A Different Beginning

by remake

What if Kara and Lee had never met prior to the start of the mini-series?

27. Chapter 27

A Different Beginning-Chapter 27

THIS IS AN A.U. STORY THAT BEGINS WHEN THE CYLONS DESTROY THE TWELVE COLONIES AND KARA AND LEE MEET FOR THE FIRST TIME.

CHAPTER-27

Lee had tried to sleep, but he kept thinking about Kara. He also hoped that Boomer hadn't changed her mind about helping Kara after she down loaded into another body. Then his thoughts turned to Helo hoping that he was still alive after almost three months. Lee was glad they were finally jumping to Kobol, he only hoped they wouldn't have to wait long before Kara showed up.

Lee must have fell asleep sometime during the night because for some unknown reason he jerked awake and his first thought was something bad was happening to Kara. He got up when he knew he would not get anymore sleep tonight. After getting a glass of water he sat down on his couch trying to convince himself that it was just a dream because there was no way that he would know if something was wrong.

He stayed sitting on the couch remembering everything that had happened since he first met Kara. They had come a long way since that day. He only wanted her to come home he didn't care if she got the arrow or not because without her he wouldn't care if they found Earth or not.

The only thing that gave him hope was the fact that she had been chosen by Aurora and that made it ironic since he never believed in the gods until a couple of days ago and that was still iffy, because it was hard going from not believing to believing in the gods within a couple of days. Lee was also worried about how much of a toll this mission had probably taken on her and he hoped Kara would be able to handle finding out that Aurora had chosen her for some kind of destiny and that her dad was alive. Lee was half afraid she would fall apart after hearing everything, especially right after she returned.

Lee knew sitting there and worrying wasn't going to help and he needed to catch up on his paperwork, so he moved to sit at his desk. The more paperwork he got done meant more time he could spend with Kara when she returned.

Lee saw a large envelope on his desk and had no idea when it had been put there. Lee opened it up and saw the picture that was taken of him and Kara at the dance. Lee smiled, the picture had been taken while he had his arm around Kara as she had laid her head against his shoulder, she was smiling at something he had said, gods she was beautiful. There was a note from the photographer ' I thought you might like to have this' Lee remembered the frame that was in his desk with a picture of a woman who was probably the CAG'S wife or girlfriend before him. Lee took it out and smiled as he put their picture in it and sat it on his desk so he could look at it every time he sat down to work.

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Boomer took off running as fast as she could back to the school only to arrive to find people scrambling everywhere. She didn't have to ask what was wrong she already knew, she had gotten there to late.

Boomer made her way over to Helo " How long has she been gone and how come no one saw it ?"

Helo hung his head " I'm not real sure, but my best guess would be about an hour, we are getting together search teams now "

Boomer didn't want to lay blame " I thought Athena was keeping an eye on her "

Helo looked at her then " They were both asleep in their rooms, I took first watch so I could talk to Anders "

Anders walked up " I questioned everyone and a couple of my men said they saw her leave with you or Athena, so they didn't think anything about it "

Boomer knew it wasn't that simple, she knew Kara would know enough about her and Athena to know it wasn't either of them " Did they say if she walked away on her own ?"

Anders remembered one of them making a joke " One of my men said she was leaning on you like she was drunk, but they still didn't see cause for alarm "

Helo was starting to freak out " What's going on Boomer?"

Boomer sighed " I just found out that Leobon and an eight have been spending a lot of time together and now I know why, he knew that his eight could walk in here easily and drug Starbuck enough to make it look like she was drunk to take her away from here "

That worried Anders " We need to leave here now before the cylons show up "

Boomer shook her head " It will be okay to stay here, Leobon has gone rouge, he will not contact the others because he knows they would take Starbuck away from him "

Athena had walked up while they were talking " What should we do?"

Boomer looked around making sure they could not be heard before saying anything " Caprica has gone back up to the base star to see if he is there which we highly doubt and if he isn't she is going to scan the area looking for his signal "

Athena understood " You are talking about the trace marker Cavil put into Leobon without his knowledge, because of his obsession with Starbuck"

Helo was confused " Why would he do that and why would he not tell anybody about it?"

Boomer sighed heavily " Although Cavil knows that it goes against the rules of our privacy, he violated it with Leobon, because he expected this very thing to happen and we only know about it because Caprica caught him looking at it two days ago, but she didn't say anything about it because she knows how obsessive and out of control Leobon is "

Anders butted in " Who is Caprica?"

Athena answered him " She is a six model that is staying with the cylons to feed us information and also getting us a raider, she knows we need to get Starbuck back to the fleet "

Anders was very confused " Why are so many cylons willing to help Starbuck?"

