Betrayed Trust
By AmandaC VRyan
Pairing: Roslin/Adama. Laura's P.O.V.
Summary: Trust is a Fragile thing once lost its hard to get it back
Spoilers: Kobol's Last Gleaming Parts One and Two.
DISCLAIMER
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA DOESN'T BELONG TO US WE ARE JUST BORROWING THE CHARACTERS FOR AWHILE
Chapter One
Laura paced her cell she was mad as hell. The cheek of the bastard locking her up for doing her job. Arrogant pig of a man. Ok she had to acknowledge her behaviour was less than perfect she had coerced Starbuck into going to Caprica to get the Arrow of Apollo. It's not like she had held a gun to Starbuck's head in order to get her to do it. No it had been much simpler than that. The President merely told Kara that The Commander had lied and didn't in fact have a clue where Earth was and that she was the only hope they all had of finding it. Kara had acted on her own volition her actions were her responsibility not Laura's.
Adama's response to this had been extremely decisive, he had ordered troops over to Colonial One and arrested The President. Laura could have put up a fight but she knew she would have serious problems living with herself if there had been a bloodbath assuming of course she survived it. Instead here she was pacing her cell not feeling guilty about doing what she felt was a necessary step but feeling anger the likes of which she could never remember feeling before. That was the William Adama effect, he had the ability to bring out the most extreme of emotions in her and there wasn't a damn thing she could do about it.
About an hour later Laura was informed that Boomer had shot Adama in the chest and that he was at that time in the infirmary fighting for his life.
Arrogant bastard yes, pain in the ass, most definitely, no argument would ever be offered to countermand that opinion. But despite his innate ability to piss her off she had a smidgeon of respect for the man and almost found herself hoping he would recover from his injuries if only because arguing with the man reminded her that she was still alive despite her cancer.
Laura knew that if by some miracle she got out of this mess she found herself in. The relationship with him would be strained assuming he survives of course otherwise she would be dealing with Tighe, in all fairness she didn't want to go there, from the frying pan into the fire.
It was Tigh who finally approached her cell.
"Colonel"
"Madam President", as he spoke he unlocked her cell and ushered her towards the exit.
"How's Adama, I hear he's been shot".
"In the infirmary took two blasts to the chest. The Doc is operating on him at the moment."
"Who shot him?"
"Boomer, turns out she's a Cylon agent".
"I thought Baltar tested her".
"I don't know whether he did or not Madam President."
"When he wakes up he'll be pretty mad at you for giving me a get out of jail free pass".
"I'll worry about that Madam President. Your shuttle is prepped and ready to take you back to Colonial One."
"Not yet Colonel, take me back to my quarters here on Galactica please."
"I don't' think it's a good idea for you to be within firing range when the old man wakes up."
"Why bother to release me at all Colonel".
"Because Captain Adama is right we don't want a bloody war between the civilian fleet and the military. The old man will see it that way when he calms down".
"Let's hope your right Colonel."
Tighe was almost as strangely odd as Baltar but without the multiple personality disorder. He didn't, thankfully spend half of his time talking to someone only he could see. Laura didn't trust the man one little bit. Prior to current events she was starting to trust Adama but now she was beginning to realize that he was only keeping her sweet to avoid problems with the civilian population. He never respected or even recognized her position as president, all the hard work she had put into getting the fleet back on its feet was unnoticed and worse yet unappreciated.
