Fanfic Name / Nombre del Fanfic: one song for two hearts

Chapter / Capitulo: chapter 18

Author / Autor: clo

Rating / Clasificacion: AP15 (For Teenagers = Para Adolescentes)

Romance

Fanfic: Chapter 18 – One Day More (Les Miserables) 
 
I got the idea for this fic when I saw in youtube a wonderful montage of Robotech with One Day More from “Les Miserables”, to be honest is one of the best I seen, the voices and the images are very well coordinated, please check it.  
 
Two persons are running through Macross Streets towards the military based located under the protective shadow of the SDF-1, it is not something new for them, the last years of their lives have been a constant battle and that has been their routine of almost everyday… they have followed that path in similar circumstances, always ready for the battle.  
 
Since the very first time when she was a rooky and he a civilian caught in the middle of the crossed fire, things have changed. She has been recently named Captain and assigned to her own command; he is everyone hero, all pilots under his orders wants to be like him. They are not anymore the girl with the funny hairdo hiding her fear of going into battle behind a mood from hell; he is not longer the immature and arrogant young man in the yellow flight suit. They are very far from the place they were the first time they fight, while human race initiated the mother of all wars, it has been a long and not easy road. Their fights are legend, known by all (army and civilians), face to face or using the tacnet, it was pretty common to hear them yelling each other, calling each other weasel or strong headed, splinter or selfish/arrogant/show-off/pilot. Even after they become the best friends, they continued fighting.  
 
But indeed things have changed… starting from the mutual disliking, going through understanding, a bullet proved friendship to turn into confidents and then lovers, her crushed hidden because she was so afraid of not being corresponded, his own hidden because he didn’t consider at the same level than she… they waste so many time because of silly fears, but now they are holding hands ready to face the enemy. For the first time they are going into battle for personal reason, not duty or for mankind protection, they are going to fight to protect their future together. Rick and Lisa will fight for that denied by destiny to Claudia and Roy, time to make all their plans together, plans not get shared but that both had since the first time they slept together.  
 
Rick didn’t mind to leave Minmei behind – “she’ll be fine, she is not as fragile as we all think she is, she is really a tough girl”- what is now important for him to take care of the woman next to him, to whom he has entrusted his life over and over, to whom he is entrusting his heart for the rest of his life –“I hope it lasts more than this battle” – also wishes for their friends to be alright, he wants to inform them that they were right all along, that Lisa and he are right for each other –“Max, you have to be my best man and Mir one of Lisa’s maids, the maid of honor will be Claudia… come’n Hunter you’ll have plenty of time to think about all this, for now is time to save the day once more and get rid of dam Khyron once for all”.  
 
Lisa is trying to stay focus in what is happening, she has to come with a strategy to defeat the enemy, all that while she prays for her beloved ones sake – “Roy you cannot take her with you yet, she has to know that we are together, that thanks to her advices we will be able to do all that you couldn’t” – while thinks about it, she holds a little bit harder Rick’s hand, he just turns to see her and she smiles – “our kids are going to need auntie Claudia to get to know you through her beautiful memories together, I need her in my life for a while longer, you’ll have her for all eternity” – she knows it is not the moment to plan her future with Rick, she has to focus in what they are going to face but the feeling of holding hands with Rick is a way to bid distraction.  
 
Finally they arrive to the base and its moment to split; Rick has to go to the hangars and Lisa to the bridge.  
 
– Good luck Lieutenant – Lisa doesn’t want to lose another minute, they’ll have plenty of time to love each other afterwards 
 
– Likewise Commander – answers Rick while take both her hands in his and stares to her green eyes – I love you  
 
– I love you too 
 
Suddenly is she the one that holds him by the neck just to feel immediately his strong hands taking her by the waist. 
 
– Please take care  
 
– I’ll do it love, you won’t get rid of me so easily  
 
– I really hope that  
 
They kiss with such passion that several pilots running towards the hangars stop a minute to verify if the people sharing breath are really Rick and Lisa, a rather different scenario of what they are custom to, when they stop for different reasons, to avoid them to kill each other.  
 
– I told you they were a couple  
 
– Alright… I’ll pay you after the battle 
 
– No, pay me now, you never know what is going to happen  
 
Lisa and Rick don’t listen, they are too busy kissing each other, until she is the one breaking the kiss, duty call and she has to get to the bridge as soon as possible, he holds her hand as far as he can, he has to let her go, both have to follow their orders.  
 
