Starbuck`s Coffee Mugs by Betty (er.br@sympatico.ca) Dedicated to my new Starbucks coffee mug and also to Jen (lmr) who wishes the Starbucks coffee company would change their logo. Rating: NC-17 Pairing: Apollo/Starbuck Summary: Starbuck has a gift made for Apollo, but it doesn`t turn out the way he planned. Warnings: Nudity, maybe some sex, and some embarrassed warriors. If anything else comes I`ll let you know. Don`t worry Iris there is *no* torture in this one. Part One Apollo finished setting up the coffee maker and turned it on to brew just as his husband entered the room, grinning from ear to ear. "Okay Bucko what evil plans do you have in mind for me tonight?" Apollo chuckled as Starbuck approached the small kitchen area. "No evil plans Apollo, honest, I just wanted to give you a gift for your birthday." "It`s not my birthday." "I know, but I wanted to give you a gift anyway, I had it made special for you." Starbuck`s grin grew larger as he handed Apollo the small box he had been hiding behind his back. Apollo took the box offered to him and cautiously opened it. Inside, under all the paper and plastic peanuts, he found two large coffee mugs. Taking them out he looked closely at each one before setting them on the table. "Thank you, but why do both mugs say Starbucks Coffee and have a picture of you on them, shouldn`t one say Apollo`s Coffee above my picture?" Both mugs did indeed have a picture of Starbuck on them. One that had been taken of the lieutenant during an awards ceremony. He looked very dashing in his full dress uniform. "Well it was suppose to, but the craftsman who made them got the order mixed up, sorry." "Well I guess I`ll believe you, this time, and I just made some coffee so we can try our new mugs out." "Great." A few centons later, the coffee was ready, poured into the mugs and the two sat down. Apollo lifted his mug to lips to take a sip and suddenly stopped. "What the frack?!!" he yelled. "Starbuck, I can`t believe you did this." "I didn`t, that`s *not* suppose to happen." Both men stared in shock at the mugs. For as the coffee heated them up, Starbuck`s dress uniform slowly disappeared until the picture was one of a *naked* Starbuck. "You posed for this?" "No." "Then why is correct?" "What do you mean?" "Starbuck even if we were not married, I have still seen you naked, this is *your* body." "I didn`t pose naked for anybody, except you that is, and you have those pictures under lock and key...........don`t you?" "Well actually I keep them in the bedside table on my side, for when your out on patrol and I`m home alone." Apollo replied sheepishly. "Does anyone else know about that?" "I don`t think so." Apollo thought a moment then said, "Maybe I had better check and make sure none of them are missing." Apollo rushed to the bedroom, knocking his chair over, and quickly opened the drawer where he kept his most prized photo album. The drawer was empty. "Okay Starbuck, now stay calm." Apollo didn`t sound to calm himself. "Stay calm? *Stay calm*, how can I stay calm when someone I don`t know is out there someplace ogling my body?" Starbuck shouted. *** "Starbuck I`m just as upset about this as you are, after all someone has been in our quarters, but we have to stay calm and think............wait I know, Boomer is the one who developed them, maybe he borrowed them." "*Boomer? I`ll kill him*!" Starbuck screamed as he headed for the door. "Starbuck wait, we don`t know if he took them." Apollo wasn`t sure Starbuck heard him. *** Apollo had to run after Starbuck, the lieutenant was so angry, and deep down he kind of hoped Boomer *did not* have the photo album. But if he didn`t then who did? Starbuck was heading straight for the BOQ, where Boomer was busy in a card game "WHERE ARE THEY? WHAT DID YOU DO WITH THEM?!" Starbuck yelled at Boomer as he picked up the other man by the collar and shook him. "What? What are you talking about?" Boomer said in a quavering voice. "DON`T YOU PLAY STUPID WITH ME, YOU TOOK THOSE PHOTOS AND I WANT THEM BACK." "What photos?" Boomer squeaked out. "THE PHOTOS OF ME NAKED, HAND THEM OVER." "I don`t have them, I gave them to Apollo after I developed them." "Starbuck, let Boomer go." Apollo ordered as he entered the barracks and saw how Starbuck had poor Boomer up against the wall. "Why should I? After what he did." Spit flew from Starbuck`s lips and landed on Boomer`s face. "Starbuck I don`t think Boomer is responsible for this, now please let him go." Starbuck reluctantly let go of Boomer`s collar, but didn`t calm down. "You guys got naked pictures of each other?" Giles asked excitedly. "Wow I wouldn`t mind seeing those." Greenbean whispered, but not low enough, Starbuck heard him. "Well, your just going to have to want, somebody stole those pictures and I want them back, and when their returned they will put under lock and key!" Starbuck shouted at his friend. "Starbuck calm