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The Fallen

CleideJam

Chapter 3: All Sweets

Fate and Nanoha are now in front of a small but crowded café. "Midori-ya Café"Fate read the board which tells her that it is the name of the café. "Unn! That is our café, both mother and father took care of this place. We sell reeeaaaallly delicious and sweet desserts here. You want some desserts, Fate-chan?" Nanoha asked Fate, who is now stunned. "Mother…Father…" Fate told to herself, and then she suddenly remembered a memory…

Flashback-

"Ne, Fate. You really like sweet things huh?" Alicia asked the other blonde-haired person whose face now covered with chocolates. " Alicia-neechan-gulp-sweet thing like this brings out my full energy. And having full energy is important for me…wanna know why?" Fate asked while preparing a spoonful of cake and then facing the ever-smiling Alicia. "Hmm…Tell me then" Alicia replied. Fate suddenly leaned forward to touch Alicia's right cheek and remove some cake from her, "so that I'll be fully prepared when I'm protecting you" Fate said proudly while giving Alicia a soft smile after removing her hand from the girl's cheek. "Is my reasoning right, Father?" Fate faced her father to ask for some confirmation. The head master of the Testarossa Household laughed at the image of his two daughters. "Look dear, Fate's imitating what you've just told me before. The same reason you gave me when you would always ask me to make sweet desserts for you," Precia said while softly chuckling. "Moumother, you don't have to compare me with father. I'm still too far to reach him," Fate pouted.

End of flashback-

"Fate-chan? Fate-chan…?" Nanoha looked with concern at the unmoving blonde while waving her left palm in front of Fate. "So-sorry Nanoha-chan, I just…" Fate blushed for having no words to say anymore. "Mou….Fate-chan, you're thinking of something else while you're with me" Nanoha pouted while crossing her arms on her chest. Fate chuckled at the image of the little brunette, "you look so cute, Nanoha-chan" Fate chuckled more as the brunette blushed and then grabbed the blonde's right hand, "yeah. Yeah. Let's go inside the café now. No more embarrassments and spacing out…ne?" Nanoha asked while pulling Fate inside the café. "Haaaiii~~~~" Fate replied with a grin on her face.

The bell at the café's front door rang signaling that someone has arrived or left the café. Momoko, wearing her usual uniform and apron with her brown hair brought down and wondering whom it was, looked at the said door. "Oh, Nanoha dear, how's your delivery? Were you caught by the rain?" Momoko asked her daughter worriedly. "I've finished all the deliveries Mom. And I brought my umbrella with me so I didn't got wet….but my friend here sure did" Nanoha explained then pointed to a blonde that sure was soaking wet from head to toe. Even her black converse sneakers are all wet.

"So….who's this drenched girl?" Momoko asked while putting her index finger on her cheek and tilting her face to the side. "Now I know where Nanoha-chan got those gestures," Fate thought. Being trained to formally introduce herself she held Momoko's hand then put the back of it on her forehead. Letting go of the woman's hand, Fate stood elegantly in front of Momoko, "sorry for the sudden intrusion. I am Fate Testarossa. It is nice to meet you Takamachi-san. I am a friend of your daughter, Nanoha-chan" Fate said then bowed her head then lifted it up again to see the ladies' faces. "Ooh. Fate-chan. It is nice to meet you. You can just call me Momoko-san. And….that gesture…" Momoko said. And as if on cue, mother and daughter looked at one another. Both surprised at the blonde's unfamiliar gesture. Fate looked at them realizing that they were not accustomed with that kind of gesture, she began to explain herself, "ahm…sorry if that surprised you. Well it's one of a respecting gesture when you meet someone. It's a gesture taught to me. A gesture that came from a country called "Philippines,"" Fate said proudly but still firm.

As the explanation was accepted, Nanoha suddenly whined "I'm jealous now, Fate-chan didn't do that same gesture to me when we met earlier~~~" then Fate patted Nanoha's head twice. "Ahaha. You are such a whiner Nanoha-chan. Of course, I won't do it to you, you're still a kid. Too young for that kind of gestures" Fate said trying to relief the younger brunette from her jealousy.

However, Nanoha was not feeling any relief…instead she saw a glitter on her mother's eyes. Now, Nanoha feels that what Fate-chan's about to say won't be pleasing her mother.

