Alex sat on her bed and got dressed when she heard the door downstairs. "We're back again," she could hear Callisto, her 'mother' call downstairs. She got up and ran down the stairs into the hall, where Callisto and Ben were waiting for their kids. Nathan, Alex 'brother' shuffled out of his room and seemed to be still half asleep.
"Look what we got," Callisto said proudly and pointed at a sleeping little girl in Ben arms. Alex felt her heart beat harder and harder in her chest. They had done it again…"We found her on Caprica, isn't she beautiful, Alex? She's just two years old yet she's so pretty. She reminds me so much of you Ally, look – the same brown curls! And she has the same blue eyes like you when she's awake," Callisto went on and ignored the looks Nathan and Alex exchanged.
"You found her," asked Nathan sharply and looked the sleeping bundle up and down. "Like you found us?" Ben nodded. "Yes, like we found you and now stop asking these stupid questions and get dressed, school starts in one hour and you're already late!" His voice was threatingly calm and Nathan knew it was the best to stop now. He went back into his room, followed by Alex, who closed the door behind them. She knew they could talk now because Callisto and Ben were busy with the new kid.
"They have done it again, Nat! We have to make them stop; we have to somehow get home! I'm sick of it, look at the girl. She's not even two years old; she won't remember her parents anymore in a few weeks. We have to tell someone, tell the police or…frak it, I just wanna go home, Nat. Don't you wanna go home?"
Nat, who had went through his closet to find socks, turned around to her, his eyes filled with tears. "You know they don't leave us alone. We have no chance to tell someone and no one would believe us, Ally! On Gemenon we are their legal kids and no one can stop them. No one on this goddamned planet knows they stole us from other planets of the colonies. And…I'm not sure if I wanna go home…I was so young when they took me, I don't really remember my family…," he gave back and wiped his tears away.
"But I was 11 years old, I remember everything, I miss my mom and dad! Five years, Nat, for nearly five years I'm here now, do you have any ideas what our parents must think? What they're going through? We're officially dead!" Alex was very angry now, all the emotions she had kept for so long now were overwhelming her. For nearly 5 years she had pretended to have forgotten her parents, to be happy about the life she led but she wasn't. For 5 years she was making plans how to escape and now was the time to test them.
Battlestar Galactica
Kara beat the crap out of the punching bag in front of her. She was angry, no actually she was absolutely pissed. Pissed about her frakking father, about the appearance of this frakking girl that was her biological half sister and about Lee who was so frakking nice to that kid. This kid had turned her world upside down once and now it was starting all again.
"Hey Starbuck…," she heard a voice from the doorway but didn't turn around. "What do you want, Lee," she gasped and hit the bag even harder, so hard, her hands started to hurt like hell.
"First of all, I want you to stop and look at me. I know you Kara. When you hit the bag like that, something is bothering you and I figure it has something to do with Alex," Lee said and stepped further into the room.
"So you're already calling her Alex? The only thing that's bothering me is YOU Lee sticking around all the time, trying to fix me. I'm fine, I get along with her being on the Galactica as long as you keep her away from me," Kara hissed and stopped the swinging punching bag to peel off the black bandages from her hands. Underneath her knuckles were bloody and she bit her lips because the material burned in the wounds.
Lee shook his head. Sometimes he felt like talking to a wall when he talked to Kara. "Well, we'll have the results in one hour, to you want me to show them to you? Or do you really don't care?"
"Yeah well finally you got it Lee, I DON'T CARE! If she's a Cylon, throw her out of the airlock, if not, kick her out and take her back to the Rising Star. Opposite to you Adama men I'm not a family guy maybe because I never really had one and I'm not playing happy little family reunion now!"
With that, she stormed out of the room, leaving a defeated Lee behind. She jogged through the corridors of the Galactica to cool down a bit but when she ran around a corner, she suddenly banged into someone.
"Ooh sorry," she heard someone mumble and looked up to see Alex standing in front of her, holding her hand out to help Starbuck get up. "I was jogging around the corner and didn't see you Ma'am, I'm sorry," she repeated, this time louder.
Puzzled, Kara actually grabbed the girls hand and stood up. "Never mind," she answered and stared at her. Alex seemed to be puzzled too and looked back at Kara with one eyebrow raised. For some time they just stood there and stared at each other, then they both said at the same time: "Well…I…"
Alex stopped to let Kara finish her sentence. "I have to go now. Try to not run into another person," she said and ran past Alex.
The girl had no time to answer but she remained where she stood for a few seconds. When they had stared at each other, there had been something in the woman's eyes, something she recognized. The same eye colour, the same stubborn look but also – deep inside – the same pain. Alex finally shrugged and went on walking. 'You're seeing ghosts, she's a stranger,' she told herself and made her way to Baltar's lab to pick up Lillith.
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