Can a second chance change it all?
Chapter 5
Everything I do I do it for you
Author: Jo
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters of Robotech or Robotech; I'm just doing this for fun. Well, maybe the personality of Riber is mine (he is my ideal man)
To: to K71 for been my beta now (thank you so much, specially for check this one), for all the members of the forum and of course to Carla
Lisa woke up, but keep her eyes closed, for some reason she felt so secure, so safe and warm this morning, like she haven't feel in years, and then a smell was all that she needed to understand why she felt that way.
It was Karl's perfume, it was his embrace what makes her feel so safe and happy, then she remember that she fall sleep holding him, in the middle of the movie that he has rent.
She hold him a little bit more tight and slowly rise her head to check out how late it was and if Karl was sleeping too, by the time that she raised her head enough to look at him, she found Karl's eyes looking at her
"Good morning sleeping beauty" he said with smile
"What time is it?" ask Lisa with a sleepy voice and with her eyes barely open
"Don't know, but probably late in the morning" answer Karl
"I fell sleep" said Lisa trying to remove her hair from her face
"Yeah and in the middle of my movie" said Karl with a hurt voice
"I'm so sorry, I didn't realized"
"Yeah, sure, I watched all your movie and you fall sleep at the middle of mine"
"I'm so sorry I'll promise that I'll watch the movie again" said Lisa with a guilty voice, but Karl only look at her with a frown
"I'll promise I'll make up to you" she said and gave him a kiss in his cheek
"You better be" he said and hold her
"It's been so much time since the last time that I sleep until late" she said closing her eyes and resting her head in his chest
"I guess that you have a pretty busy life"
"More than what you can imagine, and beside work was all that I have" she said with a sad voice
"You have me now" he said kissing her in the forehead
"And that's all that I need" Lisa said looking at him in the eyes, Karl also look at her in the eyes and they just stood There looking at each other, telling to each other how much they love each other with no words.
Suddenly Karl broke the silence "I forgot, your cell phone rang early in the morning" he said
"My cell phone" said Lisa jumping out of bed to reach the phone "Why don't you wake me up?"
"Because it only rang once I figure it out that if it was something important they call again" he said seating on the bed
"Probably" said Lisa more to her self than for Karl and check her cell phone. She only has two unread text messages in her mailbox, so she open her cell phone and check the messages.
The first one was set at 05.00 am and it was from Roy
"Come back soon! We need you, your replacement can't distinguish an asteroid form a battle pod, she has made us do 4 emergency flights for nothing!. Please come back, I miss you, I need you, I want you!"
Lisa fished to read the message and smile, she can imagine how pissed off Roy should have been to send her a message at that time
Then she read the other message and it was from Roy too, and it was send it to at 05.08 am
"I forgot something, is my clothes transferring my charmed to your boyfriend? Have fun :) and you know what I mean. I've got the feeling that someone will have a big smile on Monday and it wasn't be me or Claudia, thanks to your replacement (, sorry for the late message hope I haven't interrupt something"
Lisa smile wider when she finished of read Roy's message, Roy always have been some kind of over protective friend, and even when they don't show it too much in public they loved each other very much, and she was very happy that her friend was happy for her.
"It was something important?" ask Karl
"No, it was just Roy, joking" said Lisa smiling and leaving her cell phone in her coffee table
"He is the one that borrowed me the clothes right?" ask Karl
"Yes, he is one of my closes friend, and he is the boyfriend of my best friend"
"Claudia?" ask Karl smiling
"Yes, we are friends practically since I finish academy"
"I would like to meet them"
"Sure, it would be nice, we must go out some time, like in a double date"
"Yes, I would love to meet the people that has take care of you when I wasn't there"
"Karl" said Lisa a little sad
"It's just that I want to meet your friends, see how you lived all this time"
"There's not to much to see, but my friends are great, I'm sure that you are going to love them"
"If you love them, then I would love them" said Karl smiling and kiss her.
They stood in bed for a while, until finally Karl get up and went to the bathroom to take a shower, Lisa stood in bed until he left the bathroom and then she take a shower.
They cook together lunch, between Karl's jokes about how complicated Lisa was trying to cook, they eat and finally they leave Lisa's house and went to the park to buy some ice cream as a dissert.
