"...Sorry, there's not actually any other life here. I just didn't want you crying. I'd cry."
"Jessica!"
"I'm sorry!"
"Let's just make this quick. We probably need a fuel source for the ship. And to repair it."
"Orrr, the colony could live here and we could all just take an escape pod. ...A really big one."
"I think we'll just go with your idea. It's a lot quicker."
And just like that, we were preparing to go back to earth. We decided to move some cryo-pods to the escape pod. Along with the computer. And... everything else needed for long-term flying. We would be woken up regularly for maintenance. We decided to bring Gunther for the asteroids.
There was a big argument over Mark, but he wanted to come back with me. And we would be bringing the Googles so that they wouldn't attack the colony.
We started preparing the ship.

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The Way Back [Book 2 of One Tragic End to a Million Stories]
FanfictionThe Captain had to go back. They had to. For Yancy. But things go wrong. Again. They should have known. Everything always goes wrong for them, but this? This was unpredictable. Cover by: @mirthfulmark