AN: Wow. It has been forever since I last laid eyes on this baby. But I needed fluff and it was slow in coming from you guys so I made it my own. Hope you guys need it as much as I do.
Lee slowly became aware of a tiny hand being pressed up against his lips and a small knee around the vicinity of his ear. It was when he felt the all too familiar sensation of drool sliding down his cheek that his eyes snapped open to see Billy looking down at him and Kara grinning widely.
"Good morning, Daddy," Kara cooed as she lifted Billy so that Lee could sit up.
Lee sat himself up against the headboard. "Good morning," he mumbled before letting out a huge yawn.
Kara moved to sit next to him and let Billy go to crawl into his father's lap. "About time you got up." She caught his lips for a good morning kiss.
"It's Saturday, Kara. People usually sleep in on Saturdays." But Lee was now wide awake and playing with their happily babbling son and the toys Kara had laid out on the bed.
"Yeah, well tell that to Billy. He's already changed and had breakfast." Kara leaned in and whispered her next words into Lee's ear, "Guess who gets to change him next."
The smile on Lee's face turned slightly pained. "Oh, we're going to celebrate the day you're potty trained, Billy."
Billy just smiled and handed him a brightly colored ring.
"Yeah well, we're going to have to wait awhile for that," Kara said. She rested her head against Lee's shoulder and received another ring from her son. He got tickled on his tummy in return.
Kara was sure that she could spend the rest of the day in bed and draw out this happy private family moment for as long as possible. But then her stomach began to growl and she realized that she hadn't had her breakfast yet.
"Feed me, Lee," Kara bluntly said into Lee's ear.
Lee turned his head away from Billy to see Kara attempting what she considered to be a cute pout.
He just rolled his eyes as he scooped Billy into his arms and got out of bed.
As the family made their way downstairs, a photo of Kara and Lee at the reception of his boss' fourth wedding caught Lee's eye.
The party itself had been nothing but an opportunity for the old man to parade around his latest dim bulb of a trophy wife, but they had danced the night away, having fun nonetheless.
In the photo, Kara was wearing a dark blue dress that revealed her slight baby bump while Lee was dressed in a black suit with a tie that was the same color as her dress.
His suit jacket had fallen open as he leaned over to be closer to his wife, the silver gleam of a fountain pen just visible in his inside pocket, while a gold chain and pendant hung from his wife's neck.
They were anniversary presents the two of them had exchanged on their first anniversary. Their real one. Not the one a month later that everyone else knew about.
Lee smiled down at where Billy was currently using his slobbery fingers to tug at the collar of his t-shirt.
"Did I ever tell you about what Mommy and I did on our first anniversary?"
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Kara could vaguely remember being in a good mood that morning.
She had woken up to the smell of chocolate chip pancakes filling the house, and walked into the kitchen to see that Lee had been in the process of preparing breakfast in bed. She remembered laughing and kissing away the disappointment on his face when he saw that she was up.
Then she got to work and her day immediately went to hell in a hand basket.
Mechanical problems and only one working plane meant that she spent her morning on the phone shuffling lessons around and she had the mother of all headaches by lunch.
She headed home early after coming close to punching the head mechanic after he managed to render the last plane useless. She flopped onto the couch, fully intending to unload Lee when he got home and forcing him to pamper her.
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Lee walked through the front door and saw Kara sound asleep on the couch.
She was frowning in her sleep and the wisps of hair that had fallen out of her ponytail lay matted against her sweaty forehead.
He gently placed a hand on her cheek. She stirred at his touch. Her eyes slowly opened to focus on his face.
"Tough day?"
Kara nodded, looking like a cranky little child on the verge of tears after a bad day at school as she shifted to find a better position on the couch.
Lee smiled comfortingly and softly kissed her.
"Why don't I go get changed and I'll come back down and rub your feet?"
That got him a small smile and another nod.
She called out to him as he made his way to the stairs, "Hey."
He turned and saw Kara's face scrunched up in confusion.
"Don't you have a dinner meeting or something tonight?"
Lee fought to hide his smirk before turning around. She had completely forgotten and he had a couple of phone calls to make. "It was cancelled,"
"Oh."
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Dinner that night was pizza and soda eaten on the couch with their feet up on the coffee table.
Lee quietly munched on his second slice while focusing on Kara's venting as she continued to graphically describe the shortcomings of everyone she worked with, having only picked up steam from the slow beginning she had as he rubbed her feet.
Finally, the profanity petered off as Kara ran out of things to say.
"Feel better?" he asked.
"Not really. I hate that place, Lee."
Lee wrapped an arm around Kara's shoulders and pulled her in close. She automatically snuggled up against her husband's solid body.
"You can always quit and find another school," Lee murmured into her hair. "Or you can start your own. We have the money and you've built up your reputation, so it wouldn't be too hard to attract students."
"No."
"What?" The finality of how she had said it even surprised Kara.
