fanfic_name = Girl's talk

author = Jo_anderson

Rating = AP

fanfic = “Girl’s Talk”

Author: Jo_Anderson

Disclaimer: I don’t own Robotech or any of the Characters. This fanfic was written only for fun .

To: everyone who reads it, and thanks to Peter who beta this chapter.

Author’s note: this fic just came to my mind one night and as the title said is just a girl talk. Oh and take places after Lisa’s return from Breetai ship and before Roy’s death. Enjoy it

Reviews: please, I need them. It what’s keep me writing. Jo_anderson19ATyahoo.com

Lisa opened the door of her apartment and was quite surprised to find Claudia on the other side.

“Hi Lisa” said Claudia, holding a small box in her hand.

“Hi Claudia! This is a surprise,” Lisa replied as she stood away from the door so Claudia could come in.

“If you are busy, I can just go” said Claudia before entering.

“Claudia, please, come on in, I was just reading some reports,” said Lisa and encouraged her friend to get into the apartment.

“I brought some tea, so we could drink while we talk,” said Claudia and handed the small box that was in her hands to Lisa.

“That would be great, you always have all types of exquisite teas that I love,” said Lisa.

“Yeah I know, that’s why I bring a box,” said Claudia with a smile.

“So why don’t you take a seat while I go to the kitchen to prepare this,” said Lisa with a smile.

“Ok,” said Claudia and sat in the small living room and start to look around. “So, what were you working on?”

“I was just checking the statements that Corporals Sterling, Dixon and Rick made of the time that we spent on the enemy ship, trying to understand our enemy better” said Lisa as she stood at the doorframe in the kitchen looking at Claudia. “You know me,” she said and shrugged her shoulders.

“Yeah I know you, checking even the last tiny detail,” said Claudia with a smile. “When I checked the statements, I was…I mean, if those reports haven’t came from you, I just wouldn’t believe what was on it.”

“I know,” said Lisa honestly. “They are so surreal, and I truly can’t blame the people that were interrogating me and the boys; they looked at us like we were crazy or high, if I was be in their position I wouldn’t have believed a single word.”

“At least you weren’t there alone, you had Sterling, Dixon and Hunter to back you up”

“Yeah, otherwise I seriously doubt that Maistroff would have let me continue to be the first officer,” said Lisa, half worried and half kidding.

“That asshole,” said Claudia, a little pissed off

“I know, I just wanted to jump over the table and strangle him during the debriefing,” Lisa exclaimed, moving her hands just like she was strangling him, pissed off as well.

“Believe me I would have strangle him” said Claudia and both girls started to laugh.

“I know, I know,” said Lisa, laughing. “All that he wants is to sit in Captains Gloval’s chair.”

“That’s all he has ever wanted and if he ever does that I swear to God I will kill him.”

“Just get in line, Claudia,” said Lisa they both start to laugh again. When they stopped laughing, Lisa added, “So have you talked with the Captain about what he thought of the debriefing?”

“No, I haven’t talked to him, but what do you believe he thinks?”

“Wait a second,” said Lisa as she went to the kitchen to check the tea. Then she came back from the kitchen with a tray with to cups fill with a very aromatic tea.

“Thanks,” said Claudia and she grabbed a cup and took a sip.

“And about Captain Gloval, I know he trusts me, but I’m not quite sure if he believes all that I said. I mean, it’s one thing to believe that the enemy has one hundred ships, but hundreds of millions of ship is quite a different story,” said Lisa as she sat in front of Claudia with her own cup of tea.

“Yes, but don’t worry Lisa he will always be on your side,” said Claudia, with a smile.

“I know,” said Lisa, smiling. She had always found herself protected by the Captain, she has always felt he was like a father, like a role model and above all she always knew that whenever she needed she could count on him, more even than with her own father.

“But let’s forget about work, how are you, hon,” Claudia asked with concern.

“I’m fine,” Lisa said, in a normal tone. Claudia raised an eyebrow at that.

“Really, I’m fine, and I have 5 psychiatrists that support what I’m saying, and almost a dozen expert military personnel that say the same thing,” said Lisa seriously, and then she gave Claudia a smile.

“Really, Claudia, I’m fine, I’m glad that I’m back at home. And I’m not going to lie to you; I was scared when I was in the enemy ship, especially when they submitted us to the interrogation. I truly felt that none of us would be leaving that ship alive, but I have Rick and his boys. He was quite supportive,” said Lisa, and when she saw Claudia’s face she added with a shy smile, “Really! Believe it or not, he was really a good helper. But I don’t feel traumatized

or anything like that for having been held prisoner.”

