Since Eye of Jupiter and Rapture were one of my favorite episodes from season three the next few chapters will be like them but with a few twists, but some of it is quoted from them. I just loved the Sam and Lee interaction and fights. Hope you enjoy...

Production on getting the food supplies up to the fleet was taking longer than they thought. This planet was arid, hot, desolate, and harsh, but to Sam, it also had sort of a wild untamed harsh beauty about it. It wasn't desert flat like back on Geminon, there were small mountains and hills, nothing really high like they enjoyed on Caprica, bit the little bit of elevation did offer a tiny bit of relief to the heat. Then there was the river that was near by.

Kara and the others knew the truth for the delay. The site they were working at was a short distance from a huge river they called Sirena. Some swore they saw Sirens in the river so they named it after one of them. Kara thought it was the heat from the planet screwing with their minds since they had been on the planet for nineteen days now in hundred degree weather. The only way to cool down was to take a swim in the river. In addition of offering much needed water for them and the fleet, it was cool, pure and crystal clear. Some of the scientists discovered that there was a giant underground mineral spring that fed the river and the closer you got to the spring, the cooler the water.

Needless to say, they had taken to swimming at every opportunity they had. During their lunch breaks and if Kara was still on the planet, Sam would sneak her down to it. They would play for a short while until Kara grew more tired than before since she was now about twenty three weeks pregnant. After that she would sit about waist deep and relax as the water cooled her off and Sam would be in the deeper area diving and bringing her back things from the bottom of the river. One time he found a rock that was shape like a heart and brought it to her as a peace offering, since they were fighting more than usual. And just that small little rock put her in a better mood. Kara seemed to just enjoy herself in the shallow area, lately she had been running a higher temperature than normal. Cottle told them that this was normal for pregnant women, so if and when they got caught down in the river they used it as an excuse.

But where was the problem of everyone was getting on everyone else's last nerves. Mostly it was Sam and Kara, Lee and Dee, Chief and Cally that fought the most on the planet since they were the only ones on the planet that were married. Just yesterday Kara almost decked Sam in the mouth for looking at her strange.

Samuel Anders returned to their base of operations, which was a metal building that was fast for them to throw up for shelter but offered no relief from the intense heat of the planet. If anything it absorbed and intensified it inside. The windows, little that they were, offered only nominal airflow when there was any hint of a breeze to begin with.

While Kara Anders started up her Raptor on Galactica about to make her seventh trip down onto the planet. Cottle made her come up for checkups and Adama made her come up to re-supply the crew down on the planet with food and water. There were four pilots on this mission, two at a time. Lee was her partner and he had already gone down to the planet with his supplies two hours earlier. Racetrack and Hot-Dog were on their way back up with his Raptor.

Anders exited the building, dirt and dust clinging to his sweat slicked body, his handsome face streaked with sweat and dirt. He frowned when he turned to watch Kara landing her Raptor. She'd buzzed them again to the general annoyance of just about everyone on the ground. She'd just pissed off just about every person the ground and made them eat even more dust and dirt than before. His frown deepened as he saw Lee rushing over to the ship the second it landed.

Kara once again came in too hot and she knew it too. She just wanted to get here, do her shift and get back up on Galactica and into her freezing cold room. Shutting off her Raptor she opened the hatch to find him hopping in as she walked to back to him.

"You brought her in a little hot don't you think?" Lee asked placing his hands on the wall of the Raptor, looking over his shoulder to her.

"Yeah well had I known I was being graded, I would have thrown in a couple of barrel rolls." Kara replied back striping herself out of her flight suit. She hadn't been on the planet for more than two minutes and she was already sweating. "Remind me to thank the CAG for sticking me on these crap donut runs, huh?" She smiled but it quickly vanished. "And he owes me too. Cottle doesn't like the fact that you and your father are making me do this. There has to be another pilot out there that can do this. Even Sam is…"

Lee leaned in close to Kara, a little too close for her. And before she knew it he was helping her get out of the rest of her flight suit while his lips were on top of hers. "Gods Kara I miss you."

