Lee's heart caught in his chest as he came off a long day in the CIC of his battlestar to find Kara tangled in the sheets of his bed just where he left her.


Lee's heart caught in his chest as he came off a long day in the CIC of his battlestar to find Kara tangled in the sheets of his bed just where he left her.

It had been a long day for her. The Admiral had assigned her the task of evaluating the crews of both Pegasus and Galactica in order to bring each ship to its optimal arrangement. She had spent over ten hours of ferrying herself from one ship to the other.

She almost walked straight into Lee a few hours earlier while she was trying to figure out if she had been down to the engine room on Pegasus or if it had been Galactica. Lee dropped the reports in his hand to keep her from falling down. She looked completely exhausted. Lee had watched her get progressively worse throughout the day, but he didn't realize how bad it had gotten until she asked him what he was doing on Galactica.

Lee wasn't sure how it happened, but after a few minutes of juggling questions and strange looks, he managed to lead Kara down to his quarters. He laid her down and told her that she was to take a break. She fought him at first, but Lee was insistent. He only had to sit on the edge of his bed for a few minutes before she was snoring away.

Smiling, Lee walked over to his desk and requested a line to Galactica Actual. He explained the situation to his father and told him that Kara would be spending the night over on Pegasus. She could resume her job in the morning. The Old Man didn't hesitate to agree.

Before leaving, he tucked the blankets around her body and leaned down to give the top of her head a kiss.

No one in the CIC even noticed he had stepped away for half an hour, and Lee tried to keep it that way. He didn't want to explain why Galactica's CAG was currently asleep in his bed. The crew would tease him to no end.

And that was the sole reason why he was standing in the door to his private quarters, watching Kara sleep. No one on the ship knew she was here so he had no choice but to gather a few blankets and spend the night on the couch. The crew would start talking if their Commander slept in some random quarters for a one night.

Lee was reaching into the dresser by his bed when his eyes caught on a pile of clothing on the floor. He bent down to confirm what he already knew. They were definitely the clothes of a woman, and there was only one woman who had access to his quarters these days.

"Frak me," Lee said, looking up to see he was right. Small glimpses of ivory skin peeked out at him from where the covers bunched up.

Kara Thrace was naked in his bed.

"Frak me," he repeated, standing up. He started to frantically search for those blankets. He needed to get out of here before he started wondering why she had taken off her clothes in the few hours he had left her alone. He was pretty sure she hadn't meant to do it, considering what a mess their relationship was right now.

"Lee?"

Her voice was hesitant, and that's what made Lee turn.

"Would you come to bed?"

Lee felt his whole body freeze up. Did she just ask him… oh frak. "Do you know where you are, Kara?" he asked hesitantly after a few tense moments of silence.

Kara's head popped up. She took a quick look at her surroundings before slamming her head back into the pillow. "I'm in your fraking quarters," she mumbled. "And I'm too tired to be arguing with you."

Lee sat down on the edge of the bed, and Kara shifted to mold her body against him almost immediately. It was like his body heat was a magnet to her. Lee placed a hand on her hip and leaned down close to her ear. "I think I'm going to go sleep on the couch."

She shifted and popped an eye open to look at him. "Why would you do something like that?"

"Because you decided at some point that you didn't need clothes to sleep."

"It got hot."

"I'm not judging," Lee laughed.

Kara twisted her body so that her back was against the mattress. Lee tried not to notice how low the sheet was drifting down. "I'm cold now."

"You're not wearing clothes. They're on the floor, by the way, should you wake up and want to put them on."

"No," she said.

Lee watched her look of determination slowly shift into a peaceful grin. She was asleep again. He let out a long sigh before getting to his feet. He tried to change into his sweats as quickly as possible, but his eyes kept drifting to Kara. She was teasing the hell out of him right now and she wasn't even conscious. That had to be a whole new level for her.

However it was only when Lee started wondering if he could feasibly tug down the sheet a little farther and get away with it that he knew he had to put some distance between himself and Kara. Lee chose to forget about blankets and simply threw himself down on the couch in his office. She was going to kill him in the morning.

He tossed and turned for an hour before he could even start thinking of sleep as an option. How Kara had worked him up so well without even trying was beyond him.

"Lee?"

Lee slowly opened one eye and saw Kara leaning against the doorway of his bedroom, the notorious sheet tucked tightly around her body. A feeling of gratitude passed through his body as he realized he must have finally fallen asleep. Then Kara narrowed her eyes at him and he realized the gods were still torturing him.

"Listen. I know you're trying to be all noble, but I am naked in your bed, Lee. That did not magically happen. I am tired, but I'm not that tired. Now would you come to bed before I get really mad?"

Lee opened his other eye and watched her huff and turn back into his bedroom. It only took him a few seconds to leap off the couch and jog into his bedroom. Kara was already laying with her head on his pillow.

Lee slid his sweats off his body and glided across the bed to gather her in his arms. "I thought you were mad."

"I was," Kara whispered. She turned her head to brush a soft kiss across his chest. "Then I realized that being mad meant never again sneaking over here to spend the night with you. I kind of changed my mind."

Lee smiled and tightened his arms around her. "We're going to have to tell my father about this eventually."

"Yeah, but it's nice just having this to ourselves for a bit."

"Yeah," Lee sighed. "We should probably tell him before the wedding, though."

He could feel Kara's smile against his skin. "That's still on?"

"Come on. A little fight can't stop two people as stubborn as you and I."

Kara pushed herself up to lean across his body. Her hand dug around in the nightstand until she felt the small ring of metal. Smiling, she slipped it on her finger. "Let's tell him tomorrow. I want to start wearing this."

"Agreed."

Kara's face twisted in a large yawn as she snuggled back into his side. She rested her left hand against his chest, and her breathing naturally shifted to the rhythm of his heart. Lee loved it when she tuned herself into him.

The silence of his quarters was heavy, but it no longer weighed down on Lee. He could feel Kara drifting off to sleep again.

It wasn't long before he joined her.