to the end of the bed then walk away from Kara, commander Adama and Krista.
At the same time Krista unzips her flight suit and then pulls the top half down. A few moments later Kara tosses the blanket and unfitting sheet off of her and then sit up on the bed. Kara puts her legs over the edge of the bed and then stand up from the bed. She grabs a hold of the iv pole that is on wheel and start to walk away from the hospital bed, Krista and commander Adama and the commander Adama starts to talk.
"Kara Thrace where are you going?"
"To the sickbay head, because I really need to use the head."
Kara then starts to walk again and she is walking very fast because she has a very strong urge to have a bowel movement. She then starts to run with the IV pole and a minute later gets into the sickbay head. She walks up to the stall doors, which there are only two. Kara open up the door on the right and walks into the stall closes and locks the door behind her. Kara pulls her sweatpant and underwear down and sits down on the toilet just in time.
Commander Adama stands up from the bed and he puts his hand behind his back and then starts to pace around the sickbay. At the same time Krista unsnaps the boots from her flight suit. She then takes the boots off of her feet. Krista takes off her flight suit and hangs the flight suit over the end off the bed. Krista then lies down on the second to lay hospital bed and put her hands onto her abdomen and is flexing her feet. Commander Adama's stop pace and for the first time notices the changes in Krista Thrace body and he cannot believe that he did not notice the small baby bump or that Krista breasts are larger before now. Commander smiles at Krista and then goes back to pace the sickbay. Fifteen minutes later Kara is walking through the main area sickbay where all the beds are. Kara walks back over to the hospital bed that she has been assign too, which is the last bed on the long wall across from one of the hatch doors and behind Doctor Cottle's desk that is in the center of the sickbay and the desk is position going the width of the sickbay and the front of the desk is facing the other hatch door. When Kara reaches the last bed, she pushes the iv pole up against the wall and then set down on the bed. Kara slowly lifts her legs up onto the bed and then Kara pulls the unfitted shirt and the blanket up.
A few minutes later Nurse Sashon who wearing a pair of purple medical gloves and carrying two needle less syringes in her left hand, walks over to the right side of the bed that Kara is laying on, if standing at the end of the bed. Once standing beside Kara, Nurse Sashon open up the free IV port and then takes the caps off of the needle less syringes.
"I am going to give you two shots through the IV port, one is to reduce your fever and the other shot is an anti-diarrhoeal drug to help control your diarrhea Kara."
"That sounds coughing good to me."
Nurse Sashon connects one of the syringes to the port and gives the shot, she then unconnect the syringe and hook the other syringe to the port and gives the second shot. At the same time commander Adama stop pace around the sickbay and then he walks over to the left side of the bed Kara laying on if standing at the end of the bed, or right side if laying on the bed. Then commander Adama takes a hold of Kara right hand and Kara gives him a weak smile.
"I am sorry commander I try to tough it out and stay on active flight duty."
"Kara you have nothing to be sorry about, you got into your viper and fight the Cylons all but two of the jumps that the Cylon jumps into the orbit and you only took that hour off to take cold medicine and rest until it start working and you did not stop working after that until you were having trouble breathing that all any of us could ask of you. Your job as of right now is just to get well."
"But now you are now two pilots short."
"Kara for now it looks like the Cylon do not know where we are at and that means that being down two pilots will not hurt us that bad, just rest and do not worry about the Cylons."
Kara start coughing and cover her mouth with her left elbow, at the same time Saul Tigh walk trough the hatch door that is across from Kara's bed and start walking across the sickbay. Krista sits up on the bed that she is laying on and then puts her legs over the side of the bed, so she is facing Kara. Kara, Krista and commander Adama notice that Saul Tigh has a worried look on his face, as he walks over to them. Saul Tigh walks up to the right side of William Adama and takes a long look at Kara.
"Have Kara's medical tests results come back yet Bill?"
"No, do you need me in the CIC?"
"No, I came here to get an update on Kara and you are one luck lady Kara."
"Sniffling why I'm I lucky?"
"Because you are in Galactica sickbay and not the Pegasus sickbay, like you would be if the attack did not happen. Rear Admiral Helena Cain hates it when her pilots report to the sickbay unable to work for any reason."
"Saul's this reminds me of the day that Krista Thrace report to Galactica for the first time."
"Yes it does, Krista Thrace was one very ill pilot the day she reported to Galactica. I was shock that she made it through the reporting to duty meeting with us Bill, she looked so weak and pale when she walked through the hatch door of your quarter and saluted us and was having a very hard time catching her breath and that was the worst wet cough I have ever hear."
At the same time Krista Thrace drift of in thought about June second in the year four BCH and the day start to flush in front of her eyes and it is 0600 hours on the morning of June second. Krista Thrace is sitting on the edge of the left side of the bed, if standing at the end of the bed and Krista is wearing her duty blue uniform with her hair braid. Lee who is also wearing his duty blue uniform because he is reporting back to Atlantia and he is kneeling down in front of Krista. Lee is putting Krista combat boots onto her feet, because she is too weak and light head too bent over and put the boots on herself. When he is finished putting the boots on Krista feet, he ties the right boot and then ties the left boot. Lee then looks up at his fiancée and sees that her eyes are closed. In addition there are bags under her eyes that are almost black and she is shivering. Lee also notices that Krista looks pale despite still running a high fever and he hears Krista's making a wheezing sound when she takes a breath.
"Krista I do not think you should go to your moms' apartment or report to Galactica today. Let me take you to the fleet medical center so you can see a doctor and get put on antibiotic that way you can get well and the doctor will let your new commanding officer Commander Adama know that you are too ill to report for duty and get you a new start date?"
"Ahem Lee's I have to go see my mom today and I feel well enough to coughing report to Galactica."
"Krista you were up all night threw up thick mucus and the little fluid and soup you ate yesterday. In addition you are still running a high fever, have started to make a wheezing sound when breathing, are pale and are very weak."
"Lee's just take me to my moms' apartment and then give coughing me a ride to the spaceport."
