Word Count: 3,935
Date: 03/28/05
Series: One
Rating: M+
Category: Relationships
Pairing/Focus: Lee, Kara
Warnings: Adult Sexual Situations
Summary: Lee and Kara get some things straight between them. It
seems they've been laboring under some misapprehensions. A million thank-yous to
Anna my awesome beta! ;-)
Spoilers/Disclaimers: Colonial Day, Kobol's Last Gleaming I. I
don't own the wonderful characters or story concept for Battlestar Galactica,
but I hope I can do justice to the wonderful characterizations scripted by Ron
Moore and company every week! I make no money off these poor scriblings, but I
do live for feedback!
What was it about a man in dress grays? No matter how unattractive they normally were, put them in grays and they were hot. Put an *already* amazing guy in them and you had a lethally sexy combination, too much to resist. Lee Adama fell into the later category as far as Kara was concerned. Oh, yeah, lethally sexy.
She'd been looking forward to the party all day as the perfect opportunity to knock a certain pilot's socks off. She had a sexy new blue dress she'd bought on Aries during her last shore leave and she knew it would be the perfect thing to wipe those snarky comments regarding her hygiene right out of his mind. Anticipation thrummed through her as she imaged the look on Lee's face when he saw her.
Besides which, she owed him for parading around half naked in front of her in the locker room. Seeing Lee's well sculpted-body had made her want to throw him on the floor and bang his brains out.
Dangerous want, that.
Technically, Lee was off limits. He was her CAG, he was Zak's brother, they were in the middle of a frakking war, plus a hundred other reasons why she should stay the hell away from him. Gods help her, she was still so drawn to him that she couldn't help herself. And it was getting worse by the day.
Looking around Kara took in her surroundings. It was a far cry from the dank dinginess aboard the Galactica. The Cloud Nine luxury liner boasted several large ballrooms, fifteen restaurants, four hotels and a myriad of up-scale party rooms. The reception for newly elected vice-president Baltar was being held in one of the larger ones. It wasn't too crowded yet, but that would most likely change as the night went on.
The view afforded to the guests through the large plate glass windows was programmed to look as if the sun were just setting. Even though trees and bushes screened most of the immediate view, the sky and waning sun were still visible in the distance. The rest of the room was tastefully decorated offering a choice of dancing, drinking or sit-down dining to its patrons. It was almost a laughable dichotomy when compared to the overall situation in which the remnants of humankind found themselves.
Kara had been standing at the bar, across from the large windows, nursing a drink, and waiting for Lee to arrive. He was late as usual, probably attending to some last minute anal detail that he just couldn't leave for tomorrow. Several other people tried to approach her, but after the day she'd had, Kara was in no mood to frak with anyone but Lee, so they left, tail between their proverbial legs.
It was just blind luck that she and Lee had uncovered that bastard Vandal before he could kill President Roslin, on behalf of Zarek, the *other* bastard. Thanks to both of them she had frakked up her knee again and it would probably be another six weeks before she was back in the cockpit. Gods she hated politics.
But Kara wasn't one to dwell on the negative for very long. She looked amazing, she felt great in spite of her knee and she was going to dance the night away in the arms of the lethally sexy Lee in his dress grays.
When she first noticed him standing behind her, she smiled and waited for him to walk over. Much to her surprise however, he just stared at her with an obviously appreciative look on his face. Her plans to wow the Captain were coming along nicely.
Lee finally found his voice and took a couple of steps in her direction.
"So, um, that bum knee of yours looks pretty good," he quipped with his trademark half smile.
Taking a couple more steps, silly smile firmly in place, he added, "and the other one's not bad either."
Kara laughed lightly, pleased that she had his attention.
"Lee, if you wanna ask me to dance, just ask."
"You wanna dance?"
She nodded, and they turned together and headed for the dance floor.
"Me in a dress is a once in a lifetime opportunity." Kara quipped with self-deprecating humor.
"You look...amazing," Lee said, clearly still affected. Their eyes caught and held, lost to the attraction sizzling between them.
"Thank you," Kara responded with a huge smile.
One dance turned into three as they talked and laughed comfortably in each other's company. When opening strains of the fourth song started, she was inwardly relieved that is was a slow song. Not only could her knee use a rest, she wanted an excuse to stand just a little closer to him.
Pleasurable warmth radiated from Lee's hand caressing her back and Kara let her eyes drift closed. She could almost imagine that it was just the two of them in the room.
"Kara?" She opened her eyes and met his clear blue ones. "You look so..." He seemed at a loss for words. "Gods you're so beautiful," Lee breathed. Leaning down slightly, he touched his lips to hers in the barest of kisses.
