A/N: Hello again, got up at the butt crack of dawn Saturday and started writing this so I could possibly upload before my evening shift at my part-time job (failed), but just finished editing it this morning so here it is for your reading pleasure. I hope no one feels I rushed this chapter, I think I might have but I really don't want too much drama in this story or to drag out the pain. I want just enough to push the characters to show their fault-lines so the other can step in and help them through it.
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Chapter Eleven: Memories
Fate was now grasping the red haired woman tightly and that made her smile, "So you remember your Lupo now?"
Fate groaned as her head ached further but said, "That was a stupid nickname when we were kids," then looking at the full figured woman, "it's even more inappropriate now."
The woman gave a barking laugh and Nanoha had to say that calling this woman a wolf was very appropriate. Shifting so more of Fate's weight rested on her and not this new interloper she said, "Thanks for the help but Fate-chan needs to go home and rest. If you would like to give her your number she can contact you when she's feeling better," 'or never if I have my way.'
"My car is just around the corner I could give you a lift, it doesn't look like Lucciola will make it very far from here."
Fate twitched a smile at the old nickname, firefly, had she ever been a lively enough person to have deserved such a name? Nanoha was less amused; she began to reply in the negative in the most polite manner, "That's very kind of you…" when she was cut off.
"Thank you Arf, please...ah I'm really not up to much walking at the moment," Fate's tone was weary but did not sound wary which made Nanoha feel even more unnerved.
The woman smiled happily and with a quick, "Be right back," bounced off.
Fate watched her for a moment and closed her eyes, shaking her head she said, "It's weird, like I'm seeing her in double, she hasn't changed since we were kids."
"Fate-chan is this wise? She'll know where you live. What if she's some kind of stalker?" Nanoha tried to hide her growing frustration with the situation but Fate heard it in her tone.
"You don't like her?" it was both a question and a statement, why didn't Nanoha like Arf? She was so friendly, like a wolf pup.
"I don't like anyone who clings to you like she owns you and ignores my presence," Nanoha was suddenly angry, shouldn't Fate understand this?!
Tired burgundy eyes looked up at her, "She's a friend, Hayate hangs all over you but I don't mind, well I do but I know it doesn't mean anything."
"Fate you haven't seen this person in what? Over twenty years, how can you possibly know she is safe?!" Nanoha's voice was now tinged with fear and panic. 'I can't lose her, please don't let me lose her.'
Sensing there was more to this than the fact that she had trusted someone so easily but not quite sure what Fate decided to go back to her friend argument, "You hadn't seen Hayate and the others in what eight years but picked up right where you left off. You trusted they were still at their core the people you once loved and trusted. Why can't you give Arf the same benefit of the doubt?"
"This is not the same, she obviously has feelings for you!" there now she had said it and felt sick, now Fate would see she was a jealous possessive fool and hate her.
When she felt a hand cup her face she nearly broke down crying, but it was Fate's words that both soothed and anguished her soul, "I love you. Only you, from the moment we met I felt something special with you, a connection I never shared with anyone else before. Not even Arf. If you think I'm so shallow I could turn away from the best thing to happen to me on a whim then maybe you don't know me as well as I thought."
Holding Fate tightly and shaking, "I don't want to lose you. I couldn't stand it."
Sighing and hugging her back, "You won't. Mmmh, Nanoha is my life."
A car pulled up next to the curb and a window rolled down, "Hey hop into the back, I'll get you home in no time."
Arf was true to her word, the only other speed demon Nanoha knew that was worse was the one cuddled into her. Fate was quiet on the ride home. Laying with her head in Nanoha's lap with her eyes closed thinking, 'Why would Nanoha be worried about me leaving her? Surely she knows I love her, I tell her every day, many times in fact, I can't stop saying it.' Then the ugly realization hit her, 'Yuuno once said her loved her. Yuuno who in his selfishness had trapped her in a loveless marriage. Allowed her to be manipulated and used by his family. He never once stood up for her and then when he found someone new cheated on her. Bastard. He was the only other romantic partner Nanoha had ever had, a worthless weasel who had corrupted the meaning of love.'
Fate turned into Nanoha and buried her face in her stomach and held her tightly. 'I can't let her hurt, she never lets me hurt, even if it means I have to let Arf go again.'
Upon arriving home the two women helped Fate into the house where Alicia was sitting on the couch reading. Seeing her sister she instantly dropped her book and knocked off her reading glasses to run over and help. "What happened to her?"
