Chapter 4
(Later)
After spending about an hour in sickbay getting stitched up and securing Sharon's molar back into place. The Agathons quickly stopped by the nursery to check up on Hera. Due to the dance, that daycare was doing a "sleepover party", so the parents could spend most of the night in the hanger bay.
After kissing a sleeping Hera, both were walking back to their quarters, wrapped in each other's arms.
"Don't be disgusted or anything, but I found you so frakking hot when you were beating up Cally." said Helo smacking her on her backside, as Sharon laughed at Helo's playfulness.
"Do you want me to tell you a secret? I was also very turned on watching you go at it with Cornel Cyclops." she said trying to keep a straight face as she pressed Helo against the hall.
Helo knew where this was going 'She always did get turned on after a fight. Frak it' Helo yanked Athena towards him, pushing her against the wall and kissed her. The weeks of frustration mixed with tonight's adrenaline and the natural spark of lust that he always had for his wife fueled Helo. Not caring that both were moving their hands nonstop, when suddenly Athena ripped open his black work out tee in half. Fueled on by his wife, Helo pulled off both tanks off of her leaving her only in her sports bra.
'Frak! Why did it take us so ling to…oh shit she's doing that thing you like with my ear.' Turing his head to give Sharon a better access Helo opened his eyes… 'Oh, Shit!' Helo's body tightens up and stops moving when his gaze fell upon Colonel Tigh, Starbuck and Anders. Unfortunately Sharon was so focused on Helo that she didn't notice that he stopped, while she made a grab for a certain part of his anatomy.
"Attention on deck!" shouted Tigh
Athena yanks herself from Helo as both come to attention shirtless and Helo blushing profusely. Colonel Tigh took his time as he approached the couple, while Starbuck and Anders were both trying to hold back laughter.
"Major and Lieutenant Agathon the reason we have rack is so you can frak whoever you want without the entire crew watching."
"Sorry sir, me and the Major got a little carried away." said Sharon.
"A little carried away?" asked Tigh
"With all due respect sir the Major here is one hot piece of ass, and I couldn't control myself. This will never happen again in public sir." said Athena with a straight face, but her eyes were full of amusement.
Starbuck and Anders at this point don't bother to hide their laughter, once they hear Sharon's explaining herself. While Helo really enjoyed hearing his wife give what he called a "Starbuck answer", he also tried to keep his face still.
After a moment Tigh gave Athena a hard look then said "Dismissed".
The couple quickly grabbed their shirts off the floor and bolt down to their room. Starbuck gave pats to both Tigh and Anders shoulders before continuing down a hallway.
"If you excuse me I gave to go down to the pilots' rec. room and spread this lovely little piece of gossip around. I'll see you both and Joe's in a fifteen minutes."
(Agathon Quarters)
Their little setback out in the hall still didn't stop the couple from manhandling each other as they finally made it back to their quarters. Closing the door, neither turns on the light, but just kept progressing to the bed.
It was quite some time later that Helo was trying not to crush Sharon as he still panted on her sweat drenched chest. Still coming down off their climatic highs both still had their eyes tightly shut as they waited a couple of seconds to recover. Helo lifted his head as he kissed his way up from Sharon's chest to her lips.
"Why the frak haven't we done this sooner?" he asked her while kissing her.
Sharon pushing herself off her back, rolled him onto his side answered him while he continued to kiss her neck. "Cause you're a dumbass." she said playfully. Moving in for another kiss Sharon quickly looked at their clock. "Umm…Karl take a look at the time." she chuckled.
"Holy shit we're barley going to get any sleep." he said looking at the clock. Turning back around towards Sharon, Karl then gently pushed back a couple of stray hairs behind her ear. Moving closer to her Karl kissed Sharon as he whispered, "You think you can go another round?"
Giggling Sharon climbed on top of him laying him fact on his back. "Cylon remember, I have the endurance of like over ten men." she said while kissing his neck.
"Uhh, could that be ten women instead, you know for the mental picture in my head."
Kissing him to shut him up Sharon felt one of Karl's hands move up and down her back while the other was tangled in her hair. 'God, did I miss him'
After spending one last time making his wife climax on top of him, Helo looked at the clock again and realized it would be pointless to go to sleep now. "The way I see it we could get a hour's worth of sleep or we could go get a shower."
"Right, you just want to get laid in the shower again."
"And you point being…"
The couple gets up and grabbed some spare clothes as Helo quickly strapped on one of his prosthetic leg, the two of them headed towards the showers.