They bought the ice cream and seat in a branch to share what they have bought and to talk for a while, when they finished the ice cream they hold hands and start to walk, they had walk a few steps when they stop at the park section where some kids were playing. They look into each other's eyes and kiss
"You know, I hope that some day I'll have one of those" said Karl holding Lisa from behind making her smile
"It would be nice" she said and rest her head in his chest "there's no one else whom I would like to start a family" said Lisa
"Me neither" said Karl and kiss her in the corner of her forehead, they look at the kids that were playing for a few moments and then they start to walk again, but a kid come running into their direction and crush against Karl making him step back and hit his hurt shoulder against a tree
"Karl" said Lisa worried
"I'm fine" said Karl hiding his pain and then he look at the boy "How about you little fellow are you ok?" he ask
"Yes I am, and you mister?" ask the little boy embarrassed
"I'm fine" said Karl
"Charlie, you need to be more carefully honey, you could have crush against the tree and get hurt" said Lisa walking next to the boy, that was the son of one of the bridge assistance operators
"I know" said the boy looking at the ground
"Where's your mom?" ask Lisa but the kid that was chasing Charlie arrived to the place and took Charlie's arm
"Gotcha" said the kid
"That's not true I was talking with aunt Lisa" said Charlie
"it's true now is your turn to chase" said the kid
"No is not" reply Charlie
"Yes it is"
"No is not"
"Hey Kids, kids" said Karl making the kids look at him in silence "why don't you two start to run and I'll chase you two, the first one that I caught will be the one that will chase" said Karl with a smile
"Yeah!" said the two kids and start to run immediately. Karl runs after them after a few moments. Lisa looks at him with a sweet smile, Karl catches Charlie first and then Charlie start to chase the other Kid and Karl walked back to Lisa
"Hey, those kids run faster than what they should" said Karl trying to recover his breath
"You are so amazing" said Lisa holding him "I love you" she said and kiss him
"I think that I should chase kids more often" said Karl when they break the sweet kiss and start to walk to Lisa's home holding each other.
Karl entered to the bathroom, since he has come back form the park; he has felt pain in his shoulder. Now he was looking at it in the mirror and has cheek that it was bleeding, he tried to treat it him self and after about 10 attempts he admitted that he need Lisa's help, he decided to try to cure it him self one more time and finally open shyly the bathroom door and call Lisa's name
"Lisa" said Karl from the bathroom door and after a few seconds Lisa appear in the bedroom
"Yes" said Lisa and when she saw Karl with his shirt open and his torso uncovered she froze and felt that she was starting to flush
"I, I have troubles with my wound and … well.. I need your help"
"Oh.. sure" said Lisa and after a few seconds she came closer to him "What happen?"
"It's bleeding in the back of my shoulder and I can't bandage it"
"Maybe we should go to the infirmary," said Lisa avoiding look at Karl's eyes
"Is not necessary, I just need to bandage it, well your help to do it," said Karl a little bit ashamed too
"Ok, but the light of the bathroom is better" said Lisa
"Yes, true" said Karl confused and entered the bathroom fallowed by Lisa, she took a bottle with iodine and a gauze to clean Karl's wound first
"Well" said Lisa looking at Karl shyly waiting for him to take his shirt off
"Well" said Karl looking at Lisa
"Your shirt" said Lisa looking at the ground
"Oh, sure my shirt" said Karl and flush and then slowly slip his shirt until his elbows, action that was followed by Lisa move by move, she look at him by the corner of her eyes and she felt how her heart beat faster with every inch that the shirt slip
"Now I'm ready" said Karl with a smile when his shirt stops in his elbows
Lisa clear her throat "Good" she finally was able to said and wet the gauze with the iodine and when she was about to leave the bottle over the washstand, the bottle almost fell to the floor, making Lisa more nervous and making Karl smile a little. Lisa came closer to Karl again and raised her hand to cure his wound and the way that her hands were shaking was evident for Karl
"I can't believe that I'm this nervous, is not like I haven't see you…. " Said Lisa and bend her head down to avoid looking at Karl
"Naked before?" said Karl in a rush
"With out your shirt" said Lisa embarrassed and then she look at Karl in the eyes, who was flushing, what make her flush too. Finally she came closer to him again until only a few inches separated them and she start to cure Karl's wound and for doing that she first rest one of her hands over Karl's naked chest making him gave a jump
"I'm sorry, cold hands" said Lisa with a nervous smile
"Always" said Karl smiling too and finally Lisa start to cure Karl's wound, then she bandaged it, when she finished she slip her hands across Karl's chest and rise shyly her eyes
"Ready" said Lisa with a soft voice, Karl only look at her in the eyes and came closer to her and gave her a kiss in her forehead
"Thanks" said Karl with his lips still on Lisa's forehead
"You have nothing to thank for" said Lisa and look again into Karl's eyes and she could see how his eyes sparkle and look at her with intensity, probably the same intensity with what she was looking at him, because all of a sudden they found them self kissing each other, the most passionately kiss that they had share.
