"I never..."

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

We spend a lot of time here thinking and talking about what the pilots would do in every conceivable scenario. How about what they wouldn't do? List your suggestions for things that Lee and Kara would never do, together or individually, AU or canon-compliant, past, present or future! Here's a few to get you started (sorry if some of these are a bit on the schmaltzy side!) 

1. Lee and Kara never use cutesy nicknames or even such standard couple-y forms of address like "babe" or "honey" or "sweetie." Their favorite terms of endearment for each other remain, as they have since the first night they met, "Lee Adama" and "Kara Thrace." 
2. They never let Uncle Saul and Aunt Ellen babysit.
3. Even after they've been together longer than they've been apart, Lee never gets used to the tattoo on Kara's left arm.
4. Kara never stops praying to the Gods-- for friends and family, safety and peace, courage and conviction. But the thing she prays for most is that Lee never changes his mind about her being worth it.
5. When they find out the baby is a boy, Zak is the first name they both think of. For reasons both shared and individual, neither one ever suggests it.
6. They go to Sunday dinner at Bill and Laura's insistence every week. Neither one of them ever tell Laura how terrible her cooking is.
7. Lee never gets tired of hearing Kara laugh.
8. Kara never gets tired of seeing Lee smile.
9. When their kids are teenagers, they learn to never invite friends over without calling home first. (They've caught mom and dad in rather compromising situations more than once.)
10. Deep down, neither of them ever stop thinking the cylons might come back some day. They keep up-to-date on weapons training.
11. Lee thinks he's never seen anything more beautiful than Kara wearing his sweats and bitching about her swollen ankles and bloated body at 8 months pregnant. He never tells her though, because for a pregnant lady, he'd bet she still has a mean right hook.
12. They fight loudly and often. Kara runs sometimes, but not very far. Lee does a cold shoulder better than the Yeti. But they never let it last too long without a rousing bout of makeup sex.
13. They get married, eventually, but they never have a discussion about whether or not Kara will change her last name. It's an antiquated tradition and she didn't the first time she got married (a sore subject), plus there's the Zak baggage (an even sorer subject). Still, when, a few days after they get back from their honeymoon, his wife corrects someone who calls her by her full name to say she's "Kara Thrace Adama, now", Lee grins from ear-to-ear and doesn't stop until Kara suggests a better use for those lips.
14. Kara never misses flying. It surprises her sometimes, when she thinks about it, but that's not very often. She's grounded in more ways than one now, but she's still got her wingman on her six and there's nowhere she'd rather be.
15. The sex, once they get over the novelty of just having it with each other whenever and wherever and as often as they want, is adventurous and mind-blowing with a frequency that's probably higher than normal (all those years of repression equaling foreplay), but, predictably, Lee's favorite thing about sleeping with Kara is just that: sleeping with her. The way she turns into him after, sweaty and sated and smiling, and he wraps his arms around her to pull her closer, her lips brushing his collarbone, head pillowed on his shoulder, her arms slipping around his waist as their breathing falls into a rhythm. She never tells him that it's her favorite part too.
     

Comments

[koolaidmom11.livejournal.com]

I love these but I'm at the gym and can't think...more later when I'm not pedaling!

Continuing the schmaltz-fest....

[scifishipper.livejournal.com]

1. Kara never says she's sorry, even after all these years, but Lee can tell anyway when she comes up behind him and lays her head on his back without speaking. That's good enough for him.

2. Lee still refuses to admit that it was her brilliant plan more than his brilliant flying that destroyed the cylon's Tylium plant.

3. Kara and Lee never got married, because neither of them thought it was necessary. After everything they'd been through, together was enough.

4. Lee never lectures her about being a slob, he just cleans up after her and still thinks he's lucky she's his.

5. Kara doesn't tell Lee that the lines on his face make him look older and she's not as young as she used to be. To her, they'll always be young and in love.

6. Kara never remembers Lee's birthday until the day of and then she's frantic. He buys her a calendar but she rips out the pages and uses them to pass notes during boring briefings.

7. Lee never asks about the day Zak died. Maybe some day she'll tell him.

8. Kara never says anything bad about Dee and always listens when Lee talks about her death.

9. Lee still never wins the big pot at triad.

10. Lee and Kara never stop feeling grateful for their time together.

Re: Continuing the schmaltz-fest....

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Aw...sweet. ♥

Re: Continuing the schmaltz-fest....

[ddt73.livejournal.com]

Kara did say "sorry" in KLG, but Lee didn't respond to it. We all know how that turned out, so maybe she's better off not saying it. :P

I don't know I think her plan & his flying saved the day in HoG, neither more or less important then the other. When L&K are working together nothing can stop them.

Great stuff! :)

[scifishipper.livejournal.com]

I love these... *sniff*

When they find out the baby is a boy, Zak is the first name they both think of. For reasons both shared and individual, neither one ever suggests it.

Even after they've been together longer than they've been apart, Lee never gets used to the tattoo on Kara's left arm.

And these are hilarious...

They never let Uncle Saul and Aunt Ellen babysit.

They go to Sunday dinner at Bill and Laura's insistence every week. Neither one of them ever tell Laura how terrible her cooking is.

Great post, Tara!

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Aw thanks! :)

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Hee! These are sad and hilarious by turns. THE PIGEON! And Zak crashing at their place after dinner. LOL!

[scifishipper.livejournal.com]

HA! The pigeon one cracked me up!! LOL!

[koolaidmom11.livejournal.com]

Pigeon...tastes like chicken! I'm sad he never got over missing him but at least they ended up together. Right?

