"A Beautiful Gaze"

Rated K+

Pairing: Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd X Mercedes Von Martritz

Summary: Dimitri and Mercedes are busy sharing a peaceful moment sewing with each other until Dimitri sees something very different about her that he can't help put to words. LITERALLY.

Disclaimer: I do not own anything associated with Fire Emblem: Three Houses including its characters. Both the game and its characters are owned by Nintendo and Intelligent Systems. Since I was bored out of my mind, here's a nice little fluff-shot featuring one of my favorite couples from Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Dimitri and Mercedes. I figured I do one myself, since it hardly gets any love here on this site. So, here you go everybody.

P.S.: Dimitri will be 18 in this fic, so need to be carried away. And not to mention it takes place somewhere after their B+ support and before Dimitri goes mad. Kinda forgot to add that in as well. Anyway, enjoy the story everyone!


The atmosphere around the Knights Hall was quite peaceful at best, what without no training involved or no students or faculty to flood the entire place on a rainy day considering the fact that the entire training grounds was being flooded with torrential rain water at this point.

Well, except for the fact that there were two people present at the knights hall after all. One had boyishly blonde hair with a blue cape draped around his shoulder while the other had breathtaking dirty-blonde hair that was tied around in a ponytail drifting down her right shoulder while sporting her usual grayish-yellow shoulder cloth as always. Of course, not to mention the fact that they also brought their personal handmade sewing kits as well just to pass the time while the sound of fire crackling in the fireplace enchanted their ears. At this point, the man in the blonde hair, whom was named Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd, was trying very carefully to insert the small strain of yarn right through the hole of the small needle itself. He finally managed to get that small task done before Dimitri sent that entire needle down the sewing cloth picture perfectly to his relief. That of course, got the woman sitting beside him on the couch to take notice. She wasn't just any woman though.

She was one of Dimitri's teammates and lead healer of the Blue Lions herself, Mercedes Von Martritz, who seemed satisfied with what the future King of Faerghus was doing at this point.

"My goodness, you're really starting to get very good at this, Dimitri." Mercedes said with such a beaming smile.

"Like I said, all it takes is patience." The leader of the Blue Lions replied with such a nod, "Don't want to go too fast trying to put a string inside the needle, otherwise I'd keep missing."

"That's definitely wise thinking." Mercedes said, nodding back to Dimitri.

Another minute of sewing passed between them for a little while before Dimitri looked back to Mercedes once more and said, "So what was it like living with your half-brother?"

"You mean Emile?" Mercedes said, referring to her half-brother, Jeritza. She then let out another smile before saying, "It was quite wonderful, of course. Believe it or not, Emile wasn't very used to sewing himself, you know."

"Ah, I see. Go on…" Dimitri said, feeling intrigued.

"Very well," Mercedes nodded, "I don't know if I ever told you this, but Emile was mostly very good of taking care of animals in his spare time, mostly the cats. I guess in some cases, you can consider himself to be quite a cat whisperer."

"Hmmm, you don't say," Dimitri nodded back, "I bet he's some sort of cat magnet, huh?"

Mercedes let out a very sweet giggle before saying, "You can definitely say that. The cats he looks after are pretty much loyal to him. In fact there was this one time Emile volunteered to look after our neighbor's cat…"

For some reason in Dimitri's mind, the entire conversation he was having with Mercedes started to mute out in his brain. He didn't know why it did, but in his mind, his eyes were suddenly fixated on one thing that he couldn't help but make his heart beat:

And that was Mercedes's eyes.

No doubt they looked so fragile, so innocent and so breathtaking in Dimitri's fluff-filled mind. It was quite the best feature about her other than her beautiful hair and her ever-graceful voice. Every time Dimitri saw her blink right at him, his heart would beat louder than a lion's roar ever could. He worried to himself that if he looked at her eyes even longer, Dimitri would fall into a deep sleep and faint with satisfaction. Of course, every guy around the Garreg Mach Monastery would have that same feeling when it comes to gazing at a beautiful woman like Mercedes, but when it came to someone like Dimitri though, it was a completely different story.

"My goodness, her eyes look so amazing…" He thought to himself, simply losing a little bit of breath from this hypnotizing sight.

He soon felt her voice fading right back in Dimitri's mind saying, "...and it scared the cat so much that he went wild and pretty much tore up my mother's sewing cloth. Guess that's what Emile gets for scaring him out of nowhere. Nowadays, if he wants to scare cats, he should at least do it outside. Safe to say, it was more peaceful for my mother since then, because at least she would finally get all her sewing done."

"Uh-huh…" Dimitri nodded once more, losing the feeling in his voice.

Mercedes somehow noticed that intriguing look on his eyes herself, saying with a raised eyebrow, "You must really be fascinated about my family life, huh?"

The leader of the Blue Lions nodded instantly, nearly drifting out thanks to her gaze.

Mercedes raised her eyebrow once again before asking him out of curiosity, "Are you sure you're okay, Dimitri? You're acting a bit differently."

She didn't get a response this time. The only thing Mercedes got was a zombified Dimitri drifting off into space, still thinking of those pools of purplish sapphire burning inside his brain. Mercedes noticed that look herself, feeling very concerned for her hypnotized friend and leader so much that it left her quite concerned.

"Dimitri?" She said yet again before thinking to herself, "I guess he's daydreaming, I see. I think I know how to wake him up."

Knowing he was completely half-dead from the neckup, Mercedes sent her hand right up to one of Dimitri's ears and without no warning at all…

*SNAP*

She loudly snapped her fingers!