"Fine, I will go take my duffel bag and your gym bag and your duffel bag to my car, I want you to stay inside and rest for now and when it is time to leave I will let you know."
"Ok."
Lee stands up from the floor and then he walks over to the end of the bed. Then Lee grabs his duffel bag and put it over his right shoulder. He then grabs Krista's gym bag and put the strip on his right shoulder. Lee picks up Krista's duffel bag and then walks over to the bedroom door. Lee stops at the door and turn around, then looks at Krista and sees that she is blowing her nose into a tissue. Lee let out a long sigh and then turns and walks out of the bedroom door because he knows that the two of them have to be at the spaceport by nine and Krista has to stop by her moms' apartment first. Once in the living room Lee sees Kara sitting on the center of the couch wearing an oversized black cotton tee shirt that say Caprica city buccaneer in red across the chest and under the team name is the team logo in red and yellow and a pair of black cotton short that has Caprica city buccaneer logo in red and yellow on the right hip that she borrowed from Krista last night. Lee walks up to the couch and stop beside the coffee table that is in front of the couch.
"How Krista doing this morning and did she get any sleep at all last night, Lee?"
"She in rough shape and did not get any sleep."
"Do you think she would eat any breakfast if I made her some?"
"No, she won't even take cold medicine when we wake up at 0500 hours. Do you want a ride home this morning?"
"No, I will call a taxi cab to pick me up and take me home because you will not have time to drive me back to Fleet Academy dorms, because I have to report back the dorm today to start six weeks of basic training."
"Ok. I have to take our bags out to my car now."
Lee walks away from the coffee table and the couch and walks over to the spiral staircase. Kara watching Lee walks up the staircase and then grabs the tv remote and turns on the tv to watch the news. A few minutes later Krista walks out of her bedroom and into the living room coughing into a handful of tissues that are in her hands. Krista walks over to the couch and sits down on the couch by the left arm of the couch. Krista lay her head against the back of the couch and close her eyelids. Kara turns off the news and looks at her older sisters and feels bad for what she is about to ask her.
"Krista you are still going to go see mom before going to the spaceport right and ask mom to call me to let me know how the talk between the two of you went and if you change her mind?"
"Yes Kara because coughing no matter how bad mom treated us throughout the years neither of us are ready for her to die and be out ah-choo of our life forever. And I will ask her to give you coughing a call."
"Thank you, Krista and can I get you anything like something to drink or eat?"
"No Kara, but thank you for asking."
"How are you feeling?"
"Awful Kara. I have a very sore throat, no appetite, exhaust, can't breathe through my nose and when I blow my nose I blow out thick greenish nasal mucus. In addition I am still running a high fever and have the chills, making a wheezing sound, chest pain, a wet sounding cough that is producing a lot of thick greenish mucus and was up all night threw up mucus along with the soup and tea I drank during the day and I am really weak."
Krista start coughing and turns her head away from Kara and covers her mouth with a tissue. At the same time Kara stand up from the couch and walks across the room, Kara open up the door to the guest/main bathroom and goes into the bathroom. A minute and half later Kara walks out of the bathroom and she has two white washcloths in her hands and both of the wash clothes are wet. Kara is folding one of the wet washcloths in half as she walks over to the couch. Kara sees that Krista head is resting again the back of the couch again and her eyes are closed. Kara walks over to the couch and set down on the couch beside her sister. Kara wipes Krista's face off with the washcloth that is not folded and then set the fold washcloth onto her sisters' forehead. Krista open up her eyes, she then turns her head and looks at her sister. Then Krista gives Kara a weak smile and Kara smiles at Krista.
"Ahem thank you, Kara. I do not feel as clammy now."
"You are welcome."
At the same time Lee walks down the spiral staircase and see that Krista is sitting on the couch with her head resting on the back of the couch and that Krista has a fold white washcloth on her forehead. He also notices that Krista and Kara are looking at each other and give each other smiles. A few moments later Lee walks over to the couch and sits down on the coffee table in front of Krista and he set his hand on her knees. Krista turns her head to look at Lee and gives him a weak smile. Lee give Krista a half smile.
"Are you ready to leave Krista?"
"As ready coughing as I am going to get Lee."
"Then we should get going, I all ready put your mom apartment address into my car G.P.S.."
"Ahem Kara help yourself to whatever you want for breakfast and you do not have to rush off just remember to lock the door on your way out."
"I will remember to lock the door when I leave. Krista I hope you start to feel better soon."
"Coughing me too, Kara."
Krista takes the washcloth off of her forehead and set it on the coffee on the left side of Lee. A few moments later Lee stands up and take a hold of Krista hands and then Lee pulls Krista to her feet. He then put his left arm around Krista's waist and the two of them start to walk to the spiral staircase. When they reach the staircase, the two of them slowly start walking up the stairs with Kara watching them. A few minutes later Lee is open up the door off the apartment and Krista is resting her head on Lee shoulder. When the door is open Krista walks out of the apartment first and into the hallway, Lee lock the door before walking out of the apartment then he follows Krista out of the apartment and close the door behind him. He put his left arm around Krista's waist again and then the two of them walks to the main door of the building.
A few minutes later the two of them walk out of the apartment building and up to Lee's black sport car, which is a Coupé that has two doors. In addition the grille of the car is shape like the nose of a viper mark two. Lee and Krista walk up to the passengers' door of the car, which is parked in first packing space by the main doors of the apartment building beside Krista's red truck that is in the second parking space. Lee helps Krista into the car, which has black interior and once Krista has her seatbelt on, Lee close the door. Lee then he walks over to the driver side of the car and a few moments later Lee open up the driver side door and gets into the car. Lee then close the car door and put his seatbelt on. He then puts the car key into the ignition and start up the car. Lee looks at the clock and sees that it is now 0620 hours, Lee looks through his review mirror and does see anyone coming, he checks both of the car side mirrors and it is still clear, he backs his car out of the packing space and then drives to the entrance/exit of the apartment building. At the same time Krista leans the passenger seat back a little and rests her head against the headrest and shut her eyelids. Lee pulls out of the parking late at 0623 hours and he drives the route, which is all of the sides streets to get to Socrata Thrace's apartment, because it will take a little longer and her want to give Krista some time to rest before see her mom. At 0638 hours Lee pulls his car into the parking lot of Socrata Thrace's apartment building, which is behind the building. Lee pulls his car into the first parking space in the first row right behind the building. Then Lee turns the car off, but leave the key in the ignition because he is not going in with Krista. Lee looks at the apartment building, which has brown vertical siding for a minute and then he taps Krista on the left shoulder. Krista open her eyelids as she turns her head toward Lee.
