Word Count: 2,407 Date: 10/09/05 Series: Season 2 Rating: K + Category: general Pairing/Focus: Lee/Kara Warnings: Spoilers for eps 2x05 (The Farm) and 2x06 (Home part 1) Summary: Lee and Kara talk about their time apart 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!
Lee was glad that not a lot of people were in the hallways. He knew that Kara wouldn't want a lot of people seeing her this way. But then he wasn't even sure if she knew what was going around her. He wasn't even paying attention to what he was doing because he almost led them straight into his dad.
"Apollo, Starbuck." William Adama could tell right away that there was something wrong with both of them, especially Kara. He was going to ask what was going on, but the way that Kara was looking at Lee and the look Lee gave him, he decided against it. He knew that in time he would find out what was going on.
Lee was glad that his dad caught the look on his face before he tried to ask Kara what was wrong. He knew she was not ready to talk about it to his dad. Hell he wasn't sure if she was going to talk to him about it, but at the moment he didn't really care about that. All he cared about was getting Kara to his office and making sure that she knew no matter what that he would be there to support her.
Lee continued leading Kara down the hall to his office. Once they got there Lee let Kara go in first, then he shut and locked the door. He turned around and saw Kara sitting on one end of the couch, her knees up to her chest, arms wrapped around her legs and head resting on the knees. Lee went over and sat down on the couch too. He could tell that she needed her space to comprehend everything, so he was giving her space.
The two of them sat in silence for awhile, she took a few deep breaths before starting to talk.
"I can't believe that this is happening Lee. Why is it happening? Why am I so damn important to these frakking cylons that they would do this?"
"I don't know Kara. I wish I had the answers for you, I do. But I don't."
"I should have known something was up with Anders. I mean, his team was up in the mountains when the attacks started. That is a bit strange, a pyramid team training up there. And their base was at this high school, a place where you would more than likely be caught by the cylons."
"Well, the training thing is a bit odd. I've never heard about pyramid teams doing any type of high altitude training. But the school thing. If the cylons swept that school clean around the initial attacks, then I don't think they would go back to it unless there was a reason. But it is a possibility that if this Anders guy is a cylon, they would stay away so their plan could work its self out."
"I guess your right," Kara sighed. "But then when I first woke up in the hospital, the doctor told me that Anders brought me in. The doctor knew his name but not mine. I found it odd that if he brought me in, wouldn't he told them my name? I should have known there was something wrong when he said that, but I was so confused and drugged. But now that I think about it."
"I know Kara, I know. But you can't blame yourself, and don't even try to tell me that your not, because I know you. What you need to do is to come to terms with what happened to you. This isn't something that can be just swept under the rug."
Kara's head shot up and turned to meet Lee face to face.
"What the frak Lee? I know that this is something that I need to deal with, that I have to confront before I can move past it. DO you think that I'ld act like nothing happened? This will change me and it will change my future. What if I wanted to have children in the future? Who knows how this is going to affect it. Maybe I won't even be able to have kids. What am I to tell my future husband about all of this?"
Kara put her head back on her knees, tears coming down her cheeks. Lee's heart went out to her. And without thinking, he scooted over to where she was sitting and wrapped his arms around her. It took Kara a few moments before reacting to Lee. Lee didn't care if she reacted to him, but he just wanted to make sure that she knew that he would be there to support her and help her through anything…
Lee was a bit surprised when Kara wrapped her arms around his waist and buried her face in his neck. He felt her tears on his neck and he tried to sooth her. He hated to see her cry and tried to stop them. He held her while she cried, whispered calming words into her hair rubbing her back. After a while she calmed down enough to draw back from Lee a bit, but not out of his grasp completely.
Lee kept one hand around her back, and with the other one he was running through her hair. "You know that you have to tell my dad about it. He will get the report from Cottle, but he might want to first hear it from you."
The look on Kara's face showed Lee that she forgot all about having to tell his father. "Oh gods Lee. I forgot about that. I can't do it. Just let him read the report."
"Kara, you know that even if you don't tell him, that he will more than likely try to ask you questions. So maybe you should go talk to him now. Tell him only what you want to. And if you want, I'll go with you when you talk to him."
Kara looked up into Lee's eyes after he said that. Lee thought that she looked like a relieved little girl.
"You'll come with me to talk to him?"
"Of course. I told you that I will be here to support you through anything that happens. I am your friend and will always be your friend. I'll do everything in my power to help you. Ok?"
"Yeah. Thanks Lee. I owe you so much."
"You don't owe me anything."
"Can we go talk to him now? I just want to get it out of the way."
"Let me call his quarters and see if he is there and if he is we'll go up."
Lee let go of Kara as she let go of him. He walked over to the phone on the wall and dialed some numbers. Kara sat there, focusing on Lee and tried to get her thoughts straightened out.
"Dad, it's me. Kara and I wanted to know if we could come up and talk to you. Yeah, yeah. Ok. Let me ask her.
