A/N: Déjà Vu is back and it only has two chapters left after this one. I hope you are all still reading. Thank you all for your patients. I wanted to get this up for you so it is not betaed all mistakes are mine. I hope all enjoy and remember if you read please review.

Chapter 18

Starbuck the raider has gone weapons hot.”

“What the Frak.” Leoben, What the frak are you doing?”

“Leading you to your destiny. The raider fired one shot at the raptor and jumped away.”

“What the frak?” Athena was pushed by the shock wave of the jump. “Hold on.”

Galactica Raptor 590 declaring an emergency. We are coming in hot.”

“Copy that. Any sign of the raider?”

Negative, Galactica the raider is nowhere to be found. We led them right to Earth. Helo said banging his fist against the console .

The raptor crashed to the deck. “Sorry about that folks. LSO, Athena. We’re alright in here.

“Copy Athena.”

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Dee go down there, bring some Marines with you. Drag Kara back up here I want a full report.

“Aye, sir.” Dee pointed the marines and they made their way toward the flight deck.

“Sir, I have a shuttle from the zephyr requesting permission to dock.”

“Grant them permission but hold them on the flight deck until we know what going on in the hanger Mr. Hoshi.”

“Yes, sir.”

“Gaeta I want damage reports and new coordinates distributed to the fleet” Lee rubbed his face looking up at the dradis. “Strike that for now, Mr. Hoshi is the shuttle aboard?”

“Yes, Commander.”

Mr. Gaeta spin up the FTL and tell the fleet to jump to the next set of coordinates. If the cylons come back, I don’t want to be a sitting duck.”

“Yes Sir.”

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Dee led the Marines down the ladder into the hanger bay. “Move, move, move!”

Starbuck stepped out of the Raptor first followed by Athena and Helo, Sam stopped but the hatch and extended his hand to Ellen. “It’ll be fine. It shouldn’t take that much to explain.”

“I hope you’re correct but I don’t hold out much hope. My husband’s memories…”

“Ellen, you’re husband shot the old man, drove him to attempt to end his life and is currently in the brig.”

“Oh, dear.” Ellen stood up and joined the group on the wing.”

“Marines aim.”

“What wait! Dee she’s with us. “

“Kara, She’s a cylon. Ellen Tigh is dead. She died on New Caprica.

“Correct on both accounts Lieutenant.” Ellen said as she stepped off the Raptor and onto the deck. “Please, I mean you no harm. I understand your reservations about me but I’m not the same as the other models. The Final Five are not the same. We are among you and we mean you no harm.” Ellen looked out at the people assembled in front of the raptor. Tory, Tyrol and Sam were all nearby. “I…believe you but I have my orders. I’ll need to talk to the Commander”

“I’ll join you. I have some information I’m sure he will be interested in. Is it possible for me to see my husband?”

Dee turned to the marines, “escort Mrs. Tigh to the ward room.”

Dee pulled Kara, Helo, Athena and Sam away from the Raptor. “You, all of you come with me.”

“Jump complete, no signs of the cylons.”

“Thank Mr. Gatea, Commander. I have Dee on the line for you Sir.”

Lee picked up the handset and spoke. “Adama.”

“We’ve had a development, Ellen Tigh is alive. She’s down in the ward room with the rest of the search team.”

Lee tightened his grip on the light table,” did I just hear you correctly, Dee?”

“Yes you did. I think you should get down here.”

“I’m on the way.” Lee places the handset back in the holder and turned to Gatea. “You have con.”

“Aye Sir. Gaeta replied as he watched the younger Adama leave CIC.”

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“I can’t believe this. We’ve lead them right to Earth!” Lee walked into the Wardroom the scene in front of him was almost undesirable. Ellen Tigh and Samuel Anders were sitting next to each other talking. Kara was pacing the floor raving—that’s not so unusual “I can’t believe I brought those frakker that close.”

“Kara it’s not your fault you had no way of knowing.” Ellen said as Kara continued to pace in front of them.

