A/N: I have learned more than I every thought I would in my lifetime about making moonshine in prep for this chapter. If I drank alcohol myself, I would almost be tempted to try making my own after learning all of this. And this chapter is Not Safe For Work (NSFW), by the way. This update is all NanoFate, and the story will progress again next chapter.

Disclaimer: I do not own the characters from or the Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha anime, nor any other movie, actor, brand, song, or character referenced or stated in this story.

Rum-Runner Girls

by : ~Nissanity~

Chapter 4 – Stuck on You

Fate POV

I parked the car in front of my apartment building and exited the driver's side door, and Nanoha exited the passenger side as she inspected the exterior of the run-down brick building in front of her. After we had left the police station, we had a quick visit with Shamal at the club to assure her that I was okay. I then dropped Teana off at her place and took the car, so that I could drive Nanoha home after her visit to see the still setup where I lived.

"We have to be quiet," I advised Nanoha as we stood in front of the doorway that led inside the apartment building.

I pushed opened the front door slowly, and we entered the lobby of the Rayman Apartments that evening. I shut the front door quietly behind me, and then lead her to the basement door, which was hidden underneath the staircase in front of us. I unlocked the door as quietly as I could and turned on the light switch that was just inside the entrance.

I guided Nanoha down the stairs to the dusty basement where I had the moonshine equipment set up. The only other things in the basement were the table I prepared the mash on, and the coal-fed heater for the apartments, which was currently dormant this time of year.

"Hey, this isn't a bad setup," Nanoha said approvingly as she looked over the copper still, wooden thump keg, and the worm box. She looked inside the still to see if I had any mash fermenting in it, which I currently did not.

"You know about this sort of thing?" I asked

Nanoha smiled and shut the lid. "A little bit. My father used to make his own, even before Prohibition. But only for himself to drink. Growing up, I used to watch him make it in the basement of the family cafe, just like this."

I leaned up against the table. "Maybe you can tell me where I'm messing up then?"

Nanoha looked into the open worm box, and inspected the spiraled copper tubing that was currently resting in the empty wooden keg. "Well, what's your process? What ingredients do you use?"

"Just a normal cornmeal mash," I responded as I walked over to the still and placed my hand on it. "Let it ferment a few days, then I heat it up - "

"172 degrees, right?" Nanoha asked.

"Yep," I replied. "The steam hits the thump box to get rid of any mash that made through the first step, and then moves into the spiral copper tubing. I use ice water during the final part, to make the steam turn back into liquid. I filter it when it comes out one last time."

"And how much of the alcohol are you tossing out in the beginning?"

I paused. "Tossing out? Well, none."

"Oh, well that's your problem then, I think. The first part is methanol. The stuff that is comes out around 148 degrees?" she advised. I nodded. "It will change the taste if you don't get rid of it. Plus, it can kill someone if they drink too much of it."

I grimaced. "God, please don't tell Teana that I almost killed us. She would so pissed."

Nanoha laughed. "Alright. The first part always is the worst, methanol or not. So just let it run for a bit and then you should get something more like what you're wanting to drink."

I sunk my head a little. "So, something that simple was the problem this whole time, huh?"

"Just think of it as an easy fix?" Nanoha suggested.

"Ha, maybe so. Did your dad make whiskey, by the way?"

Nanoha shook her head. "No, he made rum."

"Oh. Huh, not a lot of rum around these parts..." I said thoughtfully.

"I can give you a recipe I know from my dad, if you want to try it instead? It uses brown sugar and a little bit of honey. The ingredients are more expensive, but you'll get something that tastes better out of it."

"Yeah... You know what? I'll try it. Something different sounds good," I responded.

Nanoha looked around the basement. "Got anything for me to write the recipe down on?"

"Yeah, up in the apartment. Let's head upstairs," I replied.