Then she blinked at the sight of the second woman and screamed, "Arf Alduino? What the hell happened to you? Shit you filled out!"
Fate had to roll her eyes at this pronouncement, snuggling once again into Nanoha's lap she said, "Keep it down for a little while please I need to rest, my head is killing me."
Nanoha stroked her head and asked, "Do want me to get you anything for it?"
Fate shook her head and held on tightly around Nanoha's waist and breathed her in, "I starting to feel better already, I just need you close."
Feeling some of the anxiety from earlier ease at that she smiled and gently soothed her fingers through Fate's long blonde hair. Arf seeing this smirked, "I see she is still a cuddle monster, be careful or you'll never get her out of your lap."
Smiling at the blonde in her lap she replied, "That's fine with me."
Alicia grabbed the busty woman's arm and dragged her to the dining room nearby but not so close that they would disturb Fate's rest. "My god, look at you all grown up. You look like your mama, and she was the prettiest woman in the village."
Arf snorted, "Still a flirt I see Alicia. My word you both grew up to be so beautiful. Um but forgive me for being nosy but the woman in there with Fate, that's her girlfriend isn't it, we haven't been properly introduced and I think she's a bit pissed at me for jumping on Fate."
Alicia started laughing, "Then I'm surprised you're still alive, she's very possessive of Fate-chan. As for their relationship, they're engaged, recently too so she is use to all of Fate's attention being on her so any distraction will be unwelcome no matter how mundane and honey you ain't mundane."
This set the woman off into giggling, "She shouldn't worry, I'm happily married, have been for a year. He's a sweetheart and a half. His family lives here so we're visiting and I had hoped to find you two but to run into Fate on the street like that was too amazing!"
"Aww cute little Arf is already off the market, such a sad world. Well you'll have to tell me all about him and I'll try to catch you up," Alicia replied with a cute pout before settling into a smile.
The pair spoke quietly but not so quietly that their voices didn't drift into the living room and much of the details of Arf's life relieved Nanoha's mind. As the giggling and jokes became more the topic of conversation Fate shifted and said quietly, "Do you trust her now or do I send her away?"
"Fate-chan, oh I'm sorry love. It's I just don't know what to do sometimes. I love you so much and it scares me to think someone could just walk up to you and steal you away from me," Nanoha's voice was soft and filled with emotion.
Fate shifted so she was now sitting up and pulled Nanoha onto her lap. Resting her head against her lover's chest she listened to her heart which was now beating a little too quickly. After a few moments Fate finally said, "I don't blame you for being scared, I am too. I wake up and see you next to me and I thank every deity I've ever heard of. I never thought I'd be this happy, love someone this much. Please believe me when I say this," squeezing Nanoha tightly, "you are what I want, no one and nothing will change that."
Nanoha squeezed her tightly in return and whispered, "Oh I really wish we were home alone right now so could just ravish you."
"Insatiable," Fate muttered teasingly eliciting a giggle from her lover.
Feeling better now that Nanoha was laughing again she nuzzled her and said, "Very soon we will be married and then we'll have our babies. The ultimate goal in my life from now on is making you happy, because when you're happy so am I."
The sapphire eyed woman smiled and nuzzled Fate back before feeling the smallest bit of the trepidation that was niggling at her mind come back. Feeling the shift in her lover's mood downward Fate asked, "What is it?"
"Do you think she is prettier than me? I know you checked her out," it wasn't said with recrimination but with sadness.
"I looked at her love, I didn't check her out. I don't know how to check someone out. I know when someone is physically attractive based on social standards but 99.99% of the time I don't feel a thing for them. The only time I have is with you. Now as to who is prettier, that's easy, No One is prettier than my Nanoha," Fate said placing a kiss on her neck.
The auburn haired woman looked down at her lover and saw complete honesty in her eyes. The last of her fears relieved she pressed a kiss to her lips and apologized again, "I thought I would be the one having to reassure you all the time but you seem to spend more time reassuring me. I'm sorry I'm such an idiot over the stupidest things."
"No love, you're not an idiot or being stupid. Truth to tell I was scared when Hayate and the others came back into your life too. I thought you wouldn't need me anymore. I'm a pretty boring person and they are so lively and you have a shared history. I kept thinking why would you need someone like me, a person who flinches and hesitates all the time."
