Disclaimer: I don't own BSG, that would be RDM and the Sci-fi channel, I just like to play with the characters sometimes.

Summary: Sometimes things that should be said remain unspoken and sometimes these things change everything. Starts from pre-mini.

Pairing: Kara and Lee, but from every aspect ie lovers to pseudo-enemies and everything in between.

AN: Thank you to zadie for your review.

Chapter 4 – Pre-Mini 4

"So I hear you're going to Galactica, to be a viper pilot on a Battlestar, it's what you've always wanted."

"That's right, it's what I've always wanted."

"But Galactica?"

"Why not Galactica? No, why should I go anywhere, but Galactica?"

"I don't know how you can stand to be near that man when I can barely look at him."

"How can you talk about him like that? He's your father!"

"He's the reason Zak's dead!"

"Zak's the reason I want to be on Galactica, to be near his father, your father."

"My father is the reason why Zak entered flight school even though he didn't have an understanding for it, he didn't respect flight enough."

"Zak loved flying, he died doing something that made him happy."

"'A man is not a man until he wears the wings of a viper pilot', that's what our father used to drill into us. Zak died trying to be his father's son, he died for an expectation. Our father could never understand that anyone would want to be anything other than a viper pilot and we weren't his sons unless we saw it the way he did."

"No, you're wrong, what your father is how much it hurts. And apparently he's the only one."

"Kara –"

"No, Lee, I'm sick of hearing how sorry everyone is for me. I don't want any pity, especially not from you."

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