PART II! I hope you guys like this. I have never worked so hard on non-academic writing in my life! Again, not really going for scientific accuracy here. Please keep stye reviews coming, like with Part I - they let me know what direction I need to take off into. I love you, my readers!

Interstellar: Revivisco, Part II
Chapter 1: Advena

Moses Brand Cooper was drifting toward Gargantua, already asleep. As the sleeping gas had slowly drifted in, she thought about the story her parents often recited to her as a child; the version they told before Laura and Jack came along... when it was just the three of them.

"Mose, you really wanna hear that story again?" Cooper asked his three year old daughter.

"Yep." He smiled as they both sat down on the couch, watching as she tried to copy how he was sitting. She had been with him all day, walking through the cornfields that surrounded their house. He might have hated farming on Earth, but just being able to wake up and see the acres and acres of corn made him smile. It also made him smile because he didn't have to do a damn thing to take care of the crops. Now he was getting to see through a child's eyes all over again, but this child wasn't just any child. "Daddy, it's my favorite."

"Of course, you would never be interested in princesses and that stuff, now would you?" She looked up at him, silently agreeing. She reminded him so much of Murph that it was almost unreal. Already, Amelia and Cooper knew she was a standout.

"No, she would not!" Amelia said, walking back into the room. "We're more interested in scientists and astronauts, aren't we Mosie?" Amelia had to push back Moses' thick, springy-curly brown hair just to kiss the top of her head.

"There has to be some implicit bragging in that little statement, Amelia. Brainwashing our kid into becoming a miniature you at 3? I'm shocked." Cooper shot Amelia a flirty look, and suddenly their attention was back on Moses. "Really, you two are clones." She looked at their daughter, smiling.

"We wouldn't have it any other way," Amelia spoke softly as Moses crawled into her lap.

"Brand, you sit here and help me tell the story. Add your own flair to it." Moses settled in, looking up at both of them.

"Well, once there was an astronaut all alone in a new place, and she worked very hard to make her new home a great place to live, but she was all alone." Cooper gently smiled to himself. They'd told her this story a thousand times, never changing the way they told it. One day she would know the more detailed story, and that's what Cooper was scared of.

"And there was another astronaut who wanted to find her, because he knew she was alone, and he missed her," Cooper continued, "so he got on a spaceship to go find her." Moses grinned, anticipating the rest of the story.

"Then one day, he finally found her, and she was so excited! She wasn't alone anymore, so both of the astronauts worked together to make the new place more fun," Amelia finished, looking over at Cooper, who was smirking at her. "The astronauts loved each other very much, and they decided to be together forever. Finally, after months and months of being alone, hundreds of people came to the new place to have fun with them. Later, they got the best news in the whole universe - they were going to have a baby!" Amelia always made sure to look really excited during that part, because Moses knew it was about her. "Then their baby finally arrived, and they named her..."

"Moses!" she yelled excitedly. That was the part of the story she always got to say.

"Yes, her name was Moses, and the mommy, the daddy, and Moses lived happily ever after." Amelia held Moses' hand. "The end!"

"Dr. Brand, Captain Cooper, I've waited so long to meet you both." The woman was obviously trying to maintain her cool. Excitement was written all over her face. "I'm Dr. Lynn Hart, I'm the director of NASA."

Cooper had a grin on his face that shone like the stars. "Welcome to our planet, Dr. Hart," he greeted her as he extended his hand. "We've been expecting you." She shook his hand and Amelia felt obligated to hold out her own.

"When we came through the wormhole, we immediately sent out a signal, hoping to let you know that we were on our way. When we received a signal in return, we were thrilled, even though we knew that you two were alive. One of your marines, TARS, has been sending signals out constantly for what has been the last twenty years for us."

Amelia and Cooper turned around to look at TARS. "I figured it was a smart move, even though you all didn't instruct me to do it."

"TARS, you're a genius," Cooper said, tapping him near his screens.

"I'm a robot, Cooper; I'm supposed to be." Amelia turned back to face Chairman Hart.

