Playing with Kara - chapter 3
They had previously agreed to suspend their question game during their flight as the comm channel was always monitored, but still Kara tried to use questions wherever possible. Lee smiled every time and in his head thought of the perfect responses, but he had no desire to let the rest of the crew in on his private feelings about Kara, and so kept them firmly pushed to the back of his mind.
"You ready to head back Starbuck?" he said after an hour and a half of exhilarating time out in space. Their game today had reflected their earlier sexual tension. They'd played thrust and parry multiple times and had taken turns one flying so close on top of the other that their ships seemed to be joined as one. Had anyone else seen their maneouvres they'd have been terrified of a crash, but Lee and Kara were confident in themselves and each other to the point where they rarely had to talk over the comm at all. It was all done instinctively.
"Do we HAVE to?" She sounded like a little kid pleading for just a few more minutes.
"Are you getting whiny on me Lieutenant?" Lee smiled to himself, knowing that would rile her.
"You want me to whine?"
"How much do I have to pay to make sure you don't?"
Starbuck's laughter rang through the comm, and Colonel Tigh, on the bridge, threw his friend a querying look. Adama just shrugged. They may be his children (he'd always considered Kara a daughter ever since Zak's death) but sometimes he really had no clue.
"We need to head back now, okay?" Lee said, trying to keep a hold over himself. Somehow their little games out here had brought a flush to his face and a definite feeling of desire for her. How could he ever possibly think of another woman when Kara was all he really wanted? She teased him, challenged him, complemented him in every way. He'd always known there was a connection between them - something special - but he'd never realized till now that she was everything he desired in a woman; intelligent, brave, strong, loyal, fun, beautiful - the list went on.
Time to stop thinking about that now, he thought, as he set the Viper down smooth as silk. He watched as Kara did the same. He was already waiting when she climbed out of her cockpit, face flushed and eyes sparkly. Hmmm... so it had done the same for her. Interesting.
"So, worth the wait?" he asked lazily.
"Aren't you always?" she answered sweetly, eyes half closed and a sultry smile on her face.
"How would you know that?" Their earlier tension was back and Lee could feel the flush rise to his cheeks again.
"You wanna know my secrets now?"
"Are you willing to share them?"
"With you?"
"Who else?"
"Are you good at keeping secrets?"
"Aren't I good at everything?"
Kara laughed and began to strip off her flight suit, revealing only her double tanks underneath. Lee's eyes were drawn downwards and he couldn't help himself but stare as she undressed right there in front of him.
"So, do I get to watch you now?" He hadn't realized she was done and stood watching him watching her.
He moved closer and spoke into her ear. "Do you want to?"
Kara could feel the incredible amount of sexual energy he was giving off and it unnerved her. This was Lee! He wasn't interested, he just liked frakking with her - the way she did with him.
"How'd you know that's my secret fantasy?"
"Shall I make it come true then?" He began to unzip his flightsuit. Gods! He had nothing but his tanks on under there too, and it wouldn't have mattered if Galactica had exploded into millions of pieces, she couldn't take her eyes off his well-muscled arms and chest. Apollo indeed! The god himself could easily have been named after Lee - he was so perfect!
"Like what you see?" he said when he was done, echoing their earlier conversation.
"Do you need to ask?" she whispered, leaning so close that she could have kissed him if she'd only moved a few more inches.
The moment seemed to stop as neither were aware of the movement of the crew doing their post-flight checks on the Vipers.
"Apollo, Starbuck, report to the commander's office now," came over the loudspeaker.
Kara sighed. "Duty calls again, eh?"
"Doesn't it always?" Lee sighed too. The moment had been good. Very good. But playtime seemed to be over.
ZZZZZZZZ
"So what do you suppose we did now?" Kara asked, as they walked towards Adama's office.
"How should I know?"
"Haven't we already been over this? Aren't you supposed to know everything?"
"Do I have to keep telling you that I don't?"
"Why don't you show me instead?"
Lee stopped dead and pinned her to the wall. "Show you what I don't know, or show you what I DO?"
