Apollo Hope : Mission on Mars

chapter 2.9

When they had arrived at the base, everyone had approached, like survivors who had just resurfaced after years of disappearance. They had asked to go to the hall to explain themselves, rather than in the airlock, because here there were cameras...

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- "we were dead of worry tesoro" made Gabriella by coming to take the Italian in her arms, what had not been to the taste of the blonde who had quickly cleared the throat. Lack of luck for her, Gabri had come to take her in her turn in her arms.

-"where were you?" Asked Mark

-"We... We found refuge in an old Soviet bunker" replied Maya, freeing herself from the doctor's grip.

-"Why did you come out? You were warned about the storm".

-"It's my fault" said Carina.

-"no it's mine" said Maya

-"Actually it's probably mine" said Charlotte, coming closer.

-"It's the fault of this stupid system" answered doctor Aurora.

- "ok,... Are you alright? Go to the infirmary and get checked out, you might be dehydrated or something."

- "actually we're fine. We were able to drink, eat..."

- "finally make love" said the Italian, which made her doctor friend laugh and all the others shut up. "Ché?!"

- "love, avoid this kind of... Revelations please" the brunette had rolled her eyes. Maya had then turned to Mark "we need a shower first and then we'll do all the required tests"

- "deal"

The two women had gone to the blonde's room. Carina's suitcase had been placed in front of the door. The Italian had observed the whole room, she had only had the opportunity to look at it in a small screen.

- "it is... Similar"

- "yes you see, except that at home I have the equivalent of Taryn's room, so everything is reversed"

On the desk was a sheet of paper with drawing sticks, four sticks and one that crossed them out.

- "Are you doing like the prisoners?"

- "as if I could lose the account"

- "you never know, nobody is safe from memory loss"

- "I really hope not... Shower?"

- "with pleasure and tooth brushing first!"

They had stripped out of their cosmonaut outfits and had both gone to the shower after brushing their teeth.

- "hummm there is no need to say... The shower is really the best thing in the world".

- "sorry?!"

- "no, but roh... After, sex... Well, sex with you... But admit that you have been dreaming of this shower for two days?"

Carina had run her hands over Maya's hips and her gaze had completely changed, filling with desire.

-"Indeed... It's even been two months" she said, tackling the blonde to the wall.

When they had finally gone to the kitchen, where Mark, Gabriella and a part of the team were waiting for her, they had to face a panoply of indecipherable looks. Sloan held in his hand a tablet with Derek in communication.

- "What?!" Ask Maya

- "we have... We got some news about... You," Mark said.

- "wait! Before anything can be said, Maya and I are engaged, look!" Said Carina as she held out her hand with her wedding ring to Mark and Derek on the other side of the tablet. "So Derek agreed to us ... Lend, his piece of Florida land, so we're getting married, whatever it costs us to pay a lender online and make that call, or even get a lender to Mars, I don't care, but there's no way a bunch of tight asses two hundred million miles away are going to rule our lives. Otherwise I'm going back to that damn bunker until the day I leave. So Maya and I are getting married! Punto!"