The CIC was crazed, but even with the craziness Amy witnessed the pure domesticity between Laura and Bill. Walking in Laura walked over to Bill and kissed his cheek while he gave her a hug. Amy thought about how comfortable they were with each other and how she had never seen her mother as happy as she was when she was with Bill.

Amy understood how the thought of Bill being gone could have caused Laura to do crazy things. In that instant Amy decided that she wouldn't judge her mother for what happened with Lee, and she wouldn't pressure her into telling Bill.

After the quick hello Laura immediately jumped into action, "What's going on?"

Bill passed a paper to Laura which she looked over signed and handed to Dee. "How certain are we about this 33 minutes thing?"

Bill looked over at Gaeta, "Uh well we haven't gone through an extended amount of time yet, but for the last three hours they have shown up every 33 minutes. We are relatively sure that they are somehow tracking us, we just can't figure out how. Why it's every 33 minutes were not sure in fact it could just be a fluke, but if they show up in 29 minutes it will have been the sixth time."

Laura pulled her glasses off and rubbed the bridge of her nose, "Thank you Lt. Gaeta. Billy can you call Colonial 1 and tell them I will be going over there after this next cycle. Commander I'll need to talk to you about what the strategy is so that I know what to tell the press."

Billy ran over to Dee where she had Colonial 1 on the Comm. and Amy was standing next to Laura. "Of course Madam President, Lt. Gaeta you have Command. Colonel Tigh with me."

Bill held his arm out to Laura which she took. He led her to the briefing room just down the corridor. Bill and Laura entered followed closely by Tigh and Amy. Tigh closed the hatch and Bill walked over to hug Amy, and then returned to Laura's side. "What exactly do you want me to tell the press?"

Bill glared he hated the press and had made it very clear to Laura in their last meeting, "Just tell them that the pilots will be deployed every 33 minutes and that each ship needs to have their FTL's spooled up every 33 minutes so that we can make the jumps quickly if the Cylons continue to show up."

Laura nodded her head, "Okay anything else you want me to tell them, or have them do that will help your men and women."

Bill shook his head not thinking of anything. "What are we going to tell them about the skin jobs?"

Tigh asked Laura and Bill. Amy had no clue what he was talking about and looked to her mother for an answer. "What does he mean mom?"

Tigh looked at Amy, then to Bill and Laura "Sorry I thought she knew."

Bill glared at his friend while Laura looked at her daughter, "Amy the Cylons have somehow managed to look like humans. The only reason we found out is because the man Bill was stuck in the station with was a Cylon. We have Dr. Baltar working on a Cylon detector, but we don't want it getting out so you have to keep it to yourself. Right now the fleet is too delicate and if people find out they will start accusing everyone for stupid reasons."

Laura finally turned to glare at Tigh. Amy nodded her head in understanding. Bill looked at the clock on the wall, "We have 10 minutes until Cylons should be here. Why don't you both head to the hanger bay and I'll make sure there is a raptor ready to take you and Amy to Colonial 1 after we jump."

Laura nodded and kissed Bill before she walked to the hatch, Amy gave him a quick hug and the group split up.

Kara was waiting patiently by a raptor in the hanger bay, "Kara shouldn't you know, I don't know, be out blowing cylons up?"

Amy smirked at Kara but was glad that her aunt wasn't in danger at this moment. "Yeah I should be but you know we got this president and the old man feels her safety is of the upmost importance, so I get to play babysitter."

Kara walked over to hug Laura who playfully punched her. Laura then turned to Amy, "Maybe you should stay here honey. You know with the press being there we don't want them asking too many questions yet."

Kara was confused but decided to keep her mouth shut because she was bound to find out what they were talking about sooner or later. "Don't worry mom I thought about it. We can just tell them that I am part of your staff. It should be enough to get them to leave me alone for now, and they won't know I'm your daughter."

Kara scoffed, and both Roslin women turned, "What's so funny Kara?"

Amy didn't understand why Kara would comment, her plan would work for now at least it would by them enough time to think of a new strategy. "Uh well it's just anyone can see you too are related. Flaming red hair, long legs, your eyes are identical, your voices, and you both glare the same way."

It helped Kara's case since both women at that moment were glaring at her. "Kara's right Amy, we do look an awful lot alike."

Amy nodded but smiled, "Yeah but we could always tell them you're my aunt or something. Look like I said this will just buy us some time okay."

Laura nodded and the women began to load into the Raptor. They sat waiting as the 6th jump took place, and then they were in space. Amy hated jumping; it made her feel sick and getting out into space helped ease the nausea. Looking out at the stars gave her a serene feeling.

They landed on Colonial 1 and were immediately greeted by the Captain, who seemed a little to eager to greet Laura. They stepped of the Raptor wing and the Captain immediately began talking to Laura, "Madam President we set up that private section for you so that it is more like a living space. I also took the liberty to set up a separate area for you to work from, and another area to hold press meetings."

Laura smiled at the Captain, "Well thank you, but I actually will be residing on Galactica. But I appreciate the trouble you went through."

The Captains face fell a little and Amy hid her laugh. The Captain was obviously smitten with Laura, and Amy felt bad for him knowing that he wouldn't have stood a chance with her even if she wasn't involved with Bill. Billy had come over to Colonial 1 before the jump and had the press waiting. The second they walked in the press started questioning Laura. "Madam President! Madam President!"

Laura pointed to a woman sitting near the front, "Madam President what can you tell us about the cylons showing up continuously."

Laura schooled her features and began to address the press. "First off I want to thank you all, and I appreciate your question…"

The woman smiled at Laura "Playa ma'am"

Laura nodded, "Thank you Playa. It appears that the Cylons are tracking us somehow. Right now the military is having their best people work on finding out how. Until we find how though we will continue to have to make jumps. It appears that they are showing up every 33 minutes. We are not sure why it is every 33 minutes, it maybe that is just how long it takes their equipment to work. So we are asking all Captains to immediately start spooling their FTL's up after every jump because we want people to start jumping just before the Cylons show up."

The press seemed satisfied with that response and questions about Laura's life began to be shouted. Laura pointed to a tall man in the back, "Madam President is it true that you and Commander Adama are in a romantic relationship? And if so do you think it is wise to mix the government and military like that?"

Laura took off her glasses and looked at the man with a soft smile, but you could see in her eyes that she wanted to kill the guy. "Yes Commander Adama and I are in a relationship. We began dating back on Caprica, and have been together for sometime now. Neither of us entered this relationship in a position of power, and neither of us was aspiring to be in such powerful positions."

Laura paused "We have all lost loved ones these last few days. Commander Adama and I are not planning to end our relationship just because we have fallen into these positions. He will maintain control of the military, and I will maintain control of the government and our relationship will not interfere with our decisions.

We have discussed the possibility of being asked by the fleet to end our relationship, and if that happens we have decided one of us will step down. No we have not decided which one, but we both agree that we want to remain together despite public opinion.

We promise that our relationship will not interfere with any decisions we may have to make, and we ask that the public grant us the opportunity to prove that.

We also ask that everyone take into consideration what they would do if put in this situation. It's not fair to ask us to give up each other when we have all lost people. If we were already married we know this would not be an issue, and we hope you all respect our relationship and leave it alone.

Thank you that is all I have time for right now, I need to get back to Galactica before the next jump to take care of some fleet maters. Have a good day."

Laura turned and walked out of the room followed closely by Kara, Amy, and Billy.