When they were all fully rested, Anders suggested they commandeer a vehicle to take them as far into the woods as they could manage before they made the rest of the distance on foot. Kara volunteered the off-road car-turned-tank she had stowed away in the garage of her apartment complex. Sue-Shaun added that she could probably hotwire a few of the cars on the streets that had made it through the Cylon offensive relatively unscathed.

Kara was none too happy when Anders insisted that he ride in the car with her, but she got some relief when Lee and Helo in turn insisted that they come along, too. At least with those two men with her, she knew she wouldn't be allowed to kill that pyramid bastard when he started taunting her about what had gone on the day before.

When the terrain got too rough, Anders figured it was time to check their maps and stow the cars where the Cylons wouldn't see them. The team was only standing around for a few minutes before Kara got bored and started picking at the weak points in the plan. Lee found himself glad that she was being so difficult. It meant that whatever had been bothering her so much that she couldn't sleep the day before had been worked through it. Some demons had been fought and beaten while they were trying to find a way to keep moving forward.

Kara was just making some snide remark about how Anders could totally be leading them into the woods just to kill them when the man being tormented twisted his body to turn and glare at her. "Would you just shut up? I'm doing my best to get you off this planet, and all I get in return is your bitchy comments. It's insulting."

"Hey!" Kara yelled, obviously offended. "I'm not the one that insists upon being so secretive. Where the hell is this base anyway?"

"I told you before that there's a Cylon base about two miles south and one mile east from where we are right now. It isn't patrolled heavily so you should be able to sneak inside and take one of their ships without much trouble. I'm trying to help here."

"But you never explained why if you knew about this base, you never went in and took a ship yourself."

"Does it look like we have a pilot?" Anders glared.

"If I were you and stuck on Caprica after a nuclear holocaust, that wouldn't matter," Lee said, stepping up to the side of the car that Anders and Kara had chosen to fight on. "I'd still try."

"Stay out of this, flyboy," Anders hissed, still glaring at the woman next to him.

Kara ground her teeth together for a moment to try to get her temper in check. Didn't he realize Lee was trying to protect him? It really pissed her off when people took cheap shots at Lee, even though she knew it was probably something they learned from watching her. It didn't matter. Only she was allowed to ruffle Lee's feathers. She continued to grind her teeth as she clenched her hands into fists to keep them from moving on their own.

When the rage didn't seem to dissipate, she just pulled her right fist back and connected with Ander's jaw as hard as she could manage. He went flying to the ground with a satisfying thud.

"Maybe you should be a little more respectful to the man who's going to fly you out of this shithole," she spit down at him.

Anders simply glared up at her. "Is this your subtle way of saying you have more tension you need me to work off for you, Starbuck? I mean, last time you tried to hit with me…"

Her face went pale at the fact that this man had the balls to bring that up while they were surrounded by other people. Obviously, he had no qualms about admitting that a girl had been picturing another guy while he was getting her off. She wouldn't have guessed that about him. "My tension levels are fine at the moment."

Anders pulled himself up off the ground, and after glancing quickly at where Lee stood beside them, whispered, "Don't want a quickie against a tree then? I promise I would do my best to keep the bark from cutting into your skin."

As soon as Lee heard those words, he knew there was going to be trouble. Thinking on instinct, he grabbed Kara by the elbow and dragged her to his side before she could start swinging again. "That's enough out of the two of you. We need to stop fighting each other if we're going to find a ship that will take us off Caprica. Whatever is going on between you two needs to be checked at the door right this minute."

Kara glared at both men before stalking over to where Helo was trying to read the map.

"Sorry about that," Anders said as soon as Kara was out of earshot.

"No problem," Lee said with a laugh. "I've known Starbuck for years. That's just the way she is. It has nothing to do with you."

"What made her like that?"

Lee turned to look at the man beside him. He looked like he honestly wanted to know more about what made Kara Kara. But in all honesty, Lee didn't have the right to tell Anders all she had gone through in her life. He would never betray Kara by throwing around the notions of child abuse, inadvertent murder, and bone-crushing guilt. "She's complicated."

Ander's mind shot back to the events on and off the pyramid court the day before. "Tell me about it." He sighed and shook his head. "She's one hell of a woman, though."

"Yes, she is," Lee replied, nodding slightly. "But she's one you're not even going to think about touching again."

Ander's face lit up in confusion as he turned to look at Lee. "What?"

"She is not available for you to constantly play your little mind frak games with."

"Seems to me like she liked it," Anders said, crossing his arms in front of him.

Lee gave him a small smile. "Listen. I know your type. And to be honest, you're exactly the kind of guy she used to go crazy for. The one that was such an ass that it didn't hurt her when the feelings didn't grow beyond a casual frak here and there. She thrived on it."

"That's an odd way to talk about your friend."

"She's a hell of a lot more than my friend," Lee said, turning to watch her as she argued loudly with Helo. "Which is why I'm not going to shoot you right on the spot."

"What's with the hostility?"

"I'm going to tell you this only once. Stay the frak away from her. She doesn't want what you keep offering."

"She seemed to want it yesterday," Anders said with a laugh as he narrowed his eyes. "I had her up against a wall begging for more."

Lee nodded slowly, still watching Kara for a moment. Then he turned to look at Anders once more. "You don't have a chance with her."

"And what makes you so sure?"

"My call sign is Apollo."

"So you think you're some all-knowing god who can tell me what that woman wants and doesn't want?"

"No," Lee said, staring at him intently. "I was just pointing out that you don't know my real name yet."

Anders shrugged his shoulders and gave Lee a so-what look. Lee rolled his eyes and turned his attention back to Kara as her little fight began to escalate. He really couldn't take her anywhere.

"It's Lee Adama, you fraking moron," he finally said with a small laugh. And then, without another glance in Ander's direction to see how he had taken this news, Lee walked over to try to keep Helo and Kara from killing one another.

Kara had just noticed Lee coming over towards them when the shots began to ring through the air. She grabbed her gun in her hand and turned to gauge the direction the bullets were coming from. She heard Anders yell something about needing to retreat into the woods, and then her world got a little blurry.

Lee pulled out his gun and dropped to the ground in time to dodge the few bullets that had come his way. He saw Helo straight ahead next to Kara, firing into the trees while backing up slowly. Why the frak wasn't Kara firing, too? Why wasn't she moving?

Kara watched in amazement as everyone around her started firing while they backed into the woods. She couldn't understand why it seemed like this was a scene from some war movie on television instead of something she was involved in. Everyone was moving incredibly slow and detached. She felt a small pang in her side and reached down to press it lightly. Her hand came back up red.

Lee saw Kara reach down to touch her side while Helo started running back into the woods with the rest of their group. He couldn't figure out why she was just standing there until he saw her hand come back up covered in blood. "Kara!" he screamed, pulling himself up off the ground and running towards her.

The last thing Kara remembered was hearing someone yell her name before her eyes rolled slowly into the back of her head and her body hit the floor.