fanfic_name = Waiting for you

chapter = 3

author = SupernovaG

Rating = AP15

Type = Angst

fanfic = A/N: Well I know to up date this fic took me long time, please forgive me. I’ve been receiving your mails where you ask me to post this chapter and I feel very ashamed with you cause I couldn’t do it sooner. But I’ve had a lot of work to do.

Now I want to thanks to all those that had wrote a mail to give me your opinion about this fic. But specially I want to thank to Ana, SnTAngel - Shizuka-naTenshi, SithKnight-Galen, RicknLisafan, Sanien for your reviews.

All the comments, mails and reviews I’ve recived mean a lot to me cause they are the reason I have to continue writing. So thanks everybody for letting me know what you thing about what I’m writing.

Changing the subject, about this chapter I want to let you know there is not going to be much action between Lisa and Rick. But there will be, I promise. I’m as fan as you are of their relationship and of course I know they belong together.

Disclaimer—Robotech or it’s characters does not belong to me... All references to Robotech and its’ characters belong to Harmony Gold, Inc. I just write this as a hobby.

Waiting for You

Part III

The inspection of the factory was exhausting so the only thing, the members of the crew, wanted to do was going to rest. Claudia stayed for a while to reach an agreement with Miriya about the schedule to work, the next day, in the report they two had to prepare for Lisa. Max stayed with them, cause he wanted to go with Miriya to his quarter. It was a very long-working day and he hadn’t seen her since morning in the meeting.

Karl and Thomas were walking together and Rick was walking behind them, cause his way to go to his quarter was the same that Karl and Thomas had to take. Rick was walking so close to Karl and Thomas that he could listen their conversation.

- “Why don’t you come to my quarter to have a coffee? There you tell me about what happened with her” Thomas suggested to Karl.

- “Maybe tomorrow. Lisa is waiting for me, I promised her I was going to see her as soon as I came back.” Karl replied.

Rick was walking slowly cause he felt tired but when he listened that Karl and Thomas were talking about Lisa his eyes grew wider and he quickened his pace in order to get closer to them to listen better their conversation.

- “Oh man, you are so lucky!! Any man would give anything to have a woman like her by his side and you do. I really envy you.” Thomas told Karl.

- “I know, Thomas. She’s the most amazing woman in universe.” Karl responded and smiled.

- “Sure she is, Karl. So are you going to stay with her tonight? Thomas asked.

- “Probably” Karl answered and smirked.

When Rick listened Karl’s answered he felt it made his blood boil, cause Rick for a moment imagined what could happen between Lisa and Karl. “Stayed with her!! Who does Riber think he is to decide if he stays with Lisa at night or not??” Rick thought in anger. So he followed them to see with his own eyes that Karl was going to stay with Lisa, cause this was hard to believe, though Karl said he stayed the night before with her, he wouldn’t believe it till his eyes see it.

They walked through the hall till Thomas and Karl arrived to Lisa’s quarter and stopped in front of the door. Rick hid in a corner to see what Thomas and Karl were going to do. Thomas said good bye to Karl and continued walking. Riber introduced his right hand in his pocket to pull a key card out of his pocket and used it to open the door of Lisa’s quarter.

- “What!! But Lisa asked him to knocked at the door when he comes to see her. Well, maybe he eventually persuaded her that it was better to give him the liberty of entering or leaving whenever he wanted.” Rick thought at the moment he saw Karl getting in Lisa’s quarter.

Rick walked to his quarter trying to avoid the images that came to his mind when he thought about everything that could happen between Lisa and Karl that night. “Come on, Rick!! Lisa is just your friend. What the hell are you doing by following Riber to see what he does with Lisa?? It’s none of your business Hunter!! You’re acting as if you were a jelous teenager.” Rick complained about the way he was behaving. He arrived to his quarter and decided to take a hot shower so that he could feel better and he could rest. Also he wanted to get Lisa out of his head.