Kara flushed with pleasant surprise, it wasn't like Lee to be so forthcoming or demonstrative about his feelings in public- his compliments touched her.
Unfortunately, *her* true feeling about most things were held deep inside so she couldn't help reverting to her primary defense mechanism; be loud and be funny. She was poised to counter his sincerity with something crass, but Lee stopped her before she could get a word out.
"Shhh," he said, placing his fingers lightly on her lips. "I need to tell you something," he murmured as he grazed tiny little kisses down the side of her neck.
Kara bit her lip to keep from groaning aloud as bright shards of arousal lanced through her.
"I've been an idiot. I didn't want to admit how I felt about you...there are so many reasons why I shouldn't feel this way, and I've tried to stop, but I can't."
His beautiful blue eyes held hers, staring straight into her soul until she had trouble drawing a breath.
"I love you, Kara," he said simply.
Lee loved her. The words were simple, yet had the power to change everything they were to one another. Kara traced his face with her gaze, wanting his strong angled jaw, tanned skin and blue eyes imprinted on her brain forever. She wanted to memorize his face, this moment.
Part of her also wanted to run, terrified, from the room, but the other part wanted to settle in those words and never come out. The latter won in the end, because when it was all said and done, she realized with dull amazement, she loved him too.
Glancing around the room again it surprised her to find that they really were alone. Something about that wasn't right, but she couldn't put her finger on the reason at the moment and so brushed it aside.
All that mattered was that she was alone with Lee, and suddenly he was the Lee she'd always dreamed of, the man who wasn't afraid of regulations, or her past, or their precarious situation in the universe. The one who would love her as if the nothing else in the world existed.
"Kara?" he whispered next to her ear, "I want to make love to you, right here, right now."
"Yes..." she managed to answer somehow.
Though everyone in the room had mysteriously left, the gentle dance music still drifted in the background and they moved with it as they kissed.
"As sexy as you look in that dress, I'd much rather see you out of it," Lee said running his hands over the back of her shoulders till they reached her nicely toned ass.
His touch caused Kara to tremble with arousal.
"Undress for me. I want to see you." He looked at her like a conquering warrior surveying his spoils and it made her want to be just that.
"It'll cost you," she whispered.
"Oh, yeah?" he said, playing along. "Name your price."
"Everything," Kara said impulsively, half expecting him to balk.
Lee pulled away and slowly draped himself over the nearest chair. "I accept."
The music that had been playing in the background swelled up through the inside of her and she began to move with the music. She knew she should feel self-conscious and that everyone could come back in at any moment, but none of that seemed to matter right now. She longed to be what Lee wanted.
Floating away from him, she turned and slid down one strap of her dress. Over her shoulder she speared him with a look of pure seduction, elated when he didn't even try to hide his growing arousal. She then slid the other one down very slowly, giving him the same hungry look.
Her sensuous steps brought her back to stand in front of him and she leaned down to kiss him on the mouth. Not giving him a chance to react she slipped away again, the wildly appreciative look in his eyes spurring her on. Crossing one arm over the other, a single strap came completely off her arm, bringing half of the formfitting dress with it. The other strap followed thereafter, baring her to the waist.
Lee's breathing took on a noticeably erratic pattern, coming in short rapid spurts. It thrilled her that her body could affect him so strongly.
With one last shake of her hips, the dress fell completely to the floor in a shimmering blue pool. Kara was left with only a sexy little pair of thong panties, and her high-heeled strapy sandals. She noted that this time he stopped breathing all together and could see that he was straining not to come up out of the chair. Good. He was as turned on as she was.
"Come," he said huskily, when he was able to draw enough breath.
Transfixed by the hungry look on his face, she approached him slowly, only stopping when his lips were inches from her abdomen.
Starbuck's heart raced in anticipation as Apollo reached out both hands and slowly grazed the outside of her legs, working his way up and in till his thumbs slid under the strap of her thong. Moving his hands from front to back, he gently cupped her ass before removing her last piece of clothing.
Kara shivered and wondered idly if you could die from pleasure.
Once he'd divested her of those oh so sexy sandals, it was time to play. It seemed Lee had waited as long as long as his self-control would allow.
Kara was pleasantly caught off guard when he grabbed her wrist and pulled her down to straddle his lap. The feel of his clothed erection under her clit and the play of his flexing thigh muscles next to the sensitive inside of hers was erotic and very arousing.
In a heartbeat she was being kissed senseless, held upright only by skillful hands gently massaging her breasts and painfully hard nipples. Sensation after sensation streaked through her from her breasts to clit, nearly bringing her to orgasm before he ever got inside her.