“I knew his been fraking with me since we started this journey, but then again you’re one of them so, it’s okay.”

“I’m not one of them Kara. I told you Saul and I are different. Anders is different.

Lee stopped in front of the group and reached for Kara shoulder, she stopped pacing once the contact was made. “Sit down, Kara.” Lee pulled the chair out and Kara sat. Lee chose to sit next to her. “I take it this is going to be a long story, so who would like to start?” Sharon spoke first. “The rebel cylons that Leoben mentioned have been infected with a bio agent to bring them back into the fold the 2’s, 6’s and 8’s are loosing this civil war. I think the group that was with us was infected as well but when we reached the fleet they bailed on us.

“I led them right to Earth, Lee. We can’t go there now. We have no where to go.”

“That’s not entirely true.” Ellen turned directly to Lee for the first time since he entered the room. “Lee, would it be possible for me to see my husband. I need to speak with him before we continue this conversation.”

Lee nodded. Anders stood up and walked Ellen out of the Ward Room. “Lee, you can’t! “ Kara stood up to block their exit. “Anders is one of them.”

“Kara we are different!”

Lee stood up and walked over toward them. “Explain how you are different from Sharon, Six, Leoben, or Cavil.”

“They were our Children. We created them. We were all human once. We created resurrection at the end of the first cylon war we offered our children resurrection and now well, they’ve turned against, rebelled like children often do.”

There are five final cylons correct.” Laura had now entered the room.

“I mentioned that before. We are all among you.”

“Lee please allow Ellen to talk with the Colonel”

Lee turned to Laura and watched as she sat down next to the empty chair he was sitting in “Yes, Ma’am. Anders I trust you to escort her, but I’m sending the marines as well.”

“Understood.”

Lee turned back to the group in to wardroom. “We have to decide what to do now. We can’t stop running Cavil will eventually find us and destroy us.” Athena said.

“It’s not safe to go to Earth now that I led them to it.” Kara said and then she stopped mid thought. “We could try to by some time by making extra jumps so it’s more difficult for them to find us.”

“We don’t have enough fuel to do that for long.” Helo offered.

“It’s better than sitting here. We know that is not an option.

“To what end Commander? We have no where to go now, thanks to the cylons.”

The idea of the jumps may buy us some time like New Caprica, but the difference this time is we are running out of supplies and the ships are worn. I don’t know how much longer we’ll be able to last.”

“We need to figure out a way to get rid of the cylons for good so we can settle on Earth.”

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Madelyn Cross walked with purpose towards sickbay the Marine guard at the hatch pushed it open when she arrived. “Thank You.”

Jack Cottle noticed the tall thin-faced brunette immediately “Mattie thank you for coming my dear.”

“Oh, Stuff it Jackie.” Cottle took hold of her arm and pulled her toward his office and slammed the hatch leaving Ishay and an assortment of medical support personnel smiling.

“Good Lords, Woman don’t do that here.”

“I’m sorry but I couldn’t resist being pulled in here and reprimanded by you. Madelyn stepped into Jack’s personal space. Her shoulder length, wavy, dark brown hair was almost touching his face. “Mattie, we can’t not here or now.”

“I understand doctor. “ Madelyn stepped away and sat in a chair near his desk. “I take it the patient is important since you wouldn’t give me an information over the wireless.”

“Here a list of people I need you to ‘see’.” Jack reached for the folder and handed it over to Madelyn

Madelyn studied the list. “Most of these people really don’t need my services, looking at their service records. “

“I know that sweetheart but this one does.” Jack placed a sheet of paper on top of the file.

Madelyn studied it for a moment and her response was hushed “I see. I take it that this has to be done quietly.”

“You take it correctly, little lady. The official reason you’re is to meet with that list of flyboys, but you will be making time for the ‘old man’ as well.”

“He agreed to this?”

“Not exactly he doesn’t know you’re here for him.”

Madelyn stood up and began to pace the office. “Oh, know, Jack. I’m not going to do this again.”

