T/N: Hey everyone sorry for not updating earlier I was a little busy and also I kinda didn't feel the inspiration to translate, and it gets really hard when I force myself to do it if I'm not in the mood. So yeah, but I hope that this chapter is good enough so you guys can forgive me, oh and this chapter could be rated M but I don't know, I let you guys decide that. Well with that said please go head and read.
It was one of those moment in which you find yourself just over the line that separates a dream from reality, staying in an unstable balance where any little thing can make you go back to sleep or wake you up completely.
She was still dreaming. She felt her body lying down but instead she saw herself walking, as a mere spectator. She was in bed, but in her dream she was walking on a roof. She sighed as for a slight moment she stopped feeling the pillow under her head. Now she was jumping from one roof to another before jumping to the branch of a tree that was right in front of a window. The window was open and the curtains fluttered in the wind. She felt the tingling of fingers on her waist. The curtain was pulled back and let her see Nanoha on a bed, naked, with her breast exposed to her. Fate became agitated and noticed how she was running out of air. She jumped into the windowsill. Fingers slipped under her shirt. She was suffocating. Nanoha's image arched her back and she… moaned.
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Fate snapped her eyes opened knowing that that moan didn't come from her dream. Then she noticed that her face was pressed against something and that she could barely breathe. It took her two long seconds to realize that her face was buried in Nanoha's chest. She blinked, slightly confused as she tried to pull away, but she didn't move much before her body froze.
She was suddenly very aware of Nanoha's body. Of all of Nanoha's body. Her arms were around her, holding her very, very close, so much that her chest was still touching her cheek with every breath of the brunette. A hand had slipped under her shirt and was stroking her back gently. Fate shivered when nails slightly scratched her.
She swallowed hard and forced herself to calm down. She looked up and found the sleeping face of her bedmate. Well, Nanoha was still asleep. Then, what was happening? She analyzed the situation. Apparently she had used Nanoha as pillow like every night, but the instructor was dreaming about something rather… naughty and her hands had taken a life on their own to explore the blonde's body. She swallowed again. Everything was fine, having that kind of dreams was completely normal.
Another moan. Fate's eyes widened when she heard it while Nanoha now shivered slightly. Then she moaned again. The blonde swallowed her own moan of desperation, this couldn't be happening to her. Nanoha shifted uneasily in her dream and pressed closer to the enforcer, who once again saw her face against the girl's soft breast. She closed her eyes. "Oh my… that's a…! A nipple?!" Of course there was no need to say that Nanoha seemed more than aroused with whatever she was dreaming.
But the worst of all was that she herself was getting aroused with the whole situation. Well considering the arms around her, the hand caressing her back, the breasts touching her, the pleasant sounds she heard… "For god's sake, I'm not made of stone!"
She gasped, which was more of a combination between a gasp and moan, when a leg slipped between hers. Quickly and relentlessly the thigh moved to the very center of all the heat that Fate was feeling. She shifted uneasily, biting her lip as she tried to remind herself that the brunette was only dreaming and at the same time trying not to think about how much she wanted to wake Nanoha so she could take her then and there. The leg pressed a little harder against her center and now it was her who let out a long moan as she grabbed Nanoha's pajamas in her hands.
What do you do when your best friend, with whom you share a bed, of whom you're madly in love with and that you want more than anyone else, touches you in that way while dreaming of god knows what things? There should be a manual for that, and probably there was, somewhere within the Infinite Library, but Fate could only come up with one solution. To run. Specifically, run away to the shower.
"A very, very, very cold shower." She grunted as she closed the bathroom door. "Freezing cold. That's it, I need a freezing cold shower."
She took off her pajamas while muttering under her breath. She didn't know if she was still half asleep or just stunned by what had happened, but surely it would be the latter because she felt very awake. In fact her whole body was fully awake. Angry by the whole situation she threw her underwear in the laundry basket and stood in front of the mirror.
At times like this she wondered if it would have been easier to remain unaware of her feelings. Knowing she was in love with Nanoha had only created problems in her life, which was already full of them. The discussion that took place months ago was when she realized that what she was feeling was only a prelude, the beginning of something that she knew would increasingly worsen and, although they hadn't had a fight again, Fate knew that nothing was like it used to be. Before she became aware of her love, her attraction, her desire.
She let out a choked groan while closing her eyes and praying not to have those kind of feelings. But she couldn't do anything, Nanoha had caught her, and she drove her completely, absolutely and totally crazy.
