The world seemed to stop for a second.
Standing in the middle of the room, her always-observing, always-alert blue eyes remained fixed on the ordinary wooden door, and more specifically on the unusually large door knob, identical on both sides of said door that she had found oddly amusing at first and that she had gotten so used to turning so many times now.
It led her, not to her own home per se... but it was difficult not to call her, her home.
It also led back to the reality of her life when it was time to do so.
The living room of the small apartment was the same as it had always been since the very first time she had seen it and yet everything she thought she already knew and was familiar felt different and unfathomable.
The blonde female figure standing next to the threshold of the door remained slightly off her range of vision.
That was also different.
From that very first moment, that hazy cold today of autumn when they had randomly crashed into each other and fumbled over spilled coffee from styrofoam cups and ruined pastries, when their fingers had brushed together and they eyes had met… from that very first moment, every time she was in front of her eyes, she had her undivided attention.
It was almost a personal law Nanoha had unknowingly imposed on herself
This time, she simply couldn't.
Her instincts kicked in, she was not alone.
She ignored the apprehension of the unknown creeping inside her.
She had told her she trusted her.
Despite the world of lies and mistrust, she had been unable to stop herself from trusting her implicitly.
Nanoha felt her lips slightly gaping in a silent gasp as a second blonde stepped out with her crimson gaze averted slightly to the floor.
Her heart started pounding frantically in her chest.
She did not even notice the first blonde closing the door behind the second one.
Her mouth was dry and she could just stare in awe at the two beautiful blondes in front of her.
Standing side by side.
Silent. Identical. Breathtaking.
They were indeed identical, she was not seeing visions. She was not dreaming, was she?
From the clothes —skinny dark denim jeans, white top and a fitted black jacket— to every feature in their perfectly sculpted faces; their height and the simple low ponytail of their impossibly long golden mane of hair, everything was a perfect match and yet the look in their eyes was different.
Nanoha slowly recounted in her mind and was finally able to understand why sometimes the look she craved from those crimson eyes was different at times and yet, now as she stood in awe in front of them, both looks she craved for were the same.
One was more gentle and deep. Mysterious as if they met endlessly again and again yet familiar as if they belonged. The other was bold and sharp. Beautiful. Vibrant as life had been suddenly blown into her just by looking at her.
Over dinners, research and investigations, and other less mundane activities, she had come to know all the different lines on the blonde's face. Inconspicuous expressions, covert glances. Spontaneous laughs.
It had all happened naturally, little by little, bringing little sparks of joy in her day to day job life. Learning to read these little expressions as if she was this classified file she has to decipher.
Nanoha thought all those traits belonged to the gorgeous, talented and very reserved woman she had hopelessly fallen for.
She knew they were not supposed to engage into any personal bordering-friendly relationship, much less sexual.
And least of all, romantic.
It had never been a problem before.
Nanoha had always been able to maintain a professional distance from all the assets she met. It was the only way to maintain the professionalism and she had never actually had any problem keeping it like that.
She never mixed business with pleasure.
And then… Nanoha hadn't really had much of a choice. Their relationship sparkled and moved from personal and friendly to sexual and, yes, romantic almost in a heartbeat.
It certainly would have been easier if it had been just sexual.
Her assignment had been clear from the start, to obtain the critical information from her .
She was her point of contact to provide such information but the mission had run longer than anyone had expected.
Not that it would have made much difference, their chemistry had been instant. How can anyone bring fire and fuel together and not expect them to react?
They both knew that the nature of their encounter was tainted.
That hadn't stopped either of them.
It was something both had wanted.
Both...either… both?
Nanoha looked again, lost in her thoughts she needed to make sure she was really not imagining things.
Does both even ever apply… to... three?
It was not possible. But it was.
Nothing had ever prepared her for such a turn of events.
When Nanoha had joined the Resistance group, she knew what she was giving up. Her identity, her true self. She would never be open to talk and bond with anyone. She agreed to the terms and to the toll it took on her life. It was something she had been willing to do.
Every case, every mission ran with precision.
She had an impeccable record, she was the best and her talents were highly appreciated. The most difficult and challenging tasks she handled with exceptional discretion. She had helped the Resistance build an extraordinary network of information.