Helo felt sorry for Anders because he was half confused himself " Right now there are only four and as for why, I'm not sure, but we need all the help we can get "

Anders caught what Helo said " Who is the fourth one?"

Boomer grinned when Anders asked about the fourth one " Her name is Willow, she is a six model and Caprica said she spent most of her time watching over Starbuck from a distance or at the Temple, so with any luck she was here and saw what happened last night and will be following them "

Helo wasn't ready to trust that " What if she wasn't here?"

Boomer chuckled " Then she is at the Temple and if I know Starbuck, she will try and talk Leobon into taking her there in the hope that Willow will be there "

Helo knew that would be exactly what Starbuck would do " Can't you contact Willow the same way you contacted Athena?"

Boomer lost her smile " No, she cut herself off completely from the cylons for a very good reason, we need to split into groups, sending one to the Temple and one trying to track them, in case we are wrong about the Temple " Boomer thought about Willow " Anders if you come across a six dressed like your team, for gods sake don't shoot her, that will be Willow "

Athena added " We can't let her down load she is more important than any other cylon right now, she has information that would hurt the fleet and put Starbuck in more danger "

Helo snorted " As opposed to the danger she is in now " Helo hung his head before looking back up " We can't go back to the fleet without Starbuck "

Anders still couldn't figure out this mixed up band of people " If we can't find her surely the fleet will let us join them, right?"

Anders waited , but no one disagreed with what Helo had said. He knew she was important to finding Earth, even though he still didn't understand it.

Helo sighed and tried to explain " The fleet thinks I am dead and they know Boomer is dead so even if we find the fleet, without Starbuck on the comms and us in an enemy craft we will more than likely be shot down, and that's not even the worst thing that could happen "

Anders chuckled " What could possibly be worse than that?"

Boomer answered because Helo had turned away " Facing the commander, the pilots and the flight crews, but the hardest person to face would be Apollo, if we show up without her "

Helo turned around again " The effect it would have on the commander and Apollo would be so bad it would end up affecting the Galactica which could eventually effect the whole fleet "

Anders thought they were crazy " There is no way her death could cause all of that, she can't be that special "

Athena wanted to tell him about Aurora, but knew she couldn't " She doesn't have to be special for that to happen, Commander Adama loves her like a daughter and Captain Lee Adama just loves her, and besides the XO they are the highest ranking military on Galactica, so you see her death could cause a chain reaction possibly crippling the fleet "

Anders gave up " Okay I get it, we have to find Starbuck whatever the cost, so we need to get moving "

Anders knew more about tracking so he took six of his men with him to see if they could pick up a trail. Helo had told him Starbuck would try and leave clues so look out for anything.

Boomer, Athena and Helo would make their way to the Temple as fast as they could. Boomer was worried that Cavil was already looking for Leobon he didn't like to let him get to far away from them.

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Kara slowly woke up and realised someone had an arm wrapped around her waist dragging her through the woods she couldn't even attempt an escape because she couldn't feel her legs. Kara knew running was not an option.

Last night was slowly coming back to her. She had been in a deep sleep, but she heard someone open the door so she opened her eyes half-way and when she saw it was Boomer she went back to sleep. Then she remembered feeling someone behind her and before she could ask what the frak they were doing a hand closed over her mouth and she felt the needle plunge into her neck causing her to blackout.

Whoever had her did not know she was awake and Kara decided to keep it that way while she tried to figure out what was up. Kara did manage to drag her boots more heavily in an attempt to leave marks, knowing someone would try to pick up their trail. Since her head was slumped forward she looked at the legs of the person that had her and finally figured out it was an eight, but it wasn't Boomer or Athena she knew that much. Now she needed to figure out what an eight would want her for since it seemed they weren't in a raider headed to the base star nor were they headed directly into town.

The more Kara thought about it the less sense it made until they stopped and went into a bombed out store that was barley standing and she heard Leobon saying " finally "and Kara thought ' frak not this please '. Kara was getting the feeling back in her legs, but she had no intention of letting them know that.

Leobon came over and grabbed her roughly and made her look at him only to see her sneer at him before she spit on him, so he threw her down onto the floor " You belong to me now and no human or cylon will take you away from me again " he squatted down until he was eye level with her " I am going to break you and tear your world apart until all you will have left is me "

Kara looked him dead in the eye " Frak you, I will kill myself before you ever get that far "

Leobon grabbed her by the collar and lifted her up off the floor and slammed her against the wall then leaned in and whispered in her ear " No you won't, because suicide goes against everything you believe in " then he threw her across the room where she landed against the wall.

Kara was gasping for breath and it felt like she had a broke rib. She wondered what had happened because the last time he took her he didn't act like this. " What the frak are you so pissed about?" she had managed to pull herself up so that she was sitting against the wall.