"Accepting that you are in love with her was hard enough for you." She told her reflection. "But I think that seeing all of your hormones go crazy every time she's close, is too much, don't you think Fate?" She shook her head. "And of course, she's not making it any easier. Oh, no. Not at all."
She ran a hand through her hair and sighed before heading to the shower. She had calmed down but a quick shower didn't sound too bad, so she decided to put the water in warm instead of completely cold as she had intended. She let the liquid fall on her body as she thought about Nanoha and how she was a very touchy person. The hugs, touches, slight brushes, the body contact was part of her way of communication. Whenever she came back from a difficult mission there was always a hug before any word. Whenever she said goodbye there was always a soft kiss on the check and a warm smile. Whenever she wanted to show her something there was always a hand placed on her shoulder. Whenever she wanted to say something there was always a slight touch on her arm to get her attention. Even when she got mad there was always a hit on her arm.
No. She wasn't making it easier.
She grabbed the shampoo and started to wash her hair. They were only small details with no apparent significance, but which were driving Fate crazy and threatened to cause her a heart attack one of these days. Small details like her habit of taking off her jacket and skirt upon arriving home. How could a simple shirt fit so well on someone? Or when, still half asleep, she sat down for breakfast and Nanoha would hug her from behind to say good morning, didn't she notice how her breasts pressed against her back?
Then there were a thousand other situations when she thought she would go crazy with what she made her feel. Just like it had happened yesterday. They were working together in a bureaucratic issue and, since they didn't finished in time before heading back home, they ended up sitting in bed, in pajamas and with thousands of files scattered on the mattress. Nanoha had stretched over her to look for a paper on the other side and Fate now recalled how she had released the breath she'd been holding at the sudden closeness of the brunette. She couldn't quite get used to the feel of those new feelings that, although she was beginning to think they had always been there, now made her see her friend in another way. She closed her eyes biting her lip. She remembered her by her side, slightly touching her while she looked through the papers. Until a few months ago she had never been so aware of the warmth given off by her body, or the scent of her hair, never had she felt chills running down her body just by her simple touch or felt her breathing quicken if she hugged her. But now she was.
She wondered what Nanoha could be dreaming about. She herself had had the occasional embarrassing fantasy in which her imagination mixed with her desire had developed a more than wet dream. But she couldn't help it, what was blocked by her conscious when being awake, was freed in her dreams by her subconscious. She cared about Nanoha, she loved her and of course she also wanted her. Many times she found herself wondering how it would feel to kiss her or caress the skin all over her body, how it would feel to slide her lips down her neck and reach her breasts before moving down to her belly and continue to go down even more…
Her eyes widened when she realized that her hand had started to do on her own body what she had imagined doing on Nanoha. Her fingers stopped a second over the wet golden curls and hesitated a moment before continuing going down. She let out a gasp and looked up into the water from the shower. How could she be so aroused? Deep down, behind the fog that her desire had lifted in her mind, she knew it was not right to do that kind of stuff thinking about her best friend. But it had all being Nanoha's fault in the first place, for touching her in that way, even if she was dreaming.
She forced herself to swallow a moan. Yes, everything was the brunette's fault. The obsession she felt for Nanoha was only her fault for causing it. Her body shivered and her hand reached out looking for support on the wall, but with such bad luck her hand ended against the faucet.
Nanoha was awakened by the loud noise. She quickly sat up before she could fully understand what that loud hit had been and which had torn her away from her dream… whatever it had been. She looked both ways and finally noticed two things: first, Fate was not in the bed and second, some sort of groan could be heard in the distance.
She took a quick glance at the clock and got up wondering what the hell was Fate doing in the bathroom and, most importantly, why was she awake at that time.
"Fate-chan?" She said walking to the door as she pulled the elastic of her underwear to put it back in place. "Are you okay?"
The only answer she got was some kind of groan along with what sounded like a curse and several "ouches". Her concern made her practically run to the door and burst it open only to freeze on her step completely surprised.
"Ugh… that hurt." Fate protested as she rubbed her arm. "Oh, did I wake you? Don't worry, I'm fine."
The brunette was forced to reactivate her brain, shut the door and stop staring at the naked body in front of her. Wet skin dripping on the floor, long blond hair stuck to her back and covering part of those well-formed breasts… her eyes followed the path of a drop on that soft body and she had to force herself to stop thinking about how much she would like to pounce on the said body and check that it really, was all fine.
"Um… What happened?"
A distinctive pinkish color covered Fate's cheeks as she reached for the towel and wrapped it around her body. To the relief of Nanoha's hormones.