"Ahem are we at my moms' apartment building?"
"Yes."
"Wait in the car for me, hopeful this ah-choo will not take to long."
"Sure."
Krista start coughing and covers her mouth with a tissue that is in her left hand and at the same time start coughing up mucus into the tissue. Krista takes her seatbelt off with her right hand and then open up the car door. She slowly gets out of the car and Krista slowly close the car door. Krista walks away from Lee's car and start to walk toward the front of the apartment building, because the apartment doors are on the front of the building. Once at the front of the building Krista walk over to the staircase to the second floor, she stops at the base of the staircase to catch her breath. After several minutes' Krista start to walk up the stairs, which railing has glass panels with metal frames around the glass and so does the rails of the second floor walkway to the apartments.
Krista walks up to the frosted glass door of apartment 202 at 0646 hours, Krista start knocking the metal frame around the glass door, with her right hand, because she is coughing into a tissue in her left hand. Three minutes later Krista has stopped coughing and see the outline of her mom walk up to the frosted glass door. Socrata Thrace who is wearing a pair of black sweatpant and a long sleeved shirt and has her hair pulled back into a ponytail, opens up the apartment door to see her oldest daughter standing in front of the door wearing her colonial fleet duty blue uniform. Socrata does not step back to let Krista into the apartment, but just stand in the door staring at her daughter for ten minutes because she has not seen since Krista since Kara was a freshman in high school and has only talk to a few times on the phone about Kara.
"Ahem hello mom do you mind if I come in, so we talk for a few minutes?"
"Why do you want to talk to me?"
"Can I just please come in and the two of us talk for a few minutes?"
"Fine."
Socrata Thrace steps back and Krista Thrace walks into the all white apartment and close the door behind her. Because her mom has already walked across the room and over to the small black square kitchen table that is up against the wall across from the apartment door and the wall has three rows of built in square that has three square in each row. Then Krista sees that the kitchen cabinets and stove and oven range is on the wall on the left side of the apartment door and part of the kitchen cabinets are on the far left-hand wall if standing in the apartment door and the base cabinets are black with gray concrete counter top with the kitchen sink in the center of the counter top that is on the far left-hand wall and then there is the slide frost glass door to the bedroom and then the silver refrigerator is on the right side of the bedroom door and behind the kitchen table and chairs. There is a black couch in the center of the room on the right-hand side of the apartment door and on the center of the wall behind the couch is a black side table and above the table hang on the wall is a brown octagon frame that Socrata Thrace's Star of Valor medal is mounted on, which is in front of a red background. In addition there is a black side table is between the two windows. At the same time that Krista is looking around the apartment, Socrata Thrace sits down on the black chair on the left side of the kitchen table and then light a cigarette. Socrata starts to smoke the cigarette and Krista walk over to the couch and sit down on the center cushion because she is too weak to walk any further into the apartment, is light head and is having a hard time catching her breath too.
"Did I say you could seat down? You know my rule when talking with me you stand in front of me with your hands behind your back!"
"Ahem please do not make stands up coughing!"
Krista covers her mouth with the tissue in her left hand because she is still coughing and starts to cough up mucus into the tissue. Socrata set her cigarette in the ashtray in the center of the table. Then Socrata looks at her oldest daughter and for the first time notices that Krista is very pale and has black bags under her eyes. In addition Socrata hears a wheezing sound when Krista breath and that her oldest daughters' chest and nose sound really congestion. In addition Socrata can hear Krista coughing up mucus and notice that her daughter is shivering.
"Fine you can stay sit this once, because you look to weak to stand up and I do not need you to pass out on me."
Socrata picks up her cigarette and start to smoke the cigarette again, as she waits for Krista to stop coughing. A few minutes later Krista stops coughing and looks at her mom and gives her a weak smile. Krista takes some labored breaths and then she starts to talk.
"Thank you."
"Why did you come to see me this morning?"
"Kara asked me too. She wants me to talk you into having treatment for your cancer."
"There is no point in having the treatments because none of them will give me anymore time and I do not want to spend my last five weeks leaning over a toilet vomiting from the treatments that will just make me really sick to my stomach and will not be of any help."
"Do you tell her that?"
"No, I just tell her that I do not want any treatments and just got pain medicine to control the pain to make me comfortable the last weeks of my life."
"Do me a favor and give Kara a call and tell her what you just tell me about the treatments that might help Kara come to term with your choice to not have any treatments."
"Why should I have to tell her that?"
"Ahem because you are her mom and she is having a hard time understand why you do not want to fight the cancer and coughing have more time with her."
"Fine I will call her this afternoon and tell her what I just told you."
"Thank you, Kara was crying when she got to my apartment yesterday and told me coughing (into a tissue in her left hand) about you have lung cancer."
"I did not mean for Kara to find out I had cancer by reading the letter that was on the kitchen table, I did not even know she was coming over yesterday, she just showed up and when she knocked on the apartment door I just laid the letter on the table to go see who was at the door and then Kara came into the apartment and after talk for a few minutes she saw the latter on the table and pick up the letter and read it. I was planning on have the two of you come over and tell both of you face to face."
"That might had made the news easy for Kara to take."
