Disclaimer: Not Mine

Title: The One Where The Unexpected Happens

Pairing: Laura/Lee

Rating: PG13

Spoilers: For arguments sake this took place about six months after 'Water' but as I've only scene 'Bastille Day' after that everything else is mine.

Author's Note: There is some artistic lisence in here because we don't know much about anyone's past and the show only just began. Thanks to everyone for responding so favorably to my series. Feedback is welcome…in fact it is demanded

Laura Roslin, President of the Twelve Colonies sat staring at the man before her as if he were an apparition that she couldn't quite believe she even saw. After an extended amount of silence the man before her cleared his throat.

"Uh ma'am are you going to say something…anything…please?"

Laura didn't really know what to say or do for that matter. Doctor Connell watched the women before him try to absorb the news that he'd just told her. She didn't seem to be taking it very well. It was perfectly understandable because this news was life changing.

"I thought the tests might be wrong so I ran them again…and then twice more after that."

Her eyes shifted to the doctor, which showed she was halfway paying attention at least.

"The test results are indisputable."

"How…" Laura started, "How…did my cancer just disappear?"(AN: That's not what you were thinking was up with her, was it?:)

Connell scratched the side of his neck, "I'm not really sure. One day you had it…the next day you didn't."

"You understand why I'm having such a hard time with this?"

Connell nodded his head vigorously, "I am too."

"I would think so."

"Have you done anything different lately?"

"Like what? Have I come across a magic spring or healing powers or…"

"Anything out of the ordinary," Connell interrupted

Laura sighed, "Not that I know of."

Connell was nodding his head while she was talking, "Then I don't know."

That was certainly an odd statement for a doctor to be making.

"Okay," Laura remarked slowly, "What do we do now?"

Connell shrugged, "The cancer is gone. We should be happy for that."

"I understand that doctor and believe me I am happy, but don't you want to find out why it just up and disappeared?"

"Of course. We will have to do the works on you."

Laura took in a breath and slowly let it go, "I'd expect nothing less doctor."

Walking aimlessly through the corridors, Laura was still trying to wrap her mind around the prospect that she was going to live, that she wasn't going to die. Of course, she was happy at the prospect of not dying, but she had resigned herself to that fact. The prospect of sudden vitality was going to have to be something she would have to get used to.

Looking up Laura found herself on the pilots deck and was in fact standing in front of Lee's private room that he got as head of CAG. Knocking she waited to be called in.

"Laura what are you doing here," Lee asked with a wide smile upon seeing her

"This is where my feet took me," she commented shutting the door.

Lee hugged her tightly and kissed her on the nose.

"What's the matter?"

Laura smiled at how well he new her.

"I just came back from the seeing the doctor," Laura commented pulling away from Lee and sitting in a chair

Lee sat on the bed and looked over at Laura. She was always a little weird when she came back from these doctor's visits but somehow she seemed different. It had him a little worried.

"I had some interesting news."

"Do tell," Lee asked hoping his voice didn't quiver

"My cancer is gone."

It took a moment for this statement to register in Lee's brain and when it did he stood up and went over to Laura. He swept in a grabbed her in a hug swinging her around.

"Oh my god that I completely amazing," he exclaimed excitedly upon putting her down

"Lee you don't understand."

Lee pulled away from her, "What?"

"I didn't even start chemo or anything. When I say that the cancer is gone I don't mean in remission. I mean that it is completely gone."

Sitting down Lee frowned at this as Laura sat back down as well.

"Completely gone?"

"Disappeared altogether."

"Does the doc know why?"

Laura shook her head, "He doesn't know. He ran every test he could possibly think of on me but so far we've come back with nothing."

"Should we be looking this gift horse in the mouth?"

Laura smiled at the 'we' comment, "Well no, but I want to know why."

"As do I but for now can we celebrate the fact that you are going to be here for a good long time."

"Barring and Cylon attacks or some unforeseen event right?"

Lee glared at her but grinned to soften it.

"Come let's go for a walk," Laura remarked getting up, "I have a lot of pent up energy all of a sudden."

Lee waggled his eyebrows at her, "I can think of other ways that you can use up that energy than a walk."

Laura laughed at him, "I know that Lee but I want to go on a walk."

Shrugging Lee stood up and together they left his quarters and started to walk around the ship. They walked in comfortable silence while they walked aimlessly.

"Laura?"

"Yeah?"

Lee hesitated, "Now with the prospect of you living what are you going to do now?"

