Three years, two months, one day

By Shannon Hearn

Well considering that when SGU was canceled, I like a lot of fans have started up writing sort of a virtual season 3 episodes. So after looking over them I started to notice a theme that hasn't been covered in these fic... What about the people back home?

So I decided to take all of the loose ends that were left up in the air and used them to start off a story that you all might like. I'll be updating this sporadically as I have a Witchblade and Tron Fic that I want to get done before I get too deep into this story.

So let me know what you think.

Two Months overdue.

Marian Wallace walked into Home World Security. In the three years since Eli had gone into stasis onboard Destiny and helping Sharon through her emotional turmoil, she had become a sort of fixture at the military complex.

She had due to strange luck become the person that had decided to comfort and console the families of the Destiny crew.

Somehow Marian had befriended that young girl, Chloe's mother and through her contacts been able to aid the Families in coping with their loved ones being trapped halfway across the universe.

Through her and Mrs. Armstrong's influence they had come up with a way for the families to do something to aid Home World Security in helping get their loved ones home. For the most part, between the dancer girl that Matthew boy had fathered a son with and that TJ girl's sister who had taken time off from work to aid Marian in treating Sharon during her post Camille breakup suicide attempt... They had all become family. A slightly dysfunctional one at that but a family none the less forged not out of blood, but of a common bond. They were much like the one that had formed on Destiny who through their troubles had become stronger. Heck, Mathew's son had made the honor role at his school through Marian being a grandmother figure in his life and giving the girl some advice of how to cope with being a single mom.

For those who had the experience and the security clearance had offered during the past two months since Destiny was supposed to check in had started to make meals for those on Stone Duty. Sometimes a hot meal meant a lot for the people on duty as the team of doctors, engineers and scientists waited to hear word. Even Doctor McKay had forgiven her for the accidental citrus incident. But hey... it was the same day that he learned that his wife was with child as they were rushing him to the emergency room. Somehow she had been invited to the Baby shower by his wife, a nice woman who out of the two of them had debated about names and had settled upon Elizabeth for a girl and for a gender neutral name Sam for either a boy or a girl. Marian grinned at image. Maybe Eli had met a girl out there among the crew. Somehow Eli during his last visit had dodged around the topic when it had been brought up.

With a sigh Marian made her way through the hallway with the Tupperware plates for the people on call. Today it was Dr. "Bill" Lee, Colonel Carter, and Doctor Becket and by the looks of things the Civilian oversight person was nowhere in sight, though the sounds of heaving coming from the restroom stated that it was probably them. Ivana was with her first child and was the only person that from the sounds of it could swear in Russian with a Coney Island accent between heaves. As a bureaucrat she was a pain, but a tolerable one who had been placed there as part of the pencil pushers who did oversight for this Organization and it's off world operations. She pitied the person who would be swapping with her if a connection was ever made. You journey home, and spend half of it looking over a toilet bowl instead of spending it with those you love. So anything she could do to calm that woman's stomach would be a big benefit to the people of Destiny, and that darn kid.

"Hey Marian... So what is on the menu for tonight?" Bill said clearing off a section of the desk he was at.

"Not much... Just some old school diner food. Some chicken fried steak, mash potatoes with a side of okra. And for our pregnant friend in there, homemade chicken soup with a grilled cheese on sourdough toast." With that Carter looked at the large bowl that contained the soup.

"I think that you made more than enough." Carter said seeing the additional things that Marian had brought with her.

"I wanted to have something ready in case the person that comes through has something to have to remind them of home." Marian said as she started to open up the containers. Bill who was on stone duty moved around some to let Marian bring him a plate. As she brought the plate over she brushed the side of the communication stone terminal and...

"... Chloe, I know that in the two months we have been back... Do you think that he loves me?" Marian looked to see a young red haired girl in grayish leather taking to her. "I know that I'm not exactly what one would call a normal Tau'ri girl material, but considering that after all we have both been through. Do you think that at some point in the future he might take me as his wife? I mean I did borrow some clothes including your blouse to look like one of your people. I mean between being killed, my consciousness stuck in the stones, being uploaded to Destiny's computer, being stuck in a computer no man's land, downloaded by an Ancient into my resurrected body and dealing with being alive again. Do you think that is too much baggage to bring into a relationship to a boy whose writings and research you studied for nearly a year?" Marian had just transferred into Chloe's body and this... girl was spilling her guts about some Terry boy she was in love with. That was when she looked over in the mirror then at the communications stones terminal.

