Once she'd shoved her things into a couple bags and said good-bye to her bunkmates, Ilana had one final stop to make before heading down to the hangar bay to get her Viper.

After knocking on the hatch before her, she could hear her father's voice from inside, giving her permission to enter. Adama smiled when he saw who his visitor was. "You didn't think I would try to slip off without saying good-bye, did you?" she asked him.

"Of course not. I could have you court-martialed." Ilana smiled, albeit a little sadly.

"I feel like I just got you back. I don't want to lose you again."

"You're not going all that far."

"I know, just…Nothing's ever certain in our lives."

Adama wrapped his arms around her. "Did you ever get to be a child?" he asked. "Or were you born an old woman?" Ilana smiled.

"I think it was entirely Mom's influence."

He chuckled. "Of that I have no doubt."

Ilana looked away, regretting her last comment. Thinking of her mother wasn't going to lead to anything productive, and she had too much going on in her life to let the grief catch up with her. "I should probably get going; Lee's waiting for me down in the hangar."

"You two watch out for each other."

"You know we will." She started to turn for the door, but hesitated. "Hey, Dad? Why did you have Kara transferred to Galactica after Zak…Why her and not me?"

He was quiet for a moment. "At one point, I thought I could protect her. Fix her. Now, I've learned better than to try. Kara will always be Kara and she needs that. You…I knew you were going to be okay. And I was right." Ilana slowly nodded. "Have the three of you finished being jealous of each other yet?"

"I think so. We're pretty scary working together, actually."

Adama laughed. "Don't I know it. Now, I think you have a ship to be getting back to, Captain."

"Yes, Sir." She raised a hand to salute. "It was an honor serving under you, Admiral."

He smiled. "The honor was all mine."

As Ilana walked down the ship's halls, she smiled to herself. She undoubtedly wasn't REALLY leaving Galactica, but even still, moving on wasn't such a bad thing. Pegasus had saved her life, but Galactica had given her something else; something possibly more important. Something that she hadn't actually been looking for, but was glad to have found.

"You ready?" Lee asked as he saw his sister come into the hangar. He was sitting in the hatch of the Raptor they were taking back to Pegasus.

Ilana nodded. "Yeah. Let's go."

FIN