"Oh my gods, Jane, is that really you?" Laura asked again incredulously.

"Yes, it's really me," she confirmed smiling at the president. "Huge surprise, hum? You should have seen Helo's face. I had to recite him every single communication code and situation where he was also present in Galactica to make him believe it was really me. It is important that the other cylons don't know I'm here. Surprise element is always good."

The president was still stunned. Jane, who had supposedly died three weeks before, was sitting in front of her alive and kicking.

"But, but how did you manage to resurrect. Was Natalie lying? She said there were no resurrection ships close enough…" Laura said.

"She was not lying. She believed in what she told you; she was convinced it was the truth," Jane told her. "Look, the events lead me to be here now are…complicated and it would take hours for me to explain them all."

"Well, can't you give me a short version?" Roslin requested.

"I'll try," she said. "After I died in Galactica, I managed to download in a resurrection ship that is not… recognized by the cylons."

"What do you mean?"

"I downloaded in the first resurrection ship. It had been presumed destroyed decades ago by the cylons after being stolen. Please, don't make me explain the circumstances that lead it to be stolen; it is another long story. Anyway, the ship was close enough for me to download but we could still be light-years away from Galactica. We've spent the last weeks searching for the fleet but yesterday, our hybrid started making jumps completely out of the blue. We discovered it was because this ship's hybrid was in distress."

"I'm sorry, did you say 'we'?" Laura questioned.

"I was not alone in the ship," she stated. "One of the Final-Five was in there with me."

"Wait, you mean not all of the Final-Five are in the fleet?"

"Exactly, only Tory and three more are in there," Jane confirmed.

"Do you know who the five are?" Laura inquired expectantly.

"No," Jane said. "He knew who they were but he told me it was not the right time to reveal the identity of the others."

"What about the cylon that was with you? Do we know him? Who is he?"

"I can't answer that, Madam President. He made me promise I wouldn't. Please trust me. He's one of the good guys, he's on our side," she told Laura.

"But if he's on our side, why doesn't he want us to know who he is?" the president insisted.

Jane sighed. "It's not that he doesn't want you to know, he just wants to be the one to reveal his identity. Trust me; he wants to help us all."

Laura sighed in defeat. "Alright, I'll trust you in this. But tell me one thing. Leoben died even before you did. Didn't he resurrect as well?"

Jane looked down with a pain expression in her face. "He did. Look, 'till an hour ago, I was convinced that my baby hadn't survived. Helo was the one who told me she is alive and well. When I heard that Leoben had resurrected as well, I wanted to kill him 'cause I thought he had killed my baby. I tried to drown him in the resurrection tank but Number Ten managed to talk me out of it and we boxed him instead."

"Number Ten is the member of the Final Five?" Roslin asked, receiving a nod in return. "But how did you box him? I've seen cylon the same model as Leoben in this ship."

"Madam President, that was the first resurrection ship. Its technology is not as advanced as the current ones. When you box a cylon in there, it only applies to that conscience, not the whole line," Jane explained.

"Alright, that makes sense," Laura declared. "But how did you reach the hub?"

"Well, when you started jumping after the hub, our hybrid followed you. The thing is, we jumped closer to it and managed to reach it a few jumps before you did. Still, that resurrection ship was too valuable 'cause it is the only one where the fine five could download. Ten and I decided that it was better just leave me in the hub to investigate what was going on and let our ship follow from a certain distance so it would not be destroyed. Then, I ran into Helo and explained him what had happened. His partner in the mission had just died and as she looked just like me it was easy to pretend I was her and infiltrate the ship."

"So, the resurrection ship is following us right now," Laura concluded.

"Yes, but I guess we can't call it resurrection ship anymore. The hub is gone and so is the ability to download. Finally there is a little balance in this war," Jane said.

Roslin sighed and got up from her chair, approaching Jane. She got up as well and faced the president. Laura took another step and hugged Jane. "I'm glad you are alive, Jane. A lot of people missed you in Galactica."

Jane responded the hug. "Thank you, Madam President."

"Call me Laura."

They broke the hug and looked at each other again.

"Madam… I mean Laura, Helo only managed to guarantee me that my baby was okay, he didn't have time to say a lot more than that," Jane said.

"You want to know more details about how she is," Laura finished and Jane nodded. "She's perfectly fine, Jane. I don't think she could be in better hands."

"She was adopted?"

