New Chapters: Earth Rain - Book III, 38/?, BSG, K/L, NC-17 (PG-13 for this chapter)
With cherylad's amazing help and support, I present you a new chapter of Earth Rain! Also, it's completed!!! I'll be posting Chapters 39/40/Epilogue tomorrow, probably, so stay tuned ;) Just want to re-read the entire thing to make sure I'm okay with the ending.
Title: Earth Rain
Author: Alice J. Foster (a.k.a. shipperfey)
Book III
| For Books I, II, and previous chapters, go here |
| Chapter 28 | Chapter 29 | Chapter 30 | Chapter 31 | Chapter 32 |
| Chapter 33 | Chapter 34 | Chapter 35 | Chapter 36 |
| Chapter 37 | Chapter 38 | Chapter 39 | Chapter 40 | Epilogue |
Summary: In the present, Kara, Lee and Aria spend the holidays with Bill, Laura and the Agathons. In the future, we get to see the Adama children struggle with their legacies.
Spoilers: Anything up to Season 3 is fair game.
Category/Warnings:Smut. Angst. Romance. Fluff.
Pairing/Characters: Kara/Lee, Helo/Athena, Hera, Bill Adama/Laura Roslin, OC.
Rating: NC-17/M for overall angsty smut, mature themes, and bad language.
♥
Chapter 38
“Lee?”
“Dad?” Lee asked, surprised to see his father still awake, sitting by himself in the living room. “What are you doing up?”
Bill just smirked as he took a long sip of scotch off his glass. “Laura snores,” he finally admitted after a few seconds of silence.
Lee raised an eyebrow, but didn’t follow his original line of inquiry as he took a seat across from his father.
“How ‘bout you?” Bill asked.
Lee raised his glass of water. “Wanted something to drink,” he lied, and after a few seconds he sighed and disclosed the true reason, “Kara’s been kicking up a storm in her sleep. I was afraid of waking up full of bruises,” he confessed, remembering the pile of pillows he’d put in his spot before going downstairs, in a last attempt to protect Aria from the unconscious jabs.
“Your mother was definitely a kicker while she was pregnant with your brother,” Bill replied stoically. “Never thought I’d miss my rack in the pilot bunkroom, but those days I did.”
Lee laughed despite himself.
“I don’t think I congratulated you, son,” Bill pointed out, raising his glass. “If this one comes out half as gorgeous are Aria, you and Kara will have your hands full.”
Lee nodded, “Thanks, Dad.”
“Has she agreed to marry you?”
“Not exactly,” Lee replied. “She’s still only agreeing to wearing the ring.”
“You’re going to have to do something quick, Lee,” Adama advised. “Kara has always been impulsive; if you give her too much time to think, she’ll only come up with reasons not to marry you.”
Lee sighed, “I think you’re right... but she’s changed-she’s just worried about Aria if our marriage were to end like hers and Sam's did.”
“Are you worried too?”
“Yeah,” Lee admitted. His relationship with Kara had been nothing if not tumultuous; there was always the underlying constant of trust, but even that foundation had been tested far too many times for comfort.
“Don’t let your fears consume you, son,” Adama warned him. “And don’t let Kara be consumed by hers. You two always symbolized the strength of our cause; day after day, when I was afraid to listen to my instincts, you two showed me that the humanity in us only made us more resilient.”
Lee could hardly breathe under the weight of his emotions.
Bill took another sip of scotch before continuing. “Don’t let your past disagreements or decisions haunt you forever; you and Kara had to make difficult choices in order to survive. Leave the past in the past.”
Lee swallowed the lump in his throat as he nodded. “Thank you, Dad.”
♥
[Six Months Later]
Kara couldn't remember feeling this much pain since she'd gotten hurt when her raptor had gone down on the algae planet. At least Lee and Mary were better company than Dee had been, she tried to tell herself as another contraction hit.
“Frak, it hurts!” She screamed, remembering too late that Aria was in the waiting room and could probably hear her. It was almost enough to make her wish she'd chosen to deliver this baby at home, like Aria.
“Breathe,” Lee instructed her, and she wanted to yell at him but that would require far too much energy at the moment. “You've been through this before,” he pointed out.
