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Test Drive
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: USA
Age: 33
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Originally Posted by DezoPenguin
@Alavon: I agree with markesellus: "Liar, liar, hams on wire" makes the fic!
@Satashi: I'll be the rare exception and speak up for poor, lonely A here. My personal prejudice is to hear more about the vampire in a vampire fic. Actually, can I vote to hear more about the home-made marshmallows?!
And for my own contribution to the thread, in response to a request from RadiantBeam, I am hereby offering my take on what Nanoha and Fate were doing while Vivio and Lutecia were out on their date in her story, "Waiting Game."
No, it does not involve liquid latex, body chocolate, or magically animated tentacles. Stop giving my wife ideas, you pervs!
Spoiler for Something About Fate-mama Just Bugs Me:
"Nanoha, you can't have Raising Heart do a Wide Area Search for Vivio and Lutecia."
"But Fate-chan..." Nanoha said, her voice sounding suspiciously close to a whine.
"No."
Nanoha sighed.
"All right. Mode Release, Raising Heart."
"Yes, my master." The Intelligent Device reverted to its standby mode, a brilliant red gem, and Nanoha returned it to the chain around her neck.
Fate got up from her chair and put her arm around Nanoha's shoulders.
"It wouldn't have worked anyway, you know. Lutecia's been trained to detect and block seeking spells as part of her job. Getting detected by one could end up getting her killed, after all; she can't turn that off any more than you or I can walk into a room without immediately assessing potential threats, fields of fire, and escape routes. And Vivio has more raw potential than any of us. She might notice the spell, too, and then there'd be hell to pay."
"I'm just so worried!"
Fate gave her a reassuring squeeze.
"I know. But you don't want to pick a fight with our daughter over trust issues. She's hotheaded enough to deliberately do something you don't want just to spite you, and if Lutecia gets angry enough...
"Yeah, I know." Nanoha shook her head, then suddenly broke into laughter. "It's weird. Here I am, all worried over the idea that Vivio might rush into adult things too early when you know, I know, and they know that the only reason Vivio hasn't slept with Lutecia yet is because of the age difference that's making me so worried in the first place!"
"Life's full of little ironies," Fate returned her wife's grin.
"I still can't understand how you can be so calm about this."
"Well, it could be experience. Erio and Caro did go through this stage about five years ago."
"They did? How come I don't remember that?"
"I was on deployment at the time. There was a week where Caro and I were having three-hour calls every night."
Nanoha chuckled.
"Bet you were really glad you'd only adopted them as their guardian and not their mother, huh, Fate-chan?"
"Not as glad as they were!"
"At least it solved the entire 'bring the boyfriend home to meet the parents' problem," Nanoha mused.
"Who was it that wanted me to cook tomorrow night?"
"I'll be good!"
Nanoha sighed again and ran her hand through her hair. It was really just more of the same thing she'd been dealing with since she'd adopted Vivio. Fate was more maternal, more naturally at ease with children. It was as if Fate had internalized all the horrors of Precia's abuse, combined them with the happy memories that rightfully belonged to her "sister" Alicia, and put them together into not only a sincere care for the young but a knowledge of what they needed, what worked and what didn't. All Nanoha had gotten out of her own childhood was a relentless self-sufficiency and a knack for forming close friendships--relationships with people on her own level.
Ironically, her own personality made her a fine soldier, and meshed well with the skills she taught her students, the mage cadets of the TSAB air force. It didn't carry over well to motherhood, though; it was a vicious struggle every day to try to find the way to translate her love for Vivio into a form that would give her both the happiness she deserved and the lessons the girl needed to learn. If it wasn't for Fate...
If it wasn't for Fate...
She flung her arms around Fate, buried her face against the curve of her neck, and squeezed her close and tight.
"I need to so much, Fate-chan. Without you, I'd...I'd..."
Fate gently stroked her hair.
"I know," she answered what Nanoha meant rather than just what she'd said. She was good at that. "This time, though, experience is only part of it."
"Oh?" Nanoha lifted her head, looking curiously at Fate.
"Raising Heart, would you tune to secured channel AZI-469?"
"Yes, my master's love-bunny."
Nanoha giggled. Fate just groaned. Then two more voices joined theirs.
"I still can't believe you didn't find that movie romantic."
"Hey, I found it perfectly romantic. I also just happened to find it horribly cliche."
"What? But that's...Vivio and Lutecia-chan!"
Fate smirked.
"Uh-huh."
"But how?"
"Remember when Vivio was rooting through my closet, wanting to borrow something to wear on her date?"
"Yeah; my stuff doesn't fit her."
"And she asked to borrow the black cocktail dress with the figure-eight double belt?"
"Mmn."
"That's one of my work outfits for undercover assignments. There's a standard Enforcement Bureau bug in the belt. Full 3D audio-video field scan, and does not ping off search-magic awareness unless you do an active search for it."
Nanoha shook her head.
"You bugged our daughter. And I thought I was overprotective!"
"No, our daughter bugged herself. There is a difference. And you'll note that I wasn't listening in."
"Well, that makes one of us."
"All right, but go upstairs. You don't want her to walk in the front door and hear her own voice calling hello."
"Gotcha."
"And it'll give you a better vantage point if you need to dump a bucket of cold water over them during the goodnight kiss."
"Fate-chan!"
Laughing, Fate strolled back to her chair and picked up her book.
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... Now THAT was unexpected in a very good, absolutely hilarious way! 
Haha, trust Fate to soothe Nanoha's fears by... bugging their own daughter. Somehow I think it was definitely for the best that Lutecia and Vivio had the willpower to pull back at the last second, God knows what would have happened to them if they hadn't. 
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And you realize, now, that this means I have to write that Lutecia fic, don't you? Since you referenced it in your notes and now people will be poking about for it.
The comment to Caro and Erio was absolutely adorable and true... pity no one picks up on it, it'd make an interesting story. And don't worry... I've got a few more ViCia stories to crank out before I can consider finishing it. 
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