World War A

by jediknigh5

My name is Sarah Rosenberg. I was 15 when the aliens first invaded Earth, 16 when I enlisted in the army to fight them. By my 21st birthday the two sides had made peace and I was the mother of a half human half alien child. This is my story.

21. Chapter 21

Chapter 21

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It began to feel like fate was bringing me and David together again. The first time we met seemed to be chance, and it could be just blind dumb luck that we met again in Canada. But to meet a third time, for me to befriend a woman who just happened to be his grandmother, hard to call that luck. But we were still supposed to be enemies, the war was by no means over. But David felt that he had done his part, had fought for his people, killed for them, had even been a P.O.W. David was willing to join Baldwin's militia if it helped protect his grandmother. For the first time he and I were fighting on the same side, more or less.

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With David and myself in the same militia, I could finally admit certain things to myself. I was beginning to fall in love with him, but I wasn't willing to say this outloud. Human and alien romances weren't unheard of by this point, but it was frowned upon. Most of these sexual relationships were at the local brothels. They employed both human and alien sex workers. And sex workers really can't be too picky about who they're willing to service, especially in a war. One veteran said "Why shouldn't the aliens go to brothels? Don't they work just as hard as we do? Don't they need to get laid just as bad as we do?" I don't think it was a coincidence that most of these brothels were near abortion clinics. These sex workers were tolerated if they did what they had to do to survive, but having children who were hybrids, that wasn't tolerated as much. I was still reporting what I saw and heard to colonel Palmer. There wasn't much to say, other than a few people saying how they didn't like humans and aliens mingling, but too many comments from both sides to keep track of all of them. There was one interracial couple, they had a child together. They came into the diner sometimes. Once, I think it was late September or early October, some aliens tried to start an altercation with them, Meg kicked them all out. The next day I heard about the fire. Someone had murdered this couple, and their baby, burned them alive in their apartment. I informed Palmer what had happened, including how I believed that those particular three aliens had murdered them for "race-mixing." I never saw those aliens again. Whether they left to hook up with their army, or whether they were executed for this murder, I honestly don't know, don't really want to know. There are a lot of my actions from the war that I regret, this was not one of them.

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Over the summer David and I brought Esther to the movies, or to baseball games. If he felt anything romantic for me he was hiding it well. There was talk that the war might be over by the end of 2067, that the planet might reach a sustainable number by that point. It felt odd, that I was hoping enough people would die so that the war could be over. But I was also interested in my own survival, there was no prize for close second. But this also meant that both Etocles and Polyneises were doubling their own efforts to take the city, they wanted the glory on their own records before the war came to an end. David and the other aliens in the militia hated those two as much as we did. The militia members just wanted to keep their own families safe, Polyneises and Etocles were willing to slaughter us all over a bet for a case of wine. Baldwin wanted us prepared for if they came at us full force. Earlier there had been some fighting among the militias, particularly human versus alien militias. But now, we all seemed to have a truce going on. Baldwin was able to get some more weapons from the outside. He even put me together with a man who called himself John Galt, I didn't ask his real name. We were both jewish, so we could probably sneak out of the city easier than aliens or gentiles. John Galt and I would sneak out in his car, drive to meet his contacts, get the weapons, and drive back. I wasn't sure if we were stealing these weapons from the american military or the alien military. Probably a little of both. It actually was exciting going on these runs with Galt. And apparently I could now put "Gun runner" on my already extensive resume. I knew I was attracted to him, but I didn't act on it. I very much doubted that I could be with David, but I was in love with him. Ofcourse I had much bigger problems that being attracted to two men, even if one was a human and one was an alien. We all knew that the invasion was coming. Our intelligence suggested that both Etocles and Polyneises had reached out to their old rivals in the military, asking for their help in taking Milwaukee. I hoped for our sake that some of their overtures went unanswered. But there was no question that they were going to hit us with overwhelming strength. At this point, anyone who said they weren't scared was either lying or crazy.