His first memory of Kara was watching her wage a personal battle on a vanilla ice cream cone with her tongue on a hot Picon day, but Lee would never let her know that.
His first memory of Kara was watching her wage a personal battle on a vanilla ice cream cone with her tongue on a hot Picon day, but Lee would never let her know that.
He wasn't supposed to be there that day. Zak had canceled their plans to mess around with the Academy's Viper simulators. Lee still had to finish the write-ups Commander Atock had asked him to complete on his leave, and he figured that Picon was just as good of a place to do it as back home on Caprica. Plus, this way he wouldn't have his mother peering over his shoulder to nag him about his penmanship.
He took the folders out to the main yard of the campus and settled into a section of grass in the shade of a large elm tree. It was halfway through the first one when he noticed the pretty blond sitting on the park bench across the way. She was too intent on eating the ice cream cone in her hand to even notice he was there.
His breath stilled as her tongue slid out to take a long lick. The sun was beating down on his skin despite the shade, and Lee blamed it for the hot flush on his face. The blond flicked the hair out of her face and took another lick.
Lee watched in awe as her tongue did things to that cone that he had never even imagined. His pants were starting to feel uncomfortable tight, and he shifted his body to compensate. He had been lonely the past few months while stationed off planet, but he had never thought it was so bad that seeing a woman innocently eating an ice cream cone would suddenly become foreplay.
The folders slid to the ground, but Lee barely noticed. He was currently dreaming up the alternative uses he could find for that tongue so his assignment was the last thing on his mind.
Trying push the inappropriate thoughts from his head, Lee shut his eyes and focused on taking deep breaths for the few minutes it took to calm himself. When he opened his eyes, he was surprised to see the blond was staring at him. Her ice cream cone was gone.
Lee held her eyes a moment before hesitantly lifting his hand to wave. She was definitely staring at him.
The blond got up off the bench and made her way over to where he was sitting. He had no clue why he felt the need to avert his eyes. He hadn't done anything to be embarrassed about, and yet Lee found himself focusing on the way her dress pooled around her knees.
She was barefoot. For some reason, that seemed important.
"You don't know me," the woman said. Her voice was gravely. Lee had had a feeling it would be.
"I'm sorry?"
"You don't know me so you don't have to pretend like you remember who I am."
"Oh." Lee's brow furrowed after a few seconds of silence. "I don't understand."
A laugh fell from the woman's lips, and Lee smiled. He didn't understand what she found so amusing, but he didn't really care. "I'm Lee."
"I know," the woman said, sitting down in front of him. "I was actually supposed to meet you today."
"Like destiny or something?" Lee said, a slight frown coming to his face. He really didn't buy that whole one path in life, no way to get out it thing.
"No, like Zak was supposed to introduce you to me. I'm Kara." The woman waited a moment before continuing, "As in Kara, your brother's new girlfriend. Frak me! Do not tell me that little bastard didn't warn you. I am going to kill him."
Lee tried to grasp what she had just told him as she launched into a long string of explicatives about what exactly she was going to do to his little brother when she saw him again. A tiny voice in the back of his head reminded him that Zak had said he had something to show Lee when he came to Picon. Lee had no clue Zak meant a girlfriend.
The tiny voice went on to remind him of what exactly he had been imagining Zak's new girlfriend doing only a few minutes earlier. Lee hated himself for it but he couldn't help but hope this relationship didn't last. He wasn't going to be able to kill the memory of lusting after his brother's girl anytime soon, and he didn't want the guilt involved with that.
Kara kept on swearing, oblivious to it all.
