Chapter 6

The next day:

“Let's wake up lazy,” says Levi knocking on the door.

"Who, who is it?" says Luna, waking up a bit confused.

— It's me, stop playing around, and get up, come on, eat something and start your training, you have 5 minutes to leave, or I'll come in without caring if you're dressed or not.

Upon hearing this, Luna immediately gets up and puts on the uniform that Levi had given her the day before, fastens her hair, and leaves the room, Judy and Captain Levi were sitting on one of the sofas in the living room:

- Excellent. says Levi\, looking at his watch. — it only took three minutes\, but a soldier takes less than that\, and you haven't even put on your boots\, the pair I got you is at the entrance\, go put them on immediately.

While Luna will put them

“Captain, take it easy, she's not a soldier yet. — says Judy who was waiting for her to collect the blood samples, and decided to collect saliva as well.

' She'll have to learn, because if there's an attack while we're resting, every minute counts in saving a life.'

“Captain, you are an exaggeration, we have ten floors completely sealed.

“Yes, and a lot of survivors arriving every day.

"Okay Captain, continue with your paranoia." says Judy, getting up. - Good morning! Luna, sit down here, we'll collect your blood and saliva, fasting, before your veins disappear again, because of that troglodyte, maybe it's even better to collect fasting, because your blood is purer.

Luna sits down, and Judy takes blood samples, then saliva, as soon as she's done:

"Good Captain, I'll do what tests I can today, and I'll let you know if I find anything, but I can't promise you anything for today, because you know I'm going to have to give Lamberd Squadron a miss." - says Judy getting up, gathering her things and leaving.

"I know, but do your best to get me something today." says Levi before Judy closes the door.

When Judy leaves:

"Now sit down for some coffee."

When Luna looks at the table, there are fried eggs, bacon, bread, butter, cake, milk, coffee and orange juice:

"Who is this all for?"

— For both of us, don't get used to this, because it's rare for me to be able to make a coffee like this, but we have to have a strong coffee, because we'll train hard today, I need you to be ready as soon as possible, as I said I'm leaving my squadron aside to train you, and I need you to be fit when I go out with the squadron.

Luna ate in silence, praying that none of the squadron would get hurt, as she didn't want to feel guilty, for the death of any of them, just because the Captain had left them aside, wanting to train her personally.

When they finish, Levi stands up:

- Let's go.

— But what about the things left on the table?

— I already told you that I have people who take care of this for me, someone will come here, and take what was left on the table, to the cafeteria, so that other people can enjoy it, now get up and follow me.

Luna follows him silently, and determined, to learn everything she could as quickly as possible, and maybe it wasn't so difficult, since she had done karate as a child, and self-defense, in physical education classes, she was the best student in high school. He takes her to a room where they trained, there were several weight machines, several different types of weapons, and a ring in the middle:

“ Come get in the ring with me, let's see what you're capable of, first so I know where to start.

Luna goes up with him in the ring:

"Attack me, what are you waiting for." - says Levi teasing Luna.

- But ...

— Luna, you cannot hesitate on the battlefield, no matter who your opponent is, even me, you have to attack and find a gap to take advantage of, so attack me soon.

Luna goes at him with a closed fist, and ends up on the ground, because he takes her by the arm and gives her a blow that knocks her down, before she manages to punch him:

"Let's get up and try again."

Luna gets up, and goes over to him again, and again stops on the ground, after several failures, and all of them lead her to stop on the ground:

— Captain, I'm trying, but I can't, you're too agile.

— Luna, pay attention to what you're doing, try to attack me, without emotion and without wavering, see me now as the person you hate most in this world.

Luna remembered her friend, if he was her friend, he had been a coward, watching her sink, he could have tried to pull her out, he could have thrown her a rope, but no, he just threw her time capsule , and didn't have the courage to jump into the lake and not even get her out of there, she was so hateful of him, that she thought of him, when she went for Levi, and when he thought he would be able to knock her down again she managed to dodge of the attack in time and punch him in the middle of the stomach with all the anger he was, and then gave a sweep with all the hatred he was, which knocked Levi down immediately. When she realized what she had done, she went to try to help Levi, who was laughing:

"Captain, are you all right?" she asks worriedly.

“That's what I was talking about. Levi said, still laughing, and groaning in pain at the same time. - Put your anger out, because that's what makes you stronger, that's what will make you have the strength to take down your enemies.

"Captain, did I hurt you, badly?"

— No problem, I have a strong body, just like you who fell several times, but got up, and managed to knock me down. Levi said, standing up.

"Were you laughing Captain?"

— No, I just got excited, because I saw that it won't be so difficult to teach her. You seem to learn quickly. says Levi, blushing, but trying to return to his usual coolness.

"But what if it doesn't work?"

" I'll be by your side to protect you." But I need you to be fit, so that I feel confident to let you out and fight with my squadron, with time you will improve.

"Okay, I'll give it my all."

—That's good, now get into a defensive position, because I'm going to attack you now, and I want you to get me down.