"We were still receiving the standard signals, but TARS' were a bit more intricate." Amelia was still in some form of shock. The journey here must have been easy for her to be in this kind of mood. "I'm going to tell the rest of the crew to make their way out. We've got a lot of supplies on the way. We're going to make this place a home for all of us." Cooper looked over at Amelia, wondering what was going through her mind. The chairman held her wrist to her mouth. "Tolbert, the lead crew can leave the command lander now. They're ready to meet the rest of us."

"The stations were designed with the idea that eventually they would be going through the wormhole. Since they do harness gravity, we were able to control how it used gravity; how time flowed, so our clocks have been gradually slowing down to yours for a good chunk of time. They're sturdy." Amelia and Cooper were sitting in a conference room in the very large lander. Amelia was amazed by the technology in the cruiser. "They all followed us in. Even if this planet hadn't been livable for some reason or another, it wouldn't have mattered because we would still have the stations. We were also prepared to send out another team in search of a livable planet."

"I'm assuming I'm not getting arrested for 'borrowing' that ranger, right?" Everyone in the room looked at Cooper and laughed.

"No, Captain Cooper. Once it was discovered that there was a missing ranger, everyone figured it was you before we even looked at the security footage." Chairman Hart glanced around the room. "Captain Cooper, Dr. Brand, this is Dr. Alfonso Tolbert, our head astrophyscisist." Dr. Tolbert waved gently.

"Nice to meet you," Amelia muttered. "I know we are probably relics to you all, but if you could just not mention the year that you all were born, like, ever, that would be great." Cooper looked at her in shock. "What? Sorry... just being honest."

"No, it's quite understandable, Dr. Brand. It must be rough even knowing that 20 years have passed for us Captain Cooper borrowed that ranger, even with our ability to control gravity." Cooper suddenly realized that meant he was 144, Amelia was 138.

"Shit," Cooper quietly exclaimed, "Yeah, I'm with Amelia here; don't tell us what year you were born." As much as it sounded like something to laugh about, everyone there knew that it wasn't a laughing matter at all. "So, what's y'all's plan here?"

Dr. Hart and Dr. Tolbert suddenly smiled, obviously excited. They had been waiting on this their whole lives while Amelia and Cooper had only waited a handful of months. "We've got everything we need to set up dozens of towns or villages. We'll be able to deconstruct some of the buildings from the stations and rebuild them down here. Captain Cooper, your farmhouse is on the list to be brought down. We wanted to ask you if you wanted it back."

Cooper thought about it as he watched Amelia. "It should be kept as it is so people can go and see it. A shrine to her," he replied, "Bring it here, of course, but that's not my house anymore, Dr. Tolbert." Amelia weakly smiled, running a thumb over his knuckles.

"It's okay," Amelia silently mouthed. Cooper shook his head 'no'.

Cooper couldn't live in that house again - he'd picture Murph and Tom running through the halls, his vivid imagination putting them there right before his eyes. "I'll have to pass."

"We're just so happy to have you two. You've done amazing work. You discovered this place," Dr. Tolbert said. Amelia hated the idea that all of this was thanks to her and Cooper. It infuriated her - were the other lives useless?

"No, Wolf Edmunds discovered this planet, we just followed and started the work back up where he stopped." This was emotionally draining on Amelia, more so than she imagined it would be, and here Cooper was, handling it like this was what he did daily. "Thank him. Thank Murphy."

Cooper was becoming increasingly concerned about Amelia. She was handling this a lot worse than he thought she would. "Well, I think we're done here for right now, and it appears to be the early morning here. We'll see you again a little after sunrise, or whenever you decide to come join us - more people will be here by then." They both nodded as Dr. Hart led them out of the lander.

"You two have no idea what you've done for us. We will do anything you all want us to. This was your home first, still is your home, and that's how everyone will know it." This Dr. Hart sure was enthusiastic, and appeared way too much like a cheerleader for Amelia's taste.

"Well, Dr. Hart, thank you for bringing everyone on out here," Cooper replied, putting a hand on Amelia's shoulder.

Cooper and Amelia started toward the unit. "I understand how you two could be in shock. I know that this might be difficult, but we're going to make it as easy of a transition on you all as possible."

