Title: CHOICES AND CONCEQUENCES
Author: Deathsheadx
Word Count: 2139
Rating: T
Characters: Tigh, Adama, Boomer, Caprica Sharon
Date Posted: 02/09/2006
Category: AU Stories
Story Timeline: Second Season
Spoilers: Season one and Season two

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: CHOICES AND CONCEQUENCES

By Deathsheadx

A/n this is an AU which deviates from the canon at the shooting of boomer by cally in this story boomer managed to survive the shooting. Chapter 2

The pregnant cylon known as Sharon was lead into a room

Across from her was Adama.

"Hello Sharon." said Adama.

"Hello commander." she said softly.

"I've been thinking recently thinking about you and boomer"

Sharon looked at commander Adama with an interested expression

"I'm tied of this game," said Adama. "its time to change the rules."

"Are you saying you want peace with the Cylons? That's impossible the majority wants to annihilate you all."

"Yes I know this and we'll probably be running for ever but the part of the game I'm talking about is the fleet. The internal conflict."

"I don't get how this applies to me."

"As I said I'm changing the rules Sharon and that includes you and boomer. I want boomer back but I don't know if she's free of the cylon infiltrator persona."

"Something is fracked in her head the infiltrator should be in permanent residence but its not." Said Sharon softly.

"I guessed something like that was what happened but I want to know can you help us insure that it stays that way?"

Sharon looked at Adama "you're asking me to…help you with boomer why?"

"Because trust has to start somewhere."

"Trust!" Gasped Sharon in shock

"It may seem crazy but yes I'm giving you a measure of trust."

"Why would you do that?"

"Because you chose. You made a choice to help us."

Sharon looked down "that's a foolish reason to trust me and you know it."

"It is foolish, but that's if we were playing by the old rules. Lets put it like this by the old rules of the game you would be spaced by now, in fact Roslin is still looking to space you. But I see you and boomer as resources, resources that can be used for the greater good. And I'm trying to nurture that resource by giving it my trust."

"Nerve clusters." said Sharon "its unique nerve clusters. not really noticeable to the ordinary search but we have a whole lot of extra nerve clusters. In the infiltration agents, specifically the sleeper agents there is an extra set of nerve clusters in the brain in comparison to a non infiltration cylon these contain the triggers and control for the sleeper their cylon persona is stored in the largest of the nerve clusters separating it from the normal functions of the brain which makes it possible for a cylon to pass hypnosis and lie detectors these nerve clusters are the ones that need to be destroyed."

Thank you said Adama. "If we did a scan of a human, then your brain, then boomers brain we should find the nerve clusters?"

"Yes then destroy them with microscopic radiation bursts."

Adama "got up thank you is there anything you want?"

Sharon closed her eyes "can I have a book to read?"

Adama looked surprised and nodded

"Adama one other thing."

"What is it?"

"The battlestar Pegasus was not destroyed."

"Cain's ship is still out there?"

"Yes but…"

"What is it?"

"The Cylons had two infiltrators on the Pegasus the thing is from the information they got back to the Cylons the Pegasus encountered a small refugee fleet about fifteen ships."

"There are other survivors?"

"I haven't finished the commander of the Pegasus, one Helena Cain had the fifteen ships stripped of personnel and equipment that she deemed useful, that includes their FTL drives and left the rest stranded."

Adama gasped "she what?"

"You heard me. That information is being used as an example that humans are soulless and must be exterminated."

"Why would Cylons need convincing?"

"Because some of us have started to question our actions. And I'm not just talking the human form Cylons I'm talking all types of Cylons that are truly aware. Our god is supposed to be about love not killing, but our race committed genocide. And the excuse being given is humans are animals soulless animals in the eyes of the one true god."

"Do you believe that?" asked Adama.

"I used to. I believed without question I believed humanity should be exterminated and I was going to do everything in my power to insure that humanity was. But when I started my assignment, I found I couldn't believe the rhetoric. Every time I look into Helo's eyes I see the truth. I see there is no way that he doesn't have a soul, every time I feel the life growing in me I realise that there is no way a soulless creature could be in any way responsible for the life growing within me. I still believe in the one true god but I believe that the Cylons aren't doing gods will."

Adama nodded. "Sharon you've given me a lot to think about."

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"Don't trust Baltar," said boomer "I don't want him anywhere near me."

"Why?"

"Sir before the actual shooting I suspected I was a cylon, there were strange occurrences, I woke up wet after the water tanks were sabotaged I was sure I was a cylon I told Tyrol but he didn't believe me. I went to Baltar and had myself tested, you know that cylon detector thing, according to him the results were negative I was human."

Saul Tigh's eyes widened in shock as the realisation hit him. "That frakin bastard!" he hissed

"When I discovered I was cylon and was in the brig when Baltar came to test Tyrol he injected him with a toxin that would kill him he told me he had covered up the fact I was a cylon and unless I told him how many other Cylons remained in the fleet he wouldn't save Tyrol."