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Lisa was slept, lying down on the couch and holding a book in her hands, only a table lamp was on and it was illuminating her face. Karl entered to Lisa’s quarter and smiled when he saw her. He walked in order to get closer to the couch. Karl approached to Lisa and got on his knees so that he could see better her face. He got closer to her face,with his left hand he began to brush the hair away from her face so he could get a better view of her face and caressed her right cheek. Karl smiled once again when he felt the contact with her skin. “Oh Lizzie!! It seems the tea I gave you last night was too much. I’ll be more careful the next time, I just want you to feel and look a little sick but I also want you to feel good enough to go to work.” Karl whispered and got closer to kiss her in the lips.

Lisa felt the contact of Karl’s lips and opened her eyes immediately. She was taken off guard when saw that Karl was the person who was kissing her. She didn’t know if she was dreaming but when Karl tried to deep the kiss then Lisa realized she was awake. She let go of the book she was holding and tried to push Karl away.

- “Karl! What are you doing?! Lisa said while she tried to sat up, but Karl didn’t let her. First he took her by her shoulders to face her.

Karl looked at Lisa intently and later he hugged her, he was hugging her so tightly that she couldn’t move and he whispered in her ear. “I’m sorry Lizzie, I couldn’t control my self. It’s just that I miss so much to be this close to you.”

- “Then, why didn’t you come back before??” Lisa asked.

When Karl heard Lisa’s question, he released her and helped her to sit up. “That’s why I came to see you. It’s time to tell you everything that happened . But first I’m going to make some tea for us.”

Lisa just nodded and followed Karl with her eyes. She started to feel scared, now she wasn’t sure if she wanted to know the truth. “What if his reasons were worse than the ones in my dream?” She wondered.

Lisa stayed in the couch trying to imagine all the posible reasons Karl could have for missing so many years. But she didn’t find a coherent argument. She thought about it till Riber returned with a cup of tea.

- “Are you fine Lizzie?” Karl asked.

- “Yes, why do you ask?” Lisa replied.

- “Well, you’re very pale, but drink this tea, you will feel better.” Karl said and gave to Lisa a cup of tea and sat next to her.

- “Thanks” Lisa said and sipped her tea. “I’ve felt a little dizzy, but nothing important.”

- “Really?! Do you want me to call a doctor to come to see you?, or if you want I can take care of you tonight, just in case you need something.” Karl said with concern.

Lisa appreciated Karl’s offer, but she didn’t feel the confidece to ask him something. “It’s all right, Karl. I can take care of my self, if I could do it all this years, I can do it for one night.”

Karl noticed what Lisa said sound as a recrimination and tried to calm her down. “I’m sorry for all you had to pass through by yourself. But from now on if you need something or someone I’m here for you. You are the only reason for me to be here. I know there’s no reason to believe me, but let’s talk about what happened.”

-“That’s what I’m waiting for since you reappeared” Lisa said with annoyance.

Karl stood up and walked to stopped in front of Lisa. He noticed Lisa was angry and decided to start to talk but faced away from her. “I didn’t die in the destruction of the Mars return fleet when it was destroyed by the Anti-U.N. Military Organization cause I stayed in Mars to carry out a secret mission that your father entrusted me. That’s why I didn’t die.”

Lisa’s eyes grew wider when she listened that her father knew Riber didn’t die. “You mean, my father knew all the time that you were alive?? Lisa asked incredulous.”

- “At the begining he didn’t know. Some years later he found out I was alive.” Karl answered.

- “But how could he let me suffer for you, when he knew you didn’t die?” Lisa said in anger and some tears started to well up in her eyes. “How could you two fool me in that way?! Why?” She couldn’t believe her father hid the truth about Karl.

- “Please Lizzie!” Karl said but Lisa didn’t let him finish to talk.

- “DON’T CALL ME LIZZIE!! You don’t have any right to do it!” Lisa shouted at him angrily. She felt angry cause it really annoyed her when somebody lies to her and the fact that even her father knew Karl was alive made her to get really angry. She always thought her father didn’t trust her and she had the feeling he always wanted to control her life, now she was sure about it.

- “Maybe you are right. I don’t have any right to be with you or to call you Lizzie, but why don’t you listen to me first? Later you decide if you blame your father and me for all you have suffered.” Karl said.

