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apollo_adama ([info]apollo_adama) wrote,
@ 2008-05-09 19:14:00

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Entry tags:kara thrace, lee adama, lee/kara

When Kara came back
Who: Lee and Kara (plot locked plz)
Where: their suite.
Warnings: because its these pups there may be frakking and there may be violence. kk

A couple of days away from their suite and this was the first time he'd felt able to go back there.

The room was deserted, looked like it hadn't been occupied since the fight.

Well this was a good a time as any. He went into the bedroom they had been sharing and methodically cleared all his clothes and things out of there.

He transferred it to the spare room, his room now. Whatever he and Kara had or whatever the two of them were it was clear it was hurting both of them. They should be fighting to get back to Galactica, he should be fighting to get back for Dee.

He doesn't love Dee, never did he knows that now, what he doesn't understand, can't understand is Kara. He doesn't even know where she is and he misses her, even the fighting.



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[info]cpt_starbuck
2008-05-09 07:44 pm UTC (link)
Kara thinks its been a few days since she left the room. She hasn't been able to come back. She's spent most of it drinking, and hasn't slept, she hasn't been able to stop her mind replaying the dreams, so she won't let herself.

But she's got nowhere to go. She stayed in the woods for a night, alone in the wilderness, walked for hours and got nowhere.

There was nowhere to run Here. She had to come back and face him eventually. And frak it she'd missed him.

She opened the door, lifting her chin and steeling herself, not really knowing what she was going to do. She'd stepped over the line, she always did.

He came out of the bedroom - not the room they'd been using (their room?), the other one. She fought to keep her expression neutral, memories of their fight still very strong, what he'd said...

She walked over to him, took a deep breath, and slugged him hard in the jaw.

Before he could react she turned, shaking her hand from the impact, tears stinging her eyes, and headed for the bathroom, slamming the door behind her.

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[info]apollo_adama
2008-05-09 08:01 pm UTC (link)
He hears her key in the lock and goes to his door way.

She looks terrible, dirty wide eyed like she's not slept.

He sees the hurt in her eyes and feels the punch to the jaw that she gives him.

She heads to the bathroom and he puts his hand to his jaw, it isn't broken but it hurts like a bitch.

He knows he deserved it.

He'll need some ice on it.

He goes to the kitchen and gets some ice sitting on a couch he holds it to his face and waits for her to emerge from the bathroom.

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[info]chaoscube_npc
2008-05-09 10:53 pm UTC (link)
There is a loud *POP* in the rood, and a brass capsule appears in the air between the two. It is identical to the sort one would send messages to the Manager in, except that it hovers in midair for a few moments before dropping to the ground and opening of it's own accord (or maybe the impact with the floor caused it to spring open?).

Inside the capsule is a red piece of paper with the Manager's elegant handwriting on it.

Violence against another resident is strictly forbidden in Here! Any further violations to this rule will result in immediate punishment. Please resolve any conflicts you may have in a more civil manner.

Thanking you in advance for your cooperation,
The Manager

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[info]cpt_starbuck
2008-05-09 11:15 pm UTC (link)
Kara steps under the warm spray of the shower, turning the temperature up as high as she can bear. Her eyes are stinging and she shakes herself, and then switches the water to cold, for as long as she can bear it.

She steps out of the shower a few minutes later feeling slightly better. At least she doesn't stink anymore. She wraps a towel around herself and walks into the hall, not even glancing over at Lee, heading straight for the room and some fresh clothes.

The absence of anything belonging to him stings, and she's a bit surprised at how much. She pulls on the first thing she finds, and heads back into the living area.

She looks at him, not sure what to say, or how to act around him. She was a bitch, and probably deserved everything he said to her. She wants to make it better, but she doesn't know how.

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[info]apollo_adama
2008-05-10 11:15 am UTC (link)
Lee watches as she goes from bathroom to bedroom never saying a word.

He stays where he is, still unsure what to do.

There is a faint pop and a capsule appears it opens and he reads it, surprised at its contents.

He's still reading it when Kara comes back in clean and dressed but she's about as unsure as he is.