down, we`ll go over to the merchant ship and ask the craftsman who gave him the other picture of you and ordered him to make the mugs........do what they do." "What do these mugs do?" Jolly asked. "Nothing, never mind," Starbuck said between lips lined with anger, then to Apollo he said, "that sounds too easy, something will go wrong." "What could go wrong?" Apollo asked while playfully swatting Starbuck`s arm. Starbuck crossed his arms and pouted when he answered, "Something will, you`ll see." *** Part 3 Starbuck and Apollo headed straight to the shop where the mugs had been made. However when they turned the corner leading to the shop, they stopped in their tracks. There was huge line up of woman, and almost as many men, standing outside the shop. Other`s were coming out, clutching coffee mugs to their chests and yelling, "I got one! I got one!". Suddenly one woman turned and saw the two warriors. "Hey that`s them!!!!!!" she screamed. The people in the line up all turned to look, and with a loud, mob like scream, they suddenly started to run towards the two. "STAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRBUCCCCKKKKKK!" "OOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHH CAPTAIN COME LET ME HUG YOU." "ALL I WANT IS ONE LITTLE KISS." "Oh frack," Starbuck gasped. "I think we had better run." Apollo said as he pushed Starbuck back the way they had come. "What the hell is going on?" Starbuck asked. "I think that craftsman has made more mugs than you ordered." Apollo groaned. "So why are they screaming for you? The photo on the mug was of me." "I don`t know, and we have no time to figure that out right now, I think we had better get back to the shuttle, fast." "Frack the shuttle, there`s a men`s room, those ladies can`t follow us into there." The two dived for the men`s room, and quickly pushed a large cabinet used to store paper towels and toilet paper in front of the door. Turning and leaning on the cabinet they breathed a sigh of relief, until they heard....... "Oh wow it`s you two, will you sign our mugs?" a tall thin man said. "Please, we would be ever so grateful," his shorter companion added. "Why me? Starbuck is the one who has his photo on the mugs." "Oh, they are selling mugs with your picture on some of them as well, and believe me I don`t know which I like best. You two have the best bodies I`ve ever seen." The tall man grinned. "You must work out a lot." His companion nodded. "*My* picture is on some of those mugs? And my uniform disappears when they get hot?" Apollo gaped at the men. "Of course it disappears. Why do you think the mugs are selling so fast? I think that craftsman must have made a fortune today." The short man smiled as he pulled his mugs out of his shopping bag and stared at them. "True, but I hope he doesn`t run out of mugs or he just may have a riot on his hands." The taller man added. "I gave him permission to make two mugs, one with my picture and the other with Apollo`s, and the uniforms were *not* suppose to disappear," Starbuck said through clinched teeth, "then he cheated me and gave me two mugs with *my* picture on them, why didn`t I get one of Apollo?" "And neither one of us gave permission for those mugs to be sold to the public." The two civilian men stared at the warriors, now understanding why they were so upset. "Oh dear, if you didn`t give permission for the mugs, then I guess you didn`t give permission for the magazine either," the taller civilian said. "Magazine?" the warriors said together. "Oh yes, it`s new to the fleet, just hit the stands today," the shorter man said as he placed his mugs back into his bag and pulled out a thick magazine. "It`s called "Post Destruction Vixens" and you two sexy men are this sectars star attraction, and the centre fold is to die for," the shorter man said. "They had a contest for the magazine`s title and a young lady named Rita won, she got a free copy," the first man stated. Starbuck snatched the magazine from the man`s hands and opened it up to the middle. "Apollo, how did this happen?" Starbuck whimpered as the two warriors stared at the photo of the two of them making love on Apollo`s bed. "My father is going to kill us." Apollo wailed. *****Authors note: Thanks go to Rita for the magazine`s title***** *** Part 4 As soon as the shuttle landed on the Galactica`s deck, Apollo and Starbuck all but dived off it. They just wanted to get to their quarters and hide from everyone, hopefully for the next yahren. Unfortunately they ran straight into Colonel Tigh who was blocking their path to the turbo-lift. "Commander wants to see the both of you, in his quarters *now*." the stern faced older man said. Their throats clicked as they tried to swallow the lumps that had suddenly formed there. As they turned and headed towards the commander`s quarters, colonel Tigh smiled behind their backs. Clearly enjoying the way the two men shook with