fanfic_name = Lisa

chapter = Chapter 2

author = Clo

Rating = AP15

Type = Angst

fanfic = Chapter Two – Karl

Since I joined the army, in that time still considered as its majesty army, I had to fight against my last name… everybody believed that they had to treat me with cotton or to be very demanding. I like the second option. I made a few friends, especially with Vanessa, who was my roommate. One night the base decided to forget about war for a while and celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day, well it was originally the idea of some crazy Irish that gained a lot of followers very rapidly. Vanessa dragged me to the party, and I’m glad she did… because there I met the first man of my life, Karl Riber…

Vanessa and I decided to take the occasion to forget the uniform, and be once more civilians, but come’n it was Saint Patrick’s, of course we were wearing a detail in green, mine was a high collar sweater in olive green, and I supposed I looked ok, because we have just arrived when some privates forget about my dynasty and asked me to dance, then a guy a few grades above us approached me… I’ve just left boarding school, just 6 months ago, and the few men I had contact with were soldiers, he was a soldier, but there was something about him that showed a different world, his brown eyes were beautiful and his hair frame an extremely manly face. After the presentations I forget everything, including Vanessa, I expended the rest of the night just talking with him, from that day we became one, each free moment we expended together.

Karl was not a soldier in his heart, but came from a military family… he was literally obligated by his father to continue with the family tradition and join the army, and since day one he showed his disagreement of having to live a life based in destruction, attitude that caused him a thousand troubles during his military career, and if he wasn’t for his father, a highly appreciate Admiral and my father’s personal friend, Karl would be discharged without honors from the military, causing to be out of his father’s will and never be taken into the River’s family again.

I supposed Karl would turn mad or made something stupid, but in the year me met the Robotech technology was brought into our lives, he decided to study one more year in the recently formed United Nations Spacy (UNSY) Officials Center to become a Robotech scientists officer, he had the hope that the new technology could stop the fights and war once for all, but above all the wanted to find its non-military applications. The year its training last was the happiest since my mother’s dead.

Karl caused feelings in me that I thought could never have. Since my mother’s dead I’ve never felt so alive. In his 20th birthday, more or leas 6 months after we started to be a couple, I finally decided to give him a present that for me meant the promise of a future together, I gave him my virginity, that mean that we would be together for ever, that he would find the way to avoid all that madness called war around us and that he would save us… I was wrong.

But I forgot that the military live is not easy and after his graduation, with honors I have to say, and with an UNSY First Lieutenant Degree, he was assigned to the Sara Base in Mars. I can perfectly remember the day Karl told me, we were on license and decided to visit London, our based was about 1 hour from London, we were staying at my parents’ house and that morning decided to have a picnic in that park when I used to go with my mum, I’m not very lucky with picnics you know. He was distant, with his mind in other place and I decided to ask him

- It’s everything alright?

- Why it shouldn’t – he was extremely sarcastic – we are about to destroy the planet, so I suppose everything is ok.

- Hey it was just a question, there is not need to bite my head off… beside you once told me that once we domain Robotech Technology, there will be a way to stop all this nonsense.

- Lisa… - he hesitated before continue – you know how I feel about you, what I feel for you

- Of course, the same I feel for you

- And you know that it doesn’t matter what happen, that won’t change

- What could happen? I mean you are here, I’m here, we’re together… as the song Happy Together

- There’s something I need to tell you, and I don’t want you to think that it has something to do with my feelings for you

- You are scaring me

- I have been assigned to the Sara Project

- Are you leaving to Mars? – it was everything I could asked

- Yes, I’m leaving in 2 days, and I’m not pretty sure how long I will be assigned or how long the mission will last – I starting playing with hands, trying my best and failing of course to avoid crying – come’n Lisa, we both know what will be my destiny if I stay in the earth

- At least we would be together

- No, we wouldn’t. You would be in your palace between cottons and under you father protection and I in some trench waiting for dead, don’t you understand it Lisa… we don’t have any future here

- We are both soldiers, our faith would be the same

- Do you really believe that your father will let you march into battle

- That’s my call Karl, not the Admiral’s

- Don’t be naïve; he will take care of you as long as he can.

- Your father is also an Admiral, he could also help you, assigned you to a desk position away from the battles.

- He’d already helped me, at this moment this is the best he could do

- Send you as far as he could from me, that is not fair Karl and you know it.

- No Lisa, it is not… but life is not always fair, at least not in war times, besides darling once I’m established I could request permission to send for my “wife” – he made so much emphasis in that word that immediately I rose my face to see him – yes, I want you to be my wife, I’m not running from you, I’m looking for a better place for us to be happy, what do you think?

- It’s that true?

- Of course honey, you will always be in my heart

We said good bye a cold winter day, he was so handsome in this flight suit… I gave him a small package…

- What’s this?

- Something for you to remember me, open it

It was a frame with a picture of us taken on this birthday, that night we made love and expended together, the first of many more.

- Well… it’s beautiful

- I have one just like that, while we are apart, we can remember how we look and most of all better times.

- I love you Lis… - and he kissed me very softly

- I love you too Karl, take care and return to me

- I rather to send for you beautiful…

When he was walking towards the ship, he turn once more to see me and smile while he wave, I could never imagine that that was the last time I got to see him. Four months later he died during the Tsiolkovsky Special Destroyer.

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