The Martians [The Martian Fanfiction]

Sol 30

I was up early to go check up on Pathfinder, she seemed to be running smoothly. Talking to NASA through yes and no questions was going to be hard, buttt luckily for us I know morse code.

Log Entry: Sol 30

"It is currently 4:00am here on Mars, Watney is still asleep, but I've decided to get to work a little earlier"

"I've got an idea, instead of talking to NASA through yes and no questions I'm going to set up a morse code system!"

"And put a little antenna on the top of her as a little pointer. What ever NASA "writes" I'll translate into English and bam! We have ourselves a home made communication system."

"Well I should probably stop talking to myself and actually finish what I started"

Log Entry: Closed

I sat crossed legged on the floor of the Hab and continued to write out my little signs and stick them on pieces of wire while humming Dangerous Woman. It was an Ariana Grande song, fairly old now then when it was released in 2016.

"Good morning, beautiful" Watney chimed as he walked into the main area getting hot water for there coffees.

"Good morning, Watney" I said focused on finishing my signs before Pathfinder took the next photo. "What are you doing up? It's 4:30?"

"Babe, it's 7" he said handing me my cup of coffee.

"Jeez, I've been working on this for 3 hours!" I said surprised at the fact that I lost myself to time. And then it hit me. Good morning beautiful, babe. Watney thought I was his girl! "Um Mark?"

"Hmm?" He said very tiredly turning around to face me his tiredness clearly visible.

"Umm what are we after what happened yesterday?" I said fiddling with my fingers and not looking at him.

"Well we can be whatever you want, even aliens!" He smirked as he held me by the waist.

"Mark, I'm serious" I said looking up at him.

"Well I want you to be my girl, Dakota. But if you don't want to be I'm fine with that" he said resting his forehead against mine.

"I want to wait until we are back home, it's to dangerous to love you or be with you here. So promise me, you'll wait and when we get back home or the Hermes we can be more then just friends".

"I'd wait a whole lifetime just to be with you..." He said looking into my eyes.

I smiled and kissed him quickly "come on we have work to do"

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Earth:JPL 10:01am

"Instead of slowing down the thrusters we start accelerating IMMEDIATELY to maintain velocity. Instead of the Hermes slowing down it slingshots around earth picking up a supply probe and to Mars. From there Watney and Adams makes his way to the Ares IV MAV and meets up with the Hermes. I ran the numbers, it all checks out!" Rich Purnell said putting the pen back into Teddys pocket.

"Get out" he said bluntly avoiding eh contact with the young employee.

With an awkward clap of his hands and a sigh he left through the giant glass doors.

"That's actually not a half bad idea" Vanket said looking at teddy. "All we have to do is get JPL to work out how to tell Dakota and Mark how to upgrade the rovers communication and then we can tell them how to put the big 3 in it".

"I'm not risking 6 lives, 2 is already bad enough" he said dismissing Annie and Vanket.

"Grow a pair" Annie remarked before leaving through the same doors as Rich.