In the world they lived in, one thing proved to be far more important than any natural resource or form or money. Information.
Information gave power.
Power was everything.
To the ones in control of information, they knew to what extent people would kill and die for information. Also how good they paid for classified information.
She was the best at finding that type of information.
But even in the ages of advanced technologies of information, the human component always plays a neural role.
That's why they had met.
But they met and everything had been different.
She was very aware she broke many rules when she started letting things go further than sensible with her contact.
They spent their days fully dedicated and engaged to their assigned activities. She was never supposed to clock off the job, but some things were irresistible, even for her.
Flirting proved to be as dangerous as inevitable.
The first time her walls started crumbling they had shared a cigarette together after a long week of all-nighters.
Nanoha had stepped outside the complex they were investigating. It was late and they were the last two still working. The night was clear and barely any noise disturbed the silence that prevailed.
Maybe it was indeed a moment to call it a day.
She would have to find a cab to get home, she mused, fumbling for her phone in her bag.
The sound of her heels had made the blonde turn to her, as she flickered a lighter with a swift snap and deftly lit up a cigarette in her long, delicate fingers.
Nanoha stopped walking. Her heart might have stopped for a beat as well.
"Do you want one?" The blonde had offered.
Her voice, despite being husky low, was soft and delicately modulated.
"I don't… smoke…" Nanoha had replied instantly with less confidence than she was used to.
Something inside her craved to hold onto her lips the cigarette that was currently slightly pressed between the blonde's luscious lips.
She just couldn't look away.
It was stupid to think the cigarette was lucky… but that stupid thought rattled in her mind.
"Neither do I," the blonde replied with a carefree smile she had never shown before as she leaned in the wall barely lit by a shy lamp.
Nanoha took two steps forward and graciously extended her hand out, "I wouldn't mind sharing one, though".
Nanoha had never been one to flirt. The blonde had her completely captivated.
They talked for the very first time over that shared cigarette.
Every time Nanoha puffed from it she felt a sweet tingle in her lips. In a way she could feel the blonde's lips. The cigarette could not transfer the softness and taste the blonde's lips had, but to her, it did. The tingle surfaced to her fingertips when the blonde's fingers brushed hers to receive back the cigarette.
And the tingle increased when she saw that perfectly defined mouth exhale the warm smoke as her gaze drifted from her inescapable crimson eyes to those lips that she craved to kiss.
She was the one to kill the cigarette in the end and it surprised her when the blonde took the butt from her hands and slipped it into a tin the blonde took out of her jacket.
"It's late, do you want a ride?"
Nanoha could have sworn she noticed a faint shadow of a smile before the question was asked.
It was a cardinal rule never to share a transport with her contact.
It was one of the many rules she broke…
Nanoha breathed in deeply and her mind returned to the present.
She focused and began to finally understand the reason her lips had been silenced by that —same perhaps— pair of delicate fingers when just the night before she had been in bed with — whom? — and the first syllables of that phrase she thought she would never ever voice had barely escaped her lips.
"I lo…" she had managed to say.
And the blonde with crimson eyes had stopped her. Nanoha had been confused, hurt even, just a little. Confused, when she was asked to come back the next day.
She saw something different in those beautiful eyes, something she couldn't read.
The reason was now standing twice fold in front of her.
"We could not go any longer like this…" one of the blondes said at last, breaking the silence of the room.
The voice was familiar as ever. She loved that voice.
It seemed a cruel twist of fate that her loved one had not really doubled but actually appeared to have been ripped apart. Nanoha could not tell just by looking at each other with which one she wanted to talk too, which one she wanted to hold, which one she wanted to be touched by. Which one she knew.
"... and it was only fair to let you know that we did not expect for any of this to happen…" the same voice now coming from the other blonde continued seamlessly.
Nanoha had to stumble back and hold on to the nearest piece of furniture to stop her legs failing her. Barely holding on to the couch that separated the living room from the dining room, she tried to find her balance.
The voice was identical. She loved that voice.
"...and we have agreed that you not only have the right to know… but you also hold the power of choice… so even if you decide to forgive us for hiding this truth from you…"
Two… there are two of them .
