Again the wheels never stop turning and ideas keep on coming
It was dark in his quarters when Laura entered. She was supposed to be having a meeting with Bill, but he was no where to be seen. Well since the lights were out she really couldn't see much of anything. Somehow she sensed the movement behind her and she knew it was Bill. He had been acting strange ever since the return from New Caprica. Laura found that she liked this new change in him. It made her heart race like it never had before when she stood in his quarters. Bill Adama made her feel things that she had never felt before with Adar and that was the big difference that kept her interested in Adama. She gasped when Bill's arms came around her from behind and she had to keep herself from jumping out of fright at the silent way he had come up behind her. Something about tonight seemed different. Usually when Bill wanted a meeting he was going to try and get her to talk about what happened on New Caprica, but tonight something felt different. It was as if he was trying something new in getting her to talk, though something told Laura that he wasn't interested in her talking.
"You came." Bill whispered.
"What made you think I wouldn't? It was you who offered the invitation, was it not?" Laura replied and relaxed into his embrace feeling her world becomes right.
"Something told me that you were in a bad mood." Bill commented and let go of Laura so she could turn around to face him.
"What made you think that?" Laura asked.
"Well you did have a meeting with the Quorum today and they tend to put you in a bad mood."
"What do you suggest to put me in a good mood?" Laura wondered and smiled when she got a look at Adama's rack. There were candles placed around the alcove.
"I hope you would like a massage from your Admiral." Bill whispered close to her ear. She shivered in response. It wasn't like she meant to but he felt so good being so close to her.
"As long as you promise to behave." Laura tossed back and started to remove her suit jacket.
"When have I ever missed behaved?" Bill asked and chuckled when Laura tossed her jacket at him. She slipped off her shoes and sat on the edge of his rack watching him in the candel light. He looked dark and mysterious to her in this light. sme how it suited him. There had always beena darkness to her Admiral that she had never cared to see, but now she did and Laura shivered all over again.
"Where do you want me?" She asked and knew the kind of question it was.
"Be careful in what you ask for. I could take that another way." He said and motioned for her to lie down. Laura rested her cheek against his pillow and in hailed his scent. It felt so good to be near him. That was the only thought that would come to her mind. His fingers dug into her shoulders and immediately some of her tension fled under his constant ministration.
His fingers danced down her spine easing the aches and pains that had cropped up when she dealt with the Quorum. They always had this effect on her and it would always be like this. If she could get rid of one thin as President it would be the stress. With out all the stress she would b e happier President and things in the Fleet would run a lot smoother.
"Ooh right there." Laura moaned in pleasure. It was all the knots being massaged away. Bill pressed a little harder and had Laura moaning again.
"Your back is a mine field of knots." Bill said and applied more pressure making Laura moan again in pleasure as well as pain. He had found one particular knot that had been persistent for the last few days and she hadn't gotten around to asking him to massage it out for her. Knowing Bill like she did Laura knew that he would work it out for her. Of course there would also be a lecture on how hard she was working and sometimes even the President needed to be tended. Laura didn't mind being tended as long as Bill was the one to do the tending. So she would lay here and soak up the feeling of his fingers working over her back. Every nerve in her body came alive with want, but it was a want that would have to be put on the back burner because she had to lead the fleet to Earth and getting involved with Adama right now would cloud her vision. She had to be the one to make the hard decisions. She had to be the cold hearted bitch just to keep the fleet alive. Laura did it so Bill could save face in front of his crew because she knew how important his crew was to him. If she could she would spare him having to lose a single one of them, but Laura didn't have that kind of power. Sometimes she wished she did just so she wouldn't see the hurt in his eyes.
Bill had sensed Laura was no longer concentrating on his fingers loosening her tight muscles so he did something to make her focus on him again. He worked free her shirt and ran his hands up over her naked skin. Laura gasped at the fleeing and turned immediately to face Bill who had a sly smile on his face.
"That was not nice." Laura whispered.
"Who said I had to be. I only offered to make you feel good. It was you who didn't specify how." Bill replied and offered her a wink.
"Oh, that was my oversight." Laura replied and felt all her fears just fly out the open airlock. She wanted Adama. Plain and simple. It was him who fired her blood and made her heart race and her cheeks turn red. Adama made his way into her heart like no other man had. There was nothing that should have endeared him so much to her and yet there was something and she couldn't put her finger on it. She wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him closer. Her lips caressed his and before she could make the kiss deeper and try to fire his blood like he did to her Bill stopped her and pushed her back into the mattress. He had the strangest look on his face. It was like he was warring with himself to take her offer.
"What are you doing?" Bill asked.
"Isn't that obvious? I thought that I was trying to seduce you into bed." Laura replied and sat back up. She ran her right hand through his hair and made a fist trying to bring him back closer to her.
"Laura, no."
"Why not?"
"This isn't the right time. Not like this." Bill said and got up to pace.
"Ok am I missing something here? I thought I heard in not so many words that you wanted me."
"I do want you."
"Then take me." Laura replied sitting at the edge her fingers going to the buttons of her shirt. Bill saw her and came back to still her hands.
"Laura please not like this."
"Then when? Do you intend to make me burn like this?!" Laura shouted and stood up to stalk into the common room.
Bill walked up behind her and wrapped his arms around her waist and for a moment she tensed then relaxed into his arms. "Times right now are turbulent at best. For us to start like this would be bad for not only ourselves but the fleet. Should something happen to the other how would we go on after that?" Bill asked and kissed the side of her temple.
"At least there is nothing wrong with me." Laura whispered and chuckled turning in his arms.
"No there is nothing wrong with you... ever." Bill replied.
Laura backed away and retrieved her shoes where she seated herself on the couch to watch him. When he sat neck to her he took her hand and just sat there. A time would come when they would be ready to be together and be able to survive their relationship and the troubles of the fleet. Now was not that time because they still had the pain of New Caprica between them. Bill knew that some day soon they would be together and that was the hope that he held on to.