(Ok so this is chapter 21 and Vania is gunna kill me cause I told her this is when she finds out who it is. But I've changed my mind and it's now either in the next chapter or the one after that. Sorry Vania :D Don't hurt me please. Anyway, hope you all enjoy, as usual.

P.S. A little shout out to Gaia, no not the character in the story, Gaia my friend who wanted to read this even though she has never seen BSG. And Gaia in the story is named after Gaia my friend, if anyone was wondering. Cause I just love her name, but you say hers differently to my Gaia :D)

Laura was still staring at Cottle.

"Now get up off that floor." he barked.

She sat up and then stood and walked over to the lounge behind Cottle and sat down. Hands folded neatly between her knees with the flower still in between.

He sat down next to her, somewhat away but not at the other end of the couch. She looked at him expectantly, waiting for him to start. He took a deep breath and began.

"Have you ever been married Laura?"

She was taken aback, he had said he wasn't here to talk about her treatments and figured it might be something else to do with her health, but she did not expect that.

"No, no I haven't." she answered.

Nodding he readjusted his approach.

"Ever had any children?"

Realising now that her shock from the last question paled in comparison to this one. With a scrutinising look she replied.

"No."

"Never?" he probed.

"No, never."

Of course he knew she was lying, but she didn't know that.

"Madam President don't take this the wrong way but, I know your body better than you do, inside and out. You still wanna tell me you've never given birth?"

Laura swallowed.

"Are you trying to tell me you know something I don't?" she glared.

"No, I'm trying to tell you that I know you had a daughter."

She didn't possibly think that Cottle could shock her anymore. She was wrong.

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Gaia woke up to one of the biggest frakking headaches she had ever had in her life. And she'd had had a few.

"'Bout time you woke up." Came a voice to her left.

She recognised their voice immediately. It was Gaeta. She slowly opened her eyes and quickly shut them, the lights hurt like nothing else. She brought her hands up to her face and pressed her fingers into her eyes, screwing up her nose as she did. She carefully rolled over and pushed herself up into a sitting position on the floor. Shielding her eyes from the light she opened them and gazed around the room. Everything was blurry and her vision was taking it's sweet time to return.

"What happened?" she asked.

"We crash landed into the landing bay. They took me and you into here and I don't know where Sharon is. You and her were both unconscious."

"How long was I..." She cleared her throat. "...out for?"

"About 3 days." replied Felix.

Gaia's eyes widened. "Three days? And you haven't seen Athena since?"

"Nup. We aren't prisoners, but I'm not getting very far and you weren't awake so I stayed here. They dumped our stuff from the wreck over there." He nodded his head to two bags over in the corner. Gaia gingerly moved to get up, leaning heavily against the wall as she did. She pushed herself away from the wall and went to take a step before collapsing to the ground in a heap.

"Gods damn it." she exclaimed.

Gaeta just looked at her. She rose and tried again, this time she waited longer for composure and unsteadily made her way over to the corner. She crouched down and searched through the first bag. Not finding the item she was looking for. She then searched the second bag, she still couldn't find what she was looking for.

"Frak!" she cursed. She wanted to scream.

"What are you looking for?"

"A book, it's got a plain brown cover. I was writing in it on the Raptor." she replied.

"Over there, one of the blonde models dumped it on the table over there."

She turned around and saw it, sighing with relief she picked it up and placed it in one of the bags. She stood up and cracked her back and ribs, almost falling over in process. Felix cringed at the solid crunches her body made. She spun around to face him.

"I'm going to the control room to see what they've done with the Lieutenant."

He nodded and she walked out of the room. She saw a centurion standing guard at their room. She stopped and surveyed it.

"You're kidding." she whispered.

She walked up to it and it looked down at her. It was the very same one that had led her to President Roslin when she was first on this Base Star. She knew because it had two dents in it's right shoulder, that she noted last time she saw it. More sure of herself this time she spoke.

"Can you show me where the control room is? Please?"

The centurion looked at her for another moment and turned and started walking. Gaia followed.

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The centurion stopped outside of an entrance to a large room. She thanked the machine and entered.

Four pairs of eyes turned to her as she walked in. Two of them where Leoben models and the other two a six and an eight.

When Gaia saw the Leobens her heart stopped.

A man with blue eyes. "Who are you?" "MUMMY!"

Gaia blinked. "You, your..." She stopped. She couldn't deal with this now. She swallowed and turned to the Six.

"Where's Sharon?" demanded Gaia.

The two Leobens and the six looked at the eight.

"No not her, my Sharon, Lt Agathon, the one that came with me."

The six spoke first. "When you came aboard she was badly injured. We took her too our sickbay and our Doctor is treating her as best she can."

Gaia nodded. "How did you end up here?"

This time the eight answered. "We were about to jump when Cavil and his ships found us, they attacked as we were jumping and it landed us at different coordinates. It took him a while to find us but when he did we jumped again, luckily the FTL hadn't been damaged. Every time he shows up we've jumped to a new set of coordinates, but he always finds us."

"That's why we haven't jumped to Earth, because he will follow and ultimately find the planet." added a Leoben. Gaia glared at him as he spoke.

"Okay, how do we get rid of him?" asked Gaia.

"We can't until we find out how he is finding us so easily. Hybrids aren't capable of finding other ships through jumps, we don't know why, it was one of the flaws in their creation." replied the Eight.

"So it means he is tracking someone on board." said the Six.