Laura knew what Lee was trying to say to her, "Stay out the rest of my Presidency I guess. I don't really know what I'm going to do after my term is over but…"

"That's not what I meant."

Laura sighed softly, "I know. You want to know how I feel about you and I now that I'm going to live for there to be a you and I. Right?"

Lee was nodding as she spoke.

"In truth I haven't really had all that much time to think about it. I came to your rooms straight from the doctor and had to tell you."

"I see."

Laura stopped walking andLee stopped to face her.

"It doesn't mean that I won't and that I haven't been going over it while we were walking."

"What have you come up with?"

Laura smiled, "I can imagine a life with you."

Lee smiled brightly, "So can I?"

Smiling again they both continued walking throughout the ship but this time with lighter and happier hearts.

"You wanted to see me," Laura remarked taking a seat in the office of doctor Connell

"I have the results of those tests I ran on you yesterday."

"That was fast."

Connell was nodding, "I haven't slept."

"I can tell."

Connell grinned, "Thank you," was remarked sarcastically

"What did you discover?"

"Well before I get to that I want to say that I wanted to see if there were anyone else that had a terminal and/or chronic disease or just an ailment that bother them whose ailment has suddenly disappeared."

"What did you find?"

"I ran these tests on the people of Galactica only and I discovered that on everyone their diseases or ailments vanished."

That was certainly interesting.

"Vanished?"

"Yes. Completely vanished."

Laura leaned forward, "Do you know why yet?"

"Well I had to try and think if there was anything out of the ordinary that we've come into contact with in the last few months. After racking my brain for a good five hours or so the answer came quite by accident."

Laura raised her eyebrows in an indication for him to continue. Instead of speaking he poured a glass of water from a pitcher and handed it to her. Taking it Laura still looked at him expectantly.

"There in your hand is the key or cure I should say."

Laura looked at the glass of water in her hand, "Water?"

"From that planet where we had to dig into the ice caps to get to the water yes."

"So this water has healing powers," Laura asked still not completely understanding

"Yes."

Laura scratched the side of her neck, "Explain."

"This water is amazing. It has a crystalline structure that seems to have regenerative properties."

"I see. Why didn't we figure this out when we did all of those tests on the water months ago?"

Connell shrugged his shoulders, "We weren't testing for healing powers."

True.

"I have a question?"

"Go ahead."

"If we were ever to stop drinking this water would our ailments come back?"

"No, once whatever it is, is gone, it's gone."

Laura was nodding her head, "We've got to tell the Commander."

"Right, I was hoping that you could do that alone."

"Why?"

"The Commander and I have been having a disagreement of late about certain things and I don't really want to talk to him until it is all settled."

"In all due respect isn't that a little childish doctor?"

"Yes, but he started it."

"Do you mind telling me what it's about? Maybe I can help."

"It's about you."

Laura straightened in her chair, "Me?"

"And the young Captain Apollo."

"What possibly could the Commander and you be arguing over where the Captain and I are concerned?"

"He wants to know certain things and I refuse to tell him these certain things and thus the fighting."

"He wants to know if Lee and I have been intimate?"

"Right. He knows that you've spent a lot of time together and that you are extremely attracted to each other but doesn't know the whole… thing."

"Why doesn't he just ask us?"

Another shrug from the doctor, "That I don't know."

Laura sighed, "I will go and tell the Commander this happy news but I am also going to fix things for the two of you."

Doctor Major Connell smiled brightly, "Thank you ma'am."

Laura did something very un-Presidential and rolled her eyes at the man before her. After having that rather enlightening conversation with the doctor Laura went to her office and sank down into her chair.

"Billy!" she hollered

He opened the door and peeked his head in, "I need for you to set up a meeting with Commander Adama and as soon as possible," se commented trying to circumvent Billy's next question

"Yes ma'am."

Laura sank into her chair with a sigh. She'd had a lot of information to process in the last couple of days. The process of no cancer, living, Lee's love for her and the declaration of wanting her in his life and finally the healing powers of the water. Big stuff.

"The commander has time now," Billy commented popping his head into her office

"Now?"

"Yes ma'am."

Laura shrugged, "Okay."

"Are you okay ma'am?"

Laura looked up at Billy from this question. She hadn't told him the good news yet and he deserved to know the truth, for he had been very good to her.

"Billy sit."

"But you're meeting with…"

"Can wait. Sit."

He sat.

"My cancer is gone."

Billy blinked at her, "Gone?"

Laura nodded her head, "I was healed."