“I know that you are not a girl that could be easily scared, but being there with the enemy isn’t something that you can easily process.”

“Yeah probably, but that’s not what is keeping me awake, what’s bothering me is what I couldn’t understand about our enemy.”

“And that would be?” ask Claudia.

“Many things, but I have the idea that you didn’t came here to talk about the enemy’s behavior, am I right?” asked Lisa with suspicion.

“I was worried for you Lisa, you were gone for a couple of months I just want to know how my best friend was.”

“And I believe you Claudia, but as your best friend I also know that there’s something else that is bothering you,” said Lisa, smiling sweetly.

“It’s just a silly thing, but let’s talk about important things, you said that Hunter was a really big help, how is that so?” ask Claudia avoiding Lisa’s gaze

“Oh, come on, Grant, spell it out,” said Lisa, rolling her eyes. “And you say I’m the one that is always avoiding important issues. Come on, tell Aunt Lisa what’s bothering you,” said Lisa, using the same tone of voice that Claudia always used when she wanted Lisa to make a confession.

Claudia looked at her, raised an eyebrow, knowing that Lisa was mimicking her, moved in her seat, and finally spoke.

“It’s just that lately I feel …my relationship with Roy, I just don’t know” said Claudia.

“You don’t know what Claudia,” Lisa asked carefully, surprised and preoccupied.

“We are stuck, Lisa, we are at the same point that we were 3 years ago” said Claudia with sadness.

“But you look so good together,” said Lisa softly

“I know, and I never believed that I would be the type of girl that would need a ring or need to get married to be happy. I believed that just by being together, that the love that we felt for each other would be enough but now…I just don’t know,” said Claudia, frustrated.

“You don’t feel it’s enough,” asked Lisa.

“Kind of, I mean everything was fine, everything was the same as always…” Claudia was saying when Lisa interrupted her.

“And that’s the problem”

“I love him, you know that,” said Claudia and Lisa nodded. ”And I know that he loves me, I don’t even question that.” She finished, giving Lisa a secure yet shy smile.

“I know, but I still can remember those anxiety attacks that you used to have when you started to date Roy, because he had looked at certain female officer or at the waitress when you went out.”

“I did not,” Claudia said, offended.

“Ok it wasn’t an anxiety attack but you were certainly concerned and don’t look at me like that,” said Lisa and they both started to laugh.

“Well what to do you want me to do? He was the ladies man.”

“That’s so true,” said Lisa and paused, then added, “And I was the one that was telling you to give him a chance.”

“Yeah, I still don’t know why you did that,” Claudia remarked with a question on her face.

“Me neither,” said Lisa and they both laughed. “Maybe because I was his test pilot partner, let’s call it a pilot bond.” At this, Lisa and Claudia both rolled their eyes. “Maybe because some how I knew he was the right one for you,” Lisa smiled back.

“I know he is the right one for me, and that’s the reason why this is killing me.”

“So you feel that you two are stuck?”

“I mean between my work on the bridge and his patrols, we don’t see each other often, and when we do…we just did the same things that we have been doing for the last 3 years.”

“And what do you want?”

“Oh God, it’s even make me sick just saying this,” said Claudia, seeing Lisa try to hide her smile. “I want to be formal with him, I want that we start to make plans together you know….” said Claudia and she stood up form the couch

“And with ‘plans together’ you mean get married?” Lisa asked. Claudia just nodded, while she walked around the coffee table.

“Like you want the ring, the proposal, the ceremony, the big fancy wedding and the white dress?” Lisa asked, and every time Claudia nodded.

“I just can’t believe I’m saying this, but yes, I want to get formal with Roy. I mean we’re together, but we haven’t ever decided what point of the relationship we’re at. And, yes, I want him to propose, I want to walk around showing my engagement ring and I want to start planning my dream wedding and…” said Claudia and suddenly she went silent.

“And?” ask Lisa

“I just want to be secure with him, to wake up every morning and have him by my side, with out thinking that one of us have to leave to their own apartment, I just want to get old with him” said Claudia, and the last word were said softly

“And you don’t feel that you can do that right now? Just the way things are right now?”