“I was sick and unconscious for most of it,” she managed to explain through gritted teeth. “This is worse.”
“I'm sorry,” Lee replied and she felt some of her irrational anger dissipate.
“Just talk to me,” she begged as the contraction seemed to near its end. She knew the next one was going to come soon, and she knew she shouldn't be focusing on it before it hit because it would only make it worse. “Take my mind off the pain.”
“Remember New Caprica?” he asked, holding her right hand between his.
She took a deep breath. “What about it?”
“The groundbreaking ceremony,” he explained. “Remember how happy everyone was?”
She nodded as the next contraction started, trying to force herself to focus on his voice.
“You were so giddy, I hadn't seen you like that in so long...”
“I was drunk,” she interrupted to remind him, and she suddenly wished she could be drunk for this.
“You were drunk a lot back then, and you weren't always that happy,” he pointed out. “I didn't want to take my eyes off you that whole day, not even for one second. I tried to tell myself we could be friends, just friends... good friends.”
Kara laughed through the pain, because it was Lee, and his optimism always affected her in strange ways.
“It worked, for a few hours. We danced, we laughed. And then you took me to your cabin. Remember your cabin?”
She nodded.
“You shared your vision with me. The scary thing is that I could see myself in your dream life, and it terrified me.”
“Me too,” she gasped out as she gripped one of his hands with hers.
“But now... the only thing that terrifies me is not having you in my life, Kara,” Lee added, his voice barely above a whisper.
She couldn't trust herself to say anything, because of the instant lump in her throat that his words brought. She just squeezed his hand and chanced a smile at him, the pain she'd been in seeming like a distant memory for those few seconds.
She felt safe. Peaceful.
The contractions kept coming and going until it was hard to tell where one ended and a new one began. But as she pushed for the last time and their son's cries echoed in the room, Kara felt she was finally able to breathe - for the first time, with nothing to hold her down.
“He's so... tiny,” Lee commented from where he was perched on the edge of her hospital bed.
Kara wanted to quip he wouldn't be saying that if Hermes had come out of Lee's body, but she just nodded in awe as she stared at the bundle in her arms.
She wasn't scared anymore.
♥
Chapter 39/40/Epilogue
Title: Earth Rain
Author: Alice J. Foster (a.k.a. shipperfey)
Book III
| For Books I, II, and previous chapters, go here |
| Chapter 28 | Chapter 29 | Chapter 30 | Chapter 31 | Chapter 32 |
| Chapter 33 | Chapter 34 | Chapter 35 | Chapter 36 |
| Chapter 37 | Chapter 38 | Chapter 39 | Chapter 40 | Epilogue |
Summary: In the present, Kara, Lee and Aria spend the holidays with Bill, Laura and the Agathons. In the future, we get to see the Adama children struggle with their legacies.
Spoilers: Anything up to Season 3 is fair game.
Category/Warnings:Smut. Angst. Romance. Fluff.
Pairing/Characters: Kara/Lee, Helo/Athena, Hera, Bill Adama/Laura Roslin, OC.
Rating: NC-17/M for overall angsty smut, mature themes, and bad language.
♥
Chapter 38
“Lee?”
“Dad?” Lee asked, surprised to see his father still awake, sitting by himself in the living room. “What are you doing up?”
Bill just smirked as he took a long sip of scotch off his glass. “Laura snores,” he finally admitted after a few seconds of silence.
Lee raised an eyebrow, but didn’t follow his original line of inquiry as he took a seat across from his father.
“How ‘bout you?” Bill asked.
Lee raised his glass of water. “Wanted something to drink,” he lied, and after a few seconds he sighed and disclosed the true reason, “Kara’s been kicking up a storm in her sleep. I was afraid of waking up full of bruises,” he confessed, remembering the pile of pillows he’d put in his spot before going downstairs, in a last attempt to protect Aria from the unconscious jabs.
“Your mother was definitely a kicker while she was pregnant with your brother,” Bill replied stoically. “Never thought I’d miss my rack in the pilot bunkroom, but those days I did.”
Lee laughed despite himself.
