"The Space Between: Part 1" : Battlestar Galactica Fanfiction (Kara/Lee)

[carpenyx]

Title: "The Space Between: Part 1"
Author: Lori (carpenyx)
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica
Characters: Kara "Starbuck" Thrace and Lee "Apollo" Adama
Rating: PG
Words: 1,055
Spoilers/Episodes/Etc: Takes place sometime between "Colonial Day" and "Kobol's Last Gleaming" of the first season.
Summary: It's time Kara takes a bath...
Disclaimer: For entertainment purposes only, I own nothing. Just a really big geeky fan.
Additional Notes: This is my first Battlestar Galactica fanfiction, so... yeah. It could really suck, so... :P Comments are loved. This has been posted at beyond_insane and bsg2003fics.

The Space Between

Part 1

 

The luxury liner known as Cloud Nine was one of the very few retreats one could escape to within the fleet. The ship was very unique with its' dome shaped structure and the ability to provide realistic simulations of planetary life, such as buildings, trees and swimming areas. It was an ideal vacation location. It provided a place of sanctuary, a sense of normalcy and relaxation for the suffering citizens of the twelve colonies.

 

Today was no different for the CAG of Galactica and the hotshot Viper pilot, Kara Thrace.

 

“I can’t even *remember* the last time I felt the sunshine on my face,” Lee Adama commented with a reflective sigh to his companion.

 

“Every time,” Kara chuckled under her breath as she lay comfortably by the crescent-shaped pool filled with crystal blue water. She pushed her sunglasses up the bridge of her nose slightly, grinning to herself.

 

“It sure feels-”

 

“… good, almost like home.” Kara finished his sentence mockingly with a smug smirk on her face. It was a little known fact that *everytime* both of them took a days leave from the Galactica together and came to Cloud Nine, Lee acted like a five year old kid experiencing the wonders of the universe for the first time.

 

“Careful, Kara.” Lee rolled his eyes, adjusting his arms that were nestled underneath his head as he sunbathed. “We don’t want another incident like that last time…”

 

“Don’t you dare threaten me, Lee. Do you remember who kicked your sorry ass or did you conveniently block that one out?”

 

Without any warning, Lee jumped to his feet. Leaning over Kara, “We’ll just have to see who’s going to kick who’s ass today,” He told her with a mischievous grin on his face. Before Kara even figured out what was going on, Lee had maneuvered his strong arms under the back of her knees and upper back, lifting her off the ground.

 

Kara’s green eyes widened, as she pulled off her sunglasses, slightly oblivious to what was happening as he held onto her with a vice-like grip. “Lee, what the frak are you doing?” She questioned as she began to squirm, unable to free herself.

 

“Payback’s a bitch, Starbuck.” He laughed as he carried her over to the pool of water.

 

“Lee, don’t you dare! No, no, no…. LEE!” She squealed before giving him a solid and not-so soft punch in the upper arm.

 

Lee gritted his teeth, wincing slightly when her fist impacted his arm. For a girl, she had one hell of a punch. However, he remained steadfast in his plan. When he reached the edge of the pool, he smirked. “Any last words?”

 

*Yeah, I got some frakkin’ last words.* She thought and in the split second she had to come up with a counter-attack, she braced herself for the impact.

 

Lee lifted Kara slightly higher, getting a good position before tossing her forward towards the water. As he released her – without his knowledge- Kara had grabbed a handful of his swimming trunks and when gravity took its course, she gave a good yank, which caused Lee to loose his balance. The next thing the CAG knew, he was falling forwards into the pool after Starbuck.

 

Both Kara and Lee hit the water causing a big splash. Under the water, Kara regained her footing and smirked menacingly to her partner-in-crime before swimming to the surface. When she reached the top, Lee was not far behind and as he surfaced, he had a look of surprise on his face – not having expected to be getting wet.

 

Kara laughed, “And I’m the bitch.” She said as she splashed water to Lee.

 

Lee growled under his breath, turning away from Kara.

 

"Aww, is Lee Adama pouting?”

 

Lee quickly turned, placing his hands on top of Kara’s head and dunking her under the water with a satisfied grin. He released her and smirked to himself, proudly.

 

Kara came up for air, coughing a little water out of her mouth as she brushed her blonde hair from her face, “You are really askin’ for it, Apollo.” She said threateningly.

 

“Whatcha going to do, Thrace?” Lee asked as he splashed her again.

 

"Knock it off,” Kara hissed as she moved to the wall of the pool, away from Lee. She rested her arms on the edge of the pool, her feet kicking slowly underneath her, avoiding eye contact with Lee.

 

The grin on Lee’s face disappeared as he slowly moved closer to her.

 

“Don’t even think about it.”

