Author's Note: This is mostly just an exercise for me to write up various potential scenarios as they come to mind, and see how well I can actualize them. Future snippets are possible, and requests may be written if I find them suitably entertaining. After all, these aren't too much effort to write. So, without further ado...
***
[i]Riiiiing-ring! Ring-ring! Ring-ring!
Stupid noise....bad enough she had trouble getting to sleep with Fate out on assignment, but now some kid on a bike outside....
AWOOOOOOOGAH!
Nanoha sat up straight in bed with a startled "I'm awake!" as she looked at the phone by her bedside which had shifted from "friendly call" to "please pick me up right now". Yet again, she regretted letting Hayate blackmail her into accepting the thing as a housewarming gift. As she picked up, the slightly frantic face of Subaru looked back at her. "Nanoha-saaaaan! Heeeeeelllllllp~!"
"Subaru, what is it?" Nanoha asked, concerned. Her old pupil was hardly the type to panic under pressure, especially with her work in the disaster relief branch. If she was freaking out this badly, something awful had to have happen-
"It's Tsubasa! She won't stop crying and I've tried rocking her and singing to her and cuddling her and I can't do breast-feeding like Tea and I don't know what to do but you raised Vivio and hellllllllppppp!"
Nanoha looked at her for a moment as her brain slowly regrew the gears it had stripped off from her late night lesson planning session and insomnia to properly assess the situation, before she looked at the phone with a dour look and sighed. "Subaru, Teana made the contact list for you ahead of time exactly for this sort of thing."
"Yes, but, it's like 5 in the morning over where Gin-nee is at! I didn't want to wake...her....oh," Subaru said as her brain finally caught up with her mouth and she realized that Ginga wasn't that far ahead of them time wise. "....I thought you'd have more practical hands-on experience?"
"Good night, Subaru," Nanoha said, hanging up before making a flying faceplant into her pillow, grumbling about stupid sexy blondes with careers that give them sexy suits but keep them away far too much from bed warming duties....
***
Alright, Lutecia, you know what you have to do, the young summoner said, bringing both arms up in determination. "Right, let's do this. Don't back down. Just ask the question."
Lutecia had come a long way since the end of the JS Incident. Her mother's recuperation had helped that, allowing her to focus more on her own feelings rather than the single minded drive that had sustained her while working for the Doctor to restore her mother.
Which had led her to re-examine the feelings that had led her to leave the Doctor's employ...and the people that had inspired them. Which in turn had led her to this seemingly innocuous question to the two people that meant the most to her in the entire world.
"Um...Caro...Erio...I've been meaning to ask. Are you two...y'know..." she said, twiddling her fingers. "Together?"
"Together?" Caro said, ignoring Erio choking on his drink from where he'd just swallowed a gulp of tea down the wrong tube. "Well, I suppose, in a way. We've always been pretty close since we met, and it's kind of hard to imagine my life before I met Erio," she said, before Erio caught his breath and looked at Caro over Lutecia's crestfallen expression.
"I don't think that's what Lu meant, Caro," he said, coughing slightly. At the pink haired dragon summoner's confused look, he shrugged. "She meant are we dating."
Caro looked at him for a second. "Oh....oh!" she repeated, before looking back at Lutecia. "No, no, it's nothing like that at all. Erio's like my brother."
"Really?" Lutecia blinked.
"Yes," Caro smiled. "We were both adopted by Fate, and we kind of got used to each other during that whole mess back then, so we got really close, really quick."
Lutecia sighed somewhat in relief, before freezing as Erio spoke up again. "Why exactly did you ask, Lu?"
"Um....well. This is going to make my asking about a potential threesome awkward, isn't it?"
***
Fate reflected, as she listened to her lover go on and on, that Nanoha fretted over the strangest things for someone who'd gone head to head with the reincarnation of a physical god and not even blinked.
"Well, it's not that I'm ashamed or anything....I'm just kind of worried how they'll take it. I mean, this isn't as common on Earth," Nanoha said. "I don't want to come on too strong, but at the same time, I'm not going to just pretend we're really close friends and nothing more and....I'm babbling, aren't I?" she finished lamely.
"Yes," Fate said with a soft smile. "So perhaps we should just go in and talk to them?"
Nanoha blinked, looked at her, blinked again, and then laughed slightly to herself. "You probably have a point," she admitted, sliding her hand into Fate's and entering the restaraunt in front of them.
The place was fairly upscale, as Arisa had insisted on paying for the meal when she heard Nanoha and Fate were going to be back in town, and Nanoha's two oldest friends were easily discernable.
Suzuka had grown into a classic Japanese beauty, dark hair hanging past her shoulders from where it was held up by a single white hairband and falling over her white jacket worn over a dark blue blouse and matching skirt.
Arisa, by contrast, was wearing her hair in a short, barely neck length style compared to her old long hair from when they'd been in school together, a tan peasant blouse over a pair of black shorts providing her with a more tomboyish aspect than her friend.
The typical hugs and expressions of gratitude to be able to see each other were exchanged shortly thereafter, before Nanoha found herself waffling on how exactly to bring the subject up. Eventually, mustering up her courage, she spoke up.
"There's something we need to tell-"
"Nanoha, there's something we'd like to ask-"
Both groups blinked, looking at the other, before Nanoha laughed slightly. "You go first, Arisa. Mine can wait a little," she said, much to Fate's amusement beside her.
Arisa looked at her friend oddly, before shaking her head and smiling. "Well...we were wondering if you and Fate would care to be bridesmaids."
"Bridesmaids?" Nanoha said, not quite processing the term. "One of you's getting married? Who?"
"Both of us are," Suzuka giggled. "To each other."