"We appreciate that, Dr. Hart. We'll see ya in the morning." They were silent on the walk back to the unit. Cooper held up his hand to the screen, Amelia walking in first. "Are you okay?"

Amelia stopped, leaning against the wall. "I really don't know. It's all happening kind of fast, and I thought about this moment but never prepared for it. I thought I would be thrilled, like, jumping over the moon or whatever kind of thrilled." The door closed and they walked further into the unit. "I mean, we are relics, you know? And we are probably going to be surrounded by people for months, maybe years, asking us questions." She sunk into a chair in the common room. "A bonus to this mess is that we might could get more comfortable furniture out of it." Cooper chuckled, sitting down across from her.

"If you don't want questions, I will see to it that they don't ask, but Amelia, they're looking to us for answers, you know that." Amelia looked him square in the eye.

"I'm not special here, Cooper. I got here on a wing and a prayer, you... you're the one with the answers." She rubbed her eyes, sleepy yet so emotionally jolted that she wasn't sure if she'd ever sleep again. "You got me here, you survived a black hole, you came back out here on your own. I'm just the one with the microscope."

"Me? It might have taken me a lot to get here, but it took you a lot, too. I mean, hell, you were here by yourself for a while." She nodded, leaning back into the chair. Cooper suddenly started to realize some of the stress she was experiencing. "What are you scared of?"

"What am I scared of? What do you mean?" She was confused. She wasn't scared, or at least she didn't think she was.

"What is it about this place being colonized scares you?" Cooper waited for her reply, knowing that this was a tough question to answer. "Is it okay for me to ask these things?"

"Yes." She frowned and her brows furrowed. "I'm scared that this is going to mess up this thing we have going on, you and me. Before you laugh and say you'd never, ever cheat, I know that. Don't you think I know that? That's just stupid to even think about. I mean that we're moving back to a normal - or what we used to call normal - way of life; that's what I'm scared of. It's not going to be just us ever again. I thought that's what I wanted, to be surrounded again, but maybe I don't."

"You must really love me to be willing to live here all alone with me and a couple chunks of metal for the rest of your life," Cooper replied, trying to find a way to reassure her that everything would turn out for the best. "But you'll never have to kick off Plan B, and you were just about to start up two eggs. You don't have to worry about not being able to research this whole planet. We might even get to go to different places here." Amelia tried to follow along. "I hear Disney World is just on the other side."

Amelia laughed as Cooper smiled. "Okay, but on one condition." She got up from the chair and knocked on the wall. "If they're going to build new buildings and bring down other ones, we get the hell out of this unit."

Cooper walked over toward her and lightly scratched her arm. "You got it."

Amelia and Cooper must have met 75 people the next day - biologists, physicists, physicians, lawyers, chemists, geologists; all of NASA's best. Amelia's cheeks had never been so sore in all her life.

"Families will be staying on the stations until their houses are reconstructed here, which should honestly take two days per house tops. We've got hundreds of people taking care of it, and we're averaging that twenty houses will be up each day." Dr. Tolbert exclaimed. "We're even going to have an office building built here for us within the week. We told you two we were going to make this place home."

Dr. Hart came walking over with a huge smile plastered on her face. "Did you tell them the other news?"

Dr. Tolbert perked up and began to speak again. "You all won't be in that unit anymore." Amelia laughed out loud, looking at Cooper.

"Is everything okay, Dr. Brand?" Cooper told them that it in fact was.

"Did you tell them?" she asked Cooper, still laughing.

"No." He faced Tolbert and Hart. "Just kinda funny, 'cause she said last night that if you all were going to be building things here, she wanted out of the unit."

"You'll be in an executive apartments until you decide what's next," Dr. Tolbert explained. "And by what's next, I mean if you want to continue on with NASA. You have our blessing if you decide not to, and I'm sure you both will get a very, very generous severance packages because, well, you're Cooper and Brand, and more than a little famous at NASA, and you've done most of the ground work."

Cooper and Amelia looked at each other, asking a question silently. You wanna stay on board with NASA? Keep on doing what we're doing?

"We're gonna have to take a little time before deciding about staying on with NASA or not, but I think we'll only need one apartment," Amelia explained, trying desperately to not sound like an idiot. Tolbert and Hart both nodded.