"Frak," he said, breaking off their kiss. "I need to be inside you, Kara, *now*."
"Oh, gods yes..."
They didn't even try to get his pants off, she just moved back far enough to unzip his fly and bare enough of his straining erection to satisfy their mutual craving, that done, she watched him lift her up then impale her with one savage thrust.
Kara whimpered helplessly as he rocked her back and forth, penetrating her so far, she would swear he was touching her heart. Hot and cold chills raced through her entire body as they came together again and again. For once in her life she didn't mind not being in control.
While Lee's hands were busy driving her to distraction she responded to the raging need within her to explore his body in kind. She filled her palms with his perfectly formed ass. It felt incredible to trace its contours after weeks of only admiring from a distance.
Next she skimmed her hands around the front to reverently touch the place that they were joined, smiling secretly that it affected him as much as her.
She watched with him through passion-drugged eyes, utterly enthralled. Lee was masculine beauty incarnate, even more compelling to her because he didn't close himself off from her as he found his pleasure. Eyes wide open, he was with her the whole time, telling her without words the effect she was having on him. It was the most sensual experience she'd ever had.
Tumbling them to the floor and pulling her under him, he rained frantic kisses all over her face, "You're so beautiful... so beautiful...gods, Kara..."
His words caused her to tighten on his shaft, making the sensations that much more intense for both of them. Kara's breathing increased, coming in short harsh pants now as Lee's intimate whispers and soul-searing thrusts brought them closer and closer to fulfillment. She ran her hands over his muscled chest, and into his hair trying in vain to posses all of him.
"Lee...please..." Kara begged.
"Please what, Kara?" He panted close to her ear, not missing a single thrust. "What do you want?"
Mindless now with passion, she could hardly put two words together, all she wanted to do was kiss that sensual mouth of his, but Lee wouldn't cooperate.
He thrust halfway, not completely penetrating. "Is this what you want?"
She half-groaned in response and gripped his hips with her hands in an attempt to pull him all the way back in. He wouldn't allow it.
Lee chuckled wickedly and kissed her hard on the mouth again. "Or is it...oh gods...is it that? All you have to do..." He gave her another unfulfilling half-thrust. "...is tell me what you need..."
"Ooo...need...you..." Kara finally gasped out.
"I'm all yours," he purred, slamming hard all the way back into her.
With only two more soul shattering thrusts Kara broke apart into a million shards of sparkling light.
"Leeeeeeeee"
In that moment, reality came crashing back as she realized where she really was and whom she was really with.
Frakking, bloody hell! What in the frak had she been thinking? Screwing Giaus Baltar of all people?'
But the reason why slowly came back to her as well.
It wasn't her dream evening with Lee. In fact everything had somehow gone wrong, till in a fit of pique, she'd left with Giaus.
The 'righteous' Lee Adama had emerged and let her leave with another man.
Kara lay there on the silk sheets of the luxury hotel suite with one seriously pissed off sleaze bag and a heart full of misery.
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Twenty-four hours, a fight and a serious hangover later, Kara Thrace sat in her quarters holding ice to yet another black eye and indulging in a major fit of the sulks.
"Frak!" Kara said to no one in particular. "You just never learn do you Thrace?"
"Learn what?" She was shocked to hear Lee's voice from the doorway.
"Get the frak out of here, Lee," Kara spat, taking the ice away from her eye.
He just ignored her, walked in and shut the door behind him.
"Are you here to put me in hack, Captain?"
"I probably should, but I did hit you back, so I guess that makes us even."
"Hardly."
"Look, Kara, I'm..." Lee tried again.
"I don't want your pity or apologies, Lee. You made it perfectly clear what you thought of me." Kara looked away, struggling not to make things worse by crying in front of him.
"Gods, Thrace, would you just shut up and listen for a minute!" Lee raked his hands though his hair. "What is it about you that makes me so crazy? I never act like this, except with you!"
Kara sat stone-faced, her silence tacit permission for him to continue speaking.
"I know you don't want to hear it, but I'm sorry. I was way out of line, but in my own defense...I was... jealous." He finished almost too softly for her to hear.
Starbuck's mouth all but fell open in amazement.
"Say that again, I don't think I heard you properly."
"I was frakking jealous! Okay?" he shouted.
Kara was up off the bunk in a millisecond intending to take yet another swing at Lee Adama. "You stupid frak!"
Instead of hitting back this time though, Lee caught her arm and pinned it behind her back. She wrestled it free, spun away from him, and back around again.
