Sorry that I haven't updated in awhile. I was on vacation for a couple weeks and then I had my surgery and today is my first day home since my surgery. So lets get back to the story...

"Kara?" Leoben asked but she didn't answer. "Are you alright? I told the Centurion not to fire at you but they are programmed to shoot down any Raptor on this planet." He took a deep breath and let it out slowly while smiling. "It's good to see you again. Let's get you out of here and back home where you belong…" He smiled "…with me."

"Don't…" was all that Kara was able to yell as she tried to move as far away as she could from him.

"Let me help you before you do anymore damage to you and our baby." Leoben grabbed the edge of the dashboard that was pinning her in place.

It's not yours Leo..." Kara's gasped and bit her bottom lips hard as a wave of pain shot through her body.

Anders shook his head with a laugh of pure disbelief, "I can't believe you'd try to shoot me Major. What the hell good would I be shot and bleeding or even dead? You'll have to kill me Adama for that will be the only way you'll stop me from going out there and finding my wife!"

Sam stared down the man in front of him before turning on his heel to come point blank with the handgun of the good Sergeant. "Go ahead and shoot, but if you do, I can promise you that my people will leave you to be slaughtered by the Cylons!" Sam then knocked her hand away and strode out of the building almost waiting to feel the bite of a bullet between his shoulder blades.

Kara had forgotten all about the baby. She prayed that somehow she and the baby would make it out together, both alive. Simon came into Kara's view out of the Raptor and helped Leoben pulled the dashboard off of her chest and moved it out of her way. She gasped as her chest filled back up fully again. Letting out deep heavy coughs and there it was again. She'd felt it shortly after waking from the crash – a tightening of the skin and muscles in her abdomen. Not now Lords of Kobol; please not now.This is not the time nor the place for this.

Leoben and Simon pulled Kara out of the Raptor and to her feet. Leoben took off her broken helmet and threw it back on the chair of her ship. He didn't miss the flinching look that quickly passed over her features nor did Simon. "Kara, are you okay?" They both said in unison. Simon grabbed her sidearm and took it away from her.

She nodded in shocked that they cared about her, but didn't speak to them. She was concentrating harder on telling her body not to do what it was obviously trying to start doing. "It's too early for this," she let out of her lips as Leoben lead her away from her Raptor. She grabbed her stomach as she walked as the waves of pain kept coming.

In the end Lee had no choice but to let Sam go, he knew that one word from Anders and the civilian contingent of their workforce would drop everything and follow him. As it was he took one other with him making sure to leave Jean Barolay, his 2IC, in charge until he returned.

"Any idea where we'll find her, Sam?" John Hamada asked. John was one of the Sam's resistance members on Caprica and New Caprica.

"Dee said that they tracked her to the west near the hills," he said face a mask against the fear that would consume him if he allowed himself to really think about what her crashing could mean. But he wasn't going to allow himself to think about that or anything but finding her. "Keep an eye out, we've toasters crawling all over the place."

"You got it boss," Hamada replied following Sam into the wooded area.

After an hour of walking, Simon looked at Kara and then back to Leoben. "That cut on her head its pretty deep. Set her down Leoben and let me check her out before she passes out on us again." Simon demanded as he tried to pull Kara out of Leoben's tight grasp on her arm.

"I'm frakking fine! Let go of me, you frakking toasters!" Kara yelled at the two phony machines trying to live their lives as humans. She was telling the truth to them though; all of a sudden there was no pain. But that could be from the Adrenaline flowing through her now. She tried to free herself from their grip on her as Leoben and Simon bickered between each other.

"We will check to see what's going on with her once we are cleared of Kara's crash site." Leoben pointed to the cliffs in the distance. "There might be caves that we can use. We need to get her out of the sun and lie her down."

"No we don't need to walk up there. I have a Raider coming for us. It should be here with in the hour to take us back home." Simon looked up and around the sky before looking down at Kara. "We will be gone by the time they figure out that she was taken instead of burning to death in her Raptor."

"What!?" Kara yelled uncertain what was about to take place.

Simon reached into his pocket and grabbed a detonator. Behind them Kara's Raptor exploded and turned into a huge fireball as they dragged her off to the landing site of the Raider.

Anders and Hamada were an hour into their search when an explosion, and fairly close, rocked the area. The two men instinctively got to their knees until the ground stopped shaking. Sam glanced first to see that his companion was unhurt and then as if they were thinking the same thing for as one. They hurried toward where the explosion came from.

They both stopped dead when they finally found the wreckage. Sam's heart seemed to stop beating when he saw what little was left of the Raptor. "Kara?... Kara!" He yelled and began to rush forward but John stopped him.

"Sam, listen to me, if she was in there, there wouldn't be anything left to recover," he said gently as they stared at the inferno the heat so intense that they couldn't get any closer than they were to it. As it was they both were coughing from the massive amount of thick black smoke that filled the air around them.