“Mattie, you’re the only one I trust besides his family to help him. He says he’s feeling better. He even wants to talk to the toaster that shot him, but I need an official opinion, because the last time he pulled this act. He ran away and slit his wrists and I’ll be damned if I going to go through that again.”

“I understand, Jack. I would like to speak to some of the family members if I could be speaking with the Admiral.

“I’ll set that up for you.”

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“We are all agreed that we stop here for now, and regroup. We jump every few hours to keep the cylons guessing for now. Dee coordinate with Hoshi and Gaeta about the jump coordinate distribution.”

“I’m sure your father will want the opportunity to speak with Ellen and Anders. We should also look for the rest of the remaining final five.” Laura sat down “Has anyone seen my aide?”

“No, ma’am but I’ll put the word out that you are looking for her.”

“Thank you, Dee and if the two of you could spare a moment I’d like to talk about your father.” Laura said smiling at Lee. “Doctor Cottle released him back to his quarter today. I left him before this meeting and he seems to be in high sprits, but Jack is supposed to come by and check on him in about thirty minutes and he is bringing a guest.”

“The doctor from the Zephyr?”

“Bingo, Dee. There ought to be some interesting fireworks out of the C.O.’s quarters later.” Lee said. “We’ll do anything we can to help.”

“Thank you, I really think he could use someone to talk to I’ve spoken with Madelyn already and I think that if your father with accept the help. She will do very well with him.”

Dee smiled, “the key word there being accept.”

“Absolutely, if you will excuse me I want to make it down there before Jack and Mattie make their appearance. “

Lee and Dee walked out with the President. “Let us know if you need anything.” Lee said as he held open the hatch.

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“Bill please be reasonable.” Laura was at her wits end. She sadly didn’t make it before Jack and Madelyn arrived. “We’re just trying to help.”

“I know Laura and I appreciate that really I do but, I’m fine now. I though you realized that after we spoke. Everything is fine.”

“It’s not all fine. You need to open up. I don’t care who you open up to, but you need to open up to someone. You haven’t open up to me, nearly as much as you should so, maybe, Madelyn is someone you can talk to about what happened. Please Bill.” The two of them had moved away from Jack and Mattie and were now talking in the office area.

“I can’t talk about this with you Laura. It’s too fresh and raw with me. I can’t forgive myself for what I did.” Bill approached Laura placing his hands over her shoulder and leaning his forehead against hers. “If I open up to someone else than I ‘m violating the trust you’ve put in me.”

“Oh, Bill, I would never think that I understand where you’re coming from but don’t be so noble. Accept this for what is, the help that you need. I will always be here for you, Always, but you need more than I can give.”

“I love you Laura Roslin. Don’t you ever forget that.” Bill kissed her before walking out into the living room area. Laura followed. Bill approached Madelyn and Jack. “I would like to apologize for my behavior. Dr. Cross, after speaking with the President, I have decided that we should have a conversation.”

Madelyn smiled warmly. “I’m glad. I promise I won’t bite and this will be handled with kit gloves.”

Jack stepped in standing next to Laura. “No one accept the people in this room and your son know the really reason for Mattie’s visit Bill. No one.”

“Thank you, Jack. “ Bill turned to Laura and smiled “Thank you to you both.”

Jack led Laura out of Bill’s quarter and Madelyn and Bill sat down and began to talk.

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“I let them all down.”

“Why would you say that?”

“The cylons are among us. My best friend…”

“Saul Tigh, is a cylon yes, but how is that your fault?”

“I should have known.”

“We cannot control everything. We can’t possibly know everything.”

“He betrayed me.”

“Yes, but he is showing remorse. Admiral he doesn’t remember anything after shooting you. He knows he’s a cylon now but he claims it’s different. Do you believe him?”

“I don’t know what to believe.” Bill stood up and began to pace, he stopped and poured himself a drink.”

“Does the alcohol help?” Mattie asked gently

“I just want to make it all go away?”

“All of it why?”

“I let them down.”