He never dressed that fast, without even noticing he is on is VT flying to reach his squadron, is Max the one welcoming him.  
 
– Glad you decided to join the fun chief  
 
– Sorry I’m late team, but I have to be a knight in shiny armor  
 
– I can believe that girl cannot take care of herself, how could you fell for some so useless  
 
– Its harmless honey  
 
– Whatever Max, Rick and the team understood me…  
 
– I don’t think it is the moment to urge about this, but it wasn’t the usual suspect the one I had to rescue  
 
– You changed your princess Rick – asks Max quite intrigue  
 
– No, it’s the same one I’ve been in love in the past few months, since Alaska Base 
 
– Thank God I thought you’ll never notice it  
 
– I have to hug Lisa after the battle  
 
– Skull Squadron a group of Pods are heading your position – they are interrupted by Lisa’s voice  
 
– Thanks Commander… gentlemen and lady, it’s show time  
 
None of them say it but their looks are screaming “please take care”.  
 
The battle is rough, and bridge of the military based is heavily hit, Lisa is just thinking about her next move while around her chaos is reining, rescue teams are taking care of the wounded – “I can’t finish like this, not now I know he loves me too, I’m not dying her, I’ll go fighting with my last breath my right to be happy”- the bunnies are staring at her waiting for the order of their Commander, their friend.  
 
– SDF1 – yells while decides to take their last resource… runs by the halls of the base running the ship while continue repeating a pray over and over in her head – “Rick I’m alright, please don’t do anything stupid”  
 
At the same time a lonely Valkyre has become a one man army, attacking as it is no tomorrow – “maybe I’ll get kill but at least I’m going to take as many as of these bastards as I can, how could I lose so many time” – he has just cried like that before in two occasions, when his mother died and when Lisa let him know that Roy died – “now is gone… fucking Khyron, I promise to return you the favor, I’ll make you suffer as I’m suffering right now, even if it is the last thing I do”. 
 
In the SFD1 bridge, Captain Gloval and Claudia Grant are expecting the dream team for any captain, Gloval knows that despite the flaws of his little ones, the endless yakking of the bunnies or Lisa’s cold attitude, they are the closest thing he has of a daughter – “Miho, if we’d ever had the chance to have children, they would be like these girls, each one of them has something that reminds me of you… your excellent humor in Sammy, your optimism in Kim, how shine you were in Vanessa, your common sense in Claudia and there so much of you in Lisa that I don’t know where to begin”.  
 
– Are you alright sir 
 
– Yes Claudia… it’s funny how when you are so near dead you cannot stop thinking about your life. 
 
– I understand, but is rather sad that only in moments as this we realize of what we made with our lives and how we are going to be remember. 
 
– Exactly, I just want to be remembered by you… in this years you have become in so much more than my subordinates, you have become my daughters, maybe I should told you this before  
 
– We know it sir, and the feeling is mutual, all of us have adopted you as the father we all lost in one point of this war. 
 
– If I ever…  
 
– Don’t even think about  
 
– Claudia… listen, one day I won’t be here and you will have to fill in my place, you will have to guide them, and not talking about their careers, they will continue shining, but in their personal life  
 
– You are talking about Lisa  
 
– She is the one I fear the most, I don’t want her to follow her father or mine example and end up alone as us, she deserves so much more, she is a great girl 
 
– The best  
 
– Yes the best… it’s a shame about Hunter 
 
– Sometimes you cannot chose whom you are going to give your heart 
 
– I know, but he is a fool for not realizing how much he loves her  
 
– You are so right sir 
 
– You know Claudia you remind so much of my late wife, she was just like you, always focus and thinking about others 
 
– I flatter sir, being compare with such a wonderful woman its an honor 
 
– Indeed she was wonderful 
 
– She must had been, I mean for marrying one of the most incredible men I have ever met 
 
– Where are those girls, we don’t have to much time – answers Gloval kind of ashamed of getting to much personal with one of his subordinates, it was the first time in a long time he had a no military conversation with another human being.  
 
– They must be arriving in any second.  
 
