When they stepped off the Raider, Lee and Kara realized almost immediately how much they had missed in the week or so they had been gone. They had expected to have pandemonium on their hands when they took their copy of Boomer off the ship and exposed her as a Cylon to the whole Fleet. It turned out not to be necessary.
One day after they had left, Galactica's Boomer had shot Commander Adama. He had almost died four times before Doc Cottle managed to keep him stable.
There was a small group of pilots stuck down on the surface of Kobol. They had been shot down while doing a standard fly-by of the area the President believed the Tomb of Athena to be in. Kara found herself incredibly scared for them. She knew from the Scriptures that every return to Kobol exacts a price in blood. It didn't help that the people currently stranded on Kobol included Racetrack, Cally, and the Chief. All three of them were people she had let in past her walls over the years.
On a happier note, though, Adama had returned to power only hours before the Heavy Raider had landed. He was there in the hangar deck to greet them along with the President.
All possible thoughts that the Old Man might be mad at her were wiped away as the look of concern washed over his face. Kara figured it wasn't every day he saw his only son carry Galactica's most stubborn pilot off of an enemy ship. Adama hobbled over to where Lee stood with her securely in his arms and reached up to touch her cheek gently. "Don't ever do that again. Do you understand me?"
"Yes, sir," she said, dropping her head.
"I don't ever want to think I've lost both of my children in one fatal swoop."
That was all the words of comfort she got to hear because Helo chose that moment to lead Sharon off the ship and all hell broke loose.
The next thing Kara knew, Lee had thrown her down on top of a nearby cargo box and was using his strength to now hold up his father after the shock of seeing his would-be assassin. Then someone accidentally knocked into her hard and the pain from her gunshot wound consumed her whole body. Immediately, she felt her vision go black as she slid to the floor.