-“Is there any good reason to listen to you?” Lisa asked

- “Please, listen to me and later if you want it you will never ever see me again.” Karl replied sadly.

- “Ok, Karl. I hope your story be good enough.” Lisa said sarcastically.

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Karl started to relate her his story. “I was reading some files in my laboratory in Mars Base when someone knocked at the door and entered immediately.”

- “Hey Riber!! Admiral Hayes wants to talk to you.” A lieutenant said

- “To me? Why? I mean, do you know what he wants, Graham?” Karl asked

- “No, I’m sorry, I have no idea. But must be very important cause he is here in person.” Graham replied.

-“Here?! I don’t like this, maybe something happened to Lisa! Where is he??” Karl said worried

- “He is waiting for you in your quarter.” Graham answered.

- “Thanks, I’m going to see what he is here for.” Karl said and left from the laboratory to go to his quarter.

-“I opened the door and saw Admiral Hayes was holding a photo that I used to had in my desk.The same you have here.” Karl told Lisa.

- “Admiral Hayes, lieutenant Riber reporting, sir.” Karl said and saluted.

- “At ease lieutenant!” Admiral Hayes replied.

- “Yes sir, please take a seat” Karl said ashammed.

- “Thanks, Karl. How are you?” Admiral Hayes asked while he sat on a chair.

- “I’m fine, thanks. Please Admiral tell me the truth, is Lisa fine?” Karl said with concern.

- “Of course she is not and it's all your fault. She misses you too much” Admiral Hayes answered.

Karl breathed a sigh of relief, he was very worried about Lisa but Admiral Hayes’s answer calmed him down. “Then sir, I don’t understand why you are here for.”

- “Karl, I never liked that you and Lisa had a relationship but I’m sure that if she trusts you then I can trust you too.” Admiral Hayes said.

-“Thanks sir, but I still don’t understand why you want to see me.” Karl replied.

- “We suspect something strange is happening here.” Admiral Hayes explained.

- “What do you mean?” Karl asked confused.

- “Some reports tell us that Anti-U.N. Military Organization members infiltrated here in the Base as U.N. forces personnel. That’s why when the Mars return fleet goes back to earht you are going to stay here to accomplish a secret mission.”

- “But sir, I’ve been waiting for so long to meet again with Lisa, I knew the biggest mistake I’ve ever made in my life was to leave her to come here. But now I understand better the things and I just want to go back to ask for her forgiveness.”

- “Everybody takes bad decisions Karl, don’t worry about that. But now I need you to stay here, this is going to take you just a pair of days and later you can go back.”

- “But Sir...”

- “Please Karl, listen to me. Not only Lisa’s life but also humanity welfare depends on this mission.”

- “What?! But why? I really don’t understan anything.”

- “As I told you we believe there are some spies here in the Base, so I need you to choose two persons you trust in to help you. They are going to wait here for you to help you with the communication just in case you need something or if you had an accident. But only you are going to carry out the mission, no one must to know about what you’ll do.”

- “And What is this mission about?” Karl asked.

- “Do you remember the last expedition you went on when you found a strange cave and you detected some kind of activity?” Admiral Hayes said.

- “Yes, of course.” Karl answered.

- “Well we’ve been monitoring the activity closely. And we think there is something very important there, We have an idea about what it is but I won’t tell you anything till you finish the mission. I rather to keep it in secret till you come back.” Admiral Hayes replied.

- “So what you want is that I get inside the cave to see what is there ?” Karl asked

- “Yes, that’s exactly what I want.” Admiral Hayes answered.

- “Fine Sir. When do I start? Karl said.

- “As you know the personnel is going to return to Earht in three days, so that day you start the mission and as soon as you finish with the inspection and your report you’ll communicate with Alaska Base to tell them you have repaired the flaw in the security sistem of the Mars Base and tell them you will return to Earth. This is the same thing you’ll tell the other two guys that will stay here with you.” Admiral Hayes explain to Riber.

- “Admiral, people...well... they are going to ask me about your presence here in the base”Karl said.

- “Well there’s only one thing we have in common, so you are going to tell people I came to ask you to leave Lisa” Admiral Hayes replied.

