**Gilly had just walked in the door and was starting to unlace her boots when her comms began buzzing incessantly. Ranger, Gilly’s K9, didn’t like the buzzing and started barking at it. Gilly chuckled ‘Sitz’ She said to the dog and he stopped and sat down. Gilly walked over and opened the line, much to her surprise it was General Adama.. Coming to attention, she saluted him and then sat down “General, to what do I owe this honor.” She said folding her hands on the desk in front of her. She was fully expecting that they were going to be deployed to one of the current conflict areas.

Adams didn’t pussy foot around, he knew that Gilly was not one for fluff, she wanted to crunch, straight to the point. Adams admired her for that, he had people under his command that would spend hours just rambling, he admitted to Gilly one day that he appreciated her brevity. Adama became serious “You’re transfer request came through. You have been assigned as part of the Marine contingent aboard the USS Atlantis. You will be taking a shuttle there three days from now. Don’t worryu, we have an entire team that will get your stuff packed and either in storage or shipped to the Atlantis.” Adama added “And yes Ranger is going with you.” At the sound of his name, the Belgian Malinois stood up. Adama added “Ill send along some of the special treats that I have for Ranger. I’m sure he’ll just love them.” Looking at Gilly “Good luck Gilly. You will be missed.” With that he ended the call and Gilly was left to sort through her emotions. She’d been a Marine long enough to know that new orders could come through at any time.

Scratching Ranger’s ear she decided to wait on notifying her family for 24 hours. She was hard put to admit it, but she was excited to start this new jorneuy.

Adams (Marine)**