The sound of waves

There are moments for everything in life. And the place has a great influence on that.

Being in a beautiful private beach, having enjoyed a day of relaxation with friends, sitting at the seashore at sunset…

Is inevitably to think about how small is the world, life and existentialists thoughts. Nanoha was just at that, recalling events in her life and in a wave of "What if…?"

What if I hadn't met Yuuno-kun? What if I had decided not to help him with the Jewel Seeds?

What if… I hadn't met with Fate-chan?

She feels a pair of arms surrounding her and a weight leaning on her back. A smile forms on her face as she felt a scent so familiar to her, flooding her senses over the characteristic smell of the sea.

She definitely couldn't imagine her life without Fate.

She closed her eyes to enjoy the warmth of the body of the blonde and tilted her head a little to make room to Fate who gently kissing her neck. She let out a slight giggle caused by the tickling.

"What are you thinking?" Sounded a soft voice in her ear.

"In everything… My life, my work…" She turned to look her in the eyes to say: "In how much I love you."

"Oh" she exclaimed softly raising an eyebrow and moving away a little "Are we sentimental?"

"Don't mock" Nanoha grumbled inflating her cheeks and turning her face.

"Sorry, sorry" she laughed clasping her cheeks and rubbed until she got an almost involuntary smile on the redhead "Wrong time to say I want you always by my side?"

"Oh, are we sentimental?" Nanoha countered with an amused smile. Both laughed. "Now you've done it."

"I know, but I meant something else" she said turning away slightly.

"Huh?" She feels Fate changing to her Barrier Jacket "Fate-chan?"

Her silent question of what were the intentions of the blonde was answered when she hugs her in the waist and starts to rise. Nanoha grabs the arms that hold her strongly but gently.

"We can't use magic…" she said once she was a few feet high, but with the smile she has it was impossible for that to sound like a scold.

"This way the sunset looks better" Fate said resting her chin on the shoulder of Nanoha again "and also…" she added turning slowly "I can tell you what I wanted to say more formally."

Nanoha's expression changed from uncertainty to complete surprise when she saw what Fate shows to her with a look. In the sand, a simple phrase was written with beautiful shells that glowed with pastel hues thanks to the dim rays of sunset: Marry me?

Nanoha puts a hand to her face, touched, with tears flooding her blue eyes.

'Please stay with me forever' she heard echoing in her mind the warm voice of her lover, what shocked her even more. She turns carefully in the hug to face her.

"How? ... When…?"

"Magic" she answered simply and giggled quietly at the perplexed expression of the other "So?"

"You know the answer" she said smiling fondly after removing a tear. She shifted further into the hug to catch the lips of who was now her future wife, sealing their promise of a life with each other.

Floating in mid air, with their silhouettes being cut in the coarse red shade sky, enjoying the feeling of being in each other's arms, the only thing they heard was the beating of their hearts against their chest and the sound of the waves , the only witness of that moment.