It was only Fate's iron self control that kept her from breaking out laughing at the look on Nanoha's face.
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---
"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
waste."
***
[i]Riiiiing-ring! Ring-ring! Ring-ring!
Stupid noise....bad enough she had trouble getting to sleep with Fate out on assignment, but now some kid on a bike outside....
AWOOOOOOOGAH!
Nanoha sat up straight in bed with a startled "I'm awake!" as she looked at the phone by her bedside which had shifted from "friendly call" to "please pick me up right now". Yet again, she regretted letting Hayate blackmail her into accepting the thing as a housewarming gift. As she picked up, the slightly frantic face of Subaru looked back at her. "Nanoha-saaaaan! Heeeeeelllllllp~!"
"Subaru, what is it?" Nanoha asked, concerned. Her old pupil was hardly the type to panic under pressure, especially with her work in the disaster relief branch. If she was freaking out this badly, something awful had to have happen-
"It's Tsubasa! She won't stop crying and I've tried rocking her and singing to her and cuddling her and I can't do breast-feeding like Tea and I don't know what to do but you raised Vivio and hellllllllppppp!"
Nanoha looked at her for a moment as her brain slowly regrew the gears it had stripped off from her late night lesson planning session and insomnia to properly assess the situation, before she looked at the phone with a dour look and sighed. "Subaru, Teana made the contact list for you ahead of time exactly for this sort of thing."
"Yes, but, it's like 5 in the morning over where Gin-nee is at! I didn't want to wake...her....oh," Subaru said as her brain finally caught up with her mouth and she realized that Ginga wasn't that far ahead of them time wise. "....I thought you'd have more practical hands-on experience?"
"Good night, Subaru," Nanoha said, hanging up before making a flying faceplant into her pillow, grumbling about stupid sexy blondes with careers that give them sexy suits but keep them away far too much from bed warming duties....
***
Alright, Lutecia, you know what you have to do, the young summoner said, bringing both arms up in determination. "Right, let's do this. Don't back down. Just ask the question."
Lutecia had come a long way since the end of the JS Incident. Her mother's recuperation had helped that, allowing her to focus more on her own feelings rather than the single minded drive that had sustained her while working for the Doctor to restore her mother.
Which had led her to re-examine the feelings that had led her to leave the Doctor's employ...and the people that had inspired them. Which in turn had led her to this seemingly innocuous question to the two people that meant the most to her in the entire world.
"Um...Caro...Erio...I've been meaning to ask. Are you two...y'know..." she said, twiddling her fingers. "Together?"
"Together?" Caro said, ignoring Erio choking on his drink from where he'd just swallowed a gulp of tea down the wrong tube. "Well, I suppose, in a way. We've always been pretty close since we met, and it's kind of hard to imagine my life before I met Erio," she said, before Erio caught his breath and looked at Caro over Lutecia's crestfallen expression.
"I don't think that's what Lu meant, Caro," he said, coughing slightly. At the pink haired dragon summoner's confused look, he shrugged. "She meant are we dating."
Caro looked at him for a second. "Oh....oh!" she repeated, before looking back at Lutecia. "No, no, it's nothing like that at all. Erio's like my brother."
"Really?" Lutecia blinked.
"Yes," Caro smiled. "We were both adopted by Fate, and we kind of got used to each other during that whole mess back then, so we got really close, really quick."
Lutecia sighed somewhat in relief, before freezing as Erio spoke up again. "Why exactly did you ask, Lu?"
"Um....well. This is going to make my asking about a potential threesome awkward, isn't it?"
***
Fate reflected, as she listened to her lover go on and on, that Nanoha fretted over the strangest things for someone who'd gone head to head with the reincarnation of a physical god and not even blinked.
"Well, it's not that I'm ashamed or anything....I'm just kind of worried how they'll take it. I mean, this isn't as common on Earth," Nanoha said. "I don't want to come on too strong, but at the same time, I'm not going to just pretend we're really close friends and nothing more and....I'm babbling, aren't I?" she finished lamely.
"Yes," Fate said with a soft smile. "So perhaps we should just go in and talk to them?"
Nanoha blinked, looked at her, blinked again, and then laughed slightly to herself. "You probably have a point," she admitted, sliding her hand into Fate's and entering the restaraunt in front of them.
The place was fairly upscale, as Arisa had insisted on paying for the meal when she heard Nanoha and Fate were going to be back in town, and Nanoha's two oldest friends were easily discernable.
Suzuka had grown into a classic Japanese beauty, dark hair hanging past her shoulders from where it was held up by a single white hairband and falling over her white jacket worn over a dark blue blouse and matching skirt.
Arisa, by contrast, was wearing her hair in a short, barely neck length style compared to her old long hair from when they'd been in school together, a tan peasant blouse over a pair of black shorts providing her with a more tomboyish aspect than her friend.
The typical hugs and expressions of gratitude to be able to see each other were exchanged shortly thereafter, before Nanoha found herself waffling on how exactly to bring the subject up. Eventually, mustering up her courage, she spoke up.
"There's something we need to tell-"
"Nanoha, there's something we'd like to ask-"
Both groups blinked, looking at the other, before Nanoha laughed slightly. "You go first, Arisa. Mine can wait a little," she said, much to Fate's amusement beside her.
Arisa looked at her friend oddly, before shaking her head and smiling. "Well...we were wondering if you and Fate would care to be bridesmaids."
"Bridesmaids?" Nanoha said, not quite processing the term. "One of you's getting married? Who?"
"Both of us are," Suzuka giggled. "To each other."
It was only Fate's iron self control that kept her from breaking out laughing at the look on Nanoha's face.
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---
"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
waste."