(1 week later)
Escorting Lampkin towards the courtroom became an increasing difficult job. After seeing the lawyer break Colonel Tigh, Helo was becoming more and more aggravated with his situation. Taking his seat behind the lawyer Helo watches as the president takes the stand. Watching the president give her testimony Helo felt split into two. Gods did he hate her, he'd love nothing more than to give a fraction of the pain that she caused him, when she stole Hera away from them. And as much as he will always hate this woman he understands why she did it. Everyone besides Helo was still questioning Sharon's loyalty. Also, the cylons will do anything to get her, they'll never stop and he knows that. Still it wasn't the president's decision to make. Helo will never really forgive Roslin for what she did, but he's seen the signs, he knows the scriptures, and he believes she will guide them to earth.
After the prosecutor finished her questioning the court was going on an hour recess. Karl escorted both the lawyer and Baltar to their room as they discussed their strategy. Leaving the two with a couple of marines Helo quickly made his way down to the hanger deck, to go see Sharon.
He got to the hanger deck a good twenty minuets before Sharon's CAP ends.
"You know, for someone who got promoted to a desk job you sure spend a lot of time down here with the knuckle-draggers." said CPO Tyrol.
"I may have lost my leg, but I'm still a pilot at heart. Besides I can barley stand to hear Baltar bitching and moaning every thirty seconds."
"And the fact that Athena is touching down in fifteen minute---"
"Chief, are you suggesting that me and the lieutenant are being indecent while we're on duty."
"Not at all sir, whatever you and the lieutenant discuss in the storage room is I'm sure classified information. By the way you might want to have your conversations not directly below the air vent. You know for security measures." said the Chief trying not to laugh at Helo.
"Thank you Chief, I'll take your suggestion under consideration." he said trying to keep his blushing under control
The Chief looked like he was going to say something, when suddenly he had a weird look on his face.
"Chief? Hello anyone home." said Helo waving his hand over the chief's eyes.
"Whoa, do you hear that?" as the Chief responded to Helo.
"Hear what?"
"That music, it…never mind. Um, I got to get back to work Major." he said in a hurry as he left.
'Okay, that wasn't weird' Helo thought, but his concerns over the Chief's actions were soon out of his mind as Sharon's raptor was being pulled in.
Sharon saw Karl through her front window as she quickly turned off the engine and navigational systems. Quickly pulling off her helmet as she exited the raptor she went up to her husband. "Major, you have more questions for me?" she says a little too loud for everyone to hear.
The deck gang knew this conversion by heart. The Major would always come up with some half-ass question that would always be top secret, so he can pull the lieutenant in the storage room for a varied amount of time. At first it was kind of shocking that the two officers would blatantly do this. But after that wore off the knuckle-draggers made a small betting pool game out of it. Of course word got out to all the pilots, and soon their small game became a serious gambling.
"Yes, Lieutenant Gaeta had a couple of questions regarding navigation, that has to be addressed right away. So, could we go and discuss this for a couple of minutes." he said in his "serious tone".
"Of course, Major"
(Storage room)
He could feel Sharon about to come on the workbench, when Starbuck came bursting into the room.
"Quick zip it up! Zip it up! The Admiral is coming down to see you." Starbuck said panicked.
Starbuck kept her eyes on the door as the couple quickly broke away from each other and geo their uniforms straighten out. All three exited the storage room with Helo and Athena trying to compose themselves just as the Admiral walked into the hanger bay. The three officers snapped into attention as Adama Gave them a salute.
"Major Agathon I was told by they Marine guards that you would be down here."
Starbuck snorted with laugher trying to suppress her laughing.
"Everything alright Starbuck?"
"Peachy-keen sir. If you excuses me I have paperwork to fill out."
Nodding in response Adama dismissed her. Kara quickly leaves, but the three could see Starbuck trying not to laugh as she left.
"Lieutenant, don't you have your post CAP paperwork as well?" Adama says with an even tone.
"Yes sir, right away."
"Dismissed"
Sharon quickly left the two men alone as she headed back to her raptor. Starbuck inspecting her viper couldn't help, but tease Athena as she was doing her own inspections.
"You two soo frakkin owe me." she smirked as Athena was ignoring her. "I mean can imagine what the Admiral's face would be like if you saw you with your leg up in the air like that and Karl's bare ass. Oh, by the way nice hickey." Athena still didn't say anything, but she did throw her pilot gloves at Starbuck's head.
