A/N: I know i should not be starting a few fandom since i have a whole bunch of unfinished Fruits Basket stories, some from years ago. I've just been in a Nanoha mood lately and after reading some of the awesome fics in this category i thought i would try my hand at a quick story. This is set post StrikerS, prior to Vivid
TSAB HQ, Aerial Tactical Instructor Corps building, 1100 Earth time
Nanoha was bored. There wasn't going to be a new training group starting until next week. She had gone to a meeting about development of some new defensive manuvers for aerial combat that Teanna and Subaru were developing which seemed to be getting a lot of interest from the brass. Nanoha was proud of her young pupils who ahd grown up quite a bit since the Jail Scagletti incident. But that was almsot two hours ago and she hadn't had much to do since then. She was very organized and was allways on top of her paperwork. She took some serious thought to trying to sneak in a quick call to the love of her life, Fate Harlaown, but she would be getting ready for a debriefing from her last mission and would not have time to talk. She knew Fate would make some time to talk to her if she insisted but it wasn't fair to push it since she had her own things to do.
I never thought i might actually have nothing to do around here she thought to herself as she went over her schedule for the 15th or 16th time when a call came through on her video communications display. The computer IDed it as coming from Hayate Yagami. She hadn't talked to her friend Hayate for a while so it made her happy that her friend would call her.
"Good afternoon Hayate-chan" Nanoha said, smiling as her friend's image appeared on the screen
'Good afternoon Nanoha-chan. I didn't have much going on today so i thought i would see if you would like to meeet for lunch. It's been a while since we got together" replied the young brunett. In the background Nanoha could see Reinforce, Hayate's Intelligent Device flying behind her as was usual
"That actually sounds like a great idea. We haven't had a chance to talk in a while and it will give us a chance to discuss what we plan to do for Fate-chan's birthday" In a few weeks it would be her girlfriends birthday and Nanoha was making sure she made it as special as possible. That wasn't a surprise to Hayate, she knew about Fate and Nanoha's feelings for each other before they did.
Before they could discuss it further, Nanoha heard her cell phone ring. "One second Hayate-Chan i need to take this call." Hayate could see her friend get more and more worried about what they were discussing allthough she had muted her side of the connection as a courtesy to her friend. Once the cell ended she asked " Is everything ok Nanoha-chan?" to her visibly shaken friend. It was obvious from Nanoha's face that this was not good news but she knew that if Nanoha wanted to share she would. She trusted her friends to know that they could confide in her at all times.
Nanoha replied with "That was a call from Vivio's principal. Vivio got into a fight at school and i need to go. Can you cover for me? I hate to ask but this is an emergency." She said this it was with a voice of fear and concerned for her adopted daughter. This was the first time anything out of the oridinary had happened to Vivio since she started attendeing school, certainly the first time she had been in a fight.
Hayate simply nodded and said "Don't worry about it Nanoha. I will make sure everything is taken care off. You just go take care of your daughter" with a serious look that Nanoha knew meant that it would get taken care of one way or another. "Thank you Hayate-Chan I will talk with you later" Nanoha replied as the connection broke.
Hayate leaned back in her chair and sighed. She hoped that everything was ok with Vivio. She knew how important the little girl was to Nanoha and Fate and if someone had hurt her they might be cleaning bits of Starlight Breaker out of thier teeth for the next month. She turned to Reinforce and said "Well Rein we got some work to do. Let's start making some calls"