Nanoha and I went back up the stairs and I shut off the light to the basement, and we made our way to my first floor apartment at the end of the hall. I had swept and washed the dishes earlier that day, but the apartment itself was still in disrepair. There were several large cracks in the walls, and the wallpaper was only intact in bits and pieces here and there. There was only one large living area, with a small bathroom off one end that had a door for privacy.

"Sorry. It's all I can afford, since I rent the basement for the still too," I informed her. "They called it an 'efficiency' when I moved in."

"It's okay, Fate-chan. Where I live isn't much better," she assured me.

"Oh hey! Wait right here, Nanoha. I forgot something in the car," I said, suddenly remembering the object I had forgotten to bring in from the trunk.

"Okay, no problem," she responded. I ran down the hall as quietly as I could and down the walkway outside, to retrieve the item that Shamal had given me as we left the club that evening. I made it back to the apartment, and saw Nanoha setting up the phonograph across the room. She turned around when she heard me come back in, and my favorite record started playing.

I showed her the large bottle of Canadian Club whiskey I had tucked under my arm, and her eyes grew wide. "Where did you get that?" she asked me in disbelief.

I went to the cabinet to retrieve two shot glasses. "Shamal gave it to me. She said it was to celebrate getting out of jail. Or maybe it was for my first arrest? I can't remember."

I poured two shots, and then handed one of them to Nanoha. We clinked the glasses together, and then both drank them in one go. It burned going down my throat and in my chest, but it tasted incredible. I poured us another round immediately.

"I'm sure Shamal thought it was worth it. You saving the other runners and all the product, I mean," Nanoha mentioned.

"Yeah, if we had been caught with all that, it would have been a disaster," I replied. "We will have to be more careful next time." We both quickly drank the second shot, and I went back to get a couple of tumblers from the cabinet next.

Nanoha walked across the room to where my bed was and sat down on it. She bounced up and down a few times, and the iron springs creaked loudly underneath her. She immediately stopped and grinned at me.

I laughed in return as I crossed the room and handed her a tumbler. I sat down in the wooden chair across from the bed and took a slower sip of the drink this time, and then reached into my vest pocket to retrieve my pack of cigarettes.

"Thank you," Nanoha said as she raised the tumbler of whiskey towards me. She took a sip, and then set the glass on the stand next to the bed.

"You know, Fate-chan," she began, and looked over at me cautiously. "There's something... different about you."

I lit a cigarette and passed it to her. "What do you mean?" I asked, and then retrieved a second one.

Nanoha took a drag as she studied me. "I think everyone can see it. That it's just a matter of time before you figure out how to become more in life than this."

I laughed a little to myself. "Well I haven't had much luck, honestly. But you, Nanoha. You've certainly got whatever it is that you're talking about."

It was Nanoha's turn to laugh. "I've only been lucky here. I was a bit of a fuck-up in New York. Things just seem to work for me in Chicago though. Somehow."

"Guess you belong here then, where you can be appreciated for what you're worth."

Nanoha smiled. "Maybe so?" She then stood up and held out her hand to me as a new song, Bugle Call Rag, began to play. "Do you dance, Fate-chan?" she asked.

I finished the rest of my drink and set my empty tumbler down next to hers on the stand. "A little," I replied as I moved the chair out of the way. I took her hand and spun her around twice, and she pulled away from me and started dancing on her own. I put my hands in my pockets and swayed a little in place while she danced, and she ran her hands across my shoulders as she circled around me.

When Nanoha came in front of me a second time, I grabbed one of her hands in mine and wrapped my arm around her waist and pulled her close. She gripped her free hand on my shoulder and we both spun around the room to the song together, laughing as we made our rounds around the limited floor space throughout the song. We pulled away towards the end of the song and did our own silly little dances, before I held my hand out to her one last time and spun her again. We ended the song with me dipping her and then pulling her back up to face me, both of us grinning wildly.

A slow song came on afterward, and Nanoha's smile faded a little, as did mine. I pulled her towards me, and she gently put her cheek against mine as we started to dance slower in the middle of the room together. I closed my eyes and enjoyed the feel of her smooth skin against my cheek, and the way her breath tickled my neck a little.