"You're mine Fate Testarossa, no matter your flaws, I love you with everything I am. It just seems strange to me that you could feel the same way sometimes. You shower me with love but I am just waiting for something to ruin all this."
"I feel the same way; I love you, flaws and all, with every fiber of my being. And I just don't see how you could possibly want someone as beaten up as me but then I remember how you are with me in our bed and well there isn't much room for doubt after that," Fate replied unable to resist teasing at the end.
"Bad Fate-chan, you are so bad," Nanoha said with a smile and pressed a kiss on her nose.
Shifting the blonde captured her lover's lips and drank her in. The pair was well on their way to a hot make-out session when there was a cough. Without breaking the kiss Fate picked up a pillow and threw it at what she thought was her sister but the barking laugh that came in reply was a shock. Pulling apart the pair saw it was Arf and she was grinning like mad at them, "I see Fate is just as dedicated to her pursuits as she was as a child. But really you should look before you start throwing things, that was more Alicia's forte."
Blushing like mad Nanoha hid her face in Fate's neck but the blonde rallied, "And I see you are still a nosy puppy who can't leave things well enough alone."
The pair laughed relieving some of the tension in the room. Fate then nudged Nanoha out of her neck and said, "Nanoha please meet my best friend growing up Arf Alduino, her mama use to take care of us when papa was painting and um our mother was at work. Arf this is Takamachi Nanoha my fiancée."
"Hmm it's very nice to meet you Nanoha-san but the name is now Arf Wolkenritter."
Three women exclaimed, "What!"
It was then discovered Arf was married to Hayate's cousin and was actually staying with the little brunette with her husband for a week visiting her new relation. Arf then went into greater detail on what she had been doing with herself since they had all been separated so many years ago.
"I finished school with fairly good grades and had to decide what to do, I knew you all had gone to Japan that was all over the village so I made it my goal to get here someday. But you remember my family wasn't the richest one there was so I knew college was out. I knocked around a few jobs but was always getting into some kind of mess because of my hyperactivity and um nosiness. That's when papa said if I wanted to find you both and earn a living where being snoopy wasn't a crime I should join the police. I did and moved up the ranks pretty quickly too if I may say so, thanks to my hyperactivity I can take down most men and that earned me a lot of respect. I just made captain before I got married, and now work in missing persons as a lead investigator. After you all disappeared it hurt a lot and I never want anyone else to suffer that.
"It was shortly after I joined the force that I began researching both your names and crossed with your date of birth I found quite a bit. The whole village had followed the trial for your...um for Precia so that stuff wasn't useful. It was the foreign news that peaked my interest, there was so much of it about both of but I had to learn Japanese to read any of it, and that took some time I'll tell you. I pissed off so many tutors, no one seemed to have the patience to deal with me until I met Zafira, he was my tutor and I fell hard for him fast. He read through some of the articles with me and noticed a lot of them centered around the city his cousin lived in. He decided to bring me to visit as an anniversary present in hopes that his cousin could help or I'd just get lucky and stumble upon you.
"In the end it seems both scenarios worked out. Hayate has been walking around with a weird smile all morning after I told her about my search. I have a feeling she was just waiting to arrange a meeting and surprise us all. No offense Nanoha-san but your friend is nuts."
Nanoha sighed but didn't argue and the twin sisters just nodded their agreement.
The next few days were quite enjoyable as the couple and Fate's old friend bonded. Nanoha found herself liking the overactive woman a great deal as it was clear she was just the matching bookend to Alicia when it came to supporting Fate. She teased and hugged her yes but there was a warm sisterly nature to it all that killed the nascent jealousy she had been feeling. Of course it didn't hurt that Arf had trudged in nearly a quarter ton's worth of photos of baby, toddler and preschool aged Fate with her and happily shared them with her.
Nanoha was flipping through them in bed Thursday night with a silly smile on her face when her blonde lover reached out and snatched them from her grip. Giving her a dry look in response to her pouting shout of dismay Fate said, "Less attention on these and more on me please. As much as I love looking at pictures of you as a baby and child I much rather spend time with the real thing."
At first Nanoha wanted to argue but couldn't when she heard the slightest bit of loneliness in her lover's voice. Reaching out for Fate she said, "I like pictures but they'll never replace my Fate-chan, like you I prefer the real thing. Now come here and snuggle with me."