“Does it help?” Do you really believe you let everyone down? Laura is still with you. Are you referring to your son?

“The ills against my son would take a whole year worth of sessions and I don’t think we have that kind of time.”

Mattie smiled. His humor was a good sign. “What about Laura?”

“I love her and I let her down. I took the final step without thinking of my family and she and Lee had to pay the price of my transgressions.”

“They have you now and they want to help you. Laura loves you everyone who sees the two you together outside of a public forum knows that Admiral. She went through hell yes, you feel horrible about it yes, but you still have each other and that isn’t going to change.

“I know.”

“Good, there is something good. There is your reason to go on.”

“Lee.”

“What about Lee.”

“I once told Laura that she saved us both, by convincing me to run with the fleet. She gave us all a gift and she gave me back my son. I would have left and fought the cylons but instead we are all here and alive, and still fighting but we are doing it together.

“There is another reason to go on.” Mattie leaned forward “Jack mentioned that you wanted to see Tigh, Do you mind if I ask why?”

“I want to ask him why, but most of all, if the information that Laura received from Ellen Tigh is true, then the final five are here among us. We need to know who they are. They’ve been to Earth. They’ll know what to expect, it may be the only way we survive as a race. I have to forgive him and we have to work together.

“Do you think that will be easy?”

“No, I don’t think it will but I have to try.”

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“You have been quiet Sam.” Ellen said as they walked toward the brig.

“I’m just trying to take it all in that all. It’s coming back to me in flashes.” Anders stopped outside the door. “The marines stood up against the walk. “Wait here”, he ordered, “You too Ellen, I’ll be right back.”

Anders stepped into the observation room. “Clear it out people, Commander’s orders, the prisoner has a visitor.”

“Yes, Sir.” The guards stood up. “Do you want the monitors left on?”

“Yes.”

Anders watched the guards go and the walked down to the cell. Tigh was sitting on the bed. “Do you know what you are?” Anders didn’t get an answer.

Tigh just stared at the floor. “I can’t get this damned music out of my head. It’s in the ship.”

“ I know it’s in my head too. It didn’t make any sense to me until a few hours ago. You have a visitor to see you. “

Tigh looked up at Anders’ “Ellen….”

“Yes.” Anders stepped away for the cell and opened the hatch. “Come in, Please.”

Their eyes met and it was like a floor of memories Ellen chose to forego the phone and step into the cell. “Do you remember Saul?”

“Yes.”

“I forgive you. You did what you had to do.” Ellen sat down on the cot next to her husband and drew him into a deep passionate kiss. “I love you Saul.”

“Oh I love you.” Saul Tigh felt and animalistic urge to show her just how much. He held you close and kissed her again. “Saul we will have plenty of time for that. Right now we have to take about John.”

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“Madame President.” Tory came up beside her.

“Yes Tory.” Laura noticed that her aide seemed to be preoccupied. “Tory are you all right?”

“Wha…I’m sorry Ma’am. I’m fine. I just haven’t been sleeping all that well. It’s this damned music in my head. Commander Adama has asked me to let you know that Mrs. Tigh is prepared to speak with us.”

“Very well Tory….could you please let the Commander know that I will join him as soon as I’m done with my meeting with the Admiral.”

Tory smiled. “Yes, Ma’am. He was expecting that. I’ll let him know to proceed.

“Thank you, Tory.”

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“What choice do I have?” Bill sat and watched Laura pace the deck in front of him Madelyn watched them from the corner.

“I could think of plenty of choices you have. Yes, Saul is different. Yes, I truly believe his is remorseful about his attempt on your life, but I don’t think that you should speak with him.”

“Laura.” Mattie saw an opportunity to take her leave and did so. Bill turned a caught Laura’s arm gently as she paced by once again. The force of the contact caused her to fall into his embrace. He held her close for a moment. It was as close as they had been since this hell began. Bill began to whisper in her ear. “Stop, and think for a moment. This is the only way. Laura stood and turned. Their eyes met in that instance and she understood it all.

