#29 - Safe - Expanded
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"Hey."
She was sure her heart stopped. Literally.
There were no such thing as ghosts, right? So why was Lee Adama, the man everyone believed dead, standing looking down on her like she was the most precious thing in the universe?
She took his proferred hand and he pulled her up, surprisingly not letting go once she was on her feet.
He looked awfully good for a dead man.
Their eyes locked in as firm a grip as their hands were. Warmth and strength flowed through both connections.
"I thought you were dead." Come on Thrace, is that the best you can do?"
"Well, I thought you were in hack." At least he's as lame as you are.
The handshake seemed to go on forever. He didn't make a move to withdraw his hand and quite frankly she didn't want him to. The solid 'realness' of his touch was warming her to the core.
She could deal with the cylons annihilating their homeworld; she'd already dealt with Zack's death (in her own warped way), but she'd had trouble facing the fact that Lee was gone too, so quickly after they'd reunited.
Her world had always been a shaky one, right from childhood on, but once she'd met and become part of the Adama family, so to speak, she'd found an anchor of safety and shelter. Lee was a part of that. Sure they fought and said nasty things to each other, but it was all part of what they were. Underneath the fighting and banter there was a solid foundation of friendship - the one thing she needed most right now.
As they talked and his eyes roamed over her face and upper body, she felt a thrill of excitement - one she probably shouldn't, given that he was Zack's brother, but she couldn't help herself.
Maybe it would happen between them, maybe it wouldn't, but the one thing she did know for a certainty was that he would be there for her. And that made her feel happy. And safe, despite their circumstances. Life was about to become an almost insurmountable challenge, but with Lee by her side, anything was possible.