embolalia: (Kara/Lee - Return Home)
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Title: The Right Call
Rating: R
Words: 777
Pairing: Kara/Lee (mentions of Lee/Gianne)
Summary: Kara and Lee talk at the end of Scar. Based off a prompt from [livejournal.com profile] sci_fi_shipper for “Kara/Lee (with Lee/Gianne), a ring.” Also assumes that this deleted scene actually happened.



The Right Call

As the So Say We Alls fade, Kara sets down the bottle and heads out of the rec room. Lee sees her go and slips past his father, around Tigh, and out the hatch behind her.

“Wait up!” he calls as Kara reaches the corner.

She stops and waits for him, her eyes wary. “What now, Apollo?”

He shakes his head. “I’ll walk you.”

Kara peers at him, confused, then starts walking again, heading deeper into the ship and away from their quarters.

“About last night,” Lee starts. “Not that!” he interrupts himself as she looks at him terrified. “When I said that you’re hung up--”

“On dead guys, I remember,” Kara snaps, walking faster.

“I lost someone too,” he says, stopping. It’s easier to say the words to her back. She freezes but doesn’t turn. “What I said about the wife and the...and the rugrat, and the porch-swing...”

Kara slowly faces him. She looks sadder than he’s seen her in years, her eyes downcast. “Sorry,” she whispers.

“She was pregnant,” Lee says, surprising himself and clearly Kara; she stares at him, horrified. “She told me and I didn’t know what to do. I had to leave to make it to Galactica. I was trying to decide - I was thinking about buying her a ring.”

Even before he finishes the sentence, Kara’s launched herself into him, is holding onto him with all her strength. He puts his arms around her gingerly, takes a deep breath of her hair. After a long moment, he eases into the hug, holding her tighter.

“Come on,” Kara finally says, and pulls away as he releases her. She leads the way, but he figures out quickly where they’re going. The Memorial Hall is empty this time of night, and Kara wanders along it until she finds an empty patch of wall. She turns to Lee and pulls out a wrinkled trading card from her pocket. “Best I’ve got,” she offers quietly. Clenching her jaw, she pins it in place.

Lee stares at it for a long moment, even as he feels her watching him, then finally reaches into his pocket and takes out a slip of paper he’s never shown anyone, not Kara, not his father. He loosens the tack in Anders’ card, then pushes it back in, now holding the ultrasound image in place as well. They look on in silence for a long time.

“Are you okay?” Kara finally whispers, echoing his earlier words.

Lee turns to see her. “Are you?”

Slowly she shakes her head. “I...I had to choose out there, Lee. Take him out myself or live to fight another day.”

“Well you made the right call.”

She stares at the picture of Anders. “I don’t want to die,” she says very softly.

He feels for a moment like he can’t breathe. “Then don’t,” he begs. “Don’t. We’ll make it to Earth and have our bright, shiny future. I’ll build you a porch-swing myself if you want.”

Kara looks at him, smiling, her eyes shining with tears. “Okay,” she whispers.

He kisses her then, because he can’t do anything else. He kisses her and this time she presses back into his arms, her lips opening under his as he pulls her tightly against him. She tastes like liquor and heat, just like yesterday, but everything is different now. They’re going to live. Lee laughs against her lips and feels her answering grin.

They stagger down the hall, kissing and stumbling and trying not to knock any pictures down. The bunkroom is empty, thank the Gods, and Lee dogs the hatch and then stops. “No takebacks, Kara,” he reminds her.

She shakes her head, then strips her tanks off, reaches for his fly.

It’s all different tonight: the urgency is there, but she’s looking at him, arching into him instead of pulling away, slowing down long enough for them to make it into his bunk. The feeling of Kara around him as they finally, finally come together is so perfect he’s glad this didn’t happen last night. She pants his name in his ear - his name - and digs her nails into his back as she starts to come apart beneath him. Lee groans hers in turn as he loses himself in her.

“Do you think we’ll really make it?” Kara asks a while later, laying in his arms, sweaty and sated. She tilts her head, looking at him obliquely.

