Aristotle said: "Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence"

Kara was lying on the bed with her hand resting on her stomach when Lee returned after finishing for the day.

"How are you doing?"

"Getting fatter by the minute it would appear."

"I think that's over exaggerating. Maybe by the hour."

Kara tossed a pillow at him.

Lee caught the pillow and carried it over and tossed it on the bed as he sat next to Kara. He put his hand on her stomach as he leant down to kiss her.

"You won't feel anything. I haven't since we got on this rust bucket."

"We took care of the rust last week." Lee told her straight faced. "I need to take a shower."

"I was going to say." Kara smiled.

Lee kissed her again before he took off.

Kara had fallen asleep by the time he had returned.

Lee covered her with a blanket before he climbed into bed beside her.

BSG BSG

Kara woke up a few hours later; Lee's hand was protectively on her stomach.

Every thing seemed perfect and she couldn't fight the urge to bolt.

Kara climbed out of bed and got dress as quickly and quietly as possible and bolted out the door. Lee who had woken up as soon as she climbed out of bed, quickly slipped on his pants and went to find her.

Kara had had no idea where to go. On Galactica she knew exactly where to go to get away from everything, but Pegasus was a different ship.

She ran into the nearest room and went the back wall and just slowly slid down. She didn't even look up when she heard the hatch open.

"Odd place to chose." Lee commented.

"I have no idea where to fraking run on this ship."

"Tell me why you wanted to run." Lee crouched down in front of her.

"I'm going to fraking screw this up. It's easier if I run now."

"Kara you should know by now if you run, I'm going to run right after you. I'm not letting you go this time, either of you. I'm not going to let either of us frak this up."

Kara didn't know what to say, she could tell by looking him in the eye that he was sincere, so she just burst into tears.

"Hey." He moved to sit next to her and wrapped and arm around her so Kara could sob onto his shoulder. "It's going to be okay."

"I'm a fraking screw up Lee."

"No you're not." He assured her. "And even if you are you're my fraking screw up."

That made her cry even more.

"Sorry." He whispered into her hair. "I love you."

"I love you too." Kara mumbled into his chest. She cried until she had no tears left.

"Are you okay now?"

"I don't know."

"Can I make a suggestion?"

"Sure."

"It's the middle of the night, it's freezing here. Can we go back to my quarters and we can discuss everything worrying you?"

It took a minute for Kara to nod.

"Good." He kissed the top of her head before he got up to help her up.

BSG BSG

Kara fell asleep in the middle of there discussion.

Lee knew she had fears and most of them they had overcome, but there were still some niggling ones that it was going to be her fault when it all went invariably wrong.

Despite having attempted to reassure her on numerous occasions Lee knew it was going to be an on going battle, but one that was definitely worth the fight.

He sat watching her sleep, her head resting on his thigh. He gently stroked her hair.

He started to hum a lullaby he remembered his mother used to sing to both him and Zak when they were children.

Kara shuffled in her sleep.

He caught himself holding his breath so as not to wake her. It had been a tough and emotional night; he wanted her to get her needed rest.

TBC