A/N: Anyone have the actual dialogue from Three, Leoben, and Cavil?

Swallowed in the Sea
By Starbuck
Disclaimer: Battlestar Galactica is Property of the SciFi channel. Please R & R.
Rating: T

When he feels, he is no longer a machine. Leoben/Kara Eye of Jupiter

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“The danger to us is unacceptable.” In this moment, he truly was machine. He could not feel. He dared not feel. Galactica would nuke the surface. The radiation would destroy them all. Somewhere his consciousness would still survive. The others would take another Leoben out of storage, another one with memories of her.

I will never forget this.

He tried to imagine so many times what it felt to kiss. He no longer had to imagine. He knew crush, lust.

And he knew love.

“They have orders that Three and Baltar make it to the surface,” the Three next to him protested.

“What does it matter?” Cavil’s logic returned to him “Wipe the human race out forever. We are machine. What does it matter if we find Earth in five days or five thousand years?”

Machine. Can he be a machine now?

The danger to us is unacceptable.

The danger to her is unacceptable.

He placed his hands in the goo. He linked his mind to the Hybrid.

He remembered her.

His neutral expression broke bitterly into a frown.

“Leoben?” asked Caprica beside him.

He turned his cold stare to Three. “You will order the centurions to protect Kara at all costs.”

He closed his eyes. The hybrid’s voice came to the humanoid models clear and unbroken: “The pattern finder shall embrace the stars. All will fade, but the finder and the star remain.”