Hi! This is my first fanfiction that I've actually got an idea where I'm going with so I might even finish it *gasp*. So to be clear if I didn't explain it properly in the description thing this fic is set in a small village in the early 1600s (specifically July 1612) but I'm not a history nerd so don't get mad at me if it's not accurate to the time, I tried okay? Diana and Akko are maybe a few years older than in the anime. Diana is secretly a witch, Akko is a native to the village who has a reputation for being late, clumsy, and other such things. And they're just about to meet.

"whaah!" Akko shouts crashing into someone who happened to be walking the wrong way at the wrong time. Being used to this from her countless experiences of crashing into people all the time she quickly stands up, brushing dust from her dress.

"sorry, I wasn't looking where I was going." she smiles, then holds out her hand, "do you want some help?"

the girl takes her hand and stands up. Now able to see her properly Akko realises this girl isn't from this town and proceeds to take some mental notes of her appearance: the girl was About the same age as she was, but quite a bit taller, her hair was platinum blonde in waves to her shoulders, wearing a blue summer dress that complemented her blue eyes nicely.

"hmm I don't think I've seen you before, I'm Akko" she keeps her tone friendly, introducing herself, after all you only get one chance at a first impression.

"I'm Diana, I moved here yesterday" she replies, her voice not as loud as Akko's but still clear.

"where were you going to just now?"

"I.. was going to read outside somewhere it's such a pleasant day"

"oh, so you don't go to church then" Akko inquires with a glare.

"w-wait it's Sunday? I wasn't able to keep track when I was travelling, I suppose we could walk down there together since we're here" she tries to keep the panic out her voice oh god she thinks I already seem suspicious and it's only day 1.

"sounds great!" she says putting a smile back on as they turn to walk (quite swiftly since they're going to be late if they don't get a move on) to the church.

The day at church was quite typical, Priest Hanbridge read out a few sections of the bible while the children went in different room to do Sunday school. Akko missed Sunday school, it was a lot more fun than regular church, though she knew better than to complain. But since she had heard the stories seemingly a million times and new a good deal of them word for word she often tuned it out to think about other things instead, today she spent quite a while thinking about the girl. New comers were a rare occurrence in this town, most of the towns people had been born and raised there and most people stayed there for life, this made Diana quite interesting. Akko wondered if Diana was disorganised like herself since she didn't even know what day of the week it was, or maybe her first impression was miles out from who she normally was and will change when she feels more at home. Either way Akko wanted to know more about her.

After church was over the villagers all talked as they filed out of the church. Normally Akko would race (in the most orderly manner she could) to get out before the crowd blocked the entrance forcing her to squeeze through everyone, but today Akko had a different goal, instead of getting home, She wanted to get to know Diana, and since Diana was waiting to leave she did too. Once the majority of the congregation was gone Diana stood up and headed to the exit, followed by Akko, and once outside Akko decided to start a conversation with her.

"Hi!" she greeted

"hello"

"so uh, you're new here then?"

"that is correct"

"w-we don't really get new people here, but I want to get to know you." she explains

"oh, I see. I'd be glad to talk" Diana responds cheerfully, though really she was hoping to keep interaction minimal, at least for a few weeks.

"Great! I'm Akko by the way!"

"ahh yes, I believe you told me before."

"oh did I?" no no no I messed up already now she won't want to talk to me

"shall we find a place to sit and talk further?" she offers, finding the brunette villager quite an interesting character.

Akko mentally sighs seeing that her mess up had been taken as a joke.

"yes I'd like that, there's a nice clearing near the edge of the forest that I like, shall we go there?"

"sounds perfect"

"great! Its just this way" she says leading them down the path that leads to the forest. "so where've you come from?"

"Lancaster, it's north of here"

"wait I've heard about there. There's word around town about witch trials, I'm not sure I believe it, at least half the gossip here is rubbish because this town rarely has anything interesting going on we tend to either talk about other places getting most of our information from delivery people,or make something up."

"oh the witch trials are happening, in about a months thime, there's a lot of talk about it up there. It's part of why I moved, it gets rather tiring hearing the same thing all the time"

"aha we've arrived!" they arrive at a clearing in the oak woods, mostly obscured by bushes. The clearing was quite pretty, the ground being covered in medium length grass that was dotted with various pretty wild flowers, and at the edge, in front of the bushes, there were clusters of bluebells.

"sun or shade?"

"huh?"

"where shall we sit?"

"oh, in the shade, I burn easily"

"okay!" she walks to a spot in the shade and sits on the grass, smiling as she pats the spot beside her to invite Diana to sit beside her, which she does.

"so what do you like about this place then?" the blonde asks.

"well the grass it the perfect length for one, long enough that it's comfy to sit on, but not so long that you have to wade though it, though it is fun to play in fields of long grass too! You lie down and you're suddenly invisible! But it's impossible to move in thoe fields and even harder to do so without tripping over all the time." she rambles "but my favourite thing is that this clearing attracts the forest animals like rabbits and mice! Sometimes I can pick them up and stroke them and they're soooo soft, and cute. there's one brown rabbit which is definitely my favourite, he has such a funny face but in a cute rabbit way"

Diana enjoys the way Akko's face lights up when she talks about the things she likes.

"I had some pet rabbits where I used to live" Diana says

"woahhh that's so cool! What were they called? Do you have more pets? Can I see them?"

"there was a white one with black patches called patch, and the other one was white called snowy, very original naming I know," she jokes "and I also had a horse, brown with white socks, called Toby. Unfortunately I left them with my aunt when I moved."

"you had a horse? only rich people have those! What would make someone like that come to such a shoddy village as this?"

crap what do I say?

"uhh... I.. I didn't really like it there, I wanted to try something new, having everything for granted gets boring after a while" what a lousy excuse! she's gonna see through this so fast.

"oh that's kinda cool! I wanna hear more but I just remembered need to get back home so I'll see you round I guess?" she tells the blonde while she stands up.

"yeah I think I'll stay here for now but I'd love to talk more with you, you seem really interesting," Diana complements her, causing the brunette to blush a little.

"th-thanks, you too. Anyway gotta go, see ya!" she walks merrily away.

Diana sighs in relief how the hell did I manage that? She thinks lying back on the grass completely understanding the energetic brunettes love of this place, its comfortable and secluded, seemed ideal for doing anything away from the village. she sat there for a while before she too headed home.