Disclaimer: Not mine, I just play with the characters.

Leoben finds life on the basestar strange after so much time in the makeshift prison aboard Galactica. He's allowed to move around the ship wherever he'd like. He meets with many different models and finds that most don't have names. He begins to mark the difference between the ones he speaks to. When he is alone he tries to figure out how he can make it back to the fleet.

One day Leoben is invited to a meeting with some of the other models. They're voting on whether to try to kidnap Kara.

"No." He says simply.

"Why not?" Cavil says. "The hybrid has been telling us for a year now that Kara Thrace is Aurora; The goddess of light and the one that will lead us to our home."

"Does the hybrid say she has to be here with you for that to occur?" Leoben asks rather calmly.

"The hybrid has predicted that if Kara is left in the fleet she will lead the fleet to the Promised Land, not us. So yes she has stated that Kara needs to be here to lead us." D'anna states. Leoben sighs.

"Let's put this to a vote." Cavil says.

"You haven't even heard why you shouldn't kidnap her." He says, his voice rising in panic.

"Very well." D'anna says.

"If you take her, she will fight. She will fight every day. She will make you break her before she will lead you anywhere."

"So?" The models say in unison.

"I would think it would be better if she were whole and complete to lead us."

"And how do you think that will happen?"

"Leave her where she is. Follow the fleet. The promise land should be large enough that the humans will never even have to see us." At this comment the sixes and the eights look hopeful.

"If they find us, they will try to destroy us." Cavil says with finality. "Come let us put it to a vote." The ones, twos, fours and fives all vote to continue with the missions to try to capture Kara. Leoben stares at the other copy of him and feels sick. One of the centurions comes in and "says" something to Cavil. He smiles wickedly and turns to Leoben.

"Would you come with us?" He says ominously. Leoben nods slightly and follows Cavil. He is taken to the docking bay, a place he rarely goes. He looks puzzled at Cavil and then he hears it. He hears her voice. She is screaming at something and from the sounds of it she is smacking the centurion guard. Before he realizes what he is doing he's moving towards her, towards the sound of her voice.

A centurion stops him before he gets close but he notices she stops struggling a little when she sees him, and then she is throwing her whole body into fighting her captors. One of the one models smacks her across the face and Leoben loses it. He grabs the centurion and tears it to pieces, along with his hands. He barely notices as he walks swiftly to her. He grabs the Ones arm as he raises it to strike at her again and dislocates the Ones shoulder. The centurion guard lets go of her arms and moves to assist the One.

"Enough." Cavil says. The centurions stop advancing and Leoben lets go of the other one model before moving swiftly to embrace Kara.

"Persephone." He whispers into her ear. He hears her breath catch and pulls away to look into her eyes. He notices she looks at him in disbelief, pain washing over her face as she looks at him. He presses her against him again, to make that look go away. "Oh gods Kara I've missed you."

"But you're dead." She says numbly. "I watched you die. The other two said there wasn't a hub near by…" Her voice trailed off at the end. "Did you do this?" She pushes away from him angrily realizing it might have been his plan to take her.

"No it wasn't his plan or decision and he wasn't included until the final vote which he voted against taking you, but the point was really moot by then. We already had you." Cavil steps up next to the couple. "Leoben why don't you take her to your quarters and let her settle down a bit before she goes to see the hybrid."

Kara looks confused from her husband to the priest she'd met on the Battlestar a while back. She knew there was a reason he gave her the creeps. Leoben takes her hand and leads her away from the docking bay.

"How long have I been gone?" He asks as they walk the halls.

"Four months now." She says quietly. His body jerks at that realization.

"Did they stop attacking once they had me?"

"For a while." She says absentmindedly. She moves up to stand in front of him staring once again. "This can't be real. I've had dreams like this before."

"Dreams where you're kidnapped?" He asks amused slightly.

"Well, no. But I've had dreams that you were alive. Dreams so real that I looked for you the next day only to discover you were gone." She heaves a sigh. "And yet here you are." She slips her hand into his. "Healthy and whole."

He stops in the corridor and his hand moves to her face and he traces her features lightly. She closes her eyes. "I dream about you every night. Maybe this is my dream and I'll wake in the morning looking for you. But it feels real." He comments the last part almost to himself as if he's trying to convince himself that she is real and there within his grasp.

