"You have a visitor," a familiar voice greeted.

"I like him already," Laura replied from her seat near the window in the common room. "You didn't tell me you were-"

Laura froze as she turned to face Bill and saw that he was not alone.

"Kara!"

Bill tapped Kara's shoulder and the girl obediently rushed forward to give Laura a hug. Laura held on to the girl tightly before pulling her back for inspection. Disheveled as usual but otherwise no worse for wear.

"What are you doing here?"

Kara shrugged her shoulders and they both turned to towards Bill.

"Socrata requested another assignment. I asked for her to be sent here. I met them at the airport and thought you might like to see Starbuck."

"Always," Laura affirmed brushing back Kara's hair and pulling her in for another hug. "I missed you Kara."

"I made you a card," Kara said running to Bill and grabbing a piece of paper from her bag. "Here."

Laura accepted the card and smiled at the sight of the girl's traditional mandala. Opening the card Laura read the inscription written in large block print.

LAURA
FEL BETER
LOVE
KARA✩

"It's perfect. I'll put it right by my bed and look at it every day," Laura promised.

"Are you sick?" Kara asked looking around at the unfamiliar surroundings.

"I'm ok. I was in an accident and need help with my legs that's all," Laura assured. "You know, after I was hurt I took a long nap and you were in my dream."

"Me?" Kara replied shocked.

"Yep. You were a pilot like the General. You were the best fighter pilot in the fleet."

"Better than the Old Man?" Kara asked eagerly with a grin.

"Better than everyone. And you were an angel."

"Did I have a halo?"

"Not quite. But you were very special. You saved a lot of people and brought us home."

"Kara's an angel?" Bill asked as they watched the girl play with the piano.

"Yep. She came back, she didn't even realize she was gone. She said she found Earth. I thought she was a cylon but you believed her. You gave her a ship and let her look for it," Laura explained. "Caused quite a stir actually. You see she encounters cylons on her mission. The Twos, Sixes and Eights split with the Ones, Fours, Fives and Boomer."

"What about D'Anna?"

"She boxed after she saw the faces of the Final Five at the temple."

"Final Five?"

"The creators of the eight cylon models."

"Cavill, Leo, D'Anna, Dr. O'Neill, Doral, Caprica and the Valeriis. Who's missing?"

"Daniel - Cavill killed his model in a jealous rage it seemed," Laura explained with a shrug. "Anyway... we allied ourselves with the rebel cylons with the understanding that we would help them unbox D'Anna and they would let us destroy the Resurrection Hub. Kara told me that the Hybrid - a cylon machine - told her that 'the dying leader shall know the truth of the Opera House'. For years on and off I had this dreams of being in the opera house - chasing Hera, seeing Athena and then Hera going with Caprica. Desperate for answers I went to the baseship with Karl, Gaius and the cylons and the Hybrid jumped the ship."

"Why?"

"It what's she does. Then it was a disaster. Gaius got shot and I wanted to let him die but I kept having these visions."

"More visions? Your sub-sub conscious is very active," Bill teased.

"Well these visions told me to love you - to let myself love you," Laura said reaching over to give Bill a kiss. "You relinquished command of Galactica to wait for me."

"I'll always wait for you," Bill promised kissing her hand.

"I know," Laura replied before turning to look at Kara who approached them. "What's up?"

"I'm hungry."

"Hungry," Bill repeated inspecting the young blonde. "I guess we probably should feed you?"

Kara smiled and shook her head affirmatively.

"The food here isn't that great BUT there is a fabulous pizza place that delivers," Laura suggested.

"Pizza!"

"I think we found a winner."