"Ahhh, you have beautiful eyes!" Dimitri blurted out of nowhere.

This small confession forced out a gasp coming from Mercedes, who at this point, didn't know what to think or what to say about what Dimitri said to her right about now. She couldn't believe those kinds of words came out of his lips just like that. It was so shocking that it literally sent Mercedes's heart right into overdrive. It wasn't quite surprising since the two had been spending a lot of time with each other more often ever since Mercedes failed big-time at the sword-training session she ever had with Dimitri.

Mercedes didn't know if she wanted to be shocked, surprised or upset at this truthful fact. But before she could get a chance to reply though, Dimitri managed to beat her to the chance by submitting a reply himself.

"I'm sorry if I couldn't help myself, but I just can't help but admire those eyes of yours, Mercedes." He said with a calmed sigh, "They look so beautiful and gorgeous that looking at them kinda made me lost myself for a little bit. But deep down, that's the best thing I like about you. Because it makes me want to forget about all the problems I've had in my past. I understand if I kinda upset you or anything, but it's how I really feel and I don't feel ashamed of that fact one bit. I can also understand that if you're probably seeing someone else too, but it's something I had to get out of my che-"

Dimitri would never get a chance to finish that last word though.

All that was left of him was a blush brightening up his cheeks while Mercedes cut him off with an unexpecting hug. Something about that hug felt something warm and comforting to Dimitri, although he didn't know what felt warm, his heart or his entire face reddening up in a crimson shade of red. Either way, this felt quite nice for Dimitri although it wouldn't be compared to the response Mercedes gave him with such a gentle smile:

"That's so sweet of you to say, Dimitri. No one ever complimented like that to me before."

"Yeah, I figured you deserve it…" said the future King of Faerghus with a chuckle himself.

The hug lasted for another few seconds before the two broke it off, therefore leading to realize that the two suddenly began to embrace one another out of nowhere. Dimitri once again gazed at Mercedes's eyes face-first, only this time with deep calm in his entire heart other than a daydreamed tone. Mercedes on the other hand loved the way Dimitri was looking right at her with that kind handsome smile of his. It was the kind of smile that always somehow reminded her of her little brother Emile non-stop, yet somehow this comfortable embrace made their hearts beat more louder than ever, not even containing themselves for what would come next between them.

It wasn't long before their faces slowly inched closer together to each other's lips, pressing them in a tender passionate smooch that immediately left Dimitri and Mercedes breathless. Mercedes sighed dreamily into the kiss, leaving her to cock her head back so that he could let Dimitri's entire lips deepen hers with enough passion in both of their hearts. His kiss was literally melting her from both the inside and outside, not even knowing if Mercedes was gonna endure this kind of pleasure from Dimitri's kiss. Regardless of what the result was, she was still relishing in this incredible feeling.

The kiss lasted on for a good 15 seconds though before they were cut off by a voice from nowhere:

"All right, way to go, lady-killer!"

That voice forced both Dimitri and Mercedes to break off their brief kiss and look towards the figure who cut them off right away. To no surprise, that figure turned out to be Dimitri's skirt-chasing friend, Sylvain, who looked at them with a wolf whistle he made around his lips.

"Sylvain, do you mind? We're in the middle of something!" Dimitri said, warning his red-haired friend.

"I see you're in the middle of getting freaky with Mercedes herself," Sylvain said to Dimitri with a wink, "Mind if I light some candles for you?"

Those words immediately forced Mercedes to toss an oncoming shield towards Sylvain's path, forcing the lady-killer to dodge it in time out of defense.

"Alright, I'll leave already! Geez, I don't know what I did wrong to begin with…" Sylvain said to himself before finally leaving the Knights Hall.

That of course left both Dimitri and Mercedes to exchange blushes at one another, although they were a bit more embarrassed than ever that someone would walk in on them like that. A minute of silence passed by for the two of them until Mercedes rid that blush around her cheeks and chuckled sheepishly.

"Well, that was something, huh?" She shrugged over to Dimitri.

"Yeah, it kinda was." Dimitri nodded, refusing to get rid of the blush between his cheeks. "We obviously need a much more quieter place next time."

Mercedes nodded back as well before saying, "Indeed. Think we should get back to sewing?"

"Yeah, let's." The future King of Faerghus approved, all while picking up his sewing cloth.

Within no time, the two immediately began to sew away respectively without anyone trying to rudely interrupt them. And even though the moment was long gone for them thanks to Sylvain, no doubt it was a moment that both Dimitri and Mercedes weren't gonna forget. For them, that would be the moment that both Dimitri and Mercedes shared their first kiss with each other.

Hard to believe it all started with a beautiful gaze of her eyes.


I swear, writing Dimitri/Mercedes like this definitely warmed my heart. I think besides Marianne of course, Mercedes is also a good suitable choice for Dimitri, considering the fact that she's the only one who can help see the good in him despite all the bad that he's done. She does it in a calm, gentle, nurturing and compassionate kind of way that makes me want to ship the both of them. It's just so sweet. And if I could write them again, I'd totally would in a heartbeat. Of course, I'd probably have to think of an idea I could write for them though. LOL

Anyway, what are your thoughts on this? Would you like me to write more Dimitri/Mercedes fics like these? Let me know in the reviews my fellow readers. Feedbacks are always appreciated. Until next time, be smart, be safe, stay cool and don't do drugs, kids. Later, everyone!