AN: Today's photo was inspired by my expression in an old photo of when a friend let slip that it was my birthday to the staff of a restaurant. To say that I looked pained would be an understatement

Clean up after breakfast was over quickly and Kara carried Billy over to the picture window in their living room and sat down on the cushioned bench so that they could see their street on this overcast day. A light drizzle was misting across their neighborhood, so on a day when yards were usually filled with the noises of shrieking children, it was unusually quiet.

Billy crawled out of his mother's lap and into the small gap between her legs and the window. His tiny hand slapped against the glass as he tried to figure out what was happening to the world outside.

Kara smiled when Billy looked up at her with his big blue eyes and made his 'What's going on?' noise.

"It's raining, honey," Kara said as Billy crawled back onto her lap, his mouth open in a little 'o' as if to say 'Look outside, Mommy'.

"Looks like we can't go to the park today."

"What was that?" Lee had finished up in the kitchen and was now leaning against the edge of the picture window behind Kara and Billy.

"Nothing," Kara said playfully as she shifted her legs so that Lee could join them on the bench.

Billy reached his pudgy arms out to his father and Lee obliged by plucking him from his mother's arms and settling the baby into his own lap.

"Would you look at that?" Lee spoke into Billy's soft hair as he bounced him up and down slightly.

Kara watched father and son together with a feeling of warmth spreading through her body, as it usually did. "Yup. Billy was just telling me about it."

"Was he?"

They both looked down at their son, who was once again staring transfixed at the water hitting and dripping down the window.

Then Kara noticed Billy's face scrunching up into that familiar expression, and as if on cue, Lee's nose wrinkled as the smell reached his nostrils.

Kara could only laugh as Lee looked at her, his expression imploring her to take pity on him this one time. But she just shook her head and gestured for him to get a move on.

She followed the path of the men in her life as they exited the living room, when one of the picture frames above their fireplace caught her eye. She didn't have to get up and take a closer look at it to know what was portrayed in the photo it contained.

It had been taken on the night of their "official" first anniversary. And much like their real one, it had not gone according to plan. They were looking straight at the camera with slightly strained smiles, with the arms of their unexpected companions around them.

What she remembered about that night was using every bit of energy she had to not pull a Starbuck in the middle of an extremely fancy restaurant, and watching the usually in-control Lee slowly fraying at the edges until they managed to get home.

But that had also been the night she'd told Lee that they were going to have a baby.

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She didn't know exactly when it started, but at some point even before either of them even acknowledged their true feelings, Kara began to actively wonder what the children of Starbuck and Apollo would look like.

Would they look like her?

Or would they look like him?

That was probably what scared her most about a potential relationship with Lee. With anyone else, she knew she could bail at any moment. But she could never leave if it was with him. She could actually see a future with Lee because she knew that she would grab on and hold on tight just as hard as he would.

That was why she ran. A mistake that she still occasionally gave herself grief for, because she could have had it all much earlier if it hadn't been for her cowardice.

But here she was, sitting on their bathroom counter, in their home in the suburbs, staring at a positive pregnancy test.

And all was right in the world.

Now it was just a question of how she was going to break the news to Lee.

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Kara let out a groan as she crawled onto their bed fully clothed. She stretched out covered her face with a pillow, more than happy to be home. She sighed silently as Lee came into the bedroom, continuing to apologize for how the night went.

"I swear, Kara, I had no idea that they would just invite themselves to join us like that-"

She let out another sigh, louder this time-but muffled by the pillow-and lifted the pillow off of her face to look at Lee staring at her from the foot of the bed. It took all of her self control to not laugh at the completely sorry look on his face.

It wasn't as if the debacle that had been their evening out was completely his fault. Sure, it was Lee who made the reservations at the restaurant for their "first" anniversary, but he couldn't have known that the Millers from down the street would arrive fifteen seconds after them, talk up a storm and ask for a table for four before either of them could get a word in edgewise.

"Give it a rest, will you?" Kara said with a touch of annoyance in her voice. "I'm not mad."

"Really?" Lee's reply sounded endearingly pathetic.

"Yeah. But if you keep talking, you're going to give me a fraking headache." She lightly tossed the pillow at his head and watched it softly bounce onto the floor.

"Sorry," Lee said with a sheepish smile.

He crawled onto the bed and Kara rolled over so that they were facing each other on their sides.

"Some anniversary," Lee muttered.