Hamada pulled the reluctant Anders back, Sam trying to get nearer when something caught his eye. Above them high in the hills he saw movement. Hope flared in his chest as he disengaged the other man's hands and grabbed his binoculars. He focused in on the movement seeing a flash of color against the dull dry colors of the background. Then he caught a glimpse of blond hair. He zoomed in and then he swore viciously.

"What is it?" John asked.

"The good news is that Kara is alive…" Sam pointed out handing the binoculars to the other man "…the bad news is that Leoben and Simon have her."

"I say let's get on the ball, your wife looks a bit hot under the collar."

Quickly, the two men headed off following their targets.

Leoben set Kara down underneath a tree that didn't look more than a stick with twigs coming off of it. The important thing to him was that it provided enough shade to get Kara out of the sun's heat. After walking another fifteen minutes, Kara looked like death warmed over. She had become even pastier than before and was sweating more than Leoben and Simon put together. "How are you feeling Kara?" Leoben asked before ripping part of his shirt to use as a rag to clean up the cut on her forehead.

Kara didn't answer him and continued to look back at the smoke in the distance that was coming from what used to be a Colonial Raptor. She didn't even move when Leoben applied too much pressure to her forehead. She just continued to stare.

Simon pulled Leoben away as he saw movement coming from Kara's scorched Raptor. "They found the Raptor but they are too late." Simon pointed up to the sky as a Cylon heavy Raider came into view. Both of them were facing away from Starbuck.

Kara noticed Simon pointing in the sky and saw the Raider was well. She pulled her right leg in closer to her body and reached in her flightsuit's pocket for the knife they had in them. She flipped it open and got to her feet. Quietly she stood behind the two Cylon models that still didn't know that she was there.

Her knife went for the throat on Simon. She slit it and he fell to the ground holding his neck as he bled out. Kara grabbed the blade of the knife and threw it straight at Leoben, hitting him dead center between the eyes. Both bodies were dead by the time the Raider landed in front of Kara. She reached down and pulled out her knife from Leoben's skull and grabbed the gun tucked away in his pants.

Anders was pushing them he knew and the heat was getting to his companion; if he were honest with himself it was getting to him as well but there was no way he was going to rest before he got Kara back safe and sound. He was glad on one hand that the skinjobs had gotten to her before the ship went up in a fireball, but now that sick obsessed Cylon had her again. There was no frakking way that he was going to hold her prisoner again if he had anything to say about it.

Plus Sam was furious with her to be flying in the first place. She should have been safely tucked on Galactica preparing as best they could for the arrival of their child. How dare Lee and the Admiral risk the lives of his wife and child! There were other pilots just as qualified as Kara! Even if there wasn't, she was pregnant for frak's sake! When I get her back to that bucket, I'll make damn sure that she was going to stay there even if I have to tie her to the blasted bed for the duration!

He stopped for a moment to catch his breath and wipe the sweat from his eyes. He took a drink from his canteen and surveyed the area. Sam knew about where the trio was so he had his effort trained there while John took a drink and wiped the sweat from his face. "Looks like they've slowed up a bit," Sam commented concerned as he found a blood trail leading up to the nearest hill. Either Kara was resisting a lot or she was severely injured. He rather thought the latter was the case for he couldn't see her resisting over much, but they were still quite a distance away and couldn't see clearly what was happening.

"I'm good to go boss," Hamada said.

"Let's go then."

The heavy Raider's hatch opened as Kara stood there on top of the hill next to it. Two Centurions came crawling out of its dark hallow. Before they had a chance to look up at the hill, she brought her gun up in one smooth movement, aimed and fired. Anybody within a two click radius would have heard her gun fire. She dropped her now empty sidearm, pulled back out her knife and walked up to the Raider.

She found it complete empty inside and let out a deep sigh of relief. It was finally over or so she thought it was. She leaned up against the wall of the Raider and let her back slide down it as she legs gave out on her. She looked up at the control center, pondering on if she should fly herself out of here and back to Galactica, but she couldn't manage the gather the strength for it. Before she knew it; she let her eyes closed, the grip around her knife loosen as it fell to the floor as she leaned back on the wall of the Raider with her hands clutching around her stomach.

It was close to another forty five minutes before the two men could get to the place where Kara, apparently, had been able to take care of the two Cylons. Sam's heart lightened considerably. "That's my girl," he said in admiration. "Now where did you take off to?" He asked rhetorically. He studied the two corpses dispassionately as well as the surrounding area. It was then that they heard gunfire. The two men hurried in the direction of the sound. They saw a Raider and a couple of Centurions on the ground near by. Sam motioned Hamada to scout around the left side of the area while he took the right. For the moment it was clear so silently the men cautiously approached the Raider.