"But you didn't even…"

"Start chemo or anything I know. The water we got from those ice caps many months ago has…healing capabilities."

"Healing capabilities?"

"Yes."

"That means anyone drinking the water would be healed from whatever they had bothering them?"

"That's what it means yes."

"What about infertility?"

Laura raised an eyebrow, "I would think so. If cancer can be eradicated I would think infertility could be reversed."

Laura watched as Billy paled in front of her.

"Oh frak," he exclaimed

"What!"

"Neither I nor D have been on suppressors for many months."

That was certainly interesting. With the power of a two-by-four to the back of the head the enormity of the situation came and slapped Laura across the face.

"Oh my God," she stuttered

"Yeah I know. D is so going to kill me if…"

"Billy!"

He stopped talking to look up and see a bewildered look on Laura's face."

"No one is on suppressors. We ran out several months ago remember?"

"Oh yeah."

"Do you know how many people are infertile," she asked trying to get him to see her point

For a moment he was getting what she was trying to say and then, that too, dawned on him, "The Malrose Flu."

He was referring to the strain of flu that spread rampant throughout the colonies before they could get a handle on it. Thousands upon hundreds of thousands of people were stricken with it. It never proved to be fatal, but a side effect to the Malrose Flu was that anyone who had it became utterly infertile.

Laura pressed on, "A good percentage of the population we still have is infertile."

"Including you?"

"Including…me," Laura remarked trailing off

Before she could ruminate further on that she heard, "Roslin!"

Looking up she saw Adama storming toward her.

"I know you take great delight in making me wait but I do have things to do!"

Laura stood, "You're going to have to wait a little longer. We'll have to reschedule this little meeting for another time. I have something very important to attend to."

"I say we talk now."

Laura knew by his stance, that he wasn't going to budge.

"Fine. Walk with me then and we'll talk on the way. I'll be back Billy and we'll continue that discussion that we were having," she remarked turning to her aid

Billy stood up at being addressed, "Yes ma'am."

"And go to talk to D will you?"

"Yes ma'am.

With that Laura swept out of her office with Adama trailing to catch up. Once they hit the corridor he did catch up with her.

"What's going on?"

"Long story sort our water has healing powers."

Adama snorted in amusement, "Yeah sure healing powers."

"Healing powers," she affirmed

"You know this how?"

"My cancer is gone."

"Really?"

"Really."

"That's utterly amazing."

Laura really couldn't tell if he was being sincere or sarcastic.

"Have you noticed that the pain in your knees is gone?"

"How did you know about that?"

Laura raised an eyebrow, "You're not the only one who gets to read medical files."

"Yes the pain has gone but it's from that new ointment the Major gave me."

Laura shook her head, "Healing powers."

Adama was trying to grasp this concept; "You're telling me that everyone drinking the water is healed of whatever ails them, from arthritis to cancer?"

"That's what I'm saying."

"The Major told you this?"

"Yes, his research was originally to find out how my cancer up and disappeared but this is what he found."

"Why didn't he tell me this himself."

"He's upset with you for trying to get him to break a doctor-patient confidentiality rule. No matter how well intentioned it was still wrong."

Adama stopped in his track, "He told you that?"

Laura stopped and turned to Adama, "Yes he did tell me that. If you wanted to know something like that you should have gone to the source."

"Would you or Lee have told me?"

"No, but you could still could have asked," she remarked starting to walk again

This is when Adama noticed they were heading toward the infirmary. He went and caught up to Laura.

"Why are we going to the infirmary?"

"I have to talk to the doctor about something and your are going to apologize the nice man for trying to compromise his ethics."

"I will do no such thing!"

"Come now Commander weren't you the one who said we had to set a high set of standards for to live up to?"

He glowered at her.

"Whatever would they think if you, the Commander, don't even live up to your own rules?"

"I really don't like you sometimes."

"Likewise Commander, likewise."

"I will apologize to the 'nice man' as you say."

Laura put a hand over her heart, "Oh thank you I shall be forever grateful," she declared sarcastically

Adama shook his head, but couldn't help but smile.

"The prospect of living is making me slightly giddy okay," Laura remarked defending herself

"Did I say anything?"

"You were thinking it?"

"Is the water making us telepathic now too."

"Shut up."

I shall end it there. Stay tuned to find out what Laura has to discuss with the doctor (like you don't know that) And no nothing is up between Laura and Adama. I thought I'd add a moment of civility and no Laura isn't with child as it were.