"... we will be okay with the one your heart chooses, as even though we have shared everything since we were born…"
How? Who?
"...a life… a name… and we are truly trained to operate as a single person…"
One. Two.
"... we understand that it is not possible that you love both of us…"
I love you… who are you?
"Even when we are both in love with you… nothing will change our bond as twin sisters. I will be happy if you choose my sister."
Twins.
"And I will be happy if you choose my sister."
Nanoha sighed in pain.
She could not choose. She did not want to choose.
Nothing made sense and everything made sense.
Slowly she walked towards them, it was impossible to look at one without looking at the other. It was a nightmare. And a dream. And a fantasy.
The certainty of clarity dissolved with a sense of practicality that almost surprised herself.
"What... if I don't want to choose?"
The two blondes looked at each other, their faces showing different expressions of surprise.
"We are prepared for you to not want to have anything to do with us at all after not being truthful to you from the beginning," one of the blondes said.
"We couldn't… you know as well as we do how careful we have to be about disclosing our identities… and that is twice as difficult and important for us…"
As the blondes tried to explain their dilemma, they were suddenly startled when Nanoha interrupted them with a direct question they could not ignore.
"Which one is Alicia?" Nanoha inquired as she could not hold the question any longer. "Is that even a real name?"
"We both are. That's the single identity we both adopted."
In Nanoha's mind it made sense. Now it made sense. How Alicia Testarossa had succeeded in doing the seemingly impossible. Why she was so famous in their line of business. Why she was at the same time a ghost and a killing machine. It was not a myth she was able to be in two places at the same time.
It was so logical. So simple.
And also so cruel.
"But you each must have a name."
"The other… the other is a name that has not been used for a long time… the other name is… Fate…" one of the blondes replied with a certain sadness in her eyes.
Nanoha breathed in deeply. She felt betrayed and yet she was not angry. There were so many unanswered things. Whoever had trained them had trained them since they had been children. Erasing one's identity and using both to work as one for different purposes.
She had understood the risks when she had undertaken her job. That was something Alicia and Fate Testarossa hadn't been able to enjoy.
They had grown as one, as a single entity.
But there had been things that had not been able to be taken away from them. Nanoha could tell now why sometimes Alicia seemed so different. And yet she never felt uncomfortable, it was just like that… different.
The first time she had ever kissed Alicia Testarossa happened two weeks after their cigarette incident.
Oddly enough, it seemed Alicia had said the truth. She never smoked or at least Nanoha never saw her smoking anymore.
Nanoha made a habit of spending more time with her. It was wrong but she could not help it. If her handler knew, she would get in trouble so she made sure not to leave traces of their secret meetings . She started opening up to Alicia. She couldn't help it. There were times Alicia was more open and other times she was more pensive. Charming in her own way.
One day she couldn't hold it back anymore and just plunged into the darkness. She had been in that same apartment with her, in that same couch, lazily drinking wine so late at night it was about to dawn already. Alicia had been toying with her they talked about nothing in particular, just enjoying their presence and their touch. They had been tiptoeing around with neither making the first move until Nanoha could not take it anymore. She slid her hand through Alicia's cheek to cup her and drew her lips to hers.
The kiss was soft and gentle. She could taste the wine in her tongue and the need in her breath. Firm hands kept her close and tight pressed against the blonde's warm body. They kissed again and again until an untimely phone call had interrupted their making out.
Their jobs didn't have a regular schedule and she understood when questions could be asked but not answered, so it became pointless to ask the question altogether.
Still, she had left in a hurry feeling flustered like a lovestruck schoolgirl, late to start her real work yet horny as a lioness in heat.
She had had trouble sleeping in her bed afterwards.
Nanoha really did not want to think of what she had done that night to appease herself so she focused on the two blonde's in front of her.
Walking towards her, the twin sisters sat on the floor barely a few steps away and Nanoha slid down the couch resting her back on it and closed her eyes, trying to calm down her thoughts. In her heart, she knew the answer, and despite everything she was afraid to say it out loud.
They hadn't made any movement to touch her at all.
