A/N: Spoilers up to 217!

Tangled Up in You

Maybe frakking Hot Dog hadn't been her best idea. But he was a good lay, and that's what she had wanted. Anders was gone, dead, and she had needed something to keep her mind off of him, at least for a little while. That something, more like someone, had been Hot Dog. It was supposed to have been a one-time thing, but he was a really good lay, one with no strings attached. Kara just wished that they could have been a bit more discreet about it.

"Captain Thrace," Lee said, his voice filled with underlying hostility.

Kara pulled her head out of her locker and turned to face him. "Commander Adama sir," she replied with a quick salute. Normally she would have been happy to see him, but he had that look on his face, he was picking for a fight. "To what do I owe the honor?" She tried to keep the sarcasm out of her voice, she really did.

He smirked at her, he was really mad. "Oh, the honor is all mine Captain."

Kara raised her eyebrow questioningly. "Really…"

He stepped closer to her; he was almost inside of her personal space. But they had enough practice at this and he merely right on the edge. "Yes, really. I hear you're a pretty popular person lately."

Kara couldn't stop her eyes from narrowing in preview to her anger.

"Especially, with your nuggets." Lee spat out the last word, like the taste of it on his tongue was offensive.

She quickly turned around and began rummaging through her locker again. "Don't you have a girlfriend to be visiting?" Her voice was tense.

Lee let out a sarcastic laugh. "What? You don't want to talk about your newfound popularity with the nuggets? Or should I say, one nugget?"

Kara spun around so fast, she was surprised she didn't hit her head on her locker door. "It's none of your gods damned business."

Lee didn't even flinch. "Oh," he said. "So you know what I'm talking about." It wasn't a question.

She didn't even have to reply; her body posture conveyed her answer.

He leaned in closer, until he was only a few inches away from her face. She could see the hatred in his eyes. "Just like old times."

Before Kara even knew what was happening, she had thrown the punch. Luckily for Lee he had been anticipating it and blocked. If he hadn't, he might have been missing a few teeth.

"Don't you dare bring Zak into this!" Kara screamed, completely losing control.

Lee suddenly grabbed both of Kara's arms, raised them above her head and pinned her against the nearest locker, which was ironically enough Hot Dog's.

"Why not Kara?" Lee questioned, using his body weight to crush her frame against the unyielding metal. When she didn't answer he said, "So I guess I shouldn't bring Sam into this either."

Kara started fighting Lee's hold the moment she heard Sam's name pass from his lips. Unfortunately Lee was in a much better position to keep her there than she was to get free.

"This isn't about them Lee," she said venomously, not daring to meet his eyes.

He let out another cold laugh. "Then what's it about Kara?"

Screw this; she didn't have to answer him. She just stared at a spot on the bunk across the room. Eventually he would leave… or not, Kara thought as Lee pulled her wrists towards him a bit before slamming them back into the locker.

"Answer me Kara." He was so close. His clean-shaven cheek was brushing against hers.

When she still didn't respond, he repeated his actions and screamed. "Answer me!"

Kara felt her heart begin to race in fear; she had never seen Lee so angry before. She was terrified. "Lee, you're hurting me," she whispered in a shaky voice.

Immediately he released most of the pressure on her wrists, and he shifted so that he was no longer pressing her into the locker with all of his weight. "Sorry," he said, his voice barely loud enough to hear. "I just want to know why."

"I don't owe you anything Lee."

He clenched his jaw in frustration, but thankfully his grip on her remained loose. "Kara…" he began.

"Fine," she said, turning her head slightly to meet his gaze. "It's just sex, that's all it is."

He released his hold on her, and stepped away like he had been burned. "Just sex?" He asked. "It's never just sex with you Kara. Zak was just sex too remember? And Anders, that was supposed to be just sex."

Kara didn't know how to respond. It was true, both Zak and Anders were supposed to have been casual flings. "What do you want from me Lee?"

He sighed and leaned against a bunk. "I want you to stop frakking around with your pilots."

She just stared at him for a long time. "You're kidding right?"

He narrowed his eyes at her, "No, I'm not kidding."

Kara laughed, "You must be kidding."

Lee scowled at her, "I'm not kidding Kara. I could make it an order."

"Oh that is so frakking rich, you'd give me an order to stop fraternizing with my pilots? Look in the mirror Lee, I'm not the only one frakking around with people under my command."

His anger was back in full force. "Dee and I are different!"

"No you're not!" Kara screamed.

"Yes, it's different, because…I love Dee."

Kara was surprised by his words. Maybe he did love his girlfriend, but the way he hesitated and the uncaring way in which he said it, made it seem like the words were meant purely to spite her. And they did. He may not have meant what he said; yet hearing it still made her feel like she had been punched in the gut. But she wouldn't falter, not now, not here, and definitely not in front of Lee.

"What about Stinger and Showboat then, huh? They're frakking, you and I both know it. We also both know that it's not love, it's sex."

"That's different," Lee stammered out.

Kara shook her head in disbelief. "No it's not Lee, stop lying to yourself." He made to talk, but she cut him off. "No Lee, the only thing that's different is that you are jealous of him. You're jealous of Hot Dog. You wish that it was you frakking me into oblivion every night instead of him."

He stared at her in shock, she was pretty sure that she had never been this blunt with him before.

She took one step closer to him, looking straight into his eyes. "Same as it was with Anders… and with Zak."

The last thing that she saw before she turned and headed out of the bunkroom, was the look of realization dawning on Lee's face. Maybe he had finally seen the truth.

The End

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