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Chapter 12 – Duties
Six immediately almost glided over to Kendra who pressed back against the door only for Six to place a gentle hand on the side of her face, while moving her mouth close to Kendra's ear. Kendra suddenly felt paralysed and her limbs wouldn't respond to her command
"So you're the 13th Cylon, not what I expected" Six said in her ear and the Six's right hand moved down Kendra's body, from her head, down her neck, over her collar pass her breasts and down to her stomach where Six gently pressed. This brought a shiver down Kendra's spine
"So precious" Six whispered in her ear before suddenly vanishing, leaving Kendra pressing back against the door and Baltar looking at her with relief on his face
"I knew I wasn't crazy, you can see her too" he stammered and Kendra regained control of her limbs and took a few calming breaths while what had just happened boggled her mind, whatever 'that' was and what had just happened
"That means we're alike" Baltar said coming up to her and putting his hands around her shoulders
This brought Kendra back to her senses and she shrugged off Baltar's grip and said angrily at him
"We're nothing alike; it's just that something has decided to frak with our heads" she said walking around him to put some distance however slight from him and escaped out the door and not stopping to she found herself in the rack room which was blissfully empty. She quickly stripped off her dress uniform down to her fatigues and climbed into her new bunk and curled up
Then a hand started to move along her side almost like a ghost and she turned over to see the same red dress Six that had suddenly appeared in the cell area
"Who are you? What are you?" Kendra asked in a quiet voice as the Six got to her knees so she was level with Kendra
"I'm an angel from God. It's my mission to guide you and to watch over you and the child that's inside you" the Six told her in a smooth tone that sent shivers down her spine as the Six's hand moved from her side to her stomach and under her tanks and the ghostly hand touched her bare skin of her stomach and again Kendra found herself unable to move
"What?" she asked as her own hand moved over the Six's
"Soon" the Six said simply before pressing her lips to Kendra's and vanishing just like before. The shock of what had just occurred finally took its toll and Kendra fell into an uneasy sleep
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After an uneasy night's sleep where she was plagued by nightmares of her giving birth to a beautiful baby only for her to be stolen out of her arms by a Number One; she gave up on sleep and went to report to her new commanding officer.
She knocked on the hatch of the Commander's quarters and the hatch opened revealing the old man in his own fatigues
"Come in Lieutenant" he said and opened the hatch enough for her to slip inside and they walked over to his desk where he sat down "Now how can I help you Lieutenant?"
"Did Lieutenant Thrace make you aware of what happened at the Cylon Camp Sir?" Kendra asked and the Commander's eyes stared at her intently
"What was done to you was in Starbuck's report yes" he answered and he fixed her with an unreadable stare
"I want to start routing out the frakking bastards as soon as possible sir" she said briskly while burying her anxiety and obviously the Commander saw something because he asked
"Are you sure about that Lieutenant?" he asked
"Yes sir"
Adama reached over to his phone and asked "Get me a Marine Detachment sent to my cabin immediately"
"Thank you Sir" Kendra said but the Commander was still looking at her with suspicion but she manage to stop herself squirming
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The marine detachment quickly arrived led by Corporal Venner and Kendra began to tour the ship with the marines in tow. She quickly cleared the CIC and most sensitive areas of the ship before going deck by deck. Eventually she came upon a small compartment that someone had claimed as a temple. As Kendra went to enter she was stopped by Venner
"This is a holy place" he reminded her and she gave him a reassuring pat on the shoulder
"We're not going to break anything, just take a look at whoever's inside" and she opened to hatch to enter and walked into the open area to see two men conversing, the two men turned to face them although Kendra hadn't seen their faces yet
"Sorry Brother Cavil we just wanted to search the ship for Cylon bugs" Venner said as to not insult the priest by implying he might be a Cylon
"That's quite alright, we were just finished here weren't we" Cavil said to the other man but upon hearing that voice, Kendra immediately went for her weapon, knowing that voice anywhere and upon moving to the side to see the men clearly only for her horror to double as she saw not only Cavil's face but the other man's face, it was a Number 4. She aimed at Cavil's head and shouted out
"On your knees; both of you get on knees hands behind your head" and the marines looked at her alarmed while the two men got to their knees
"What are doing that man's a priest" Venner said outraged at her behaviour but she silenced him with a quick look
"HE'S A CYLON, BOTH OF THEM ARE" she shouted at the marines after moving her gaze back to the two men kneeling on the floor and with that some of the marines quickly aimed their rifles on the kneeling Cylons but still unsure Venner looked torn
Kendra thought quickly "Look ask Starbuck, ask Helo Agathon, what the hell ask anyone of the Caprica Resistance, they've all seen one just like him on Caprica" and with reluctance Venner followed the orders of the young officer and placed binders on the two captured Cylons
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Once the two were secured in the Brig and their identities confirmed by Starbuck and Sam Anders, Kendra cleared the rest of the ship and declared that the Galactica was free of any more hidden Cylon Agents and Colonial One was next on the list, and there Kendra and the marines captured another Cylon agent this time a Number Three going by the name D'Anna Biers who was trying to interview President Roslin about the 'Gideon Massacre' or something like that.