-“Are you sure Admiral” Karl asked.

- “Yes Karl. There are many rumours about I don't approve your relationship with Lisa.” Admiral Hayes answered

- “Then, that’s what I’ll do.”Karl said.

- “Thanks Karl, I knew you wouldn’t let me down. No I have to go, please be safe so that Lisa and you can be together soon.”

- “Sure. Sir, I’ll be. Please take care of Lisa while I’m away from her.” Karl replied

- “Admiral Hayes said good bye and left to Earth. I spent that night thinking about who was going to help me and I chose my two best friends to stayed with me and I told them we were going to stay to repair a flaw in the security sistem of the Base. That they were just going to stay to help me just in case I need it, but that was all their job.” Karl told Lisa.

- “So, you three didn’t die and you were enjoying your life since that moment.” Lisa said angrily.

- “Of course not, in that moment I began to live the most horrible nightmare in my life. Please, let me continue” Karl replied.

- “Ok, go on. But explain to me why people said your body was found.” Lisa said.

- “Well, the day when everybody but me and my friends, were going to return to Earth came. I wake up early cause I was very anxious to get ready to leave for carrying out my mission. I was finishing packing some toolls I was going to need when somebody knocked at my door so I went to open the door.” Karl continued telling Lisa his story.

- “Good morning Karl” Graham said

- “Hey Graham!! What’s up?? Karl replied

- “ I’m sorry for disturbing you so early but I need a favor.” Graham said

- “Sure man, what is it??” Karl asked

- “Well it’s just that I lost my ID card and I need to get into the laboratory to finish a report I have to deliver when I arrive to Earth. So I was wondering if you could lend me yours, if you don’t mine.” Graham explained.

- “Of course I don’t mind, just wait a minute.”Karl said and went to his bedroom and took his ID card. “Here you have, Graham. Just be careful with it, I hope you finish soon your report.”

- “Thanks man, I owe you one.” Graham said.

- “Never mind and please keep it my ID card till we see each other on Earth.”Karl told Graham

- “Ok, Karl and thanks once again”Graham replied.

- “When they found Graham’s body people thought it was me due to the ID Card I let him that morning. Anyway as I was saying an hour after Graham left my quarter, I left to go to the hangar. I had to fly the shuttle because nobody else knew about the mission. When I arrived to the cave I went inside to try to find the activity the radar was showing. The cave was enourmus and it took me two hours to find the exactly place where the signal came. What I found was amazing in front of me there was a building.

The door was opened so I entered. I found a kind of enormous laboratory and inside the laboratory there were some transparent containers with an strange kind of material inside, and some were metal containers, but they all were locked. Also the facilities were very strange. I spent long time trying to understand what this place was. It was amazing and it was a technology I had never seen before. So I took pictures of everything I found.

I was checking the facilities when I realized I had spent too much time and it could be suspicious for my partners that stayed in the Base. So I decided it was time to return.

When I arrived to the Base I noticed something was wrong cause there wasn’t any kind of activity from the bridge control in the radar and when I requested the permission to land the shuttle there wasn’t an answer. This situation worried me very much. So I land the shuttle and ran towards the Base.

Inside the bridge control I found nobody so I started to look for the others in the rest of the Base. After half an hour, in a meeting room, I found my partners’ bodies lying on the floor and covered with blood. when I saw my friends’ bodies covered with blood I just felt numb. I stood motionless for some minutes in front of the bodies. Later I realized what happened, I started to walk in the direction of the bodies and I was going to touch one of them when something hit my head and everything became black.

When I woke up a headache was killing me, I didn’t know where I was, cause I was blindfold. I tried to get free cause I was tied hand and foot, lying on the floor but I couldn’t. A man got close to me, when he saw I was moving, and started to whisper in my ear.”

-“Riber, how are you? You lazy boy, you’ve been slept for a weak, but don’t worry you’ll compensate us for taking care of you. First let me tell you, you are our most important hostage. Oh man!! we are so lucky to have Admiral Hayes’s son-in-law as a hostage, that’s why you’re alive. The Admiral Hayes would do anything to keep you alive and we’re going to take advantage of that. But don’t have hope of leaving us soon. As I told you, you have to pay for the days we took care of you so you are going to be for sometime our raw material.” A strange man told me.

