In the garden of Eve

Her lithe long body entwined around mine. I would never let her go if I could, I mean why would I? I was happily on the moon with her, my goddess. She turns to me, her eyes sewn shut with crystalline threading, she whispers to me as I stare at the wounds on her body. "I could have been there with you, you should have stayed home with me, it was our last together, if you stayed or not, I would be dead either way"

She mounts me, I can't move, she puts her full weight onto my body, whispering one last thing "Save yourself if you can" Before I feel the threads from her eyes pierce through my neck and enter my brain.

GHASP I half scream half breathe out, throwing myself and my new puppy up, feeling my neck burn for a second before my brain comes into focus, a squeak coming from her as her appropriate noise of shock. I'm not sure how she produces it like that but I have never heard anything cuter from a human being. My breathing slows and I calm my heart beat hyperventilating a little bit.

"Sorry fuck sorry Eve come back into my arms sweety" scared and panicking from waking up so suddenly she hesitates but then comes back into my arms, I probably need her more then she needs me right now.

"A-are you okay?..." she whispers into my body, snuggled against me.

"Not really, but I will be, one day... I'm sorry for waking you Eve. I'll get a cup of water and then we can try to cuddle back to sleep" I get up from the bed putting Eve down first, as fun as it would be to take her for the ride, she feels like she weighs half of myself, I could probably piggyback her at least.

I get a glass of water at the sink and splash my face a little, my hair gets wet, using the towel at the sink I dry off a bit.. Downing my drink I feel a little better, the heat in my body from the panicked wakeup has left me.

Coming back to bed with her, I lay down and pull her up close to me. She quickly falls back asleep, holding my arm. After a few minutes I feel muttering oh her lips against my shoulder, I lean my ear in and hear numbers being recited, her brother was right, she really lived for her work, I'm glad to give her a night's release from it, but she can't escape it in her dreams. Just like I can't escape her… I might need to see if I can source some 'sleeping' supplements.

Feeling Eve against me I miss her even more, the gentle breathing against my chest, the wrapping of her leg against my thighs, fully embraced with all her body around my own, she fit my whole body, Eve only wraps around the top of mine, curled up like a chipmunk.

…

I wake to an alarm and the disgruntled growl of someone who is not a morning person, the cute thing next to me stretches out and slaps my boob, her eyes finally open in realization, yes hi it's me, the girl you had your tongue inside last night. Her eyes close, scrunching up, then open again. I'm not just a dream.

She seems to gain some courage and kisses me quickly on the lips making me smirk and she hides her head in my armpit, trying to escape, her cute tipped ears going red once again.

I pull her out from her cave and get her cuddled up so I can look her in her eyes, she squints a little blushing looking back into mine, "How much time do you have before you have to go to work?..." She hesitates and then pulls out of my grip, leaning over to look at her clock.

"I-I can spare a few hours, it won't be the first time I've come in late, although my work can be done at any time, I-I'm not the best at waking up, I usually work late."

"Mnn good, that means we can get to know each other a bit more" I brush back her silky white hair and kiss her chin much to her happiness as she giggles a tiny bit.

"Is that l-like… more gay stuff or you wanna know about me?" Tempting for the first but more than anything I want to hold, be held and enjoy the words of the cutie in front of me.

"The second… more of the first after work maybe?..." She blushes and nods trying to think about herself, it's always hard being put on the spot.

We talk for the next few hours, kissing gently every so often, embraced and just talking. Eve and Kevin were half-siblings, Kev was the older brother and doted on Eve since she was born, he lost his mother when he was young and when Odella, Eve's mother, came into the picture he adored her and she the same, Eve takes after her mother in looks and stature, which makes people usually not think they are related.

Kevin gave me all the juicy embarrassing stories of who Eve was, but not who she was at her core, he wanted her to be able to give that to me.

"I wanted to be an environmental engineer originally when I was younger, save the planet… but then I was taken to a science fair and someone was showing off reactions with metals, they looked soo pretty… so I decided to look into metallurgy, at least more on the chemical side, working with materials, I then took an interest in microbiology and nuclear technology so I got a degree in radiochemistry. I want to know everything I can about the world and what drives it, especially th-the technological aspect… although I'm hopeless with computers" She's very animated when she talks, although I don't understand anything about what she's talking about. I enjoy it regardless, nothing more attractive than a woman passionate about something.

She talks about how she has to take an underground train to get to the nuclear plants as they are situated about 3km off base incase of any issues, although there is a monitoring station in the science division here incase it needs to be shut down remotely, her office is onsite although a lot of the scientists either sleep there or take lots of their work home.

I get to hear about all the different wings and floors of Acropolis. We are on the north side of the base, 4 floors underneath the surface, in the nuclear section, all of the same types of workers seem to be gathered together.

There are 2 main storage facilities on Acropolis, in the East and West of the facility, The central main floor is for movement as well as general eating/relaxation facilities for general worker/civilian class, their home quarters are in the east and west lower floors, kind of like highrise apartments but they go down instead, deep under the surface. Below the central area are the Oxygen farms, large forests underneath the surface to help generate and replenish Oxygen. In the same area but closer to the science division is food farms, although there are small areas for Animals, those are generally reserved for the higher class ticket people as well as more important job classes ect.

The north side is where the upper class live, large facilities according to their whim, they funded the place so of course they have their own playground. Eve didn't seem to know much about it except that they had above and below ground access, a lounge that lets them look at the stars for the truly powerful, and the general area for them as well. I'm sure their apartments were also much larger and more comfortable, there would be levels of comfort depending on their whims and level of class, there were always levels between the powerful.

I can only imagine where I would be put for my job. There are general bar areas in each region of the base, from the civilian, to science to higher class jobs to the upper class, all I can do is smile and serve the best I can while trying to make a life here.

I didn't usually do much on my days off when I worked at the bar, my last few weeks just spent lazing about and talking with my moon goddess… Miss mouse has her own job so I guess I can explore and find somewhere to hang out. I was into card games when I was a kid, before I got kicked out of home for the sin that was getting caught going down on a girl, felt pretty holy to me though.

Before too long Eve started to get worried and looking at the clock more and more so I let her out of my grasp. She could be late for work but it still caused her panic when on purpose, not much of an on purpose rule breaker.

As she gets ready to leave she grabs something off her desk and thrusts it into my hands kissing me deeply before turning around quickly, those adorable ears aflame, waving back at me as she flies out the door closing behind her. In my hands was a key with a tag on it NE42 - Spare, adorable, I guess that means she wants me to stay… gladly…

I lay back down and see another clock, not one with a timer on it, but a day to day count down, 7 days… to die? I mean it could be seen that way, like that old movie with the well and stuff, our reason might be more galactic than a curse, although it could maybe be seen the same way, knowing we are possibly going to die regardless of what we do, just have to pray to whatever fucked god would do this too us.

There are bunkers on the bottom floor of every wing so there are contingencies, and we receive updates from earth constantly on timing and stuff so it's not like it's going to hit us unexpectedly.

A week to get my work assignments, settle in and just try my best to not upset too many people, at least I've got friends here now. When I left Marvin's car I had no one, doing pretty good already Emily.

Eve did mention something about a Acropolis specific phone for on base communications, it even has a forum and a place to put your fan fictions, although that last one I had to get out of Eve with a blushing face. Next time I'll have to get her posting name off her since some places in it are 'anonymous'. I've got to requisition one so I guess I'll head out and see what freebies Acropolis can afford.

I think a drink might be in order.