Chapter 75 Internship over and Ted is still a ....

Luke was woken up energetically by Saksia in the morning. There was a meeting in class today about work. Luke hadn't thought about it. He got dressed and they both hurried to school, they walked in, Sarge was already there. Everyone was whispering when Saskia came in, then when Luke came in it was quiet.

Sarge to him.

" Sorry, I meant to come by yesterday, but Liz was at her wits end. "

"No problem."

It was still quiet.

"The EMP really destroyed your mic?"

"Yep. The whole onboard system, helmet, wristwatch, all fried."

"Good, then sit down."

Clearing his throat, Luke sat down in his old seat, which seemed small to him.

"Good, then we'll go easy on Luke's voice. His vocal chords are shot."

Eddi raised his hand eagerly. Luke saw how Saskia could finally whisper with Bill again, he had really missed her. Bill was back to his old weight. Not bloated like before, but rather slimmer.

"Yes Eddi what is it?"

"Yeah what? Luke? Last time I saw him, he was about my height, right?" 

Sarge tilted his head.

"Ah, I see what you mean. Well, I've seen him a few times. That comes from training. Saskia has put on weight too."

" Ey, those are muscles! " She lifted her cashmere sweater and showed off her belly. "There." 

Bill touched her stomach and nodded approvingly.

"Those two are the extremes for overdoing it with the workouts. Luke even more so."

Lina raised her hand.

" Lisa and I saw the two of them riding in the car together yesterday." 

Sarge knocked on the window. Liz was sitting on the windowsill. She was smiling. 

Sarge opened it.

"I just wanted to say hi to Luke before I have to leave right away. "

"Good."

Liz gave him a kiss and slipped inside.

"Let's get started. Who brought their work? Some have handed theirs in earlier" Several thick bundles of sheets lay on the table.

"Who handed them in earlier?" asked Ted.

Liz grabbed a paper and leafed through it. 

"Bill handed his in early, Saskia handed it in even earlier, Luke handed it in after her and..."

Liz looked up.

"Really, three thousand for a pile of cabbage?" 

She looked at Leo.

"Um ... that's a rare ..."

Liz put the bundle back, meandered through the rows of tables and hugged Luke, then looked at his neck.

"Well, there goes your music career like your old man."

"Ha ha!" 

Liz looked to Saskia, who whispered.

"Come over later, okay?"

" Okay." 

She pushed her forward and stood next to Sarge. 

"Well, he and I are already married in a civil ceremony. The ceremony is in five weeks. Anyone who wants to can come, you don't have to give anything. " She looked at Sarge, who put his hand on her head.

"See, it wasn't that bad." She gave him a hug.

"There, now go, you need to finally find your dress."

" Can't we do this naked?" 

" No. The base priest said no the first time."

Liz grinned, kissed him and jumped out of the window.

He cleared his throat.

"So, if you have your work with you, get it out. I looked at your school records while you were doing internships, for your grades, accomplishments, and what you've done here. "

Most of them groan.

"Bill, you need to make up math, Leo, you math and dance, Luke, you need to turn in your art work. Landscape with real colors. I don't care what you paint."

He nodded as long as he could.

Sarge walked around the class.

"Saskia, you got me the portfolio, too. They were rebellious, but they gave in. Sport and dancing. I crossed out sport, I took the values from your basic training."

"Dance..." she froze. 

Ted raised his arm.

"Sarge, why did you cut PE and I have to do it?"

Sarge looked at Ted and pulled the remote out of his pocket.

The projector turned on.

"Army is documenting the results. Running, long jump, high jump, long throw."

The video played, showing Saskia in the north block in training gear and with a short haircut during basic training. No sound, female instructors shouted at the recruits. Videos showed how she had to run with a full pack, jump over ditches, climb and jump over walls, throw sheaves at targets. "

"These are her achievements Ted, the path was different. I spoke to her coaches there."

Images of Saksia lying face down in the mud, vomiting on the sidelines, contorted in pain on the ground.

"And she was being guarded" Images of women in uniform appeared. 

Ted looked at the pictures.

"Uh-huh... Can I do normal school standards?"

" Yep."

" Good, one more question, what about him?" he pointed at Luke.

" Back in school, only mediocre, why doesn't he have to take a PE test?"

" According to the file, he showed up like the rest of the class back then, you skipped. Luke got an average."

"I see, are there any videos of him?"

Sarge thought about it, clicked on his cell phone and searched.

"Ah, there are some here, surveillance..."

The image flickered, Luke became wistful. He could see his platoon rushing over the obstacle course. The instructors kept yelling and shooing the pack around. Others fired rifles over their heads. The image changed, showing Luke puking, with a full marching pack, then the illegal boxing matches where he had competed for a few fags. 

Pictures of the martial arts tournaments where they'd put him in because they'd found out he was at the tournament.

Combat footage where they had to fight the infected at basic training.

Then the last shot, which was taken from a helmet. Of him beating the fucker to a cripple and being dragged away by people. 

Sarge raised an eyebrow, looked at Luke.

"What, they used us to clear the neighborhood of infected back then."

Ted looked at the pictures in shock.

Luke raised his hand.

"Sarge, so Ted can be at peace. We can go over to this facility now. They're finished anyway. Ted can do the stuff against me there. He was the sports ace at school back then anyway."