"Starbuck," Sam called out softly. The grip he had on his gun tightened as he entered the ship cautiously. He spotted his wife half lying half sitting against the wall, apparently unconscious. "Kara!" He rushed to her, his fingers went to her neck to check her pulse which was strong and steady and then to the mound of her belly praying that his child was alright.

"I'll help you get her out of here," John said as he too knelt at Kara's side.

Anders shook his head. "I think for the moment we're better off in here," he said suddenly tensing. "Look," he pointed at the window. Just up the hill was a group of shiny bulletheads headed their way.

"We stay here, we're going straight to Hades. We possibly can't take on all of those toasters with just two guns." John said with panic in his voice walking up to the window of the Raider.

"Just go for the heads like we did on Caprica." Sam bickered back. "Easy kill."

"On Caprica that was a different story Anders. We were the ones that were doing the ambushing not the other way around." John said as he flung his gun around the cockpit of the heavy Raider. "So we stay and hold this position?"

Sam released Kara's head to gently place it leaning on the wall of the Raider then stood up in front of John. "Yeah we hold this position. What else did you think you and I were going to do, fly the Raider out of here?"

"No…" John paused and looked away from Sam and looked around the Raider towards Kara. "…but we do know someone that can." John pointed with his head down at the limp unconscious body of Kara and then back to Sam. "Wake her up and have her teach us. Come on Sam she's a flight instructor after all."

"Kara is probably suffering from a severe concussion, internal bleeding, broken bones, and more when she crashed her Raptor hours ago. My unborn child that she is carrying could be dead. And you want me to wake her up so we can have school with today's lesson being on flying a Cylon Raider while there are Centurions outside right now?!" Sam yelled back at John.

"Or you can use the Raider's weapons or wait for him to come and find us," Kara's voice interrupted the two bickering men not seeing who they were with the sun blinding her eyes. Her ears were still ringing when her Raptor alarm buzzing in them plus with the latest gun fire so she couldn't hear who they were. Also with her concussion she wasn't thinking straight either. "He'll come, he always comes." Kara said staring at the blank wall of the Raider in front of her. "He has to come."

Sam's head snapped around at the sound of Kara's weak voice and he knelt at her side. "Kara?" He said his hand running over her face gently. "Kara what are you talking about?"

"He'll come, he always comes when things go from bad to worse."

Sam grew more worried as the moments passed. Kara seemed not to fully be here. "Who's coming Kara?"

Still not making eye contact with Sam she whispered. "Anders."

"I'm here babe," he felt her resisting his touch, "Kara, it's me, Sam. I'm here for you sweetheart," he said.

"Anders, we have movement out in the treeline." John reported. "I still say she can tell us how to fly this hunk of junk."

"Just stow it Hamada!" Sam snapped. 'Frakking idiot,' he said to himself wishing he'd been able to bring Jean along. The guy tended to panic at the least little provocation and Sam didn't have time to try and console him.

"Sam?" Kara questioned blinking. Obviously she was having trouble seeing clearly which worried him all the more. He'd blocked the light that was beaming into the cockpit with his upper body as he leaned over her. She blinked again and this time a relieved smile crossed her lips. "About frakking..." She gasped again in pain, "... time Anders."

"What can I say? We took the scenic route," he quipped. "Tell me where you're hurt Starbuck," he gently ordered. "Is the baby alright?"

"How do you think I feel? I fell out of the frakkin' sky of Gods sakes Anders." She yelled back at Sam.

"There's my Starbuck," Sam smiled. "Now really tell me where you're hurt."

"My head and chest are killing me, has been since I woke up the first time…" She paused and rethought about when that was. "…in the Raptor. The dashboard pinned me down and some of it went through my helmet. My legs were hurting but their not anymore. I couldn't move them when I was pinned in my seat. My back and stomach. Frak my whole body hurts."

Sam rubbed his thumb over her cheek. "Kara what about the baby? Is he alright?" He asked concerned and worried for their baby. Kara just glared at him once again calling the baby a boy and Sam know that was the reason for the glare.

Shaking her head, Kara still kept her eye contact with Sam. "I… I don't know. I think so. I haven't given it any thought since Leoben and Simon rescued me from my Raptor."

Sam tensed, "What do you mean rescued? Kara they blew up your Raptor." He looked down at the floor of the Raider. "Tell me have you felt the baby move since the crash?"

"Does a false alarm count? I had a series of contractions back near the Raptor but they stop," she paused, "yes I have felt a lot of kicking and punching right before I killed Leoben." She paused again as she remembers John and Sam talking about Centurions outside. "Sam we have to get out of here, it's not safe. Weapons are on the right side of the…" The Raider swims dangerously and the blackness around her returns once again.

"Kara?!"

TBC