Lee nods, trying to memorize what she looks like like this. There’s fear in her eyes, and grief, and joy. She’s so beautiful. “Yeah,” he says, grinning. “Now we have to.”


Date: 2012-04-15 03:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scifishipper.livejournal.com
So beautiful and sweet. I just love pilots when they are supportive. This was always so possible and I am sure it happened all the time off screen. Thank you for this lovely piece. I really like fic that makes Gianne more real and less of a plot device from nowhere. <3<3<3

Date: 2012-04-15 11:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] embolalia.livejournal.com
Thanks for the prompt! I really think that if they'd kept the scene in Scar and ever mentioned it again, they could have undone some of the ridiculousness of Black Market...but I also kind of appreciate that they didn't try :)

Glad you liked this!

Date: 2012-04-15 04:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kdbleu.livejournal.com
This is just sweet and wonderful and a little bit weepy (in a good way). Love it. :)

Date: 2012-04-15 11:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] embolalia.livejournal.com
Yay! Thanks, dear :)

Date: 2012-04-15 05:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] callmeonetrack.livejournal.com
Aw a much better ending than canon! <3 Very sweet and hopeful.

Date: 2012-04-15 11:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] embolalia.livejournal.com
Thanks! <3

Date: 2012-04-15 09:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] howlinchickhowl.livejournal.com
They do have to, they most definitely do. This is fab! Now you have to rewrite the rest of the series from here until earth. CHALLENGE: EXTENDED.

Date: 2012-04-15 11:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] embolalia.livejournal.com
Hee! I already have other canon-long things in mind, and not enough time to write them :) But I'm glad you enjoyed this!

Date: 2012-04-15 05:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] howlinchickhowl.livejournal.com
*ahem* I said CHALLENGE: EXTENDED...

Date: 2012-04-15 11:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wicked-sassy.livejournal.com
What a delightful twist! They are lovely here with each other, and they use their words (and, ahem, other things) in the best ways.

Date: 2012-04-15 12:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] embolalia.livejournal.com
Thanks! I considered a warning for pilots talking an unreasonable amount, but then let is go :)

Date: 2012-04-15 02:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] koolaidmom11.livejournal.com
I must be emotional today cuz this just punched me in the gut...perfectly of course.

Beautiful, wonderful and other superfluous adjectives (those were adjectives right?)

Date: 2012-04-16 02:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] embolalia.livejournal.com
I was all exhausted and emotional while I was writing it, so fair enough :) Thanks!

Date: 2012-04-15 08:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] damao2010.livejournal.com
So lovely. Loved that Lee confided in Kara about Gianne and the baby. Loved that he went after her and that they were in a completely different mindset when they finally got together. Love that he promises to build her a porch swing and that she didn't laugh about it. Love caring, supporting , loving pilots, what can I say? :)

Date: 2012-04-16 02:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] embolalia.livejournal.com
They're so nice when they're nice to each other! ;) Thanks!

Date: 2012-04-16 12:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rdave1.livejournal.com
Beautiful! I really wish pilots had more conversations like this with each other. They really are each other's best support system. Well done!

Date: 2012-05-01 01:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] word-vomity.livejournal.com
Yes! Him opening up to her would be the thing that brings them together. Hurray for happy!pilots! *happy sigh*

Date: 2012-05-01 09:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] embolalia.livejournal.com
Glad you enjoyed them! :)

Date: 2012-06-01 05:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chicagogirl675.livejournal.com
What a wonderful, emotional day after. If only... And I agree with another poster that if Lee opened up to Kara that she may just finally let him in. Can't wait to read more from you!
Cari

Date: 2012-06-02 02:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] embolalia.livejournal.com
Thank you!

Date: 2012-08-20 01:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] requialexa.livejournal.com
Wow. I just picked this up randomly out of nowhere and I adore it! I could see all of it so clearly...and hear it, too :D Nice Job!!

Date: 2012-08-21 02:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] embolalia.livejournal.com
Aww, thanks! This was a fun bit of fluff :)

Date: 2013-12-06 04:48 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] lanalucy
Ah. So much more meaningful than the frak would have been the night before. Not that I was opposed to it happening the night before, you understand. :)

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