"What DO you know Captain?" she asked, putting a smile on her face (that provocative smile again! Gods! Calm down Lee!)
"This really isn't the right place now is it?"
"Where is 'the right place'?"
"Do you want me to show you later?"
"Are you serious?" she asked, raising one eyebrow.
A small pause. "Do you want me to be?"
Kara flushed from the roots of her hair all the way down to the tip of her toes.
Lee leant over and whispered in her ear. "I guess I have my answer, don't I?"
Now all the hair on her body stood on end and she shivered. "Lee, please..." she began, but he put a finger on her lips to shhh her.
"Questions only, remember?"
"Good day Captain Adama, Lieutenant Thrace." Frak. Another stupid interruption. Just when things were getting really interesting!
Lee let Kara go (not that she'd been struggling!) and they turned to face Dr. Baltar.
"Doctor," Lee said shortly, a look of distaste on his face. Kara merely nodded.
"And how are we doing this lovely afternoon?" Baltar asked cheerfully.
"How do you think?" Lee and Kara said in unison. They looked at each other and Kara burst out laughing. Uh oh, Lee thought, another giggle fit!
"Well, I ... uh ... well I mean," Baltar stammered, looking rather flustered.
"What exactly DO you mean?" Lee questioned him, looking terribly serious, in contrast to Kara's occasional giggle.
"Um, nothing really ... I was just asking a polite question ..."
"Since when did you start being polite?" Kara asked boldly, a mocking smile on her face. Lee saw it and smiled to himself. Look out doc, he thought, she don't pull any punches when she's in this kind of mood! Heck, he should know - he was usually the one on the receiving end of it!
"I beg your pardon?" Baltar said stiffly, as if he couldn't believe she could be so rude.
"How tough a question was it?"
"I ... I ... I'm speechless. Your rudeness is overwhelming!"
"Do I look like I care?"
"Frankly, no."
"Is there something you wanted Doctor?" Lee asked.
"No, I was just ... "
"Then would you mind leaving?"
Baltar's eyes nearly popped out of his their sockets. Starbuck's rudeness was one thing - she was nearly legendary on this ship, but Apollo too? What the frak was going on?
"You didn't hear the man?" Kara prodded, as Baltar stood stock still, as if listening to some inner voice.
"I... I can't believe this! I'm going to have to report this to the Commander. Your rudeness is unacceptable."
Kara turned to face Lee. "Do you care?"
"No, you?"
"Should I?" She turned back to the doctor whose face was nearly apoplectic by now. "We're headed to the Commander's office now. Care to join us?" She took Lee's arm and smiled a fake sweet smile.
"I ... you ... when I ... you're both so ..." And he huffed suddenly and took off down the corridor, trying to put as much space between himself and that pair of lunatics as possible.
Kara was nearly in tears she was laughing so hard.
"Did you really have to be so rude?" Lee asked, smiling.
"Me?"
"You're not suggesting I was rude are you?"
"Aren't I?"
"Shouldn't we get moving?"
"Moving?"
"My father's office, remember?"
"How could I forget?"
"You're blonde aren't you?" She elbowed him in the ribs. "Ouch!"
"Was that a question?" she asked sweetly.
"How can 'ouch' be a question?"
"You can make anything into a question if you try, can't you?"
"How?"
"Why are you asking me?"
"Who else is there to ask?" The corridor was deserted. "Do we need to continue with the questions in front of my father?"
"Why are you asking?"
"Don't people ask questions because they want to know the answers?"
"Don't you know already?"
"That would be a 'yes' wouldn't it?"
"Do you wanna be doing my maintenance shifts?" She cocked an eyebrow at him.
"What do you think?"
"We're here, let me do the talking, okay?" Lee pleaded as he knocked on the office door.
"Come in."
"You wanted to see us?"
"You took your time." Up with the Adama eyebrows.
"I'd have been happier without that little chat with Baltar - how 'bout you Lee?" Kara nudged him. He flushed, but nodded.
"Is ... something wrong?" Lee asked, hoping to get to the point soon. He had a feeling this was going to be highly embarrassing.
TBC