 

“Did I hurt your feelings?” Lee said sarcastically, moving even closer to the sulking Kara.

 

“Maybe ya’ did, did you ever think about that?”

 

“I’m sorry, I didn’t think…”

 

Kara lifted her head slightly, her eyes meeting Lee’s and for a moment, she looked upset but that was soon replaced with a big grin and her bursting into laughter, “Sucker.”

 

“Always gotta make fun,”

 

“You’re such an easy target.”

 

“Maybe,” Lee said softly as he moved closer to Kara, looking into her big green eyes. Those eyes always floored him, what they conveyed was out of this world, the mystery and the emotion. Lee always felt weaker in the knees when she looked at him a certain way, the way she was now. Slowly, he moved closer, his arm slipping around her waist. He pulled her closer to his body, leaning slowly and letting his lips meet hers.

 

Kara fell into the kiss without hesitation, returning that kiss passionately as she pressed into him but as surely as she wanted this, as surely as she returned his kiss, moments later she pulled away, breaking the kiss between them. “I… can’t.” She whispered softly as she pushed Lee away from her, looking away.

 

“Kara…”

 

“Lee, no. I… I can’t.”

 

“Why do you always have to keep people at a distance?”

 

“No, you don’t get to frakkin’ lecture me, *Captain*.” She said angrily as she turned, lifting herself out of the water. She grabbed her towel, wrapping it around her waist as she looked over to Lee, her eyes filled with so much emotion that even she did not or would not understand. She sighed as she turned and walked away.

 

“Kara…. Kara!” Lee called after her but it was too late, she was gone.

 

To be continued….

 

 

Comments

[viper-knight.livejournal.com]

Oooh!!! I'm very intrigued!! Kara is so moody here! And Lee is, of course, confused.

Thanks for sharing and I can't wait for more :)

[carpenyx.livejournal.com]

Thank you muchly. :)

[jatnj.livejournal.com]

1. I love your header.

2. Cute, fun, fluffy piece. Pilots out romping, getting romantic, I'm all happy, then BOOM - crash and burn. I wonder what's up with Kara. Thankfully it's 'to be continued.'
I'm looking forward to the next installment.

[carpenyx.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I saw the pic of Jamie in my TV Guide and instantly fall in love, I just had to use it. :)

Thank you muchly for the comments about the fic :) I wanted to do something lighter considering it's my first BSG fic, I was crazy nervous posting it, 'cause the only fic I usually write is original stuff & used to write laods of Buffy back in the day. :P

[nebakanezer]

Hi there, it totally doesn't suck :) It is great, playful and sweet and then BAM typical Starbuck! argh! ... I can't wait to read more... Oh and did you mean to make Kara's eyes brown on purpose cuz on the show they are green :)

[carpenyx.livejournal.com]

Hey, thank you muchly. :)

Thanks for telling me about the eyes!! That was simply a mistake on my part that I'll have to fix. :P hehe

[nebakanezer]

:) there are also a few typos I did notice, do you want me to point them out, nothing that I couldn't figure out :) I really love your 'dream on' header - it is really nice, obviously the lee, but also the colors. I posted my first ever fic yesterday :)

[carpenyx.livejournal.com]

bleh. typos. I was so excited to actually finish my first BSG fic, that I didn't edited it properly. hehe I did go over it briefly when i editted the eye colors and fix one or two typos. if there is anything noticable, it'd be really kind of you to point them out, all the feedback and help i can get always helps. :)

thanks about the header! i love the pic and huge fan of Jamie Bamber, major droolage, hehe.

i would love to read your fic! is it posted on your journal?

[nebakanezer]

The ship is very unique with it’s’ dome shaped structure,

It is the ideal vacation location.

I'm not the best with grammar, but this is the only place you have present tense :)

look of surprised on his face

Kara fall into the kiss without hesitation

That's all I found this time around :) but they really are insignificant. :)

Oh yeah! I'm a huge Jaime fan, I drove to NYC (should have been 3 hours, but was 5 1/2) to see Jaime (and Eddie and Mary) it was really awesome and the only time I've ever done a fan girl kind of thing :)

Yes, fresh new fic at my journal and Beyond Insane :)

[carpenyx.livejournal.com]

Thank you, thank you, thank you! :) I *always* had little problems with present and past tense & using both instead of picking one or the other. One of the main problems in my english comp courses. :P

You saw Jamie? In NYC?? Ahhhh! I soooo wanna go to one of those conventions but the only ones I know about are from creationent.com and it's in Burbank, CA. Blah... I would *love* to meet him.