Nanoha did not know how to reconcile the truth she had been given. As well as the ineffable certainty swelling from the depths of her soul. She had often wondered why at times, Alicia seemed so different. Not always, not often… but it was true… as true it was that she had already... kissed both of them.
She knew. After all, she had already slept with… both of them. She was sure.
There was no need to ask them.
And now they expected her to choose one?
They had presented themselves as one… and now she was coming to realize, she could not do with just one of them.
Fate … she repeated in her mind. What an incredibly fitting name. And beautiful.
One thing, maybe the only thing that was certain above everything else was that she definitely needed to be able to call each one a single unique name. Despite the world they would have to face outside. Despite the outside world only acknowledging the existence of Alicia, Nanoha knew she needed Fate to exist for her as well. She already had Alicia, and Alicia already had her but Fate was also there and Fate was hers as well.
It was not a deliberate experiment. It just came out from her heart like that. A natural way without any ulterior motive.
Nanoha slowly stood up and the twin sisters followed suit with identical grace.
Nanoha looked up lovingly looking at both of them. The two blondes felt confused yet spirited at the same time. They were not expecting Nanoha to look so… joyous.
"Fate-chan…" Nanoha called in a soft voice that made her heart sing.
Her eyes met the eyes of the blonde that sparkled upon hearing a name long lost, while the other blonde just turned to look at her sister with a tender smile.
It had not been a setup of any sort. It was a natural instinct that Nanoha simply knew. The way a soul recognizes another.
Nanoha walked up to Fate, stood in front of her and circled her torso right below her breasts at the flabbergasted blonde, before softly pressing her lips against hers. "It's nice to meet you at last, Fate-chan…"
Alicia looked at Nanoha and Fate with genuine happiness. Neither of the twins had lied. They both knew that if Nanoha decided not to hate them and kick them out of her life… Nanoha would choose only one and as they had shared everything in their life, they would share the happiness that came from Nanoha being with one of them.
It was certainly better than the thought of losing her altogether
Neither of the twins was prepared when Nanoha softly pulled away from Fate and turned to Alicia, linking their fingers together and drawing her close into a soft kiss on the lips as well.
"It's nice to meet the real Alicia-chan as well," Nanoha said cupping Alicia's cheek with her other hand and looking into the bright crimson eyes.
Breaking apart from her, Nanoha took the hand of each still flabbergasted twin and led them back to the couch and sat them down, while she herself sat on her knees in front of them.
"I don't want to choose. I don't want you to make me choose," she started saying as both twins gaped still trying to understand that she had kissed them both, fully knowing there were two of them. "If any one of you wants to back out from this, I will respect it. But I don't want to lose either of you. It cannot be my decision…" she said looking at one blonde and then at the other alternatively.
Waiting for an answer, she just looked down at the hands she was holding in hers with a hopeful smile in her face she noticed Fate and Alicia's other hands were also linked.
They would figure it out.
She was sure.
She stayed…
There are answers that require words, others require actions, for some other things a look is enough, but one thing they had not talked about, after all the things they talked about after Nanoha decided to stay, she wondered, was… their sleeping arrangements. Oddly enough, that part seemed to be the least of worries for the twins.
Nanoha did not know that all their lives, they had shared a bed and had slept holding each other. Usually naked.
Alicia and Fate had seen each other naked all their lives. To their understanding, there was nothing to see really. It was their same body. They, however, did feel the need to be together after they were apart.
They shared a unique sense of belonging, strange to probably any other two humans, because they were not only twins, they were one. They needed the warmth of their sibling because it was a part of themselves.
Alicia knew there was no Alicia without Fate.
Fate knew there was no Fate without Alicia.
And when Nanoha had arrived in their lives, they each had discovered a new warmth with her… when sleeping with her.
Alicia… Fate… either or both had always been exquisitely devoted to tending to her in bed. Suddenly Nanoha found herself being softly embraced by two identical warm bodies that looked at her with absolute fascination. Very slowly they started to take off Nanoha clothes, one by one. Only softly caressing her face, her neck, her arms. Neither of the blondes made any attempt, yet, to kiss her, though.
