On Galactica (present day)…
At first he didn't know what was going on. Was it from the sleepless nights, pulling double CAPs, or working every single day since leaving New Caprica. Out of everything he wanted, he wanted her to leave for the first time ever since he met her. For months she had been teasing him with her outfits, comments and giggling laugh. Kara Thrace would not leave him alone until he figured out the next jump coordinates. She kept on going on and on with star charts and planets nearby them. She even pulled him out to the observation deck to show him Orion's belt. Which to him look like a line of stars. Kara would force him to stand there at the window, yesterday she made him bleed from whacking his forehead on the glass until it sunk in.
The hatch opening to his office pulled him away from his thoughts as he touch the bandage on his forehead.
"Sir, do you have a moment?" Anders asked. Anders had joined Galactica's crew three months after Kara's death. Why? Lee never asked but he thought it was a way to remember her. After months of training and drilling, Anders made one heck of a pilot.
"Seat?" Lee said while pointing to the chair in front of his desk and Anders did. "Would you like something to drink, Sam?"
"No thank you Sir."
Lee poured him a glass of the only liquor he had left. "So…"
Anders cleared his throat while Lee took a sip from his glass. "Well I was just wondering if you have had anything weird happen lately?"
"Now I wonder why he would be asking that Lee?" Kara asked as she walked up behind Sam with a fresh bottle of Ambrosia in one hand and glass in the other. This time she was a in a black halter top short dress and heels. Her hair was long and wavy like it was on New Caprica.
Lee choked then coughed at Kara being right there.
"Like what you see?" She asked as she twisted the cap of the bottle and handed him her glass. He almost took it but remembered she wasn't there and looked at the glass he already had in his hand.
"I take that as a yes?" Sam asked.
"What weird thing?" Lee fired back as he set his glass back down on his desk. "We have many weird things happening around here lately. The Rebel Cylons walking around freely, whispers of never finding Earth, and oh my personal favorite the CAG is losing his mind."
Anders didn't react to the last remark. It was true half the ship has been around Lee when he talks to himself. Anders heard that Baltar did the same thing when he first came on board, Kara even told him that one time she caught the doctor with his pants down like he was frakking something that wasn't there.
"What about the music?"
Lee's eyebrow hunched. "The same music Colonel Tigh is hearing?" Anders nodded. "I have no clue what frakkin' music Tigh is hearing. He's a drunk, losing his touch, and was dismissed by my father."
"But its not just Colonel Tigh that's hearing it. There's a small group of us that are and I'm going against them to tell you this. "
"Us? As in him and who else?" Kara asked while sitting on the corner of Lee's desk with her heel in between his legs. "You know we haven't..."
"Who told you not to tell anyone?" Lee asked as he followed Kara leaded and pushed her foot of the chair.
"I was only trying to have fun with company around." She got up to stand front of him.
"Tigh." Anders answered.
Lee sighed. Not only was he hearing music but Kara would sing the same song over and over again when she was bored. "How does it go?"
Anders started humming the tune and Kara spoke the words. Lee looked at Kara and she looked back then moved at of his way to see Anders.
"It really is a catchy song once you know all the words." Kara said as she took another sip from her glass. "Dad would sing me that song to sleep as a child when he was around. I'm surprised I still remember how it goes and play it on the piano."
Lee was in shock. "You're not crazy, Sam."
"I'm not?" He asked in surprised tone.
"There must be some way out of here… Said the joker to the thief." Lee sang with the same tone Anders was just humming.
"How… how do you know that song?" He asked.
"Something my mother would say when I was younger." Lee lied, taking it from the information from Kara's past. The first time he heard that song was from Kara. "You're not crazy. Now if you would excuse me, I have charts to look at." He said while picking up the chart in front. Anders stood and walked to the door.
"Yes you do honey." Kara said while snaking her arms around his neck. "You're such a good lair." She pointed to a group of stars. "Earth is somewhere near there, on the edge of the Milky Way system. There's a small solar system with a Sun and some planets. There were three habitible planets once."
"Once?" Lee asked.
"Oops, did I say that? I meant..."
"What's with the song, Kara?" Lee interrupted her.
She sighed. "It's a key to finding the final five."
Anders heard him while shutting the hatch. "So you do know."
tbc...
Review... thanks...
I know it's be forever, and it's very short and probably not put together very well... it's only going to get harder to upload on here. My job has become very demanding in the last 6 months. We just opened up four more ORs, which means more surgeons, patients and cases... I go home and go straight to sleep some days... but I love getting emails on if I'm going to update soon... so I did this for those few that want this... I promise my next chapter will be longer and fun of fun stuff with Kara and Lee... Maybe even land them on the same planet and get this ball rolling again... Please review! Thanks