Leobon walked over and stopped when he was standing in front of her looking down " If you really want to know, even the hybrid is now saying your destiny is not with me " he sneered

Kara couldn't help but laugh, not only did she have four cylons helping her, now she apparently had the hybrid helping her without meaning to do so. The more she thought about it the louder she laughed knowing she was pissing Leobon off " It seems like everybody has given up on you except for your pet eight over there " then she looked at the eight " If I were you I would get as far away from this shithead as fast as I could and go back to your sisters "

Leobon had heard enough out of her because she was partly right, he went over and picked her up and drug her across the room to the door untying her hands. All of a sudden she knew what he was going to do, Kara should have remembered Leobon knew what her mother had done to her, but she didn't have time to react before he grabbed her wrist " I think you need to be taught a lesson, so you will know who has the power here " Kara started struggling to get away from him, but he was to strong, he placed her hand in the door frame and slammed it shut with a force so powerful it broke all of her fingers and her wrist. Kara screamed as the pain exploded throughout her hand, it was so intense she blacked out and crumpled to the floor.

Leobon ordered the eight to tie her to a chair " I need to check in with Cavil before he sends out the centurions to find me, watch her until I get back "

Kara woke up in a daze wondering why she was in so much pain and tied to a chair. Then the memories came rushing back and suddenly she knew that he meant to carry out his threat and to break her. Kara was officially afraid, so she started praying to which ever god would listen she needed help and she needed it now.

Kara looked around and saw the eight standing by a window " How did you find me?" Kara hoped there was not a traitor in the resistance.

The eight smirked " I got lucky and stumbled up on some of the resistance and followed them. Then I saw you were there so I waited and watched until most of the people had gone to sleep and I just walked right into your room as if I were Boomer, it was so easy "

Kara tried not to show any emotion " I guess that means the cylons have stormed the high school? "

Eight shook her head " No they didn't, Leobon doesn't want Cavil or anyone else to know that he has you "

Kara sighed grateful for that at least " Why are you the only one helping Leobon?"

Eight moved away from the window and sat down across from Kara " Leobon said that god told him that you being with him was the only way to save our race and to find Earth, but the others ignored him and didn't believe him. I went to talk to him about it one day and he told me if I helped him then he would make sure god knew I had not failed him as the others have "

Kara looked at her " Leobon is fraking crazy and there is no cylon god, we created you not some god " Kara caught a glimpse of someone looking through the window, a six if she wasn't mistaken, she needed to keep this eight distracted in case it was someone trying to help her.

She looked at the eight again " It should mean something since none of your sisters are here, but you "

Eight crossed her arms " What are you talking about?"

Kara had her hands under the table trying to loosen the rope while she talked, but the pain was unbearable so she was having to do it more slowly then she liked "There are hardly any cylons left that will listen to him anymore including some of the two's " Kara paused for effect mostly "I think the cylons will end up fighting against each other in a religious war soon " Kara knew so such thing, but it could very well happen, Boomer and Willow was proof of that and maybe Athena too.

Eight jumped up " You are lying we would never do that, I am going to check out the area to make sure no one is around "

As she was going out the door Kara yelled " Just remember I warned you " then she slumped back against the chair.

The next thing Kara saw was the six from the window slipping into the room " Who are you?"

Six grinned " I am six from the Temple, I followed you here to try and help you "

Kara looked her over, she didn't look like any six she had seen, she was dressed like the people in the resistance and her hair was cut short and she looked like she had been in the woods for a while judging by the layer of dirt on her " You are the one that can see and talk to Aurora?"

Grinning six bobbed her head up and down " Yes, I am "

Kara grimaced as pain shot through her hand again " Can you get this rope untied " she asked lifting her hands up

Six went over to her and after looking at her hand she gasped " Oh my gods, did Leobon do this?"

Kara nodded and watched as Willow found a knife and cut the rope " By the way I named you Willow, I hope you don't mind, it just makes it easier to keep up with all the copies "

Willow looked at her like she had bestowed her with some kind of honor by giving her a name " I like it, thank you " Willow grinned at her.

They both looked up as they heard a raider approaching " Willow get out of here right now and go find help, the cylons can't find out about you "

Willow stood still " What about you?"

Kara pushed her towards the back door " I can handle Leobon for a little while, go now and find help "

After one more look at Kara, Willow eased out the back door and took off.

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Anders and his men had finally picked up the trail. At first it was drag marks they were following, but as they moved farther on he started seeing deliberate scuff marks. Starbuck must have been drugged at first, but now it looked like she was awake and trying to leave them clues.