"He knew you were a cylon, and hid it, he could of stopped Adama from getting shot why would he be…" it was then that Saul Tigh took a leap of faith. "He's working for the Cylons in some way. But he's out of the loop and Baltar's too sneaky to let that stand frak! I mean think about it, there is no reason, not even the potential assassination of Adama for him to cover up your nature unless it was to protect himself from being exposed but when did they get to him?"

"Sir while I think Baltar is up to something working with the Cylons? Isn't that a leap?"

"Its one of the few things that could explain his treachery! Lets go hypothetical for a moment when did they get to him?"

"It… it would be…" boomer pondered the situation "it would have to be before the fall."

"The fall…oh frak how could we overlook it!"

"Overlook what sir?"

"Boomer, I'll make sure he doesn't get near you. I've got to go see Adama."

Boomer nodded and Tigh left as he started to connect the dots he made his way to Adama's office.

"Saul?"

"Bill, Baltar was the reason the Cylons got into the CNP."

"What did boomer tell you that?"

"No, what she told me is something else Baltar knew she was a cylon before the shooting."

"What!"

"Exactly. And I got to thinking he also blackmailed boomer into telling him specifically how many Cylons are on Galactica, there are 8 more hidden by the way."

"Frak! Saul I already know this but told nobody. There are twelve models out there Doral, Conoy, Godfrey, and Valerii are 4 we know so there really is 8 others.

How did you get that information?

"Would you believe someone left a note, I had no proof so I said nothing but this information confirms its true."

"Well we know from Thrace's experience at that farm there is a black male cylon as well. So there a 7 we have no idea to what they look like"

"But how does this all relate to Baltar?" Adama suddenly looked into at the ceiling "I mean the video of him blowing up the CNP mainframe was false, but maybe he did it another way, after all he created the system, why would he need to blow it up when he knew the codes? Maybe he let the Cylons into the system! It makes twisted sense, it would explain how they shut so many of us down he gave the Cylons the information needed. The Cylons wouldn't need to destroy the mainframe they would just need access."

"Bill, I've been thinking about the Godfrey incident" said Tigh

"Yeah?"

"Maybe it was their way of putting in his place."

"You mean like making him know that he does anything they don't like they could destroy him?"

"Yeah," Tigh sighed "But the video was false and he ended up even more popular."

"Your right…" Adama drummed his fingers on his desk. "He's a pawn. They are manipulating him some way, the Godfrey incident was reinforcement of their control but once enforced they used it to manipulate him deeper into our inner circle it helped get him to vice presidency. But to keep his newfound power and keep the secret the Cylons could so easily expose he kept his mouth shut about Sharon. what he knows they probably know.

But they haven't told him everything and not knowing everything, not being in control is a mighty blow against Baltar's ego. That's why he wanted to know how many Cylons were in the fleet."

"Its damn good thing Baltar been to busy to deal with boomer, frakin traitor!" snapped Tigh. "You know without any hard evidence this is all conjecture Bill."

"I know but my gut tells me it's the truth, what does your gut tell you?"

"That right now I trust our two Cylons more than I trust Baltar. So what do you plan to do?"

"I plan to talk to Roslin to keep Baltar out of the loop."

"Why are you playing nice with Roslin, Bill?"

"Because she set us up Saul. She's an extremely dangerous opponent you saw how the attempt at a coup went. The way she's set things up, we act against her we lose, especially now she has the arrow and the general location of earths system. She broke our agreement, although we had an agreement not to reveal I didn't know where earth was yet she broke it to get Starbuck to jeopardise a major mission for her own agenda we had a friggin basestar to deal with and instead Thrace runs off to Caprica! If boomer had failed in her mission who knows what would have happened! And then when we tied to remove her for putting the fleet at risk we couldn't touch her my son committed mutiny for her and later 18 thousand people flocked to her side in that mess, she even used her own illness to manipulate people, I mean she tells the quorum of the twelve she's got cancer and that makes her the dying leader to lead them to earth and they eat it up after all she did, all she frakked up she still came out the hero."

"Damn when you put it like that…"

"Its things like that, that is the reason for my decision to change the rules of the game Saul, she knows the one we've played till now a little too well. First order of business is we need to get people who are not blindly loyal to Roslin which reminds me we need to find a qualified doctor to handle boomer, we cant use Cottle and we definitely cant use Baltar."

"We can't use Cottle?"

"No he's proven when push comes to shove its Roslin he defers to."

"You really don't like Roslin do you?"

"Oh I like her she can be very likable but I don't like her ways Saul I don't like her ways. Her plan could of waited but she's the sort of person that must have everything her way, right now."

"Sounds like my wife," laughed Tigh.

"That's one image I didn't need Saul!" snorted Adama as he stifled a laugh. After a few minutes after he calmed down Saul, "be honest with me how do you feel about all this?"

"You know I'm with you to the end Bill, as for how I feel? It's been ages since I've felt this alive." said Tigh

"Fine lets get to work I need you to draw up the fleet census we need to know how many doctors we have."

"I'll get right on it, good luck with Roslin." Said Tigh as he left the room