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Library [Sunday, December 9]

There's no book fort being built during Lee's time in the library today. Nope, just Lee, sitting behind the desk, lounging comfortably in the chair, reading a book. It'd been a busy week so he thought he deserved some lounge time.

The library was open.

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Adah bit her lip slightly, feeling a little bit of a blush creeping in. "Probably," she said, speaking slowly still and not at all out of modesty, just out of the fact that no one else ever heard it, really, "the only one."

"Then, I'm the lucky one," he said and smiled at her. "Because hearing it again is...something else. I love hearing you talk."

"It's still..." There was a pause, a long one, as she frowned and tried to find the word she was looking for. "...hard, but I...lots of work, poetry. Little...pieces together, like jigsaws." The urge to gesture as she tried to put words to her thoughts was strong, but not strong enough to overcome the desire to keep touching his fingers, so the Eel would find the little shapes of puzzle pieces lining the side of his finger now.

His eyes were drawn to his fingers, watching for a moment before returning to her face and smiling again.

"Takes time," he agreed. "If you want, I could read to you one day."

Adah gave a slow, decisive nod. "I think that could help...significantly," she said, simultaneously working on using more complex words and dodging around just flat out saying that she'd enjoy that. Of course, she always liked listening to him, but it would be even better considering she could understand him this time.

"Whenever you'd like," he said, smiling again. "My days are pretty much open and I couldn't think of a better way to spend a few hours than reading to you."

Adah, as attentive over the Eel's words now as she had been this whole time, listened, and then her eyes shifted slightly to the side. Clearly thinking, her eyes shifted again, to the other side, and a little smirk formed as her thought processes brought her around to a confirmation of sorts. She looked back toward the Eel and asked, a bit slyly, "No better way, huh? Nothing at all?"

"I'm really boring," he said and laughed. "You should see me on days that I'm not in the library. Just a boring, boring, person."

"Well," Adah chuckled lightly herself, "you're pretty good at hiding it. From me, at least."

"I do that to impress you," he teased, making a face. "So you'll keep coming back and talking to me."

"An awful lot of tricks," Adah pointed out, tilting her head with a pointed look, "for someone so boring. Unless 'boring' doesn't mean what I'm thinking it does. It's possible. I could have it wrong..."

"Maybe you make me not boring," Lee suggested. "You make me interesting and happy. That could be it."

It was hard not to grin a little more at that. "Guess I'll have to just ask around," she countered, "to make sure."

"Oh, really?" He dropped his chin into his other hand, eyes on her. "And who would you ask?"

Still grinning, Adah shrugged her shoulder. "Don't know. Anyone. Simple question: Is Lee Adama boring? Could make a chart, even, and take the results in for research. Very scientific research, that. I can submit it to help me get into medical school."

"But what if you found out that I was boring?" Lee asked, frowning. "Would I just be another science subject? No more time in the library for us?"

After taking a moment to make certain that she was following that properly, Adah shook her head. "Then I'd conclude," she said, very matter-of-fact, "that your theory must be correct, and I'd almost have to keep visiting you, to keep you from being completely boring."

She paused, lifting a finger from his hand to signal that she wasn't quite finished yet, but that she needed a moment to find words again. When she had them, her finger dropped, and she continued. "In fact, I might have to prescribe more time with me, for that reason."

"More time?" He tried not to smile. He really did try. He failed miserably. "I think you should definitely see about prescribing more time with me. It could be very beneficial."

Adah had a significant amount of experience in smiling when she was trying not to; it helped that it was a situation she liked to think that she had the controls of. So she was able to manage just a suspended shine of amusement in her eyes as she gave another light shake of her head. "Research first. Then we'll see. We wouldn't want an untimely and gruesome death due to an overdose."

"We wouldn't want that," he agreed, nodding. "But, I get to see you for the research, right?"

Adah gave a decisive nod of her head. "Of course."

"Good," he said, smiling again. "I used to hate research. Now, I kind of love it."

"And," Adah pointed out, "I used to hate talking."

"See, we're mutually beneficial to each other," he said and covered their joined hands with his free hand. "It works out so conveniently."

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