A/N sorry it's been so long but I've had a lot of work to do at school before my exams started, I am on study leave now so will try and write more in between exams and revision

Lee and Kara were woken up by a shouting Ali bouncing on the little space left on their rack.

"Ali shhh you'll wake everyone else and then they won't be very happy with me," Lee groaned.

"But your s'posed to take me to the pool today" Ali whined sticking her bottom lip out.

Lee laughed, "Yeah just give me a few minutes to sort it out."

Lee climbed over Kara, pulled on his boots and disappeared out the hatch.

"So what are we gonna do while he's gone," Kara asked climbing out the bunk as well.

"Play real snap," Ali said enthusiastically.

"Ok but I'm not going to bet anything!" Kara laughed back.

A couple of games later and Lee walked back in to find a very out of breath Kara and a laughing Ali.

"We... are going... to have... to teach her... a... new game" Kara gasped.

Lee laughed and shook his head in amusement, " Come on, it's all set up, time to go." he sighed.

Within minutes they were on the cloud 9, in the swimming costumes that Lee had managed to get from the stores, and standing at the side of the massive pool.

"I'm surprised this is still here what with the water shortages." Kara said.

"I know, but the machines we need to get the chemicals out the water were blown up, so until we find another way it's staying like this. Come on we only have 2 hours." Lee said pushing Kara into the water.

She squealed as she fell in and Lee stood laughing at her, until Kara grabbed his leg and pulled him in with her. Ali bombed in behind them and started splashing around. They were all splashing each other and laughing for quite sometime before Lee noticed that Kara's eyes were red and watery.

"You alright?" he asked standing in front of her and gently stroking her arms.

"Yeah just got sensitive eyes, the chemicals are irritating them, but I'll be fine"

"OK... Wow so there is a sensitive part of Kara Thrace." Lee joked, earning him a punch on his arm.

He turned around smiling and then noticed something was wrong, "Where's Ali?"

"I don't know she was there only a few minutes ago," Kara cried searching the pool.

"Ali!...Ali!" they both shouted walking around the pool.

Only a few seconds had passed but both of them were really worried, when Lee suddenly saw her lying on the bottom of the pool arms and legs stretched out like a star. Lee froze, he couldn't move, images flashed in front of his eyes, a small boy, a lake. He couldn't help it, he just stood there as Kara rushed past him grabbing Ali's arm and pulling her off the bottom of the pool, the girl gasped as she was pulled out of the water.

"I'm sorry mommy, I was trying to swim underwater, and I hit my head," she cried, clutching Kara.

"It's ok honey, your ok" Kara said taking the girl to the side and sitting her on the side.

One of the Doctors came in a few minutes later after Kara had called him. When she was sure that Ali was ok Kara turned round and watched as Lee slowly lifted himself out of the pool. She stared at the droplets of water dripping down his perfectly formed muscles, as he slowly walked to one of the loungers at the side of the pool and sat down, staring into space. Kara climbed out of the pool and sat down next to him.

"Don't tell me there are more ghosts in your closet." she whispered lightheartedly.

"Aren't there always," he whispered back.

"Yeah s'pose there are... wanna talk about it?"

"Not now... how is she?"

"She's ok Doc says she can stay here if she wants as long as she's careful."

"Good then we have 1 ½ hours and a whole pool to ourselves, including inflatables." he said perking up slightly.

Kara couldn't help but laugh as he grabbed her wrist and ran back to the pool, jumping in and swimming over to Ali with a large inflatable shark. Ali squealed as Lee pretended to attack her with the inflatable and her sides almost split when Kara pretended to wrestle the shark.

An hour and a half of splashing and playing later, all three of them walked back towards the Raptor back to the Galactica, laughing and joking all of the way. When they got back on the ship Lee decided that he had to do some paper work before even more of it piled up on him, and Kara decided that she could try and help him with at least some of it. So they dropped Ali off with some of the other pilots, who they volunteered to play real snap with her, after all they liked getting stogies without having to gamble anything themselves. Then they went to Lee's office and started on the paper work. After a while Kara began to get bored of working on boring reports in silence, so she rocked back in her chair. As she was sitting back to back with Lee she found that she rocked right into Lee nudging him slightly. Lee paused for a minute, but then went back to his reports, so Kara decided to do it again. A few more times and Lee sighed, putting his pen down.

"What is it Kara?" he sighed.

"I'm booored!" she whined.

"Reports aren't supposed to be interesting, they just need to be done." he said picking his pen back up and starting on his reports again.

A few minutes later and Kara turned around so she was staring at the back of Lee's head, "I'm still bored" she moaned.

Lee dropped his pen and turned around to face her, "I thought you were supposed to be helping me, how am I going to get anything done with you moaning at me?"

"I don't moan and you should lighten up we got some of it done"

"We got some of it done, don't you mean I got some of it done"

"I did a bit, anyway the pile is smaller"

"Yeah if you don't look at the pile stacked up next to my feet"

"Your joking how much work do you have to do" Kara said in disbelief as she squatted down to look at the pile, "that's massive"

"Yeah don't remind me"

"I'm sure you could probably get away with not doing half of this stuff"

"Yep but until someone tells me I don't have to do it..."

"I just told you you don't have to do it"

"Unfortunately you have to be a higher rank than me"

"I'll have to have a word with the old man"

"It's not gonna work he's got just as much paper work to do"

"Yeah but he doesn't have to fly as well"

"Whatever... anyway someone has to go and get Ali, we promised that we would rescue the pilots after a few hours."

Kara laughed as she got up, but instead of leaving she straddled Lee, "I'm sure they could survive a bit longer," she said kissing him.

Lee sighed and leaned back as Kara worked her way down his neck, " As good as this is, I really have to work, and you really should be getting Ali, we promised"

"Alright, but just because you asked so nicely and we promised."

She gave him one last kiss before she climbed off him and left. Lee watched her leave, then he picked up his pen and started on another report.