For a moment Nanoha stood completely naked between the two sisters as the two of them voted to cover her skin with soft kisses and caresses.
Nanoha let them enjoy her body for a bit before
Alicia then started to take off Fate's clothes.
Nanoha watched in awe at the intimate routine, Nanoha started undressing both sisters as well.
Fixing her gaze to the blue eyes that immediately answered with a gaze of devotion sparkling with desire, Fate led Nanoha to the bed and Nanoha laid back, flickering her gaze between the two blondes that just observed her with equal desire.
The bed was large enough for the three of them to lie comfortably. The weighted white blanket covered equally white pristine sheets and Nanoha always felt extremely sensual when she had lied naked against the soft sheets.
This was the first time though, she was going to share the same space with the two blondes.
Fate snuggled on her right side while Alicia did the same on the other side and covered one of her legs with hers.
Nanoha could feel Fate's bare breasts pressed against her side and Alicia's against her other side, along with Alicia's soft pubic hair brushing her hips.
They stayed like that for a while, just enjoying the warmth of their bodies together.
"Are you okay?" Fate suddenly asked Nanoha, who had remained very quiet, softly turning her head to look at her while brushing her cheek with the back side of her fingers.
Nanoha met the gentle and deep gaze of the blonde. She let out a half-sigh half moan when she felt a hand resting in between her breasts. She turned to find Alicia resting her head on her shoulder with her eyes closed and the palm of her hand in the middle of her chest.
She turned back to find Fate smiling at both.
"It wouldn't seem like it… but she's the clingy one…" Fate barely whispered, as if revealing another secret of their unique relationship.
Nanoha was able to discern in her mind, then, the different times she had made love with Fate and the times she had made love with Alicia. It made sense now. She did not mean anything was wrong, it just turned out that they were different in bed. More different than they were in their day-to-day lives.
They had probably rehearsed more on how to behave as a single unit for the purpose of their jobs… but not to share their bed with someone else.
It had not been a lie. It had been a masked truth. But now she wondered… were they ever making love again… would they take turns… would they be in bed making love with the other sister there? What did she want? What did they want?
Unconsciously, Nanoha felt not only blushing, but felt the arousal making her wet in between her legs. She could not stop herself from imagining making love to the blonde twins at the same time.
"You are blushing…" Fate whispered. "Are you wondering about… certain logistics?"
Nanoha blushed guiltily. As much as she had come to learn from Alicia… Alicia and Fate , she corrected herself… as much they also knew about her.
Nanoha now knew that they had talked between them everything about her. She had never been kept as a secret. In a way, Alicia and Fate probably knew Nanoha better than Nanoha knew them.
"You said you shared everything… does that mean you also share… that you have also shared… someone… at the same… time?"
Fate smiled at the question. That was one of the things she liked best about Nanoha. Even through her flustering, she would not back down from voicing her thoughts.
"We do share everything… but we had never shared this love for anyone ever before…"
"So that means…"
"Whatever you want it to mean… as you will be able to see, we are completely comfortable between us and blindly trust each other. There is nothing that Alicia could do that would scandalize me. And the same goes for her when it comes to me."
"But…"
"No buts. We didn't want to keep secrets from you. We both want to continue making love with you. We also want to sleep just like this with you. We want to share our time, however short and spare it may be, with you. Whatever you want to do, at the same time with both of us, or separately, we are okay with it. Because we always share everything. You won't be an exception to that. You are the one that holds all the decisions of how it is easier for you, because we understand this must be strange and maybe even uncomfortable…"
"It's not uncomfortable… I have never felt like that, with either of you."
"It makes us happy to hear that… you don't have to decide anything now…"
Nanoha with her left arm wrapped around Alicia and softly caressing the blonde's shoulder with the tip of her fingers felt Fate taking her right hand and bringing it to her lips to kiss to softly kiss the back of her palm.
"We… love you… so much…" Fate said, looking into Nanoha's bright eyes.
"Do you… always speak in plural… when you're together?" Nanoha replied amused. She was still getting used to dealing with interacting with the blondes.
"Uhm... I guess we do…" Fate replied with a smile.
"Does that mean I have to speak in plural to refer to you both… as in… I love… the two of you?" Nanoha winced, still amused.
