Husker's gone AWOL

[oldmanadama]

Who: Admiral William Adama and OPEN (hopefully members of the Adama/Galactica family?)
What: definitely no longer in the confines of space anymore.
When: Afternoon
Where: The airport hangar
Rating: PG to be safe.
Status: OPEN

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[starbuckbuck]

Starbuck dropped the wrench she'd been using to pound a particularly recalcitrant bolt back into place.

Was that the sound of a viper engine or was she imagining things? She had to be imagining things.

Years of believing the impossible during the Cylon exodus kept her from completely dismissing the sound. So Kara decided to walk out of the hanger and get a look at the aircraft that had just flown in. Just in case the impossible had suddenly become possible.

Well, what do you know, the Gods must have been having sweet fuzzy kittens because there was a colonial issue viper, right on the tarmac.

She ran back into the hanger and grabed her service pistol before sprinting out to the Viper. The man was turned around so she couldn't see and features besides the fact that he was male.

Kara held the gun up to his head and cocked the hammer back, "Name, Rank, Serial Number and proof you aren't a fraking Cylon or your brains will be decorating the pavement."

[absent_apollo]

Lee had seen that viper, too, from the window of the coffee shop that he'd begun to frequent. He'd been going over some plans to modify one of the other aircraft, so that maybe he could get the frak off this rock and back where he belonged. Kara didn't seem too keen on the idea, and his brother couldn't leave this place.. so Lee had decided to figure out a way on his own. He'd been drinking a cup of coffee and writing something when he'd seen the movement out of his eye. When he'd looked up, he'd recognized it as a Viper. And that, ladies and gentlemen, was why he was running to the edge of town where the hangar was. Anyone landing in a Viper was a friendly.. and anyone not crashing in their Viper was a gods-send. It meant they could jump out of here, get back to the Galactica.. and his father. But once he made it to the edge of the runway he'd noticed Kara, and her gun. It made his pace slow, but he wasn't going to leave this all to Hot-Shot Starbuck (just incase she lost her cool), so he was coming up behind her and a bit to her

[oldmanadama]

Adama froze as he heard the unmistakeable sound of a gun being cocked. His hand automatically flew to where he has stashed his pistol, then dropped again as he recognised the voice.

"What do you hear, Starbuck?" he said slowly. Still trying to process the fact that the pilot they'd all given up for dead, was, well, very much alive. And holding a gun to his head. Nice to know things hadn't changed much.

Then he heard footsteps, and the second voice. Even without turning around (he had a rather edgy pilot with a gun to his head, after all - wouldn't do to make her even more on edge by moving), Adama would know that voice from anywhere.

"...Lee?"

[starbuckbuck]

"Nothin' but the rain," Gods damn she knew that voice.

"Admiral?" she said almost in awe. She lowered the gun and flipped the safety on. "What?" she said as Lee and the Admiral recognized each other.

[oldmanadama]

"Then get your gun and bring in the cat," Adama finished. A time old ritual between the two of them, which served at present to confirm that it was indeed Kara he was dealing with.

He turned around as soon as the gun was lowered. "Yes, it's me," he said. "Gods, Kara, you don't change, do you? Threatening a superior officer." But the last was said with a hint of a smile. "It's good to see you. Both of you," he added, with a glance to Lee.

[starbuckbuck]

Kara smirked at the Old Man's quip, "Only at officers who deserve it" she paused for effect, "Sir" she said and saluted coyly.

[oldmanadama]

He returned the salute. "Well then, I hope you haven't been giving my son any trouble."

Adama tucked his helmet under his arm. "Air seems fresh, for a gas planet," he commented. "Inhabited, too."

[absent_apollo]

Lee had straightened up when his father turned around, jaw tensing and chin lifting. It was the Old Man. And he only glanced down briefly when Bill said that it was good to see both of them. He looked back up, focusing blue eyes first on Kara, then onto his father. "Sir." He didn't know quite what to say. Lee Adama (for the thousandth time in his life) was left speechless, so only gave him a salute, much crisper and more serious than Starbuck's salute, and then lowered his hand. But he was drawing in a breath. He'd just thought about Zak. How were they going to tell his father? The youngest Adama could come running up at any moment.. and that wasn't how he wanted the Admiral to find out his youngest son was.. well.. not as dead as he once had been.

[oldmanadama]

"Major." Adama nodded, and returned the salute. He stepped closer. Gods, right now he wanted to give him a hug - if only to reassure himself that it indeed was his son standing there, and not a hallucination from the after effects of passing the hard deck.

"Next time," he said, "you listen when I give you the order to pull up." He reached out an arm to squeeze Lee's shoulder, before giving in and pulling him into an embrace anyway. "Everybody thought you were dead," he managed to say at last.

[starbuckbuck]

"Well, we are quite the opposite of dead." Starbuck glanced over at Lee, and then back at the Admiral. "The gas planet thing? We're not on a gas planet, we're on..." she dragged it out, "Earth"

[oldmanadama]

Okay, that certainly got his attention. And it took some concentration for the Admiral not to stand there gaping like some wide-eyed nugget. "Earth," he said simply. "This is Earth?"

He didn't need to ask whether she was serious. Even Kara wouldn't joke about a thing like this.

[absent_apollo]

Lee had leaned into the embrace and wrapped an arm around his father in return, fingers clenching in the material of the flight suit. But he'd pulled away a moment later, and nodded with Kara's statement. "This is Earth." He agreed. "But.. it's not right. Things aren't right here." What sort of planet had dead people roaming it?

[starbuckbuck]

"Things are fine...that's just a... weird single thing." Kara glared at Lee, not the time to bring Zak up to the old man, Hades, she was still dealing with it herself.

[absent_apollo]

"Things aren't fine, Kara. And it's not weird, it's impossible." He gave her a sharp look in return and stared a long moment before looking back at his father. "Zak's here." Well, that cat was out of the bag. But at least the old man wouldn't be startled when his dead son suddenly showed up.. whenever he showed up.

[oldmanadama]

"You're not going to tell me the Cylons got here first, I hope." Though he'd rather that not be the case. Adama liked what he'd seen of the planet - Earth, he reminded himself - so far.

He drew a sharp breath at Lee's statement, and looked him in the eye. "Zak? You sure it's him?"

[absent_apollo]

"Yes. I'm sure it's him. And he's.. the same as he was, when we lost him. He was in his flight suit when I found him. He doesn't remember what happened, he doesn't know what's going on. We haven't told him much." Much about Kara having gotten married, or much about the cylons, as it were.