fear, and looking forwards to hearing the chewing out they would soon receive. When they reached the door to Adama`s quarters they stopped, neither man wanting to go any further. "If you don`t ring the chime I will." The two hadn`t realised Tigh was following them, they were both too wrapped up in their own fear. Summoning up all the courage he had left, Apollo pressed the call button, and almost jumped out of his boots when he heard his father *yell* "enter". The door opened, but the two men just stood there. Suddenly they were pushed forwards. "The man said to enter, and it did sound like an order to me," the colonel said. Adama was standing in the middle of the room, magazine in hand. "Which one of you cares to tell me the meaning of this, this, this filth? Hmm. I don`t care what the two of you do behind closed doors, but when you allow pictures to be taken, and for those pictures to be published in a magazine such as this that`s available to the entire fleet, that I care about. Do you know who brought this magazine to my attention? Sire Uri, that`s who. The man had the biggest, most smug look on his face that I have ever seen. And the council isn`t very happy about it either, I`ve had them calling me all morning asking what I plan on doing about it, they have even called a special council meeting about it, you two will be lucky if your allowed to keep your jobs let alone your ranks." "But we didn`t do it." Apollo squeaked "Excuse me? You didn`t do it? " Adama yelled as he opened up the magazine "this sure looks like the two of you, and that is your quarters, your bed chamber, and in this picture, what is that purple thing Starbuck appears to be tickling your bare rump with?" "A feather." Apollo whimpered. "From a chicken." Starbuck also whimpered. "A purple chicken feather? Where in all Hades did you find a chicken with a purple feather?" "On the livestock ship sir, it was the only one of it`s kind. It was a rainbow chicken, and I saw those lovely purple tail feathers and I just had to have one, the chicken was real friendly, she was in a petting zoo and she came right up to me, so I yanked out a couple of her tail feathers." Starbuck`s voice was shaking, but he did manage to grin. "A rainbow chicken?" Adama was now very confused. "Yes sir," the two warriors said. "But she got mad when Starbuck pulled out her feathers and she ran after him and bit his butt." Apollo sniggered. "Stop that laughing, now I want an explanation for this magazine, why, and by whom, did you allow these pictures of the two you to be taken, and in various states of undress, doing.....things to each other." "We didn`t." "Do you take me for a fool?" "No sir, but we didn`t allow anyone to take those pictures, well Starbuck allowed the one`s of him to be taken, but I was the one who did that and Boomer developed them and gave them to me, I had them in a photo album and we found out that it`s missing." "Oh, and what about the ad?" Adama didn`t seem to believe them. "What ad?" Apollo asked. "The one on the last page." Adama flipped to the end of the magazine and started reading. "Do you want to see more of these two hot, sexy warriors in action? If so send 30 cubits plus this order form to the address below and get your own hot video of these two vixens in action, completely uncut and uncensored, get your`s today while supplies last." "There`s a video?" Apollo moaned. "I don`t remember making a video." Starbuck sobbed. "Well then if you two are telling me the truth, and you really didn`t have anything to do with all this then I suggest you find out who did, when they did it and how they managed to get pictures of you in your own quarters, and while your at it maybe you should find why they did it, you have exactly three days, that`s all the time I can talk the council into giving you. You will then stand before the council and give them the evidence you have gathered or face the consequences of this, this, this outrageous filth." "Yes sir, right away sir," the two younger men quickly said as they retreated for the door. "And find some way to get that video stopped," the commandeer yelled at their departing backs. When the door closed behind the two younger man, Tigh turned to Adama and said, "I have some feathers in my quarters." "Yes, and you know some of the things those two were doing look mighty interesting," Adama replied with a sly smile as he flipped through the magazine. "Yes, I know," Tigh grinned back, "especially pages 150 and 151." "The one where Apollo is tied spread eagle to the bed, or where he is hanging upside down from that contraption and Starbuck is licking honey off his balls?" "That`s it." Tigh smirked. *** When they left the commander`s quarters, and after taking a few deep breaths to calm themselves down after the big chewing out, the two warriors headed to their quarters. "So where do we start?" Starbuck asked as they entered. "All