"We were wondering about that," Tolbert replied with a smile. "Good to know."

"We'll be having a meeting in the new building in a week and a few days time, we'll keep you updated on details, but if you're ready to leave the unit now, we can have that arranged," Dr. Hart replied. "We want to get physicals on you both first."

"As grateful as I am about leaving the unit, this doesn't feel right for us, to me at least." Amelia wondered what Cooper meant by that. "The furniture is much nicer, though, I'll give ya that." She knew he was referencing her little joke from the day before.

"What do you mean?" she questioned. She was comfortably curled up against him, more at ease than she had been in years.

"I mean, there are all these people that could just come knocking on our door and I feel like this place is meant for some kind of city. Even when cities still existed on Earth, they were not my thing." He knew that she was rolling her eyes even though he couldn't see her. "I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm beyond appreciative to be out of that unit, but they did say that we could have whatever we wanted once we made a decision. If we stay on, they put us in something somewhere that they want us, and if we leave and take the severance package, we build wherever we want."

"And who knows where they want us? Do they want us exploring again or do they want us here, you know? They might want us in offices, even." Cooper huffed pulling Amelia to turn around.

"I sure hope not. I need my freedom, woman!" Amelia kissed him hard, trying to suppress a smile. She pulled away looking at a very disgruntled Cooper.

"Tell them, then," she paused, smirking, "tell them that you want to keep being an explorer. Or you could tell them that you're really at your best when you're um... with me." Cooper laughed and pulled her back down to him.

"I might just do that," Cooper said before he kissed Amelia again.

"Dr. Brand, Captain Cooper, NASA is thrilled that you're still interested in working with us. Everyone on the board understands why you might not be." Dr. Hart was a short woman, but powerful, nonetheless. "We've got an idea that we want to propose to the two of you." She walked beside Amelia, Cooper behind them. "You both have already done so much."

"It was necessary, but enjoyable," Cooper explained, "and we really can't take all of the credit, like Amelia said the other day. Murph did was was necessary, Wolf Edmunds did what was necessary, and without their sacrifices, we wouldn't be standing here together."

"And honestly, I don't know that I'd be able to handle a life without work. I need to work for my sanity, and Coop needs to explore." Chairman Hart sheepishly smiled.

"That's exactly what we wanted to hear."

Amelia smiled at the idea, Cooper seemed a bit more shocked than she would have imagined.

"Lemme get this straight," Cooper said, holding a finger up as if to ask for a moment, "you want us to go out on our own again?" Dr. Hart nodded, and the officials around her did, as well. "No one with us?" Cooper was excited at the idea - not of total isolation, but not having to be surrounded by these people that he had little in common with.

"Now the difference this time is that you will have direct communication with headquarters, any supplies that you request for will be delivered almost immediately, and we'll have a team out there once every ten days to collect your physical data to bring back to the lab." There was something about the name Tolbert that seemed familiar to Amelia, but she wasn't sure what it was.

"I know that last name, Tolbert. Tolbert, Tolbert, Tolbert; but from where?" Tolbert frowned before opening his mouth.

"My great-grandfather worked on Earth at NASA when you were there." Amelia shook her head slowly, immediately trying to push that fact out of her mind.

"Anytime you have an emergency of any kind, someone will be on site within fifteen minutes," Dr. Hart stated, noticing the awkward silence.

"It sounds amazing, but why would you want to send us out there again, not that I mind, I don't know about Cooper, but-" she stopped, looking over at him.

"I don't," Cooper replied, "Kind of relieved, not gonna lie."

"Understandable, and who better to discover other areas of this planet than the two of you? You've done it before, and none of us have the experience. We've only really ever known life on the stations. This is the first time in a very long time that any of us have ever been on actual ground, and the first time to ever be on rock for so many of the people who will be joining us." Amelia and Cooper looked at each other, happy at the idea that they might be getting to be pioneers once again, but saddened at the reality of their age. "We've sent out a team to look for a suitable area for you two to research. We're hoping for some type of coastal area or farmland, and best case scenario, both."

Cooper laughed out loud. "You're kidding?" Dr. Hart nodded to another woman.

