bantha_fodder | [fic] the furthest distance between two points [bsg] [lee and kara]

The Furthest Distance Between Two Points, by Claira and Pen
Battlestar Galactica, 50 sentences about Kara and Lee. Rated PG.
We don't own these characters, and there are spoilers to the end of season two.

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1.   The first time they met was in hack; she didn't know he was Zak's brother until later, and by then it was too late.

2.   She never liked the way Kara Adama sounded.

3.   Kara has seen many things that are worse than death; she knows she'd do any of them to keep him alive.

4.   Nobody believes they never knew each other at the Academy.

5.   Contrary to popular belief, she's never frakked anyone in a Viper cockpit; Lee's the only one she knows who has managed it.

6.   Once, when he was drunk, he told her she was beautiful.

7.   Lee wishes sometimes that he could stop loving her, because he's sick of the way she treats him, sick of the way he takes her shit day after day, but every time he wakes up resolved to get through the day without her, he sees her sleeping across from him and knows it's hopeless.

8.   He knows where she keeps her secret stash of cigars, but he'll never tell.

9.   She announces her engagement and her transfer to the Pegasus is cancelled; she tries to see the two as unrelated.

10.   He watches from across the room as his father casually compliments her on her planning, watches the way she lights up and glows for an hour and wonders who taught her to not value herself.

11.   She turns twenty-six and he forgets, and she can't quite believe how it hurts.

12.   She says 'there is no us' and he sees the lie in her eyes before he tastes it in her mouth.

13.   After Caprica, her skin bruises easily; he hits her just as hard.

14.   When she rejoins the Fleet, he comes to see her in sickbay, but only when she's sleeping.

15.   She never lets herself think of him when she's with Sam; she owes them both that much.

16.   He memorises her tent address in the new colony, but never writes it on a letter.

17.   "If you could save one of us, who would it be?" she says, and Lee freezes, can't think, can't seem to get his tongue around the word 'you' and fifteen heartbeats later Dee's smile is twisted as she places her wedding ring in his hand.

18.   The first call she makes from the ground is to him: her stomach jumps when he yells at her, and she curls her hand into a fist when he hangs up the phone.

19.   A million miles away, all he sees is her face and hates her even more for making him forget ten thousand other people.

20.   She teaches him how to make paper Vipers out of Tigh's memos.

21.   She has this dream: her and Lee in a boat in the middle of some ocean on Earth, hair wet and salt drying on their skin.

22.   Whenever he tries to imagine her future all he sees is a fire and shrapnel and it terrifies him.

23.   The first time he saw her he thought she wasn't good enough for his brother; after half an hour, it was the other way around.

24.     She tumbles out of her viper, bruised and bleeding, and he smiles at her; "Starbuck," he says, and she smiles back.

25.   The second time he ever sees her cry, he's the cause, and all he feels is relief that he can still make her feel something that acutely.

26.   She puts on a dress; he stammers and can't find his way around a simple compliment and later he thinks maybe that's when it all went wrong.

27.   On Earth, he fraks a girl with red hair down to her arse and tits way out; it's someone's fantasy but it's not his, and he says Kara when he comes.

28.   She's a better pilot, and he hates that.

29.   His paperwork is almost bearable when she sprawls opposite him in the mess and throws her feet up on his carefully numbered lists.

30.   When Sam gets sick and doesn't get better, she uses all her influence and trades all her favours, but the only thing she feels is guilt.

31.   He knocks, and she opens the door; bare feet and messy hair and her mouth forms his name for the split second before he kisses her.

32.   When she's got full colours, she twists the ring on her thumb; he learnt when to fold years ago.

33.   He's a better CAG, and he's welcome to it, though sometimes she wishes she were a better leader.

34.   She spends the night with Cally and they paint their nails bright red; it's so completely wrong that he needs to blink twice, in case he's hallucinating.

35.   He comes back to his rack after a double shift in the CIC and a session in Vipers before that to find his blanket turned down, and when he lies down he finds she's tucked one of world's last chocolate bars under his pillow.

36.   She laughs at his face when he tastes sambuca for the first time.

37.   On Earth, he and Dee were never married; it makes things easier.

38.   The first time he fraks her it's rough and hard and she's bruised and aching when he puts her back on her feet, but he's clinging to her like he's drowning and she pulls his head down to her shoulder and holds him until the trembling stops.

39.   He knows that she likes to listen to her father's music while she's painting.

40.   He wakes up to her hand warm on his back, and her eyelashes fluttering against his bare shoulder as she dreams, and he smiles.

41.   She doesn't like to look at the scars that criss-cross his skin: they remind her of all the times she failed him, and she turns away.

42.   He watches as she kisses her husband, and his stomach twists into knots.

43.   For her twenty third birthday, he wrote her a terrible song that rhymed "goat" with "broach," and she laughed until she fell off her chair.

44.   She kisses him softly, like she's worried it will be the last time, up until he grabs her arse and pulls her forward; then she kisses like it's the first time, and draws blood.

45.   He likes his coffee with milk in it, and she's never told anyone how many sugars he takes.

46.   She develops a taste for rum and raisin ice cream, and he buys her a tub every week, though he's the coldest he's been in years.

47.   When she sleeps she doesn't quite snore, and when he moves to the Pegasus the silence is hard to get used to.

48.   As the raider squeals behind her, her viper shudders around her and Lee's voice comes through the sideband, guiding her home.

49.   The sun is warm on his face, real and she shifts next to him and throws an arm over her face.

50.   On Earth, she kisses him like she means it; for once, he's positive that she does.

OMG FIC.

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