the pictures were taken in the bed room, so there must be a camera set up in there some how." As the headed to wards the doorway, Starbuck suddenly stopped Apollo with a hand on the arm. Following Starbuck`s gaze, Apollo saw what had grabbed his love`s attention. The carpet between the door way, and extending out for about a foot each side of the frame, was slightly raised, just a little so that it was hard to notice unless you were looking for something. Bending down for a closer inspection, Apollo saw that the carpet had been carefully cut and expertly put back into place. "Something is under here, get me a knife from the kitchen," he said to Starbuck. When Starbuck returned with the knife, Apollo carefully lifted the carpet. Underneath they saw some sort of rubber pad, with wires coming out of the middle that appeared to run along the wall of the bedroom. There was no way of avoiding the pad unless you knew it was there. "I think this was placed here so someone would know when we entered the room," Apollo gasped, "it must be some sort of motion detector." "So how do we get in there without stepping on the damn thing?" "We jump." "Jump?" "Sure, we can do it, it`s only two feet, we`ve both jumped farther than that." "Well yeah, I know we can do it, but we should take a running start first." "All right, I`ll allow running in the quarters just this once, lets start back at the couch." Apollo agreed. Apollo went first and cleared the area with no problem, but when Starbuck`s turn came, his mind was on the way Apollo`s butt moved when he ran, and he lost his balance on landing and would have fallen back onto the motion pad if Apollo hadn`t grabbed his arm. "For shame Lt., think you need more time in the gym?" "Ha ha, very funny, I just didn`t want to show you up by jumping farther than you did." With a shake of his head and a chuckle, Apollo headed to the wall to see where the wires headed to. "Apollo this carpet has been lifted not that long ago." "Yeah I can see that, and the wires run along the wall, and around the corner, who ever did this knew what he was doing." "How are you sure it was a he?" Starbuck asked. "Okay he *or* she then." "Much better." "Who ever did it knew what they were doing, the wires go straight to the heating duct, and inside there we find....." "Cameras. Three cameras. Why three?" "That first one is on a swivel, and I think that little light there is another motion detector, so the pad turns it on, and it follows us as we move around the room." "So why isn`t the light on?" "Starbuck, we jumped over the pad remember, so it never received the signal to turn on." "Right, so what about the other two cameras? One is a video camera, so that explains the ad the commander read, somebody was taking videos of us while we were making love, why those dirty borays I`ll Kill them." "Calm down Starbuck, when we find out who did this we will let the proper authorities handle it, no matter how bad we want to rip them apart." "Well all right, but I don`t like it, the council always finds a way to screw things up, and we are the one`s who will pay for it." "Lets check out the third camera shall we?" "Well it`s stationary and it looks like there`s wires coming down the wall from it and the video camera, and why didn`t we notice these wires before?" "We didn`t notice them because the dresser is in the way, now lets check to see where these other wires go." "Well the damn things are pointed straight at the bed, so I`d bet a sectons pay that`s where the wires head to." Once more they followed the wires, and discovered the carpet had been cut yet again, this time straight from the wall to the bed. "Guess I owe you a sectons pay." Apollo grinned at Starbuck. "That`s okay, I`ll take my payment in other ways." Getting down on his hands and knees, a position Starbuck didn`t mind seeing him in at all, Apollo saw that the wires ran to the middle of the bed, then headed up. "Whatthefrack?" "Excuse me, could you repeat that?" Starbuck chuckled Sitting up Apollo said "There`s a motion detector hooked to the bed." "What! So it takes pictures as soon as someone sits on the bed?" "Looks that way." "Why didn`t we see a flash or something?" Starbuck asked, a little confused by all this. "We do have a habit of keeping the lights on when we make love." "Yeah but, we would still see the flash." "I don`t know very much about photography, but I did notice that the neither camera had a flash." "Greenbean." Starbuck stated. "What?" "Greenbean. Greenbean is an expert at photography, we could ask him about the flash , he would know all about the film and the flash and the camera, in fact a few sectons ago I saw him showing Giles some new camera he just got." "I forgot about that, he was always snapping photos of everyone back when we were in the academy." "Apollo, there are more wires going up the wall at the head of the bed, if it hadn`t been for