"Kind of," Laura told her. "Jane, Sam is taking care of her. He registered himself as being her father and you as the mother. Everyone that didn't already know the truth believes he is the child's biological father. He really loves that baby girl. Without her in his life he would have fallen apart because of your supposed death."

"Sam did that?" she asked incredulously. Since the moment she had resurrected, his last words to her kept echoing in her mind: 'I love you, you can't go like this'. "He told me he loved him right before I…you know. Now he's taking care of my baby…"

"He really does love you, Jane. He was a wreck when Cottle told him. He kept saying that he had declared himself too late. He was willing to give up all he has achieved in Galactica for your daughter, to make sure she was happy like you wanted."

"I tried to tell him that I loved him too but I couldn't, I felt so weak… He's a gift from god or the gods or whatever divine being there is," she said, unable to contain her tears. "He didn't name the baby Samantha, did he? He was trying to convince me to name her after him."

"He named her Kate," Laura said, giving Jane a clean tissue she had in her pocket. "You might want to clean these tears. D'Anna could come in here any second."

"Frak, I want to see them," Jane murmured as she cleaned her tears. "I want to hold my daughter and I want to see Sam!"

"You will," Laura promised.

She sat back on the chair and they stayed silent for a couple of minutes, thinking.

"Jane, didn't Natalie, the leader of the rebels, download?" the President inquired.

"Natalie is dead?"

"I think she did. This ship's hybrid told us that."

"Oh, so it was her…" Jane murmured, receiving a confused look from Laura in return. "As I said before, that resurrection ship was less advanced than the regular ones. The download process takes hours and during these hours the body that was killed needs to be inside the resurrection ship's download limits or the process will be aborted. A few minutes before this baseship jumped and we followed you, the download of a Six started but…"

"It was aborted," Laura finished.

"Yes. Natalie was not one of the bad guys. She was a leader." Suddenly, the cylon seemed to tense. "Someone's coming." She got up and went next to the door. "Who's this?"

"It's Three."

Jane opened the door and the other cylon entered.

"Madam President, we need your assistance," D'Anna requested.

"What if I don't want to give it to you?" Laura asked.

"I think you will," D'Anna told her. "Admiral Adama's raptor is requesting to land in the basestar. I think he'd prefer a friendly reception before he joins the hostages."

"Bill's here?" the president asked surprised.

"The fleet jumped. He stayed to guide us to them," D'Anna explained.

Laura got up. "I'll go."

D'Anna smiled. "I knew you would." She turned to Jane. "Come along, sister. You're responsible for them."

"Sure."

--

Bill Adama landed his raptor inside the Basestar. He had been waiting for hours, almost a day, for the ship to return. His heart was beating fast. He needed to see Laura; he needed to make sure she was alright.

Then, he opened the raptor's hatch and there she was, waiting for him.

He approached Laura and they just stared at each other for a few seconds, trying to make sure that was really happening.

"Missed you," he told her.

"Me too," Laura replied with a slight smile.

He put his hands in her upper arms and brought her closer to him, wrapping her in an embrace. She sighed against his neck and all of a sudden, they were not the President and the Admiral, they were just Laura and Bill.

"I love you," she murmured for the first time.

He broke the embrace and looked at her eyes. "About time," Bill replied, kissing her forehead.

Jane was watching the scene from a certain distance and decided to give the two a moment. D'Anna had put her in charge of watching the two leaders of the fleet. Little did she know that the Six she had trusted with that job was actually Caprica-Six and that she was not exactly on her side…

Laura pulled the Old Man closer to her and hugged him again. Her mouth approached his ear and she whispered. "We have a friend inside. See that cylon by the door?" she asked, receiving a discreet nod. "That is Jane Natasi."

He took a step back and looked at Roslin and then at the Cylon. "Are you sure?"

"Completely sure," she confirmed. "She's already explained me everything. Trust me."

"Madam President, Admiral, it's time for us to go. Three is waiting," Jane announced.

Both of them approached the cylon and the three walked together to the control room where D'Anna was waiting.

"It's good to see you again," Bill murmured to Jane, without looking at her.

"Likewise, sir," she replied also in a low voice.

D'Anna was waiting in the end of the corridor. "Welcome to our humble basestar, Admiral."

"I think we have some things to discuss, Miss Biers," he said.

"Yes, we do," she confirmed.

A/N: I'm sorry for the delay but I just returned from an (unplanned) extended weekend spent on the beach. I decided to make chapter only center the events in the baseship so no Lee/Kara. Don't worry, you'll see them next chapter. I hope you send your feedback. Review!