Chapter Ten
He was furious with himself. Now that the fight had ended, Jessica sensed the depth of Lee's shame over what he had done. She stepped forward and placed a hand on his arm, the simple touch sending shivers through her skin.
"Lee...It wasn't your fault. You save-" Lee cut her off quickly.
"I'm late for my shift." He moved towards the door.
"But, your dad said we still had to see the doctor."
"I'm fine." He snapped. Jessica stiffened at his curt tone.
"Your hands are practically dripping all over my floor." She shot back. His blue eyes flashed in annoyance and he shook off his jacket. Throwing it on the floor he stepped on it and began wiping the few drops of blood.
"Better?" He demanded.
"Lee, You have no reason to feel bad about-"
"Don't!" He snapped. "Don't you frakking tell me what I should or shouldn't feel. Everyone else may be impressed with your party tricks but I'm not."
"God you're an asshole." Jessica seethed. "You'd rather I just lay flat on my back so you're precious morality wouldn't be offended. I'm sorry I even asked for your help." Lee stepped back and closed his eyes.
"That's not what I meant." He assured her. "I'm sorry."
"You know what, Captain Apollo? You can take your apology and blow it out your ear! It is not my fault you're feeling guilty for beating the crap out of that over sized baboon when he completely deserved it." Jessica shouted at him, then her face crumpled and she began to cry. Lee stiffened uncomfortably. Lords, her crying was making him feel even worse. He took a step towards her and she tried to push him backwards.
"Leave me alone!" Jessica mumbled but her words were muffled in his chest as his arms came around her.
"Shhh..." He murmured stroking her hair awkwardly but Jessica didn't care. She unloaded her fear and relief in great hiccuping sobs, clutching his shirt in her hands. Gradually his arms tightened around her and the akwardness was gone. When he heard her sobs ease he spoke again."Are you alright?" Lee asked softly. Jessica nodded and pulled back to look up at him.
"I...yes. I'm okay. Are you?" She asked, taking his hands in hers. He seemed to find this funny and laughed. Jessica joined him until her feelings over what she had narrowly escaped swamped her again and she began to cry again, her head dropping forward on his chest.
"Thank you." She whispered tearfully. His arms squeezed tightly still wrapped around her. "He doesn't take rejection very well." Jessica joked.
"Apparently not." Lee replied with a snort, his anger welling up again.
"Do you think you killed him?" Jessica asked.
"Don't worry about that." Lee said.
"I'm not. Not with you around. You gotta teach me how to hit like that." Jessica said sniffling. Lee gave her a small smile that did funny things to her chest.
"Deal." Lee agreed.
"So, I suppose this means we have to be friends now." Jessica said, burrowing closer to his warm hard body.
"I don't know about that. I mean you did stab me."
"And yet you still beat someone up for me. I think you do like me, Captain Apollo." She murmured.
Lords help him. Feeling her warm breath against his chest was sending his blood rushing to really inconvenient places. He wanted to disengage...really he did, and yet she had a death grip on him.
"Nah." He said hoarsely. "If I liked you, I would have killed him."
Jessica smiled a little remembering his fury at seeing Gary Morgan over her and she shivered as she remembered how close Lee had come to killing the man. For her. The warmth inside of her increased and Jessica leaned up and kissed Lee's cheek.
"I promise I won't stab you anymore." Jessica said. A soft blush rose up in Lee's cheeks and he cleared his throat.
"Oh well, that's certainly a load off my mind." He said chuckling. Jessica sensed his surprise at the small bubbles of laughter inside of him. Lee Adama did not laugh often and Jessica began to feel his unease at letting his guard down especially with someone he wasn't quite sure he trusted.
A soft whisper of sadness curled in her chest. Jessica knew that she should pull away, give Lee some space but she just couldn't make herself mover from the warm firmness of his chest. He's the one. The words came softly but with an iron gripped certainty around her heart that mader her physically start. "Hell no..." She said under her breath pulling back. Images began to attack her, making her tremble with their sharpness.
Lee's mouth on the nape of her neck as they sat in a dark cave, the sunlight peeking from it's mouth and danicing over the skin of his arms as he held her.
Lee holding her hand in his as they stood before Elosha and made vows. Jessica could feel the warmth of the gold band around her finger. "In this life and the next." She read the words out loud that were engraved on the inside of the band.
"What did you say?" Lee asked going very still against her.
"I..." Jessica stammered as her vision began to blur and the images in her mind continued.
Lee's mouth, hot and wet against her stomach. Hot...Lords...felt so hot. The scent of him filled her, different from the soap he used now, as he rose up above her and she accepted him eager, wanting into her body.
"Jess, are you alright?" Lee asked, concerned as she began to sway against him. The sound of his voice penetrated her mind but with different words "I love you...Lords...I love you..."
Then another flash. A baby...THE baby with the beautiful blue eyes. His blue eyes. His baby. "Momma, give me my baby!" Her baby...and Lee's. Jessica jumped and looked up into those matching blue eyes. He was looking down at her. At her mouth.
"Yes..." Jessica said, her mind beginning to spin. "Lee..." Her eyes held his, spellbound and he began to lower his head towards hers. ""You're going to kiss me, aren't you?" She asked. Jessica never heard his answer as everything went black.