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It was Friday and the large group of friends and family had joined once again at Midori-ya Café, it wasn't closed this time but the reserved room for parties had been closed off for them. Joking and teasing could be heard and lots of laughter. Arisa was finding it hard to deal with Arf. The woman was an evil combination of Hayate and Alicia in her mind making her want to smack the woman hard. Suzuka had her hands full keeping Alisa inline though she did seem to enjoy it as it gave her an excuse to keep her feisty blonde tightly clutched to her.
The group had taken the day off as it was the last day Arf and Zafira would be in town and they wanted to enjoy it fully together. It was during this luncheon that the other shoe finally dropped. An official looking person was led into the room and said formally, "Takamachi Momoko Nanoha."
Nanoha stood up both scared of the official nature of the person but pleased the name Scrya was officially removed from her address, "That's me."
He handed her a thick envelope, "You have been served," then turned on his heel and left.
Nanoha looked at the official looking bundle and with a shaking hand she opened it. Reading the coversheet she understood instantly what was happening. Granscenic had run home to aunty and cried alright and this was all a ploy to save face, to make her squirm and her remember her place in the hierarchy. Nanoha knew she was now going to have to jump through so many hoops to restore that foolish man's pride or risk losing her daughter. It was all going to be so humiliating and painful.
Fate took the packet from her and read them through feeling her blood pressure raise through the roof. No way was that foul woman going to get away with this. Nanoha wasn't her plaything anymore.
Swallowing her anger she said, "We'll fight this. This woman doesn't know what she is getting into now. I won't stand for this, Vivio is your daughter and no one takes her from you. Especially not as a ploy to make you bow your head a worthless piece of…ah...huff…that man."
Eyes wide at this she pleaded, "Fate-chan don't, she'll just drag you down with me. She has no shame, she'll use anything she can to discredit a person and I don't want you hurt by this."
Looking at her lover with a set jaw Fate replied, "She hurts you she hurts me, when I asked you to marry me I pledged to love, honor and protect you. If I just let this happen I will be breaking my vow, is that what you want?"
Scared and now panicking she retorted in hopes of making Fate back down, "So what, it's either let you play knight in shining armor or you leave me? I can handle this on my own."
Angry and hurt at the refusal Fate vented, "Like you handled it when you were seventeen, by letting her dump all over you. I won't stand for it, you will not be treated in such a fashion. You will not bow your head to that woman or her nephew. You spent nearly a decade as their pawn and I will not see you fall back into their grasp because of something I did. I broke his pathetic wrist, I made him piss himself like the coward dog he is and I will send them all packing. You are my fiancée and will not let anyone hurt you, especially not because of me."
Shiro was shocked, Fate had never shown so much emotion, or so much fierce protectiveness, in front of him. Putting his hand on his daughter's shoulder he said, "Nanoha, listen to Fate-chan. Accept her help, if you really mean to share your life with her you have to share both the good and the bad. You don't get to pick and choose, if Fate was in trouble would you want her to push you away?"
"But daddy you know what this woman is, what she is capable of. What if, what if she makes Fate-chan hate me?" she was crying now.
Fate sighed, "Nanoha you seemed so hung up on the idea that I could ever learn to hate you. Do you think I am my mother? Do you think I will turn against you like Quattro? I know what it is to be left alone by the people who love you and then have to suffer alone. I won't let that happen to you. Not again. Your parents let you enter your marriage because they thought you really cared for Yuuno and would have a family with him. Instead all you received was heartbreak. The Scrya family did as much damage to you as my mother did to me, it's just your scars aren't plain to see. I trust you with my pain, please love, trust me with yours."
Nanoha was sobbing against her father's chest and was shocked when he pushed her away and placed her in Fate's arms. "You have to trust her now baby girl. I failed you, but I know she won't."
Fate held her tightly and kissed her forehead, whispering she said, "I love you. You are better than those people, nothing they can say or do is going to take me away from you, I promise."
"I don't know if I can do this. I'm just so use to doing what they want, it was just so much easier that way, less painful. After the marriage I had nothing, no one to turn to, they took me away from everyone I knew and loved and made me feel so ashamed. Fate, what if they start digging into your past, can you deal with people knowing about it? People poking into your secrets just so they can get to me."
"I told you before I am not ashamed of what happened to me. If they want to go down that road let them, I have nothing to hide. Nanoha you have to understand, Alicia and I have a lot of connections. We don't like using them normally but in the lines of work we are in we mingle with the rich and powerful. If that woman has any enemies, and I am sure she does, I am sure we will find them and find her secrets. If she wants to play with fire she'll get burned."