I will have to check out your fic soonly!! :)

[nebakanezer]

I think I only really notice the tense and typo things cuz I print out the fics to read them so I dont sit for hours in front of my computer (but I'm wondering if I should invest in paper because I am going through reams of it :)

It was a bsg event at the museum of tv and radio, they showed the season finale and had the 3 actors and Ron Moore and David Eike to answer questions, so I can't honestly say I 'met' Jaime, I was just in the same room as he was and it was a small (ish) room. And not close enough to see his eyes :(. I did a very detailed accounting of my trip on my lj if you want to re-live it thru me :)

This is the most comprehensive bsg website I've found with news and events: http://www.galacticastation.com/ its where I read about the nyc thing and actually bought tix before they sold out.

ps i love both your sharon and sharon/helo icons - so cute! I haven't ventured out of the K/L universe, but I do love sharon and helo too.

[carpenyx.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know what you mean with the paper, hehehe.

That's really awesome about the event in NYC and thanks for the link!! I foudn this site last night about a convention in Baltimore, Maryland and Jamie is going to be there. I *really* want to go but it's really last minute considering it's this weekend. :( Maybe another time. :)

Thanks about the icons! I did a whole batch of them for a community I'm in, if you wanna look here's the link to the journal entry: http://carpenyx.livejournal.com/17715.html#cutid1

[nebakanezer]

I saw that Baltimore thing, but Jaime is the only one there, right? so 7 hours is kinda a long way to go, I used to drive to Baltimore twice a year for a trade show and it is a long drive, though much less painful for you as you are already below NYC, but I'm holding out that they will come back to NYC next year...

will check out the icons, I love how creative everyone can be with icons. :)

[carpenyx.livejournal.com]

Yeah, he's the only one from BSG that's going to be there. It's not that far for me, but I would have to take a train (1 1/2 hour ride) but there is not quarantee that they will have tickets on saturday, so I don't want to chance it but they apparently do it every year, so I will make plans for next year with hopes that BSG people will show up. :)

I love icon making! I am so addicted to it, lol. I am getting better though with time, it's a learning process. :)

[nebakanezer]

It would totally suck if they were sold out and you went.

I love icon making!

and you are REALLY good at it! They are beee-u-ti-ful. I thought cuz I do lots of graphics stuff, that I could make them, and it is a lot harder then I thought and mine mostly suck :) Especially to make it still look good at 1". Anyway yours are awesome!

I have a friend who is seriously crushing on sharon, so I'm going to send her these so she can stare at them. She doesn't do the online bsg thing, so they'll just be on her desktop. When I found the maxim images of grace I felt a little weird emailing them to her at work, cuz well those images were just... uhm... let's just say revealing :), then she emailed back, "how could you think not to send these" :)

Oh, can I ask you what 'hotlinking' is? I get that it is bad and I wouldn't want to do it, but I have no idea what it is. :)

[carpenyx.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I am no where near as good as some people on livejournal but I do think I've been getting better as I continue to do them. :) I had a hard time with graphic on such a small scale also in the beginning, it wasn't what I was used to. Takes time. :)

Yay for a Sharon fan. :) I love Sharon, one of my top fave characters. oh, the maxim pictures are gorgerous! I can see though, why it'd be weird to send them to someone at work, hehehe

Oh, 'hotlinking' is when you use the link to where the image is (like if it's on another's site), instead of doing the right-click thingy and saving it on your computer & uploading it to LJ or your own personal space. Linking from where the image is, sucks up lots of bandwidth and makes the site slower or shut down temporarily.

[nebakanezer]

So I've found all these recountings of the Baltimore event, I didn't know if telling you would bum you out that you didn't go, but at least you can read about them and live through those that went :) Maybe you've already found them? So if I put links to their lj's here, would that be considered 'hotlinking' ? I know I'm really dense :) on this one topic, anyway they are all 3 listed at galacticanews. :)

[carpenyx.livejournal.com]

Oh no! You didn't bum me out, I kinda figured it'd be better to paly it safe anyway, 'cause I'd have to take a train down there and I didn't wanna be stuck if it sold out. :) I would love the links!! and no, that's not hotlinking :) hotlinking refers to images, media, etc... :)

[nebakanezer]

LOVE that little 'bounce' icon! that is just so cute!

Here they are, lots of spoilery things and lots of jaime-ness :)

smartylibrarian trinnifer indigo419

[carpenyx.livejournal.com]

I know! I love it too!! :)

Thanks for the links!!! I'm all happy now, hehehe

[nebakanezer]

:) they were great write ups. :)

[futurobrillante.livejournal.com]

Aww, cute story... That is, until typical Kara goes and gets all moody. Did I expect less from her? Not really. =] Glad there's going to be more to this.

[carpenyx.livejournal.com]

Thank you muchly. :) I am hoping (*crosses fingers*) to continue this soonly, 'cause I *really* want to, I am hoping to have the next part up within a week or two. If time allows, :)