Now it was his turn to sigh. "Are you sure she died? I mean, did somebody find her corps? If not, there would be a slight possibility that she actually is not a Cylon and that would be nice…wouldn't it? She somehow is your sister...," Lee said carefully, not sure how Starbuck would react.

"Lee, she's just a frakking girl that accidentally has the same frakking father like me! Biologically she may be my sister but I'm a lone runner, I don't need siblings, thanks! And no – they never found her, they just didn't expect to get her back alive after 6 months so there might be a possibility that she really is a human girl but actually I don't care," she said snappy and started to collect the papers from the floor.

Lee just nodded.

"I'll tell the president, she has to decide whether we should run a blood test on that girl or not. If there is a possibility that Alexia is a Cylon, we have to check it."

"Whatever!" Kara didn't even listen anymore, at least it seemed so. Lee knew just quite well that it was time to leave her now or the situation would lead to a confrontation.

"Hope you'll get over your paperwork," he threw in as he walked towards the door but didn't get an answer so he left her quarter without another word.

By the time the soldiers marched across the floor, Alex could tell they had come to get her. From the very beginning she had had these special feeling that told her when something just wasn't right. Now the feeling told her to run and hide but she could feel her little sister Lilith grab her arm in fear so there was no way for her to escape. She couldn't leave the child. The soldiers were followed by a woman with red hair, better known as president Laura Roslin.

"Excuse my appearance ," the President spoke to the people that stared at her. Still, after some months, the survivors on the Rising Star were still living in one great hall on the ship, without beds, without privacy but yet they weren't unhappy or hopeless because of their poor life. They strongly believed in the gods and in their President that they would find earth where everything would be better for them

"Is a woman called Alexis Thrace present," Roslin asked and waited. A murmur went through the hall, people whispered, looked around them, some afraid, some exited. Alex just felt like a statue, her heart beat like hell and it was hard for her to breathe slowly but the little girl next to her made her keep her cool. She took a deep breath, then stood up slowly and walked past the other people towards the soldiers and the President, Lilith's hand wrapped in hers.

"I'm Alexia Thrace," she said, tightening her body so nobody could think she was afraid. She had no idea why the President wanted to see her but she didn't want to give the expression of being sorry without even being accused for something.

Laura Roslin really was surprised when she faced the two girls. Alexia couldn't be older than 18 and the child that stood next to her was maybe 4 or 5 years old. She had expected a grown up, a woman of at least 20 years and it shocked her a bit that a possible Cylon was not yet an adult. She could already tell that in case this girl was a Cylon, it would be a tough time for her to decide what to do with her.

"I'm President Roslin," she finally said and offered her hand to the girl, but Alexia refused to take it. "Please, follow me."

The soldiers led them out of the big hall so no one could overhear the upcoming conversation. After having closed the doors, the Marines left the President and the two girls alone.

"What have I done," asked Alexia before the President was even able to make an attempt to explain her coming.

"Nothing. I just want you to follow me to the Battlestar Galactica where we will run a blood test on your. Let me explain…as you maybe know, there are still hidden Cylons on the fleet we haven't discovered yet. Some of them are sleepers that don't even know they are Cylons, some of them just wait until they get further instructions. We know that you disappeared 8 years ago, Alexia, because you half sister identified you and she also told us that you were pronounced dead 6 months after you went missing. It is absolutely necessary for us to test whether you are a Cylon or not and it can only be done on the Galactica," Laura explained and hoped the girl wouldn't freak out.

Alex just stared at her for a moment as if she was replaying the President's words in her mind to get the full meaning of them, then she just nodded. "Alright, then take me to your ship. But Lilith has to come with me, she has no one but me."

"I think this will be no problem. Follow me to the flight deck, please."

Silent, they walked to the flight deck, only Lilith suddenly started to cry and stopped. "What are they going to do, Ally," she whispered between sobs, after Alex had knelt down beside her. She gently stroked the little girl's hair and kissed her cheek.

"Nothing bad baby! They just take a blood sample and test something, that's it. They're not going to hurt me," Alex explained and lifted Lilith up from the ground. The girl wrapped her slim arms around Alex' neck and went on questioning her older sister.

"What is a Cylon, Ally?"

"Cylons are…they," Alex started but was unsure how to explain it to the little girl without scaring her. Laura Roslin helped her out .

"Have you ever had a friend that was really friendly to you but from one day to another she just was unfriendly to you without a reason?"

Lilith nodded. "My best friend Amarice at home started to talk behind my back in the kindergarten when we still were at home," she told Roslin.

The President smiled. "Well, the Cylons are not that much different from your friend Amarice. They pretend to be friendly with us but suddenly they change and do bad things – like talking behind our backs!"

The girl thought for a short time, then said: "Then you gotta be wrong, my sister can't be a Cylon, she's absolutely nice to everybody…even to Amarice!" Alexia couldn't help but smiled. Lilith had become the most important person in her life after the holocaust because she was the reason why Alex had to wake up every morning and she loved Alex without any conditions.

On the flight deck they climbed into a Raptor that soon was sent into space. "It won't take longer than 15 minutes to get to the Galactica," one of the pilots told them, then turned back to his navigation console.

"Are we going to see mommy and daddy on that ship, Ally," Lilith asked with glowing cheeks and sparkling eyes after a few minutes of silence between the passengers. "No," Alex firmly answered, not in the mood to explain the whole death thing to the girl again. For some reasons, Lilith took a 'no' as a no today and didn't ask further questions.

Roslin sighed. It was hard for her to see children go through the consequences of the holocaust that had affected all their lives in such a bad way. But especially the children couldn't really understand what had happened and they obviously still couldn't believe that their mommys and daddys would never come back, that their homes were gone and that they could be dead any minute now in case a frakking Cylon hidden on their ship would just blows itself off and with it the whole ship. They had no idea what gift it was to be able to wake up in the morning…well, at least she thought it was a gift, wasn't it?

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