"Damn straight," Arf said then with a canine smile she said, "Let me make some calls, I have a few friends at Interpol who might be interested in a little moonlighting."
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Even though Arf had left Japan she didn't forget her promise to help and everyday new information about the business dealing of the Scrya family poured in. A lot of things they had done had skirted then leaped right over legality for years, they presented themselves as philanthropists but in reality they ran charities that ended up putting 40% or more of the money right back in their pockets via kickbacks and dummy businesses while the rest went to earning them the gratitude of certain less reputable establishments who helped them keep competitors out of their markets. As the evidence that spanned five countries came together it was clear tax evasion and irregularities with them paying shipping tariffs could be added to their crimes.
It was ten days into the thirty days before the court hearing to determine Nanoha continued fitness to retain Vivio and suddenly the pressure was being put on, but not on Nanoha, they were targeting on her lover. An anonymous letter came with a small bundle of newspaper clippings, Fate flipped through them, she had copies of all of them upstairs, nothing new, nothing she had the slightest worry about others discovering. She dropped the letter on the table and went back to reading through some documents she had received from a contact in the U.S., the Scrya matriarch was not going to be welcomed back there anytime soon, except perhaps with handcuffs.
It annoyed Fate that people like this could get away with it because they had paid off just the right people. But now all the chickens were coming home to roost, Noriko Scrya and her brood had just picked on the wrong person one too many times. Adding the documents to a dossier which would be sent to another contact very shortly where it would be the final nail that shut down their ability to conduct illegal and wholly unethical crimes in another country. Soon they would be forced back to their home country and once back in Japan Fate's favorite law official was going to get a very big break on scooping them up.
Nanoha came in and saw the envelope and thinking it was new information on the Scryas went through it and gasped. Looking at the calmly sedate blonde working on protecting her she had to wonder if this had shaken her nerves.
Taking a deep breath she was about to speak when Fate beat her too it, "I have copies of all those articles already Nanoha, and a few more with more graphic descriptions of what was done to me upstairs. You are welcome to read them if you like. I blocked out most of what happened to me, didn't speak for months after I was recovered from my mother. I only really trusted Alicia, I couldn't stand anyone but her being near me for a very long time. When we got into our teens I began to get curious about what had happened, why it had happened and started my own investigation.
"My medical records alone can make you lose your lunch. My mother's trial was pretty well documented, she was famous for her work in biochemistry, one of the foremost minds. When she fell off the map people wondered why and then they found out. Finding out anything about before her descent into madness was a lot harder to find. Father didn't like speaking about her and it was only after her death that we received her personal effects. Father locked them away but after he died I finally got access to them. Journals and photos and I actually could read in her own hand her paranoia growing. I never had a chance. If Alicia had forgotten me I'd be dead.
"If this Noriko woman thinks she can shake me with details of my past she is very wrong. I faced those demons long ago, I just choose not to share my pain with anyone. Of the few that do know I had almost no say in telling them. Alicia knows because she saved me, I could never hide it from her. Einhart knows because her mother told her, the woman lived with the shame of knowing her sister had become a monster. Chrono and the rest of the Harlaowns know because my father told them, made them pity me in a way. Shario and her assistants know because I made the mistake of thinking I could trust one person outside of my extended family. I got burnt badly by Quattro and many people learned my secret, most that heard the rumors, thanks to Alicia, think it's just that, a rumor and forgot about it and moved on. But it was that incident more than anything else that made me shut myself off from others. I didn't want people judging me, looking down on me and calling me broken. I got enough of that from my father and Clyde, it was always poor little Fate will never have a life of her own so we need to arrange it for her. I let them, I almost let them, I pushed them away just so Chrono could have his happiness and I could at least earn a small piece of dignity even amongst my shame at having contemplated letting them do it. I never wanted to be someone's burden, a charity case, pitied.
"If you can understand this Nanoha, please don't push me again about giving up on protecting you and Vivio. The people I love deserve that much from me. I fought with myself over whether I could trust you, please don't make me regret that I chose to by pushing me away over this."
Nanoha placed her hand on Fate's shoulder and said, "I don't want to be a burden either, or charity case and especially not pitied. If that's why you're doing this then I don't want it."