Kara shifted so that they were a little closer together. "It wasn't too bad."

"Only if you forget Bob's toast that the whole restaurant heard."

"At least we didn't have to pay for anything."

"Yeah."

A beat passed and they rolled onto their backs in a fit of laughter.

"Oh gods," Kara gasped out between giggles. "We're one of those couples now."

Eventually their laughter subsided and Lee toed off his shoes and got up off the bed to take off and hang up his jacket and tie.

"Next year will be better," he said with confidence as he fiddled with a hanger.

"Really?"

Kara had gotten off the bed to shed her own jacket. Lee took it from her and hung it up as well.

"Yeah. I'll fly us halfway around the world if I have to."

She smiled at the thought and sank against Lee's chest. The effort it had taken towards being polite to their dinner companions was finally catching up to her.

"That's nice," Kara mumbled, barely thinking about what she was saying. She was busier concentrating on how Lee's arms were holding her. "But I don't think it would be a good idea to go flying around with an infant."

Lee's "Huh?" woke her up again. She had just taken care of telling Lee about their baby without even knowing it.

She leaned back so that they were looking each other straight in the eye. "I don't think it would be a good idea to go flying around with an infant." A smile began to play at the corners of her lips, one that was reflected in her husband's mouth as well.

"Are you saying-?"

"I'm pregnant."

"We're going to be-?"

Kara just nodded, their smiles now bloomed fully across their faces.

"Yeah?"

"We're going to be parents, Lee."

Lee's arms tightened around her for the briefest moment, but then his eyes rolled to the back of his head, and he simply crumpled to the ground.

Kara stumbled in her attempt to avoid being pulled down with Lee.

"Lee!"

Her concern soon disappeared as she realized that her husband wasn't hurt and that he had just fainted.

Lee Adama, a man who could face down an entire squadron of Cylon raiders without blinking, had just fainted.

This was going to provide years' worth of ammunition.

"Did you just faint?" She tried hard to keep the laughter out of her voice but it was damn near impossible.

Kara helped Lee slowly sit up on the floor. He leaned back against the closet door, still disoriented.

His head rolled and his eyes slowly focused on her face. "What?"

"You fainted."

"No, I didn't," Lee weakly protested.

"Yes, you did."

"You're dreaming it, Kara."

"Then why are you on the floor?"

"I…slipped."

"No…it's sweet. You fainted when I told you that I'm pregnant."

"Alright…so I fainted," he was fully alert now, and fully aware of the pain he was in as well. "Ah, gods my head hurts."

Kara lightly ran her fingers through Lee's hair to make sure that he wasn't bleeding. She found a growing goose egg that drew a hiss out of Lee when her fingernail made contact.

She pressed a kiss to the bump. "Well here's a kiss to make it all better."

Lee turned his head to face Kara, and she looked at him, her expression suddenly looking young and vulnerable.

"Just don't faint on me when I'm in labor. Promise?"

"I promise, Kara."

"A baby…We're going to have a baby." Lee chuckled as realization sank in for him.

"Yeah."

He kissed her, long and sweet. "Gods, I love you."

"I love you, too."

Kara stood up and tugged at Lee's arm. "Alright. Let's get you into bed."

"Yeah."

They crawled under the covers, neither caring about the fact that they were still more or less fully dressed, and promptly fell asleep.

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Kara woke up the next morning with Lee spooned up behind her, their joined hands splayed protectively over her abdomen.

There was no doubt in her mind she could do this.

They could do this.

And more importantly: she wanted to do this.

Raising a family with Lee. There was nothing she wanted more.

She'd realized that when she saw that test.

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A ringing phone snapped Kara out of her reverie.

"Hello? Oh, hi, Laura." She spoke into the cordless phone as she slowly walked around the living room.

Just then, Lee walked in with a freshly diapered Billy in his arms.

'Laura,' Kara mouthed as she listened to Lee's stepmother speak to her.

Lee settled down on the floor with Billy still in his arms. They played together as Kara continued to speak into the phone.

"Uh huh… Yeah."

Kara waved her hand to get Lee's attention and mouthed 'Dinner tomorrow?' Lee nodded before looking back at Billy, who was now wriggling and trying to get free.

"Of course we'll be there…Don't worry…See you then…Bye."

She placed the phone back in its cradle and plopped herself down on the couch and watched and laughed as her husband chased their now-liberated baby as he crawled at a lightning-quick pace across the living room carpet.