Authors Note: Since the two characters are now in the same place I am changing to a joint point of view. Sorry if it feels confusing after the first few chapters!!! Thanks for the reviews! I can't believe the positive response to this story; you all make me want to keep writing!!!

Lee paused for more than a moment. It was something he hadn't taken the time to think about before now. "Kara, there was so much going on at the time I guess I really didn't think about it. We were just so relieved to have a possible way to Earth that I guess the how of all of it became irrelevant."

She sat in silence for a moment. He could hear her sigh. The spinning of his thoughts seemed to pick up speed. "How would something like this even happen? The implication is that a Colonial ship went down here. Maybe the other cylons found Earth first. We know that they still have a few of our raptors. Maybe this was a trap; they purposely crashed it here to draw us out. In the morning we should send out a few air-scouts to look for the wreckage." Lee rambled out thoughts as they occurred to him. "Then again, if that's the case why haven't they come for us yet? Maybe it was a scout of their own and they don't realize its missing yet."

"What if it wasn't a cylon that crashed?" She asked quietly.

"Like who? We would have noticed if someone had suddenly gone missing with a Colonial vessel. For a ship to end up this far away from the fleet without anyone noticing would be damned near impossible."

Kara was frustrated, sometimes Lee was a brilliant man, right now, he was as thick as the walls of a Battlestar. "I was missing."

"But you came back Kara. I mean, what, you dropped a beacon and then headed home? Did you land on earth and do that?"

"I don't think so, I mean, not exactly."

Lee noticed she was drifting away from him with her thoughts. She stood up and took another drink from the jar.

"I don't know Lee, I don't remember a lot of what happened. It's all pieces. I remember flying with you, and heading into the storm. You were calling me to come back, but I had this overwhelming feeling of peace, like someone was looking out for me like I would be safe no matter what happened. I felt unafraid of anything, and as I fell further and further away from you I fell into a light. It was beautiful, like the first rays of sun over the horizon. And then, nothing." She was pacing as she talked, like if she kept moving the memories would come back to her.

"You said you thought you were knocked out. Maybe you had a concussion."

"After that everything is pieces. Like glimpses of moments, like I am flipping through channels, some are empty, some are nothing but static and some have meaningful data. I don't remember being on the planet, I just remember being above it and knowing in my gut that this was Earth. There was a golden moon, just as described in the books of Pythia. I remember looking out and seeing Arelon, Tauron and Gemenon, just like in the Temple of Athena and I felt in my gut that this was home. I turned the ship in what I thought was a reciprocal heading, but I can't really be sure. Then it goes blank. Everything else I remember is like I am seeing it while being pulled backwards. An asteroid belt, a comet, a gas giant, the triple star, it's all just flashes." Kara rubbed the back of her head and neck.

"You've told me all of this before, and you were right. Those signs pointed our way here, or at least to the things we needed to find our way here. You weren't wrong; it's not your fault that the planet is a vast wasteland."

She handed him the jar.

"Lee, I have to show you something. I have no way to explain it, and I need someone else to see it to know that it's real." She bent down to her pack and pulled out a piece of metal. For a moment she looked at it in the fire's light. As she handed it to him she turned away.

The metal felt familiar, and once he really looked at it he could see what it was. "It's a name plate. Your name plate to be more precise."

"I know." She wouldn't look at him, and it worried him. Lee stood up, and rotated the plate in his hands.

"What's so special about it?" He could tell she was trying to get something out of her pocket. A moment later she passed him a set of dog tags with a silver ring joining them. "These are your dog tags. Kara, what you are getting at? Theatrics never were your strong suit."

As she turned to face him he could see tears streaming down her face, and she was holding a necklace out from her neck. It was identical to what he was holding in his hand. "What am I Lee?" She asked with a trembling lip.

He flipped the dog tags over in his hand and angled them toward the fire to see what they said K Thrace 462753 "Where did you get these?" He walked toward her to examine the tags she wore on her body. They were the same, except the ones in his hand had faint traces of blood on them.

"I got them from me, or who I think was me."

Lee didn't know how to react to her statement. She was starting to get that lost look in her eye that he was pretty sure only he had ever seen. He wrapped his arms around her and felt her give to him. "What do you mean you got them from yourself? How is that even possible?"

She spoke slowly, muffled by his jacket only slightly, "I found a viper, the signal's point of origin. It was in pieces. I also found a pilot in it."

"One of our vipers?" He asked, his brow furiously scrunched.

"I think so. It had my tail number on it." She shifted in his arms. "I found the cockpit, and in it was a body in a flight suit. I reached in for the dog tags and when I pulled them out I noticed the pilot had blonde hair. The body was little more than bones & hair. Then I noticed that the tags were surprisingly similar to mine."

She was starting to shake, Lee held her closer.

"Leoben knew it was me. He panicked when I asked him what I was. I told him what his hybrid had told me and it's like he had seen a monster. He just upped and walked away."

"Maybe it's a cylon trick. They are capable of a lot of deception Kara."

"Why would they go to such extremes? I mean down to the tail numbers and Zak's ring on my tags?"

"I don't know." Lee was at a loss for words.

"What if I'm one of them. What if I'm some other kind of cylon we don't know about. One that doesn't need a resurrection ship to come back. I mean look at who the last 4 ended up being. How do we know that I'm not the missing cylon?"

"I don't know, and I don't care."

"You should care, what if some programming kicks in and I really do what the hybrid said."

"What did it say?"

"That I was the harbinger of death, that I would lead us all to our end."

"I'm sure that thing says a lot of other crazy shit too. That thing is frakked up Kara. I've heard about the lovely things it's said to others. It rambles, and it makes no sense. It only means anything if you give it meaning."

"It knew my name."

"All of them do, that thing listens to all of them, and so that means little." He could feel her pulling away. "The fact is Kara; I didn't care what had stepped out of that viper when you came back. As long as it looked like you and talked like you and had your memories, it was you. That's the only thing that mattered to me. "

"What if none of its real though? What if it's all implanted?"

"Does it feel real?"

"Yes, but sometimes I don't feel real."

"You feel very real to me." He pulled back and looked her straight in the eye, "You still feel like Kara, like home to me." When she tried to break his look he pushed forward and kissed her.

She lost her breath in him. His lips were hot and sweet and tasted exactly the same as they had the last time they had done this. She put her hand on the back of his neck and it fit exactly the same as it always had. Her body fit against him as it always had. In this moment she felt the most alive she had since she came back.