"No." Their bodies separated a bit so that they could look each other in the eye. "I think I'm done with flying. It's all I've known for so long and I want to move on now."
"Okay. So what are you going to do?"
"I don't know. Maybe I could just be a wife for a while."
They both snorted with laughter as they again moved closer together, knowing that there really was no way that Kara would stay home and cook and clean without one of them getting hurt within a week.
A comfortable silence settled over them before Lee remembered he had something to give to Kara.
"Wait a minute. I got you a present."
He got up and went to his hiding spot in the house and brought back a thin square package wrapped in light green wrapping paper that they kept around the house.
"Here."
Kara smiled as she reached out and accepted her gift.
"Thanks. But what's it-?"
She quickly turned red as she realized what the occasion was. Kara squeezed her eyes closed in embarrassment. "Oh gods…our first anniversary...dinner meeting…we had dinner plans and everything."
She groaned, dropped the box onto her lap, and covered her face with her hands. "I completely forgot."
"Hey," Lee put his arm around his wife's shoulders and pulled her towards him. "I know work's been tough."
"But still…Why didn't you tell me earlier?" Her voice was muffled by her hands.
He brought her hands down from her face and gave her a comforting smile. "I figured that the last thing you wanted was to be hassled tonight. Besides. We can do something fancy next month."
She just nodded and stared at the package in her lap.
"Well? Aren't you going to open it?"
Kara smiled once again and eagerly ripped off the wrapping paper to reveal a box from the same jewelers her engagement ring had come from.
"It's beautiful," she breathed when she opened the box to see what it contained.
Inside was a delicate gold chain, upon which a pendant of two dolphins swimming around a round cut diamond hung.
"Dolphins?"
"They remind me of you."
She smiled at the memories of a day trip they had taken to go see dolphins and killer whales perform just a few months before, and how those beautiful animals effortlessly moved through their element in complete synchrony. Much like how she and the man sitting next to her did in all aspects of their lives.
Kara pulled the necklace out of the box and held it out to Lee.
"Put it on for me?"
Lee took the chain from her hands and Kara turned around and lifted her hair up from her neck. He fastened the clasp and placed a kiss on the soft skin of the back of her neck before moving his wife's hands so that her hair fell freely down her back.
Kara turned around with an expectant look in her eyes.
"Well?"
"It's a good look on you."
That made Kara laugh as she fingered the pendant. She was wearing an old, worn t-shirt with holes at the hem and on the sleeves, and a pair of shorts. Her new necklace stood out in stark contrast with the comfortable shabbiness of her attire.
Then she remembered that she had gotten Lee an anniversary present herself.
"Wait right here. Don't move. Okay?"
Kara came running back with a package of her own in her hand. The wrapping paper around it had come from the same roll from their junk cupboard Lee had used to wrap her present.
She all but jumped back onto the couch next to him and held his present in front of his face.
"I didn't completely forget," she said gleefully.
Lee took the present from her, ripped off the wrapping paper, and opened the box that was revealed. Inside the box was a silver fountain pen that glinted against the light of the lamps in the living room.
"A hotshot lawyer like you shouldn't be using cheap pens you can buy by the dozen."
Turning it in his hands, Lee noticed the tiny delicate letters that had been engraved around the cap like a band. He smiled as he made them out.
"KALLA?" he asked, already knowing what it meant.
"Kara Adama loves Lee Adama."
He put the fountain pen onto the coffee table and pulled his wife to him, pressing their smiling mouths together.
"Gods, I love you." Their lips brushed against each others as they spoke.
"And you don't care who fraking knows, right?"
"Definitely."
They pulled themselves closer to each other so that their bodies were flush
Kara abruptly pulled back, just as Lee's hands made their way under her shirt and up her belly. "Wait."
"What?"
She quickly unclasped the necklace around her neck and hastily put it back in its box.
Lee looked at her quizzically, but she just shoved him backwards so that she was straddling him on the couch.
"I don't want to lose it," she said just before her lips came crashing back down on Lee's.
That was the last coherent thing either of them said for a long time.
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"…and then Mommy gave me the fountain pen I use all the time. And do you know what happened next, Billy?" Lee looked over his shoulder as he bustled around the kitchen preparing breakfast for his wife.
Kara shot him a warning glare from her seat next to Billy's high chair at the kitchen table. She knew her way around the kitchen and where all the sharp objects were, and Lee knew it.
But her husband was unperturbed and continued to talk as he stacked pancakes onto plates and brought them to the already set table.
"That was the night Mommy decided to quit her job as a flight instructor and begin to paint full time."
Lee smiled at Kara and began cutting into his breakfast and she began to do the same.
It was when she put that first bite in her mouth that he leaned in close and whispered into her ear: "That was also the night I decided to get the fireplace installed."
Remembering what they did on the living room floor that night and the pillow talk that followed, Kara could only blush with her fork frozen in her mouth.
AN: Absolutely nothing beats writing with a good fountain pen. Get one for yourself and the person you love. You will never use anything else to write. Ever.