Author's Blurb: Because I'm so cool I've decided I'm going to write one of these things for every episode. This one is set during Colonial Day. Wrote this just now. Since I have all the episodes up 'till this one, you can expect one of these for each episode coming up in the next few week providing I have time. Any ways, I hope you enjoy and feed back would make me feel pretty.
Too Easy.
You march into Baltar's lab the way only you can and tell him the plan. It amuses you that he has no idea what's been going on around him. He's quite the charmer but under all that grease he's still a dweeby little genius with a less than solid grip on reality. You're sarcasm in the midst of his attempts to seduce you never fail to throw him off. You like to toy with him like a cat would a mouse.
You are not looking forward to running security at the summit. There are too many places to be at all at once. Just thinking about it makes you regret letting Apollo rope you into it. Not that you really mind being on the Cloud Nine luxury liner. It's been too long since you've seen the sun. You've forgotten the feeling of it on your skin years ago. Since being transferred to the Galactica you haven't had much reason to go back to Caprica.
You liked it better when it was just the cylons you had to worry about. This is exactly why you don't keep with politics. It makes your life more complicated that it needs to be.
Sometimes it amazes you how easy the universe makes things. How that hose just happened to be there. How Lee just happened to have his back turned so you could pick it up. Just like that you become a kid again. You can be so serious that the CAG will let his guard down. Just in time to have you revert to childhood on him. It's a lesson he can't seem to remember. Oh well. You'll just have to keep teaching him until he learns.
You're watching Zarek like a hawk. You missed last time but it's not something you plan to repeat. Lee let him live for some inexplicable reason. Or at least none he would give you. Now he is extremely on edge. You think maybe he regrets his choice. You hope for his sake he gets a reason to get Zarek.
It's been a while since you've seen the hard ass Captain Adama. It figures that one of the Sagitarians would give you a hard time. They've all decided that no one likes them, which is just helping that to come true.
Although you know Apollo can handle himself it's still your job to get his back. You wish your knee was in better shape but what can you do? You just shove anyone who decides to mess with the Starbuck. So he's taller than you and heavier than you. He doesn't have military training or you're trusty whacking stick.
He's got you on the ground and that's when you see it. Mr. Indecisive pick up a gun and put it back in his briefcase. You have to scramble to your feet despite the searing pain shooting up your leg, bail Lee out and catch him before he does something rash. Once again your lovely cane has come in handy. It's not as much of a nuisance as thought it was.
Good cop, bad cop has got to be one of your favorite games. Arguably, it's more fun in the bedroom but it's just as fun to torture a criminal. Okay, so you don't know for sure if he's a criminal or not. But if he's carrying a gun he's probably used it or planned to.
You get to play good cop for a change. Not that you're very nice. You're just letting Lee rough him up while you frak with his mind. In the back of your mind you wonder why Lee let Zarek get under his skin like this.
You also wonder what changed. You remember Apollo going on about Zarek's book and how it was revolutionary and all that. You remember that he held a certain admiration for the man because of it. Now he just wanted Zarek dead. Being held hostage more than likely has something to do with it. That and just getting to know the man. You figure he didn't turn out to what Lee expected.
Something happened to you, Kara Thrace. You see a dead man and all you can feel is indignant. Frustrated because someone got to him before you could get all the information you needed. What happened to compassion or at least shock? There was a time when you were much more disturbed when you found someone who was alive and you had talked to not long before dead. Not that you let it show much but it was still there. Lee was at least worried about there being a killer on the loose.
You don't see how someone could have done it. Who ever it was must have spent a hell of a lot of time in the vents. It could have been suicide but everyone seems dead set on Tom Zarek being the killer. All be it, he was a terrorist, when did he have time to figure out where the prisoner was being held?
Sometimes you wonder if your relationship with the CAG is a little too comfortable. You go from talking business to him making fun of your hygiene in a fraction of a second. That's not how a typical conversation with the CAG should go. Things aren't as black and white between the two of you because you were friends before he was your CAG. The rummer mill has always been spewing things about you when you had assignment together in the past. Although now you do intend to show him how well you can clean up. Now you just have to figure out where you will find a dress on such short notice.
You certainly did show him. He was completely caught off guard. A flustered Lee is always good for a few laughs. But you aren't going to hold that against him. Which is why you took control of the situation. So you danced with him and it was nice. Really nice. You couldn't help but notice the look of hurt and disappointment on his face when you let Baltar cut in the next song.
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