TITLE: Destiny

AUTHOR: DramaLexy

DISCLAIMER: me no own, you no sue

SUMMARY: Is there really such a thing as fate? Kara/Lee pairing

DISTRIBUTION: sure, if you want it, just let me know where so I can come and visit

AUTHOR'S NOTES: Okay, my third attempt at a BSG fic; hopefully I'm getting better at them. I'm making up a lot of the pre-series history as I go along; don't take it for scripture.

This is set after episode 8, so anything before that is fair game as far as spoilers. I couldn't resist checking out spoilers for the rest of the season, but I'm doing my very, very best to steer clear of anything related to episodes 9 to 13 in this story, so if you haven't seen them, I won't ruin anything.

What else…thoughts are in italics. And I love feedback. I've tried to incorporate any constructive criticisms that I've received in reviews for my previous stories. Let me know if it's working.

"Do you believe in destiny?"

Lee Adama looked up from his plate, a fork halfway to his mouth. "That's pretty heavy stuff for dinner conversation, don't you think?"

Kara Thrace shrugged, sitting across from him at a table in the officer's mess on Galactica. "It's not like the food is actually edible," she pointed out as she pushed an unidentifiable glob of something that was supposed be a vegetable across her plate.

Lee put down his fork, sitting back to look at her. "Destiny? As in there's a prewritten plan that we all have no choice but to follow?"

"Yeah. Do you think it exists?"

"Not a chance. There's no way that any kind of higher power would pre-plan the slaughter of 99.9999 percent of the human race."

"At least not the higher powers we pray to," Kara muttered. That comment earned her another curious look.

"Why?" Lee asked. "What's the matter?"

"Nothing," she finally replied. "Forget I said anything. You want the rest of this?" She offered her plate.

"Just eat it. You don't want to end up in the Life Station again, do you?" A smile crossed his face as Kara began forcing herself to eat. She definitely wasn't going back to the Life Station.

TBC…