that stupid painting of, whatever that is, we would have seen them before this." "That`s called abstract art and it`s not stupid." "Can`t even tell what it is, looks like something a pre-schooler painted, no I think I`ve seen pre-schoolers paint better than that." "Quit it, leave my painting alone I paid a lot of money for that." "You were cheated." "We can discuss the painting later, right now we have to find where those wires go." "I already know," Starbuck grinned as he pointed to the ceiling, "they head straight into the light fixture." Following the wires up the wall, Apollo saw that they did indeed lead straight to the light fixture in the ceiling, but he couldn`t see any camera. "Must be a very small camera," he exclaimed. "Maybe it`s in the ceiling somehow, wait look, how long has a small hole been there?" "As far as I know it`s new," Apollo said angrily as he climbed on the bed so as to inspect the hole better. "Apollo do you think there`s anymore cameras in this room?" Starbuck asked while looking around "and you do realise you may have just turned on those other two." "Yes I know, as well as this one that`s...." Apollo pushed up the ceiling tile and moved it aside, "hidden in here." Looking back up Starbuck saw the fourth camera hanging from the bare metal above the tile. "I knew it, so where are the rest of them?" "I think we can leave that to security, I`m calling them now." "Apollo, you really want Reese and his goons in here? We can take these cameras out of here and keep searching for any more." "Starbuck if we do that there is a good chance we might destroy evidence that could point to the person or persons behind this, neither one of wants that." "Well ok, but Reese better not touch anything, and I want the place fumigated as soon as they leave, no telling what kind of pests they carry. "Starbuck crossed his arms and pouted as Apollo headed towards the comm unit. *** Starbuck kept a careful eye on Reese as the security guard removed another camera from the wall. So far Reese and his men had found five more of the devices hidden behind air ducts, plants and bookcases. All of them had been pointed towards the bed, making it possible to capture Apollo and Starbuck`s images in every angle possible as they undressed and made love. Each man wore black gloves so as not to smear any fingerprints that the culprits may have left behind when they placed the cameras in position, or returned for to replace the film. Another set of security men sat at the kitchen table, dusting each camera for prints. "Come on Starbuck, how many times do I have to tell you to stay out of my way, I can`t do my job properly if your hovering over me like this." Reese said in a very annoyed tone. "I`m staying as close to you as possible, to make *sure* your doing your job right." Starbuck snapped back. "Starbuck come into the living room with me and leave Reese and his men do their job, they know what their doing they have been trained in stuff like this." "Are you sure? I don`t trust Reese, he has beady little eyes." "*Starbuck*." Apollo said more forcefully "Okay, I`m coming." "I will admit though Bucko it sure was a nice magazine article in that rag, and those pictures of you........oh they were to die for." Reese cooed. "Why you pervert, if I wasn`t such a gentleman I would punch you in the nose!" Starbuck shouted. Apollo, as well as everyone else in the room, merely stared with disbelief over what his lover had just claimed to be, but before anyone had a chance to make a comment on it, Caster suddenly shouted from the corner. "Seems the culprit wasn`t as smart as he thought he was, he`s left his calling card." Reese quickly grabbed the camera from Caster before Starbuck had the chance to and checked the spot Caster pointed out to him. The cameras owner had engraved his name in big bold letters on the right hand side. "Captain, I think you may want to take a look at this." Reese said to Apollo. Apollo`s jaw dropped when he saw who`s name was etched there. "I don`t believe it, he`s the last person I would have suspected of doing this." "He didn`t work alone captain, we have two sets of very good prints out here, from two different people." Mickey, Reese`s fingerprint expert, said from the doorway. "I`ll pull him in for questioning right away captain, maybe I can get him to disclose his accomplice`s name as well, then it`s up to the commander what happens after that, that is if you want to press charges, the man is your friend isn`t he?" "Well I always thought he was," Apollo said, still stunned. "Who?" Starbuck asked, he hadn`t yet seen the name on the camera. "You two are going to have to decide quickly what you want to do, these kind of charges could ruin the guys career," Reese told Apollo. "I know, but then what he did almost ended Starbuck`s and mine," Apollo replied. "*Who*?" Starbuck asked again, this time a little louder. "I`ll get