Title: Love's Silhouette

Rating : PG-13 or T

Pairing/Characters: Galen/Cally, Squint of Galen/Boomer, Galen, Cally, Boomer, Nicky

Spoilers: Every season and upwards to 3.20

Summary: But something happened. Something he never expected. He began to fall for her. Frak …

Disclaimer: See previous chapter.

A/N Cally and Galen's ficlet.

He didn't know what to think when the academy sent her to him. She seemed so bouncy…so young…so full of energy. She was smart, sassy, and defiant. But most of all, she was one of the best deckhands he had ever worked with.

It was two years she worked with him before the Cylon attack. And in those two years he grew very close to her. He grew close with his entire crew, but there was always something about her that always seemed special.

He was very protective of his crew, and that was common knowledge on board the Galactica. Everyone knew that if you frakked with one of his crew, you'd have him to face later on.

Then Sharon came along, and his attention switched to her. It was an illicit affair, but they didn't seem to give a frak.

Then Dural came and committed his suicide bombing and he ended the relationship.

Then she was revealed as a Cylon. All hell broke loose.

And then it happened.

She shot Sharon.

And Sharon died.

He felt hollow.

But when he was questioned on what happened, part of that affection he had for her reared it's ugly head and he vouched for her honour. She was sentenced to 30 days in the brig. He felt relieved.

Then Helo and his Sharon came back and he felt himself collapse again.

Somewhere along the line he forgave her, realizing it wasn't really his place to blame her. He felt a comfortable truce form between the two of them.

And then his dreams started.

And he beat her up by mistake. He felt hollow inside. He had hurt the last person he would ever think of even trying to harm on purpose. He went to Cavil. That didn't work to well.

He went to see her in Sickbay, and there she was, standing up and smiling. He felt horrible inside, and tried to fathom how this wonderful person in front of him forgave him for what he did to her.

But something happened. Something he never expected.

He began to fall for her.

Frak . he thought.

So he asked her out on a date. Needless to say she was quite shocked at his proposal for the date. But she was happily surprised and said yes.

New Caprica came along.

She got pregnant with his child.

They got married soon after finding out.

They settled on New Caprica, and Nicky was born .

And for once in his life, he felt like everything was right, at least for that moment. That moment his son was born, and he looked at him, and her, and he felt his life was complete.

They were all eventually rescued from the clutches of the Cylons, and it was when they were back on board Galactica did everything begin to fall.

The incident with the patch job happened, and they renewed their efforts to make their marriage work.

Now, as him and the entire crew look on , dumbstruck by the sudden resurrection of Galactica's best pilot, Galen looks at his wife standing next to him and he smiles. For what it's worth, all the hell they have been through, he is happy that she is there, standing beside him.

A/N Karl and Sharon's is soon to come.