Sam turned slightly, and wrapped both arms around her. "I'd take being here with you and Cole and --" He smiled affectionately as he brushed his fingertips over her stomach again. "-- the girls, and Isabel and everyone, over being a hero back there any day, you know."

Even with him being gone all that time, the Colonies had still been wiped out by the Cylons -- the other Cylons. So maybe, he tried to tell himself, his presence there wouldn't have made much of a difference one way or another anyhow.

"You guys are my world."