right on it Captain, and let you know what I find out when I`m done interviewing him." Reese said as he motioned for his men to gather up the evidence and take it away "As far as I know that video advertised in the magazine isn`t even available yet, so maybe we can stop it from coming out, that is if he hasn`t sold the rights to it to anyone yet, and if he has I`ll find out who to and then we can send a team over to take possession of it since neither one of you gave your permission for it to be made." "Great, thanks Reese." "SOMEBODY TELL ME WHO`S NAME IS ON THAT CAMERA!" Starbuck suddenly screamed. "Starbuck, settle down and get out the way so Reese and his men can take this evidence out of here, by all the Lords I swear all you did while they were here was get in their way, we`re both lucky they were even able to *look* for these cameras." Apollo scolded him. "I just want to know who`s name is on that camera." Starbuck slowly replied. *** Security chief Reese sat calmly on the edge of his desk and gave the ensign his most intimidating stare before starting his interrogation. The ensign was visibly shaken. "Well now ensign, care to explain to me how your cameras came to be hidden in various places in Captain Apollo`s bedroom?" "W w w we put them there so we could get some pictures of Starbuck and Apollo." "We? So you were not working alone?" "Well no sir, I mean someone had to stand watch, and I needed some help putting them in place and cutting holes and stuff." "I see, and just who was this other person who helped you?" Reese had to force his jaw to stay in place when the ensign named his accomplice. "I was under the impression that the two of you were the captain`s and the lieutenants friends." "Well sure we are, but that doesn`t mean we can`t play jokes on them now and again." "Oh so this was done as a joke?" "Of course," the ensign said, then blushed as he added, "that and the fact that we were both a little jealous of the captain, see we have both had a crush on Starbuck since the academy and well he only had eyes for Apollo." "So selling the photos to that crafts man was an act of revenge? On Apollo for being with Starbuck? Or with Starbuck for not noticing you?" "Kind of both sir." "I see, and how did you know where to go to get these things made?" "Well Starbuck told the rest of the squadron about mugs he was getting made for Apollo and him, one with his picture and the other with Apollo`s, so we took some of our pictures to the craftsman and he said he would pick the best two for the mugs and make the alterations we asked for, and he promised to make up a magazine that we could send to them for a joke, they were never suppose to be made public." "And your friend and co-hort will tell me the same thing your telling me?" "Yes sir he will, because it`s the truth." Reese then turned to the other security guard sitting at the far end of the room "Caster, will you please call down the man this fellow as named as his accomplice, I`d would like to hear what he has to say about all this, oh and find me that craftsman." *** Two centars later, a centar after interrogating the second ensign who`s story was almost an identical match to the first, Reese was now sitting in front of a very nervous craftsman. "So care to tell me how you got those pictures of Captain Apollo and Lieutenant Starbuck for those mugs?" The craftsman blushed as he recalled what happened. "Well the lieutenant came in and said he wanted some coffee mugs made, it is what I do." "Yes, but what you made is not what *he* ordered?" "No it wasn`t, the next day two very nice warriors came in and handed me some very delicious photos of the lieutenant and Captain Apollo, said the lieutenant wanted some changes made to the mugs and they also asked if I could make up a little photo album of them, said it was surprise gift for their anniversary, even paid the extra charge up front." "Did the captain and/or the lieutenant give you permission to make the photos public?" "No, I`m afraid not. Guess I`m in a lot of trouble for that aren`t I?" "You wouldn`t know the names of the two warriors who gave you these photo`s would you?" "Of course I remember, I have a very good memory, they were......." *** The next day the council called a special meeting to discuss Reese`s findings and decide what to do about this mess. "Reese you say that these ensigns have admitted to setting up these cameras in Captain Apollo`s quarters and also to taking the photos from them to the craftsman?" Adama asked Reese for the third time. "Yes sir they did." Reese was starting to get tired of the repeated questions. "But who`s idea was it to spread the mugs and the magazines around?" Sirres Tinia asked, again, as if she hadn`t heard the first time. "The craftsman has admitted that he took it upon himself to do that, he saw a chance to make some extra money." Reese rolled his eyes as he answered the