Ovid said: Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own.
"This is going to take a few more hours Kara." Cottle informed her after examining her.
"You think I don't fraking know that?" Kara asked.
"I see being in labour doesn't make you any more charming." Lee walked in.
"Get the frak out." Kara told him.
"What?"
"Get the frak out." Kara repeated.
"Nice to see you too." He kissed her forehead. "Why didn't you call me sooner?"
"I've been doing this for fraking eleven hours by myself."
"We were still on Pegasus eleven hours ago." Lee pointed out.
"You think I don't fraking know that."
"You could have told me you were in labour before I went to New Caprica." Lee suggested.
"You've been planning this trip for a week." Kara reminded him. "And at least you weren't around to fraking annoy me. So get the frak out."
"I'm staying." He told her.
"Ah frak." She grabbed his hand a contraction hit. Lee pulled a face as the bones in his hand crunched.
"We'll get an x-ray later." Cottle told him.
"I hate you." Kara muttered.
"I love you too." Lee kissed her forehead trying to block out the pain. "You're doing great."
"I need drugs." Kara told Cottle when the contraction was over.
"Starbuck we keep the drugs for people who actually need them. Women have been having babies without drugs for millennia I'm sure you'll be fine."
"I'm going to get out of this fraking bed and you're going to be the one who needs fraking drugs." Kara warned.
"Doc." Lee said.
"One you won't be getting out of that bed for a while and two I'll see if we have any Entonox, it won't stop the pain but it may take the edge off."
"Whatever you've got Doc." Lee told him.
"What the frak are you still doing here?" Kara asked. "I thought I told you to get the frak out."
"I said I was staying and then you tried to break my hand." Lee reached out a hand.
"You fraking try to touch me and you won't have to worry about your hand being broken you'll lose it."
"Sorry." He knew Kara could be a delicate mine field to navigate on the best of days but Kara in labour was a whole new mine field where even the slightest movement would cause an explosion.
"Where is Laura?"
"She was with Dad last time I saw her." Lee replied.
"Find her?"
"You want to throw me out but you want the former President here?"
"She's good at this."
"Good at what?" Lee questioned.
"Keeping me calm, you're just making me crazy."
"I always make you crazy." Lee pointed out. "Just like you make me crazy."
"Lee." Kara shifted uncomfortably.
"Are you okay?"
"Do I look fraking okay?" Kara asked in disbelief.
"Sorry stupid question."
"Can you just find Laura?"
"Dad will be down to check on you, I'm sure she'll be with him. You really are doing great?"
"How the frak would you know?" Kara demanded.
"I know you." He tried. "Cally said to say hello."
"That's fraking nice."
"She wanted to know if she could come up and visit in a few days. I guess we'll have to reschedule."
"Why the frak do we have to reschedule?"
"I figured you'd be here for a couple of days." Lee shrugged.
"You're a fraking idiot."
"I love you too. Let's just concentrate on today okay?"
A/N: I was going to post this earlier in the week but I have a sinus infection and have had difficulty sleep with that and working a late shift at work writing anything coherent just went out of the window. But on a positive note we will meet baby Adama in the next post.