When she woke up, Kara was surprised to feel the pain had mostly gone. Sure, she still hurt a whole frak of a lot, but that deep burn inside her every nerve was gone. It had disappeared the second she woke up to realize she was in her bed in Delphi and that she wasn't alone. The deep burn turned into something different all together when she realized who she was with.

The memories of the shower he had given here were faint, but they still created this feeling of excitement in the pit of her stomach. She had put her trust in him, and he hadn't thrown it in her face.

It had taken all her strength, but she pulled herself from his arms and went to the bathroom to gather up their clothes. This was nice and all. However, they needed to go home.

Lee hadn't argued with her when she shoved his pants in his face. He just gave her a rather wicked looking smile, and Kara figured that was the moment where he truly woke up and remembered what he had done to get in that bed.

They had dressed quickly, and Kara only took time to grab a few packages of pre-cooked noodles and the Arrow before they were out the door. "I'm sad to leave that place behind."

"It's nice," Lee whispered, not knowing what else to say.

"It was the one place I had that was my own. No one really knew about it."

He shaded his eyes from the morning sun as he tried to read her. "Not even your team?"

"Most of them just knew that I disappeared somewhere when the season was over. They never asked where."

"So this place was really just yours?"

Kara nodded. Lee was smiling at her, and it seemed like he really understood how much that small, shitty studio apartment meant to her. It was no wonder she always felt the need to be so damn honest with him. "I would have taken you here."

"Huh?" Lee stopped in his tracks.

"If you and I had known each other before the attacks, I would have taken you to my apartment." Kara leaned in to kiss him. It was soft and sweet and didn't go much farther than that, but she knew he got what she was trying to say. "I've got a surprise for you," she said, breaking the strange mood between them.

"We're on a nuclear devastated planet that we both called home at one point. I think anything could surprise me."

Kara reached into the pocket of the jacket she had taken from her apartment and jingled the keys in her hand. "Tired of walking?"

Lee's eyes lit up and he found himself wondering if a car could give him an orgasm.

It turned out to be less of a car, more of a tank. It screamed Kara. The tank-car was a heavy, clunky monster. Not one inch of it was girly. Then you got inside and saw there was a pair of pink fuzzy dice on the rear view mirror. It was a conundrum just like its owner.

Kara saw Lee wince as he climbed into the passenger's side, and she suddenly remembered the beating he had taken at the hands of the Cylon. She had been so weak the night before, and he had been so strong. She hadn't even thought of the consequences of what he had done for her. Fighting the urge to ask him how much it hurt, she slid behind the wheel. The best thing she could do for Lee right now was get him the frak off this planet so Cottle could patch him up properly.

They drove without saying a word for the first mile. There was still a lot to process. Then Kara asked Lee if he minded not being a useless sack of shit and pointed at the map in the glove compartment. After that, they couldn't seem to stop talking.

Kara told Lee about her first game playing pyramid professionally and how she puked right before stepping onto the pitch. He countered with a story about how after the first time he finished a simulator, he stumbled back to his dorm room and threw up from nerves.

Lee told Kara about all the family vacations he took with his mother. His favorite was when Zak was sixteen and Lee came home on his first break from Academy. Zak had met this cute girl whose family was also vacationing on the lake, and he decided that she was going to be his first time. He came to Lee for advice. "Weirdest fraking conversation I've ever had with him," Lee chuckled.

Kara recounted her first time. It was with a rookie pilot at the Military Headquarters on Picon, and he was more worried about his flight test in the morning than making sure she came. "I'm glad it's not like that for all flyboys," she smirked.

Lee blushed at her insinuation, but deep down inside, he was glad to hear it. He was pretty sure he wouldn't have a strong case to keep whatever this was going once they got back to Galactica if she wasn't as blown away by it as he was.

"So how about you, Lee? Did you rock someone's world your first time?"

"Why are we talking about this?" Lee asked, diverting the conversation as far away as he could.

"We're in the middle of the shithole of the Cylon attacks with no real plan as to how we're going to get out. What else is there to talk about except sex?" Lee chuckled. "Seriously, flyboy, tell me about your first time."

"Remember that girl at the lake when Zak was sixteen?"

Kara's eyes went wide. "No fraking way!"

"Two days before I even knew Zak liked her," Lee said, wincing at the memory.

"That's so fraked up!"

"That's why I never talk about it," Lee pointed out. "Zak doesn't know. He thinks that I lost my virginity to some girl at Academy."