The remaining ships checked out clean and no other Cylons were found, Cavil refused to co-operate and was airlocked immediately, D'Anna proved equally uncooperative and followed the Number One into space. But the Number Four would talk with Kendra
So in a dim interrogation room the Four who called himself Simon was released from his shackles and sat at the other end of a table from Kendra, a marine was in the corner constantly watching for signs of trouble
"Why are you willing to talk to me?" she asked him and his mouth curled into a smile, not the cold almost sadistic smile that she had seen on Number Fours before but a genuine warm smile with happiness dancing in his eyes
"Because I love her" he said
"Love who?" Kendra asked
"My wife Giana and her daughter Jemmy, they're my world and if I can keep them safe, I'll do anything I need too" he said
Kendra was astonished, the look in his eyes told her he was completely serious and did love this woman, it was the same look Helo had Sharon, the same Sam had for her
"You do realise that by helping us, your betraying your own people?" she said to him but he shook his head
"My people betrayed themselves, rather than try to move on they have been consumed by the old hatred of humanity and that will ultimately lead to their own destruction. My wife and her child have shown me what love really is and I can't and won't give that up" Simon told her and again she struck by his belief
She was interrupted in this interrogation by a ringing of the phone in the corner of the room, she went over to answer it and the voice in her ear was Lieutenant Gaeta
"Giana O'Neill wants to see you, she just outside" he told her and Kendra replaced the receiver before turning back to face Simon
"I'll be back in a minute" she said and exited the room through the only hatch. Outside a rather tense looking woman dressed in deck crew overalls who was a few years older than Kendra herself stood nervously tapping her foot
"Is it true?" she asked in a smooth accent that Kendra couldn't place "Is my husband a Cylon?"
"Yes it's true" Kendra confirmed to her the other woman's face fell
"I thought he loved me. Gods" she explained in despair before Kendra grabbed her by the arms and forced Giana's to meet her own
"He does, he's selling out his own people to protect you. I look into his eyes and I see that he's so in love with you, nothing else matters to him and I think you do love him too" Kendra told her and Giana looked torn as her love from Simon warred with her hatred of Cylons
Kendra couldn't understand even to herself as to why she was getting so involved in this, it was as if some kind of compulsion had come over her and then she revealed something to Giana
"My fiancé cheated on me and yet I still love him. I was captured by the Cylons and they experimented on me and they stole my face, in a year's time they'll be Cylon models running around with my face and Sam doesn't care. Because he loves me" she told Giana who was shocked out of her conflict by Kendra's revelation
Giana asked "Can I see him?"
"Of course" Kendra said and smiled, but underneath she couldn't under it, why was she acting this way and as she escorted Giana into the interrogation room she placed a hand on her stomach
'What's happening to me?' she thought to herself
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After a new Cylon Cell had been built for Simon Kendra went over to see Doctor Cottle and asked him to perform a pregnancy test
She sat on a gurney and waited for the results, nervously bracing her hands on her legs while thoughts raced through her mind
'I' am I pregnant? Was that little girl in the vision mine?' She thought nervously 'Can I raise a child, never mine a child brought up on a battlestar?'
But she was interrupted by the return of Doctor Cottle with the results of the test
"Well?" she inquired the tension was nearly overwhelming
The old doctor gruffly told her "Inconclusive"
"What?" Kendra asked him
"Inconclusive, you have some of the signs of pregnancy but other signs are missing, we'll have to wait a little bit longer before we know for sure" he said "Now come back in three weeks, I should be able to tell then" he told her and Kendra silently exited, lost in her thoughts
While she was wandering the corridors she saw Giana with a little girl who Kendra presumed to be Jemmy as the mother and daughter had now moved onto Galactica to be closer to both her job and her husband, Kendra smiled as Giana showed her awed daughter around their new home but then a feeling of light headedness keep over Kendra and she closed her eyes.
Almost as if it was a dream Kendra saw Simon and Giana standing in the middle of a golden light Jemmy sitting against Simon and in Giana arms there were two babies
Kendra blinked and she found herself back in the corridor, she quickly walked away and hid in one of the vacant meeting rooms on Galactica while seeing paper and pens on a nearby cabinet started drawing like a woman possessed
And before long there were a number of drawings on the floor in front of her, all of people but she didn't understand what had guided her hand
She picked up a picture of the little girl she had picked up during that vision on Kobol and stared