When Kara opened her eyes, she found herself embraced by the strong arms of her husband. A smile spread on her face when she remembered their conversation from last night. They had finally put their disagreements behind them and for the first time in days she felt comfortable being so close to him again.

She thought about lying next to him for a while longer when her eyes fell on Lee. He was cuddled in his blanket and was visibly trembling. It was frakking cold in the cave and not even the fire gave enough warmth to keep the cold out. Without Sam she didn't think she would have slept at all because of it.

Determined to make Lee more comfortable, she reached for an extra blanket and went to him. Careful not to wake him up, she put the blanket over him. She was just about to turn back when she saw his eyes flutter open.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to wake you." She said quietly.

"I wasn't sleeping much anyway. Thanks." He said, pointing at the extra blanket. "How'd it go last night?" He asked as he pulled himself into a sitting position. He flinched as the movement brought back the pain from his broken ribs.

"We got the radio. The Chief said the Cylons are jamming any transmissions but if we go high enough, that shouldn't be a problem. Now we can finally contact Galactica."

The sad look flashing through Lee's eyes didn't go unnoticed by Kara. Sympathetically she grasped his hand. "He's still alive, Lee. I know that."

"Yeah." Lee said quietly, looking at his hands. He wished he could believe her. But the chances were just so small.

"I'll make some coffee. You want some?" Kara tried to lighten his mood.

"Sounds great."

While Kara prepared the coffee, Lee looked at her thoughtfully. "So, once you contact Galactica, what are you going to do then?"

"We'll decide on a time for Galactica to jump back into the system. Until then all settlers need to be somewhere near their ships. Tigh and the others can take care of that. We'll get them in the ships and leave the planet while Galactica keeps the Cylons busy." Kara explained her plan.

"What about the Cylons on the planet? You think they're just going to let you all get onto the ships?" Lee asked doubtfully.

"There must still be some weapons left the resistance was able to hide from them. I know we'll lose some people, but there just is no other way."

"Resistance?"

"Well, they were about to built one up when I was there the first time. So surely they must have weapons somewhere." She paused a moment. "I know there are a lot of open questions in this plan. Of course we'll have to talk to Tyrol and the others again before we try to get off this planet. But … it will work, it just has to."

"And you're convinced it'll work?"

"Yes." Kara replied determinedly.

"Okay then."

"Okay then?" She couldn't believe that this was all he had to say. He couldn't just accept it like this, not when there were so many questions open.

"So far all of your crazy plans have worked, so why not this one." Lee shrugged.

Kara only shook her head. When did he start to trust her that much? This change in his demeanor towards her irritated her. They hadn't talked for months. All this time she had believed he hated her and would never trust her again. But the last few days ... it was as if none of it had ever happened and they were back to being best friends.

When she noticed that the coffee was ready, she was grateful for the distraction. She poured them both a cup and handed one to Lee.

They both enjoyed the hot coffee and neither said a word for a while until Lee suddenly started coughing and grabbed his chest in pain.

Kara quickly reached over to him and tried to steady him by holding him by his shoulders. "You okay?" She asked worried when he had stopped coughing.

"Yeah." Lee pressed out, the pain evident in his voice. He leaned back against the wall and tried to catch his breath.

"You're not going to get sick, are you? I don't think I can handle another health crisis." Kara said, only half joking.

"Don't worry. If you're right, the Galactica should be here soon. Then you can just dump me in sickbay." He said, still out of breath.

"Right."

"So, is everything all right between you and Anders?" Lee asked after a while. He wasn't sure how Kara would react to his question. He just hoped it wouldn't make her angry. She knew what he thought about her husband. But he just needed to know.

"Why do you ask?" Kara asked uncomfortably. She wasn't sure if talking about her husband with Lee of all people was really such a good idea.

"You seemed a bit cold towards him. I just wondered ..." Lee didn't finish his sentence. He didn't want to push his luck. He should be glad that Kara hadn't punched him yet. This really wasn't any of his business.

"We ... had some disagreements. But it's settled now."

"So, you're happy?" He hoped his question didn't sound too disappointed. Of course he wanted Kara to be happy.

"Yes, very happy. And I'll be even happier when we're all safe back on Galactica."

"Me too."

They both continued to drink their coffee in silence. Lee coughed a few more times and every time he held his chest in pain. Kara was starting to get worried that he might have something worse than just a normal cold. It really was freezing cold in the cave and he was hardly able to move. The blood loss had already weakened him – Kara didn't even want to imagine what a simple cold might do to him.

XXXXXXX

With half closed eyes Sam watched Kara talking to Lee Adama. He had woken up when she had crawled out from under the blanket and had wanted to grab her arm and make her stay a while longer when he saw that all her attention was back on him again.

He had pretended to be still asleep while Kara prepared coffee and talked to Lee. He wasn't sure why he hadn't just gotten up too and joined them. He had told her he would respect their friendship. Joining them now would prove that he had meant what he'd said.

