Kara figured her relationship with Lee had reached a new level when she made her millionth "toaster beater" joke and he still wasn't ready to kill her. Then again, lack of pilot-cide could be chalked up to the simple fact that she routinely snuck in the rare bits of food the pilots traded their personal belongings for. It seemed everyone missed their CAG.

"You know, you're starting to become a little bit of an urban legend," Kara informed him as she reached out to steal a piece of fruit on his plate. Before that morning, she hadn't even known fruit still existed. "The big bad CAG who killed a Cylon with his anger alone."

"Good," Lee said with a laugh. "Maybe they'll start to listen to me when I tell them they're going to get themselves killed if they keep following your example."

"You two are in awfully good moods today," Ishay said as she walked into the curtained area. "Makes me wonder why I can't convince Cottle to get you out of my hair. He keeps feeding me some bullshit about not being ready, but personally I think it's time you went away."

"You know you love us," Kara kidded.

"I would love you even more if you could stay out of sickbay for more than a few days. I swear to the gods, I've seen you two more than I've seen my boyfriend."

Kara's jaw dropped dramatically. "Our fair medic has a boyfriend? I never knew!"

"We keep it quiet," Ishay said as her face turned beet red. "Relationships between pilots and the medical staff are looked down upon."

"It's a pilot!" Lee exclaimed, joining in on the fun.

"He's the CAG," Kara pointed out. "He can get you in a lot of trouble with that information."

"If he told anyone, I might hesitate to save him the next time he gets himself shot in defense of a certain hotheaded pilot," Ishay threatened as she finished marking their charts. "Now, as to why I've burdened you with my presence, I have it on high authority that you might be released from my custody later today, and I want both of you to promise you won't frak it up."

Kara looked at Lee and winked. "We promise."

Ishay narrowed her eyes. "I want the quiet one to do the promising. He doesn't lie."

"We promise," Lee chuckled.

"I don't think Cottle would have put up with your crap if the Commander didn't see so much value in both of you," Ishay muttered as she left them alone again.

"She's going to miss us," Kara deadpanned. Lee let out a small laugh, but Kara could tell that his mind wasn't in the game any longer. "Is something wrong?"

"No," he said.

Kara gave him a doubtful look. "You're getting all pensive and squinty faced. That means something's bugging you."

"It's nothing," he insisted.

She reached out to poke at his face. "The wrinkles are getting deeper."

"Stop it, Kara," Lee laughed, pushing her hand away.

"Seriously, Lee. You won't tell me what's wrong which makes me think it has something to do with me."

Lee shrugged his shoulders. "I was just wondering where Anders been. You've been here with me for over a week, and I haven't seen him once. I know that for the first few days there, I was in and out, but I've been coherent for a while now. Still no Anders."

"He frakked up," Kara explained curtly.

"See? I knew I shouldn't have even brought it up."

Kara stared at him, the hint of a smile turning up her face. Lee was trying to pull his gentleman routine and drop the subject because she didn't want to talk about it. Normally she would appreciate that, but this time she felt like she should explain a little more. For once she wanted to talk about the frak-ups in her life. "It's nothing, Lee. He made a mistake, and I couldn't forgive him for it this time."

"Is it because you were spending time with me again?" Lee asked.

Kara's face softened. "No. It had nothing to do with you this time."

They sat in silence for a moment while Kara waited for Lee to say whatever else was on his mind. She watched him play with his food before looking up at her. "I thought you were trying, Kara," he whispered.

The words cut her to the bone. After all of she had been through, Lee was still going to keep pushing her towards Anders. It was too much. "Do not look at me in disappointment," she warned.

"I'm sorry, Kara. I just wanted you to have a chance at something normal. It's the least you deserve."

"What I had with Anders was far from normal," she pointed out. Lee was still looking at her like she was being irrational, and it was the last straw. She really didn't want to get into the details, but if that's what it took to make Lee stop acting like an idiot, she would do it. The pain of relieving what Anders had done to her might actually be good for her.

"Put yourself in my place, Lee," she said, wishing she could calm herself down. This was going to end badly if she couldn't check her temper. "I was so committed to trying to make our relationship work that I was ready to give up the one thing in my life that still made sense. I was just going to flush the one thing I've clung to for months out the airlock because he asked me to."

Lee wisely stayed silent as her anger took a tighter hold.

"I was prepared to do this for a man who I saw fraking Racetrack senseless in an equipment locker only days earlier." She let the words sink in to Lee's head. When she saw his look of disappointment change to one of shame, she pulled herself up off the bed. "I guess I wasn't stupid to believe you when you said it couldn't have been you."

Lee's eyes widened. Kara had yet to mention she remembered the conversation they had when he was carrying her back to Galactica. He was starting to believe she had blacked the whole thing out.

Kara pulled the curtain out of the way and turned back to look at him. "I never wanted something normal, Lee. I was actually holding out for extraordinary."

Lee stared at the curtain long after she disappeared. Her parting words had already begun to haunt him.