"I'm glad I met you, Fate-chan," Nanoha said softly beside me.

I nodded and placed my lips next to her ear. "You too, Nanoha."

The music from the phonograph stopped after the song finished, signaling we needed to reset the record. Nanoha pulled away from me suddenly and turned around to start the music again. I stood in the middle of the room, lost in a daze over what had just happened between us. I shook my head to clear my mind as I watched her look for a new record in my collection. I then decided another drink was in order.

"Want a refill?" I asked her as I grabbed her tumbler, as well as mine, from the stand.

"I would love one!" she said over her shoulder.

I refilled both of our glasses and headed back across the room towards her. The new record she selected started playing, and she turned around when she heard me approach her. I held her tumbler out to her, and she drank her new portion in one large gulp. I paused in shock, and then handed her my tumbler next, which she drank half of immediately as well.

I looked down at her empty tumbler. "I'd better catch up," I mentioned quietly, and made my way back to the kitchen counter. I took two shots in a row, and then refilled the empty tumbler as well. I grabbed the bottle of whiskey and brought it with me, and set it on the windowsill by the phonograph.

Another upbeat song played, and I held my hand out to her. She immediately took it, and we danced around the room again, although this time we stumbled around a bit more. We laughed as the whiskey increasingly affected our senses, and it was not long before I was teetering between tipsy and drunk. We paused for a moment in dancing to sip on our drinks and to catch our breath, and I lit another cigarette.

"It's getting hot," I mentioned, and Nanoha turned to refill her glass again from the bottle on the windowsill. I first took off my shoes and socks and threw them away from me clumsily. I removed my vest, and then unbuttoned and took off my dress shirt, leaving me in just my white muscle shirt and dress pants. I threw my dress shirt over to the corner of the room next to the shoes, and sat down in the wooden chair again to rest for a minutes.

"O-oh," Nanoha stammered as turned around and saw sitting me in the chair.

"What?" I asked.

She raised her eyebrows and bit her bottom lip. "I guess it is getting a little warm in here," she finally commented. I watched her slip off her shoes and slide them over next to my pile of clothes. She then raised her foot onto the bed to slide her stockings down her thighs and off her legs. She glanced over at me, and caught me watching her undressing.

"Oh, s-sorry," I stuttered and looked away, opting to focus on smoking my cigarette instead as I studied the floor. Nanoha removed more clothing, and before I knew it she was standing in front of me in just her white slip. She had the now nearly empty bottle of whiskey in her hand, and I sat up straighter in the chair when she straddled my waist unexpectedly.

Nanoha took the cigarette from my hand, and replaced it with the bottle. She took a drag from my cigarette, and I took a drink. She put the cigarette back in my mouth afterward, and removed the bottle from my hand again to take a drink in return. I realized at some point I had wrapped my arm around her waist to pull her closer into me.

"Would you like another drink, Fate-chan?" she asked sweetly. I nodded and reached up to grab the bottle from her, but she instead started drinking from it again. She then bent down towards me, and I was surprised when her lips met mine, and she transferred the whiskey from her mouth into mine. I inadvertently moaned a little in response, and then found my tongue suddenly dancing around and sucking on her tongue that was still present in my mouth.

Nanoha was already moving her hips a little against mine in the chair, as I ran my hands along her thighs and up the sides of her stomach as we kissed. My hands stopped once I had reached her breasts, and I ran my thumbs across the middle of them and found her already erect nipples. I teased the pads of my thumbs around them, and I massaged and cupped her breasts in my hands.

"God, that feels so good Fate-chan," she said as her lips hovered over mine. Her arms were wrapped around my neck with our foreheads together now, and she started breathing unsteadily in front of me. I heard the now empty bottle drop to the floor behind us.

