All I need is the air that I breathe (and to love you) by fadingphantom (PG)

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Fandom: BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (NEW)
Pairing: Lee/Kara
Length: ~2500
Author on LJ: fadingphantom 
Author Website: tagged
Why this must be read: This story, written as a series of moments in Lee's life, is a haunting look at how he deals with loss. While Kara is the focus and her death the linchpin, there's a bit of Zak too.  But all in all, this story just makes me ache for Lee (and fadingphantom's astonishing prose).

Excerpt:
She turns, and when she looks at him her eyes are gentle but hold an infinite sadness, as well as a glimpse of something else... something that scares him as her every self-destructive and hurtful tendency had not, because he would almost think it was goodbye, if he didn’t know better.

He frowns slightly, bewildered, because this is Kara and they’ve never said goodbye, not really, because they are both supposed to know deep down that their someday will come. Not today, but one day, when they are finally strong enough to trust each other with their hearts, as they do now with their lives.

All I need is the air that I breathe (and to love you)