Kara walked into the rec room to find Ali sitting behind a whole pile of goodies, most of the pilots had obviously learned from previous experience as Kara saw small toys and even some clothes in the pile, as well as stogies of course.

"Mommy!" Ali shouted jumping up from behind her pile and jumped on Kara.

"Hey sweetie I see you've got some new stuff" Kara said picking her up and balancing her on her hip.

"Yep and I got some more stuff for you and daddy as well"

Kara laughed as all the other pilots cringed, "You'll learn" she said smiling at them.

"Where's Daddy?" Ali said innocently, "I got something I want to give him"

"He had to work sweetheart" Kara sighed.

"But he's always working" Ali moaned looking like she was going to cry any minute.

"I know, but he's got a lot of work to do. It's not easy looking after all these pilots." Kara explained giving Ali a comforting squeeze.

"I wish he could spend more time with us though" Ali whispered cuddling into Kara.

Kara sighed, "Tell you what we'll go see daddy now, he needs a break anyway and he'll love to see you, Alright?"

Ali squealed, almost falling on the floor as she flew out of Kara's arms and gathered up her small pile of stuff.

Lee was sat in his office staring at the pile of work he still had to do, it had taken him 5 hours to get through half of it, though to be honest at least 2 out of those 5 hours had been spent either being annoyed by Kara, or having to deal with nuggets that couldn't seem to do anything without having their hands held. So it had really only taken him about 3 hours, however he was beginning to get frustrated and extremely bored, as each report took longer and longer to do. He was just about to go find something to punch, when someone banged on the hatch.

He looked up and sighed, he knew exactly who that was, "What's up Kara?"

Taking this as her cue to come in she pushed the hatch open, "Your daughter wanted to see you"

"Hey" Lee said smiling as Ali ran up to him and threw her arms around his neck.

"I got something for you" Ali said proudly.

"Really what?" Lee asked wondering what he was going to get off his little girl now.

"This," She said thrusting a gray hoody in his face.

Lee held it up and then quickly pulled it over his head, "Perfect fit, thanks sweetie"

"How come he gets all the good presents?" Kara cried smiling.

Ali just looked sheepish, making both Lee and Kara laugh.

Then Lee looked up at Kara, "Talking of presents, there's something I need to open, I don't know about you."

"Oh yeah," Kara whispered, "I forgot about that."

"Right come on then" Lee said getting up. He picked Ali up and grabbed Kara's hand, before walking out the hatch.

He lead them both to the bunk room, settled Ali down with her toys and then went over to his locker. He pulled the box out from the top shelf and got back to their rack just as Kara got back from her locker. They both sat down and stared at the presents they were holding.

"You first" Lee said nudging Kara.

"No you first" Kara complained.

"What? I gave first so you have to open first"

"Fine then Meany." she said sticking her tongue out at him.

Kara sighed gently before she slowly opened the bag and peeked in. She gently eased the bear out of the bag and laid it on her hand.

"Oh Lee you remembered," she cried with tears welling in her eyes.

"Of course I did," he sighed, glad that she liked the gift.

He urged her to look at the rest, she took out the sheet of paper and gasped at the amazingly drawn bears, and the neat writing next to them.

Thanks for all the times we share,

You mean so much to me,

Thanks for always being there,

and all you do for me

I love you

She smiled as she read it and hugged it to her, she loved it, it was so sweet and short. It was just like Lee, he could talk for hours about tactics and Vipers, but when it came to that sensitive sweet loving stuff he could never say much, but what he did say was always just enough.

"Thank you, I love it... go on your turn" she said quickly before she ended up crying in the middle of the bunk room and completely ruining her reputation.

"Okay then" Lee said slowly opening the box and looking in.

There lay a small steel hexagon with an imprint of a wolf on it, it was hung on a chain just like the one's their tags were on. He slowly took it out the box and hung it around his neck, rubbing his thumb over the wolf as he did.

"Thank you" he said unable to think of anything else to say. He then turned to her and gently pressed his lips to hers, when they broke apart she rested her forehead against his.

"Your welcome" she whispered.

A few days later, Lee and Kara were sat quietly in a corner of the rec room, waiting for Adama to bring Ali down from CIC where she had been waiting for them to get off CAP. They were just sat quietly enjoying each others company and doing a few reports that they had to do, when they heard some of the pilots talking, having obviously not seen them.

"Hey did you hear that the CAG got Starbuck a Teddy?"

"You joking right? What for?"

"No one knows, he gave it her a couple of days ago."

"Wow what did she do?"

"Put it in her locker apparently"

"Your telling me that the CAG gave Starbuck a Teddy, and he managed to walk away without her hitting him!"

"Yeah"

"Oh... have you noticed how the CAG seems to have an extra tag lately."

"Yeah you think she gave him one of hers?"

"Nah I heard it's got a wolf on it"

"What's that all about?"

"I dunno, wasn't the wolf one of Apollo's sacred creatures or sommit?"

"Really?"

"Yeah I remember one of the priests saying when I was little,"

"Even so, it doesn't necessarily mean the CAG likes them, after all Apollo is just his call sign."

"Yeah it doesn't seem to make sense"

Helo, who walked into the rec room just as the conversation began, decided this was the point where he should step in.

"Since when has anything they've done ever really made sense to anyone but them, and for that matter do you really think it has anything to do with you what they do or give to each other."

"Well no... we're just curious"

"Whatever, but I know them and if they want you to know they'll tell you, other than that there is no way that you are going to work it out, so I'd just leave it there." he said before turning towards the couple in the corner, "Sirs your needed on the flight deck, the Commander says he'll look after Ali until it's all sorted out"

"Why what's happened?" Lee asked out of the shadows, making the other pilots turn around.

"I don't know sir they just said they needed you"

"OK you can tell them we'll be there in a minute, we just have to put these reports back in my office," Lee said gathering up the papers in front of him and walking out with Kara following closely behind him.

As soon as they were out of the door one of the pilots cried, "How the hell did they get there? I never noticed them"

"They probably didn't want you to notice them" Helo said, smirking slightly at their confusion.

"But how did you know they were there?"

"As I said I know them... but not as well as they know each other" Helo added before turning and walking out, leaving a bunch of very confused and embarrassed pilots behind him.

Meanwhile Kara and Lee smiled at each other, they had achieved what they set out to do, they both knew exactly what the gifts were about, everyone else didn't have a clue. They both knew they were probably going to have to tell everyone what it was about sooner or later, but they could leave them to stew for a while.