woman. "Knowing full well he did not have either men`s permission to distribute the photos to the public?" Adama seemed to get more angry each time he asked that. "Yes sir, he mistakenly believed that lieutenant Starbuck and captain Apollo would never find out about them." Reese answered, while thinking 'fat chance considering most of the female warriors and half the males bought them selves some of each, and if they hadn`t let the two lover boys know about it I sure would have.' Siress Tinia then stood up as she asked "And what of the promised video mentioned in the ad?" Reese sighed deeply before saying, "The ensigns had taken the video clips to him as well, there were three video cameras set up in the room, the craftsman promised to splice the film together for them, making one very hot, sexy movie for them to give to the captain and lieutenant as a gift." "But he then made copies and planned on selling them?" Adama asked. "Yes sir, in fact he admitted to filling out three orders." "What? You mean to tell me that there are three videos of my son and his lover out there in the fleet?" "Yes sir." "Did he say who bought them?" Adama said through clinched teeth. "Yes sir, one went to a video rental place on the Rising Star, one to the ladies club on the senior ship, and the 3rd to Sire Uri." Reese really didn`t want to tell Adama that Uri had a copy, but the man had a way of knowing when you were holding something back. "Uri." Adama spat the name as if it were a disease. "I`m not surprised that swine bought one, see to it that the one on the rising star is confiscated immediately." "Yes sir, and the other two?" "I fear we may never get the one away from Sire Uri, unless, yes I know, we can make an order that states he must pay Apollo and Starbuck for the tape, it was sent out without their permission and they demand restitution, and royalties, for it`sale." Adama grinned evilly as he this plan came to him. "A splendid idea Adama." Tinia cooed at the commander. "I suggest a very large sum, one that Uri is bound to refuse." "Yes and he will then have no choice but to hand over the tape when he can`t pay up," Sire Anton said "But what about the last one Adama, those poor sweet old ladies don`t have very much to do over on that senior ship." Tinia actually pouted as she said this. "Oh well I don`t see any reason to stop all those little old ladies on the senior ship from enjoying them selves for an afternoon." Adama chuckled The councillors all agreed that the senior ladies could keep their tape. "But the craftsman cannot get away with this Adama," Tinia then said. "He won`t, not only will he have to hand all the profits from his sales of these items to Starbuck and Apollo, but he will have to perform two yahrens of community service, I hear the orphan barge is in need of a janitor and he has volunteered for the job," Adama told them all. Sire Anton then asked, "Now what about the two young ensigns, what sort of punishment should be placed on them?" "Well they did admit they wanted to get Starbuck`s attention." "Well they certainly did get that, but I don`t think they have gotten enough yet." Anton sniggered. "What do you have in mind Anton?" Adama grinned as he asked. "Well I was thinking, in the old days when I was a young boy, my mother had these two young, strong, male house servants......." *** Starbuck and Apollo lounged lazily on the couch, basking in the afterglow of their lovemaking. Apollo lightly stroked Starbuck`s naked thigh as his lover kissed and licked away the sweat that had formed in the little hollow at the base of his throat. When Starbuck raised his head and looked into the captain`s eyes Apollo sighed in satisfaction, then reached for his glass of ambrosa. "Oh Giles, my drink is empty, come and refill it please." Apollo called across the room to the ensign, even though the ambrosa bottle was within his own easy reach. "Yeah fill mine up too while your at it, and you know I wouldn`t mind some more of those nice chewy cookies you made." Starbuck added his own order to their g-string clad house boy. "Yes sir`s will there be anything else?" Giles blushed, hating the council for giving him this humiliating punishment. "Just make it snappy," Apollo said. "Your bubble bath is poured now sir`s," their other g-string clad servant said from the hall way. "Thank you Greenbean," Starbuck said as he helped Apollo up from the couch. "What about your Ambrosa and cookies?" "Oh yeah almost forgot." Apollo turned back and grabbed the tray from Giles, "we`ll enjoy these while we watch that hot video and look at that hot magazine." "You two can go to bed now, we won`t need you until the morning when you bring us our nice *hot* coffee in our very special mugs." Starbuck grinned evilly as he shut the door behind him. Poor Giles and Greenbean looked at each other in despair, wishing they had never heard of Starbuck`s coffee mugs.