Admiral Adama looked the young officer up and down noticing how uncomfortable and flushed his face was. "Major you alright?"
"Yes sir, you wanted to see me?"
Deciding to get right down to the point Adama cut right to the chase. "Today is going to be your last day as the defense lawyers bodyguard. After Captain Kelly's arrest the immediate threat on his life has dramatically decreased. He will still have escorts, but I need you some place else." looking at his watch Adama motioned for Helo to walk with him. "As of the moment I'm putting Colonel Tigh on a leave of absence. His time on the stand really brought back all the memories of New Caprica, and I want you to be my XO until he gets back on his feet."
Helo felt honored that Adama was making him the executive officer again. "Thank you sir, I won't make you regret it."
"You did a great job last time, I have no doubts in you, now we have to hurry up. We have ten minutes to get back to court."
As Adama headed towards the judges chambers Helo went back to where the room where Baltar and his lawyer were. As he rounded the corner Helo spotted Apollo talking in a hushed tones with Lampkin. Not saying a word Helo watched as Apollo said something that made the lawyer smile. 'Oh no, that can't be good.'
(Court Room)
Helo watched stunned as President Roslin not only admit she was taking chamalla, but that her cancer had returned. He watched, as Adama got more and more pissed off as Roslin explained about her dieses. Roslin had her eyes locked on to one particular person in the room; following her line of sight Helo saw who she was staring at, Lee.
As the court was dismissed for the day for the day the news of the president's illness spread fast, along with the rumor of who sold her out. The rumor didn't become fact for Helo until later that night when Dee had knocked on his door with a bag full of her clothes. Even more shocking was that during the next mornings debriefing with the Admiral and the CAG instead of Apollo being there it was Starbuck. After the debriefing the Admiral quickly left to go get ready for court Starbuck stayed behind.
"Did you hear about Lee?"
"Not really. Dee didn't want to talk about it."
"And for good reason too." she said in a grim tone. "Lee was the one who told the defense lawyer about the President being on chamalla. However the idiot didn't ask her why she was on the drugs, instead felt it was necessary to discredit her publicly on the stand. Anyway it didn't take long for the Admiral to figure out it was Lee and the two of them got into a big fight." Taking a deep breath Starbuck continued, "Lee quit. Mr. Adama figured he was needed somewhere more important, like helping defend Gaius Baltar."
"You're frakking kidding me." he said in disbelief.
Starbuck still pissed about the situation didn't say a word. Giving his friend a sympathetic arm squeeze, knowing she was taking Lee's "betrayal" hard.
"Come on I got to run the ship, while the Admiral's in court, and you have to go run all the CAPs."
"Holy shit, when did we become in charge." joked Starbuck
"I know, weird huh?"
(Later)
Helo quickly ordered the wireless on the trial off, once the verdict was announced. 'Not guilty, what the frak!' Trying to keep the officers in the CIC off the upsetting news Helo issued orders to prepare for the final FTL jump to the nebula. It wasn't long before the Admiral and the President both walked in talking in hushed tones. Once Gaeta gave the finale okay the Admiral gave the orders for the jump. Everything went according to plan when suddenly the power went out. All around the various officers were doing their part to get the ship's power back on. For ten minutes they tried everything when without warning the power suddenly came back on.
'What the frak?' Helo thought as he went to one of the phones in the CIC to get info from the engine room.
"Admiral! Admiral!" said Roslin as she looked at the computer screens as an alarm went off.
"Dradis contact! Massive cylon fleet!" reported Lt. Gaeta.
At the Admiral set the fleet to condition one and give orders for another FTL jump, both Colonel Tigh and the president's aid walked into the CIC. Unfortunately with the power outage throughout the fleet the FTL's would be down for twenty minutes.
"We just don't have twenty minutes." said Adama with a small amount of dread in his voice.
Helo kept his eyes locked on the screen, in particular raptor 433. 'For gods sakes Sharon be careful.' he begged.
THE END…for now
I know it's not the best ending, but that's because it's not supposed to be the ending. I decided to end this fic for now, because I have some ideas, but I really want them to parallel season 4 and not be so contradicting. Don't worry this fic will continue, eventually. Also someone asked me why is Starbuck the one who always interrupts Helo and Sharon whenever they are intimate? My answer...I just really like the idea, that's pretty much it. There's no big hidden meaning behind it, I just think it's funny.