For a long time Eli just sat in the infirmary on a chair between Cressida and the still unnamed boy with confusion scrawled across his face, Chloe and Rush had gone slowly and explained everything that had happened; finding her attached to Destiny, the gel in her lungs, her intellect and instance that Rush was her father, how she'd helped save and sabotage the ship, everything. Chloe needed Eli to understand that the Nakai forced her, she wanted her best friend and her daughter to be friends, maybe she'd even call him Uncle one day like she did with Varro and Greer.

In all honesty the most difficulty Eli had with the information was that Chloe was actually with Rush now, I mean he's... Rush. Grumpy, rude, everyone-loves-to-hate-him Rush. A Pariah. Everything else Chloe told him made sense in a Si-Fi sort of way but the idea of the nicest girl he'd ever met and the Chief Scientist would take some getting used to, Chloe and Matt had seemed so strong.

When he'd looked at Cressida his first comment had been cool name but after a few seconds it was clear she could have only been Chloe's daughter, they looked so much alike, and if she was as smart as Rush said then he'd have someone new to hold an intelligent conversation with, also since she was a kid he'd be able to teach her all about comics. Right there and then he decided to be the best big brother/Uncle/Mom's best friend he could be to the girl and boy.

"Eli? Are you alright?" Chloe asked when she saw the way he was just staring at Cress.

"Hmm? Yeah, I'm fine. It's just-"

"What?" Rush prompted when Eli cut himself off.

"It's just, the Nakai took Chloe, they took you. At the time we didn't know what had happened to either of you and now I find out they stole your genetic information. That they did all this evil and hurt so many without a second thought, yet despite all that here we are, here she is, all that evil intent that ended up being nothing but goodness."

Chloe gave him a watery smile that looked as though she might start crying again.

"She's going to love you when she wakes up."

"Daddy?"

With that one faint word everything stopped, Rush's head spun around so fast that he nearly broke it. Was Cress finally awake?

"Daddy?" She said again but a little louder this time, she was, their little girl had woken up. TJ quickly used her radio to inform Colonel Young.

In less than a second Chloe and Rush were with her, stood on either side of the bed while TJ rushed over with a pen light and her stethoscope.

"Hey, Little One. We're right here." Rush assured his daughter as she blinked rapidly, trying to get used to the lights.

"Mommy?"

"I'm here too, Sweetheart. You're safe, just let TJ look you over okay?"

TJ made to move closer by Cress instantly backed up as though the blonde would hurt her.

"Who are you?" She asked in a fearful tone and tried to crawl into her father's chest.

With that one question Chloe's heart broke.

"I'm TJ, Angel, you know me." Tamara tried to sound positive and reassuring but she couldn't quite convince her face to take up the same act.

"Nicky, what's happening?" Chloe didn't look up from their daughter and Rush didn't even register she'd called him Nicky again.

Thoughts and theories flashed through his head but they weren't needed, he knew exactly what had caused her amnesia, they had.

He sighed quietly as he pulled his child closer.

"We put her back to her factory setting, Chloe. When we found her she only knew us as her parents, no one else. We didn't just delete the sabotage, we deleted... her."

Eli had never heard Rush use that tone before, of having been broken, and it gave him the sudden urge to hug the man, he refrained though, this was about the three of them not him. It was strange, that their child could be there in their arms and gone at the same time; suddenly Eli wished he was still asleep.

"Can you tell me your name, Angel?" TJ asked after she backed up a little so as not to scare her.

"... Mommy and Daddy never gave me one." Cress repeated from the first time she'd been asked and Chloe nearly burst into tears there and then.

"How old are you?" TJ tried a again, a forced smile on her face.

"I... I don't know." Each response was exactly the same as when Camile had asked her all those months ago and it was heartbreaking. Cress looked up at her father, she's still a Daddy's girl, thought Chloe sadly, at least that's something. "Did I do something wrong, Daddy?"

"No, Babygirl, no you didn't." He reassured his child. "We did."

It was at that moment that Colonel Young strode into the infirmary looking somewhat happy with Camile hot on his heels.

"I was told our little scientist was awake. Hey you." Colonel Young had gotten off on the wrong foot with Cressida but the little girl who was mature beyond her years had forgiven him, and after everything she'd done to save the crew and the ship Young was determined to treat her as though she were his own. He'd been so worried about her when she'd collapsed but there she was looking at him with those whiskey eyes. "How you feeling?"

Cress didn't answer.

"You okay, Sweetheart?" Camile asked with a smile.

TJ shuffled slowly to the newcomers in an attempt not to scare the little girl but it was to no avail, Cress was just to smart not to notice the uncertainty in the adult's actions.

"She forgot." TJ said quietly.

"Well, that's to be expected, it was a stressful situation. Probably best she doesn't remember blowing up their ship." Came Camile's response.

"No. she didn't just forget what happened before she collapsed, she forgot everything." Their heads snapped to Tamara. "She doesn't know who any of us are, anything she's done. She doesn't know her name."

For a single second Young thought she was joking, but who would joke about something like that? The Nakai were gone but they'd stolen one last thing from Cressida, they'd stolen who she was.

XXXX

Two days went by and the young boy with Rush's hair didn't wake, his heart beat softly and the data Rush had transferred showed brain activity but he continued to sleep. Cress had slept a little longer than the previous time and so the Destiny crew had just assumed them waking up was random.

Per Camile's suggestion everyone acted like nothing had changed towards Cressida, she thought that if the girl went back to work there was a chance that her memories might reappear, though there was a great difference between amnesia and deleted memories. Rush and Chloe were desperate though and so were willing to try just about everything. She's accepted her name rather happily – Cressida Isobel Rush – and was just as adept at working with the ship as before, still a total Daddy's girl too. Varro tried playing tag with her like they used to but she didn't know him and felt uncomfortable spending time with him alone.

Rush had even gone back to the ruined Nakai ship to search for some kind of data file that might of saved her memories but he'd found nothing, just a dead ship with nothing new to offer. Chloe had cried a lot in those two days and all Rush had wanted to do was gather her up in his arms and make everything better, he'd solved the mystery of the ninth chevron but he couldn't make the woman he loved feel better. He would always be thankful to have his daughter back alive but without her memories her personality was subdued, like huge chunks of herself were lost; she didn't skip down the halls to see TJ in the infirmary, she didn't hum as she worked, she didn't laugh, she didn't write equations on her arms or correct Brody and Volker, she didn't tilt her head to the side when thinking, she didn't hug Varro when he entered a room. All those tiny things her parents had taken for granted were just gone and Rush would give anything to have them back.