Underneath
Title: Underneath
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Not mine
Prompt: Fromno_takebacks yesterday, Valentine's Day
A kiss that didn’t happen in Maelstrom from wand3rlust
“It’s funny though after all we’ve been through we are right back where we started. You’re CAG and I’m your problem, hotshot pilot.”
They chuckle, companionable and real. Lee misses her laugh. This is all Kara, and he thinks about how it’s never Kara on deck. Starbuck goes with tyllium fumes and the rumble and clank that surround them. This is Kara beautiful and vulnerable. He’s trying to bolster her back into her alter ego, but he revels in being with Kara almost alone under the wing of her viper.
“I guess that’s all we’ll ever be, now.”
Lee just stares at her. That’s not true. They can never really go back that far no matter how far they may have journeyed forward. No matter where they sit now. So he reaches an arm around her neck and pulls her head to him, laying his lips in a perfect, innocent kiss on the top of her head. Decadently, he breathes in the smell of her hair, crisp and Kara and for one more moment his. He needs it, the smell of her, if this is it.
Then Kara bends, leaning into him and tucking her face into his neck. Her lips press into his skin, not kissing but building pressure for longer than is okay. Lee feels the tension grow in his muscles, not wanting this to be true. Things are good with Dee, but the façade is crumbling as soon as Kara doesn’t mention Sam in return. Her lips burn against him, sear him with the reality that they can never, ever go back. They never could. So they stay.