"I'm Sorry," he says quietly. "I was out of order before." He wants to go over to her but he isn't sure he'd be welcome any nearer.

"Oh and this arrived when you were in the shower..." he hands her the piece of paper.

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[info]cpt_starbuck
2008-05-10 03:24 pm UTC (link)
"I'm out of order most of the time," she says, with a shrug. It's a mixture of an acceptance and an apology of her own.

Frak it, she hated when things were like this with Lee. And she'd no idea where to start to try to fix things.

She reached for the capsule and the note and smirked.

"Well, I'm surprised I lasted this long without one of these," she drawls. "How's the jaw?" she asked.

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[info]apollo_adama
2008-05-10 07:34 pm UTC (link)
"Its not broken." He says touching it gingerly. "Not the worst you've given me not by a long way."

He smirks too at her reaction to getting the capsule.

"Always in trouble more often than out of it."

He doesn't know what to say. There's an atmosphere, but how to disperse it he isn't sure.

"So where did you end up?"

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[info]cpt_starbuck
2008-05-10 10:56 pm UTC (link)
She smiles warmly. "Good," she says. She bites her lip, shrugs and smirks at his comment about being in trouble.

"Its kinda blurry... I sat by the lake, spent some time in the bars, then went into the woods," she says.

She pauses.

"You?" she asks.

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[info]apollo_adama
2008-05-10 11:28 pm UTC (link)
"I sat in the bar in a towel and got blind drunk - I spent the night down the hall a girl called Mimi met me and I stayed on her sofa - really embarassed myself and I was saved from baracudas by Kitty."

Lee has the grace to shake his head.

"Made a real mess of this didn't we?"

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[info]cpt_starbuck
2008-05-10 11:35 pm UTC (link)
She shakes her head, amused.

"You and towels," she says, shaking her head. "Girls just can't resist it, can they?" she teased.

Gods knows I can't, she adds to herself.

She sighs.

"Yeah, but that's hardly surprising," she says. "It is me we're talking about, after all."

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[info]apollo_adama
2008-05-10 11:44 pm UTC (link)
"I don't know why, they've probably seen it all before." He says modestly.

He feels a pang when Kara says that its her that causes the issues.

He gets up from the sofa and crosses the space so he's closer and can make sure she's looking at him when he says this.

"No,we both have problems Kara." she looks disbelieving, "We do." He insists.

He longs to take her hand or something but it isn't the right time for that.

"And that's why I've moved into the spare room, we both need space. I'm not sure what you need but it isn't me... I see that now."

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[info]cpt_starbuck
2008-05-11 10:06 pm UTC (link)
She snorts. "Come on, Lee, look at yourself," she says. "You're smokin'. Stop with the modesty."

He comes closer, meets her eyes, and tells her its not just her. She makes a face, but he insists. He's hesitant, he doesn't want to reach out to her. She's torn between being relieved, and crushed, but is definitely frustrated by the way only Lee can do this to her.

He explains why he moved, and she tries to keep her face neutral as she nods, while inside she's screaming.

Frak, yeah, you're what I need, part of her wants to scream. That despite what it looks, how she pushes him away, she needs him more than oxygen. More than flying. Gods, it's why she pushes him away.

She bites her lip, her brow creases, and she tries to keep calm. But she can't, her hands are shaking and she hasn't slept or eaten in days and she just wants it all to go away.

"It is you. Don't leave me," is what she's thinking.

But all she can say is "Lee..." in a strangled kind of voice, stepping closer to him, awkwardly.

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[info]apollo_adama
2008-05-12 12:32 pm UTC (link)
He can see she's not coping, and she steps towards him, what for? To slog him one again?

How the hell did they get this messed up? Lee loves her, hell, he'd always loved her from before Zak had started seeing her. Maybe there was too much history, too much frakked up history for them to be able to have a relationship. It won't stop how he feels about her though. Moving out of the room, such a good idea when he got back and he's doubting himself now. Starbuck makes him feel like this.

