The caravans of people descended from the heavens onto the land called Earth. It was beautiful here. There were fresh, fertile fields and water so blue, you could see right through it. Humans and Cylons were finally living together peacefully and even creating families together. It was a phenomenon no one thought would ever happen in their time, but the Agathons proved that it was possible, as did Saul Tigh and the one they called Caprica between two cylons. They were all equals now.

Karl Agathon looked over the maps compiled by fly overs of the land with the other military officials, nodding to them, "We can't really tell where the cabin was that Hotdog saw, or if it even existed." He sighs, "I'm sorry, Sir. It's going to be a try by try basis until we get this map to perfection and even then, there will be mistakes."

Saul shook his head, "Bullshit, we'll find it." He mumbled, "I don't really see a reason for seeking it out though. This have something to do with Roslin, Bill?"

"Someone could be living there, another species, more humans, but it's our job to find them. Don't you find it strange out of this entire clear land, there is one house built on it?" He asked looking at Saul. "If you all don't want to find it, that's fine. But I am going to see what is there."

"We had enough trouble with another species before." Tigh mumbled, then shook his head because he realized he was speaking of his people, "There is no one here. Literally no one. Are you sure you weren't just seeing something? Fallen trees or something?"

"I'm not the only who saw it, Hotdog did too. See." He said pulling back up the video footage and showing the man. "Tell me that's a tree again." He said in a annoyed tone of voice. "You don't know that anyone is not on here, have you looked everywhere yourself, Saul? No. None of us have."

Helo shook his head, "We'll take a look. It's not a big deal. Maybe if we take a non-military approach to this, it may be easier."

"I don't care what approach it is, let's just do something about it." He said shaking his head and walking over to the other side of the tent to check in on the other groups.

Saul nodded, "You heard the old man." He walked off to his women.

"Fine." Karl grumbled to himself, walking back to the shelter he and his wife put together, he noticed his daughter playing outside, "Careful, Hera." He called to her, smiling as he ducked into the small space.

Hera nodded her head up and down, "Okay, Daddy." She called back as she ran around with her teddy bear in hand letting it and herself explore the new land. Finding a patch of flowers in a spot away from the campsite they had set up, she walked over and sat down and began to pick them. Putting a few in the teddy bear's paw and began to take off the pedals. Outside was quiet, birds were chirping up in the very tall trees and there were butterflies moving around the patch.

A woman with wild auburn hair attempts to pick edible greens from the forest not far from the stream. She had been alone for so long it seemed. Too long. She had learned to hunt and care for herself. This had to be the other end of the river she had crossed, but this wasn't what she had expected. This contained none of her dead relatives or anyone or anything she knew. She sighed, leaning back on her legs. She closed her eyes a moment and allowed for the sun to hit her face.

Once Hera became bored with the flowers- which didn't take long at all, she stood to her feet and held onto her teddy bear as she watched a butterfly go into the trees. Tilting her head to the side, she began to follow it, going carefully down the hill and then stopped whenever she saw water. Placing the bear on a big rock, she walked over towards the end and sat down, sticking her hands in the water.

The woman caught sight of the girl and couldn't help but grin, "Hera?" She murmured quietly to herself mostly, unsure if she should say anything or do anything. Unsure if she should even approach the girl. If she was here, that must mean she was dead and the woman's smile quickly faded. The fear began to rise in the woman and she shook her head furiously, "No...no...not you. It wasn't supposed to happen to you." She whispered to herself.

Hera heard someone talking and looked around, taking her hands out of the water, she smiled when she saw Laura. Picking up her teddy bear, she walked over slowly and looked down at the bracelet the woman had given her back on the rebel Cylon baseship and climbed up the small hill. Going over and sitting in her lap, she giggled and hugged her.

"Oh my gods." Laura could feel the tears streak down her cheeks as she held the little girl tightly. "I have missed you so much...far too much, Hera." She nodded, stroking the girl's black ringlet curls. "You're wearing my bracelet, I see." It made her so happy to know that the girl actually kept the bracelet that once meant so much to her. It made her happy that Hera Agathon actually wanted to remember her.