[ddt73.livejournal.com]

"After he told her about how he used to see similarities between her and pigeons, she never let him forget how dumb that was." - Pure win! lol

[eternal-nomad1.livejournal.com]

Aww...

[olaf47.livejournal.com]

These are fantastic, but I gotta say--I can *totally* see Lee, occasionally and probably not without an epic glare from Kara, calling her babe or hon. Or at least Kare. Lee just seems the type.

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Oh I don't think so at all. I think Kara, in general, might be more prone to that stuff (as she was with Sam and Zak) but that it's different for them with each other. :)

And KARE is terrible. TERRIBLE. He should NEVER. Ha.

[jeebs83.livejournal.com]

Great post! :D

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

:) And where are yours, young lady? ;)

[kag523.livejournal.com]

I'm desperately behind on writing my own fic today (frakking RL meetings) so I don't have time right now for anything other than to tell you this: the list above is absolutely BEAUTIFUL!

I teared up at a couple of them. (And I can only say there was one I disagreed with at all... but that is because I think differently than most. Not because it is anything other than perfect in its own way.)

Lovely writing. Truly.

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Ha, well since you said it, now I have to know which one you disagreed with! (You think Laura's a fabulous cook, don't you? ;)

[ddt73.livejournal.com]

Great list Tara. :)

I don't see them using cutesy nicknames either. Usually it's how they use their first names that betray their emotion.

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

I think that's actually more special somehow than if they had some nickname or used the same endearments that they use in other relationships. It means something special to them when they speak their names to each other (which they seem to do far more than normal people in a relationship usually do).

At least that's what I was thinking this morning when I rattled these off. Heh.

[rayruz.livejournal.com]

Kara never realized how much energy it took to maintain the walls she had kept up for so long until she finally let them down. Waking up to see Lee in bed beside her, she'd never felt so rested before.

[damao2010.livejournal.com]

I loved numbers 9.14 and 15. Great idea. I'll try to think of something.

[rayruz.livejournal.com]

Kara never wanted to be her mother, so when she found out she was pregnant with Lee's child she promised herself she never would be.

[angelicalangie.livejournal.com]

As Lee spent his time climbing mountains and walking through the verdant meadows of this new Earth, he thought upon every mis turn he had made with Kara. He came to a lot of conclusions. None of them were like. It was whilst sitting in a cave one day when a pigeon fluttered in.

Looking at it for a moment he saw it too was looking back at him. It had that same irritated look on it's face Kara had when he said something, that was in her mind, monumentally stupid. For a moment he thought perhaps the pigeon was Kara ... then shook his head.

If Kara was to be a bird he surmised; she would be an Eagle. Something that delivered a swift death to her enemies and looked damned neat and tidy doing it. She would not be a rat with rings. Picking up his sharp spear, he speared the pigeon where it stood looking at him.

No a frakking pigeon, Kara did not make. Lee never once had a fleeting moments thought of a pigeon Kara after that, and every last one he came across in life thereafter he speared to death - in a valiant, but futile - mission to wipe every last frakking one out.

He didn't succeed on that one - but it did make him feel better.

[ddt73.livejournal.com]

Yay! Lee spearing all pigeons! *claps*

[rdave1.livejournal.com]

Awwww!!! These are great! Some of them would make great fics.:)

[ninjamonkey73.livejournal.com]

I'mma go all AU, 'cuz Karin says I'm Independent!

Kara never regretted washing Zak out of the Viper program. In the end, he knew he didn't have the natural talent for it and embraced his Raptor training with the same gusto he applied to all things. He also knew, deep down, that he'd never share the same sort of connection with Kara that Lee clearly did - and flying Vipers had nothing to do with that.

Lee had never had sex in a room with other people than his partner present, until that one shining night. Zak had passed out drunk on the floor of Kara's apartment (not the first time, not the last). The three of them were inseparable, even months after she and Zak had decided to remain just friends and Lee's patience wore thin. Rather than continue to wait to find his moment, he used the liquor as an excuse for making his move. He never told Kara he'd been refilling Zak's glass when he wasn't looking.

[scifishipper.livejournal.com]

I love them both, but the last one hits my kink spot. Very nice. Bravo for independent! You go, girl!

[damao2010.livejournal.com]

Even though he knew the wise thing to do, the right thing to was to stay as far away from his brother’s fiancée as humanly possible, Lee Adama could never do it. Every time the three of them hung out together and he couldn’t help but stare at her , every time he found small innocent ways to touch her and to get into her personal space, every time he manage to get her to laugh, every single one of those times he would hate himself afterwards and swear to stop. But he never did. He knew he was playing with fire. And for the first time in his life he wanted to be consumed by it. He had never imagined it was his brother who would be claimed by the flames.

[kdbleu.livejournal.com]

Very nice. Love the fire imagery tying the end together.

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

The first time she kissed him -- since the long ago last time -- he was sitting at a desk in his suit. She leaned in and brushed her nose against his, not quite sure she was still allowed.

She was.

It was easy and relaxed, as effortless as ever, until her fingers started fumbling over his unfamiliar tie. She tried working blind, but eventually gave a frustrated grunt and pulled back to give the knot her full attention.

"Having trouble there, ace?" Lee murmured, and she felt the tremor of laughter along his collarbone.

"Shut up," she said. "I've never done the tie thing before, that's all. There," she pulled it loose. "Happy now?"

"Yes," he said. He looked up at her, then said again, "Yes."

She never got tired of hearing it.

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Awwwwwwww. BEAUTIFUL. ♥

[justascrewup2.livejournal.com]

Love, love, loved this :)