Chapter 15

Lee found Kara in her office, head buried in paperwork.

He smiled at the sight of her.  Of course, he always smiled at the sight of her, but now it was different.  Now he could remember every time he’d smiled at her, back to the first time he ever saw her.  Now he looked at her and knew exactly how much they had been through ( Read more... )

Chapter 14

Being friends with Lee again was undiluted happiness for Kara.  It was so long since they had been friends, and even longer since they had been on the same ship.  She resurrected old traditions.

She dragged him off to the gym to follow the exercises Cottle prescribed to recover his strength, and jogged with him through the ( Read more... )

Chapter 13

Kara walked out of the mess and headed wearily towards her office.  She had a pile of paperwork waiting and there was little chance of Lee doing it for her at the moment.

She walked into her office and stopped dead to find it already occupied.  Someone was sitting in the chair by her desk, crutches propped beside him, waiting for ( Read more... )

Chapter 12

Bill Adama looked at his son and drew a deep breath.  He wasn’t looking forward to this, but he couldn’t just stand by and do nothing.

“Son, why have you fallen out with Kara?”

Lee looked up warily from his ever-present paperwork.  “What makes you think we’ve fallen out?”

Bill sighed.  “Lee, the whole of life station heard you ( Read more... )

Chapter 11

A few days later, Kara told Lee she was going to Colonial One.

“I’m taking the President some reports from your father.  He’s swamped at the moment.”

It was true, although she didn’t say that she had offered to go.  She had another reason to visit Colonial One.

Sam.  She needed to talk to him.  Should have done so a long time ( Read more... )

Chapter 10

One night Kara fell asleep over her paperwork, her head falling onto the blanket next to Lee’s arm.  She was still there when Cottle came by to check on him.

“I’m not surprised,” the doctor said gruffly.  “She’s been burning the candle at both ends, keeping up with the CAG workload and spending time with you.  It was bound to catch ( Read more... )

Chapter 9

That was the last time for a while that Lee felt like laughing.  The next day the withdrawal symptoms Cottle had warned him about kicked in with a vengeance.

It seemed to Lee that he spent the following days continuously vomiting, so violently that he was surprised he had any stomach lining left.  He developed a fever, and when he ( Read more... )

Chapter 8

For the first time he could remember, he slept without dreams, blessedly dark and peaceful.

When he woke, everything was different.  The world had gained its sharp edges again.  Sounds were clear and defined.  Both the sickening, giddy sensation that had plagued him for so long, and the smothering blanket of inertia which had covered ( Read more... )

Chapter 7

“What the hell did they do to him?”  Kara said fiercely, eyes burning.  “He didn’t even recognise me!”

“At least you got him to speak,” said Cottle, glancing through his papers.  “That’s more than I’ve been able to manage.”

“Yes, to ask his own name!” Kara shot back.  “That’s very encouraging.”  She folded her arms across her chest ( Read more... )

Chapter 6

He opened his eyes to a white room, and wearily closed them again.

It looked like the hospital room, and he had learnt to fear the hospital room.  That was where the false-people were, and they always hurt him.

But when he opened his eyes again, he realised it wasn’t the same hospital room.  The blanket and the curtains were grey, ( Read more... )