"Please don't say it!"

"Please don't say it!"

"Please don't say it!"

Nanoha says to herself as if trying to telepathically tell it to the blonde.

Then as Nanoha opens her eyes slowly, she could feel a dark aura on her mother that's beginning to intensify. "Ma-mother?" Nanoha asks carefully trying to save her and Fate's lives. And there it was….an image of a very desperate woman trying to hide her real age behind her young and fresh beauty. Smiling awkwardly, Momoko-san starts to talk and slowly facing Fate, "Fate-chan is there another reason why you do such gesture?"

It sure hit her, Nanoha is now praying to all the Gods and Goddesses to be able to save her newfound friend from her mother's monstrosities. "Fate-chan….I'm sorry" she thought to herself and kept on praying. Still waiting for an apocalypse, Nanoha opened her eyes slightly trying to peek at what was going on….Fate suddenly kissed the back of the same hand she put in her forehead, "sorry madam, that and this kind of gesture doesn't fit a mere kid like Nanoha-chan. But…" Fate paused kissed the mother's hand again then continued while looking at Momoko-san, "it perfectly fits a very gentle and beautiful lady like you" Fate ended moving away from the woman but still looking at her for her not to see the fear in the blonde's eyes.

Out of words from the sudden sweetness shown to her, Momoko was still able to say "I…I see. Nanoha dear, your friend is so sweet. Help her get changed ok? We don't want to see such a refined young lady getting hospitalized now". "Thank you very much for the offer, Momoko-san" Fate said smiling beautifully at the blushing and flustered mother.

Nanoha, surprised at the sudden turning of tables, was only able to mustered "ye-yeah". Then she looks at Fate, a look that said, "How did you do that?" And Fate only looked at her then winked happily.

"Mother, we'll be going now. Oh-! And I almost forgot, your new suitor there loves sweet things" Nanoha said jokingly pointing to Fate, who is currently drooling over the displayed desserts. "Mou, Nanoha. She is no suitor. Sure, I'll make her something so sweet she'd forget that she ever met you" Momoko said and teased her daughter. "Nope!" Nanoha answered half-eager and half-sad. "Huh? What do you mean 'nope'?" the mother asked.

Then Nanoha leaned forward to whisper something to her mother while looking at the currently fantasizing blonde. "Mother, you won't bake or make her anything. I, Nanoha Takamachi, will be the one to bake her special and sweet friend something as sweet as her," Nanoha whispered while blushing.

Momoko, still wondering at the sudden showing of determination of her daughter, said, "ok, if you say so". The two ladies laughed at one another when they saw the glitter on the blonde's eyes when she looks at those desserts. "Why are you two laughing?" Fate asks shyly. "Nothing Fate-chan. Come on, we should get changed now. Let's head to our house" Nanoha told Fate while pushing the blonde out of the café with her.

When the two was finally out of the café, Momoko seemed to be thinking of something "hmm…this is something that I should watch out for…" she thought first, still doubting, "but then again, Fate-chan sure knows how to treat a lady" she thought still blushing.

While in the Testarossa mansion, things are beginning to intensify. "All of you! I got you here due to an emergency. The young master has left the mansion and is nowhere to be found!" the head of security informed his subordinates. "So I want ALL OF YOU to join me and look for her," he ordered everyone to look everywhere. To look in the entire city….even the entire country if needed. "NOW! MOVE!" a man in a black with red trimmed suit with a name tag with "Cleide Harlaown" written on it with dark blue hair ordered everyone. "YES SIR!" they all replied in unison then left the mansion.

After everyone had left, Cleide called out a man wearing the same outfit but with black hair and a nametag with "Shiro Takamachi" on it. "Shiro-san, I want to talk about something with you," Cleide said. "What is it, Harlaown-san?" Shiro asked. They sat down and talked about the incident that happened when the young master had been gone before.

"I see. We must not let that kind of incident happen again," Shiro answered determined. "That is true. That is why, you, as the personal protector of the young master, must find and stop the soon-to-happen-again incident" Cleide said while preparing all the essential things needed. "Yes Sir! I'll be going then" Shiro said then left the mansion. While walking out of the door "that's right. I should go home first to tell them I'll be gone for a while". Shiro thought worriedly as he remembered what happened on the past…

A/N: next chapter will be intense….and kinda long. So read more.