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[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.
     

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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! :)

Re: Continuing the schmaltz-fest....

[scifishipper.livejournal.com]

Agreed! Agreed!

In a lifetime, one apology doesn't count for much. Although she did try. He should really apologize for ignoring it. Maybe if he'd been less of a jerk, she might not have fallen for Second Banana! Argh.

Yes - they are an unstoppable pair and I'm thinking that's how they end up resolving their disagreement anyway. Or a ticklefight! LOL.

Re: Continuing the schmaltz-fest....

[ddt73.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Lee should have accepted her apology, or at least acknowledged it.

It's a shame they never brought up the Baltar thing again. Why she did it, or why he reacted the way he did, why didn't he go back for Kara the day of the dance. There must be have a whole storyline there, but instead some idiot decided let's bring in the second banana.

Recently I found an Epiphanies script where K&L were talking about Baltar becoming president where Kara defending him and Lee said Baltar doesn't have the "nads" for the job but Kara may have a different perspective. Definitely a sore spot between them still. (Full scene is on my LJ btw)