Drabble Number Diez: Something Red and Heart Shaped

Summary: Faye is pregnant, Ace is pretty sure of that. Faye has given him some kind of gift, he knows that too. But what's the holiday that goes with the gift?

Small Note: I would like to wish everyone a very Happy Greedy-Over-Money-Spawned –Holiday-of-Love! :iamhappyplz:
Oh, and of course there is going to be Ace/Faye love. Why wouldn't there be?

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"Here," Faye said as she suddenly shoved something red and heart shaped into Ace's face. Ace, in return, blinked at the sudden shoving of something red and heart shaped at in his face, and took hold of it before Faye let go and let it drop onto his plate full of food.

"Okay?" he answered with his mouth full of food. Faye rolled her eyes and sat down across from him and propped her chin on the palm of her left hand. Because of Faye's current situation, being pregnant and all, he could understand why she was so uncharacteristically blunt and moody, but what was with the sudden gift?

Was it some holiday that he had forgotten about or something?

His birthday was over a month ago, and that present was gladly taken care of.

Why would she be giving him a present if it was her birthday? (Which it wasn't because that day was in a few months, he knew that.)

Christmas had passed, he knew that.

Halloween wasn't much of a "heart" holiday.

There wasn't any other holiday that he could think of, as a matter of fact.

Faye raised a brow. "Aren't you going to open it?" She didn't look too pleased by the confusion on his face and the long wait of him not actually opening the gift.

"Uh, yeah, sure," he answered, very unsure if he should get on his knees now and beg for forgiveness or wait.

Ace pulled at the small crimson ribbon and let it fall onto the table of the mess hall. Next came the velvety soft lid of the box; he could still feel Faye's hawk-like eyes on him.

And, well…

"Huh?" he thought out loud as he looked at the… gift he was given. "Uh, Faye, baby… why did you get me a…" What should he say? He had to watch what he said around her. An angry pregnant woman was not what he wanted on his list of people that wanted to kill him. "…a key?"

Faye rolled her eyes. It seemed she was wrong about the teaspoon-sized amount of romance he had in his body. Ace was just a pathetic person when it came to love, it seemed.

"For Christmas you gave me a heart-shaped necklace, your heart. For Valentine's Day, I'm giving you the key to mine," she explained, quite bluntly. "If I 'gave you my heart' you would probably lose it. So, I'm giving you the key to it. That way if you lose it, I won't be 'heartless'." Faye tried to make funny, but seemed to have slightly failed at it.

Ace blinked, again. He actually understood that, surprisingly.

"Wait… today's Valentine's Day?"

Ace then stopped to think.

"Faye, what's Valentine's Day?"

Faye, rolling her eyes, smacked Ace in the back of the head and walked away. Yup, he was very pathetic when it came to love.

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A/N: Aw, poor Ace. How could I after all he's been through? I just couldn't help it… I was actually going to make this one VERY angsty due to the fact that my iPod just happened to play "Valentine's Day" by Linkin Park the first time I listened to it today. That's when I actually remembered it was Valentine's Day.

…I hate V-Day.

Would you please review and make me start loving it again? :D