At the same time Krista lay her head against the back of the couch. Socrata Thrace notices her daughter breathing has become more labored since coming into the apartment and that cause her to become very worried about her daughter because she never sees Krista look this weak or pale before or sound this bad. Socrata puts her cigarette out and put the cigarette into the ashtray and then stand up from the chair. Socrata then walks over to the windows behind the couch and open up the window on the left first, then open up the window on the right side of the room if facing the wall the windows are on, to air out the cigarette smoke. In addition the windows are on the far right-hand wall of the kitchen/living room if standing in the apartment door. Socrata Thrace then walks over to her oldest daughter and sits down on the couch on Krista right side. Socrata then places her left hand onto Krista's forehead, which is burring up.
"You are running a very high fever, shivering and your nose and chest sound really congested. In addition you have black bags under your eyes and are really pale Krista. You are also making a wheezing sound when you breath. What other symptoms do you have?"
"I have a cough that is produce thick green mucus, chest pain, exhaust, no appetite and I'm really weak."
"That is not good Krista, it sounds like you have Pneumonia. Have you seen a doctor?"
"I have not seen a doctor, I have just been tough it out and going to work every day but I had to leave work Wednesday afternoon because I was too ill to give the last group of flight tests and did not make it to the graduate ceremony yesterday because I was too ill to get out of bed and could not stay awake."
"You are so my daughter and learned to tough it out through illness and injured from me, but this time I think you push yourself too far."
Krista start coughing and turn her head away from her mom, as cover her mouth with the tissues in her left hand. At the same time Socrata take her hand off of her daughters' forehead. Socrata watches her daughter for a few minutes and can tell that she has not taken any cold medicine this morning by the way she sound and looks. Socrata stands up from the couch and walk across the room to the bedroom door, she open the door and walks into the bedroom. Socrata then walks into the bathroom that is through a door that in the center of the far left-hand wall of the bedroom if standing in the bedroom door. A minute and half later Socrata walks back into the kitchen/living room with two Caprica feel better for severe chest cold capsules in her left hand and grabs a clean glass out of the dishes drying rank that on the right side of the kitchen sink and turns on the kitchen sink and then fill the glass with water. A few moments later Socrata walks up to Krista and hold out the hand with the two Caprica feel better for severe chest cold capsules.
"Krista I want you to take these two Caprica feel better for severe chest cold capsules."
"Ok mom."
Krista takes the capsules from her mom and put the capsules into her mouth. Krista then takes the glass of water from her mom and take a drink. Krista drinks the whole glass of water, which take a minute and then Krista hand the empty glass to her mom. Krista then lay her head against the back of the couch again and shut her eyelids. Socrata takes the dirty glass over to the kitchen sink and put the glass into the sink. Socrata stays by the Kitchen sink and just watching Krista resting and sees Krista as the three-year-old girl that used to have Tonsillitis every few weeks that leaded to her have her tonsils out the day after turning four.
When Krista is breathing a little easy, she stands up from the couch and then walks into the kitchen area. Krista throws the used tissues into the black waste basket that is on the left side of the refrigerator. Krista then walks out of the kitchen area and start walk to the apartment door, but stop walks because she is short of breath again and leans forward. Krista then put her hands on her knees. A few minutes later Krista has caught her breath and stands up. Krista looks at her wrist watch on her right wrist and sees there are only ten minutes until eight o'clock.
"I have to get going mom, take care and if I do not see you again good bye."
Socrata walks over to Krista and pulls her into a bear hug. Krista and Socrata start crying and Krista is resting her head on her mom right shoulder, at the same time Socrata start to whisper into her daughter ear.
"Krista I love you and have always love you and Kara. I made mistake in my life and one of them was the physical abuse that I put you and Kara through when the two of you were kids and teenagers and one of the others was kicking you out when you said you were retiring from playing professor pyramid because that was your choice and not mine too make. I should never have kept you from seeing or talking to Kara after you move out. Can you forgive me for everything that I put you and Kara through?"
"Yes and I love you too, mom."
Krista and Socrata pull away from each other and then the two of them look at each other for a moment. Krista start coughing and Socrata walk over to the table behind the couch and between the two windows that has a picture of Krista and Kara were wearing matching plum swimsuits and playing in the ocean water on a beach on Picon when Kara was two-years-old and Krista was going on five-years-old and before Krista start playing professor pyramid and on the other end of the table is a picture off all three of them after Krista's first professor pyramid with the Gemenon Twin. Socrata grabs the box of tissues off the center of the side table and then walks over to Krista. Krista pulls a few handfuls of tissues out of the tissue's box and then covers her mouth with one of the tissue and start coughing up mucus, at the same time Krista walk over to the apartment door, Socrata follows Krista to the door and open up the door for her daughter.
"Bye Krista and do me one favor sees the ship doctor when you get to Galactica and get well for your sister."
"Ahem I will mom, bye."
The two of them huge each other one last time and then Krista walk out of her mothers' apartment and close the door behind her. Krista can hear her mom lock the apartment door, as she starts to walk over to the staircase and at the same time she puts most of the tissues into the pocket on the chest of her duty blue uniform.
A few minutes later Krista walks up to Lee's car and open up the passengers' door. Krista gets into the car and then closes the car door, at the same time Lee look over at Krista. Lee notices that Krista has been crying, as Krista puts her seatbelt on. A few moments later Krista start coughing into a tissue in her left hand, two minutes later Krista stop coughing and lay her head against the headrest of the seat.
"Krista how did see your mom go?"
"Fine Lee, mine and Kara's mom is going to call Kara and tell her the reason she not going to do any of the treatments, which is that the treatments would only make her sick to her stomach and she does not want to spend what time she has left lean over a toilet throwing up because in the end there is not enough time left from the treatments to save her life or help any. She also said that she loves me and Kara and that she made mistake in her life, one being physical abuse me and Kara as we were growing up and kicking me out when I retired from playing professor pyramid and that she shouldn't have kept me from seeing Kara or talk to her after I moved out and ask me if I could forgive her for everything she put me through."
"What did you say to her?"
