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'This is so frakking humiliating' Sharon moaned, she had thought that being made to mop the floors and clean the toilets was bad but it was nothing compared to this indignity. Karl "Helo" Agathon, stood beside her in her spartan quarters, just looked confused by the question which the military scientist had posed via a civilian interpreter from the university. Apparently he was an assistant of Professor Sundquist and like every other person on New Circe that spoke any Ancient Greek he had been drafted by the government to help out with the Colonials.

'You still haven't answered the question' the interpreter told her. 'We have observed your spine glow during intercourse, is that involuntary?' he asked, trying to keep a straight face.

'Sharon's spine doesn't glow when we have sex' Helo stated, it was the most ridiculous thing he had ever heard of.

'You said the camera in my room wasn't turned on when I was with Karl' Sharon said angrily, hiding behind one emotion with another.

The interpreter relayed her reply to the scientist who responded. 'The camera wasswitched off, it was switched back on when the guard outside noticed the weird glow' the translator said. 'We had no idea what it was and when we saw it just caused more questions.'

'Oh for frak's sake' Helo swore. 'Sharon would you tell these people that...'

'It's involuntary but I can completely isolate the organic fibre-optics responsible to stop it happening' Sharon told them, better to just get it over with. She had to pick up Hera from the daycare on the top level of the complex soon, although they called it "sibling company" here. 'The circuits must have gone live again by accident yesterday when I interfaced with the computer you got from Galactica' she theorised. Frankly slicing open her forearms and pushing a cable into her flesh had been a much more pleasant experience than this.

Helo stared at her. 'Your spine glows when we have sex' he said slowly.

'Not usually' Sharon replied awkwardly. 'It's actually more like a short-circuit caused by synapses firing randomly in the silicon pathways of my brain' she explained. 'There's a fibre-optic line that runs down the centre of my spinal cord.'

'What the frak is that supposed to mean' Helo demanded to know.

'If the line isn't isolated it can light up really bright when... when I come' Sharon told him, wishing she could die and be resurrected light years away to escape.

The translator didn't quite follow. 'Come?' he queried.

'My spine lights up when I orgasm, are you happy now?' she yelled back at him.

It said something for his professionalism that the man managed to translate that before he cracked up into convulsive laughter which continued uncontrollably until tears started to run down his cheeks. 'That's one way to know if she's faking' he managed to choke out eventually to Helo who couldn't quite see the joke yet himself and was close to decking the guy.

'It's a design flaw' Sharon told Helo, 'any cylon on a deep cover sleeper agent mission like Boomer would have the circuit isolated by default' she said. 'I thought I'd better tell you that before you asked the Chief how he managed to miss that for so long' she added awkwardly.

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