– At least we are going to give a to this old fellow – says while sits on his command chair and takes his pipe out – a dignify farewell, one last battle worthy of history books  
 
– It couldn’t be different,  
 
One day more! 
Another day, another destiny. 
This never-ending road to Calvary; 
These men who seem to know my crime 
Will surely come a second time. 
One day more! 
 
– Yes, it couldn’t be different – “one more day my fried, one more battle, you and I were built in a similar way, built for the battle. Khyron, this will be the last time we face you, but as sure as there will be another day, you won’t be the last enemy we’ll have to face”.  
 
Door suddenly opens and as the wind and those old days Lisa and the bunnies burst into the bridge ready to receive once again orders from that man they all have learned to respect and care, and even love as a father. They all get to their places and start to prepare the take-off…  
 
– Starting counting… four seconds to take-off, three, two… - Claudia’s voice sounds more assure than never  
 
– He loves me – Lisa’s voice is so low that only Claudia can hear her  
 
– One – turns and smiles to her best friend, while Captain Gloval gives the order, and just answers to her – I know  
 
Rick continues focus in his personal battle against all Khyron’s fleet, so focus that he doesn’t even notice the SDF1 rising above the lake.  
 
I did not live until today. 
How can I live when we are parted? 
 
“Why now that I finally come to my senses, that I realized what I feel for you since that kiss in Alaska base… how I would be able to continue without you.” 
 
One day more 
 
– Lisa let all fighters now we are preparing the main weapon  
 
– Yes sir… to all Valkyres  
 
– Lisa it’s that you… “you are saved” 
 
– Yeah Rick, we are on the SDF1 ready to fire the main weapon, get out of there with your squadron.  
 
Tomorrow you'll be worlds away 
And yet with you, my world has started! 
 
– you don’t have to repeat that order, you heard skull, let’s give them a clear shot… by the way Commander I love you  
 
The bridge, except Claudia, and all pilots on the air listen Rick Hunter’s grand love declaration, so unexpected… they are quite shock, but in fact after hearing the SDF1 is there to save them once again, that was a highlight of the day 
 
– I love you too Lieutenant  
 
– Main weapon at its 100 %  
 
– FIRE!!!!!! 
 
A lonely Minmei is watching everything from the ground… she knows who is directing all efforts in the SDF1 and that one the fighters fleeting away at high speed is pilot by  
Rick. 
 
One more day all on my own 
One more day with him not caring. 
What a life I might have known. 
But he never saw me there!  
 
“You are alone Minmei, he doesn’t care about you, at least as you care for him, we could have our whole lives in front of us, only if I…” 
 
On the SDF1 there is no celebration after the only shot left in the fortress impacted Khyron’s ship, SDF1 is free falling returning to its take-off spot in the lake, Lisa is holding as hard as she can to her command counsel trying to prepare herself for the impact that falling without control within tons of steel represents – “I’m going to survive this, I have to do it, I have to be with you Rick”.  
 
Will we ever meet again? 
I was born to be with you. 
And I swear I will be true! 
 
The only thing that Rick can do is flied towards the lake and be there to help the rescue maneuvers to take Gloval’s brave crew out of the wreck – “Come’n gorgeous – thinks while tries to find unsuccessfully a signal from the SDF1 – “static, Hunter if they have energy for a decent landing, so much less for the radio”.  
 
– They are ok boss, Lisa might be bruised but I bet you she is fine  
 
– Thank you Max… could you take the leadership of the squadron, while  
 
– I was about to suggest you the same  
 
– Max…  
 
– What’s up Rick  
 
– Thank you for being with me all these years, in battle and outside it 
 
– Rick we are in a open channel, what would the rest of the squadron think about us  
 
– Stop kidding, all of you skull squadron are my family over the past years 
 
– We know it Rick – now is Miriya who’s answering him  
 
Rick splits the squadron and by doing it Max cannot stop thinking about the last years, how things have change over the years. 
 
One more day before the storm! 
At the barricades of freedom 
When our ranks begin to form 
Will you take your place with me? 
 
“Rainy days and calm days, we have been taking care of each other, of freedom, standing side by side, being a band of brothers, you’ll always have us Rick, you have earn our blind trust for being so much more than a leader, but to be a great friend, go for her and make her happy, you both deserve it.” 
 
Do I follow where she goes? 
Shall I join my brothers there? 
Do I stay; and do I dare? 
 