Nanoha pulled my head into her neck, and I eagerly placed open-mouth kisses along her nape as she clenched fistfuls of my hair in her fingers. I trailed my mouth down her chest to the cleavage her slip exposed, hungrily licking and kissing the area. I felt her tug on my hair to guide me to look up at her, and I complied. "No complications tomorrow, right?" she questioned.

"None," I assured her as I stood up from the chair. She kept her legs wrapped around my waist as I walked both of us over to the bed, kissing her the entire time. I set her down first, and then laid down on top of her. Her legs never unwrapped from around my waist as I positioned the two of us in the middle.

I leaned up on my knees and moved her slip to rest above her chest, exposing her entire body beneath me. She sat up and quickly removed it from over her head altogether. She reached down and started unbuttoning my pants for me. Once they were opened, I leaned her back against the bed and kissed her again.

"You sure you are okay with this?" I asked her between kisses.

"Yes," Nanoha replied. "I want you to touch me everywhere, Fate-chan."

I moved slowly as I trailed kisses from her neck down across her collarbone, and turned my attention to her breasts. I rolled my tongue around one of her nipples, intermittently sucking on it as well. I massaged her other breast in my hand, and pinched and pulled at her peak with my fingertips. Nanoha's hips began to push up against mine as she squirmed under me.

"Fate-chan... I want you..." she pled as her hips jerked a little against the bed.

I trailed my mouth down her stomach, dipping my tongue into her belly button. I firmly grabbed her hips in my hands as she bucked under me.

"Please..." she begged, and I placed both of her legs over my shoulders and pulled her body across the bed to move her closer to me. She placed both of her hands on top of my head as I hovered over her heated center, finally flicking her clit once with my tongue between her folds.

"Anhh!" Nanoha moaned, and she dug her heel into the side of my back. I pushed my flattened tongue again her nub more steadily, and her head leaned back into the bed as her hips rocked in response to the rhythm of my tongue's ministrations.

"Aah, Fate-chan... please... more..." she whimpered after a few minutes. She grabbed my hand from her breast and started guiding it downward. Nanoha was already wet enough that my index and middle finger easily slid inside of her, while my tongue continued to stimulate her above my now thrusting hand.

Nanoha widened her legs to allow me deeper access inside of her, and I pulled my mouth away and sat up on my knees. I reached under her neck and gently coaxed her into a sitting position straddling my waist, with my fingers still inside her. I added a third digit as her body moved up and down around my fingers. She leaned back against her arms on the bed, her hands clutching the sheet firmly in her fingers. She seemed to be concentrating completely on moving her body to bring her to climax. I felt my arm burning with exertion, but I continued my thrusting in and out of her.

"I'm... so close..." she gasped as I felt her walls tighten around my fingers. We both slowed our movement, and I curled my fingers inside of her deliberately to bring her to the edge. Her walls clamped tightly around fingers.

"Nanoha..." I groaned, overwhelmed with feeling of being inside of her and her response to my fingers causing her such pleasure.

"Aah! Ughn! Fate...chan... Fateeee!" she cried as she came. I closed my eyes as I felt her release a wave of wetness in my hand and down my wrist, and she shook and trembled with ragged breaths against me as she collapsed after. She jerked a few times in aftershocks as she came down from her waves of ecstasy.

I laid her back down on the bed gently, and she placed her arm around the back of my neck and kissed me deeply. I felt her hand begin to trail down my side until it reached my unbuttoned pants, and she made an attempt to remove them from over my hips.

"I want to feel you too," she requested, her eyes meeting mine steadily as I hovered over her again.

"Okay, Nanoha..." I agreed, and leaned on an elbow to remove my pants from both of my legs. Nanoha positioned herself against the iron bars of the front frame of the bed, half sitting up as she waited for me. After my pants were discarded, I positioned her legs around me as I mounted her. I reached down to spread both of our lips apart so that we would be fully touching.

