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Sam walked up behind Dee and gave her neck a little nuzzle. She squeaked with delight, turning around to give him the full treatment. She stood on tiptoes as he bent down and began to kiss him slow and deep. She was wearing a short, clingy number and not much else. Sam’s eyes purveyed the view with rapt attention.
Dee and he had been married just a short enough time that she still blushed when he gave her his ravening once-overs. She was so in love with him. So much so that she had to pinch herself to make sure she wasn’t dreaming. She smiled up at him and he smiled back as he held her tenderly. He and Kara agreed to watch Dee and Sam’s twins Sam Jr. and Samantha while she went out with Lee on a date.
Out the corner of her eye she saw Lee and Kara approach. She turned toward them just in time to see Lee’s smile fade slightly. He and Dee were supposed to be spending more time together since Dee had had the twins 18 months ago. She, Sam, Lee and Kara had gotten married forming a quad; what their forefathers called “Group Marriage” about two and a half years earlier after Sam and Dee had caught Lee and Kara having sex in the observation deck.
They reasoned that by marrying each other’s spouses they would reduce the jealousy and would allow each other to be with the other one’s spouse legally.
“Um, hi Dee. Sam.” Lee nodded at Sam.
“Hi Lee. Hi Kara. You ready Lee?” Kara had come with Lee and was carrying Leland Zachary, Kara and Lee’s son on her hip, so they could spend time with the twins and Kara and Sam could spend some time alone together. Lee and Kara had just come back from taking one of the raptors out to meet Colonial One to go over military strategy and to talk politics with President Roslin and the Admiral. They had picked up their son from the ship’s daycare on the way back.
“Hey Dee.” Kara looked at Dee and let her eyes give her wife the once over. She was thinking Dee looked pretty in her dress and she couldn’t wait to help her out of it later. So, she was jarred when she heard Lee berate Dee.
“You’re going out in that?” Lee shook his head incredulously. The Dee he had known before they became a quad would never wear something so flimsy and so—sheer to go out on a date. Low cut maybe, but not so—tight.
“Lee, we’re not going to church, we’re going out for a “night on the town” so to speak—out to Joe’s.”
Lee still looked dubious about her outfit to the point it was making her uncomfortable and embarrassed in front of Kara and Sam.
“Uh, Dee.” Sam interjected with a wink and a smile. “If it makes Lee that uncomfortable, how’s about you change into something else and when you get back you can put it back on for me and Kara. Okay?” He hugged her tight and whispered in her ear, “You know how Lee is. I think you look beautiful. To be able to fit in that hot number after having twins? Wow! Just change for Lee okay?”
“Sure. Whatever.” Dee sighed. She was already getting into a bad mood, because Lee was always being uptight about how she did things lately.
“You’re the Admiral’s daughter-in-law for frak’s sake Dee.” He would remind her of this on numerous occasions whenever she wanted to wear something that accentuated her assets. And it always seemed Kara was around when he scolded her drinking it all in. That she could do without. It hadn’t been that long ago she and Sam had caught Lee and Kara having sex in the observation deck room. Dee sighed at the memory that still brought tears to her eyes when she chanced to dwell on it.
This was despite them all getting married to try and allay any jealousy and any future clandestine sex-capades. At least if they were all married to each other, the Adama-Anders and Anders-Adamas could all be together or with the other’s original spouse legally and without any jealousy or interference. Dee and Kara agreed to only use Lee’s and Sam’s last names even though they were married to each other as well.
Lee seemed to have a hard time remembering that, and all though she was his wife first, she was Sam’s wife too and Sam liked seeing her in more feminine attire when they went out to have fun. It broke up the “felgercarb” so to speak of always being so regimented and military.
Dee seemed to recall that Lee didn’t mind seeing Kara in her blue dress on Cloud Nine. He practically lost his ability to speak when he saw her. “Humph”, she thought angrily as she changed into a shift type dress and heels, “So hypocritical of him.”
So, there it was, their first little fight, over a frakking dress! Dee began to think Lee was right when he had mentioned them switching spouses once. She and Sam seemed to fit and Lee and Kara…well, they were Lee and Kara; but it worked for them. Dee stashed that thought as she applied her lip gloss and grabbed her purse.
“I’m ready.”
“You look lovely.” Lee told her with an approving nod and smile, while reaching to kiss her on the cheek. Dee was just a little too quick and he ended up kissing her hair as she passed him.
“Yeah, whatever. Thanks.”
Lee sighed, held the door for her and glanced back at Sam, Kara, and the kids. Sam wouldn’t look at him and was shaking his head, (a clear sign of his disapproval of how Lee had talked to Dee), as he busied himself with Sam Jr.’s juice bottle. Kara just gave him that look like, “Dude, you really frakked up with Dee.” Apollo sighed and told them good night while blowing a kiss at little Leland. This prompted the child to start crying seeing his daddy leave. This brought back memories of Lee watching his dad leave. Lee started to go back to hug him, but Sam reproved him and said, “He’ll be okay. Dee’s waiting. We got this. Go have fun.”
Lee hesitated for a moment, then said, “All right. Thanks guys.” With that he closed and locked the hatch. Within seconds little Leland was playing with his toes on Kara’s lap oblivious of Lee’s departure.