A Time to Love

By: Revengest

Summary: What is Nanoha to do when the one she loves might not feel the same way? And just when she decides it's time to confess, Nanoha's love interest disappears. When she comes back she has changed and brings another blue eyed brunette with her. What will Nanoha do?

Normal font = narrator

"Quotation marks" = things said aloud by characters

"Italics font"= the thoughts of characters

*asterisks* = onomatopoeia sounds and such

Disclaimer: I don't own Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, the characters, or any of the places in the story that might be mentioned. All of that belongs to its rightful distributors.


Thanks to all that are reading and reviewing.


Chapter 7: Fate's Boss is Who?

A trio of high school girls walked home laughing and talking about the day's events and other random things. Once again though Nanoha felt she was being watched just like during lunch. But this one was different. Last time it had went away as soon as Hayate came by which Nanoha has dubbed as odd and suspicious, but this one seemed to hold ill intent. Her sixth sense had been active since she left school which put her on edge. None the less, the brunette tried to ignore it. After all, it hadn't been anything serious last time.

Arisa sees Nanoha spacing out yet again. She sighs, a little annoyed, but that's when she remembers something. "Hey Nanoha, after school I saw Fate talking to some weird pervert guy. They seemed to be in some deep conversation."

That caught Nanoha's attention instantly. "Do you know what they were talking about?" Nanoha asked quickly.

"And how do you know it was a pervert?" Suzuka asked as well.

"I didn't hear them and well the guy was wearing a white lab coat, had shaggy hair and some shady looking eyes. Plus he looked like what 40 and he's talking to a high school girl. Come on you'd think he was a pervert to if you saw him." Arisa explained

"I guess you have a point" Suzuka said while Nanoha just let out a small laugh making a mental note to tell Lindy of this guy to see if he had any relation to the current problem.

Meanwhile...

A tall, high school blonde walked down a series of corridors to an unknown place within the building. The girl known as Fate had been summoned by him. The man who she now hated with a passion. As she continues her journey she sees Quattro and few others watch her go, a smug smile on a few of their faces. Though Fate didn't care. She just had to stay strong and keep her main task in mind. Keeping him away from Nanoha.

She came to a door that was slightly bigger and way more decorated than other normal doors. Fate opened them slowly. She was in no rush to arrive.

"You've finally arrived. Took you long enough." Came a voice from somewhere in the shadows of the large room.

"It's easier to get here when you have a car." Fate retorted turning to face the figure. It was a man with purple length shoulder hair that had bangs and was longer in the front than in the back. He wore a pure white lab coat in an almost suit like fashion. He had brown shoes and was wearing blue clothes inside. A smug smile was plastered on his face.

"Perhaps, but aren't you known for your speed."

"I run track not marathons, Jail." (A/N: She's not even on her school's track team. I just thought it'd be a cool thing to say.)

"Well enough small talk. There's business to be taken care of." The man now known as Jail got up and started walking over to a large screen. "You see Admiral Lindy is starting to get on my nerves again. It seems she's picked up our case again. With more intent might I add."

"She's a police officer. Isn't that what she's supposed to do?"

Jail didn't answer her question as he sat down at a computer chair. "My sources tell me it is because of a certain Takamachi."

Fate noticeably tensed up at hearing that. She had already figured that Nanoha was trying to help, but hadn't known she had gone to the police. Though the blonde felt really happy that her friend cared so much. "So why are you telling me this?"

"No reason. Just a reminder that you can't tip Nanoha off." Fate couldn't help but smile on the inside. If she had a dollar for every time that Nanoha had been tipped off by accident or not she'd be quite rich. Though the fact that Jail was telling her this meant he was already aware of this.

"Well Nanoha is just that type of person. She won't take no for an answer and she doesn't like being left in the dark. Nothing I can do about that." Fate wouldn't even try at all, It was Nanoha's personality that Fate liked so much. It was nice, caring and so much more.

"Yes of course. You can't change someone's personality." He said smiling at Fate. The girl responded by gritting her teeth. He continued, "But you can do something about Lindy's probing."

"Maybe." She replied more calm than just a second ago. She couldn't lose her composure in front of him, but he always knew how to get to her

The purple headed man swerved around on his computer chair to face the large screen. After pressing a few buttons the screen showed a medium-sized room. There was a bed in a corner and a dresser in the opposing corner. There was desk against a wall with a few papers lying around. It was painted a light blue that would instantly remind some one of the sky. Fate's hands clench in anger. Though she tries to hide her emotions that were brought out by the show on the screen. A girl then walks into the room and sets her bag down on her desk. She then flops onto the bed with a deep sigh. The girl seems to be lifeless as she lays their just staring at the ceiling in deep thought. The only sign of life in her is the steady rise and fall of her chest. Suddenly, she gets up and takes out some papers from her bag and sits down at her desk. She searches around the desk for a pencil and sighs happily at finding one that is already sharpened. The paper in front of her says math assignment and name next to it which the girl fills out in neat letters. It reads Nanoha Takamachi. the lab coat man turns off the feed and turns to a very angered Fate with a smirk. "Just some motivation."

Some Time Later...

"That was a little harder than expected" Nanoha sighed, putting her pencil away. Her sixth sense had settled down a little after she started her homework much to the brunette's relief. After some few moments, Nanoha stood up and got a jacket from her dresser and rushed downstairs. "Mom Dad I'm going out for a little while." Nanoha quickly informed her parents before leaving the house to make her way to the police station. She had to tell Lindy about the man Fate was talking to. Something told her it wasn't just some pervert.

Nanoha came into the police station panting a little. She had run here as fast as she could to make sure she caught the police officer since she wasn't sure of her working hours. She went over to the front desk and requested to talk to Admiral Lindy.

"Oh Nanoha, hello." A teal haired women greeted the brunette.

Nanoha turned to see the officer and "...Fate-chan?"

"Nanoha? What are you doing here?"

"I...um...wanted to talk to Officer Lindy."

"Well this is quite the coincidence isn't it?" Lindy said smiling a thought coming to her. "Why don't you come with us, Nanoha? We were just going out for some dinner."

"Thanks, but I don't want to interrupt." Nanoha stated politely. Something told Nanoha that it wouldn't be the best idea to say what she wanted to say now. And the troubled look on Fate's face only helped that theory out. Not only that but her sixth sense had come back again.

"Oh I insist. My treat. I can drive you home as well." Lindy smiled. Fate had now put 2 and 2 together and figured out what Lindy was trying to do. Lindy wasn't an admiral ranked officer for nothing. Fate guessed Lindy wanted to bring Nanoha along so that she could not only get the information that Nanoha had originally come here to give, but to see what Fate's reaction would be. Which she would use to decide if the information was true or not and what she should do with it. Though this wasn't entirely bad for Fate. Depending on what Nanoha said and if she played her cards right she might be able to get Nanoha out of Jail's reach. Though it would be hard to do with Jail's spy somewhere nearby. Still Fate would try. She just need to show the 'right' reaction to what Nanoha says and be able to confuse Lindy as well. Hopefully Nanoha said only helpful things.

"Umm okay." Nanoha replied giving in. She would just have to keep her mouth shut and not say anything for Fate's sake. She wanted to help Fate. Not make things worse. So even if it meant stuffing her face with food, she wouldn't utter a word.


A/N: Now there's a problem. Fate needs Nanoha to talk to get her out of Jail's evil clutches, but Nanoha feels it would be better if she didn't say anything. Anyway here's the next chapter. Shorter than normal but I finally put something up. Enjoy. And thanks for all the reviews.