Kara tried to focus on cleaning her gun and not on the fact that Lee's shoulder was touching hers. She could feel the heat radiating off of him as she fought to believe he was actually there beside her. It was so surreal having him back in her life.
"Gives me the creeps seeing him acting like that with her."
Kara didn't have to look up at Lee to know where his gaze was directed. Across the camp, Boomer was sitting in Helo's arms, and they looked to be having a small, peaceful moment amidst the chaos of their situation. Again, Kara reminded herself that Lee had not had the time to adjust to these two like she had.
"He loves her," she tried to explain while still keeping up the pretext of cleaning a gun whose last bit of dirt had been banished half an hour earlier. "And yeah, he knows she's a machine. He doesn't care. He loves her anyway."
The deep breath she heard Lee take before responding told her that he wasn't ready to understand.
"Frak! How can one of us get that roped in by one of them?" He paused in his cleaning to look over at her. "You know, we should keep an eye on him, too."
Kara fought the need to lash out at him, to scream at him that he had no idea what love was really like, and to remind him of how love could make you do some fraking crazy things. But that would only snowball their time into another conversation about Zak. She was getting tired of everything always leading back to the first man she had ever loved.
Sticking with a safe topic, she tore her eyes away from Lee and back to her task. "Helo's a friend of mine, all right? He's one of the good guys."
"Yeah?" It was when Lee spoke to her in that cold, crisp tone that Kara knew she was in trouble. She braced herself for impact. "Sharon was a friend of yours, too."
Kara did her best not flinch or show any reaction to what Lee had said. She knew he was watching her and waiting for it. Well, he was going to have to learn that she wasn't the predictable hothead he believed her to be. Using the rag in her hand, she put more pressure on the already clean gun as she did her best not to snap.
She was so close to cracking, and Lee knew it. For whatever reason, he wanted her to lose it. That was why it was so surprising when he didn't keep pushing. Instead, he pulled back and returned his focus to his gun.
In retrospect, Kara should have seen it coming. Lee had been switching from supportive to downright cruel since the moment they had reunited on the Astral Queen. It took her to a whole new level of pain mixed with pleasure which she had never felt before. When it came down to it, the pain starting to outweigh everything else, and that hurt.
All the unintentional brushing of shoulders and heat radiating aside, sometimes Kara really thought loving Lee Adama was a waste of time.