I know that this chapter is short, but the next one will be longer with more information.

Now on with the story

Chloe's Story of events

Chloe Armstrong felt a hot plate under her fingers.

The last thing she remembered was Ginn coming into the "Stone Room" to return the blouse she had borrowed for Eli and Her's date.

Who would have considered the hydroponics bay as being Romantic? But for Ginn... It was... Though the blouse did get tossed onto the medicinal seedlings when Ginn finally cut loose with Eli and they started to make out.

It only had been when Varro, TJ, Camille, and Greer had walked in on the couple mid karma Sutra that the embarrassment had begun for the two as they fumbled for their clothing.

Greer gave Eli thumbs up for effort as Varro wondered what was going on until Greer told him that he had hooked up Eli and Ginn up as a couple. As a result Varro wondered if he could ask the same favor from Ginn about helping him form a relationship with a certain buxom female lieutenant that he had started to become interested in.

For the most part, everyone gave the young couple the space they needed as they got the chance to get to know each other again.

Even a newly whole Dr. Perry.

Dr. Perry, was one of the new random equations to Destiny's now expanded crew. Camille had called her "Rush with Estrogen"; but Perry was different once you got to know her. Something about needing to move, feel... she almost out ran Scott on one occasion during the fitness run he did with a few of the military personnel.

Dr. Perry seemed to relish in having a fully functional body that moved when she wanted it to. It seemed like she was never still. It was like having a hyper nine-year-old in an adult body that could do theoretical mathematics in their head.

But when she learned Chloe and a few others did yoga... Chloe tried to force that image out of her mind.

Who goes to a Yoga class in a dress and no underwear... The look on Eli's face was priceless, though Ginn was ready to kill him for looking at Dr. Perry's naked behind. A day or so later, a pair of boxer shorts was donated to Perry to wear for the Yoga class much to everyone's relief and Ginn and Eli's sex life.

All of this had taken place during the two months where everyone was getting back on their feet as the communications terminal was being repaired.

Setting the plate down Chloe turned around to see Colonel Carter... Dr. Lee.

"Marian..." Dr. Lee said as he caught a look at the monitor by Chloe. "We have a connection."

"Identify yourself." Carter said to Chloe.

"Chloe Armstrong." She said as she looked around the room. On the square table in the middle of the room was three more places set with what looked to be several homemade meals brought in on plastic microwaveable cookery.

"Chloe... what is the status of Destiny?" A Thick man with a Scottish accent said as he moved Chloe to a vacant chair.

"Um... Everyone is alive... We have a few people back due to some Ancient breaking the rules. Uh... found a long-term treatment for ALS, and... Dr. Park's eyes are slowly healing. She was able to see blurry bright colors a few days ago, but she can't make out any details of objects yet. So Far we have given her a pair of slotted Snow goggles to help with her vision and some homemade painkillers." Chloe did her best to give the information they needed.

"Okay... Um what took you guys so long to contact us?" Dr. Lee said getting to the point.

"It took us a while to get to the section of the ship where we had the stones stored. We had a decompression in the section when a meteorite hit the ship and got through a gap in the shields. When that happened, things got tossed around and one of the things that got damaged was the Stone Terminal. It took us scavenging parts from a laptop, an iPod, three kinos, a kino remote, the guts from a smashed radio and smelting down the guts of a spent Mont Blanc pen." Chloe said listing off some of the items they had used to fix the stone terminal. "Listen... I need you to tell me what has been happening on Earth. Most of the folks there want to know what is going on."

"Alright Chloe... We will call an emergency meeting with General O'Neill and the IOA reps." Carter said as a pregnant woman walked out of the Bathroom looking like she had been in a fight with her insides.

"I heard that last bit..." The woman said as she moved into a chair and started to sip at a bottle of water slowly before making a belch and sighing in relief. "So, I take it that Mrs. Wallace is the one that got swapped with..."

"Chloe Armstrong." Chloe said looking at the woman.

"Yes... Ms. Armstrong." There was a sigh before she continued. "I guess that I will have to be at that meeting..." then there was a clench as the woman paused for a second before she dove for the garbage can by Dr. Lee's leg.

"I take it, that she is pregnant and in the first trimester." Chloe got up and helped the woman up and looked at her.