Kara says his name and he's unsure she seems on brink of collapse and he does what feels right and hugs her to him.

"You know, you can punch me and kick me and hurl abuse at me. I'll still be there when you need me," Lee whispers in her ear.

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[info]cpt_starbuck
2008-05-12 10:17 pm UTC (link)
She blinks and holds on to him as tight as she can. She rests her head on his shoulder and just stands there for a few minutes. Its been days since she's slept, she feels like she's coming apart at the seams. But just standing here, with Lee, it's helping.

His words make her eyes sting, and she feels a lump in her throat. But she isn't going to cry.

She doesn't deserve this. She's never deserved any of this.

She laughs, a strangled sort of laugh, and pulls back slightly, keeping her arms around him.

"No gettin' rid of you, huh?" she asks, with a pained smile. She swallows, and bites her lip.

"I have no frakking clue why you stick around. You must be a sucker for punishment. But thanks," she says simply.

"And ... I'm sorry," she continues, meeting his eyes. And she means it, for ... well, for everything.

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[info]apollo_adama
2008-05-12 10:50 pm UTC (link)
"No there isn't." He affirms. Whatever it takes to get her to believe in that, would be worth it.

Their arms are still each other she wonders why he's still here. It amazes him that she still doesn't know, that she doesn't let herself believe.

She apologises and he feels the significance, normally he'd quip about marking the date in his diary but no, not today.

He pulls her back for another hug just holding onto her. Words always frak things up for them.

He pulls back, "You must be starving, want something to eat?"

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[info]cpt_starbuck
2008-05-12 11:50 pm UTC (link)
She rests her head against his shoulder and takes a deep breath. Her hand strokes the back of his neck. Gods knows what she's done to deserve this, but she says a silent prayer of thanks to Aphrodite anyway.

"I'm never going to refuse your cooking," she says, grinning. She already feels much better since her shower. She steps back, but keeps one arm around him and leans on his shoulder as they walk the short distance to the kitchen.

She lets go reluctantly, squeezing his side before moving to turn on the coffee maker. She can't cook for shit, but she can make a pot of coffee and she's tired enough to need it.

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[info]apollo_adama
2008-05-14 09:18 pm UTC (link)
Lee let's her set up the coffee machine whilst he grabs the ingrediants for a stirfry.

He gets the food cooking before deciding Kara really needs to sit down. He takes the mugs she's holding out of her hands and steers her to a chair and making her sit.

"Before you fall down." He says quietly.

He goes back to cooking serving up noodle stirfry. He hands her a bowl and gets the coffee and pours her some.

"There, eat."

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[info]cpt_starbuck
2008-05-14 10:24 pm UTC (link)
He makes her sit and she smirks. Such a mother hen.

She rests her head on her hand and watches him move around, trying to keep her eyes open. The way her stomach responds to the smell of the food tells her she needs to, even if she did want to go to sleep.

He puts the food and the coffee on the table and she sits up straight, snapping to attention and saluting him.

"Yes, Sir," she says, and then throws him a teasing look, and takes a long drink of coffee before starting on the food.

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[info]apollo_adama
2008-05-15 04:14 pm UTC (link)
Lee eyes her carefully over his own bowl and coffee, she looks completely exhausted. Thinking back he wonders when she last slept and guesses it would have been before their fight. She's certainly knocking back the caffeine and from his own cup he can tell she's brewed it strong.

He smiles at her as she eats hungrily. Waiting for her to finish.

"Kara, you ought to get some sleep now, you're wiped out."

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[info]cpt_starbuck
2008-05-15 04:48 pm UTC (link)
She shrugs as she finishes the food. She can't sleep. She'll only dream again - the same dream, or something worse.

"I'm okay," she says.

"Mmm, that was good," she says, bringing the dishes to the sink, then refills her coffee and moves to sit on the couch. She looks back at him and smiles, pats the seat beside her, hoping he'll join her.

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[info]apollo_adama
2008-05-15 07:29 pm UTC (link)
Kara says she's fine but he doesn't believe her, Lee knows better. He also knows that pushing her right now isn't the way forward, he smiles as she says she enjoyed the food.

