A/N: OK I'm back, I'm still ramming into the wall of writer's block – although it is starting to crack a bit – but if I have to look at one more school text book and/or final exam I'm gonna snap so I'm forcing myself to sit and write whatever comes into my head for this chapter. Hope it turns out ok.

Walking into the airport John checked the arrival board; traffic had been horrible so of course the Jenson's flight would be right on time. It was three days before the wedding and things more or less were going according to plan, all the travel plans for out-of-town friends and family had been arranged and confirmed and all the wedding and reception plans were set. Things were going a little too well to the point that John was sure something would happen to mess it all up. Elizabeth, on several occasions, was forced to reassure John that everything would be fine and that he was just being paranoid; not that she blamed him considering some of the things they'd been through in the Pegasus galaxy when they thought every thing was fine.

Scanning the crowd John spotted an elderly woman – one of the three people his was looking for – standing off to the side of the crowd around the baggage carousel. Holding onto Elizabeth's hand John led her and Alexis in the direction of the woman.

"Johnny!" Kendra Jenson called as she spotted John headed her way. As soon as John was close enough she pulled him into a motherly type hug.

"Mrs. J." John greeted as he let her pull him into the hug. From day one when Mike had dragged John home with him from school Kendra had always treated John like apart of the family, but he'd never been able to bring himself to call her by her first name – it always seemed disrespectful – and Kendra had always claimed that being called Mrs. Jenson made her feel old, so they'd compromised and for years John had always called Kendra Mrs. J.

"Look at you you're all skin and bones. Have you been eating? You need to eat more. When's the last time you had a real home cooked meal?" Kendra pulled back looking John over. "And you must be Elizabeth." Kendra turned to look Elizabeth over, continuing before Elizabeth could respond. "Look at you you're just as scrawny as John. But no worry a few of my famous home cooked meals and you'll be good as new –."

"So where are Mr. J. and Mike?" John jumped in before Kendra could really get started into the whole motherly thing – It was bad enough when she did the mothering thing to him, but it was just down right embarrassing when she did it to people she hardly knew.

"Search and rescue mission to get our luggage." Kendra, knowing exactly what John was up to – John never had been fully comfortable with Kendra's mothering, but some one had to make sure he took care of himself – pointed to the crowd around the carousel.

As if summoned the two men emerged from the crowd carrying the aforementioned luggage. Seeing John the younger of the two men quickly dropped his bags by Kendra, headed for John.

"Johnny!" John's childhood friend Mike engulfed John in a friendly hug.

"Mikey!" John returned the hug just as enthusiastically.

"God it's been too long." Mike ruffled John's hair.

"Whoa, hey we agreed you stay away from my hair remember?" John pulled back slightly. "It took forever for all of this to grow back."

"For the last time, how was I supposed to know hair gel was flammable?" Mike attempted an innocent look, failing horrifically. "Besides it was your brilliant idea."

"Yeah, but you're the one who decided to use lighter fluid on the ant hill…"

While John and Mike argued about who did what Elizabeth leaned over towards Alexis, a curious yet puzzled look on her face, about to ask what the two men were arguing about, but was cut off before she could ask.

'You don't want to know.' Alexis gave a slight shake of her head.

"She's right." Kendra spoke in a hushed tone. "Just put it this way; if you think John is a trouble maker now, just imagine what he was like as a kid."

"That bad uh?" Elizabeth joked, grinning in John's direction,

"Oh yeah, no questions about it."

"Hey! I was not that bad." John protested in his defense. "If anything it was all Mike's fault."

"Me? What are you talking about; I was a perfect little angle. You were the trouble maker." Mike stated.

"A perfect little angle my ass, you were a little hellion and you know it."

"You were both little hellions." Mark Jenson spoke up. "Now stop arguing and grab some luggage so we can get out of this mad house."

Not ones to argue with the older man the two younger men grabbed the luggage and headed for the exit while Kendra and Mark made their official introductions to Elizabeth and she to them. Piling into the car the group made their way back to the house, chatting about this or that the whole way.

Arriving back at the house John, Mike, and Mark unloaded and hauled the luggage in, while Kendra, with Alexis' help, immediately commandeered the kitchen, insisting on cooking a nice big home cooked meal ignoring both John and Elizabeth when they told her she was on vacation and didn't have to cater to them. Of course Kendra was having none of it, as far as she was concerned the two could use a good home cooked meal and she knew how worthless John was in the kitchen and from what little John had told her about Elizabeth, Kendra knew Elizabeth was often too busy to do much cooking, so that left her to do the cooking which was just fine by her.

"Kendra really you don't have to go to all this trouble." Elizabeth tried one last time. John may have had problems using Kendra's first name, but Elizabeth – after much insistence by both Kendra and Mark – had little trouble with it.

"Don't worry dear I don't mind, cooking is one of the things I'm famous for back home. Besides you have enough to worry about the next few days. Me and Alexis are more than capable of taking care of dinner." Kendra started shooing Elizabeth out of the kitchen just as John came walking in.

"Stop wasting your breath Elizabeth, Mrs. J. can be a stubborn old coot when she wants to be." John smirked, snatching a carrot off the counter before ducking back behind Elizabeth to avoid the dish towel the older woman threw at him, "Kind a reminds me of Rodney when you try to get him out of the lab while he's working on something he finds fascinating or try getting him to do anything physical."

Once dinner was ready all six of them sat down at the table enjoying themselves. Despite the rapid fired questions the Jenson's were throwing out at her Elizabeth felt relaxed seeing exactly why John and Alexis liked these people so much and considered them family, heck Elizabeth was already starting to think of them as family and she'd barely known them a few hours.

Watching as his friends interrogated Elizabeth, John allowed a content smile to form he was glad that Elizabeth was getting along with the people he thought of as family and vis-versa. He could have done with out all the embarrassing childhood stories, but over all it had been a nice evening as far as John was concerned.