"Yeah... just that lately my stomach..." With that a man with a Scottish accent moved in to help her.

"Aye... Looks like you have a sensitive stomach when it comes to certain foods." With that the man touched the woman's throat and took out a flashlight to look down her throat. "You have a bit of esophageal tearing. Did you have some sensitivity to food?"

"T.J. had the same problem during her pregnancy." Chloe said seeing one of the feared IOA members seem so weak.

"Well... How did she get over her problem?" The woman said as Chloe and the doctor helped her up.

"Well she was eating a type of leaven bread with a type of homemade potato jelly and flavored water." Chloe said before she paused. "It kept her stomach stable until she got shot." Chloe paused remembering the loss of TJ's baby. "I don't know what happened but I think that during the hostage crisis Destiny decided to possess Varro and used his body to do an emergency medical procedure to save her life."

"TJ, are you talking about Lieutenant Johansen?" Colonel Carter said looking over at Chloe. Chloe nodded back in response.

"Yes... Somehow using the memory of the loss of Varro's wife, Destiny was able to make him relive that memory to transfer TJ's premature baby to some sort of incubation chamber deep in the ship." Chloe paused. "We didn't find the chamber until three weeks ago when Tessa and Matt were having a little race through a section of the Ship called the TUBE. I think TJ is taking it as a sign of hope when we were able to get Carmen out and she cried for the first time." Chloe realized that she needed to tell this before someone more important. "Listen, I don't know how long I have with this connection and considering that the stone terminal looks like a junk shop." With that Chloe was rushed into a conference room to meet with several individuals. One thing she did notice was that there was a tripod setup in the corner of the room with a small square camera on it that seemed to almost track her.

"Please identify yourself!" The General said motioning to Chloe.

"Chloe Armstrong," Chloe ran through giving the motion of giving identification information such as her Social Security Number, Date of Birth and a Code Phrase that the Destiny crew had been given to use when they came out of stasis as a proof of identity. Chloe did her best not to giggle at the phrase when she said it but knew this was of importance. Who came up with "Homer Drinks Opera Ale on the Bridge of the Enterprise with Waffles" as a code phrase? Chloe felt that the pop culture references were to ensure that the Stone Feed hadn't been hacked like they had been on Destiny several months... err years ago.

"Alright start from the beginning Ms. Armstrong." With that Chloe started to fill the General and the several military and civilians present of what had happened over the previous two months.

"Well, to start off... Destiny encountered a few problems a good two weeks before we were supposed to wake up..." With those words Chloe started to tell the events of what had happened to Destiny. Good thing Ginn had found Eli's iPhone because Chloe wouldn't have believed half of what she was saving without seeing the footage the Lucian Tech had shot first hand. But it was the information that Chloe learned about what had been happing in the Milky Way Galaxy that would be affecting the crew the most.

There was a new leader of the Lucian Alliance. In the last three years, he and his little cabal had been kicking Lucian ass to reshape it into a more dangerous threat to Earth. This new Cabal had a less street thug mentality the early Lucian leaders possessed and more of a shrewd Political feel about them. The only reference that the analyst had was that they were like the Commission that ran the major crime families in the United States for most of the twentieth century.

That and they had a ruthless legit feel about them.

There were even rumors that they had taken over several old Trust bases on Earth and were running recon on the SGC and its resources.

That was when another Connection had been made and Colonel Young Walked in to give his update. Chloe got a chance to breathe when the phone in the purse she/Marian had been carrying went off.

Reaching in the purse she looked down at the name on the phone's screen.

Mrs. Armstrong.

She gave a look at the General and Colonel Young who nodded for her to answer.

"Mom..."

"Chloe?" There was the sound of something crashing to the floor.

"I'm okay... we made it." The General wasn't so much concerned with Chloe talking with her mom, but had the feeling that however Eli's mom had gotten her number she had been glad. It took a while but hearing what had been happening from her mom made the time away seem short.

Next chapter we get Ginn's POV

Yes, I am putting these in small chunks. But I believe this is the best way to keep the story going. I have two months of backstory to work with, so breaking it up via characters and their relationships should bring things up to speed.

Let me know what you think, and recommend some characters that you might want to see events through their eyes.

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