Date: 31st October 2563

Time: 0700

"Beep … beep … beep" sounded the heart beat monitor as Leonard began Miranda's revival from cryo-sleep. As she began to enter REM sleep her eyes began to flutter as she started to dream.

Miranda began floating above the clouds – she looked around. The sky was blue, the air clear and she hadn't the faintest idea where the hell she was. She felt the wind rush past and she began to fall. Her speed increased. She fell faster and faster; she reached for a parachute there wasn't one.

"Oh shit," she thought as she fell, "this is it … I'm going to die." She began to question herself and then she realised she didn't know how she got where she was, she hadn't fallen or been pushed. Suddenly it came to her - "I'm dreaming."

She heard a familiar voice. "Wake up Miranda … wake up."

Leonard looked at his wife as she began to regain consciousness.

"Jack," she whimpered, she tried to open her eyes but she couldn't - it hurt too much.

"Lie still Miranda, you've been through a lot," Leonard smiled, a tear slipping down his cheek.

"What happened? Where are we?" She asked as she used what little strength she had to try and sit up but to no avail. Leonard laid her back in the cryo-tube and quickly glanced at her bio chart.

Everything checked out; everything was normal but even though the charts showed clear, it didn't mean that she was and without Constantine he felt very uncertain of the computer system and also himself.

Leonard began speaking very softly to his wife and as he spoke the love and joy that had once been extinguished by war, anger and hate was reawakened and was becoming a major part of his life once more.

"How you doing now sleepy head?" Leonard chuckled.

"I'm okay … a little shook up but I'm fine now. How long was I out?"

"Oh not long - only about seven years."

"What?" she gasped. "I didn't think you could stay in cryo-sleep that long."

"Well it seems you can."

"Wait. Where's the crew?"

Leonard began to shake his head and then lowered it. Miranda sat up and lifted his chin.

"Hey they'll be remembered as long as we're still here."

They stared into each other's eyes their heads moving ever closer and, as soon as their lips touched, it seemed that the whole universe had no meaning and their lust and passion for each other was stronger than anything else. Nothing could ever break it until suddenly there was a flash on the main consul as a light winked on and off.

"Someone's trying to contact us."