Chapter 1- In the Beginning

Disclaimer: I do not own Battlestar Galactica or its characters. I do own Bri though.

A/N: in this lee is 25, zac was 21, and Bri is 17. Flight school is 4 years b/c well I said so and this will be Kara/Lee.

It's only been a few weeks after the attack and so much has happened. I miss mom dearly and I know Lee does too, even if he doesn't show it. He had been away at flight school since he was 17 and then worked under Commander Fisk's command until he arrived on dad's ship, the Galactica, for its decommissioning ceremony. I turned 17 a few months ago and began my 1st year of flight school. I guess I'm a pilot now since dad needs everyone he can get.

My dad, Commander Adama, is a good man. He loves my brothers and I dearly and that is why he has never fully gotten over Zac's death. It doesn't help that Lee brings it up every time they talk, which has been only a few times since his death. I don't blame dad for his death, but I know Zac definitely felt pressure from him to get his wings. I feel it now. I just want to make him proud of me.

After I told dad I wanted to be a pilot, he was totally against my decision because he feared I would share Zac's fate. I trained really hard to pass all the preliminary tests and Lee helped me out with some of my financial needs.

Lee and I had always been close. He wasn't as carefree or spontaneous as Zac but I liked that about him. Gods….he's saved me from making tons of stupid mistakes. He was the reason I was up here on Galactica when the cylons attacked. Mom has been pushing me to go visit dad for the ceremony for weeks but I didn't want to see Galactica turning into a museum. But when I heard that Lee was being reassigned there, I changed my mind. I hadn't seen him in so long since he was away on a battlestar and I missed him so much.

When I had arrived, I found lee in the brig talking to Kara, who was all too familiar with those bars. Lee had always been close with Kara, even when she was with Zac. They had been best friends since they were young, but I don't think they became really attracted to each other until Kara officially was with Zac. I always caught their side glances toward each other at dinner and awkward silences when they talked. Zac was oblivious but I think dad caught a few, but didn't think anything of it.

I had always liked Kara. She was the greatest pilot around and everyone knew no to go against her in a game of Triad. She and I bonded a little before her and Zac started dating. We were both good competition for each other even though I was a few years younger than she. I hadn't even begun my first year of flight school but I always had a feel for flying and Kara and I were the best shots in the fleet. Plus, one of my brothers always snuck me in when no one was using the simulators or during their time.

After Zac, Kara and I actually became closer. I knew Zac loved her and somehow I felt closer to him through her and I think she felt the same way with me and my father. However, her and Lee's relationship kind of fell apart after awhile which really hurt them because they had been best friends before.

This whole situation still seems so unreal. I had always wanted to go away with dad on one of his missions but now all I wanted was to go home. But home was not the same either. Frakking cylons. The fleet has begun to run into a few problems like losing the majority of our water supply due to an explosion and getting no rest because of cylons following us every 33 minutes. But we have lived through all that. I could have never imagined in my wildest dreams that I, Brianna Adama, a 17 year old pilot, would get selected to go recruit inmates for labor from the Astral Queen.