Vulnerability ((RP for number_eight))

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Full circle. A lot of things had a tendency to circle around, Lee was beginning to realize, and very rarely in a good way. The whole "all of this has happened before, all of this will happen again" stuff was starting to get really frakking annoying, especially because it kept costing the fleet and the human race lives, time and everything else it could take.

With the strange political arrangement he had with President Roslin, Lee was constantly splitting his time between Colonial One and Galactica, so to conserve on Raptor fuel, he'd been assigned quarters on board the battlestar. Even though he'd volunteered to take a simple rack, the Admiral had insisted he get a junior officer's locker. Lee suspected it was partly, even if unconsciously, a message that he wasn't a soldier anymore, and didn't get to live like one.

That godsdamned circle had also brought back Ellen Tigh-- the final Cylon, as if the gods didn't already obviously have a frakking twisted sense of humor-- and the Eight model he'd met as Boomer, the one who'd nearly murdered Lee's father. And now, one more time, Boomer had betrayed them, stealing the Agathons' child, Hera, the only living human-Cylon hybrid.

Lee was reading the report on Boomer's escape, cursing quietly when a knock sounded at the hatch to his quarters. With nobody expected at this hour, Lee rose and approached the hatch. A sidearm he wasn't technically supposed to own was within reach. "Marines?" he called out to the guards stationed outside the hatch.

"We're here, Mr. Vice-President," came the confident reply. "Lieutenant Agathon is requesting to see you. Code is Nebula Three Victor," the Marine added, giving Lee the all-clear signal. Lee sighed. Sharon. She was going to be a mess, so he could only hope he could help.

"Let her in," Lee ordered, then stepped back from the heavy hatch.

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Sharon didn't know what to do. How had Boomer taken Hera? Who had helped her? Someone must have, it was the only way, right? Or she could have just fooled everyone into thinking she was "Athena", the way she'd fooled Helo into it.

Oh God, she didn't want to think about that. She didn't want to think, which was why she was back to see Lee again. The last time they talked (http://arrow-of-apollo.livejournal.com/32472.html), he'd been drunk, mourning Dee. He'd wanted to hurt Sharon so he could forget.

Now, Sharon didn't know what to do. Her one constant with their relationship was that Lee loved Dee, and she loved Helo, and there wasn't anything they could do about it. But Dee was dead, leaving Lee confused and hurt. And right now, after what Boomer did with Helo? She didn't know where she stood with her own husband. Her daughter was gone.

But she had Lee.

"Hi," she started out as she entered and the hatch door shut behind her. Then, she fell into a mess of tears on her knees, losing any sort of strength she'd had to keep it together.

"He frakked her, Lee. He frakked her, right in front of me, didn't even know it wasn't me, didn't... and she took my daughter..." Sharon was where Lee had been a few weeks back.

"I don't have anything anymore."