“I mean, I know that I don’t need to be married with him to have all this, but it’s just that…God I must be getting old, or all this time on the space is affecting my neurons, but I feel it’s the right thing to do. And it might be stupid, but even when I know that he loves me I just need to be sure, and, yes, I know that getting married or even engaged doesn’t mean that we will be together for sure, but for some reason I need it,” she finished.

“I know, Claudia, and I know that after all the time that you two have spent together the right thing to do is to start to plan your life together, not just live it together.”

“Yes Lisa, that’s it, I want to have plans with Roy and I know that he is not very used to this, you know being a fighter pilot, he just lives for the day, but I think it is time to do more than that, to…to start a…” Claudia started to say, and again she went silent and took a huge breath.

“To start a family,” asked Lisa as she stood from her seat and went to sit next to Claudia. “Is that it, Claudia?”

“I’m about to turn 30, Lisa, and I know that, with the war, and other things, maybe now is not the right time, but I know that Roy is the love of my life, and I realize now that I want to have a family with him. But not just a family; I want a family in the right way. I want to marry him, and I want him to be the father of my children,” said Claudia.

When she finished Lisa just hugged her. “Claudia, you really love that flyboy,” Lisa said wiping the tears that she had on her eyes.

“But you all ready knew this,” said Claudia and wiped her own tears.

“Of course I knew, but what make you realize so soon that you want to have a family with Roy?”

“It’s your fault,” said Claudia, and gave Lisa a small punch in the shoulder. “This disappearance of yours made me think that everything could end when you lest expect it and made me think in the future.”

“Well, then, I’m happy to be the cause of this,” said Lisa with a huge smile. “I don’t need to ask if you have said all this to Roy, but have you at least insinuated something about this to him,” Lisa asked.

“I have tried to, I have tried to say this to him, but I’m scared; you know him… He doesn’t like to make plans for the future, and I’m afraid to scare him with all this.”

“Yes I know him and I know how much he loves you Claudia, I just have to look at him looking at you, that puppy face that he put every time that he is looking at you without you noticing it, and how he listens to you every time you talk about something important, and, most important of

all, you are the only one who can make him to shut up,” said Lisa and hold her friend again.

“You have made him shut up once in while”

“Only because I threaten him with you,” said Lisa, and she and Claudia laughed.

“But seriously, Claudia, he loves you and I’m sure that if he has ever thought about having a family you are the one that is next to him, and who says that he is not as scared as you are to say these things to you, who said that he isn’t just scared to propose?”

“What makes you think that?” asked Claudia

“Because I know him, and he is more braggart than anything, you know that in the inside he is as shy as I am”

“That’s true” nodded Claudia.

“And insecure.”

“I know.”

“So maybe all he needs is that you take the first step,” said Lisa with a kinky face.

“What are you insinuating,” Claudia asked, raising an eyebrow.

“You know what I’m insinuating,” said Lisa with an evil smile.

“You want me to propose to Roy?”

“Why not?”

“Have you lost your mind,” Claudia asked, and stood up “This is the kind of post traumatic trauma that I was expecting, I told you.”

“Oh, come on, Claudia, I thought that you were a trained soldier, ready to deal with any obstacle that crosses your path.”

“This is different, Lisa,” said Claudia, and she sat in the seat that Lisa was using before.

“Why? You are the one that always is saying that I should go for it, so why don’t you follow your own words?”

“Yes, but no, I mean I can’t… I couldn’t, I probably will freeze, I … no, there’s no way.”

“I thought that you were a tough woman,” said Lisa and remained silent. “I guess I was mistaken.”

“I am tough, but this is different, what if he said no?”

“You really believe that he will say no,” Lisa asked, crossing her arms in disbelief.

“No, I mean I’m not sure, but there’s a chance.”

“I seriously doubt that, and you know that with Roy a hint will not be enough, you have to be straight with him. So the way I see it you have to choices: you can talk with him about it or you can just be more aggressive and propose to him”

“Yeah, it’s very easy for you to say it, isn’t it?”

“Actually, yes” Lisa said with a smile. “Because I know that you two are meant for each other, because I know that you two are in love with each other; that’s why.”

“But he is the one that’s is supposed to propose,” Claudia protested.

“And since when you are so traditional,” Lisa asked in surprise.

“Well…I’m not…it’s just…” said Claudia and remained silent. “Actually, all this thing to get married with him is just to traditional for my taste.”