"Kara, he wants to know if we want to eat dinner with him too."
"Yeah, that's fine."
"OK. Yeah dad we will. Ok, we will be up in a few."
Lee hung up the phone and walked over to the couch. "Ok, let me get changed into some BDU's then we will head up."
Lee went into the small bathroom that was in the office, and came out changed into the blue BDU's. Kara stood up, straightened out her sweatshirt and pants and together they headed up to the commander's quarters.
Kara walked in front of Lee to the Commander's office. She didn't need to look behind her to see if he was there, because she knew that he was. She stopped at the door of Adama's quarters. She just stood there, not trying to knock or anything. When they left Lee's office, she felt that she was ready to face the commander, to tell him what happened. But now that she was there, about to face him, she felt that she couldn't do it. Then she felt Lee behind her, and he put his hand on the small of her back. Kara turned her head around to look at Lee, he gave her a small smile. She turned back around and knocked on the door.
"Come in." The commander looked up at the door, and saw his son and the woman that he considered a daughter walk in. He knew that when he got a call from his son, he knew that he was about to find out what was bugging Kara.
Kara and Lee walked into the quarters and saw that the Commander was sitting in a chair at the table. Kara went over and sat on one end of the couch and Lee sat on the other.
"So what can I do for you two?"
"Sir, I got the results from my doctors examine today. I wanted to tell them to you and explain stuff to you before you saw it in the report."
"Ok Kara. What do you need to say?" William was starting to wonder what was going on with Kara. He could tell that whatever was wrong was big and he wanted to tell her that everything would be alright and that she wasn't alone. That's when he noticed her hand reaching over toward Lee's, and Lee reached out and took it in his. He realized that she already knew that she wasn't alone, and he was happy about that.
"While I was on Caprica I got shot by some cylons. I passed out and when I woke up I was in the hospital. The doctor told me that Anders, the leader of the group that I meant there brought me in then died. I didn't get the chance to ask a lot of questions because every time he came in I just woke up and he would give me a drug to put me back to sleep. Well like the third time that I woke up I had another scar that was under the first one. The doctor said that there was some internal bleeding that they had to go in and fix.
"I found that the doctor that operated on me was a cylon and the place where I was was called a Farm. The Cylons can't reproduce on their own, so they needed to find a way. I came across a room that had about 30 women in it. There were machines hooked up to them, killing them. And there are thousands of these farms on the planets."
All William wanted to do was gather Kara up is his arms and protect from the demons that seem to be haunting her. He knew that she more than likely wouldn't let him to do, but he was glad that his son was able to help her.
"Well I didn't really learn what the 2nd scar was from, and I really didn't want to know. So I had an appointment with Dr. Cottle today and learned what the scar was."
Kara stopped talking and closed her eyes. She needed a minute to collect her thoughts before she started telling the Commander about the abortion. She was starting to panic thinking that this was a bad idea, and that she needed to leave, when she felt her hand being squeezed. Kara turned and looked at Lee. She saw support in his eyes along with something else. She turned to continue talking to the Commander.
"I was impregnated by a cylon. The only way that I can think that this happened was I slept with Anders. The second scar was from an abortion. Cottle thinks that the time period of a pregnancy with a cylon is 30 ½ times faster than a human one. So that is how they were able to do it. But he said that I should be fully healed from the gun shot wound in about a week then I can be put back into the flight rotation."
William looked at the young woman that was sitting on his couch. He didn't know what to say to her. He could tell that she was having trouble holding herself together. She seemed to be ok on the outside, but he noticed that she was gripping his son's hand.
Kara started feeling like she was going to break down so she moved down to be closer to Lee. He let go of her hand, and put his arm around her. Kara in turn laid her head on his shoulder. William looked at these two people who where the last members of his family. He watched his son caress her hair and dropped a light kiss on the top of her head. Before turning his face and looking at him.
What William saw surprised him. He saw tears and pain in Lee's eyes. William got up and sat down beside Kara on the couch. William started rubbing his hand up and down her back. When he started doing this, Kara lifted her head from Lee's shoulder and turned to look at the Commander.
"Kara, I know that this was hard for you. Lord, I wish I could take away some of your pain, but I know I can't. But, what I can tell you is that no matter what happens I will be here for you. I consider you a daughter, and always will, so don't forget that. If you need anything, let me know, ok?"
Kara didn't know what to say. She didn't know what she did to deserve these people, but she wasn't going to let them go.
"Thank you. I really don't know what else to say to both of you. Just thank you."
Kara was prevented from saying anything else by a knock at the door.
"I'll get that."
Lee got up and went to answer the door. It was dinner. So he let them bring dinner in and put it on the table. After the man left that brought the dinner, Lee went over to the table where William was already sitting at the table.
Kara gave Lee a hug. "Thank you," she whispered in his ear. The two stood there, holding each other for a long moment. Lee let go of her and sat down, and Kara did the same thing.
The three of them sat down and enjoyed dinner. Each glad that they had the others.