Nanoha gripped the bars in her hands behind her. "Mmm!" she moaned as soon as I grabbed her around the waist with an arm, and started sliding her up and down against me. Her wetness in combination with mine caused us to easily glide against each other.

I leaned over her, and pushed myself harder into her repeatedly. "Nanohaaaa," I whispered desperately in her ear. I gripped my free hand around one of the iron bars for leverage as I thrust against her more. Her hands suddenly moved from the iron frame to dig her fingers into my hips. She pulled me into her harder with her legs as well, and the sound of the loud creaking of the bed echoed across the room.

"I wanted you... so much... Fate-chan," Nanoha stated as we continued to move together. "From the first moment... I saw you."

I nodded and pulled Nanoha closer as I was about to peak. "You too... Nanoha," I replied as my body tensed above her. "Oh...god..." I whispered as I slowed down and began to feel my clit starting to twitch against hers. I held my breath as I hugged her against me, knowing she was mid-climax as well.

Nanoha writhed under me. "Fateeee!" she cried as a new wetness escaped both of us and mixed as we came together. I collapsed onto her for a moment, and then rolled over to lay next to her on the bed. I folded my arm under my head to act as a pillow as I looked in her direction.

"I am... so drunk," I declared after a moment. Nanoha and I both started laughing.

"I'm going to feel like shit tomorrow," she responded, rubbing her eyes for a few seconds with the palms of her hands. She then turned to look at me as well. "Tonight was fun," she said, smiling genuinely.

I yawned and closed my eyes. "Yep, we will have to do this again sometime," I responded sleepily.

"Um-hmm." Nanoha turned to face me fully in the bed. "Good night, Fate-chan," was the last thing I heard before succumbing to the mixture of alcohol and physical satisfaction I had experienced. We didn't even bother to turn out the light above us in the apartment, as we slept soundly in my bed that night together.

oOOOo

Knock, knock, knock! I heard coming from my door the next morning. I sat up in bed and immediately grabbed my head in pain, and laid back down again as the room spun a little. I turned my head to face the pillow next to me and opened one eye. I saw that Nanoha was gone, and that a note had been placed on the pillow she had been sleeping on.

"Had to go. Didn't want to wake you up. The recipe for the rum is on the next page. Good luck with it. -Nanoha" it read.

I turned to the second page to see the recipe measurements, when another knock came to the door. "Yeah, hang on!" I called. I picked up my pants from the floor and put them back on, and buttoned them as I walked. I opened the door to find Teana on the other side, leaning in the doorway.

"Hey," I greeted, and turned away from her. I walked back over to the corner of the room and found my vest, which had my pack of cigarettes in them. I sat down and lit a cigarette as Teana made her way into the room. She walked over to the phonograph and saw the empty whiskey bottle on the floor.

"Impressive," she mentioned. I noticed she had a folded up newspaper under her arm, and she passed it on to me. "Thought you would want to see this as soon as possible."

I opened the folded paper. I didn't see anything noteworthy on the top half of the first page, so I flipped it over to look at the bottom half. I nearly dropped the newspaper on the floor when I saw a picture of me in the bottom right corner exiting the police station. The headline above my picture in dark black letters read - - "VILLAIN... OR VICTIM?"

"Oh, fuck," I said, and started reading the article. "Does Hayate know yet?"

"Everyone knows," Teana replied. "We are supposed to lay low for today until they come up with a plan."

"Let's just hope I still have job after all of this," I commented.

I threw the newspaper onto the kitchen counter, and then stood up and went to retrieve the rest of my clothes. Teana looked interested when I began to put my shoes on. "Where are you going?" she asked.

I stood up and started buttoning up my shirt. "Well, first I need to eat something," I told her. "And then I've got to go pick up some ingredients for a brand new batch I'm starting today."

"Fate..." Teana began to protest.

I smiled and held up the recipe that Nanoha had given me that morning for her to see. "Trust me, Teana. This time... it's going to work."

A/N: See you on the next update! ~Nissanity~