"I was… um… taking a shower." A brown eyebrow rose at that, at first because the fact that she was showering was obvious and then because the blush on Fate's face became more noticeable. "And I accidentally put the water on cold and… well, the surprise caused me to hit myself with the wall. I didn't mean to wake you, sorry."
"Are you okay?"
The blonde nodded but even with that Nanoha stopped her when she was about to pass her to check that the hit on the arm had been nothing. "Bad idea," she thought when noticed that she was too close to Fate, a very naked Fate. And that couldn't be good for her respiratory health because the smell of soap on Fate's body was driving her crazy and she knew she would start to hyperventilate at any time. And of course it wasn't good for her heart health either, because it was threatening to jump out of her chest to go see for itself if Fate's skin was as soft as it looked.
"I'm fine, it was just a slight hit, nothing more." She smiled.
Nanoha was too busy controlling her breathing and trying to check the arm as to notice Fate's own discomfort. After seeing that everything was fine and noticing that the excuse of checking her would not help much if she kept on touching her arm that way, she tapped her on the shoulder and turned away from her.
"You're so clumsy sometimes, Fate-chan." She laughed. "What could you possibly be thinking…"
She laughed again and Fate joined her laughter, both too tense to notice the nervousness of the other. Nanoha saw the blonde make her way into the room to go to the closet and she had to take a deep breath and let out a long sign to calm herself down and look away from that almost naked body. She was starting to think that she could not take much more things like that, things like that habit of never taking her clothes to the bathroom and always having to appear after a shower only with a towel covering her, how could someone have such provocative pair of legs? And like that one, there were thousands of other small details, like when she went to see her in her office and stood behind her to see what she was working on, had she never noticed that her breathing so close to her ear kept her from thinking clearly?
Increasingly she ended in situations where she almost got lost in the desire she felt for Fate. Situations like the one minutes ago were starting to be too frequent. For example, that one rainy day last week, when she saw her arrive home after a tiring day, dripping wet and the soaked uniform stuck to her skin. While saying something about the crazy weather and her need to take a shower, she had taken off her shoes and her skirt before disposing of her jacket to reveal a white shirt almost transparent due to the rain. Nanoha had dropped the pen with which she was correcting reports upon seeing her and Fate had simply left her wet clothes next to the door and had approached her, hopping to avoid leaving a trail of water, gave her a kiss on the forehead and then left towards the so needed shower. Needless to say, by then the instructor also needed a showed after the revealing view that the wet shirt had allowed her to see.
"Sorry for waking you up." The blonde's voice was heard as she looked in the closet. "You seemed very deep in sleep…" She hesitated a few seconds, but in the end couldn't help asking. "What were you dreaming about?"
"I don't know." She admitted heading to the bed to sit on the edge. She tried to remember. Fate was in it, there was no doubt about that, but she couldn't remember the rest. "I honestly don't remember, why?"
"No, it was nothing." There was a pause. "Curiosity I guess, as I said you seemed really immersed in the dream. What time is it?"
"There's still some time before the alarm goes off. What were you doing up so early, do you have to go somewhere?"
"No, I just woke up." She closed the closet's door and, now dressed up, she walked towards the brunette while drying her hair with the towel. "Why don't you go back to bed? Since I'm up already I can make breakfast."
Nanoha thought about it for a few seconds. She bit her lip just in time to avoid saying that the only thing she wanted for breakfast was a naked and panting Fate. Her obsession with the blonde was beginning to worry her so before she started saying weird things, she dropped on the mattress with a smile.
"Okay, but it has to be something more than just cereal."
"As you wish." She bowed making Nanoha laugh. "A complete breakfast on the way, I'll bring it up in a few minutes."
"Ooooh." She laughed. "Breakfast in bed."
Fate's burgundy eyes let out a special shine. Seeing Nanoha lying there with that smile, the phrase "breakfast in bed," took a different perspective on her mind. One that only required Nanoha's body to satisfy her appetite. But the best things would be to make a real breakfast and leave her small, sickly obsession with the brunette aside.
"I won't take long."
"I'll be waiting."
Once alone, the two let out a long sigh.
T/N: Oh! so much tension, we're getting really really close to that awaited moment. Also I wanted to let you know that there's only three chapters left of the story, but wait don't get sad or anything, it's not the end of the story there's gonna be more later, when? I don't know, but there will be. We're all gonna have to wait for the rest of the chapters and just to give you a heads up, the author does take its time to write, so be patient, very patient. Anyway thanks for reading, I hope everyone liked it and thanks to all of those who always review, it's thanks to you that for the first time I got more than 100 reviews, it made me really happy so thanks a lot. Well then see you later! :)