“So why don’t you gave it a twist, and you are the one who’s proposing to him?”

“I …” was saying Claudia and she remain in silence for a long time, avoiding Lisa’s gaze.

“But how? How can I do it? I can’t buy him a ring,” Claudia said, and they started to laugh.

“Certainly not,” said Lisa, still laughing. “I don’t know maybe invite him at your place for a dinner, a romantic dinner?”

“And then what? I can’t just say to him, ‘Hi Roy how was your patrol? And, by the way, I was thinking that we could get married, so do you want to marry me?’”

“I would pay to see his face if you said that to him,” said Lisa, and couldn’t avoid a smile. “But I don’t know if you can just say to him the same things that you said to me. Actually, all you have to say to him is how much you love him, and that you want to spend the rest of your life together, and start a family with him,” said Lisa and grab her friend’s hand

“And what if he said no, what if he said that he doesn’t want to get married, what if he..” Claudia asked, concerned, but Lisa interrupted her.

“What’s your heart saying,” asked Lisa looking at her in the eyes.

“That I should go for it, that I love him, and that there’s no one else that I want to spend the rest of my life with.”

“Then stop thinking, stop thinking in all the what ifs and just do what your heart is saying” said Lisa and then she added “You know it’s the right thing to do”

“I know,” said Claudia and they both hugged and remained silent for a while.

“Oh, I can even imagine the wedding, you in a cute minimalist wedding dress and Roy so cute in his full dress, and I’m guessing that I will be the bridesmaid.”

“Of course you will be the bridesmaid.”

“Oh I just can imagine the ceremony will be so nice, the only problem will be the honeymoon if we are still in war by the time of the wedding and then your first baby, because I have always have seen you with two children, and the first one will be a boy and…”

“Hey, remember that the groom still hasn’t said yes, and boy you look even more exited than I do, any one will said that you are in love too, Hayes,” joked Claudia.

“Yeah sure, I fell terribly in love in the enemy’s interrogation, I just saw one of them and fell completely in love with him,” joke Lisa.

“But if remember correctly haven’t you have to kiss Hunter in that interrogation?”

“Oh come on Claudia, that will be like mixing oil with water,” said Lisa and avoided Claudia’s gaze.

“That will be so fun to see, you and Hunter,” said Claudia, and laughed.

“Very funny Claudia, very funny,” said Lisa, a little upset, then added, “but don’t change the major subject, so what are you going to do?”

“I guess that I will follow your advice. I’ll say to Roy that I want to start a family with him.”

“Any idea how you are going to say it?”

“Well it must be in a quiet place, probably my house, maybe a dinner.”

“Why don’t you cook something special for him?”

“Yes, you are right, I will cook my famous pineapple salad,” said Claudia more to herself than for Lisa.

“Your what?”

“Roy’s favorite dish, and then I just let the bomb fall,” said Claudia and shrugged her shoulders.

“Everything will turn out ok, I know it,” said Lisa with a confident smile

“I hope so,” said Claudia.

“But before all that, we have to go shopping. I mean, you have to look special on that day,” Lisa joked.

“What are you suggesting?”

“There’s this very nice lingerie store that the trio took me the other day, you know, in case the flyboy says I do.”

“Lisa Hayes,” said Claudia, covering her mouth with her hand like she were scared.

“You are really getting old,” said Lisa, and then she added, “and don’t said that you didn’t think the same thing before I did.” Claudia just looked at her.

“Maybe,” she said with a kinky smile.

“I knew it”

“The enemy really made a psychic work with you, you know that?”

“Oh come on, you know, a long time ago I was engaged too, remember?” said Lisa and they both started to laugh. But their laughs were stopped, because the voice of Sammie on the ship speakers.

“All officers report to their combat stations, this is not a drill! I repeat, all officers report to their combat stations.”

“Talking about the enemy,” said Lisa.

“Yeah, at least we could have our conversation.”

“Yes, and at least we both are in our uniforms,” said Lisa.

“Well, we better go to bridge, because if it’s an enemy attack, Sammie must be about to collapse.”

“I thought she was in my place while I was gone.”

“Yes, but she has never been in charge during combat, so for Sammie’s sake, and the pilots, let’s hurry,” said Claudia, and she opened the apartment door.

“I’m coming, I’m coming,” said Lisa, and she closed the door behind her, with Claudia a few steps ahead, waiting for her.

The End

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