They had already spent two hours on the trail, but he knew the cylons moved fast so there was no way of determining how much farther they had to go. " Let's take a five minute break guys "

After resting they started out again and came to the edge of the forest on the outskirts of town, Anders then had them spread out. He pulled out a pair of binoculars and saw what was probably a building at one time across an open field, while he was watching a woman came out the back door and headed to the treeline on her left. Anders then heard the raider and saw it set down by a treeline not to far from the house.

As he watched he saw Leobon exit the raider and walked over to an eight that Anders hadn't seen leaning against a tree and Leobon seemed to be talking to her.

Anders made a decision to leave half his men there and took the rest with him to find the woman who had run off.

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By the time Caprica made it back to the base star and the control room she had to wait until everyone left and when she finally pulled up Leobon's tracker it showed him heading to the base star. She quickly shut it down and went to monitor the search patrols hoping to hear something that might help.

After a few minutes Leobon showed up in the control room and noticed Caprica was there " What are you doing here Caprica?" he asked harshly

Caprica turned and gave him a look that conveyed just how much she didn't want to talk to him " I am monitoring search operations, what are you doing here, I thought Cavil had you searching for the rogue eight "

Leobon turned away from her and contacted one of the few cylons left that he could trust " I am, I just needed to check in with Cavil " he was ready to get back to Kara, then the message he had been waiting on showed up " Could you tell him I was here?"

Caprican grabbed his arm and stopped him " Where are you going now Leobon?"

Leobon pulled away from her " Back out to search "

Caprica quickly pulled up Leobon's tracking program and down loaded it onto a portable scanner then ran to her raider.

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Leobon told the eight to get Starbuck ready for transport and followed her in shortly after.

Kara was standing behind the door holding a piece of the floor board she had pried loose. Kara knew with her wrist broken she would not be able to swing with much force using just one of her hands, besides she was just trying to give Willow time to find help.

After the eight stepped through the door Kara quickly swung aiming for the back of her head, but the eight turned and Kara ended up hitting the side of her face. The hit to the eight's face didn't phase her and she turned and grabbed Starbuck and they quickly ended up fighting. Kara was trying to block most of the hits using her forearm that had the broken hand while grabbing anything she could find with her good hand throwing it at the eight.

Kara knew the pain was getting to her because she had forgotten about the raider that landed until she was grabbed from behind and thrown back onto the floor causing her to loose her breath for a moment. Kara knew for sure that Leobon had became unstable and that he might end up killing her either on purpose or accidentally. She decided to not provoke him any further right now.

The eight pulled her up off the floor and they followed Leobon out to a raider. Kara had no idea how she was going to get out of this. For the moment she decided to think about Lee and all they had been through together. She remembered her promise to return to him and with that thought she started trying to come up with a plan. Leave it to Lee to inspire her to fight to return and he wasn't even here.

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Boomer, Athena and Helo had been at the Temple for thirty minutes hoping Willow would show.

They quickly heard someone enter the Temple running and stepped out of the shadows when they saw it was Willow.

Boomer got to her first " Slow down and tell us what is going on?"

Willow was pacing " I found Kara in a building not far from here and I waited until Leobon left and the eight went to look around "

Helo knew there was more to the story " What else happened Willow?"

Willow looked at each of them " Leobon has been beating on her and by the way she held her hand against her chest I think she has a broken rib and " Willow took a deep breath " She said Leobon slammed her hand in the door frame breaking all of her fingers and her wrist " she finished quietly

Helo picked up a pew and threw it across the room " That mother fraker is going to suffer when I get my hands on him " he screamed

Before anybody could ask what happened to make him so mad Anders came running into the Temple and stopped when he saw them.

Athena was trying to calm Helo down, so Boomer asked " What are you doing here Anders?"

Anders pointed at Willow " I saw her come out of a building where Starbuck might be and I was trying to catch her, so I could ask her some questions"

Boomer nodded " This is Willow and she just told us Starbuck was there we are going there now to get her "

Boomer turned to Willow " Did Starbuck send you away?"

Willow nodded " She said the cylons could not find out about me, so she sent me for help "

Athena spoke up now that Helo had calmed down somewhat " Starbuck's right Willow, you are going to stay here while we rescue her "

They made tentative plans and followed Anders to the treeline and stopped just in time to see the raider take off.

Helo cursed " What in the frak are we going to do now?"

Boomer was upset also, but she knew she had to hold them together " We get Ander's men, stop by the Temple and pick up Willow then we are going back to the school to regroup " she paused before adding " I'm almost sure that Caprica will contact us there with a way to trace Leobon "

Athena backed her up " Boomer's right and we all need to try and get some rest even if some of us won't be able to sleep "

Anders also agreed " I agree and I'm sure we all need something to eat "

Anders motioned his men over and they walked toward the Temple.

Helo didn't say anything he just followed them.

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