Lee was in the Hangar Deck when the chief called him, saying that there was a phone call for him.

“Adama here,” he said.

“Major, this is Layne Ishay from the sickbay,” he heard a feminine voice say.

“Yes, Ishay. Is there any problem?” he asked.

“Doctor Cottle asked you to cancel your wife’s nugget class, because she won’t make it there in time” Ishay said.

“Wait, is there something wrong with Kara?”

“Doctor Cottle didn’t say,” she told him. “I need to hang up, sir.”

“Yeah, sure,” he murmured and put the phone down. “Chief!”

“Yes, Major,” Tyrol, who was fixing a viper a few feet away from him, said.

“I need to do something. If someone asks, I’m in the sickbay.”

--

Kara was in shock, sitting in a chair, still looking at her baby’s frozen image in the opposite side of the room.

“I can’t be pregnant, I mean, I am taking the shots!” she said.

“The fetus is about ten weeks along,” Cottle said. “That is around the time you received the first shot after that long break from them. Did I tell you to avoid sexual intercourse in the first two weeks after the shot, because it would not work then?”

Starbuck remembered him telling her something like that. But that was around the time she and Lee got together.

“I must have forgotten it,” she murmured.

“Damn right you did!” Cottle told her. “Didn’t you notice your period was missing, or the morning sickness?”

“I thought it was the stress what was keeping me from having my period, and that I got a stomach bug.”

“You did have a stomach bug, just not the regular kind. Now, handle the consequences. No smoking, no drinking, and especially, no flying vipers!”

“No flying?!” she asked in disbelief.

“Yes, I am revoking your viper flight status. However, you can be ECO for raptors for the next, let’s say, month and a half, as long as you don’t pilot them. And don’t even think of go out there fighting toasters!” he said. “Come back in a month for a checkup.” After that, he got up and returned to his office.

That was a little too much information to absorb that fast. I came here for a contraceptive shot and found out I was pregnant, she thought. I can’t pilot anything for eight months or more. She could not fly for more than half a year, but that didn’t seem to bother her that much. She was having a baby.

“Kara?” she heard someone calling.

“Hum?” she asked.

“Kara, talk to me!” She returned to the real world and saw Lee kneeling in front of her.

“Hi,” was all she managed to say.

“They called me saying that you could not make it to the nugget class. What’s wrong?” he asked.

She pointed at the image in the ultrasound monitor behind her husband’s back and he turned to see it.

“Is that…” he started.

“Our kid? Yeah,” she finished for him.

“We’re having a baby?” he asked incredulously and she nodded.

“You think we can handle Kacey and another child?”

He smiled. “We can do anything together,” Lee said and kissed her lightly.

“Excuse me!” Cottle said. “Get yourselves a room. This is a sickbay!”

They obeyed the old doctor and went to their own quarters.

“I guess I have to congratulate you, Mr. CAG,” she said, after she recovered from the shock. “You managed to get our best pilot out of rotation.”

“I recall you also being in there, Mrs. CAG,” he replied.

Kara lay on the couch and Lee lifted her tanks, putting his ear against her stomach.

“What are you doing?” she asked laughing.

“Trying to hear our baby,” he said.

“Lee, it’s been less than three months since the kid was conceived,” she stated. “You won’t hear a thing. Plus, aren’t we supposed to be in the deck?”

He sighed against her belly. “You’re no fun.” He got up from the floor and she did the same.

Putting his arms around his wife, he walked with her back to the hangar deck.

“Do you think Kacey will like the idea of having a new brother or sister?” asked Kara.

“I don’t know,” he said. “Let’s hope she doesn’t mind. We need to be careful telling her.”

“Yeah,” she agreed. They reached the hangar deck kissed goodbye.

“We’ll explain her during our lunch break, in our quarters, okay?” Lee suggested.

Kara nodded, smiling. She entered the Ready Room and found Racetrack teaching the nuggets instead of her.

“Captain on deck!” one of the nuggets announced.

“Starbuck, I was told to cover you today,” Racetrack said.

“Oh, it’s okay,” she said, still with that silly smile in her face. “I was just checking if they were in good hands. I’ll be in the Hangar Deck for today.”

“Okay.”

--

Sharon was taking care of her raptor when she saw Starbuck entering the deck and walking in her direction

“Need help?” she asked. “I’m so bored.”