Hera giggled and nodded her head, "You want it back?" She asked as she held her teddy bear under her arm and played with the older woman's hair.

"No, I gave it to you for you to have." She smiled, quickly wiping the wet trails from her cheeks. Laura realized that the girl may not remember seeing her this way, "Like the hair? A lot different than the wig or a scarf, huh?"

"It doesn't come off." She said smiling brightly and then stopped, "Why did you leave? Did you not like us anymore?" She asked tilting her head to the side and let go of the woman's hair.

"No, I...I crossed the river just like you did." Laura looked the girl in the eye, hoping she'd know what she was referring to. "Were there others or is it just you and I now?"

Hera became very confused, "I didn't cross the river. I can't swim." She said shaking her head, "Duh." Holding onto her teddy bear, she listened to the next question and turned her head to the way she came into the forest and pointed. "Everybody came down on the Galactica."

"No...they...Everyone?" She swallowed, "Will you show me, Hera?" Laura slowly stood, holding onto the girl's hand as they walked to where she was pointing to, "You must show me."

Hera held onto Laura's hand and her teddy bear and began to skip around before coming to the end of the forest, pointing to the campsite the fleet had set up. "See?" She said giggling as she pulled the woman's hand as she walked towards the others.

"Is Bill-" Laura paused, walking toward them, "Is the Admiral with them?" It didn't matter that she was wearing next to nothing or that she appeared disheveled to say the very least. None of that mattered to her if she could see Bill again.

Hera nodded her head up and down and pointed over to the main tent where Bill and Saul were standing. "Want me to get him?" She asked, swinging the woman's hand back and forth.

A smile crept across Laura's face as she shook her head, "I can...I can handle this." She let go of the girl's hand and began to step closer to him, "Bill." Her voice was small and filled with emotion.

Saul Tigh turned first, holding a cigarette between his lips, "What the frak?" He grumbled from the side of his mouth, his eyes widening, "What the hell is this?"

Hera took her teddy bear and went back to the patch of flowers and began to pick more of them.

Bill turned around when hearing his name and stopped, seeing the woman. The woman he had sent out of airlock, the woman he had watched die. "Laura.." He said not knowing what to do, not knowing if she was real or not.

Tigh's hand quickly goes to his sidearm, only knowing one way to deal with the unknown.

Laura jogged the rest of the way to him in her bare feet, wrapping her arms around him, "I'm sorry...I'm so sorry." Tears ran freely down her cheeks as she buried her face into his shoulder.

Bill stood still as the woman and looked at Saul, seeing him go for his sidearm and shook his head. Slowly and reluctantly, he placed his arms around the woman and held her tightly. "How did you get here?"

She didn't want to let him go, "I was on a boat...crossing the river. I saw my family and, I got off to hug them, but instead...instead I ended up here. Naked and..." Laura shrugged, "I don't know. I don't want to know anymore." She kissed his lips tenderly.

Saul rolled his eyes, "I don't trust this, Bill. She should be questioned."

Bill stood still as he listened to Saul and then pulled back looking at the woman, just taking it all in. "Get her some clothes.." He said as he looked over at the man and then back at her, still standing still. "You died..." He said quietly as thoughts of Kara Thrace's second arrival came flooding into his head.

"I know." She looked down at her handmade clothing with whatever animal hyde she could find, "I...You read Searider Falcon to me during my treatments. When I realized I wasn't getting out of there alive, we lit up one of those joints made from the grass on New Caprica. You would hold me at night and tell me you were glad I didn't have any hair because it just got in the way...just to make me feel better." She grinned to him, "You traded in three sets of your old pins to get me that purple scarf because you knew I was tired of the blue one and just wanted something that was my favorite color." Laura swallowed, the tears returning to her eyes as she brings her hand to her own face to quickly wipe one that had escaped. She licked her lips, looking at him, "I built a cabin with what fallen lumber I could find...it took me so long..." She shook her head, "I don't know what to say...what to do to make you believe me..."