"We scanned the ship and there are no devices. We are at a dead end." added the other Leoben.

Gaia nodded again. Thinking as she did. "That means it has to be something organic, and it has to be someone he has had contact with. But how do you track something organic through subspace?"

The first Leoben's eyes lit up.

"D'anna." They all turned to look at him. "She she killed Cavil just before getting off the hub. He could have done something to her to be able to follow her."

"Where is she?" questioned Gaia.

"With your Sharon." answered the Six.

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"I've already told you, I have not had any children, so you can't know anything." spat Laura.

Cottle stared at her, she wouldn't look at him. He knew this wasn't going to be easy. He decided that the only way to get her to admit to having Gaia was to trick her into it.

"You had a daughter, she had brown hair and brown eyes she..."

Laura interrupted Cottle.

"How could you know what she looked like?" Laura stopped. Realising that she had just playing right into the Doctor's hands.

"Now we're getting somewhere. So you did have a daughter?" he asked.

Laura nodded. Sadness fell over her as she remembered. "Yes, but not for long."

"What happened?" He knew full well but he wanted to hear it from her.

Laura took a shaky breath. "Her father wasn't in the picture. She didn't know who he was. When she was four she noticed that she was missing something that all the other kids had, and she started to ask about him. I tried explaining it to her but she got upset and ran to her room. I was about to get up and go to her but before I could I heard her scream, I pushed open her door and there was a man trying to kidnap her, he dragged her out of the window. I was in a panic, I stuck my head of the window but they were gone. I remember screaming her name but she was gone. I never saw her again after that, they never found her. I suppose I never really gave up hope in finding her, but after the attacks and New Caprica, I didn't expect to see her again. She'd be 16 now and I doubt she would have survived this. And if she did, I wouldn't find her, even in out of the 39'561 people in this fleet."

"39'560." corrected Cottle.

Laura just looked at him questioningly. He continued.

"Dee shot herself in the head, about an hour ago."

Laura was shocked.

"You mean Lt Dualla?"

"Yes."

Laura lowered her head in a silent prayer for Dee's soul. She knew Bill would be devastated. Once she was done she raised her head again.

"Is that all you wanted to talk to me about? That you know I've had a daughter and what happened to her?" she asked.

"No. I wanted to tell you that she's alive and is closer than you think."

Laura could hear her own heartbeat. Feel it in her head and he hands.

"What??" she whispered.

Cottle didn't answer, letting his revelation sink in.

"How do you know?"

"Because she is on this ship and I've spoken to her a few times. She knows that you're her mother, but refuses to tell you."

"Who is it?" She had to know.

Cottle paused for a long time before answering. Gaia hadn't told him in confidence, he had confronted her about it first and she had merely stated that she wasn't going to tell the President. So he knew that technically he wasn't breaking any oaths if he told Laura. He answered.

"Ensign Matthews."

Laura inwardly gasped. "My body guard?" Cottle didn't respond, he let her work it out for herself. "Does Bill know, why does she refuse to tell me?"

"No he doesn't, so if you were thinking of blasting him for making her you're body guard, don't bother. He doesn't have a clue. As for why she refused to tell you well, it was a pretty selfless thing of her to do."

"Go on.." urged Laura

"She didn't want you to feel guilty about your cancer." Seeing the look on her face he continued. "She didn't want you to feel like you were letting someone else down, or want you to feel like you were leaving someone else behind. I told her that you knowing that she was alive would probably give you another reason to live and to fight. But she still refused to tell you. I couldn't let her do it anymore. So I'm telling you. I probably shouldn't be but I am."

For about the fifth or sixth time this evening Laura was absolutely stunned. For a 16 year old she was well before her time. Definitely had more maturity than any teenager Laura had encountered.

"Where is she now?"

"The Admiral sent her on the mission to find the Base Star." answered the Doctor.

"What?!?"

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Cylon Base Ship 3 Days in the future

Gaia walked out of the control room to find the centurion. It was standing guard at the same room she awoke in. It looked down at her and this time without hesitation she spoke.

"Could you take me too your sickbay, where D'anna and my Eight is? Please?"

Again it turned and started walking. All Gaia could do was follow. They had been walking for a few minutes before it stopped outside another room. Gaia thanked the tall machine again and walked in. She saw D'anna standing next to Sharon. Sharon was unconscious and there was a puddle of blood beneath her. D'anna noticed the figure in her peripheral vision and turned to face her.

"You've come to lead us to Earth." It wasn't a question.

"Yes." Was her simple answer.

"Why did you come looking for us?"

"You really want me to answer that? Lee Adama didn't make the alliance just so you wouldn't blow us to hell. He does want this to end, just like the rest of us."

"Fair enough."

"How is she?" Gaia motioned her heard towards Sharon.

D'anna sighed. "Not good. She'll die if we don't get her back to your fleet."

"How long?"

"Two days, three at the most."

They had to find a way of stopping the Cavil from pursuing them without killing D'anna. But how?

(Oh and I've just added another juicy clue to the story, tehehehehe.

Yep looks like it might be a while before you find out that thing Vania wants to know. This segment is taking a while and I've gotta stretch some upcoming things with Laura out a bit. PLEASE REVIEW, cause you love me and if not, cause ya love BSG ;D

Also, to be honest I wanted Adama to be the one that brought her back from the edge, but it made sense that news of her daughter from the only person willing to tell her, would do it. BUT!!! Adama still has ALOT of work to do on her.)