“I coming Lisa, just hang there a few more minutes, it doesn’t matter if I have to find you in hell, for you I would go… Thanks Max, Miriya, Oka, all of you make my life so much easier.” 
 
The time is now, the day is here  
One day more! 
 
Khyron’s cruse ship has no energy and starts to fall, the only two survivors of the last attack to the SDF1 are the captain of the ship and his inseparable and ironically beloved Azonia, their last breath is used to set the curse to a direct collision into the SDF1, while lovely takes in his hands the delicate hands of the hurt Meltrai seated next to him, the only woman that makes him envy the freedom of the humans to show their feelings.  
 
One more day to revolution, 
We will nip it in the bud! 
I will join these little schoolboys, 
They will wet themselves with blood! 
 
“One day more for a revolution, you were excellent students in the art of war, soon you’ll meet your match and will be you the ones bath in your own blood, this is my last gift for you Azonia, the honor of dying together”.  
 
Azonia’s whish for revenge is as big as the feeling in her wound that Khyron’s manly hands over hers – “so this is what they called love” – the pain she had for the wounds disappears, while the ship approaches SDF1, she is missing that destruction sight because cannot take her eyes away from his face – “there is no greater honor for our race that dying in battle, but for me dying next to you is the biggest love demonstration I can make you”.  
 
The last think both see are their bloody faces, asking if they wouldn’t be mistaken, denying themselves to the “infection”  
 
– It’s an order Sammy…  
 
– No Capitan, there’s plenty room for you…  
 
– ¡Sammy, Kim! – Claudia scream takes all the women inside the escape pod by surprise – we have to follow the direct order given by our command officer  
 
By saying this obligates the little blond girl to get in the pod, which is closed manually by Captain Gloval, the last thing his little girls see is Henry Gloval sad face, the man they all learned to love as a father, making them a military salute.  
 
One day more! 
One day to a new beginning 
Raise the flag of freedom high! 
 
“I’ll give you one day more, Claudia you have to keep you promise, you have to take care of my daughters, make them seize this new beginning I’m giving them, rise together once more the freedom flag” – thinks while sees those five faces with tears falling down, the only ones responding his salute are Claudia and Lisa… his sense and sensibility.  
 
The last thought on his mind at the moment of receiving Khyron’s ship impact goes to the three most important women in his life – “Honey they are like the heroines in your favorite book, Claudia is all sense and Lisa all sensibility even she tries to hide it… honey finally I’m coming home with you”.  
 
In the escape pod five women are sharing tears, Claudia is still holding tenderly Sammy, who looks even smaller, Kim is not really there and just cries quietly, Vanessa with her glasses off is just letting the tears run free and Lisa, Lisa is so sad that doesn’t know if she has more tears to shed. They lost one of the most important men in their lives… that that was so much more than a leader, their mentor, a man that even with his hush and cold ways won the hearts of five women that couldn’t be more different.  
 
– Automatic mechanism was damaged with the impact, that’s why he has to do it manually  
 
– It hadn’t to be like this Claudia  
 
– No, but life is not always fair honey – Lisa just admire how Claudia is a natural mum, because she couldn’t understand a word of what Sammy said – the knew he wouldn’t survive this battle – the other four just sees her trying to understand – I don’t know how, but he knew… he was ready to give his life to protect his girls, he always had.  
 
– His girls… when my father died in Dolzar’s rain, I kind of adopted Captain as his substitute  
 
– We all did Kim – Vanessa was the calmer one of the trio – he always treated as something more than his subordinates.  
 
– I always fantasized about him taking me to the alter, me wearing a beautiful white dress taking his arm and walking down the ail  
 
– While giving you to Rick, I still fantasy about it, despite Roy is not longer with me, when the time comes in a way he will be there.  
 
The pod finally surfaces where the rescuing team is waiting for them, while maneuvers to get them to the shore of the lake, Lisa observes the pile of twisted metal that works as a tombstone of her second father grave.  
 
Every man will be a king 
Every man will be a king 
There's a new world for the winning 
There's a new world to be won 
 
Do you hear the people sing? 
My place is here, I fight with you! 
 
“thank you for giving us a new world, you will always in our hearts, we won’t let your memory to fade, you’ll live on in your five daughters… our place will be continue fighting with you in our minds and souls, thank you daddy, thank you for one day more”.  
 
One day more! 
 