"Coughing, I told her yes and that I loved her and we hugged twice, one before she told me that she loves me and again after she brought me over a box of tissues, because I need more. She also seems really worried about me and my mom brought me a glass of water and two Caprica feel better for severe chest cold capsules and I take them because I feel awful and before I left she told me bye and then ask me for one favor she wants me to see the ship doctor when I get to Galactica and want me to get well for Kara. I told her I would see Galactica doctor."
"Your mom is right Krista you need to see a doctor."
"Ahem I will see the ship doctor the coughing first chance I get Lee and we should head to the spaceport now."
Lee does not say anything else to Krista, he just starts his car and after making sure no cars are going past his car Lee backs out of the parking space. A few minutes later Lee is driving to the spaceport and he has turn the car cassette player on and the two of them are listening to Dreilide Thrace piano sonatas. On the ride to the spaceport, Krista drifts in and out of sleep listening to her fathers' piano sonatas playing. By the time Lee pulls his car into the eight parking space in the first row of parking in the long term parking lot of the spaceport, Krista is sound asleep. Lee put the car into the parked position and then he turns the car off. He takes the key out of the ignition and then he open up the pocket on the chest of the jacket of his duty blue uniform and put his keys into the pocket. Lee close the pocket and then looks over at Krista, he taps Krista on her left shoulder. After the eighth tap, Krista open her eyelids and then she looks around. Lee open up his car door and get out of the car. Lee then walks to the back of his car and open up the trunk of the car. Krista gets out of the car, as Lee is getting both of they gym bags and duffel bags, which has both of they last names and initials of they first name after the last name on the bags, in less your sibling joins after you and their first initial is the same like Krista and Kara, Kara bag has her last name and then her full first name. Krista close the passengers' door of the car and then lean against the car and wait for Lee.
A few minutes later Krista and Lee carrying all four bags walk into the café and sitting area of the waiting area of the spaceport, which is an outside area under a large white army tent. Krista walks over to the long row of lite blue seats that are in front of the right and left side of the tent and there are tables in the center of the tent. Lee follows Krista over to the seats and Krista sits down of the center seat of the row of seats that are in front of the far right-hand wall of the tent if come through the large open at the front of the tent. Lee set the bags down in front of Krista and then looks at Krista for a few moments.
"I am going to check us in, so they know we are here."
"Ok Lee."
Lee walks away from Krista and at the same time Krista lean back in the seat she is sitting on, then looks over at the counter of the café that is in front of the wall of the tent across from the entrance of the tent. Then Krista start thinking do I want anything to drink or eat, but after a few moments she stops looking at the café counter. Lee walks over to Krista two minutes later and sits down on her right and then Krista lays down on the chairs and lays her head onto Lee's lap. Lee looks down at Krista and at the same time her eyelids start to close. A minute later Krista is sound asleep with her head on his lap, Lee just watching Krista sleep because he does not have the heart to wake her up and thankful it is still early and he, Krista and the waitress for the café are the only one in the tent and the waitress is behind the café counter reading a magazine.
At nine o'clock Lee and Krista are walking over to the raptors that are taking them to they Battlestars. Krista is coughing up mucus into a tissue in her left hand, as she walks up to the wing of the raptor and her gym bag and her duffel bag is over her right shoulder. Lee watching Krista gets into the raptor that is taking her to Galactica. Once in the raptor Krista walks over to the far right-hand wall if standing in the hatch door and then Krista set her gym bag and duffel bag on the floor on the right side of the pull down the seat, if facing the seat and that in the center of the wall. Krista pulls down the seat and sits down on the seat. Krista sees Lee wave bye to her and wave bye to him. Krista then sees Lee walk to the raptor flying to his battlestar. A few minutes later the raptor going to Galactica is full of pilots coming off of leave and the newsiest pilot of Galactica Krista. Captain Jackson Spencer closes the hatch door of the raptor and then he stands up from the pilot seat and walk between the pilot and copilot seats.
"We will be taking off soon and for the newsiest member of Galactica, I am your pilot for today and my name is Jackson Spencer or as all the pilots call me Dipper and I am also the CAG of Galactica."
Jackson gives Krista Thrace a huge smile and she gives him a weak smile back, because that is all she is able to manage. The pilot walks to his seat and sits down on the seat, he then pulls the control panel down so it is between the two seats. At the same time Krista is thinking the cold medicine that I took at my moms' apartment must be working because I am not coughing as much now, but I am still really cold, achey all over, tired, weak, feverish and really congested. A few minutes later the pilot starts the raptor Krista eyelids close and she is asleep before the raptor take off from the spaceport.
Five and half hours later Captain Jackson Spencer is tapping Krista Thrace on her left shoulder. After a minute of tapping Krista on her shoulder, Krista eyes open and she sees Captain Jackson Spencer standing in front of her and the two of them are the only ones in the raptor, she then sees that the raptor hatch door is open and that the raptor is parked on one of the hanger deck of Galactica.
"Krista you need to leave the raptor now and head to commander Adama quarter for a meeting with him and the ship executive officer Saul Tigh."
"The five and half hour flight to Battlestar Galactica is over already?"
"Yes and you sleep through the whole flight."
Krista starts coughing and turns her head to the left and away from Jackson Spencer and then open up the pocket that is on the chest of her blue duty uniform, then grabs a few tissues out of the pocket. Krista close the pocket and then cover her mouth with one of the tissues and start coughing up very dark green mucus into the tissue. When she stops coughing, Krista stands up from the seat and wish that she did not stand up right away because it feels like the floor of the raptor is giving away under her feet. Jackson Spencer sees that Krista is swaying and he puts his right arm around her waist until Krista has regained her balance, which takes a few minutes. Then he takes his arm off of her waist and take a good look at her. He notices the black bags under her eyes and how pale Krista is, he can also hear Krista Thrace make a wheezing sound with each breath she takes. Krista grabs her gym bag and duffle bag from the floor of the raptor, then start to walk to the hatch door of the raptor. Krista stop walking after stepping out onto the wing of the raptor. Jackson Spencer walks up behind Galactic new pilot and notice that Krista right hand is on her chest and that Krista is having a hard time breathing.
"Krista's do you need me to help you off the wing of the raptor and to the commander Adama quarter because you seem really unwell and weak?"
