Green
Luscious green foliage, the very thing he'd craved to see since before the attacks, surrounds him – dripping with rain recently shed. Despite his yearning to see and experience real green again, all he can look at – all he can see – is the green of Laura's eyes, staring apprehensively at him. Bill retains the solemnity of his face as he presents Billy to Laura – re-uniting mother and son – and he swears that he will live to light her eyes the way they do when she first sees Billy. From dull green gems, her eyes become winking emeralds, glistening with the happiness of tears unshed. He realises in that moment that, no matter what she may have done, Bill has begun to live for her.
She had all but given up hope by the end of the first day – exhausted, lonely, mourning and dying, Laura felt as though she could never truly live again. And that is when Adama decides to make his entrance. Gazing at him in awe, she can't help but retreat into her thoughts for a few moments. If Laura had thought that Adama in his dress greys was sexy, she now has only positive remarks to make about his green-clad figure – despite all political reservations. Watching him as though he is a hallucination delivered by the Gods, Laura feels overwhelmed with joy when Billy – her Billy – emerges from behind her Commander's back. Feeling her eyes brim with tears, she throws herself at him, ecstatic that he has forgiven her. Bill looks on in near wonder and she can't suppress the grin that breaks out across her lips. She will be eternally grateful to Bill for bringing her Billy – her only son.
Now, mere months after the fact (though it seems more like years), Laura lies in sickbay, her figure a mockery of the person he now knows her to be. She deteriorates before his eyes, and he is powerless to stop it. Feeling weak and useless, Bill represses the sob that is attempting to choke its way out of his frame, and concentrates instead on the sensation of his heart being ripped out of his body at the very thought of her death. The sight of the President, Laura, with her eyes closed behind paper-thin lids, and hands grasping and clenched weakly around her sheets, is enough to drive him to grief.
Never, in all his life, has Bill missed the colour green so much as that day.
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