50sentences – Subaru and Teana
#01 – Comfort
Nanoha let Teana cry against the front of her uniform and pound her fists on her shoulders after the funeral because that was all she could do for the grief-stricken girl who had screamed her voice hoarse stubbornly denying that she had ever loved the blue-haired girl in between sobs.
#02 – Kiss
The first time Subaru kissed her on the lips, she punched the girl across their shared room while yelling about how stupid that damn cyborg was.
#03 – Soft
After three months of separation, she didn't mind when Subaru pounced on her with a flying tackle even though it was a sign that she was getting soft.
#04 – Pain
Smiling through the pain, she looked at Tea's annoyed face and finally let those three words slip past her lips before closing the monitor and braced herself for the explosion that hit her seconds later.
#05 – Potatoes
When Subaru was done with them, they looked like pieces of charcoal.
#06 – Rain
It was raining on their day off, which gave Subaru the perfect excuse to stay indoors to snuggle up against a reluctant but blushing Teana with a cup of hot chocolate.
#07 – Chocolate
As a 'friendly' gesture, Subaru presented Teana with chocolates on Valentine's Day, only to be rewarded with a bop on the head.
#08 – Happiness
It was always within reach, but Teana never found the courage to reach for it until the day it slipped away one day.
#09 – Telephone
Subaru still called her everyday even though she told her not to because long distance calls were ridiculously expensive.
#10 – Ears
Teana did not need to be told by Subaru that she had cute ears.
#11 – Name
'Isn't funny that we're both named after cars?' Subaru noted one day.
#12 – Sensual
Being the only one sober during the aftermath of a reunion of RF6 members, Subaru had to remind herself not to jump Teana who had draped herself over Subaru, lips bare inches away from her face.
#13 – Death
All they found of her were pieces of charred circuitry.
#14 – Sex
They almost did it that night, but Subaru had pushed the orange-haired girl away at the last possible moment and fled because she didn't want to take advantage of Teana while she was drunk.
#15 – Touch
Teana never quite liked the touchy-feely stuff between adolescent females but it didn't quite bother her as much if the perpetrator was one blue-haired combat cyborg.
#16 – Weakness
There was only one person Teana would ever show them to.
#17 – Tears
Only once had Teana ever seen her partner shed tears, and she resolved that she never wanted to see it ever again.
#18 – Speed
Subaru liked it when Teana drove fast because she could wrap her arms tightly around Tea's waist and pretend just for a moment that they were really lovers.
#19 – Wind
Plunging from thirty feet above the ground after another failed attempt at flight, Teana wasn't the slightest bit worried because she knew Subaru would always catch her.
#20 – Freedom
Before meeting Subaru, Teana thought that freedom meant not being tied down to anyone.
#21 – Life
At twenty-six, Teana had a meaningful job that paid well, a spacious apartment in a good part of town and everything she had wanted in life except the person she should be sharing it with.
#22 – Jealousy
Subaru knew she didn't have the right to be jealous when Teana spent time with Vice because Tea had never been hers anyway (though weeks later when they broke up, she was relieved).
#23 – Hands
Subaru didn't care if people gave them weird looks – she just wanted to hold Tea's hand.
#24 – Taste
'You taste like cinnamon,' Subaru said grinning after she got punched across the room, before being promptly whacked upside the head again.
#25 – Devotion
Nanoha and Fate were completely devoted to each other, which led Teana to wonder how they survived the months apart from each other (because she missed Subaru already, even though it's only been a day).
#26 – Forever
Teana would never forgive Subaru for lying about staying together forever.
#27 – Blood
She was losing blood fast but the thought of returning to Subaru once the mission was over kept her going.
#28 – Sickness
Even a fever of thirty-nine degrees Celsius couldn't stop Subaru from spending a precious day with Teana (even though she collapsed afterwards).
#29 – Melody
Teana was surprised that Subaru could even play a musical instrument, not to mention the sad, haunting melody that emitted from the violin cradled against the cyborg's neck.
#30 – Star
They used to be a pair, but now Teana was the only one left.
#31 – Home
Somewhere along the line, she began to think of Subaru's apartment as home.
#32 – Confusion
Teana was rather miffed by Subaru's confession over the video call, though at the back of her mind, she knew exactly what it meant.
#33 – Fear
Teana never stopped fearing that Subaru would leave her like her family did.
#34 - Lightning/Thunder
Subaru was scared of thunderstorms, but when Teana was with her, she wasn't afraid of anything.
#35 – Bonds
The promise of forever that bound them was shattered in an instant when the news of Subaru's death finally reached Teana.
#36 – Market
Teana hummed happily as she picked out the ingredients for dinner because Subaru was coming over that day.
#37 – Technology
In her last moments, Subaru was thankful that technology had allowed her to finally tell the orange-haired girl how she felt.
#38 – Gift
Putting on the white headband with black crosses marking the ends, Subaru thanked Teana and happily proclaimed that they now matched Tea's hair ribbons.
#39 – Smile
Teana couldn't help but smile when Subaru informed her that she would do anything for her even though she berated Subaru afterwards for saying stupid things.
#40 – Innocence
Teana lost her innocence when her brother died but somehow regained it when Subaru wormed her way into her heart.
#41 – Completion
'Second Lieutenant Nakajima was a true hero who selflessly placed the completion of the mission above her own life,' the faceless man delivering the eulogy said.
#42 – Clouds
The clouds parted and the warm sunlight that reminded Teana of Subaru shone through.
#43 – Sky
Gazing upwards, Teana thought the sky looked empty without Subaru's Wing Road streaking across it.
#44 – Heaven
She stopped believing in heaven ages ago, but now she desperately wanted to believe that Subaru was there, waiting for her.
#45 – Hell
When her parents died, she was too young to understand; when her brother died, she became despondent; when Subaru died, the world became living hell.
#46 – Sun
Like planets revolving around the sun, Teana's life had, unbeknownst to her, come to revolve around Subaru.
#47 – Moon
'Ahaha, a stroll in the moonlight, how romantic…' Subaru said, and Teana secretly agreed, thankful that Subaru could not see the tinge of red on her cheeks.
#48 – Waves
From Subaru's little apartment, Teana could hear the sounds of waves splashing on the beach.
#49 – Hair
In a rare expression of affection, Teana ruffled Subaru's hair.
#50 – Supernova
Years later, when she reviewed the video footage of the explosion that killed Subaru, she thought that it was oddly fitting that it resembled the death of a star.