She sat back down in his lap, holding on to him for dear life “I don’t want you shutting me out again. No running this time, Mister, is that understood?”

“Yes, Madame President. “ Bill nuzzled again her; placing butterfly kisses up her neck and whispered in her ear. “I won’t Laura. I promise. You know what I went through after Boomer… You know what I did…I told you everything after you came back I’m sorry for this.”

Laura squeezed his hand. I know and it won’t happen this time. You’re right you need to do this.

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Madelyn had a feeling he would make his way down here. “Admiral, How did it go Sir?”

“Well, thank you for asking.” Adama walked passed her and opened the hatch “if you’ll excuse me for a few moments.” He stepped inside Madelyn took her leave pleased with her work.

“Gentlemen please clear the room.”

Corporal Venner stood. “Admiral are you sure about this sir.”

“Yes, Venner. Please wait outside.”

“Aye, Aye sir.” The marines cleared the room as Bill stepped closer to the bars and picked up the handset. He stared into the cell as Saul walked toward him. He closed his eyes in an effort to get the sick feeling to leave the pit of his stomach. Saul picked up the phone and said nothing.

“Do know what I did after Boomer shot me?” Bill’s tone was even.

Saul didn’t say a thing he just stared at the floor. When I finally recovered I was mad at the world. While you were drinking and after you were straight, I was made at the world.”

“Bill.” Saul word was only a whisper.

“I cried over her body in the morgue, Saul. I don’t have that luxury now. We need to work together. According to your wife, you’ve been to Earth and you can help us find and fight the cylons. Are you willing to do that Saul?”

“Bill, I’m so sorry. I didn’t mean…”

“Saul, you’ve been there you are the only ones that can help us. I need my friend back. I need my XO. I can’t promise that it will be like it was but I need you to help. Will you help us Saul?”

“Yes, I will.”

Adama walked over and pulled the cell door shut before leave the brig. The Marines were waiting outside. “See that he is looked after someone will be down to get him shortly.”

Venner looked at his commander perplexed. “Yes, sir.”

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Tyrol couldn’t quite get his hand in the right place to replace the part on the Viper. It had been a slow day so far but there was a buzz around and he knew that that would be busy soon enough.

To make matter worse the music that had been playing in his head the last very days had decided to return this mooring and it wasn’t giving up. It was drawing him towards something. What the something was, he wasn’t sure.

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Bill Adama had never been so sure of anything in his life. Yes, this was a risk, but it was a risk they had to take if humanity wanted to survive. He approached the second level of CIC and nodded at the Marine. The young man saluted quickly and opened the door.

Bill stood on the deck and looked down upon the activity in CIC. Lee, Dee and Gaeta were deep in conversation. Dee turned around to return to her station and caught a glimpse of the familiar figure and smiled.

Bill felt it was time to make his presence known. “Commander Adama.”

Lee looked up from the plot table. “Yes, Sir.”

“Could you please bring all the information we have on the cylons moments and our last jump coordinates and meet me in my quarters.”

“Yes, Admiral.”

“Dee.” The young woman turned to her father-in-law and smiled. “A moment of your time Lieutenant. I have a special assignment for you.”

Dee removed her headset and stood to join the Admiral “Of course, sir.”

The two stepped outside of the CIC. Dee I need you keep this to yourself until I have a chance to talk to Lee.

Dee smiled. “I understand. I won’t be problem.”

“We need to work on release Colonel Tigh. I want him escorted at all time. Make sure he is treated well. Pick only people you trust do you understand.”

“No sir! I don’t. He tried to kill you…he caused you to…”

Bill took a hold of the young girl’s shoulders, “Give me your eyes.”

Dee did as she was told and looked into her CO’s eyes. In her opinion the decision he was making was crazy but she saw something different in the way he was looking at her. He believed he was doing the right thing letting Tigh.

“I need you to trust me. Do you trust me?”

“Always sir?”

“Please have Tigh escorted to my quarters in one hour.”

“Yes Admiral.”