“I don’t think I congratulated you, son,” Bill pointed out, raising his glass. “If this one comes out half as gorgeous are Aria, you and Kara will have your hands full.”
Lee nodded, “Thanks, Dad.”
“Has she agreed to marry you?”
“Not exactly,” Lee replied. “She’s still only agreeing to wearing the ring.”
“You’re going to have to do something quick, Lee,” Adama advised. “Kara has always been impulsive; if you give her too much time to think, she’ll only come up with reasons not to marry you.”
Lee sighed, “I think you’re right... but she’s changed-she’s just worried about Aria if our marriage were to end like hers and Sam's did.”
“Are you worried too?”
“Yeah,” Lee admitted. His relationship with Kara had been nothing if not tumultuous; there was always the underlying constant of trust, but even that foundation had been tested far too many times for comfort.
“Don’t let your fears consume you, son,” Adama warned him. “And don’t let Kara be consumed by hers. You two always symbolized the strength of our cause; day after day, when I was afraid to listen to my instincts, you two showed me that the humanity in us only made us more resilient.”
Lee could hardly breathe under the weight of his emotions.
Bill took another sip of scotch before continuing. “Don’t let your past disagreements or decisions haunt you forever; you and Kara had to make difficult choices in order to survive. Leave the past in the past.”
Lee swallowed the lump in his throat as he nodded. “Thank you, Dad.”
♥
[Six Months Later]
Kara couldn't remember feeling this much pain since she'd gotten hurt when her raptor had gone down on the algae planet. At least Lee and Mary were better company than Dee had been, she tried to tell herself as another contraction hit.
“Frak, it hurts!” She screamed, remembering too late that Aria was in the waiting room and could probably hear her. It was almost enough to make her wish she'd chosen to deliver this baby at home, like Aria.
“Breathe,” Lee instructed her, and she wanted to yell at him but that would require far too much energy at the moment. “You've been through this before,” he pointed out.
“I was sick and unconscious for most of it,” she managed to explain through gritted teeth. “This is worse.”
“I'm sorry,” Lee replied and she felt some of her irrational anger dissipate.
“Just talk to me,” she begged as the contraction seemed to near its end. She knew the next one was going to come soon, and she knew she shouldn't be focusing on it before it hit because it would only make it worse. “Take my mind off the pain.”
“Remember New Caprica?” he asked, holding her right hand between his.
She took a deep breath. “What about it?”
“The groundbreaking ceremony,” he explained. “Remember how happy everyone was?”
She nodded as the next contraction started, trying to force herself to focus on his voice.
“You were so giddy, I hadn't seen you like that in so long...”
“I was drunk,” she interrupted to remind him, and she suddenly wished she could be drunk for this.
“You were drunk a lot back then, and you weren't always that happy,” he pointed out. “I didn't want to take my eyes off you that whole day, not even for one second. I tried to tell myself we could be friends, just friends... good friends.”
Kara laughed through the pain, because it was Lee, and his optimism always affected her in strange ways.
“It worked, for a few hours. We danced, we laughed. And then you took me to your cabin. Remember your cabin?”
She nodded.
“You shared your vision with me. The scary thing is that I could see myself in your dream life, and it terrified me.”
“Me too,” she gasped out as she gripped one of his hands with hers.
“But now... the only thing that terrifies me is not having you in my life, Kara,” Lee added, his voice barely above a whisper.
She couldn't trust herself to say anything, because of the instant lump in her throat that his words brought. She just squeezed his hand and chanced a smile at him, the pain she'd been in seeming like a distant memory for those few seconds.
She felt safe. Peaceful.
The contractions kept coming and going until it was hard to tell where one ended and a new one began. But as she pushed for the last time and their son's cries echoed in the room, Kara felt she was finally able to breathe - for the first time, with nothing to hold her down.
“He's so... tiny,” Lee commented from where he was perched on the edge of her hospital bed.
Kara wanted to quip he wouldn't be saying that if Hermes had come out of Lee's body, but she just nodded in awe as she stared at the bundle in her arms.
She wasn't scared anymore.
♥
Chapter 39/40/Epilogue