Kara is keenly aware of other models of cylons passing them by. "Can we take this somewhere else?" She asks unnerved at how they're staring at her and Leoben. He begins walking again. "So what did he mean by taking me to the hybrid?"

"Ah. The hybrid sees the patterns of what is there, whether it's the past, present or the future."

"She's like their oracle?" Kara asks a bit confused that machines would have made a model for predicting the future.

"Well they are used to pilot the ships. They're intimately integrated into the ships computers. For some unknown reason they speak out loud and what they say can be interpreted as predictions."

"Do you believe they're predictions?" She asks as he leads her into his quarters. Kara notices there are things left around; His shirt on the ground, a book and cup on the table. She smiles and feels better just having things around that look human. The rest of the ship with its surgical cleanliness was starting to give her the creeps.

"I believe they're ambiguous enough to be predictions. So far she hasn't told me much."

"You've seen her?"

"Yes."

"What did she tell you?"

"And I quote "Persephone awaits to be awakened into Aurora as the light of the two melds with hers". My designation is two onboard. You have been my Persephone for years now." She opens her mouth to protest. "You are always away from me for a few months at a time. I may not have kidnapped you and fooled you into staying with me forever but you are my Persephone. Well I may have fooled you into staying with me." He finished smiling sadly. She purses her lips at that comment.

"I came back willingly." She says turning to him. "I married you willingly. And I can't be Persephone. What do you think she meant by Aurora? The one who leads them into daylight? And how will our light meld? You're right that is a bit ambiguous." He steps up to her and pulls her arms around his neck as he moves his hands down her sides and pulls her close.

"I can think of a few ways to meld." He says suggestively.

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"How can you expect me to lead you to Earth?" Kara asks outraged as she sits across the table from the priest and one of the six models.

"The hybrid has said you will." Six spreads her hands as if that is enough of an explanation.

"What I mean is how can you expect me to cooperate with you when you've nukes my home world, killed my husband and kidnapped me? You're not even sure how I'm supposed to help." She sighs.

"We're sure it's with the two model. Whether or not that means your husband is still up for debate." Kara's mouth drops.

"You're not suggesting what I think you're suggesting." Leoben speaks the shock at the implication of what Cavil had just indicated.

"We're not suggesting anything." Six says calmly. "We're simply asking that you be open to assisting us." Kara shakes her head.

"No. If I understand correctly I am to lead everyone to Earth, not just the cylons and not just the humans."

"Look what the humans do to their planets. They turn on one another killing, raping, desecrating God's gifts. They are unworthy of the gift of Earth." Another one of the twos rants.

"Gods that's still creepy. And I am human you stupid toaster. You just listed a lot of reasons to hate humanity, sure but what about the cylons? You nuked 12 colonies. Caprica City had 7 million inhabitants alone. You desecrated the gods' gifts as well, so you tell me why you're so much more entitled to Earth than the humans."

"We are God's children. We were chosen to rid the universe of your species."

"Oh yeah? And who told you that? Your hybrids? Or did you come up with that all on your own?" Kara sneered leaning across the table towards Cavil. Cavil inclines his head a fraction and two centurions come up behind Leoben, her Leoben, and takes him by the arms.

"If you will not agree to just accompany us we will force your hand." Cavil says calmly. Before Kara can turn the centurions snap Leoben's neck. She winces at the sound and turns back to look at Cavil, finally understanding how completely nuts he really is.

"He'll just come back." She states.

"Yes but we'll keep killing him. Maybe not immediately but each time we ask and are refused, we will kill him." Kara's eyes flick over Six's face, who is completely horrified. The other two that had been sitting next to Leoben looked slightly amused. Kara felt sick.

"Escort our guest back to Leoben's quarters." The other two model jumps up at that. Six stands calmly and intervenes.

"I'm sure Kara would like some different clothes. I will escort her back and see to her needs." When they're far enough away Six speaks. "That was not part of the plan."

"He's completely nuts isn't he?"

"He didn't used to be but I think being trapped on this vessel is starting to get to him. His model was on Caprica before the attacks."

"Well thank-you for saving me from the other two. Why are some of them so creepy?"

"We're not sure. Part of it is their obsession with you and your Leoben. They've had years to study the hybrid's prophesies. They feel like they've known you longer than your model. At least that's my guess. I'll bring your husband by when he's finished downloading." She says almost cheerily as she leaves Kara alone with a pile of clean clothes.

TBC...