lanalucy | Fic: Playlist - I Need You Now Part I, Lee, Kara, PG-13?, no warnings

Thanks to

newnumbertwo {hugs} for the beta!

Another ficlet written as part of a challenge.

“H’lo?” Lee’s voice was thick with sleep. Gods. He sounds so frakkable. Lords, please never let Zak find out how much I want his brother.

“Lee? It’s Kara.”

“Kara? Why are you - what’s wrong? Did something happen to Zak? What’s all that noise?” He already sounded much more awake.

Too bad. I could listen to him for hours when he’s sleepy. “Zak’s fine, as far as I know. He’s out on training maneuvers for the next two days.”

“What’s going on, Kara? Are you drunk?”

Kara laughed uproariously. “Maybe. When Zak’s out of town, I visit some of my old favorites, you know?”

Lee could hear the rumble of a male voice. It sounded entirely too close to the phone to be a respectable distance away. “Kara, do you need a ride home?”

“Maybe, maybe not,” she repeated, her drunken voice suddenly coy. “You wanna rescue me, Lee?”

“Tell me where you are.” Luckily he knew the place. When he got there, he pushed his way through the crowd toward the phones behind the pool tables. He found her on the back wall, some guy leaning into her, his lips nearly touching her jaw. He saw red.

He stalked up, grabbed her arm and hauled her outside to his car.

“What, Lee? You going to spank me? Call Zak and tattle on me?”

“Spank....” Gods. A naked Kara over his lap or bent over a desk or.... He shook that thought out of his mind. “If you’re going to cheat on Zak when he’s out of town...”

“It’s not cheating, Lee. Zak knows. He doesn’t want specifics, but he knows. When he’s out of town, I play. I frak other guys. I frak other girls. Sometimes I do both. As long as I don’t give him the gory details, he’s fine with it.” She smirked at him. “Well, he does sometimes like to hear about the girls. It gets him hot.” She snickered.

“He - you’ve done this before?” Kara and another girl? Down, boy.

“Almost every time he’s out of town. I don’t sit at home waiting like a good little girlfriend. I’ve never been that girl.”

“You’re not doing it anymore. I don’t care if Zak’s okay with it. I’m not.”

“Why do you have a say?”

He looked away for a moment, swallowed down his anxiety. He shoved her up against the car with his body, put his hands on her face, and kissed her. Hard. “If you’re going to do this, I don’t want you frakking anybody but me.”

Kara tried to look away, but he held her firmly. “I - can’t do that, Lee. I can’t frak you.”

“Why not, Kara? Why?”

“Because if I frakked you, that would be cheating.”

Lee shook his head. “I don’t understand. How would frakking me be any different than some random pilot or out-of-towner you pick up in a bar?”

“It would be different, Lee, because it wouldn’t be random. I wouldn’t just be scratching an itch. I actually - “ she managed to get free enough to drop her chin so she didn’t have to look at him, “- I can’t do that to Zak. I love him.” Please don’t figure this out.

Lee shook his head again. “I am so confused. You love Zak, but you frak other people, and it’s not cheating, because he’s okay with it. You can’t frak me, because that would be cheating, but you can call me at zero three hundred to come pick your drunk ass up, knowing I’ll do it for the rest of my life if you ask me to.” He stopped abruptly and backed away a little. “Frak,” Lee muttered. “I didn’t mean to say that out loud.”

She stared up at him, stunned into silence, then leaned in and laid her cheek on his chest. We are both so frakked.

“I didn’t ask you to come pick me up, Lee. I just...” It should be easier to say this when he’s not looking at me, except I shouldn’t say it at all.

“Just what, Kara?” He rubbed his cheek on her hair.

She pulled her arms in tighter and whispered, “I just wanted to hear your voice. I was missing you. I didn’t...I won’t call you again. I’m sorry.”

He sighed and said quietly, “You will. You’ll call me the next time you pick the wrong guy and can’t seem to get rid of him. Where did that come from? But that’s what happened, isn’t it? You’ll call me the next time Zak’s out of town and you just want to hear my voice. You’ll call me. And I’ll answer. Always.” He laughed bitterly at himself. “I’ve already said it, I can’t exactly take it back now, can I?”

Kara sniffled. “Lee? I’m not drunk anymore. I want to go home. Will you please take me home?”