Claudette Colbert said: Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy - the mother

Laura crept into the life station where she found Lee dozing in the chair with the baby in his arms and Kara asleep in the bed. Laura turned to leave again.

"You can stay if you want to." Kara told her.

"Sorry I didn't mean to wake you." Laura apologised.

"I wasn't asleep."

"I just thought I'd come and offer my congratulations and sneak a peak."

"Lee might let you hold her when he wakes up." Kara offered.

"Might?" Laura questioned.

"It seems I only get to hold her when she's hungry. He's a little possessive."

"Just tell him you want to hold her, I'm sure he'll oblige."

"So is there anything I should be congratulating you on?" Kara inquired.

Laura realised Kara had some idea what was going on.

"It's still in the hypothetical discussion stage." Laura replied.

"Adama men are stubborn, when they decide what they want they don't stop until they get it. But they're worth it."

"I'll bear that in mind." Laura walked over to get a closer look at the baby. "She looks like you, but she has Adama eyes."

"I noticed." Kara smiled softly.

"Caroline is a big name for such a little girl."

"Carrie is fine." Kara told her. "You're going to be the closet thing she has to a grandmother whether you marry the Admiral or not. They're a pretty inclusive family, once you're part of it you're stuck with them for life."

"That's not a bad position to be in." Laura smiled.

Caroline started to stir in her father's arms causing Lee to wake up.

"Hey." Lee said. "I'm supposed to say thank you."

"For what?" Laura inquired.

"Today. Everything."

"It's not necessary, but you're welcome." Laura told him.

"Let her hold her granddaughter Lee." Kara instructed. Lee gave her a look. "If the Old Man can decide I'm family the first day he met me then I can make Laura Carrie's grandmother."

Lee carefully settled the baby in Roslin's arms.

"She is beautiful."

"How are you?" Lee asked Kara.

"Hungry." Kara replied. "Go do the hunter-gather thing and find me some food. Clothes would be good too, mine got wrecked and something slightly smaller would be good as I don't have an eight pound baby in me anymore."

Lee looked at Caroline.

"She'll be fine we won't drop her." Kara assured him.

Lee reluctantly left.

"He's going to drive me crazy. She's going to have both of them wound round her little finger." Kara shook her head and sighed.

"Give him a few days and then knocked him upside the head and tell him he has a Battlestar to command."

"Should former Presidents be advocating violence?" Kara asked.

"He's military he's come to expect violence. She is really beautiful."

"As long as I don't frak her up."

"She'll be fine." Laura assured her. "She's perfect."

"She's also going to start screaming soon because she's hungry. She's been doing it on and off since she was born."

"Babies need to eat."

"I know." Kara's stomach rumbled. "So do mothers."

"Lee won't be long."

Laura settled into the chair holding the baby.

"Bill guessed that you were going to name her Caroline." Laura told Kara.

"He always did know me well."

"He mentioned Lee was a little surprised."

"Caroline seemed appropriate. Caroline Adama was a tough woman; the Admiral was away most of the time Lee and Zak so she raised them herself. I think they only got divorced because once they were teenagers she didn't want to sit home alone. She hated the fact that Lee and Zak followed their father into the military but I remember her being there the day Lee graduated."

"Bill doesn't speak of her."

"Neither of them do." Caroline wailed. "I think she's hungry."

TBC