2303, UNPC Universal calendar.

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"Be seeing you Anton." Darren drawled as they stepped off the osprey onto the tarmac.

"Likewise," Anton replied, hefting the case for the nuke onto the back of the waiting truck.

"Good work," Hernandez said, nodding with his arms crossed. "I'll miss you," the Mexican man said as he climbed into the driver's seat.

He pulled the truck forward and then braked, and rolled the window down.

"Sad to see you go, really," he said, sticking his head out of the window.

"It's been over two hundred and fifty years." A9 said, smiling.

"well, I guess you're due for a break from all this." He said.

"Ain't that the truth" Kate said, grabbing him by the hand. "Now come on, we've got much to do." She said, leading him away and into the hangar, Sarah sticking around for a moment to pass off the detainees to the waiting soldiers, retrieving Anton's cloak.

Anton stepped over to their little rack area, and removed his armor, stowed it, and helped Kate do the same.

"we're really gonna have to take all this with us?" Kate asked.

"Yes, the Alamo directive is strict, it has to be taken with us" Anton replied as he gently removed Kate's breastplate and shoulder pauldrons.

"Guess it'll sit in a box" Kate shrugged, making Anton roll his eyes as he removed her rear main plate.

"Never really got to use the trophy system" Anton mused as he removed her leg pieces and helped her out of them lovingly.

Lira watched, sitting criss-cross on a rack, petting Varg, who'd hopped up and laid his head in her lap, the massive wolf's head enveloping her legs near completely.

They stowed the last pieces of armor, and Kate removed her boots before stepping out of her LSS and into a simple pair of legging shorts.

"You need to finish your paperwork, we've got to be out of here in the next hour" Kate said.

Anton frowned. "Fine, you pack, I'll write."

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Several days later

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"Why not just buy one?" Sarah asked from the back seat of the pickup truck.

"I want to build it myself, always wanted to" Anton said.

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"Do you know how?" Kate asked from the passenger seat as he switched gears.

"Sure do, got a contractors license two years ago, remember when we were stuck on the Schattenwulf, and you couldn't rip me from my toughbook, even if you jiggled those at me?" Anton asked, gesturing towards her bare chest, taking his hand off of the gear shifter a moment.

"Oh, I wondered what you were doing on that thing." Sarah said from the back seat.

"How does it feel?" Kate asked, contorting to look at Sarah in the middle of the three back seats.

"What do you mean?" she asked.

"I mean, how does it feel that you can be naked all the time?" Kate asked.

Sarah shrugged. "Feels natural to me, it's going to be a change not having to wear anything now." She said, leaning back in the seat and rolling her shoulders, putting her arms across the top of the long bench, "A good change." she smiled, looking at Amara, who was passed out to her left.

"What about you? Do you plan on wearing a shirt any time soon?" Sarah asked her.

"Nope, these are going to be free forever now" Kate smiled, putting her hands on her chest and moving her small breasts up and down, jiggling them.

Anton rolled his eyes, and pulled onto the driveway, driving down it for a long time.

"We're here." He said, reaching the end of the gravel road, and pulling the truck off to the right.

Sarah looked out the windshield, and saw rolling plains exactly in front of her, a small pond a little to the left, and a bunch of trees off to the right.

"Everything you see right now, er, at least everything for ten miles in that direction is ours, and everything for eight in that direction." he said, gesturing forward and right in turn. "then about fourteen off that way" he said, pointing to the left.

"So the driveway inlet is on the corner?" Kate asked.

"Yeah" Anton replied.

Amara was gobsmacked, and Varg hopped up from the passenger side rear floorboard, and sat in the back passenger seat, looking out the window.

"Go on, you can get out" Anton replied, shutting down the idling diesel engine, and pushing the parking break pedal down, popping the door open.

"Run along, don't get lost." Anton told Amara, who was clearly ecstatic.

Amara pushed the driver's seat forward on its hinge, and climbed out, Varg behind her.

Amara ran into the field, and Varg stretched, shook his fur, then patted after her. Amara stopped and turned around about 100' in front of them.

"All of this is ours?" she hollered, looking at all three of them as they were leaned against the ranch hand bumper of Anton's truck.

"Sure is honey" Sarah replied, cupping her hands around her mouth so Amara could hear her.

Amara laughed, and bounded over the hill in front of them, leaving streaks in the wind blown tall grass.

Varg paused, sitting as he looked back at the three, his head cocked to the side. Anton made a "go on" motion, and he sat up, then patted after her.

"Where are you going to put the house?" Sarah asked.

"I was thinking atop that hill she just ran over" Anton replied, gesturing towards it.

"That sounds nice" Kate said, grabbing his hand in both of hers.

Kate heard Amara giggling, presumably running around in the field over the hill with Varg, and snickered, grinning.

"So you and you alone will build it?" Sarah asked.

"I'll help, but I'm going to have to hire a company to do it, unless you want me to spend years and years building it by myself" Anton said.

"Oh, I get it" Kate smiled, "You're just being lazy."

"Oh?" Anton asked, turning, and sweeping her off of her feet, turning her around and putting her rear on the hood of the truck, making her squeal.

"I could stay right here, looking down at you in this field, with Amara just over that hill for years, just like this" Kate said, a tear of joy falling down her cheek.

"Oh, honey," he said, wiping it away with a thumb.

Sarah hugged him from the side, and kissed him on the cheek. "If it means anything, I'll help you build it" she said.

"Thanks" He laughed, then turned and kissed her on the forehead, holding her close.

Kate sat on the hood of the truck, looking over the hill at the setting sun, Varg and Amara still within earshot, and smiled, another tear running down her cheek.

This, this right here is what true happiness feels like.