Not willing to let him leave without hearing her out this time, she moved right into his personal space. "I can't believe you let me leave with him, that you just let me go!"
Neither of them moved for a handful of seconds, the air around them charged with unresolved emotional tension. The sound of her own labored breathing was harsh in her ears as she watched the rhythmic tic of a tiny muscle in Apollo's face.
The only warning Kara had of what Lee intended was the hardening of his jaw right before he grabbed her around the waist, yanked her to him and kissed her hard on the mouth. She couldn't have been more surprised and because she'd been about to say something else, the kiss was immediately open mouthed, tongue-to-tongue and intense. It spun her mind away so fast that minutes passed before she registered that his hands were already busy lightly skimming her ass and her painfully tight tipped breasts.
Even though this *was* her fantasy come to life, Kara wasn't going to let Lee off the hook that easily. She had to know what was going through that mind of his.
"Why, Lee," she managed between kisses, "why did you just stand by and let me walk away if that's the way you felt?"
He didn't answer right away and for a moment her heart sank, maybe she shouldn't have asked. Just because he was jealous didn't necessarily mean he really cared deeply for her. It could just mean that he was pissed off that someone got to her before he did.
Nothing could have prepared her for his answer.
"I've seen you look at him. I thought it's what you really wanted," he said flatly.
Kara was stunned. How could he possibly have thought something so frakking ridiculous? He had to know that he was her constant obsession, but the truth she saw in his eyes now said he didn't.
"Gods, Lee, I've never wanted anyone but you- ever."
The look on his face was a mixture of hope and disbelief. "I had no idea you felt that way. I thought it was just me."
"No..." Kara reached up a hand to the side of his face, pulling him toward her. With all the pent up desire from the last several weeks and then some, she kissed him. At first, as if still not believing her, he didn't respond in kind, but she persisted on, willing him to understand her heart.
Kara heard the low guttural groan signifying his acceptance right before all hell broke loose and Lee's kisses became wildly, heart-stoppingly erotic.
Holding her head with his hands, he tasted, caressed and nipped over and over causing liquid fire to flow through her body.
Both their barriers came down in a heated sexual rush as they tore at each other's clothes until they were completely nude. Step by step they moved toward the narrow bunk on the other side of the small room. When the backs of Lee's knees hit the edge, he sank down taking Kara with him and rolled her under him.
He roughly palmed her breasts, causing an intense kind of pleasure-pain, but she didn't care, she wanted him rough and raw and totally uncontrollable.
Not to be outdone, Kara grabbed his stiff erection and pumped him up and down from tip to balls.
He groaned loudly and closed his eyes. "Gods, Kara, if you keep that up, this will be a very short ride."
She smiled broadly. "You know how I love to play close to the edge." She eased up her torture just enough to keep him from 'taking off' prematurely.
"Just remember two can play at that game," he said, eyes still closed.
She should have known he wouldn't let her one up on him and before she could stop him, Lee had snaked down her body, spread her thighs and taken her in his mouth. He stroked the inside of her legs as he sucked her savagely but she was already so primed that her orgasm came fast and intense, leaving her shaking and wanting more. Replacing his mouth with his fingers, he re-positioned himself on top of her again and took her mouth as he slid in and out of her with his hand.
Kara seemed unable to do anything but lay back and enjoy the sensations racing through her. Aside from ardently returning his kisses and shamelessly lifting her hips up to meet his hand, she couldn't think clearly enough to do anything else.
Her whimper of pleasure wrung a low, wicked chuckle from Lee. "I'm going to frak you till all you can remember is me, inside you. You won't even know that prick's name anymore."
"It was always you, Lee," Kara breathed out. "Even when I was with him, it was you I was imagining."
An expression of pure triumph broke over Lee's handsome face and spreading her legs once more, he surged into Kara's tight passage with one strong thrust. Resting there, his eyes met hers and held for a handful of heartbeats. He was larger than most guys and filled her like no other ever had. It was incredible.
"It was your name I screamed in the end, not his."
Kissing her hard, Lee began thrusting in and out almost frantically. Something in him snapped and he became a man possessed. Kara wrapped her legs around his waist to give him better access and held him to her, to letting him know that she understood his need to claim her as his own.
Friction, heat and arousal built so quickly between them that it stole her breath. She wondered absently if it would always be like this for them. She hoped so.
Lee broke their kiss, she could tell he was close to coming apart, - so was she.
"Come for *me*..." he panted. "Scream...my...name..." He slammed into her savagely one last time. "Now!" he yelled hoarsely as he toppled into the bright oblivion of fulfillment.
"Leeeeeeee!" Kara's voice joined his as she followed him.
~Fin