"Ready?" Rush asked hid family as he stood before the bridges control panel, they nodded.

Cressida leaned back into Eli's chest while his strong arms came to rest on her belly, four more months and they'd have their beautiful baby boy, though they still couldn't agree on names; no matter how many times Eli asked Cressida wasn't letting him name their son after Batman. Actually it was quite the year of milestones, she and Eli were expecting a child, Chloe and Rush were coming up on their fifth anniversary and Ez would have his third PhD by the end of the month.

"We're totally ready." Responded Chloe as she in to press a kiss to her husband's bearded cheek.

There was a momentary pause before Rush hit a single button and the ship surged with power, which Vulpine didn't like – a few seconds later their radios crackled.

"Open Sesame." A round of grins erupted at Paul's corny words.

Finally, after years of work, the exposed sections, all of it, was repaired. They had full access to the entire ship. Destiny couldn't hide her secrets from them for much longer. Ez pulled out his radio and brought it to his lips.

"Baby, what are you doing on Destiny?" A pause.

"Well, you know how I wanted to learn Ancient properly?"

"Yeah?"

Ezra drew out the word while the others got back to work, people had been trying to convince Cressida to return to Earth but when Cressida Wallace didn't want to do something, she wasn't doing it.

Just when Ez started to wonder if Paul's radio had cut out the man himself turned appeared on the bridge with a smile.

"Think of it this like when you went to France to improve your French."

The youngest Rush was in Paul's arms in an instant, the older man ran a hand through Ezra's dark hair as he looked into those bold heterochromia eyes then pressed a kiss to his lips. It was Cress that drew their attention back to the bridge and everyone on it.

"You do realise that now we have full access to the ship it won't be long before he's unlocked her last secret. Once he does Daddy will be looking for some new mystery to unravel." Chloe chuckled at that.

"I think that mystery might be grandparenting, I'm really too young for that."

"True but this ship will always have secrets and who knows what we'll find in the new sections. We've just unlocked the areas, we're not done yet, baby girl."

"That's the nice thing about space, isn't it?" Muttered Eli, Cress still wrapped up in his arms. "There's always more to see and explore and Destiny is our front row seat." Eli really could be a poet at times.

Nicholas looked at his family; a wife as smart as she was beautiful, two children who'd clawed back their childhood from a psychotic alien race and managed to retain their sanity, a son-in-law that saw past his daughter's and son's alien origins to the people they really were and a grandson waiting to be born. Even Paul with all his prim and properness that his his fun loving side. A strange little group that he'd had to go to the ends of the universe to find but they were his family and he loved them wholeheartedly. And to think all he'd wanted when he'd been recruited to the Stargate Program was to solve a puzzle.

Rush had never expected a family – especially after Gloria – but he was truly grateful for them.

'Family is not an important thing. It's everything.'

Michael J. Fox

THE END