Chapter 4
It took Kara a few minutes to get Tegan to go back to sleep while Lee stood apart observing mother and son.
She loves that boy…it radiates off her, he thought to himself.
When Kara turned she looked at Lee and noticed that he was deep in thought, "You remember nothing." She said after a brief moment.
Apollo met her gaze, looked deep into her eyes; as if trying to read her thoughts, "Nothing." He confirmed.
"But how?" she asked, frustration clearly evident in her voice.
"I don't know; I woke of on a civilian ship with no recollection of who I was or what had happened." Lee answered as clearly as possible.
Kara frowned, "How did you get to be on the Pegasus?"
Apollo looked away and fixed his gaze on a picture hanging on the wall, "We made a blind jump…the Pegasus must have picked us up after that."
Why the hell is he being so evasive? Kara asked herself, "You don't remember the details?"
"Not really." Apollo answered; distracted by the picture. He walked towards it and saw himself beside a young man's arms rapped around Kara, "Who's that?"
"Zak"
Apollo looked at her, "Who is he? What is he to you?" Frak! Does she love this guy?
"He was my fiancé," Kara said and Apollo's eyes fixed on hers, "and your brother."
"My brother?" Apollo asked, shocked written on his face, I slept with my brother's fiancé? What kind of brother would do that? Obviously you would, you stupid frak!
"Zak died four years ago," Kara supplied when she saw the look of self-hatred on Lee's face.
Apollo turned from her, "Frak! There's so much I don't remember…I never realised how much."
"Lee," Kara started but was cut off.
"I have to go."
"Lee!" Kara said in annoyance.
Apollo looked at her, "For frak sakes, call me Apollo, okay?"
"That's your call sign, not your name, Sir!" Kara said angrily, Great, I'm with him five minutes and we're already tearing into each other. What else hasn't changed?
"I'm not the Lee you seem to think I am." Apollo replied; his temper rising.
"The hell you aren't!" Kara shouted and quickly realised her mistake; Tegan stirred in his crib. Both parents looked over tensely, waiting if Tegan would wake up.
When he didn't, Lee and Kara glared at each other.
"I have to go." Apollo finely said.
Kara sneered, "You going to go cuddle up with Admiral Cain?"
Apollo's eyes turned cold at her remark; he spared the crib one last glance before he turned and headed for the door.
Kara had seen the look that had come into Lee's eyes and it had chilled her to the bone. Way to go Kara; that went really well. "Lee…I'm sorry."
Apollo had his hand on the hatch, he didn't turned around, "Don't assume to know what goes on aboard the Pegasus; you really don't want to know."
"Why did she make us leave? Why did she make your father leave?" Kara asked desperately.
Apollo turned at this, "I think she got scared."
Apollo saw the confusion on Kara's eyes, "She wants to be in control no matter what the cost."
"So, she controls you?" Kara asked angrily.
"Yes, Lieutenant, she controls me and every other person on that ship and no one would dare disobey her for fear of the consequences."
Kara rose and eyebrow at this, "Then how come you're here?"
Apollo looked her in the eyes, "What would you do if you had just found out you had a kid you had never seen? Would you sit around and wonder what the hell he or she looked like when he or she was only a short flight away? Frak no!"
"Oh." Kara mumbled, What about me?
Apollo advanced in frustration and grabbed Kara's arms, "and then there was something about you that opened something up inside me that's been gone since I could remember…Gods Damn it! I have to go." He let her go and turned to leave a second time.
"Lee!" Kara yelled again. When that did nothing to stop him she sprung into action and made a grab for him, "LEE!" she growled.
He turned and tried brushing her off, "Let go." He said; the coldness back in his eyes.
Kara sure as frak didn't like that; so she did the only thing she could think of…she punched him in the face.
Apollo's face turned with the force of the blow; he slowly brought his gaze back to hers, he saw guilt.
A memory from long ago chose that moment to surface, "Well, doesn't this look familiar?"…he saw Kara stand from behind jail bars, "Did they kiss you ass to your satisfaction, Sir?"… "Have you seen your father?"… "Gods, Lee, he lost a son.." "What was he to me, nothing?" "You better leave before I get the urge to hit another superior asshole…" after he remembered asking the guard to leave…he remembered opening the cell…he remembered being punched buy the blond beauty he now remembered was named Kara…his starbuck…
"Do you make it a habit of hitting superior assholes, Lieutenant?" Lee asked her.
She was taken back by his control and his reply, where the hell have I heard that?
Tegan chose that moment to wake up crying; Kara eyed the crib, making sure nothing was wrong…when she turned back, Lee was gone.
It was then that it came to her, I said almost that same sentence the last time I punched him…gods, he remembered something!
On his way back to the Raptor Lee was brought up short when he came face to face with the man that had claimed to be his father, frak!
"Lee?" Commander Adama questioned, shocked.
A/N; thank you once again for all the reviews…