Sam's hand absently wiped at a trickle of sweat that rolled down the side of his lean face, his frown intensifying. "Gods…"

"How many times does that make this week?" Dee sighed coming over to where Anders stood watching her husband almost run toward Starbuck's ship.

"She knows it pisses Apollo off and she just can't seem to help doing that apparently," he replied his blue eyes darkening in anger. "Frak it all," he muttered to himself as his long legged strides carried him over to the landing site.

"We're good for later this evening right?" Sam asked Chief before heading off to Kara's Raptor.

"Get off of me you bastard," Kara yelled. Lee didn't stop, he started kissing her harder and more passionately. "What the hell is your problem Apollo?" She asked as she pulled her face away from him.

"Starbuck you're my problem. I can't get you out of my head." Lee said before kissing her again.

Kara still kept on hitting him but he never did let up, so she give up which was not like her at all but she had no energy left to fight.

Sam arrived just in time to see Apollo bend over Kara and kiss her. "Just what the hell are you thinking Major?" Sam ground out between clenched teeth.

Kara's skin froze and her heart stop when she and Lee both heard Anders' voice just outside the Raptor. Lee let go of Kara and backed away but he wasn't out of Kara's reach. Mentally she didn't thinking about it but her fist came in contact with Lee's cheek as she punched him. She was going to slap him across the face but punching him seemed more fitted in this situation.

It took all of Sam's precious little self-control not to plant his own fist into the shocked face of Lee Adama, only the fact that Dee was back at the building only able to see part of what was going on kept him from let his fist fly. Instead he turned sharply on his heel and strode back, causing Starbuck to have to run to keep up with his long strides.

Kara walked out of the Raptor yelling at Sam about what he just walked into back there while he was half way back to the base. "Sam, it wasn't what you think. Lee… I…" Sam was still storming off towards the base and didn't even turn around to look at her. "Gods damnit Sam let me explain!" She shouted out to him.

He heard her trying to explain, but he wasn't in any frame of mind to accept anything other than what his own two eyes saw. He wasn't blaming her either, not totally anyway. She constantly provoked Lee into some action or another, but Sam thought that a man of his upbringing and station would be able to disregard such blatant needling and then there was the fact that they had known each other for much longer than Sam had. That thought in and of itself caused him fits of jealousy.

"Sam! Will you listen to me!?" She shouted at him just as he reached the door.

He spun around to face her causing her to stop suddenly and put up her hands to keep from falling against him. "Not one damn word," he warned her seething in anger.

Kara didn't care how mad Sam was, she had to tell him what just happened. "Sam, it wasn't what you think. I…"

Shaking his head and crossing his arms. "Let me guess you were just talking to Lee? No… no wait, that's wrong. Because how can you talk with him with your tongue shoved down his throat?" Sam asked as his voice rose.

Kara raised her voice as well. "I did not have my tongue shoved down his throat Anders." That was it. Kara was really pissed at him. "It wasn't what you think? He caught me off…"

Sam glared at her as he cut her off again. "Were you or weren't you kissing him? Don't insult me Kara, I'm not stupid."

Kara didn't know what else to say. "I know that you're not stupid…" Kara flinched when the door slammed after Sam walked in.

Well what the frak did you expect Anders? He asked himself. You knew that those two had history even before you met her.

He'd seen it from the moment he'd met Apollo. There was a look in his eye as the two men's eyes met across the room aboard Galactica. Kara had been sitting on his lap facing him when Lee Adama entered. Sam was half drunk both on the Ambrosia Kara was feeding him and her kisses. He couldn't really remember clearly but when he and Lee shook hands that first time, he saw in his eyes something like jealousy. Anders had dismissed it and was caught up in the euphoria of being rescued and off the Cylon occupied Caprica at last. He'd been able to finally relax and stop being the leader of the resistance and just concentrate on being himself and being in love with Kara.

Sam tried hard over the last year and a half to dismiss the pangs of jealousy that seeing her with Lee caused him, and especially after Lee married Dee, but if anything he noticed more and more that Lee was dogging Kara's heels.He was pulled out of his thoughts when Kara jerked open the door.