"Good, I'm glad it filled requirements." He clears his own dishes away and when she pats the seat he does join her.

He sits close enough to let her, not that he'd say the word out loud, but snuggle up to him if that's what she wants.

"So," he says quietly. "What do you want to do now, Kara?"

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[info]cpt_starbuck
2008-05-15 11:11 pm UTC (link)
She sighs and moves closer to him, leg resting against his.

"I don't know," she says. She stares into space for a few minutes, and then turns her body slightly to face him.

"You wanna know what I really wanna do right now?" she says, looking into his eyes. She pauses for a second, because frakking him is a very close second, but even she knows its too frakked up to do that now, and anyway, he'd say no.

"I want to fly," she says, after a pause, a desperate longing in her voice, only just realising how true it was when she said it aloud.

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[info]apollo_adama
2008-05-16 03:30 am UTC (link)
Lee looks slightly woried as Kara begins her response. But he nods anyway.

But then she says she wants to fly.

He wraps and arm around her and hugs her.

"There must be some way that you can fly...?"

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[info]cpt_starbuck
2008-05-16 04:51 am UTC (link)
She leans into him and smiles.

"Unless you have a Viper hidden in one of your pockets, I don't think there is," she says, with a sigh.

She's quiet for a few minutes, head leaning against his shoulder.

"I miss them all," she says, eventually. "Helo. Kicking Hotdog's ass at Triad. Frak, I even miss Tigh, crotchety bastard." She pauses.

"They'll think we're dead," she says. And she knows how that will affect the Admiral. She'd seen him grieve one son already, and couldn't bear to think of him doing it again, not for Lee.

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[info]apollo_adama
2008-05-16 04:45 pm UTC (link)
"No I haven't." He murmurs sadly. Strangely he isn't missing the flying, not as much as he thought he would. But it has a profound effect on Kara, it is such an integral part of who she is. He wishes there was something, some way. He won't leave it like this.

She says that she misses them, and he knows what she means, Galactica is a pressure cooker, everyone lives in each other's pockets, everyone knows each other's dirty laundry. Everyone would have known that they were frakking, because there was no such thing as being discreet.

"Tigh?" he asks. "Seriously?" He shakes his head, Lee hasn't missed it as much as he thought he should, he'd been feeling so tired of late, Here had been a bit of a relief.

He nods, "The Old Man will carry on regardless." Wishing it were more true than he felt. Loosing Zak had torn his family apart. His father the Admiral, he'd feel their loss both of them.

"He'd miss you more," he teased. "Your the third son he never had."

He feels melancholy and and strokes a thumb against her arm for some contact and comfort.

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[info]cpt_starbuck
2008-05-16 06:31 pm UTC (link)
She grins.

"Seriously," she says, and sighs.

"He will," she agrees. It won't be easy, but the Old Man is tough.

She laughs softly. "Nah, not more," she says. Lee's always had a complicated relationship with his father. But she knows losing Lee would be so hard for him. And maybe losing her too. Bill Adama's been more of a father to her than her own was, not that Kara blames him for not staying with her mother, not in the least.

His thumb on her arm is soothing, and despite herself she feels her eyelids droop. She should move, if she stays here she'll sleep, and she'll dream.

But she can't seem to pull herself away from him.

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[info]apollo_adama
2008-05-16 07:33 pm UTC (link)
Lee smiles at her squeeezing her to him a little. His thumb still rubbing soothing patterns on her arm and he can feel her relaxing, feels her falling asleep on him.

When it seems certain that she can't fight her exhaustion any longer, Lee guides her so that she ends up with her head in his lap. One arm cradles her head the other draped over her still rubbing soothing patterns across her skin.

He's now trapped but he doesn't care, he just wants Kara to get rest and if this is the only way it can happen so be it. He hopes she doesn't get another nightmare sleeping like this, because he'd get one hell of a blackeye if she wakes up from a nightmare and doesn't realise where she is.