"Captain Cooper, Dr. Brand, this is our head geologist, Dr. Alma Hernandez. I believe you both met her the other day." Cooper and Amelia both looked in her direction.

"Yes, Captain Cooper, farmland. We know we're not going to find that combination in a very tropical climate, but subtropical, which is what we're hoping for, we can have the best of both worlds." Cooper chuckled again.

"Never thought y'all'd ever have me back on a farm, that's for damn sure." Amelia suppressed a laugh as Cooper eyed her. "What's so funny?"

"We know how much you loved farming, sir," said Dr. Tolbert. "It's in all of the history books."

"Oh yeah, loved it." He thought of Murph and Tom, and he smiled. "I'll do the farming bit, but you gotta get robots to do most of the physical labor with that. Robots did most of the big stuff back home, too. I'll oversee the harvest, but something tells me you all have the technology that won't make me get my hands too dirty, not that I'm scared of a mess, just," he paused, trying to find the words that would make him sound less like an asshole. "I don't think you want me to actually farm anymore."

"We definitely have the technology for that, Captain Cooper," said Dr. Hernandez. "Overseeing it would be the greatest help we could get here, and you, Dr. Brand, we need you to monitor the growth process of the crops, and we would like for you all to examine any animal life that you possibly could - land and water."

"Thus why we want you on a coastal, subtropical piece of land," Dr. Tolbert explained as he rose from his chair. "We're interested to know what fish are in those oceans just along the shore. We don't want to go deep sea diving yet. While we have the books on how it was done 200 years ago, no one alive except for you two has ever done it. We want to do some simulation training first." Amelia put her elbows on the table.

"I can do that. I haven't dealt with marine life since college. I specialized in genetics for obvious reasons, but Cooper and myself are apparently the only two people who have ever been in an ocean," Amelia stated as she shook her head. "It's just so hard to believe. I mean, I believe you, but you know what I'm getting at."

"We know, Dr. Brand." Dr. Hart patted Amelia on the back. "We want you two to have a week to think on it. If you decide before then, that's fine, too."

"Amelia, we just got to see other human beings for the first time in eons just three weeks ago, and you want to go run off to be alone again? You are obsoletely sure?" Cooper unlocked the door to the apartment, both of them quickly walking in.

"Cooper, these people don't get us," she stated, grasping his shoulders, "you've said it yourself. They haven't seen the things we have and honestly, the way they keep looking at us as if we're gods really freaks me out. No one is going to look at us like that out there because it's just going to be us." He walked away from her, tossing the keys onto the couch. "Can you handle us being by ourselves again, Cooper? If you can't, I understand."

He turned back around, watching her. It was different not seeing her in some uniform; she looked nice in this look - a simple white blouse and fitted black pants. She even had on heels. He hadn't seen a woman wear heels in a long time. Maybe she missed wearing things like that. He looked at himself, in a muted blue t-shirt with a pocket and jeans, just like he wore back home. "I could handle it just being us again, I could." Amelia weakly smiled and walked over to him.

"Be honest with me, because I'm being honest with you. These people, they don't get me, and maybe you feel like they get you, I don't know, but when I'm not with you, and I'm with one of them, I feel alone. Maybe that's because I'm used to it just being us, but I know that I'm always going to feel alone around them, because there is no way that any of them will ever understand me. You understand me because you've fought this fight with me. They haven't fought by our side, and there's no way they ever could have." Cooper could tell she was being honest with him - she wanted this. "And like they said, anything we need, they'll bring it to us. Someone will be there every ten days to collect the research, and in an emergency they'd be there in no time. It'll be like living out in the country, really." Cooper smirked, realizing that not only did she want this, but she was excited about it.

"You are absolutely sure that you want this? That you could handle this, this bein' by ourselves thing all over again?" Still in front of him, she wrapped her arms around his shoulders.

"I want this. I 'll leave tomorrow if that's what it takes," Amelia replied, holding him tighter. Cooper's eyes shot open as a thought came to his mind.

"On one condition," he said, walking away once more, finding a paper and pen.

"What?" He smiled as he sat down, beginning to write.

"You'll see."