Fate looked at her with eyes dark with ancient pain and pulled her in, "No love, it's none of those things. I am doing this because I love you, just like Alicia loved me as children. She saw something was wrong and fought with our father for three years. If I have to fight that long or more to free you from this I will. Because I love you and don't want you hurting."
Tears fell as Nanoha closed her eyes and hugged her fiancée, "I really don't know what I did to deserve you. But I am going to hold on to you for the rest of my life."
Fate smiled at that and pulled her down into her lap. They sat holding each other for a long while until they heard their family return to the house. Kissing softly then pulling away they sat together and read through more documents and Nanoha had to admit, fighting back with Fate by her side felt a hell of a lot better than bowing to Noriko even if it was terrifying.
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Fifteen days till the hearing and U.S. law enforcement officials presented a warrant to search and seize documents at the offices of the Scrya family business on their shores. The results were charges for embezzlement, fraud and tax evasion with possibly many more pending. The Scrya matriarch fumed as two of her nephews were taken into custody. Two days later law enforcement officials in Great Britain also served them with a warrant and found the family in the process of destroying documents. Noriko's only surviving child, a daughter, and another nephew were immediately taken into custody and charged with spoliation of evidence and then the officials really began to turn the screws. The next day France took a very big bite out of the Scrya family only for Germany to move in on them at midnight shutting down their European influence completely. The few members of the family able to escape the dragnet came flooding home to Japan to hide behind the one woman who had always masterminded their endeavors.
There was only eight days left until the custody hearing but Noriko no longer cared about that she was scrambling to save the family from total destruction, somehow someone had discovered their secrets and actually got them into the hands of competent and unbribable officials. The hammer was looming over their heads and she had no clue how it had occurred. When an anonymous letter was received all it said was, "You should have left her alone."
Hours later the door to the house was broken down and the broken old woman seated behind a desk clutching the paper was carted away. Noriko Scrya and her brood had gone out not with a bang but with a very quiet and pathetic whimper. The papers were filled with their crimes and there was iron clad proof of it all. The granny kingpin was going away for a very long time.
When Fate called down to the courthouse three days later to ask if the custody hearing was still scheduled they had her hold, thirty minutes later someone came back on and said the whole thing was dismissed. Fate had to restrain a smile as she thanked them for their time.
Nanoha was watching Fate's face but it was unreadable, after the blonde hung up she asked, "Well?"
"No more hearing, it's been dismissed. Apparently there are no more high and mighty Scryas left to take custody away from you. So I guess we're stuck with the hyperactive ball of fluff," she said with a smug smile.
Nanoha closed her eyes smiling and releasing a long breath and all her tension from the past weeks. Opening her eyes again she said, "You are amazing."
Fate looked at her with warm loving eyes, "I believe you've told me that on more than a few occasions now."
"Well remind me to tell you again tonight. Thank you, I can't even begin to tell you how much this means to me," her eyes were bright with relief and happiness.
"I have a fair idea, but I won't complain if you choose to show me a little appreciation when we get home," Fate teased.
Kissing (and other things) in the office was technically a no-no but right now Nanoha had to kiss her. The hot kiss was about to escalate when the door opened and their boss walked in. Their engagement wasn't exactly a secret but they hadn't exactly informed anyone in the office either. The matching rings the women now wore had started a rumor but nothing concrete had been determined.
Yanagi seeing his two best designers kissing was slightly disturbed as this now added a new problem to his list of issues he needed to discuss with the pair. He was use to them being professional so this was not how he thought he'd find them. Clearing his throat the two women broke apart and blushed scarlet at being caught. The older man raised an eyebrow and stepped into the office to speak to his two favorite ladies hoping he wasn't going to have to do anything that would hurt either of them.
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A/N2: Now I could have dragged out the Scrya thing further but I think I'll be wrapping up this story soon. Definitely will write a couple more chapters to get to the marriage and babies but I didn't want this to be a repeat of my prior story where the characters actually had to physically fight. This was more about the emotional journey of trusting each other and learning to depend on each other.
So now the question is, how much trouble are they in for smooching at work and what does their boss want?
P.S. Sad to say this but I probably won't update again until the end of the week, got lots to do and the hubby won't let me hide out in the house any longer writing, spoilsport. Love ya guys, and as always the puppy begs and rolls over pleading for reviews. Come on, the tummy is all exposed and the tail is wagging, just click below and drop me a line.