But he didn't get up. Instead he stayed under the blanket and watched them. Everything about them seemed so natural. There was no indication that they had spent the last few months not talking to each other. They were acting like … like best friends, he thought bitterly. But there was more. He couldn't point his finger on it, but there was more between them than just friendship. And he was afraid that he would lose his wife to this other man because of that. After all, she had been lying right next to him, in his arms and still all she could think about was Lee Adama.

XXXXXX

Later that day, Sam and Kara went higher up the mountains so they could use the radio. At first Kara had insisted that Sam would stay with Lee, while Zarek would accompany her. It had taken both Sam's and Lee's persistence that she had finally agreed to go with Sam. It had been Lee's final argument that had made Kara change her mind. And as much as Sam tried not to think about that, he just couldn't push this thought out of his mind. She hadn't listened to him, she had listened to Lee.

"This should be high enough. Let's try the radio." Kara said, a bit out of breath. The climb up here had been difficult and the freezing cold had done the rest. Kara felt as exhausted as if she had been climbing in the mountains all day.

"When we're done here, we should talk about what we do with the explosives. We still haven't decided on an objective yet." Sam knew it was stupid to bring up that subject again. Kara had never really agreed to Zarek's plan and now that they had the radio she was probably going to be more than unwilling to go on with it.

Kara thought about his question for a moment. "I'll talk to Tigh. Once we know when Galactica will be here, we'll place the explosive at the most tactical place. Hopefully it'll create enough diversion so we can get all settlers on board the ships."

"You know that's not what I was talking about, Kara. We had agreed to attack the Cylons at every possible chance we get."

"No, we agreed to go with this stupid, idiotic terrorist plan in case we can't contact Galactica. Well, now we can contact them. So we're going with my plan." Kara replied in an agitated voice.

"And who made you the leader?"

"What is your problem, Sam?" Kara asked angrily.

"Tom and I both agreed to go with his plan. That's two against one, Kara. You can't just overrule that."

"This is not just about the three of us. There are over 40,000 people down there and I'm sure they won't be pleased if one of them died in your stupid bomb attack."

"So, you want to ask each one of them which plan they prefer?"

Kara had finally enough. Without even really thinking about it, she raised her fist and punched Sam in the face. Surprised by her attack, Sam lost his balance and fell to the ground. Stunned he looked at his fuming wife standing above him.

"What was that for?"

"What do you think?" Kara glared at him angrily. "I'm trying to save us here, Sam. This isn't some game where you get another chance in case you screw up. If we don't do this right, than humanity dies. And no matter how much I love you, I'm not going to stand beside and watch how you follow some crazy old terrorist just because you like his idea. We're doing this my way and you're either helping me or you don't, I don't care."

"Are you sure you still love me?" Sam asked quietly.

This time it was Kara who looked at her husband surprised. "What?"

"The way you've been acting lately … when you're with him …"

"Don't tell me this is about Lee again." Kara interrupted him. "We talked about that last night. You said you trusted me. Was that all just a bunch of lies?"

"No." Sam looked at her desperately. "I do trust you. I don't think that you would hurt me on purpose. But … you can't control your feelings. And if you do love him, than …"

"I don't! I don't love Lee Adama. And this is the last time I'm telling you this because I'm sick of everyone telling me what I feel."

Without saying anything else, Kara turned her back to Sam and knelt down to get the radio started. When she didn't see him anymore, she closed her eyes and took a few deep breaths, trying to regain her composure. Her mind told her that she just told Sam the truth. She didn't love Lee. But her heart screamed that it wasn't Sam she wanted to spend the rest of her live with. Well, she had always been good at ignoring her heart.

"So is it working?"

Sam's question cut into Kara's thoughts and she forced herself to concentrate on the radio. She pushed a few buttons before she grabbed for the receiver, praying to the gods that it would work.

"Galactica, this is Starbuck. Can you hear me?"

She only received static for an answer. "Galactica, Starbuck. Can you hear me? Please respond?"

Again she heard nothing but static. Desperately she turned towards Sam.

The look in her eyes struck Sam to the core. Suddenly their fight seemed more than stupid to him. Humanities future was at stake here. They could worry about their relationship once they were off this frakking planet. And she was his wife and knew a lot more about military tactics than he did. It was time he realized that and shoved his male pride to the side. If she wanted to continue with her plan, then he would support her. He just hoped it wasn't too late. "Try again."

Kara looked at him for a second. He was surprised to see tears in her eyes.

"Galactica, Starbuck. Can anyone hear me?" She tried again, close to losing hope.

"Starbuck, this is Galactica actual. What do you hear?"

Kara let out a relieved laugh at hearing those words. "Nothing but the rain, Sir."

TBC

A.N.: Thanks to Laurie for beta reading. :) And thanks to everyone who reviewed. :) I hope you like this chapter.