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[info]cpt_starbuck
2008-05-17 02:39 am UTC (link)
She wakes, slowly, disoriented, fabric scratching at her cheek. She opens her eyes, and realises she's staring directly at Lee's crotch.

She smirks, looks up his chest, and sees that he's asleep. His hand is draped around her, and she wonders how long they've been asleep.

If she'd had any dreams, she can't remember them. And she's so thankful for that. She feels like she could sleep again, but her neck is sore, and she's curled up in a less than comfortable position.

She moves to sit up, and his arm wraps around her tightly, holding on to her in his sleep. She smiles affectionately.

"Lee," she says, her voice hoarse, moving a hand to poke him not-so-gently in the side. "Lee, I know you like me in this position, but really..." she says, teasingly.

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[info]apollo_adama
2008-05-17 03:22 am UTC (link)
Lee doesn't remember dropping off to sleep but still he's wakened with a none too gentle poke in the ribs.

"What the frak?"

He looks down, sees where he appears to be holding Kara and a alow smile spreads across his face. Her teasing comment proves she's had some rest and that banter is back on the menu.

"But you're the one that's drooled on my crotch." he replies.

He pauses a beat, "Sleep ok?"

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[info]cpt_starbuck
2008-05-17 04:14 am UTC (link)
"Mmm, yeah, I like it that much," she says, smirking at him.

"Actually, yeah, I did," she says, her smirk softening a little.

"So you gonna let me up?" she asks. "Or do you want me to stay down here a little longer?"

She's teasing, mostly. She knows he wants to take a step back and she'll only hurt him more if they go back to frakking. It'll be hard to resist jumping him, but she needs him as a friend more than as a... whatever he'd been to her when they were frakking.

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[info]apollo_adama
2008-05-18 04:14 am UTC (link)
Lee's pleased that she slept ok. Relieved more than anything unsure he could handle another nightmare, guess she must have been too exhausted to dream.

Kara asks if he'll let her up, he pretends to consider this before saying.

"Sure." Helping her up into a sitting position. They've fallen into their pattern, the easy one of teasing.

Lee sees something in her eyes that looks like regret, he feels the pull of being around Kara Thrace, she draws him in, always has done. His decision to back off, isn't what he wants but he thinks on some level she gets why and that is a step forward, for both of them.

"Coffee?" he asks stretching.

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[info]cpt_starbuck
2008-05-19 01:02 am UTC (link)
She gives him one of her patented dirty smirks when he hesitates.

She sits up, yawning and stretching.

"I think I'm going to get some more sleep - on something more comfortable than your crotch," she says. "No offence," she adds, with a smirk.

"And usually, I'd build on that in several obvious but hilarious ways, but I really am that tired," she says, with a disappointed sigh.

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[info]apollo_adama
2008-05-19 01:31 am UTC (link)
"None taken," he says a wry smile playing about his lips.

As she moves away from him he feels the chill where she was, but not letting that get to him, he's foun he's stiffened up when he gets to his feet and does some stretches.

"No you still look like hell, you should get some more sleep. I'll keep things down out here, try not to disturb you."

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[info]cpt_starbuck
2008-05-19 01:53 am UTC (link)
She gets to her feet and grins.

"Yeah, no wild parties or I'll kick your ass," she says, in a mock serious tone, shaking her finger at him.

She steps closer, and pulls him into a quick hug, resting her cheek against his shoulder for a few seconds.

"Thanks," she says, squeezing his elbow as she moves past him and towards her room.

She doesn't close the door, knows that Lee will be outside if she wakes, and the thought is more comforting than she ever wants to admit.

She pulls off her clothes and climbs into bed, and is asleep again within minutes.

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[info]apollo_adama
2008-05-19 02:10 am UTC (link)
"I'd like to see you try in your current state." he quips.

She hugs him and he holds her just for a second.

She heads towards her bedroom leaving the door open, she doesn't need to explain why. Lee is feeling more pangs of regret that he's made this decision, even if it's the right one.

He goes to the kitchen, makes himself a coffee and settles on the couch, he'll go for a run when she wakes up later.

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