FIC: My Hero (4/4)
Rating: MA
Genre: Romance, Smut, Humor, Angst
Word Count: 1,900
Summary: Roslin gives Adama his award early.
Setting: Post-Hero
Series: Love in a Time of War: 8
Chapter Four:
Laura had knocked on the hatch with no answer, but she knew Tigh was in there. She pushed the door open. The Colonel sat at the table, facing the opening as though expecting her. ( Read more... )
Genre: Romance, Smut, Humor, Angst
Word Count: 1,900
Summary: Roslin gives Adama his award early.
Setting: Post-Hero
Series: Love in a Time of War: 8
Chapter Four:
Laura had knocked on the hatch with no answer, but she knew Tigh was in there. She pushed the door open. The Colonel sat at the table, facing the opening as though expecting her. ( Read more... )
The glare turned to an incredulous stare. “What the frak is going on with you two?”
Adama shrugged and lifted his glass again.
Saul said confidently, “You’re frak buddies.”
Instant reaction from Adama: “Don’t talk about her that way.”
“Okay.” Saul held his hands up. “So it’s like that.”
“Yeah.”
Saul said, “That’s a mess.”
“I know.”
His friend told him, “Keep it at frak buddies. Trust me.”
“Saul, she’s not that sort of woman--“
“Oh? If so, where is she now? If it’s not just about sex, shouldn’t she be here picking up your mess? Tossing colorful pillows about the couch?”
Adama snorted at the mild-boggling image of Laura Roslin as his little woman but insisted, “Frakking isn’t why I want to be around her. There’re more important things.”
Saul’s brow furrowed in confusion. He couldn’t comprehend such a relationship. He began to look at Adama with worry.
“I’m not saying the sex isn’t great; it is--“
“Stop right there. I need to be able to salute that woman--“
“She’s not that woman.”
“I know. She’s your woman. So I’m keeping my mouth the hell shut.”
“Good.”
Saul kept talking anyway. “But you gotta assert yourself. You respect this woman too much--“
“Saul, you are so frakked up when it comes to women--“
“Says the guy with a divorce from a first rate bitch under his belt and now a woman has his nuts on a leash.”
“Don’t knock it until you try it,” Adama said, his gaze distant and dare Saul use the term, dreamy.
But it disgusted him. “Dammit, Bill, now I’ve lost all respect for you. If you could see your face. You’re not fourteen anymore, just happy if the pretty girl has let you her touch her tits. You wanna get frakked? Plenty of women in this fleet who can be discreet; I’ll find one for you--“
“Gee, thanks, buddy. But no thanks.”
Saul suddenly saw the light. “That’s how you got in this mess, Bill. You got blue balls after a year in space with no pussy and sure, when she wasn’t president, why not, if that’s your taste in women.” He rolled his one eye. “But now it’s a terrible, awful, idea.”
Adama defended himself simply: “I fell in love.”
Saul’s head fell back and he gasped with shock. “I shoulda seen this coming. She’s a sneaky one, Laura Roslin--“
Bill’s bitter laugh cut him off. “Yeah, because it’s a great idea for the president to be involved with the admiral of the fleet. The best idea that she’s had yet, right up there with letting you help her try to steal the election.”
“Does she love you?” Saul asked, suddenly realizing that his friend had said, I fell in love, not, we fell in love.
There was just enough hesitation in Adama’s “Yes,” that Saul prodded deeper.
“Has she told you that?”
Evasive, Bill said, “She’s not using me for my sexy body,” with a shrug. “So what else could it be?”
Saul harrumphed, uncomfortable at this entire conversation.
Bill insisted, “And she’s not exactly without options as well, you know. She wasn’t making the smartest choice either.”
Sly, Saul said, “Yeah, she coulda gone for that Zarek frakker--“
“You’re the frakker,” growled Bill.
Exasperated, his friend roared, “So you admit that you’re both wrong, the whole thing is crazy, and yet the two of us are frakking sitting here, braiding each other’s hair, yakking about being in frakking love!”
But it was CLASSIC!!! Absolutely loved it. This is definitely Saul & Bill.
Great stuff.
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But Laura had watch what she wishes for. Now Saul and Bill have talked--how's that going to work out for her!?
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