Prompt: Tom Mason - "This job, it's twenty-five hours a day, eight days a week. I didn't realize the toll it was taking on us." -'Falling Skies'
As he said the words, the words that would publicly denounce his father's actions, Lee realized how wrong this was. Yes, it might help their cause, but this was going a step too far. He might not have disagreed with the way his father had chosen to take down the president, and he sure hadn't agreed with Tigh's ill conceive declaration of martial law, but this was a step too far. His actions had without a doubt alienated him further from his father, but to do this would be crossing the point of no return.
It was a step that Lee was not prepared to take.
Yes they needed to get some of the other ships in the fleet to follow them back to Kobol. To support the actions they were taken in the name of democracy. He was prepared to support that effort in almost any way. He had once again committed mutiny, had gotten crew members to help him, but those actions had been prompted by Tigh's orders - not his father's.
He would support Roslin's efforts, but he would not publicly denounce his father to further their cause. They would simply have to find another way. Rebellion might be a twenty-five hours, eight day a week effort but he wasn't about to let it push him into doing something he would regret for the rest of his life.
No, he didn't always see eye-to-eye with his father. He doubted that any son honest with themselves could claim that, but he did love and respect his father. Yes, his actions would get out but he wasn't going to wave that defiance like a flag. He still clung to the hope that one day, once things had settled down, that he and his father might be able to reconcile. That his father would understand that this wasn't about the two of them, but about Lee supporting a cause that he believed in.
Reaching out he pressed the stop button and opened the recorder. He wouldn't sacrifice anything else to this cause. Family, even one as frakked up as his, wasn't worth that price.