- “That was the last moment of lucidity I had. After that I'm hazy about what happened. I remembered they gave me injections and they made me drowsy. I guess I was unconscious for long-time stints. Cause I don’t remember almost anything about those years.” Karl said.

- “How did you scape from them?? Or they released you?” Lisa asked inquisitively.

- “When I did regain consciousness I was in a hospital. I was confused I didn’t know where I was, I was wondering about all the situation when a nurse came to me and told me that a relative was coming to see me. Some minutes later your father came in my room. At the moment he saw me his face crumpled and he started to cry. I didn’t understand very well what was happening. But when your father calm down he explained to me everything.”

-“What happened to me? What am I in hospital bed?” Karl asked in a whisper.

- “Shhh, you shouldn’t talk, you need to rest. Close your eyes while I explain to you what happened.” The Admiral Hayes said, and he started telling Karl the story “You were kidnapped by Anti-U.N. Military Organization members, when you stayed in Mars Base, and we thought for a couple of years you were dead but your kidnappers began to ask a payment for your rescue three months ago then I realized you were alive. We worked very hard to find out where you were and when we knew it we prepared a rescue operation. The group that was in charge of the operation rescued you three days ago and I came as soon as the nurse told me that you had woken up. I’m sorry Karl, please forgive me I didn’t mean to put you at risk” Admiral Hayes bursted into tears. “I also want you to apologize me for the delay it took us to rescue you.”

- “It’s ok Admiral, you don’t need to apologize with me. It was nobody’s fault.” Karl replaid

- “Thanks Karl, you’re a great person. Now I understand why Lisa was so in love with you.”

- “Lisa! How...How is she? Karl said with a very weak voice.

- “She’s fine Karl, but now let’s care just about your health, and when you get well you’ll see her o.k.?”The Admiral Hayes suggested to Karl and Karl just nodded “Karl,now tell me how are you ? How do you feel?” Admiral Hayes asked.

- “I´m fine, I guess. I just feel feeble, a little dizzy and I have headache.”Karl answered.

-“It’s normal, you were injured by long time, but you have to be strong to recover.” Admiral Hayes told Karl.

-“Your father usually went to see me at the hospital, he was very worried about me cause the doctors told him my health was frail and they thought for long time I was going to die. That’s why he didn’t tell you anything about me, he didn’t want you to suffered twice if I really died at that time.I was still dying when you returned to the Earth and stayed here with your father in Alaska Base. He sent me to the SDF-1 so that you didn’t find out I was still alive cause it was almost imposible that I survive. It was till the SDF-1 returned to the Earth after the destruction of our planet that I began to recover thanks to Dr. Lang’s help. Was till Dr. Lang decided I was fully recovered that he and Gloval let me reappeared in front of you.” Karl said with a trace of sadness in his voice. “I’m still in medical treatment but just to recover for complete cause my life is no more in risk.”

When Karl finished to speak Lisa was speechless, trying to process all the information that Karl had told her. She knew what he said was all true, she could see it in his eyes. But she didn’t know what to say cause she felt more confused than she was when Karl reappeared cause she never thought that Karl had suffered that much for all those years and she felt very bad for him when she imagined all the pain, sadness and loneliness he had to go through to be there in front of her.

Karl was looking at Lisa trying to know what she was thinking about what he had told her. For some seconds Lisa looked at him and he knew she believed him.

Lisa was looking at the floor trying to think what she could tell Karl, when his voice attracted her attention.

- “Please forgive me” Karl said and it sounded as a plea.

Lisa opened wide her eyes when she listened Karl’s request. “Forgive you?! What are you talking about?!

- “I know my absence hurt you for many years and I’m not just talking about the time when you believed I was dead. I also want you to forgive me for the great mistake I made when I decided to go to Mars instead of staying with you. I know I hurt you even though I didn’t mean it I did it and I’m so sorry for that.” Karl said and a tear fell by his right cheek.

