"Apollo did you get attacked while guarding the President?" Hotdog asked.
"No."
"Someone fall on you? Get bitten?" He asked.
"No, what exactly do you want to know?"
"Just trying to come up with a good reason why you have a hickey on your neck other than the obvious." Hotdog stated.
"That's none of your business." Lee replied.
"Maybe Starbuck can shed some light on the subject."
"Shed some light on what?" Kara asked walking in grease on her face.
"The CAG's hickey."
"I spent most of the day flying the President around and waiting, what he did when he was with her I have no idea about." Kara replied.
Her statement was accurate, and didn't lie and didn't acknowledge the fact that she had been the one to give him the hickey.
"Let's see." Kara walked over and turned Lee's head so she could look at it. "It will go black and blue since it's a form of bruise in a few days and then fade in about a week, it's not permanent."
"Thank you Doctor Starbuck." Lee replied.
"If you don't believe me ask Cottle, but I know that's not the first hickey you've gotten. Something about a shot contest." Kara recalled.
"How do you get a hickey in shot contest?" Hotdog asked.
"Let's just say from the rumours he had his hands tied behind his back at the time."
"Why are we friends again?" Lee inquired.
"Because your life would be dull without me around." Kara smiled. "Remind me to tell you how he got his call sign."
"That should be interesting." Hotdog said.
"I have to go and take a shower before the CAG gets too red."
"Did you get that thruster problem sorted out?" Lee inquired.
"It was only slightly mis-calibrated, but we checked everything else out to make sure." Kara replied as she grabbed what she needed out of her locker.
"She's in a surprisingly good mood for some who spent the day ferrying the President around." Hotdog commented.
"The chance to humiliate me always puts her in a good mood." Lee replied. "Trust me I've known her a long time, she'll be busting your butt again very soon. Now I'm going to eat."
BSG
"So Starbuck offered to tell us how the CAG got his call sign." Hotdog said when he sat down with Kara, Kat and Racetrack.
"You want to know how he got his call sign." Kara stated. "I'll tell you. We were at the academy, he sees this woman he does recognise on campus and she's crying her eyes out, it turned out that she was one of the instructors girlfriends and she had just told him she was pregnant and he didn't react the way she was expecting, but Lee didn't know that, but Lee being Lee and wanting to save the world he went over to see if she was okay, he put his hand on her arm and she passed out at his feet. There was a whole joke that he had Apollo's touch with women and it stuck."
"That's it?" Racetrack questioned.
"If you're done sullying my reputation." Lee said from the doorway.
"Sullying?" Kara questioned with a smirk.
"Do you want night patrols for the next month Starbuck?" Lee asked.
Kara thought for a moment.
"No, I'm fine with the patrols I have, but thanks for offering."
That drew a laugh.
"Now I have to hit my rack." Kara stood up. "I have an early class with the new nuggets followed a double patrol."
"I thought you didn't like having early classes with the nuggets?" Lee questioned.
"I don't, but someone scheduled me to fly a double patrol at the time the original class was supposed to be so I had to reschedule." Kara replied. "Something about the CAG needing as many pilots as possible. Night."
"It's probably not a good idea to piss of the woman you're sleeping with." Hotdog stated.
"Shut up Hotdog." Lee snapped and left.
"That was a well advised statement." Kat told him.
"It's the truth." Hotdog stated.
"The CAG's relationship with Starbuck isn't up for discussion unless you want him to take it out on you." Racetrack added. "Besides which you're probably the only person flight roster who is getting any."
"Kara." Lee caught up with her.
"Captain."
"Are you mad at me?" He asked.
"Why do you think I'm mad at you?" Kara inquired.
"Back there?"
"Lee I hate to burst your bubble but I always give you a hard time, just because of what happened this afternoon that's not going to stop."
"You should have told me that you had to move the nuggets class."
"You were trying to figure out the flight schedule and the nuggets are my responsibility as you kindly pointed out the other day. Now I'm going to go to bed, try not to wake me up." She told him.
TBC