Levi goes for Luna, but hesitates at the last second, he wouldn't be able to hurt her even for training, and Luna takes advantage of the hesitation to take him down, but falls on top of him, and their eyes and lips are very close , Levi looks into her eyes for a moment, and feels like hugging and kissing her, remembering his late fiancée, but he is static without defense, when Luna takes him out of his thoughts asking him:

"Is Levi all right?" I noticed you faltered at the last second.

— I didn't hesitate… I just wanted to give you an advantage, now you can get off of me. says Levi looking away, avoiding meeting her eyes as he lied, embarrassed but trying not to show it.

Luna realizes that she was still on top of him, she gets up awkwardly and offers her a hand to help him:

“I don't need help getting up, despite my age, I'm a strong soldier, and I can get up on my own ,” says Levi, trying to sound as cool as possible.

"Blimey, Captain, will you stop being so proud?"

Levi blushes when he hears that, his fiancée told him the same thing, and in the same way, when he was training her, for a second he remembers her, how he wanted to be close on the day they took her, to defend her, he preferred to die, trying to defend her. her than now having to live in a world without her beloved, but fate gave her a second chance, now she could redeem herself by protecting that girl:

— Come on, less talk and more action, I'm going to attack you again, only this time I won't give you the advantage — this time he tries not to waver, but his thoughts were confused, with the memory of his bride and she knocks him down, with a blow on the leg.

They spend hours training blows, sometimes he managed to avoid being knocked down, knocking Luna down first, but when he lost concentration for a second she easily knocked him down, when Judy arrives:

“Captain, I have new information.

Levi stops the training at the same time and says:

"We're done for today, Luna." — then turns to Judy. "First, did we have any casualties?"

— No Captain, it seems that zone J is empty, without any zombies, which is very strange, … We found a survivor, in that area, but he doesn't even remember his own name.

"Strange indeed, where did you send him?"

“To the yellow building, where you will be examined.

“Good, then he'll be quarantined.

— I believe not, sir, as he has no scratches and no bites.

“Okay, I hope it doesn't cause us any problems, I don't know why, but something tells me we're going to have some headaches soon.

— With regard to the blood, I verified that there is something in the DNA chain, a genetic alteration, nothing seen before by science, it seems that the genetic chain is more resistant, because it has been duplicated in a way that I cannot explain to you, but I believe that this makes her immune to zombies, we just have to figure out what happened for this change to be made.

— Wait, I know what happened, as I said, I was studying genetics, and I developed a vaccine, capable of curing a virus that I had in my time. says Luna, trying to explain.

"What, another time traveler?" Tell me everything? says Judy excitedly.

- Judy concentrates. Levi says seriously. — her being a time traveler doesn't matter so much now\, all that matters is the vaccine.

"Were there other time travelers?" Luna asks curiously.

"Yes, but that's beside the point now, and it's confidential information, Luna needs you to remember how you got that shot." asks Judy.

— I don't remember, as I was testing two vaccines that I developed, but they were noted in my laboratory, and I brought a sample with me, with some notes on the recipe, which is in the time capsule. Luna responds.

"And where is the capsule?" Levi asks.

— In your overcoat, because the day you put me in, I kept it in one of the pockets, so I wouldn't lose it.

They immediately go to Levi's dorm, and search through all the pockets, not finding the capsule, Captain Levi gets nervous:

"Calm down Levi. — says Judy

— Calm down, you tell me calm down, the only chance we have now is to find out from her blood how to create the vaccine, since she had everything right in that capsule.

Judy worries, because never in all the years she knew Levi had seen him so nervous, the other time she saw him like that, was when he found out why and how his fiancée died, but he never said anything to anyone about his fiancée or how died, and she had only seen her bride from afar, and now looking at Luna, she reminded her a lot of Levi's bride, is it? No, it would be possible, that he was in love with Luna, for reminding him of his fiancée, or could it be that they were twin sisters, or even, it was his fiancée from the past:

“We can go back and look for the capsule. says Judy, snapping out of her thoughts, trying to focus on a solution.

— There is no such time, it is not safe, you know very well that zombies are more active at night, and see better, and we are at a disadvantage, due to the darkness.

"But what if someone finds this capsule before we do?" says Judy.

— Don't worry, it's impossible to open without the key. Luna says.

"Do you have the key?" asks Judy curiously.

— Oh!...

"I can't believe you lost the key too?" Levi says coldly.

— It wasn't quite lost, she stayed in my time, with Mike.

- Damn it! Levi curses. — I don't believe we have the cure\, locked in a box that's out there somewhere\, and that even if we find it\, we can't get to it.

"Maybe if I go to my lab."

— Where is your lab? asks Judy.

“In Atlanta.

— Impossible, there is a prohibited area, anyone who arrives within a radius of 80 km is killed, the military kills, without pity, because that is where the elite are, I told you, there is totally isolated, so the zombies do not invade. Levi says.

— Levi, you remember that you can go in there whenever you want, you're still a military man, and theoretically you're here to watch over us, isn't that right? says Judy.

"No, no way, you're not thinking about...

“Levi, if we find the capsule, the only way is this…

- What are you talking about? asks Luna\, trying to understand what the two were discussing.

“You're a geneticist if you took her prisoner to Atlanta.¬ explains Judy.