Bill's eyes burned with tears as he listened to the woman speak, telling him all of the personal things that happened aboard Galactica. And in that moment he realized he didn't care what Laura was or was not, she was there and that was all that was important to him. She was back with him, she had made the cabin of her dreams that he was determined to give her and the love he had for her was still there. He brought his hand up and wiped the tears from her face, and then ran his fingers through her thick, full set of hair and laughed a little. "I guess you are sad it didn't come back blue?" He asked as tears escaped his own eyes.

"I've come to terms with it." Laura smiled, looking down at herself again, "I must look like some sort of back woods cave woman."

"Just a little." He said as he looked down at her clothing and back at her face, taking her in, still feeling like she was a ghost. Bill took in a deep breath, and mumbled, "You look so much younger.." He said laughing and held her hand in his own.

"Hair will do that." Laura nodded, then shrugged, "I've only seen myself through reflections in the stream by the cabin, A few years maybe. I don't understand why though."

Saul returned with a stack of clothing in his hand, looking at the woman without much trust, he held it out to her, "Are we taking her to the brig?"

Laura quickly took the clothing from his outstretched hand, "Thank you, Colonel Tigh." She nodded, looking through them, "Where did these even come from..." She paused, "No, wait, I don't want to know." She sighed, "I should head back to the cabin to change."

Bill put two and two together and brought her over to the video footage, "Is this it?" He asked pointing to the still image and then looked back at Laura.

Laura quickly nodded, "Of course." She smiled to him, "You should bring your things up."

Bill looked back at Saul and shook his head to his question. "I packed your suits." He said quietly as he went to wrap his arm around the woman like he had done many times before to help her walk, but then stopped himself. "I'd like to see the cabin."

"You did?" Laura smiled, then shook her head, "But I died Bill. You were going to keep my suits?" She leaned her head on him as she led him up the hill.

"They needed to go in your cabin," He spoke quietly as held onto her hand walking up the hill and looking around. "We found Earth." He said smiling.

"This is...This is Earth?" She swallowed, "Oh thank gods, I thought the Galactica exploded...I saw Hera and..." Laura shrugged, "I thought the worst...I thought you were all dead and ended up here...just like I did."

Bill laughed and smiled, shaking his head. "No, she didn't explode." He said speaking about the ship and kissed the top of her head.

"What happened to her? Why didn't you land her?" Laura shook her head, opening the door to the rickety log cabin, "It could have been completed better, but...it was a project. How long has it been since I've been gone for you?"

"I thought it would be best to leave her in one piece, not take the risk in completely destroying her." He said quietly, as he stepped inside of the cabin and smiled, nodding his head seeing a few mistakes that he could fix in no time. "Couple of days." He spoke as he ran his hand over the wall.

"Is that all?" She watched him, closing the door once he entered. "I'm changing so..." Laura shrugged, looking through the clothing she was provided. She didn't know where they came from or even if she wanted to know, she just put them on. "I'm a little thinner than I was before, but...these should do." She smiled, laughing a little at the combat boots and fatigue pants, "I think you always wanted to see me in a uniform."

He nodded his head and kept looking around at the cabin, with his back turned. He smirked and looked at the woman whenever she was finished changing and laughed, "Today is my lucky day." He spoke as he walked slowly over to her and placed both hands on her hips and looked into her sea-green eyes.

"I'm sorry you had to grieve." Laura replied softly, leaning up to kiss him softly, "I'm pretty lucky too. It's like I've been here alone for months. There were a few deer that have been coming closer and closer to me...to the house. They lead me to the edible berries." She giggles to herself a little, "I'm not one for roughing it, Bill." She runs a hand through her large red mane.

He smiled as he pressed a kiss back onto her lips and rubbed her back, "I think you have done a wonderful job so far." He mumbled as he pulled her closer to his own body, just needing her to be there. No space between them. Taking back off his ring, he slid it onto her finger and kissed the top of her hand.

She shook her head, "Were you able to bring anything from the ship? All of these things were...I mean, the bed is just twigs covered in the big leaves from that tree down the way. Everything is uncomfortable and I've found myself sleeping on the floor as of late...the unfinished floor." Laura bit her lip with a small smile, "This all must look so ridiculous...like a child put it together..."