Rick is crushed, he just flies above the lake where now a pile of twisted steel is laying, he cannot notice where the SDF1 end and Khyron’s ship begins… He felt so helpless, he just couldn’t do absolutely anything while the enormous zentraedi cruiser crushed right in the middle of the fortress, he just held to his VT controls watching. He yelled, at least he thought so, he opened his mouth but didn’t hear any sound coming out of it, the node in his throat is so big that he even has problems to breath.  
 
I did not live until today. 
One more day all on my own! 
How can I live when we are parted? 
 
He is heading the shore of the lake, he is looking for the place where he kissed her for the first time, even after all that have changed since that day he could arrive even with his eyes closed, every time that for any reason he couldn’t see he just went there to admire the sight of the SDF1 and the lake and remember that kiss, it is also the place where she faced him to show her wounded soul while pretended that she wasn’t hurt about him and Minmei expending he night together – “I hurt so much, I’m sorry love, and now you…”  
 
By approaching he sees something floating over the water, it is not a piece of metal of any of ships, it’s an escape pod, too similar to those silly balls for hamsters, just floating – “Lisa, it has to be you, I knew it… having Gloval by the side, of course they would make it” – several rescue units are in the place, starting maneuvers to get the pod to shore.  
 
I will join these people's heros 
I will follow where they go 
I will learn their little Secrets, 
I will know the things they know.  
 
One day more! 
 
Decides to modify his course and fly over the city – “Roy, thank you brother, I’d be lost without her” – the sky is mourning what just happened, thick dark clouds mixing with the black smoke from the fires over the city – “we rebuild it again, we always have”.  
 
There are other fights, flying low to try to make a first evaluation of the damages caused by Khyron, at the distance he can see Miriya and Max’s VT’s, red and blue flying side by side – “how many heroes have lost their lives in this war, Roy, Ben, Lisa’s dad, so many other, how many left still willing to fight for the human kind, they have the best school I’d ever had… Max and Miriya, Claudia, Captain Gloval, my beloved Lisa”. 
 
After being rescued along with the girls from the bridge, Lisa is just standing in that spot she calls her own, she cannot explain it but she knows it is exactly there where they celebrated with a kiss the fact they survived the worst battle in history… a kiss started all between them. She rise her sight and sees several fighters flying through the dark sky, Skull squadron guided by the Stearling, several members of the Magenta and others from Alfa and Omega.  
 
Tomorrow you'll be worlds away 
What a life I might have known! 
And yet with you my world has started 
 
One more day to revolution 
We will nip it in the bud 
We'll be ready for these Schoolboys  
 
“What an odd symphony, how the voices of the survives blends with each other, a whole opera resulting from our survival spirit… I guess civilians must be getting out the shelters to offer their help, while those pilots that survived the battle are already evaluating the damages, in some place probably Minmei is regretting still losing Rick, Claudia giving comfort to the girls to overcome our father dead, and the only thing I can regret is that Rick must come and rescue me once again after seeing a father died… to rescue me for a last time.” 
 
Tomorrow we'll be far away, 
Tomorrow is the judgement day 
 
She hears a noise behind her that returns her to reality, turns and an old fellow is landing, the cabin opens and his knight in shiny armor descends jumping to the ground, she just stands there watching him – “I knew you will come, I can count on you” – starts to run to meet him, he literality carries her while she holds him by the neck and he puts his strong hands in her waist – “I finally get my fairytale Dana, he landed and took her in his arms, they hearts beating at the same rhythm”  
 
– I understand the tale this time  
 
– About time 
 
They kiss with passion while continue holding, once again they are celebrating at the shadow of SDF1 that they survive one more battle, both wearing uniform, her is a mess and his is getting as dirty as hers, her red hair looks as rebel as his dark hair.  
 
There is two survives that face the enemy, they are holding while they try to kiss each others soul. Scenario matters less, also the background music formed by the sirens and VT jets flying above them, for Rick and Lisa there’s nothing else that they.  
 
This time they won’t be afraid, they won’t pretend this kiss is just to show they are alive, no this time it is a promise without words that everyday they have is to continue singing in a duet the opera jet to be written.  
 
Tomorrow we'll discover 
What our God in Heaven has in store! 
One more dawn 
One more day 
One day more! 
 
Tomorrow they will find out that God reserves from them, tomorrow they will have a new dawn, a new day to live it along with the rest of the survivors.  

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