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number_eightOOC: Takes place after THIS THREAD
Sharon had done a good job lying to her husband while both she and Lee were "trapped" for two days on the cargo ship. She'd talked to Helo and Hera over the wireless a few times, thanks to Admiral Adama being understanding, and Lee had done the same with Dee.
Then, the world fell apart.
The trial against Gaius Baltar was set to begin, and Lee, for reasons she didn't understand, had decided to assist the defense. It didn't matter though, she kept telling herself, because they were back onboard Galactica and Hera was there. Life could go back to normal.
One day, though, Helo had come back to tell Sharon that Lee was being referred to as "Mister Adama". No one really seemed to know what was going on, but Sharon saw Dee later that day looking... well, upset, definitely. Sad? A little bit. But she wasn't about to go up to her fellow crewmember and ask, "So, did your husband tell you about us?"
After all, there wasn't an "us" to discuss. Right?
Still, it didn't stop Sharon from cornering Lee while the deliberation was going on. She was still a little shaken from her shared dream - vision? - with Caprica and President Roslin. Hera was being looked at again by Cottle. She knew she didn't have a lot of time, but the other fellow, Lampkin, was busy talking to Gaius Baltar.
"Hey." It wasn't the best way to start, but Sharon didn't know what to say. She looked around nervously and sighed. "What happened? Did she figure it out? Or did you finally confess?" Either way, it made him a better person than she was, she figured.
Sharon had done a good job lying to her husband while both she and Lee were "trapped" for two days on the cargo ship. She'd talked to Helo and Hera over the wireless a few times, thanks to Admiral Adama being understanding, and Lee had done the same with Dee.
Then, the world fell apart.
The trial against Gaius Baltar was set to begin, and Lee, for reasons she didn't understand, had decided to assist the defense. It didn't matter though, she kept telling herself, because they were back onboard Galactica and Hera was there. Life could go back to normal.
One day, though, Helo had come back to tell Sharon that Lee was being referred to as "Mister Adama". No one really seemed to know what was going on, but Sharon saw Dee later that day looking... well, upset, definitely. Sad? A little bit. But she wasn't about to go up to her fellow crewmember and ask, "So, did your husband tell you about us?"
After all, there wasn't an "us" to discuss. Right?
Still, it didn't stop Sharon from cornering Lee while the deliberation was going on. She was still a little shaken from her shared dream - vision? - with Caprica and President Roslin. Hera was being looked at again by Cottle. She knew she didn't have a lot of time, but the other fellow, Lampkin, was busy talking to Gaius Baltar.
"Hey." It wasn't the best way to start, but Sharon didn't know what to say. She looked around nervously and sighed. "What happened? Did she figure it out? Or did you finally confess?" Either way, it made him a better person than she was, she figured.
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Date: 2007-10-03 03:37 pm (UTC)"It doesn't matter what it was. It happened. And now I have to deal with it somehow. Me. Not you. You've got the case going on and... and I guess your father..." Which she still didn't quite understand, so Sharon made a mental note to go and speak with Admiral Adama after everything had quieted down.
Lee's eyes on her own were troubling her, though. "Stop that," she whispered, looking around the corridor to see if there was anyone else watching or listening. She'd come here to talk to him about Dee, not her daughter or her own problems.
"You're not wrong," she admitted quietly, and shut her eyes so he couldn't see into them. "But you knew you weren't wrong before you asked the question, didn't you?"
Lee let out a long breath. Things were spiraling out of control in the fleet. Baltar's trial was tearing at the population, the military especially, as divisive as it was between the mobs screaming for the former President's blood and the faction still trying to desperately cling to due process and the rules of the old civilization. The idea that somehow, the Cylons were either getting into the heads of both Sharon and Roslin or that the current President's "visions" were spreading didn't bode well.
And clearly, it shook Sharon to the core. Lee supposed he shouldn't have been surprised by that. Cylon or not-- and in the last years, it had become more and more difficult to think of her as one, especially in recent months-- she was still a mother, and a protective one at that. In fact, it was much how he'd imagined Dee would be as a mother. Somehow, Lee didn't like seeing Sharon like this... not at all.
"It could turn into something we all have to deal with," he commented simply. So many other presumably small things had been the same way.
She avoided his eyes. Sharon never looked at him when she admitted things. He'd gotten used to it. Lee wondered if he did the same. He wondered if he was about to do the same thing now.
"I did," he confessed. "Half the time, it feels like I'm being selfish, and using you to make myself feel better or, I don't know, just feel anything. But the other half?" Lee leaned in, just a few degrees. A casual passerby would never know the difference, but he thought Sharon might. "The other half, it feels like I'm just getting you to see what's already right there in front of you that you won't acknowledge."
"Now can I see you later?"