"It would break his poor little heart." Kara gave Lee a dramatic frown. "He'd think you paid the girl to sleep with him. You probably spoiled her for life."

Lee shook his head. "I wasn't that good."

Kara tuned in on the soreness between her thighs that was definitely not caused by that blonde metal bitch. She highly doubted that Lee could be bad, even if it was his first time.

"Do you want to know what's even more fraked up?"

Kara shook her head in disbelief. "You can't tell me it gets worse than that."

"She told her sister about how she slept with two brothers on the same vacation. It was almost like this gold notch on her belt. The sister looked me up in War College when she caught my name on one of the rosters. She was working as an assistant in the registry."

"What's weird about that?"

Lee kept talking and for a few seconds, Kara thought he was ignoring her question. "She looked nothing like her sister. Shawna was a redhead with the fraking brightest green eyes I had ever seen. I think that's why I decided to sleep with her. I wanted to see if I could make those eyes light up even more."

Kara smiled. That definitely sounded like Lee to her.

"Her sister was blond, fair skin instead of freckles, and the calmest eyes you've ever seen. I think that's why Zak never put two and two together about who she was."

Kara didn't need Lee to say it. It was obvious by the familiar look of distant sadness on his face. He was talking about Gianne. "Her sister never said anything?"

"The only mention of it was just the wink she gave me the first time Gianne took me home to meet the family." Lee shook his head. "Shawna was one hell of a girl. I almost think life would have been better if I stuck with her. She understood that I couldn't let myself be tied down."

Kara reached out to grab Lee's hand. "You know if I wasn't in so much fraking pain, I'd say this almost feels normal. I always thought I'd be driving through Delphi someday with a boy in my passenger's seat just waiting for the moment when I can pull to the side of the road to frak him good and proper."

"Everything is about sex with you, isn't it, Thrace?" Lee laughed.

"As if you don't want it," she teased.

Lee looked down at the map and sighed. "I have no fraking clue where we are, Kara."

"Me, either. I never really paid much attention to where the military outpost base was. I had better things to do."

"Pull over," Lee demanded. Kara raised her eyebrow at him, making him groan. "Pull over so we can figure out where we are, not pull over so we can frak."

"Party pooper," she growled even as she did what he asked.

They had the map on the hood of the car and were both staring at it with confused looks when Lee felt compelled to say something that had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that they were lost on Caprica. He didn't know where to begin, though. "Kara?"

"Don't say it, Lee. I know that we're well and truly fraked."

"That wasn't what I was going to say."

"Don't say that either," she said, smiling at him. "But yeah, I don't want it to stop."

Lee was contemplating if it was wise to kiss out here in the open where anyone could hear them when the gunshots started. He reacted on instinct, grabbing Kara and shoving her to the ground below him. His ribs groaned as she shifted to get out. "Stay fraking put," he hissed.

"I'm trying to get my gun," she yelled.

Lee loosened his hold on her a little. His hand was already drawing his weapon out of his side holster. "I'm counting six of them, split up between ten and two. 100 meters." Lee smirked down at her. "That too far for you?"

"Frak off," Kara said, shoving him out of the way. It was ridiculous that they were joking about this, but after having to take one out by hand, the idea of shooting toasters from a distance seemed like heaven.

The danger ended fast. The toasters were good, but they weren't that good. Lee and Kara had moved to a more advantageous ground within seconds, and it was only a matter of time.

Then the gunshots abruptly stopped. A voice came out of nowhere to call Kara's name, and every inch of her body froze. That couldn't be who she thought it was because that would mean he had made it through the nuclear onslaught. Something broke inside of her as he stepped out of the trees to smile at her. "Sam," she said, shaking her head in disbelief.

Lee's hand came out to grab her arm, and he forced her to look at him. She had never felt her heart break so hard as it was at this moment. He was standing there, looking confused and cute and fraking perfect in every way. "I'm so sorry, Lee," she whispered, her eyes turning down to the ground.

All this had happened in barely ten seconds. There was no time to react or digest as the man who had yelled Kara's name came rushing towards where they stood. Lee could feel his heart tearing out as this Sam guy leaned in to embrace Kara. His Kara. He was whispering something about thinking she was dead and how much he loved her and what the frak was she doing here.

The sunlight caught on the man's hand where it rested on Kara's cheek in the same spot Lee had touched just that morning when they were waking up in each other's arms. The small silver band on his thumb shined against the sun's rays. Lee wished he could say that it didn't look familiar.

His heart which had been beating so frantically only a minute earlier had gone cold.