Karl drag her closer to him with strength and she rest her hands again in his chest
They break the kiss when they need to breath again and they look into each other eyes briefly and they noticed the fire that sparkle in their eyes, after all there has been eight years since the last time that they were together
Lisa starts to kiss softly all the line of Karl's jaw, until she arrived to his ear and then she start to go down to his neck.
Karl at the same time has sink his nose in Lisa's hair that was around her neck and has start to kiss Lisa's neck while his hand travel across her back, making her feel like electric shivers travel across her spine making her breath more agitated
They start to kiss again and when they break the kiss Lisa found her self trapped between Karl and the washstand, in fact Karl was holding her with strength with his good arm and the distance between them was almost inexistent. Lisa slip softly and slowly Karl's shirt until she undo of it, then her hands followed Karl's arms contour and finally she stop in his neck and they kiss again, with desire, with the desire that has waited for to long to came out.
Karl started to kiss Lisa's neck again and his hands slip under Lisa's t-shirt by the corner of her waist and then moved to her back and from there start to raise leaving Lisa's skin exposed. The touch of Karl's hand over her naked skin make her more and more difficult to breath, Lisa start to play with Karl's hair that was behind his neck and kiss the spot where his neck merge with his shoulder and if it was possible she came even more closer to him and by doing that she noticed his anticipation, what make her gave a little nervous smile an then she followed kissing Karl's shoulder
Karl has start to move his hand to the upper part of Lisa's stomach and while he do that he continued leaving Lisa's skin exposed, then he move her hand to her back to the point that he could feel her bra, she sly her hands across Karl stomach while she continued kissing his shoulder
When Karl start to play with the hook of Lisa's bra, they both look into each other eyes and then start to kiss passionately again when suddenly the phone start to ring, after a few seconds they break the kiss and Lisa sink her head in Karl's shoulder and he rest his head in her forehead while he still hold her.
The phone keeps ringing until finally stops and Karl start to kiss Lisa's neck again but the phone start to ring again and he said "I think it would be better if you answer the phone"
"Mhhh" was all that Lisa's said while she kiss Karl's neck and then she start to walk away from him and they look in the eyes "It could be an emergency" said Lisa finally
"I could be" said Karla and Lisa start to walk to answer the phone but Karl hold her by her wrist and bring her closer to him and gave her a quick and passionately kiss, kiss that Lisa answer and before leave she bit his lower lip softly and walk away faster
Before she answer the phone, she fix her clothes and her hair and finally pick up the phone
"Commander Hayes" said Lisa with her voice still agitated
"Well, well I hope I haven't interrupted something" said the voice of Claudia at the other side of the phone
"Claudia?" said Lisa with a little upset tone
"Who else, how's your weekend going?" ask Claudia funny
"Not bad"
"How lucky some people are"
"Very funny, what do you want?" ask Lisa serious
"You see Lisa, we are finishing the relocation paperwork and I need to know if you already ask him"
"Well no, I haven't ask him yet"
"What do you mean with you haven't ask him yet? Lisa you should have ask him before he leave the hospital"
"I know is just that I don't want to force things"
"Lisa honey I know that there has been a long time since the last time that you were with him and that deal with formal issues is not your priority, but you have to ask him"
"I know Claudia, it's just that I don't want to force things, I don't want that he felt like I'm pressure him with questions"
"I understand you Lisa, but you have to, we need you to ask him"
"Fine, I'll ask him today" said Lisa upset
"Ok, so tomorrow you will give me the information"
"Fine, bye"
"Bye, oh one more thing"
"What?"
"Enjoy your afternoon for me would you, I have a shift of 12 hours"
"Very funny Claudia, very funny" Said Lisa now more relax and hung up. She remains seat in the couch, thinking in how will she ask Karl what she need to ask him, until finally it was Karl him self who took her out of her thoughts
"Who was it?" ask Karl when he appear in the Living room with his shirt on and his arm in his sling
"Ah, oh it was Claudia" said Lisa sitting straight
"Something happen? An emergency?"
"No, fortunately nothing happen"
"Then why you have that worried face?"