“No, I told you, I won't put you at risk. - says Levi angrily, just considering putting Luna at risk.

" What if I want to take a risk, for the good of all mankind?" Luna says determinedly.

“I won't allow it. Levi says nervously. “Judy go away, leave me alone.

Luna makes a move to leave:

"Where do you think you're going, Luna?" I ordered the soldier, Judy, to leave, you go to your room and don't you dare leave this apartment. says Levi angrily.

He couldn't risk Luna like that, even if it was for the good of humanity, it was very important to him, he was starting to fall in love, or is it because... No... he couldn't be distracted, but he was opening, his heart after after a long time of oblivion, I was letting my heart speak louder. He needed to clear his head, he will, take a cold shower. Luna lays on the bed in tears, feeling useless, as she had lost that vaccine, the only sample she had now was in Atlanta, that if they didn't invade her laboratory, she had to convince Levi to take her there somehow.

- Are you already sleeping? asks Levi sweetly from the other side of the door.

- What do you want? she says in a tearful voice.

"I wanted to talk, can I come in?" Levi says calmly.

— Come in, after all I'm not in my house, but in yours. says Luna, upset, not wanting to talk to him.

“Luna, I'm sorry I got mad the way I did. - says Levi sitting on the bed. — but, you are very important, for humanity, and we don't even know if we'll find the capsule, and if we do, we can find another way that doesn't involve putting you at risk.

“There's no way to open it without putting the vaccine and the prescription inside at risk, and I have another sample in my lab, and I have a copy of the vaccine prescription, too.

“Since you have a sample in your lab, with your notes, I can go there myself and get them for you, but I won't put you at risk in any way.

— You won't be able to get in, her keying is done, by retina, and digital.

"I can break in."

— Impossible, the system is made for no one to be able to enter, if someone tries to invade, the room in brute force, it has a security system, which will self-destruct the room.

"Why all this?"

“Because, this was my father's room and he didn't want anyone trying to steal his research, he'd rather lose it than see his research being used for evil. I only took advantage of the room, because before he passed away, he registered my data, so that I could use it, so that I could come and go, without the need for him to be with me.

- Luna a question. Levi says thoughtfully. "Did anyone else have access to your lab besides you?"

— Yes, my friend Mike, because I recorded his data, because sometimes I forgot about life inside and he came to disturb me, so that I could leave.

— Who guarantees that he didn't go in there and remove everything, I would put it at risk for nothing, do you think it's worth it?

- Yes\, you are right. - says Luna putting her hand on her face\, and crying compulsively.

Levi hugs her, affectionately:

—It doesn't stay like that, we'll find another way to make the vaccine, but I need you to focus on your training, as soon as you're ready, you can go out with us, and when they don't pay attention to you anymore, you can go with Judy, but I want you to be very careful, because I don't want to lose her - says Levi kissing Luna's head.

— Levi, you keep telling me you don't want to lose me, I know you lost your fiancée, but I'm not her. - says Luna still with her face red, and soaked by tears, looking at Levi.

— Who says I'm afraid of losing you because of this? — thinks Levi. — I don't want to lose it, because it would be losing the only hope humanity has to survive this virus. says Levi coldly.

-Is that…

“Judy's been talking nonsense, you shouldn't listen to what she says about me.

“No, Judy told me about her family, and nothing else.

"Nonsense, I'd already forgotten about them." — Levi lies coldly, because he remembered how they had transformed, and how he had killed them all one by one, to spare their souls.

He looks at her for a second, it really was important to him, he has the urge to remove a lock of hair that had fallen on Luna's face, but he restrains himself, because he knows well what would happen, he couldn't admit to losing control, not yet it was her moment to know the whole truth, she believed that everything had the right moment to happen, she couldn't let her get involved, because of what she was feeling. I didn't know how much it would change the past if I knew the whole truth, and remembered everything when I went back in time.

— Luna, go rest, tomorrow we will start our training early. says Levi coldly, avoiding looking at her too long.

- Goodnight! — she says sighing\, she didn't know what she was starting to feel\, but she didn't want to be a substitute for his bride\, it was better that he saw her only as a hope for humanity\, because she knew how he had already said that she was an anomaly in time \, and that one hour he would have to go back to his time\, he just didn't know how\, when and if he would remember what happened there.

- Goodnight! Go to sleep. - says Captain Levi\, getting up and leaving the room for Luna to rest.

When leaving, talk to yourself:

— I don't know how long I'll be able to stay away from you, I hope to find the cure for humanity, before it ends up involving me, and I hope to get you back to your time as soon as possible, because I don't know how much you'll remember what's happening here, and if we will find the cure for this virus, I just know that at some point we will have to say goodbye, and that this will be too painful for me, I can't let anything bad happen to you, my love, not again, I would never forgive myself.

Luna, when she saw that Levi had left the room, immediately looked for a sheet of paper and a pen, and started to keep a diary, writing everything that had happened so far, in code, because if it were discovered, no one would know how to decode it, not even Levi , he even wrote about the feelings he was starting to have for Levi, because if he went back to his time he wanted to remember everything that was happening, and since he didn't know if he would remember he decided to do it that way.

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