Today is October 23, 2077. You stretch your legs out and lean even deeper into your patio chair, taking a deep breath of the crisp October air, and enjoying the silence of the early morning. Your temporary abode sits behind you, a modest trailer meant to be occupied for only a short time, situated on the outskirts of a small town of similar structures. Surrounded by these trailers is a Vault with the numbers 034 painted on the center of the massive airlock designed to withstand all but the most direct hits from any range of nuclear warheads. "Ian? Do you want cream with your coffee?" a voice from inside your trailer calls, "Yes please." you respond beaming a bright smile, and in return Catherine sends a smirk back your way. 
	
	Just three months ago you had never met a Catherine in your life, this changed when you received a letter while stationed on standby in Anchorage. Within were instructions to report to the airbase the next morning to be shipped to Georgia of all places to participate in a Government program they were giving you no details about. After landing and being corralled onto a bus that drove you somewhere north of Fort Benning, in a seemingly deserted stretch of forest and hills to the small town you now found yourself in. Upon arrival you were told to report to the trailer you currently call home until further orders were issued. Much to your surprise you opened the door to find a woman about your age leaning against the counter top looking out a window on the opposite side of the trailer, her sundress waving slowly from an open window. She was just slightly shorter than you, with dark brown wavy hair that stopped just below her jawline, pristine olive skin and a radiance you couldn't put into words; she was beautiful. Hearing the door slam shut she jumps a bit clearly lost in thought prior to you entering. She turns to you smirks and says "Looks like my roommate is finally here, I'm Catherine, nice to meet you..." she trails off, you reply "Ian, I hope we get along, given that it looks like we're living together from now on." she just beams back with a warm smile. Not long after setting your things down (which wasn't much more than a backpack and the rifle you trusted with your life) the loudspeakers spread throughout the makeshift town sparked to life "All occupants report to the Vault entrance for briefing" the message continued to repeat, you looked at the woman in front of you and said "I suppose we should go see what the brass has to say".
	You and your roommate arrive to a growing crowd in front of a small stage complete with a podium. An important looking man dressed in full uniform walks up to the microphone, checks to see it is working, then begins to speak "I am Major General John Mitchell, you all are probably wondering why you are gathered here instead of contributing to the fight against communism. It may not seem like it, but you all may be the greatest weapon we have to win this war once and for all. The conflict is edging closer and closer to full on thermonuclear war, The United States has prepared for this inevitability by building vaults much like the one behind me across the nation. This one will be yours. Very soon the United States will light the fuse to the mutually assured destruction of this world." he pauses for a few seconds to let the grave nature of what we were told to completely sink in, you hear murmurs of disbelief from around you, Catherine looks unmoved, her eyes fixed on the General. He begins again "You personally will not see this mission through to its end, but your descendants will. When the radiation outside this Vault reaches safe levels for humans and life to resume again, it will be the task of your descendants and the will of the United States for them to reclaim the scorched Earth. For them to repopulate these United States for the good of all mankind. Your Vault is very special even among the others constructed, everyone entering is employed by the military in some way or another, and the protocol set in place will train everyone born in this vault to be a weapon capable of overcoming any odds faced after this door reopens decades from now. You men and women will sow the seeds of a brighter tomorrow, your descendants will be the peace keepers of the new world, they will be its Reclaimers. Thank you all for your service, everyone is dismissed." Disbelief was the general feel you got from the surrounding crowd, you and Catherine make eye contact and walk home in silence. 
	The door closes, you start to say something but Catherine stops you before you can get a word out and takes your hand leading you to the small bedroom, which you note there is only one of with only one queen sized bed inside. She motions for you to sit and you oblige her. She turns around to close the door then faces you again with her hands behind her back "As we both heard, the world as we know it is ending, and on top of that it looks like we're responsible for making sure our great great grandchildren are those ones who rule it." she pauses looking out the window for a moment before finding the words she wants "Now I'm not a patient girl by any means of the word, and I think you are something special and very cute at that." she looks you dead in the eye "So why waste any time?" she grabs the thin straps on her shoulders and pulls them to her sides while letting her arms fall down by her waist allowing the sundress you were admiring earlier to collect neatly around her feet. Awestruck you take in the sight before you, she completely bare under the dress just smiles at the obviously dumb look plastered on your face and begins to giggle. Everything is perfectly proportioned, her waist tiny but not overly so, her stomach flat but not muscled like yours, hips just wide enough for a girl her size and the most perfect set of breasts you had ever seen in person, probably just more than a handful but no larger than a C cup. You finally snap out of this daze her figure has left you in and reply "Maybe the end of the world Ain't so bad after all."

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