"Chloe?" A buxom female soldier in an American uniform reached over and put a hand on her shoulder. James is what the name tag said on the uniform.

"Chloe... if you are upset about the blouse... I cleaned it." The read haired girl said pleadingly.

"Why did it take you so long to contact Earth?" Marian looked over at the stone terminal again.

"Ginn... we have a connection..." James said in awe.

"You are from Earth?" the red head said with a bit of fear in her voice thinking that Marian was some sort of alien ready to bite her head off. Marian decided to speak to calm this girl and probably get some answers.

"Yes I am..." the girl pulled back some in fear." You don't have to worry, dear. I won't separate you from the boy you are in love with." This calmed the girl down some. Then out of instinct she reached out and hugged the girl. "I am just glad that the people on Destiny are alright, and if that Terry boy gives you any trouble... Just let me yell at him for a few minutes and he should see things much clearer." With that the girl started crying.

"Okay..." the girl said crying softly.

"Now go to that boy you care so much about and give him a kiss of passion so great that he will wish to marry you. If half of what you have been through didn't make your relationship stronger, I don't know what would." Marian said as the wiped away the girl's tears.

"Thank you..." With that the girl hugged her back and buried her face into Marian's chest.

"Well, might as well break the news to the rest of the crew that we have a connection." That was when James got on her radio.

"You do that Ms. James... And tell them that I need to speak to a few people. One of them happens to be one Ms. Wray." With that Marian stood up and motioned for the girl to walk out of room. "Go to your boyfriend. I was young and in love once, if you have someone who will stick it out with you then things will work out for the better." Marian said giving the girl some words of wisdom.

"Alright." The girl said as she started down the hallway as Marian heard James make the call over the radio.

"Ms. James... before Colonel Young gets here, please bring me up to speed on why it took you guys so long to make a call to Earth?"

"Long story short, we had decompression in the section where we had the stones stored. Took us a while to get in there, but once we did... We as you can see, the terminal needed a little work to get up and running again." James gave her statement of the last few events.

"So, our phone was working, but yours was out. That was the theory among some folks back home." Marian said as she saw Colonel Young and Camille Wray come in.

"Please identify yourself!" The Colonel said in his most formal manner possible. Well Marian wanted to know what was going on, might as well get the hard part out of the way. That was when she spoke, it wasn't to Colonel Young, it was to Camille.

"Camille... It's Marian..." This was when she decided to drop the bombshell. "Sharon has been through emotional hell because of you... and through Sharon's suicide attempt, I have done my best to live long enough to tell this to your face. You never do that to the ones you love Camille." With that Marian turned to Colonel Young.

"Now, you can bring me up to speed on what has happened so far in the two months that you guys forgot to call."

"Well it is a long story..." Young said to her.

"Well, looks like we are going to be giving each other the Cliffnotes version of the events of the past three years." Marian said as Camille looked over at the stones and postulated of what to do next but for the time being put the needs of the crew over her own to see how much their home had changed since they had last had contact.

TBC

Well I hope that you like this little section of a story I have started out with.

Yes, I brought Ginn back from the dead. If you are wondering why, it is part of a second chapter that I am outlining. Let's just say, she isn't the only one back from the dead and what Destiny has gotten itself into is quite large.

Plus the entire "broken phone" idea was something I was playing with due to me working in a shielded building and I always loose calls made to my cell phone while I am in there. I only get a signal after I walk outside of the building for five minutes and my phone goes nuts when it receives all of the voice and text messages I have missed.

So as a plot point, the idea of having missed calls starts to make sense when people are trying to get a hold of you and you are not able to respond back until you get somewhere where you can get a signal.

As for Marian, I have always wondered what she would do along with Sharon realizing that they are not the only ones who miss the ones they love.

Sharon's suicide attempt referenced here is what I think Sharon would have gone through after being away from Camille for so long. You could see the strain on their relationship throughout the episodes. I think the phone breakup would have been something that would have hurt Sharon in such a way that hurting herself probably would have been her only course of action in her mind. Having Marian there for her would have been the only hope for her to get through it.

Well let me know what you all think