Spoilers/Disclaimers: The Farm and Home part 1 / I don't own the
characters or the show… I don't make money off of them... If I did, I
wouldn't have all the school loans… Thanks to Tina for being my beta…
you rule!
A/N:
In this part, there is discussion about abortions. I did research on
the internet and a friend who knows some about medical information
helped me with the information.
Kara was walking down the hallway towards Lee's office. She needed to be somewhere quiet, and she knew that he wouldn't care if she was there.
She walked into his office, thinking that Lee was on duty. The site that she walked in on brought a smile to her face. Lee was lying on the couch, with his arm over his eyes. His boots were at the end of the couch, so she guessed that he took them off before he had laid down. His suit jacket was thrown over one of the visitor chairs. She shook her head at him and sat down at his desk.
Kara was getting bored. She wasn't allowed to do anything until the doctor cleared her. She had to meet with him in 2 hours to go over her test results. But until then, she needed something to occupy her time. She looked at the paperwork that was spread out on the desk, picking up the closest thing to her and started working on it.
An hour and half later Lee woke up to the sound of someone working at his desk. He knew that he should be worried about who was there, but he wasn't. Lee knew that Kara was there without even looking up to see her. He sat up and put his boots back on before going over to sit in the visitor's chair.
"So how did your appointment go with Doc. Cottle?"
Kara looked up at him with a small smile on her face.
"It went fine. I have to be back down there in a half an hour to get the results of all the tests."
"Ahhh," Lee nodded his head, "Well I'm sure that everything is fine. And you'll be back on the flight list very soon."
"I guess." Kara looked down at the piece of paper that was in her hand.
Lee immediately could tell something was bothering her. He got up, walked around the desk, sat down on the desk next to her left arm and took her hand in his.
"What's wrong Kara? I'm sure that everything will be fine."
Kara looked up into Lee's eyes. "Lee I have a bad feeling about this. Something is wrong. I don't know what it is, but I can feel it."
Lee brushed a piece of hair out of her face, "Kara no matter what happens I will be by your side, supporting you. Just remember that, ok?"
"Yeah."
"Ok." Lee went to get up, but Kara put her hand on his leg, stopping him from getting up.
"Will you come with me? I mean, if you don't have anything else to do, and what not."
"Of course I will come with you if you want me to. I have no problem with that. Now we better get going if we are going to be on time for this appointment of yours."
Lee got off of the desk, went grabbed his jacket and put it on. Kara got up from the desk and met Lee. The two left Lee's office and headed down to the life station.
Doc. Cottle raised his head when he heard two people walking into his office. He should have been surprised when he saw Lee walk in with Kara, but he wasn't. In a way, he was glad that Lee had come with her. The doctor knew that what he had to tell her was going to be hard to take in.
"Lt., Captain. Please have a seat."
Lee and Kara sat down on the bench in front of the desk.
"Lt. Thrace, all of your blood work came back fine. There were no signs of anything that would have been put into your blood."
"Well that's good to know."
"Yeah, but I found some tissue scaring around the second scar. I really don't want to tell you this, but the second scar is consistent with surgery to abort a fetus. Where you aware that you were pregnant recently?"
Kara didn't know what to say to the doctor. This was all too much for her to take in at one time. Her mind was spinning while she was trying to figure out how this could happen, when all of a sudden she felt Lee take her hand into his. She looked over at him and saw his support written all over his face. She turned back to the doctor.
"Hmm no. I've had sex with two different guys recently, but I'm on birth control, so…"
"Ok. The birth control works almost all the time, but there is a .1 chance of it not working. The one thing that is bugging me is the timing of all of this. Abortions are usually performed within the first 1 ½ months of the pregnancy. This is going to be a tough question, but I need an answer. Now do you think that either of the two guys could have been humanoid cylon models?"
Kara tired her best to prevent her mouth from dropping wide open. She didn't know what to say. She was pretty sure that Baltar wasn't since he is the Vice-President of the colonies and they would have made sure before letting him take the position. But Anders was a different story. Now that she thought about it. It did seem weird that a pyramid team would be doing high altitude training. Also, the cylon doctor, Simon, knew his name but not hers; even though the doctor originally told her that he took her into the hospital. Kara was pulled out of her off her thoughts by Lee squeezing the hand that he held in his.
"Well, truthfully, now that you ask, maybe. The second guy, why?"
"Well the only thing that I can think of is that the rate of which the embryo grows is 30 ½ times faster than a human one does. I read your report, Lt. About the farms that the cylons have. The way I see it is that they were trying different ways to re-populate, so they tried getting a human woman pregnant without the use of medical technology. Now I don't know what happened, but I would guess something happened that they didn't expect or want."
While Cottle was talking about this, he started to worry about Starbuck. She started to go really pale and looked like she was gripping Apollo's hand a bit too hard.
"Well, I want to say that from the medical side, you seem fine. I am going to keep you out of the flight rotation for about a week, until you are fully healed from the gun shot wound. Now you shouldn't push yourself too hard and I would say no sex for about a month. Do you have any questions?"
Kara just shook her head no. All she really wanted to do was get out of the office and go break down. But she knew that no matter where she went Lee would be with her, a thought that didn't bother her as much as she expected it to.
"Now I'm not making you do this, but we have people here just in case you need talk to someone, ok?"
"Yeah."
"Ok, I'll see you in about a week then."
The doctor got up, so Lee and Kara took that as a sign to get up and leave also. Once they hit the door, Lee tried to drop Kara's hand. Knowing that she would probably didn't want to be walking the ship like that. But Kara had other ideas. She wouldn't let go of his hand. Kara didn't think that she could make it back to his office without his support. Lee seems to understand because he entwined their finger together and gave hers a quick squeeze before leading them out of the life station.