Karl was surprised by Lisa when she got up from the couch and walked in his direction. She stopped a pair of steps away from him an with her left thumb she wiped his tear. Karl took her hand and looked at her, he saw some tears started to well up in her eyes and with his free hand he caressed her cheek and talked to her. “Please Lizzie, forgive me.”

Lisa heard those words and she couldn’t handle the sadness and bitterness she felt. Lisa hugged Karl and started to cry freely. All the things Karl had told her reminded her all the pain and loneliness she went through since the day he left her to go to Mars Base. But she felt worse cause she thought it was her fault that Karl suffered such horrible things.

Karl was surprised by Lisa’s hug but he hugged her too, he could felt Lisa’s body was shaking. Then Karl smirked, he knew Lisa so well that he was sure she felt guilty for all the things that happened to him. He knew Lisa was a great human being and that she would do anything to make up for all the things he had to go through the last years.

-“Please Karl, forgive me.” Lisa said still crying.

Karl got a part from her, no breaking the embrance so that he could look at Lisa in the eyes. “What are you talking about?! What did you do so that I have to forgive you?!

The tears were still falling by Lisa’s cheeks. “Cause everything that happened to you was all my fault.”

- “Are you crazy Lisa, What are you talking about?!” Karl replied.

- “It’s...I...If you hadn’t been my fiancé that people wouldn’t have hurt you. It was also my fault that my father left you in Mars Base.” Lisa said and hid her head in Karl’s chest.

- “Lisa, look at me” Karl said taking her face in his hands. “Don’t ever said that again, nothing that happened was your fault, you hear me?” Karl asked her.

Lisa just stared at him, she didn’t answered and Karl continue talking to her. “I don’t care what happened, if that was the price I had to pay for being with you I’ll pay it as many times as it would be necesary just to be by your side.” Karl told Lisa and he hugged Lisa once again. She responsed his embrance.

Lisa thought it was so unfair that she was a part, for so many years, from the only man that really loved her. And now he was there, infront of her, still loving her, no matter what happened he still loved her and she felt worse about Karl cause no she was in love of someone else, someone from she was apart now. “Rick” She thought. “I wish you loved me as Karl does.” Lisa tightened her embrance, thinking how so unfair the life could be with her and wishing that the man that was holding her in his arms were Rick and not Karl.

Karl didn’t understand very well why Lisa was clinging to him in that way, as if her life depended on it. But he didn’t care about the reasons she had to hugged him in that way. He was really enjoying to seer her so vulnerable cause her emotional mood would make easier to get closer to Lisa in order to recover her love.

- “Lizzie I love you and I missed you so much all this time” Karl said.

Lisa was lost in her thoughts till she heard Karl’s voice. She separated a little from Karl and she felt guilty cause she was thinking about Rick when she was in Karl’s arms. She felt really bad about that situation. And now that Karl had told her what his feelings about her were she didn’t know what to say and how to behave with him and how to tell him that she didn’t love him anymore.

Karl saw that Lisa was taken off guard by his words and he caressed her cheek to try to get a responsed from her.

- “Karl...I...I don’t know what to say...I’m confused right now cause everything has happened, has overwhelmed me. Please give me time.” Lisa replied not wanting to hurt Riber, cause she thought that he had suffered too much.

Karl felt anger when he heard Lisa’s answered but he pretended to understand her. “It’s ok Lizzie I understand perfectly the way you feel and I can wait as long as it’s necesary to be with you again. Now I better go, it’s late and I’m sure you need to think about everything I’ve told you.” Karl said, kissed Lisa in the forehead and broke their embrance to leave from her quarter.

When Karl left from her quarter, Lisa sighed. She felt overburdened with doubts and worries tha Karl’s reapearence brought with it. She was sure she loved Rick but she knew her love for him was an unrequited love. But she thought it was unfair to accept Karl just because Rick didn’t love her. All those thoughts made Lisa to feel an inmense uncertainty abuot the direction that her life was going to take. She thought it was better to try to shelter in her job so that nothing could disturb her while she had to work in the Factory. She thought it was better to decide what it was going to pass with her life till she went back to the Earth.

Lisa sight once again and decide it was time to go to sleep cause the next day she had to go to work.

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