I'd like to offer a big thank you to everybody who commented on the first vignette.  Here's Part 2, set during "Lay Down Your Burdens," (shortly before the Cloud Nine goes boom) in which a relationship becomes slightly . . . strained.

Title:  Carry Me Home

Chapter Two:  The Mud Ball

Word Count:  1600

Rating:  K+

( There was a kind of festival atmosphere aboard the Galactica )