Sarge looked at him thoughtfully, looked at Ted.

" I'll finish you off on the court!"

" Did you bring your stuff Luke?"

" No. I'm gonna go to the store and get something. "

" You've got an hour. Then I'll meet you at the sports field."

Luke stood up. Leo looked at him.

"Are you crazy, Luke? Ted was the best at the sports festival last week ..." He saw her concern.

He tousled his hair. Luke walked forward to the window and opened it.

"Luke, you're already getting the short end of the stick, we're in fourth."

" Ted!"

" Oh shut up, I'm glad I dumped you, you're really annoying."

Saskia looked from Bill to Ted and then to Luke, she wanted to get up. 

"No, you haven't seen Bill yet. Do you want me to bring you anything?"

"Uh, liners..."

" Okay." He climbed onto the windowsill. Looked at her.

"What kind?"

" Sports..."

" Okay " He looked down, wondering when they had gone in 4. He jumped, rolled on the floor, got back up and kept walking. Remembering the course from the halo jump. He lit a cigarette, walked to the parking lot. Started his car and thundered off to the wholesale market. He quickly found sports shorts, shoes and a T-shirt and packed a new pair of cargo pants. Then he went into the 

drugstore department and stared at the endless rows of shelves with women's products. 

He scanned the shelves and found the insoles.

"He should have asked for a brand.

Behind him, he heard a giggle.

"If it isn't Apollo," Luke looked behind him. It was one of the MP's, he thought her name was Sarah. Next to her stood a slightly taller one, looking at him grimly. Both wore their BDU with the insignia of the Hydra unit.

"Hey."

"What brings you to the realm of women? " She grinned.

" Saskia needs some and just said sports " he looked at the 20 different packs.

" These " Sarah took out a pack and held it out to him. He took it and looked at the pack.

" For heavy use... " he turned the pack over and looked at the text. He didn't understand how much text there was and what was promised.

" Sensually soft and comfortable despite heavy use..." 

"Believe me, these are the right ones, what are you doing here? I thought you had lessons."

He nodded. "We have too. I just need to grab some gym clothes. I'm going to compete against some of the boys in the class. He has to take his PE test." The grim growled. Luke looked at her.

"Yeah?"

" You took Kia away from us ..." 

" True, but you're still training with her."

" That's not the same. "

" Do you know why she was in the home?" 

" She said it was because she was stressed at home." 

" Her aunt has one of the biggest media companies and she wants to break Saskia and force her to come. So she put so much pressure on her that she was kicked out of home. "

He compared the text on another packet.

"And why did you go to the dorm then?

"

"She was afraid to go back home. She was being bullied in her room".

"So that's why the floor duty ... But it wasn't you?"

"Yes, one tried it in basic training, I crippled him, then the rest of basic training was punishment duty. Well, the whole barracks did it, only one opened his mouth. So I could only get the Rann. "

"Why doesn't she tell us?" said the grim one.

"Too proud, I'd say you should suggest that when you get girls together in a parlor, they shouldn't be mixed with others." 

He put the parcel in the basket.

"Do you want Kia to get some too? "

"Dancing and she's bad ..." 

They both looked at him.

" I tried to dance with her. " Sarah looked at the grim one. " We should ask Sandy, she's done it before."

The grim nodded.

"Is Kia going to be on the sports field too?"

"Yep." 

"We'll have to take advantage of that, see you later, Luke."

He was at peace again. He went to pay and drove back, stopping in the parking lot. The whole class was there, everything was set up. Luke grabbed a pair of gym shorts, a T-shirt and shoes. He got out and walked to the sports field. Ted was standing there in shorts, sneakers and a T-shirt, looking at him arrogantly. An SUV from North Block pulled into the parking lot and five Hydras with Sarah and the fierce one marched onto the court and looked around.

"Your groupies?" Ted asked dismissively.

"Well, they're here for Saskia. " He saw the five of them rush up to Saskia and hug her. Sarge came over to Luke.

" What are they doing here?"

" Have missed Saskia. " 

" Hmm... Get changed."

" Yes, sir."

Luke sauntered over to the benches, stripped down to his shorts and sneezed.

" Wuh ..." 

" Luke, what are you doing?" He looked at Leo and the others stared at him. 

"Changing clothes why?" 

He pulled on his sports shorts, laced them up. 

"Hahaha, they've gone red!" came from a Hydra. 

"Leo, why aren't you with him anymore, thought was serious."

"I was, but then he got arrogant and cheated on me more and more often and when he didn't show up for a date. I broke up with him."

He put on his shoes and a T-shirt with a burning skull on it.

"Now I see how good he is."

" Luke ..."

Luke made his way to the track, when he got there Saskia was standing next to him in a Hydras tracksuit.

"Sarge said I should take part and I made a bet with the girls..."

He grinned and hugged her.

"Show the class what you can do, okay?"

"Hey, you guys ready?"

Luke grinned and did stretches and stretched, dry cracking.

Sarge came over.

"Good, let's do the full program then, I've asked the ladies back there to help."

Sarge came over in a surprisingly good mood and hugged Saskia.

"Show them." He looked at Ted. "If you just touch them."

" Then what, huh? Looks like you can't even catch me!"

She looked at Sarge. 

"I'll go with you." 

Sarge sighed. 

"Get into starting position.