“I could use some,” replied Athena. She looked at her fellow pilot and noticed the huge smile. “Okay, who are you and what did you do with our Starbuck? You look all bright and shiny.”

“Do I?” Kara asked, unsuccessfully trying to take the smile of her face.

“Yeah, you do,” Sharon confirmed. “What happened?”

She sat in the raptor’s ramp and unconsciously put her hands on her stomach. “Nothing.”

The raptor pilot raised an eyebrow and noticed the protectiveness Starbuck was showing by putting her arms around her stomach. “You know, I think you just gave yourself away, Kara. Is there something in your uterus?” she asked mischievously.

Kara’s eyes shot open. She grabbed Sharon by the arm and dragged her inside of the raptor.

“How the frak did you know?”

“I had a kid myself, remember. I used to do the ‘stomach hugging’ thing all the time.”

“Okay, I admit it! Just, try not to talk about it much. I was counting on telling Kacey first,” she stated, in a murmur.

“My mouth will be closed,” Sharon promised. “How far along are you?”

“Ten weeks according to Cottle.”

“So, how do you feel?”

“Like I always do,” Starbuck told her. “I had a few morning sickness but I swear I thought it was just a food poisoning. If Cottle hadn’t shown me, I wouldn’t believe it. Also, I was hoping you’d do me a favor.”

“Name it,” she said.

“Cottle said that, because of the baby, my duties as a pilot are reduced to being an ECO for the time being,” Kara explained.

“And you never worked as an ECO,” Athena finished.

“Exactly. So, could you or Helo help me with that? I know how it works; I just need a little training.”

“It is not that different from what you do in a viper, but it is okay, talk to Lee, ask him to come along with us in a few CAPs and we’ll fill you in,” she agreed.

“Thanks, Sharon,” Starbuck said. “Now, I need something to do, or I’ll go nuts.”

--

When Kara arrived to her quarters, Lee had not arrived with Kacey, yet, so she decided to take a shower. She had been working on repairings all morning and had motor oil everywhere.

After showering and getting dressed, she heard the quarter’s hatch closing.

“Kara?” Lee asked.

“In the bathroom,” she shouted. “It’s just a minute.”

Like she promised, one minute later, she met her husband and daughter in the kitchen.

Lee walked in her direction and kissed her passionately.

“Hi again,” she said when they broke the kiss.

“Ready to tell her?” he asked.

“No,” Kara replied, nervous. “Can’t we just show up with the kid when it is born and let her get used to it?”

“Starbuck afraid of telling something to someone? I never thought I’d live to see it happening,” Lee joked, being hit in the back of his head in return.

They sit on the couch with Kacey in the middle, but when Lee was about to speak, the alarm started sounding.

“Action station, action stations. Condition one through all the ship, this is not a drill. I repeat, action stations, action stations. This is not a drill,” Geata’s voice sounded through all the ship.

“Oh, gods,” Kara said.

“Stay here, Kara. I’m asking you for the baby’s sake. Please stay here,” Lee whispered in her ear.

“Alright,” she agreed. She could not endanger the baby. The other pilots would have to handle things this time.

Kacey was clearly looking scared. Lee kneeled in front of her. “It’s okay, Kace. It’s okay, your mommy will be here with you.” He kissed her forehead and got up.

His wife hugged him tightly. “Don’t you die on me.”

“I will do my best,” he said, and ran to the hangar.

Kara looked at Kacey. “Come on, baby, let’s put you in bed, so you can take a nap,” Kara told her.

They walked to the room, and Starbuck put her daughter in hers and Lee’s bunk.

“Mommy stay?” the little girl asked.

“Yeah, Mommy stay.” She lay next to Kacey in the bed and let her cuddle in her arms.

A few minutes later, she heard the quarter’s hatch open. Lee’s back, looks like they got rid of the toasters pretty fast, she thought.

Steps sounded in the room, but Kara kept her back turned to the entrance, not to wake her sleeping daughter.

“She just fell asleep,” Kara whispered, not turning her face from Kacey.

“Good to know, Kara, good to know,” a familiar voice, but not Lee’s, said.

She turned and saw Leoben in there, holding a needle. Before she could even try to fight him, he stuck it in her arm.

“Sleep now, Kara.” That was the only thing she managed to hear, before everything turned black.

A/N: Here's the twist. If you want to find out what happens really soon, I suggest you review. Tell me what you think.