Bill laughed hard and shook his head, "We have materials, Laura. You will sleep on a bed tonight, and if you're good I'll even add in a pillow and sheets." He said as he looked down at her, "It looks like the start of a new home." He said nodding his head and glanced around the place.

"Stop, you're going to make me cry." She smirked, wrapping her arms around him, "Did the rest of our people make it here safely?"

He kissed the inside of her neck a couple of times whenever she told him she might cry and smirked, "Every single one of them made it here safely."

"Tory as well?" She swallowed, "I know you hate what she did to me and I do too, but...we've still been through a great deal together, her and I." Laura reached a hand up, stroking his pockmarked face, "Tigh and Caprica...They're all okay as well? Gaius Baltar?"

"Caprica and Saul are here, they lost their baby- their son, Liam. Gaius is here, and well, Tory..." He stopped and looked at her, "Tory killed herself after your funeral." He spoke quietly.

"Oh my gods." She whispered, pulling away from him a little to fold her arms around herself, "Caprica was so...Saul too...That explains why he's back to that." Laura bit her lip, "Tory..." She shook her head, "Tory didn't come back here with me."

Bill sighed and looked at Laura, taking off his glasses before rubbing his eyes a little. "Tory.. it was revealed that Tory was the one who killed Callie. She uh.. she put her out of the airlock after knocking her out."

"For what? To protect what she was?" Laura placed her hands on her hips.

Bill nodded his head up and down and watched the woman in front of him.

She tilted her head back, closing her eyes a moment, "Damn it." She whispered, "Tyrol and the boy are taken care of?"

"It was also revealed that Hotdog is the kid's dad, Tyrol is fine." Bill spoke as he looked out the window and out at the fleet.

"What the hell happened? I've only been dead a few days according to you." Laura's eyes were wide, shocked and unknowing how to handle the information for the most part. She missed when everyone had a place and each place was known and there were no secrets.

"All hell broke loose." Bill said quietly, "It was really all at once." Turning back to look at her and sighed, "Everything is better now though.." He spoke before walking to the door. "Come on, we need to go get our stuff."

"It isn't better, Bill." She swallowed, looking through the window before she continued, "Just because this is...this is Earth doesn't make everything better." Laura shook her head, knowing she couldn't just cry anymore.

Bill sighed and nodded his head, "There isn't much we can do, Laura. The fleet is being split up around the land and they aren't our responsibility anymore." He spoke as he placed a hand in the low of her back. "People can start over, we can start over." He spoke as he walked down to the tent.

"The...the survival of our..." Laura swallowed, licking her lips, her face uncertain as she placed her hands on her hips, "It's always our responsibility, Bill." She replied softly.

Bill continued to walk down the hill as he watched the teams separate the supplies evenly to be distributed to the spots where members of the fleet had been placed and stopped when finding his stack of boxes. Picking up a few, he placed them on a cart, and came back for the rest and then quietly moved back towards the cabin. He didn't know what to say, or what else he could do. The damage had been done, everyone was more than ready to go off on their own.

Laura remained close, helping where possible. Her strength had returned during the time she was on Earth, as long as everything else. She felt younger. She felt like all her energy was restored, which was saying much since she needed people to simply feed or bathe her not long before. She was a new person and she had no explanation for any of it.

After getting back to the cabin, Bill unloaded the boxes and then brought back down the cart, walking slowly as he watched the woman walk around and interact with everyone. It was like she had never been sick, she was a brand new person. His focus should have been on what to do next with the fleet, but his mind was stuck on Laura. He was still in shock by the whole situation, she was dead just a few days ago and now she was here, on Earth. She was smiling, running around and helping other people, lifting and carrying things, all on her own.

Laura grinned to the people, then jogged to him, "Sorry. You said there was a bed, or are you going to have one of the guys get it? You really shouldn't lift too much." Her voice ran freely, like water from her lips and she wasn't hindered with an inability to breathe. At that moment, she never felt better in all her life.

"I'm fine." He spoke, wrapping his arm around her waist as they moved slowly back down the hill, watching the members of the fleet.

"Me too." She hugged onto his torso as they walked.