"No I am fine now, but thank you for keeping me from falling as I get my balance after I stand up."
"You are welcome."
Krista slowly steps off of the wing of the raptor and onto the hanger deck floor, feeling a little unsteady on her feet. She then starts to walk away from the raptor and she is thinking I did not think it was possible to feel worse then I felt yesterday and this morning, but I feel ten times worse now. I now have a pounding headache, a sore throat, no appetite, exhaust, really weak, feels like the fever gone up, chills, the wheezing sound is worse, chest pain is worse, the west sounding cough is producing dark green mucus now, can't breathe through my nose and mostly likely I will still be blowing out thick greenish nasal mucus the next time I blow my nose. Krista has only made it as far as the hallway that the ready rooms, enlisted bunks, enlisted head and one officer head are in, when she has to stop walking to catch her breath because she is coughing really hard and also coughing up a ton of mucus into the tissues in her hands. Four minutes later Krista stop coughing and start walking again. Krista force herself to walk all the way to the main corridor that lead to the small corridor that commander Adama quarter is off of, before stop to catch her breath at the end of the main corridor. Krista sees the hatch door to XO quarter is at the end off the main corridor and off of the left side of the main corridor is a small corridor that leads to the commander quarter. After a few moments she starts walking again, when she reaches the small corridor Krista turns to the left and walks down the steps despite being really light head and feeling like her legs could give out at any moment. At the same time she reaches the hatch door, the hatch door opens up and Krista sees Saul Tight standing in the hatch door looking at her. Saul Tigh turns his back to Krista Thrace and look at William Adama who is sitting at the table on the right side of the hatch door if standing in the hatch door and William Adama is sitting on the chair on the left side of the table if sitting at the table.
"I find our new pilot that is running late for the meet."
"Right outside my hatch door, I think she found us."
Saul Tigh walks away from the hatch door and walk over to the table. Once at the table Saul Tigh sits down on the chair next to William Adama. Krista Thrace walks into the commander quarter, closes the hatch door behind her and is trying her hardest to not start coughing. Krista set her bags on the floor by the hatch door and then walks the rest of the way into the quarter and notice the brown leather situational couch that is on the left side of the hatch door and the desk, bookcases and the rest of the furniture that commander Adama brought with him from the Valkyrie. Krista stops in front of the table and salutes commander Adama and the executive officer Tight and then Krista puts her hands behind her back.
"Reporting to duty Sirs."
Krista then takes her hands out from behind her back and cover her mouth with a tissue. Krista then starts to cough into the tissue, when Krista stops coughing she puts her hands behind her back again. Then look at William Adama and Saul Tigh, who both look at Krista and notice that see is pale and there are black bags under her eyes. The commander and the executive officer also notice that Krista is covered in sweat and when she takes a breath is making a wheezing sound. Commander Adama looks at Saul Tigh who gives William Adama a look that say we should make this meet short and fast and then commander Adama looks at Krista.
"Do you know why you were transfer to Galactica?"
"Because I shoot down Bulldog to keep the Cylon from knowing we crossed the Armistice Line and the admiral thinks ah-choo my preform as a flight instructor at the fleet academy has gone down hills since that day coughing."
"No, do you know what Galactica is called on all the fleet bases?"
"The last hope for pilots, ECO and crew of the colonial fleet that is about to wash out of the fleet because they are poor flyer or bad behavior and a never end list of other issues or are the pilot, ECO or the crew member is near retirement, sir?"
"Yes and the admiral thinks that you and captain Jackson Spencer is the best hop to reattach and retraining the pilots and ECO and make them into pilot and ECO that are among the best in the fleet, so the pilot and ECO that can be reassigned to the Battlestar Pegasus or Battlestar Atlantia or Battlestar Columbia or Battlestar Triton or Battlestar Solaria or Battlestar Valkyrie or the rest of the best ships and new ships in the fleet."
"Ahem the admiral wants me and captain Jackson Spencer to perform miracles and turn around the behavior of pilots and ECO that do not give a frak about they military career or that was at the bottom of they class at the academy or in flight school and that just pass by the test by one or two points Sir?"
"Yes but if anyone can perform that miracle, it would be you and captain Jackson Spencer. You and captain Jackson Spencer need to get together and work out the best plan to turn the pilots and ECO around. He will be handling the behavior issues seeing that he is the CAG and the high ranking officers, both of you are really talent pilots, but truth be told the admiral, captain Jackson Spencer and I think you would be the best beat for reattaching and retraining the pilots the right way to fly and land the vipers and raptor because of your experience as a flight instructor at the fleet academy."
"Ahem when do ah-choo want me to get together with captain Jackson Spencer Sir?"
"Bless you and after the meet is over and you have drop your bags off at the officers' duty locker."
"Yes Sir coughing."
Krista brings her hands to the front and then she covers her mouth with the tissue in her left hand and start coughing up mucus into the tissue. William Adama and Saul Tigh stand up from the chairs that the two of them are sitting on and then push the chairs in. The commander and the executive officer look at each other and then look over at Lieutenant Krista Thrace, who is still coughing up mucus into the tissue in her left hand. William Adama takes a deep breath then start to talk.
"Krista most of the pilots on Galactica is the rank of ensign lieutenant and Junior lieutenant and they are in the duty lockers for junior lieutenant and below. In the officers' duty locker that you are in there are only three other officers and the highest rank is captain Jackson Spencer and then two pilots that just become lieutenant three days ago and that you will meet after they get off of CAP. Seeing that you are the next most experience officer on Galactica if the CAG captain Jackson Spencer is unable to preform his duty as the CAG you have to fill in for him. In addition some of the pilots and ECO on this battlestar might never be reassigned to another battlestars and will serve they whole careers on this ship and retire from the fleet after earn the rank of captain or major but will go no further then that, in less you and captain Jackson Spencer can change this by make the pilots some of the best in the fleet and get the ECO to preform at the top of they field and then maybe Galactica will be place among the best ships in the fleet again."
