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Pilots call me Starbuck you may refer to me as God (cpt_starbuck) wrote in chaos_cube,
@ 2009-01-13 13:02:00

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kara thrace, lee adama

Kara and Lee Leave. (locked kthnx)
Where: Their room, and Galactica's Hangar Deck

Kara zips up the bag - she's filled it with bottles of ambrosia, socks, a few items of civvy clothes, her paints, some cigars and lots of chocolate.

She'll have enough to bet with in card games for months.

She looks up at the painting on her wall - she likes it but she grins. She's going home to the real thing. She is looking forward to it, but part of her is wary. She has no idea what they're going home to. How long have they been gone, are they presumed dead, how will people react to their return? And then there's this thing with her and Lee - what about Dee and ...

Sam.

She has no proof he's a Cylon, none at all, so she has no idea how she's going to handle that. She sighs and picks up the bag.

They'll work it out.

She heads out to the living area to where Lee is waiting.

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	apollo_adama 2009-01-13 10:03 am UTC (link)
	Lee's all packed, he hasn't grabbed as much as Kara. A good bottle of whisky for the old man and other essentials. His stomach is churning. He looks over to Kara and sighs. "You know there's going to be ten kinds of hell to go through when we get back?" He's gotten used to Kara being his and with them going back he can't help worry that she's going to disappear on him. (Reply to this) (Thread)

cpt_starbuck
2009-01-13 10:44 am UTC (link)

She sighs. "Yeah. I do."

She looks around, she loves her life on Galactica but it's hard to get excited about life on the run, eating algae, risking her life every day.

And she knows the fleet aren't going to welcome them back with open arms.

"What're we going to tell them?" she wonders. She knows if anyone else tirned up with stories of puzzles that transported them to an alternate world that time moved faster in, she'd think they were crazy. Or Cylons. Or both.

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	apollo_adama 2009-01-13 12:25 pm UTC (link)
	"I don't know," he replies. "Can't see the truth going down that well." He shrugs. "I guess we play it by ear and pray the old man's just relieved to have us back and that Tigh and Roslin don't get a say." His stomach is still churning, but he has to ask this question. "And what about us Kara? There still going to be an us" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

cpt_starbuck
2009-01-13 02:04 pm UTC (link)

She sighs. "I can't see any story going down well."

She chews on her lip. "Yeah. Not much else we can do."

He asks about what's going to happen with them, and she meets his eyes. "Yeah. We could get lucky, they could put us in the same cell in the brig," she jokes, but it kinda feels flat.

"I mean, if that's what you want. You're the one that's still married. Don't think I am anymore. Can't marry a machine."

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	apollo_adama 2009-01-13 02:31 pm UTC (link)
	Kara jokes and he doesn't quite have the energy to find it funny. "I do want that, you should know that. When I asked you to be with me, its what I want, you've always been the one I wanted." He looks down before locking her gaze and beginning to smile. "You knew that though. And Dee, well she'll cope." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	cpt_starbuck 2009-01-13 02:47 pm UTC (link)
	She gives him an awkward smile. "Yeah. Okay. Then, it's just one more thing we'll have to get through." She raises her eyebrow. "Good luck with that," she says, not wanting to be in his shoes. Dee isn't going to be very happy with either of them, though. "So, you ready?" she asks, looking over to the dome that holds the cube. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	apollo_adama 2009-01-14 03:42 am UTC (link)
	"As I'll ever be," he responds. He grabs his bag as Kara gathers her's. He picks up the globe and looks tentatively at Kara. This was real they were finally going back, where they were going to would be an unholy mess, but at least they'd be home. Lee puts an arm around her waist. "You open it. Captain, take us back." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

cpt_starbuck
2009-01-14 11:19 am UTC (link)

She nods. "Yes, sir."

She reaches out for the Cube. There's a weird sensation - it's different now she knows it's about to happen - and they're not in their room anymore, they're in the middle of the hangar deck.

"Frak," she sighs under her breath. So much for a low key entrance.

It's chaotic, looks like the aftermath of an attack, birds are landing and the Chief is yelling. She breathes in the recycled air with the metallic tang, the smell of tylium and metal, of a charred bird just coming in, and the noise and chaos all around them.

Yeah. This is home. She grins and looks around, seeing all the familiar faces and sights.

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apollo_adama
2009-01-14 12:16 pm UTC (link)

The hangar deck is how he remembers it, and they've come back in the middle of things.

People start noticing them and the hangar deck comes to a stand still. Pilots and deck crew alike form a circle round them, not wanting to get too close.

Lee notices the Chief's wife Cally speak to him and then head off in the direction of the bridge.

"Just about the welcome committee we were expecting." he says quietly.

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cpt_starbuck
2009-01-15 08:46 am UTC (link)

Kara sighs. "Yeah."

She glares at a knuckledragger who is staring openly at them.

"Major? Captain?" the Chief asks, sounding bewildered.

Kara gives him a tense smile. "Chief," she greets. "Long time no see."

"How -" he starts, and she hears people start murmuring.

"Why hasn't anyone raised a code blue?" someone whispers and Kara whips around to face them.

"We're not Cylons," she says, angrily. She hears people in the crowd murmur and she clenches her hands into fists.

"We thought you were dead, Sir," Tyrol says.

"Well, we're not," Kara replies. She's not getting into the whole story here, in front of everyone. She doesn't want the rumour going around that they've lost it.

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apollo_adama
2009-01-15 10:35 am UTC (link)

Lee's jaw tightens with some of the whispers feeling suddenly like they're both under suspicion, they never asked to be taken in the first place.

Oh paranoia, how he's missed it.

He gives Kara's arm a squeeze just above the elbow, enough to remind her that brawling with a knuckledragger over whether they're cylons or not when they've just appeared is not a good plan.

"Chief," Lee acknowldges.

There's a bit of a commotion at the back of the group which breaks apart Admiral Adama, followed by the ship's XO Colonel Tigh and a contingent of military police.

Lee scans his face looking how he's doing, how long have they been away anyway? The Admiral has changed, looks older, more worn. Lee knows better to expect a welcome back with open arms.

Admiral Adama looks at them, he is inscrutable before he barks out orders. "Take these two to the brig."

Tigh leans in to say something that Lee can't make out.

But the old man nods. "Get Cottle, down there too."

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	cpt_starbuck 2009-01-18 12:50 pm UTC (link)
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