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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.