Ch. 2
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With an angry growl Starbuck chunked the flashlight into the enclosed room. It echoed as the flashlight clanged into God's knows what.
"Dammit Kara, there might have been batteries or something in here for that."
"Sorry," she grumbled, reached her arms out tentatively to explore her surroundings.
Her hands collided with his chest and he startled, grabbing her wrists.
"Please warn me before you start grabbing," he sighed, keeping a hold of one of her wrists as he guided them the a wall and sunk down to a sitting position.
"You aren't going to be pissy-boy with me the whole time we're trapped in here are ya?" she asked, trying to make light of the situation.
"Well it's kinda hard not to be a little frustrated with you considering it was you that got us into this mess," he retorted.
"Oh please mister 'need any help??'," she mocked in a whiny voice.
"Not my fault he assigned me to an incompetent partner. Me and Kat would be on the 5th hatch by now," his voice mirroring the smirk on his face.
"I'm too hot for this," she muttered, not taking the bite. He knew her intense rivalry with Kat was getting to her more than usual.
"I'm going to feel around, see what I can find that might be useful," he said, changing the subject.
"There isn't anything in here," she told him, wiping sweat from the backs of her knees with her damp palms.
He banged around the room for awhile until his hand found her moist shoulder and he sat beside her.
"Well, I found our busted flashlight and I believe some women's underwear. At least I'm hoping it's womens," he said.
"Hm, those might be mine," she replied, a smile in her voice.
They sat in silence for a while, listening to the eerie ticks and clangs the sleeping ship made as she floated in space. Lee's breathing had become deep and steady so Kara wondered warily if he had drifted off to sleep. The thought was tempting for herself, the heat far too overwhelming. Sleep would help skip out on an hour or so of misery.
"Lee?" she whispered.
There was no answer so she curled up on the hard ground, welcoming the cool metal on her hot skin. Her knees barely rested against his thigh as a way to keep him near. She would never admit it to anyone but she had always been afraid of the dark. Not because of the possibility of monsters lurking in the shadows, but because she feared the abandonment that comes with being in total darkness.
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Lee woke, blinking his eyes in confusion. It's strange to wake up and open your eyes to a darkness that's just as deep as behind the curtain of your eyelids. It's like you can't open your eyes at all.
He rotated his neck, working out the tension caused by sleeping propped against a hard wall. He then leaned a little to the side, expecting to bump shoulders with Kara. When he realized she wasn't there his heart jumped momentarily.
He calmed when he realized her knees were next to his leg and he gently put his hand down to find her body. His fingertips grazed what felt like her hip bone and his other hand found the side of her head. Her hair was damp with sweat and her skin felt like fire.
Pursing his lips he gently blew air onto her face but stopped when he felt her stir. He lifted his hands off her slowly and sat still waiting for her to calm back into a deep sleep.
As awful and inconvienant it was to be trapped inside here on a day like this it was nice in a way to have her near and safe. You never know who's going to make it out alive in this war. You never know who's face you'll never see again at the end of a hard day. This just made one more day a safe day. She was safe here with him.
"Lee?" she asked groggily.
"Yeah?"
She sat up, sighing and groaning from falling asleep on something harder than her bunk.
"Just seeing if you were awake," she replied, her voice hoarse.
"I keep thinking about how nice that cold shower is gonna be," he said softly.
"I think i'd rather drink it than stand in it. I'm so frakking thirsty," she admitted.
"The power will be back up soon. They'll all realize the hatches aren't working and find us," he offered.
"Nothing ever comes that easy when it has to do with my suffering. I'm telling you, the God's have cursed me," she explained matter of factly.
He chuckled and rolled his eyes even though he knew she couldn't see him do so. He gave her shoulder a little squeeze and was surprised when he felt her lips graze his knuckles and hair tickle his fingers.
He then felt her hand wrap around his neck and lower his face to hers.
His lips grazed hers, reveling the feel of her moistened lips against his. He wanted his lips to remember the way hers felt against them. So full and damp. There was barely any pressure in the kiss. Lips just rested against lips, hot breath tickling at their faces.
He wanted to taste so he let his tongue trace the fullness of her barely parted lips, darting barely inside the gap between opened lips.
They startled apart when the lights suddenly glared down on them and the ship buzzed back to life.
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to be continued...