"Well you see, I need to ask you some questions" said Lisa and Karl seat in front of her looking at her with attention
"Tell me" said Karl
"You know that we are in war and that we lost officers in every fight that we have with the enemy and the soldiers that we have are barely enough to full fit the activities that must be done" said Lisa and made a pause "I, we, the RDF, need to know what your status is, if you will continue as an RDF officer or if you will retired, like most of your friends from Mars do" said Lisa and stay there looking at Karl in the eyes
"Wow, mm, do you need the answer right now?" said Karl moving in his couch
"I think so, You see, the dead date for the relocation is closer and we need to know what your military status is, if you will remain with the RDF or not"
Karl remain in silence for a while "You see Lisa, all these years that I was trapped in Mars, all those years gave me enough time to think in the decisions that I made in my life, in the mistakes that I made, in all the dreams that I have, all those years made my ideals more stronger" said Karl and remain in silence again
"I know very well the ideals that you have on Earth and I understand perfectly well your decision, I know that you leave Earth because of the war and I understand that you want to remain away from it" said Lisa and look at the ground in this occasion "It's perfectly understandable that you want to quit" said Lisa with a bittersweet smile
"Certainly the peace is one of my ideals and it was because of the war that I leave Earth, because then I wasn't ready for war and certainly I'm not ready for war now" said Karl bend down a little more close to Lisa, resting his right hand in her leg "I think I'll never be ready for war" said Karl with a lost voice
"Non of us is" said Lisa with a soft voice
"But I understood in those years that the search for peace requires some sacrifices, that want peace is not enough, that you need to search and fight for it, that I can't remain seat here waiting for things to solve by them self, that doesn't happen" said Karl with a smile, bittersweet one "I'm not the coward and selfish teenager that run away from Earth because he couldn't stand the war, I'm no longer the egocentric kid that was capable of leave you behind because he wasn't capable to face what he had to do, I'm not that kid anymore" said Karl with a broken voice, he clear his throat and continued
"Now I understand perfectly well my mistakes and I know that there are some sacrifices to do for the things that you love and for the one that you love, I know that you have to take aside the things that you want and the passion that you have, to fulfill the dreams, I know that things not always turn the way I want it to be and that I'll not always have what I want, but I won't stay seat here anymore, I'll not wait for things to be solved, I can't do that, not anymore" said Karl and look Lisa in the eyes again and he noticed immediately that she was there, listening him with all her attention, he realized of that and flush for a moment and then he search for Lisa's hand and hold it
"I'll not longer wait for the rest to do the work, not anymore, now I will left my personal preferences aside and I'll fight for what we all want, I let Karl Riber aside and fight for the rest Lisa, I'll sacrifice for the rest, I'll make the difference" said Karl and finally he gave a shy smile. Lisa remain there looking at him, she was charmed by his words, by his conviction on what he was saying, she could even feel how her heart was beating faster because of what he had said, because of how he had talk, with this strength, with this shine in is eyes
"That means that you…" said Lisa fearful
"Yes Lizie, that means that I'll remain in the RDF, that I'll continue been a soldier and that now I'll fight to reach peace, sometimes weapons are necessary to obtain peace and to maintain it, this time I'll not run away from my responsibilities, not like the immature teenager that I was once, this time I'll face my responsibilities, like the man that I am now, because now is not about do what I want to do, is about do what it's need to be done, what must to be done, about what's right, I can't pretend to do what I want always, now I'll do what's necessary to accomplish and make my ideals true" said Karl and holds Lisa's hand stronger "This time I'll not let you down Lisa" he said and kiss the back of Lisa's hand
"You never have" said Lisa smiling and finally she hold him "you have no idea of how happy makes me the fact that you have decided to remain with the RDF"
"I know" said Karl holding her too, after they staid holding each other for a while Karl took Lisa's face in his hands and noticed that she has tears in her eyes
"Why are you crying for?" ask Karl sweetly
"For noting, I'm just happy" said Lisa and clean her tears "I'm so happy because your are here with me, because we are finally together, because all my dreams are becoming true" said Lisa and smile
"I know" said Karl smiling too
"I love you" said Lisa softly and then she kisses Karl.
When they break the kiss they remain in the couch hold to each other until Lisa began to fall asleep in Karl's arm, fact that Karl noticed immediately and he kissed her in the forehead to wake her up. Then he helps her to make her bed in her couch and wait until she fall sleep in the couch and then went to the bedroom.
He think in his decision while he was falling sleep, he had took that decision while ago, just like he has said to her, he had think in that many lonely nights in Mars, and he has make de decision of fight for what he want, of been part of the solution.
But now that he was sure that there was a war going on, and a war of gigantic proportions with enemies that no one knows, that decision scares him, and worried him, what can he do to made the difference? What he can do to prove to Lisa that he was ready to fight for what he wants? To impress her? He certainly won't be in the battle, he wasn't ready for that and he will never be capable to pull the trigger against any other living been, no matter if it wasn't human. So what can he do? What he will do? He asks to him self while his eyes were closing. And just before fall asleep he realize that no matter what he do, all that we was about to do he will do it for Lisa, like he has always done since the moment that he has seen her, from the moment that he has fall completely in love with her.
To be continued…
Author's note: I'm waiting for your opinion people, about the relationship between Lisa and Karl
This is the end of pure Lisa/Karl love, now the romantic triangle will began, now I finally will have the pleasure of write a jealous Rick, now he will live all that Lisa suffer in the real Robotech. So please stay tune