Chapter 14

"Let me go! Lee! Get off me, you mother-frakking son of a bitch! Lee!" Jessica shrieks as the man drags her up the stairs. Oh Gods! Oh Gods! Please let him be all right! Jessica pleads. In answer, her mind fills with images of Lee, bloody but alive. Zarek has no desire to kill him for the moment. But will use them all as leverage against President Rosilin. She can only hope that Laura doesn't follow Adar's example.

Slightly relieved for now, Jessica feels a renewed burst of strength and shoves against the man holding her, who she can tell by his red uniform pants is a prisoner. They both topple backwards, down the stairs and Jessica's head smacks painfully against the floor. Shaking off the stars swimming in her head, Jessica glances at the bulky set bald man slowly getting to his feet and grabs the few extra seconds to break into a run. She ran past the cheering and hooting men as they waited for their cells to open. She wasn't surprised to feel the man on top of her in mere seconds. He trapped her beneath his thighs and flips her on her back, pointing his gun at her and cocking it in warning.

"On your feet, gorgeous." He orders, big brown eyes filled with a wild light. He eases back off of Jessica and waits for her to get to her feet.

She takes her time doing it, a small measure of defiance in the face of her helpless sitiuation. "Shit." Jessica murmurs in worry. He pushes her towards the end of the row, shoving her into the last cell.

"What exactly do you think is gonna happen here? The Galactica is gonna find out you're holding us here and then they're gonna come get us. And you're gonna be very, very dead. So the best thing for you to do, is let us go right now." She insists crossing her arms. The man slides the door locked in response. He begins to walk away and Jessica shouts after him, "I hope it's really painful when they kill you, you stupid jack-ass! Dammit!" Jessica shouts kicking the bars. "Okay...okay, relax, Jess. You're gonna get out of here. Of course you are, after all you're supposed to give birth to some warrior kid so that would imply you'd have to be let out of here at some point to be able to frak somebody. Right?" That would also imply she believed in the prophecies. And that she would follow the path pre-destined for her. Hell, she wasn't even sure the Gods really existed. Where the hell were the Gods when she got captured by the Cylons? Where the hell were the Gods now?

"Okay. I'll make a deal with you, assuming anybody is actually up there. I tell you what. You get us all out of here safely and I'll listen to whatever you say, how's that?" Jessica offered looking upwards.

A vision of James filled her mind. He lay on the bed, dying and Jessica was standing over him. She shook her head, trying to free the chilling memory out of her mind. "All right. Fine, I admit it, okay? It's because of James. There. Happy now? I'm afraid of my visions because of James. I mean, look where letting some one in got me before.

Lee Adama is nothing like James. The voice in her heart told her.

"I...I'm scared." Jessica admitted quietly. "What if he is? Even if he's not. It's kind of a moot point don't you think? He'll never let me in."

He will if you do.

"He's too...hard. I don't need more complications in my life. Why can't I have this child with a nice, calm, easy going, peaceful guy?"

You chose Lee.

"Oh, right. Sure. That's why I'm fighting this. Cause he'd be my first choice. An emotional frak-wit with the sensitivity of a goat." Jessica scowled.

You only see with your eyes.

"As opposed to what? My feet?" Jessica sneered.

You saw it in his eyes when you awoke. He was the other half of your soul. You made the choice.

Jessica stopped and stepped back from the bars. She saw herself on the bed when she first regained consciousness. They had all thought her dead and Lee had stayed behind, his heart heavy with grief and guilt. Then her eyes met his and her heart leapt in her chest. Past the pain and the grief. Past the fear and the rage, she looked up at him in that moment and said: This one. Some distant part of her, the part that knew all and embraced it, chose Lee. Jessica sat on the single mattress on a slab of steel, shaking.

This has all happened before. This will all happen again.

"Who are you?" Jessica asked the female voice in her heart.

I am you. When you were before.

And then the voice was gone.

Jessica stared out through the bars. "Oh Gods..." She murmured. It was true. She remembered the brief second when their eyes had first met and the jolt of recognition she felt, though she'd known she'd never seen the man before. "All right. All right." She said in acceptance. "So you'll hold up your end and get us out of here, right?" Jessica asked after a while, but all she heard was the rioting outside of her cell.

A few minutes later she saw Cally being led towards her, a disturbingly familiar prisoner behind her. The closer they got, the colder Jessica's blood felt in her veins.