"I will try my best Sir."
"That is all I can ask of you, Saul do you have any thing to add?"
"I just need to hand Krista the gray three ring binder that has the name of the pilots and ECO inside along with copies of they background and records that Krista needs to read to get to know about the pilot and ECO she will be working with."
"Then I think we are through and Krista you are dismissed after getting the binder from Saul Tigh."
"Yes Sir."
Saul Tigh picks up the gray three ring binder off of the table and then walks up to Krista Thrace. Saul Tigh then hands the three ring binder to Krista Thrace and she takes the binder from colonel Saul Tigh. Krista starts to hold the binder in her right arm and then start coughing into the tissue in her left hand again. Commander Adama and executive officer Saul Tigh watch and listen to Krista coughing up mucus and are thinking that she is really ill and should be in the sickbay not on duty. Then the commander and executive officer notice that Krista has lost weight since the last time the two of them seen her and start thinking I wonder how long Krista has been sick.
Two minute later Krista's has stops coughing and is walking past the table and chairs then Krista walks over to the waste basket that is up against the far right-hand wall if standing in the hatch door and the waste basket in right before the walkway into the back half of the quarter. Krista throws her used tissues into the waste basket and then start to walks to the hatch door, but only makes it to the chest/coffee table when her legs start to feel shaking and the light head feeling comes back. William Adama and Saul Tigh walk over to Krista Thrace with worried looks on they face, because in the short time that Krista has been in Adama quarter she has become as white as a ghost. William Adama puts his hands on Krista Thrace shoulder and leads her over to the center of the couch.
"Krista's have a seat on the couch."
"Yes Sir."
Krista sits down on the couch and at the same time her teeth start to chatter. Krista set the binder on the chest/coffee table and then lays her head on the back of the couch because she is too light head to hold her head up any longer, but after a few second starts sneezing. Krista open the pocket that is on the chest of her blue duty uniform and then pulls out a handful of tissues, Krista then covers her mouth and nose with a tissues and sneezes into the tissue. When Krista stops sneezing a minute later, Krista blows her nose into the tissues. After blown her nose Krista looks at the tissue and sees that her nasal mucus is a very dark green, just like the mucus she is coughing up. At the same time William Adama place his left hand onto Lieutenant Krista Thrace's forehead, which feels like it is on fire and the forehead is really clammy to the touch too. William Adama takes his hand off of Krista Thrace's forehead and then look at Saul Tigh with a very worried look on his face.
"Saul will you go get Dr. Cottle from the sickbay and bring him to my quarter."
"Right away, Sir."
Saul Tigh runs over to the hatch door and once at the door turn the lock wheel until the door is unlocked, then he pulls open the door and runs out of the quarter closes the hatch door behind him. William Adama sits down on the couch on Krista Thrace right side and turns, so he is facing her.
"Lieutenant Krista Thrace it feels like you are running a very high fever and you sound really ill and it also sounds like there is fluid in your lungs. What symptoms do you have and how long have you been ill for?"
"Beside the fever, I have a headache, sore throat, no appetite, exhaust, really weak, chills and sweats, a wheezing sound when I breathe, chest pain, a wet cough that is producing dark green mucus, can't breathe through my nose and when I blow my nose I am blow out thick dark green nasal mucus ah-choo and I have been sick since the start of May coughing."
Krista covers her mouth with a tissue and start coughing up mucus. After a minute she stops coughing and lay her head against the back of the couch. Krista tries to take a deep breath and start coughing really hard and grab her chest with her right hand. William Adama sees that not only is Krista as white as a ghost, she seems lifeless and her breathing is really labor. At the same time Dr. Cottle and Saul Tigh come into Adama quarter. Dr. Cottle takes one look at Krista Thrace and does not like what he sees or the sound that Krista makes when taking a breath.
"Commander Adama and Saul Tigh we need to get Lieutenant Krista Thrace to the sickbay right away."
Commander Adama stands up from the couch and then he takes Krista hands and pulls her to her feet. Dr. Cottle and Saul Tigh start to walk toward the hatch door, Krista starts to follow Dr. Cottle and Saul Tigh, but her legs give out and she starts to fall backwards, William Adama catch Krista before she falls. Krista put her arms around his neck and then commander Adama puts left arm behind Krista back and his right arm under her legs and pick up the lieutenant. A minute later William Adama is carrying Lieutenant Krista Thrace to the sickbay.
At this point Krista Thrace snap out of the flashback when she hears Dr. Cottle walking around the sickbay and he is humming. Krista fight back the feeling that she going to start crying and stand up from the bed. Krista walks over to the side of her sister bed and stand beside her sister left side. Kara gives her sister a weak smile and can tell that Saul Tigh brought up the day she reported to Galactica for the first time cause Krista to think back to that day, which has made her sad because it was the last time she saw they mothers' alive and the lost memory of they mothers' that Krista's has.
Meanwhile, inside Sharon Veleril raptor, Sharon now has the raptor hover in space. Sharon lifts the vomit bag off the control panel and then lift up the control panel. Sharon stands up from the pilot seat and then walks to the back of the raptor carry the vomit bag. Once in the back of the raptor she set the vomit bag on the floor beside the hatch door and then sit down on the floor. A few moments later Alex turns in his seat and see Sharon laying on the floor with her arms wrapped around her abdomen and she is crying.
"Sharon's do you want me to get a hold of the chief of the deck and have him find Krista Thrace to find another raptor pilot to take over for you?"
"No I just need to lie here for a few minutes and then the pain from my stomachache should let up."
"Sharon you have vomit six times now and are in so much pain that you cannot sit up."
"I do not know what I should do? I have never been sick like this before. My stomachache hurts worse when I move Alex and the pain has started to move to my lower right abdomen."
Sharon sits up really fast and grabs the vomit bag and then start to throw up again. Alex pulls another bag out and open up the unused vomit bag and set the bag on the floor next to Sharon, because the other bag is almost full. A minute later Sharon stop throwing up and set the now full bag down and roll the top closed. Alex moves the full bag to the very back of the raptor and then looks at Sharon with a worried look on his face. At the same time Sharon lay back down on the raptor floor and shut her eyelids.
