A/N hope this chapter is better than the last. Please review and tell me if you like it or not.

Lee and Kara had CAP one after the other so didn't really get to see much of each other apart from in the cross over when they swapped Ali over. As the shifts were almost simultaneous Lee had only just got out of his Viper and was still in his flight suit when Kara walked up to him, gave him a hug and passed something into his hand. She kissed him quickly and walked off to her Viper, leaving Lee slightly disorientated staring into Ali's beaming face. She grabbed his hand and ran off the flight deck and down to the rec room before he could say or do anything. When they got there Lee sat down, placing the small box Kara had given him on the table in front of him. He stared at it, seemingly in a world of his own, even though Ali was bouncing around him screaming for him to open it. He didn't want to, it was the 6 month anniversary of when they met up again. That day on the flight deck when the whole world had ended but they found that they still had each other. They both decided to give each other something that would mean a lot to them but no one else would understand. He had given her hers this morning, a drawing of two teddy bears hugging each other, a poem, and a tiny bear just like the ones in the picture. She hadn't opened it then, they were both to busy, he wasn't even sure if she had opened it at all yet. Now she had given him his and he couldn't open it, so he just stared at it, until he became aware that something was wrong. Next thing he knew the alarms were going off.

"Frak" he hissed as he grabbed Ali and the box and ran off to the flight deck.

The flight deck was complete mayhem. Lee ran to his Viper and was just about to run up the steps to get in when he remembered Ali. He looked around franticly for anyone that could look after her.

"Cheif," he shouted.

The chief screeched to a halt and turned around, "Sir?"

"Can you make sure she gets some where safe, just... out of the way." Lee pleaded.

"Of course Sir, I'll see what I can do."

Lee nodded and turned to Ali, "Daddy's got to go and help Mommy sweety, so your gonna have to go with the chief here, he'll find you somewhere to stay until I get back ok?"

She nodded and Lee quickly handed her over, nodding again in thanks before climbing in his Viper and getting ready to launch.

Within minutes he was in the air and out in the battle, "Nice of you to join us" he heard Kara shout over the com.

"Well we couldn't leave you guys to have all the fun" Lee quipped back.

Then the time for small talk was over and they were fighting side by side like always, firing and shooting while trying not to kill each other or plummet into the planet below them. A few minutes later they were screeching home, knocking off the few raiders that were left, when all of a sudden one of them just appeared behind Kara's Viper.

"Frak I've got one on me" she hissed, trying desperately to get it off her tail.

"Kara your gonna have to move one way or the other I can't get a clear shot" Lee shouted urgently.

"Easier said than done!" Kara screamed.

After some fancy flying Kara managed to maneuver herself so that Lee could get a clean shot, and he took it, destroying the raider, but not before it got one last shot off at Kara. She was hit on the wing and began to spiral down towards the surface of the planet.

"KARA!" Lee screamed as he watched her Viper fall.

He watched her Viper disappear into the mist and then began to twist frantically in his cockpit, "Where the frack is she? Why didn't she fraking eject?"

"We don't know where Starbuck is, she's dropped of Dradis. All fighters return to Galactica, get ready to jump." he heard his Dad say. It wasn't often that he talked to the Vipers himself this must have been urgent.

"No she could still be out here, I've got to find her."

"Lee come back, there's nothing you can do. We'll come back and see if we can find her" Lee heard his Dad's voice break slightly and knew he thought she was dead.

He slammed his head back in frustration, and turned his Viper back to Galactica, this was one fight he was never going to win.

When Lee docked, he just stared out of the front of his cockpit, not really seeing anything. While he was on Galactica he had seen many pilots come and go, but this was different. All of those times and she had been there with him, making him angry, or laugh, or cry, but this time she wasn't there, and he wasn't sure how he was going to cope. His thoughts were interrupted by a gentle tapping on the glass, and he looked up to see a technician waiting for him to get out. He fumbled with his helmet, his feet finally hitting the flight deck as the chief walked over.

"She's with the Commander right now" he said quietly.

"Thanks. Does she know?" Lee asked, staring back at his Viper.

"No. Do you want me to bring her down to you?"

Lee shook his head, "I don't think I can deal with that right now" he whispered, fighting a losing battle with his tears.

The chief just laid a hand on his shoulder and then continued inspecting the Vipers, only pausing briefly to watch as Lee walked solemnly off of the flight deck.

Lee wandered into the bunk room and collapsed into one of the chairs around the table in the middle. Staring at their rack he saw a neatly folded piece of paper sitting on the pillow, and his jaw started to quiver as he realized that Kara must have left it there before she went on CAP. He slowly picked it up and unfolded it, biting his lip as he read what Kara had written:

Do you love me or do you not?

you told me once but I forgot

tell me now and tell me true

so I can say I love you too

of all the people I've ever met

your the one I won't forget

and if I die before you do

I'll go to heaven and wait for you

I'll give the angels back their wings

and risk the loss of everything

Just to prove my love is true

just to have someone like you

He refolded the paper and squeezed his eyes shut, tears dripped onto the table as he rested his elbows on it and covered his face with his hands. It was typical Kara, the side that only he knew, that only he could see, while still having her ruthless flair.

Helo walked silently up behind him and placed a comforting hand on his shoulder, "I'm sorry." he said gently.

Lee looked up, "She not dead," he croaked, trying more to convince himself more than anyone else.

He looked back down at the folded paper and then looked up with more conviction, "She not dead," he said again stronger this time, " I'd know if she was fraking dead. She not dead!" he screamed, standing up and throwing the table across the room.

He marched out of the hatch slamming it on his way. Then he stormed through the ship, like a hurricane, leaving a path of destruction behind him.