"Oh frak me." Jessica swore when the prisoner stopped Cally in the cell next to Jessica's. She turned her head away from them both, hoping Gary Morgan wouldn't recognize her. Jessica curled up on the mattress and pretended to be asleep. She listened as Gary entered the cell with Cally and locked it behind him. Oh Gods...no...not Cally! Sweet, innocent Cally. Jessica was torn between keeping Morgan away from Cally, and keeping Morgan away from herself. When she risked a glance, Cally was trying to fight him off and succeeded bringing her knee up where it would do that most damage. Morgan buckled.

Good girl!

But Morgan recovered quickly, back handing Cally so that she fell back onto the mattress. He stalked towards her again.

"Hey Morgan!" Jessica called out. Oh man, she was so gonna regret this!

Morgan turned at the sound of Jessica's voice and smiled when he saw her standing at the bars separating her cell from Cally's.

"Well, lookie here. If it ain't the ice queen bitch." Gary Morgan said pushing Cally into the cell and locking the door.

"Miss me?" Jessica snorted, trying to hide her panic as Morgan stepped closer to her cell.

"Oh honey, I've been thinking a lot about you since I been here." He drawled. "I'm gonna have me some fun with this little tasty treat and then pay you back real good for what you did to me, sweetheart."

Cally clenched her fists, ready to strike if he made a move towards her.

"Hey, forget about Cally. I won't fight you." Jessica promised, fighting a surge of disgust. Okay, she could do this. It would mean nothing and if she could distract him enough, maybe she could think of some way to get them out of here.

"Is that right?" He asked with a leer.

"Come on. I owe you, right?" Jessica sent Cally a warning glance when they young girl was about to protest.

"Hmm, that's right. Time to pay up, sweet thing."

Jessica pushed back the prick of guilt at what she was about to do. Lee had no claim on her, yet she knew he'd feel jealous and furious. She weighed that against Morgan taking Cally's virginity.

As Morgan entered her cell, Jessica noticed that he'd left Cally's cell open and to further distract him, Jessica pulled her t-shirt up over her head, leaving her only in a bra and sweat pants. She sent Cally another glance, hoping the girl understood to wait until Gary Morgan wasn't paying attention to anything but Jessica before attacking.

Praying for a strong stomach, Jessica got down on her knees.

A.N:

B.S: Sorry I didn't reply to your feedback for chapter 12, I only got it after I had posted 13. Anyway, Thank you so much for always sending lovely feedback. Let's just say, moves will be made on both sides. (laughs)

Nope, Zarek isn't the one dragging Jess off, just some nameless prisoner guy.

You know, I never considered it but you're very right. Jessica and Zarek do have that common ground in that they had both been betrayed by those in a position of authority. Should be interesting to see that angle played out. You gave me some interesting ideas here. Will she convert him into a believer? I'll have to think about that one. I know Zarek will be a supporting figure in the coming chapters and books, just haven't fleshed it all out completely. Looking forward to hopefully more of your long reviews. (huggies)

LJ: Thanks so much for your feedback. Always nice to see a fellow member from such a phenomenal group. The Apollo muse tushie dance is an adorable thing to behold. Poor things tuckered and sleeping at my feet after pulling double duty on this and Strawberry Wine. Thank you very much for the compliment! I hope you continue to enjoy my stuff. It's always high praise when someone tells me they like to see Jessica on the show especially considering she's an OFC which is usually the kiss of death for fanfic writers. I take it to mean that I write her realistically and imperfect, likeable but not sugary sweet. Is it Mary Sue-ish of me to want to audition for the role if Bam Bam got his wish? (laughs)

stargirl: Thank you for your feedback. You're a peach. Lee will do much 'crap beating' because of Jessica. (laughs) Hope you like this chapter too.

Sweet A.K: I friended you on lj! Thanks as always for your great feedback. (huggies you) I think Lee will start to listen to Jess a little more after this. (laughs) But I just wanted to point out that though he'll take into account what she has to say, he'll still make his own decisions. Jessica's visions are not necessarily always the right thing to do. Sometimes they are mistakes that she'll make if she doesn't listen to Lee or mistakes that she needs to make for certain events to come to pass. Lee is able to offer another way of looking at a situation and they'll work well together in that respect, though it will cause a huge conflict between them later on.

Zarek may have one or two redeeming qualities...somewhere. (laughs)

Lucky you, but I'm still able to watch them too thanks to the lovely downloads!

You must assure your Archie that no one will ever take his place in your heart...and you can tell Lee that same thing. (winks)