Title: Hard Six
Author: GEM
Date written: 7/22/05
Rated: T
Word count: 536
Story Timeline: Season 2
Warnings: None I can think of
Characters: Apollo, Adama
Summary: Lee sits by his father's bedside and comes to a few conclusions
Spoiler: KLG 1+2, Major Valley of Darkness
A/N: Just watched tonight's episode and this had to be written before I went to bed. Lee ROCKS. Gotta love the Adama men. please read and review and excuse the errors- it's late. :)
Lee slipped into the isolation room. Lee knew he only had moments to spare before Major Cottle would be taking his father to surgery. He had to be here. He had to do this. He sat on the vacated stool next to his father's bedside.
"You know, I don't know if you can here me. I bet you can so, while I can I'm going to say something." Lee paused for a moment. "I'm sorry. I should have never come back to see you. I should have refused the order then and been done with it, but I didn't. I'm here I've been here with you, with the crew. We've been through a lot. Hell, I just shot the fraking Cylons to hell with four nuggets and a deck hand who was frankly scared out of his fraking mind. You know what I said to him, Dad. Lee took a deep breath and a hand over his father's "I told him sometimes you have to roll a hard six."
"I'll be honest, I spent my life trying to get out of your shadow. I wouldn't have dreamed of it as a little boy but when you left mom, that's when it all changed. I honestly couldn't wait to be my own man. I tried you know. I didn't go to the academy right away. You never knew that. I went to Law School, I lasted about six weeks." Lee laughed a bit. "It wasn't for me. I spent some time home thinking about what I wanted to do and came to the conclusion that I … I wanted to fly. I applied to War College and the flight program and got in. Now, here we are."
"You overstepped your bounds Dad. I was following my instincts. I do not regret my actions because I realized during all of the things that have happened that I am you and I can never change that."
My greatest fear, right here, right now is loosing you.
"I've been full of myself thinking I don't need you as a father. The truth is I do need you. I need you to be my father and my commanding officer because without you, I'm, as the Colonel says not fit to wear the uniform. I may not be worthy of the uniform but I'm willing to take a chance that I am; I'm willing, as you say to 'roll the hard six.'"
Why is it that I can talk to you when you're unconscious? Why do we have such a problem talking as father and son? I'm confessing right here and now. I need a swift kick in my ass from my Dad so you better get well Old Man."
Cottle took Apollo's silence as his cue to enter- as if he needed a cue. "Done airing your skeletons, Captain?"
"Not even close." Apollo replied dryly.
"We need to take him now son."
Lee stood and bent over his father kissing him gently and send a prayer to the Gods.
He turned to Doctor Cottle before exiting the room. "You'll let me know?"
"Of Course." Cottle replied gruffly.
Apollo nodded turned to his father once more and then walked out of the room.