number_eight | 11.A.5 Baker Street

You used to think that it was so easy,
You used to say that it was so easy...

But you’re cryin’, you’re cryin’ now.

[Locked to

arrow_of_apollo]

Thank you.

I don't know what we are. I don't think you know what we are, either. But after what happened? After everything that Karl did to me, after I lost Hera, after... you saved me, you know.

God, I used to think that life was going to be easy. I'd be married to Helo, we'd raise Hera, and live happily ever after. Of course, this was after everything that went down on Galactica when I was first brought onboard. Yeah, after that? I thought my life would be simpler. I got my commission, I got my daughter back... and I had the most loving, caring, thoughtful husband in the universe.

And then he frakked Boomer who escaped with my daughter.

I thought I had nothing. I couldn't stop crying in your quarters, if you hadn't been there to pick me up and hold me, kiss me, frak me until it felt better... I don't know. I don't even know if it helped you, either, if you were still grieving the loss of Dee and you needed to take it out on someone.

All I know was it worked.

I left your quarters and went back to Karl, and he wanted me to hate him. He tried to get me to yell at him, hurt him, hit him, something... anything. I couldn't. I just cried some more, thinking about you, thinking how you didn't ask that of me, not ever. You held me, right away, when I told you. You kissed me. You made love to me, not frakking like we normally do, but.... Lee? You made me whole again.

I only fell apart in front of Karl because it wasn't you. He didn't understand me, the way I thought all this time.

I didn't tell him about us, just so you know. He left me alone and I wanted so badly to just run right back to your arms, but I knew we couldn't do that. Maybe it was a one-time deal, that comforting thing that happened between us. I don't know.

I guess my point is? Thank you. When I think of us, Lee, I'm not crying about it anymore.

Muse: Sharon "Athena" Agathon
Fandom: Misc. TV/"Battlestar Galactica"
Word Count: 366
OOC: The Helo referred to in this prompt is

callsign_helo, and is part of an ongoing RP incorporating the show's canon into an AU version of Sharon.