"Anders you will listen to me," she said in a tone he knew didn't bode well for him.

"No, right now I'm going to do my job and try to get the rest of the food up to Galactica. I can't do this with you right now because if you start talking I'm liable to say something we're both going to regret."

"You know what?" Kara cringed as the baby gave another hard kick to her kidney. As if it knew that fighting wasn't the solution to end this. She placed a hand on her stomach before opening her mouth again. "I'm done trying to make you understand. It's like pulling teeth with you." Kara reached back to reach the door handle but it flew open before she could pull down on it.

Cally rushed in, out of breath. "Starbuck, Apollo needs to talk to you. Galactica has been trying to contact both of you for some time now. Something is happening."

Kara followed Cally back out to the Raptor. Once they got there, Lee helped Kara get back into it and Cally left. "I'm just here to do my job then I'm not talking to you. What's going on now?" She asked as Lee led her over to the wireless.

"Four Cylon basestars just jumped in orbit, their demanding to speak to the Admiral and the President." Lee said to catch Kara up on their situation. "They want the Eye of Jupiter."

"The Eye of what?" She asked.

Lee didn't answer her, he turned back to talk with the Admiral and Roslin over the wireless. "Well it would help if I knew what I was looking for. Does it really look like an eye?

"I don't know, Lee. I've looked at the scriptures and they make reference to the eye being left in some sort of temple, but there's no physical description." Laura Roslin said sounding frustrated with herself for not paying closer attention to the scriptures.

Kara tuned them out of her head and she tired to find someway to make Sam understand what he walked into earlier. She was pulled back into reality when an awful buzzing sound came over the wireless.

"Kara what's going on?" Lee demand.

Kara was busy trying to figure out the same thing. "The Cylons are jamming the wireless…" she sighed, "…every frequency."

"Okay we need to establish hard communications. Work out a plan to defend this temple while Tyrol searches for it."

Kara snapped back glaring back at Lee. "Defend it with what? A dozen marines, maybe five more military?" She paused and then opened her mouth again. "Can I make a suggestion you won't like?"

Lee smirked and stared down at Kara. "Do you make any other kind?"

"Use Sam to command the civilians," she suggested.

"You're not serious."

"Why not? Lee, he'll do it."

Lee sighed and nodded knowing what was to come. He and Kara rose, exited the Raptor and headed toward the command center. Kara and Lee entered the building after their supposed talk with the Admiral and President Roslin.

"Lee." Sam greeted him his anger held in check just barely and only by the fact that there were others around, namely Dee, and Sam had no wish to throw in her face her husband's actions.

"Hey Sam," Lee said back.

"Sam, we need to talk." Kara said.

"Talk all you want just not about…" Sam was cut off by Kara.

"Can we do this later please?"

"Sam, I need you to command the civilians. Form them into fire-teams, I'll give my deployment orders through the Sergeant." Lee said.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait. Deployment orders? Fire-teams? Come on, some of these guys have never even held a rifle before." Sam replied blinking in surprise at Lee's orders.

"Well you're supposed to be the expert."

Sam shook his dirt-dusted head and crossed his arms over his chest. "No. We were guerrilla fighters, alright? Hit and run. I've never had to defend a fixed position."

"Well then you're just going to have to learn it fast because that's what we're doing. We're defending this fixed position until the Chief finds his Eye of Jupiter."

He just barely refrained rolling his eyes at the major. "Oh okay so you want us to risk our lives for something you haven't even found yet?" He asked his voice rising in anger and the foolishness of the mission.

"Listen Sam I don't have to tell you every little gods damn detail."

Sam got in Lee's face towering over the shorter man, his face a mask of anger, "You know what you have to explain to me."

Kara stepped in between them and put both her hands on Sam's chest, "Hey, hey, hey! The Major is in charge of this one, okay? Okay?"

Anders glanced down at his wife, into her hazel eyes and felt himself capitulating but he hardened his heart and replied stiffly, "I certainly wouldn't want to step between you and your Major." He gave her one last look his emotions hidden behind a mask of cold fury as he turned and strode out of the building, members of his team following.

TBC...

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