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Title: Sleepless Nights
Author: GEM
Date: 6-10-07
Rating: K+
Category: Challenge BSGShipper Challenge 2
Genre: Drama/Romance
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Author's Note: A trip back to seasons one and two but a little AU and a trip into "A day in the Life", during season 3—some of the lines in the final chapter are taken directly from that episode.
Chapter 2 Interlude I- Laura
Getting to know William Adama was harder than she hoped. They would forge a working relationship and a semi-friendship, come over and have a drink kind of thing and then they wouldn't see eye to eye on an issue and they would be back to square one. The first time this happened was with Kara Thrace… Laura understood she was like a daughter to him but he was putting the fleet at risk and it had to be stopped. That was the first time she remembered the Adama men getting along. It was funny Laura felt as if she was lost, on her own out in the cold with nobody else. It was a feeling Laura wished never to have again.
They patched up their wobbly relationship when they found out cylons looked human from that moment on they began to build on the mutual respect they had for each other. Laura saw the concern written on his face when she returned from the Geminon Traveler. She was able to laugh with him when Ellen Tigh came to dinner.
That was the first night she felt they were moving away from their professional relationship to something more personal. They would always have a professional relationship but now she felt as if they would have more than an uncertain friendship. They were able to laugh and speak candidly that night without fear that he would misinterpret her means or use the information against her. Laura was beginning to trust Bill Adama.
When he danced with her on Colonial Day it all felt right. She enjoyed everything from the banter before the dance to the feeling of his strong arms around her. She was able to draw strength from his warm embrace to comfort her frail body. As they floated around the dance floor Laura cried inside. She was so stubborn and closed-minded before she didn't allow William Adama into her life. She had withheld the truth from him and there was nothing she could do to change it not even now. She wasn't willing to risk their growing friendship.