"Sharon I am going to getting a hold of the chief of the deck to have him find Krista to assign another raptor pilot to take your place on CAP, I do not think you have food poisoning from eating the clam soup last night anymore, I think you have appendicitis."
"Ok, but only because I am in too much pain to fly. Do you think you will be able to fly the raptor back to Galactica?"
"Yes I can fly the raptor back to Galactica, you just lay there and rest."
"Ok. When you land the raptor make it a soft landing because bump landing makes the pain worse."
"I will try to land the raptor softly Sharon."
Alex turns his seat around and gets on the intercom, at the same time Sharon curls into a ball and wraps her arms around her legs. Sharon does not listen to Alex as he is talking to the chief of the deck for most of the time, but Sharon does he the chief of the deck give them the ok to come back to Galactica even before another raptor pilot is assigned to take over. Alex then lets the viper pilots know what is going on. A minute later Alex is sitting in the pilot seat of the raptor. Alex take the raptor off of hover, then he push down the thruster pedal and start to fly toward Galactica.
Meanwhile aboard Galactica Galen Toyl is running through the corridors of Galactica toward the sickbay, because that is where Krista Thrace and Doctor Cottle are at and he needs to talk to both of them. At the same time in the sickbay Doctor Cottle walk over to the bed that Kara Thrace is laying on and he stops on Krista's left side. Kara open up her eyelids and then Kara looks at Dr. Cottle, who has just taken the medical clipboard off of the end of the hospital bed. Then Dr. Cottle start writing on the form that is on the clipboard and Nurse Sashon walks past doctor Cottle and Krista's a few moments ago and then hang another IV bag to the Iv pole. The nurse is now hooking the iv tube into the last port on the iv catheter and doctor Cottle has starts to talk.
"Two of the test results come back, the fast acting strep test is positive for strep throat and the rapid Influenza test was positive too. I am going to start you on an antiviral Intravenous drug, which the nurse is hooking up right now. Commander Adama and Saul Tigh I must ask that the two of you leave and let Kara rest now, I will not be kicking Krista out because she is relation to Kara and has right to be with her sister."
William Adama and Saul Tigh slowly start walking away from Kara, Krista and Doctor Cottle. At the same time Doctor set the clipboard on the bed at the end of Kara feet. Then Doctor Cottle takes a forehead strip out of the left pocket of his lab coat. Dr. Cottle takes the back off the forehead strip and then place the forehead strip onto Kara's forehead. Dr. Cottle pick the clipboard back up and start watching the forehead thermometer strip. A few minutes later Doctor Cottle writes down on the form on the clipboard that Kara fever has went down one degree. At the same time the Galen Toyl runs into the sickbay and over to Doctor Cottle, Krista and Kara and William Adama and Saul Tigh is with the chief of the deck. Galen Toyl stops beside the doctor and puts his hands onto his knees and catches his breath for a moment, then he starts to talk.
"First off I need a nurse to bring a stretcher to the port side hanger bay, because Alex is flying Sharon raptor back to Galactica because Sharon had a stomachache since last night and had diarrhea all day, is running a fever and take some pick me up for tummy trouble before going out on CAP, which stop the diarrhea, but not the nauseous feeling that start shortly before going out on CAP duty. But the real reason Alex is flying Sharon raptor back to Galactica is because Sharon has vomited seven times now and told Alex that the pain from her stomachache is moving to the lower right side of her abdomen and the pain is worse when she is moving and she is in so much pain that she is laying on the floor of the raptor and is unable to move or sit up because the pain is too bad."
Doctor Cottle hooks the clipboard onto the end of Kara's hospital bed and then he walk away from Kara, Krista, the chief of the deck, William Adama and Soul Tigh to talk to a nurse. Krista Thrace looks away from her sister and looks at the chief of the deck. Krista start going through the lists of raptor pilots in her head and after a few moments start to talk.
"Chief let Stubbs know that he is taking Sharon place in the CAP."
"I will go let Stubbs know right now."
The chief of the deck runs out of the sickbay, as William Adama walks over to Doctor Cottle's desk to talk to him, at the same time Saul Tigh leave the sickbay because he needs to get back to the CIC. At the same time Kara and Krista see Dr. Cottle and commander Adama hooking up the clear plastic curtains that are put up when surgery is done in the center between the beds and before the doctors' desk, which means that Dr. Cottle must think that Sharon has appendicitis and needs her appendix removed. Kara eyelids start to close and she starts to fall asleep. Nurse Ishay who is carrying a chair walk over to Krista and set the chair down by Kara's bed.
"Thank you."
"You are welcome, if you or Kara need anything let me know because Nurse Sashon will be helping Dr. Cottle with Sharon when she is bring into the sickbay."
"I will and thank you again for the chair."
"You are welcome again."
Nurse Ishay walks away from Krista and walks over to the bed Joker is laying on to check on him, as Krista sits down on the chair that is now beside Kara's bed. Krista slides down a little on the chair and lean her back against the back of the chair. Krista then starts to watch her little sister sleep. A few minutes later the quiet sickbay because noise because Sharon has just been brought into the sickbay. Krista turn and look over at Dr. Cottle and Sharon and sees that the doctor is busy prepare Sharon's for surgery.
At the same time most of the pilots are now laying on they bunks in the duty lockers and are asleep, along with most of the deck crew. In the CIC William Adama is filling out a form for the deck crew to take the museum items out of the starboard launch and landing bay and move the items to the secondary storage airlock, beside for the raptors that have missiles launched mounted to the side of the raptors, because the raptors could be used and need to move over to the port side hanger deck. In addition the deck crew needs to move everything for the gift shop in the starboard launch tube and hanger deck and take the items from the gift shop to the secondary storage airlock, so that the launch and landing bay can be use by civilian shuttles come onto Galactica, which will keep the port side launch and landing bay and the hanger deck free of civilian shuttles and civilian too.
