A/N:Hey guys! It's late, I'm updating, and hopefully providing a satisfying start to a resolution. The weird thing about Vivio is that she is kind of... flighty to me, so she's hard to have resolve things. It's fun though. Enjoy!

6-Frost

Vivio had meant to be doing her homework during the doctor visit, but it was taking way too long and the work was pretty easy anyway. They were probably overdoing it with Rae-chan, making her all nervous and jumpy and confused. Nanoha-mama had warned her they might do that without thinking because doctors and nurses tended to be logical and patient but very focused. They would find what was wrong… not that Vivio thought anything was really wrong with Rae-chan… other than bad teachers.

Who taught kids to not read fairy tales? Or to hate magic?

Well, she wasn't sure Rae hated magic, persay, more like that she hated that she had it. That was complicated though. Why would you hate a part of yourself? Maybe other people had hated it and told her that she should hate it too, which was dumb. Why hate something that wasn't even your fault?

Or maybe, like she had thought before, Rae was just scared of herself.

Vivio wished she knew what it was like to be scared of herself, because then she would be able to help.

She would have to leave it to Nanoha-mama and Fate-mama instead, she supposed. Nanoha-mama had saved her, after all.

Raising Heart let out a chime. [Master!]

In the other room, something smashed and Rae went streaking out past them. Her hands were curled into fists inside her cloak, but she was still running like she had seen a ghost.

"Rae-chan!" she shouted but the girl didn't answer, footsteps fading as fast as they appeared. Vivio leaped from her seat, intent on going after her. But her mama's hand gently tugged her back. "Mama!" She almost fell back onto her bottom.

"Give her a few moments, Vivio. She probably worked herself up." Nanoha stroked her daughter's knuckles with the pad of her thumb, smiling ruefully. She sighed. "I'll talk to her first, okay? Then you can help."

"But… she'll think I'm scared of her," her daughter protested. Nanoha hummed.

"It's better than you scaring her and giving her a good reason to think that." Vivio gave a reluctant nod and waited for her mother. Nanoha-mama seemed very calm. Her mama was usually like that, not that Vivio had any reason to want her upset.

"Mama?"

"Hm?"

"Did Rae-chan do a bad thing?"

Nanoha paused for only a second. The Ace of Aces was not known for hesitation after all. "Mmhm. She broke the machine, by the sound of things." Seeing Vivio's miserable expression, she grinned. "I don't think she meant to though. You'd have done worse if you could."

Vivio pouted. Nanoha-mama was probably right, but still! She was learning how to fight so she coulddo worse but that wasn't the point. "Nanoha-mama…"

"Do you think you can help?"

She winced at the question. Her mama wasn't trying to be mean, but she was asking her to be honest. She was asking her to be honest. Could she help Rae-chan? She wasn't really sure about that but…

"No...um, don't-"

There were words under that, heaps of them that just didn't make sense and did at the same time. It was like feelings and words were trying to be understood at the same time and it was murky.

Vivio had no idea if she could really help at all, especially if neither of them knew how to say anything properly. She looked at her tiny, weak hands and clenched them.

"I want to try," she said.

Her mother smiled, that proud one she had gotten every time she had helped the housekeepers properly at Riot Force Six or got up from a fall with nothing more than a wince. Then she whirled her daughter around and placed Raising Heart in her hands. "Off you go then. Be careful. You still don't have the basics."

"Right!"

Vivio turned on her heel and ran, out towards the halls, the cold.

She wondered what they would do with Rae-chan. Would she go to the Academy with her? Into the military? Be adopted by a nice family? Would they try to send her home?

That would be sad if she went home. She seemed nice…

Well, she would just have to convince Rae to stay.

Vivio pulled her coat tighter as she made it out to the courtyard. There, the wind brushed at her, but she clenched her fingers tight in her pockets and ignored it. It was just wind and snow!

Raising Heart flashed from next to her ear and vivio followed the Device to peer behind a tree. Small pulses of magic riddled the air, and Vivio didn't need her Mama's smarts to guess what was happening. Did magic normally do that, just burst out with a will of its own?

Tapping her foot, Vivio searched for something, anything to say. She didn't want to look at Rae, mostly because she guessed Rae didn't want to lash out at her. She frowned, puzzled. Arf-san would know what to do here, she was Fate-mama's familiar after all. She brushed at Raising Heart's frame and looked around at the still-falling snow.

Then Vivio grinned in pure triumph. She had seen this in a movie once, so it had to work.

"Wanna build a snowman?"