"Do you, really?" Fate's eyes sparkled.
It was something she and Alicia had not talked about in a long time. They had promised years ago, no one would come in between them. That they would not break apart from each other. Maybe it had to do with their training, or with their unbreakable bond. They could just not fathom the idea of not being together. Maybe they had always been, maybe it has been reinforced by their special condition. It really didn't matter why. They were the same even if excised as two different beings, they were the one and the same.
And then Nanoha happened.
Fate was swept off her feet the instant she saw her.
She remembered every second of the day when she had met the fire of a woman named Nanoha Takamachi.
She hesitated whether to tell Alicia about her… wondered if Alicia would feel the same way once she met her. Because she was bound to meet her too. And to continue operating as a single person with her as well.
Fate did not want to influence her twin in any way. And if it did not come natural to them, then Fate thought she would have to stop her feelings. Because the feelings were there from the very first instant.
The night Alicia returned after several days working directly with Nanoha, Fate waited until she and Alicia were already hugged in bed ready to sleep.
"What do you think about… her…?" Fate asked Alicia as casually as she could.
She did not have to specify Nanoha's name. They both know who she meant.
" She is… something… special…" Alicia snuggled into Fate who embraced her twin tightly against her. "I don't know if we are ready for something… like her…"
"What worries you?" Fate asked, brushing her sister's golden hair.
"That she will be able to see through you… and through me…" Alicia whispered. Fate rubbed her twin's arms softly. It always soothed her.
"We like her…"
"We do…"
They both fell asleep and that had been the only time they had talked about Nanoha like that. Neither held back their feelings when they each were around Nanoha in private. Enjoying their time together and slowly making her fall in love with… them as one... even if Nanoha was not aware she was doing exactly that.
And so they were all there at last. In a position not one of the three would have ever imagined. Nanoha, sharing a bed, not with one, but two beautiful women, and who, on top of that, were sisters… identical twins. And said twins, were ecstatic to be sharing one gorgeous woman that did not want, could really not find a way to, choose between either of them.
"Yes, I really mean it… I love you, Fate. And I love Alicia." Nanoha's blue never looked so beautiful to Fate as in that moment. The words were simple. The intensity in her eyes was all but simple.
"And we love you, Nanoha…"
Nanoha looked at Fate's full lips and firm breasts while still holding Alicia in her arms, feeling her warmth not only in the tip of her fingers but in all her body. She knew what she wanted… it felt wrong… and right…
Fate noticed the blue eyes traveling down from her own eyes, to her lips and even further down. She blushed in anticipation.
"Fate-chan?"
No one had ever called her like that. Fate's heart swelled with joy and love at the sound of her name called so endearingly by the woman she loved.
"Hmm?"
"Have you and Alicia… uhmmm well… slept together?" Her voice was low and tinted with a hint of shame for intruding with her questions. She really wanted to know.
"We have always slept together…"
At these words Nanoha opened her eyes surprised even though she did not want to accept the recurring thought in her mind was of making love to both of them… while they shared her…
"...ever since we were kids," Fate finished answering with the simplicity of natural truthfulness.
"Wait, what?"
"Yeah … it's just that… ohhh... you don't mean sleep… you meant…"
Nanoha blushed even more than Fate had just blushed.
It seemed almost ridiculous they would be blushing at such naiveties and yet they were. They were well into their twenties, not some naive pre-adolescents.
Fate, Nanoha realized, looked adorable with that blush covering her cheeks.
It seemed impossible they could be giggling and blushing at such questions and answers, but they were.
Fate moved closer and playfully rubbed her nose against Nanoha's before kissing her fully on the lips.
In a matter of a couple of hours, Nanoha was starting to discover the little things of Fate and Alicia. She was not sure whether she had to make a distinction but she couldn't help it.
Fate's lips were soft against hers, and she could feel more than that, she could feel Fate surrendering to her, baring her soul in a kiss of love until she was ready to answer the question.
"Uhmm… yes… I don't think we have ever needed to express our love all the way with anyone else before… like we have the need with… you. It has always been us. We explore our bodies together, yes. And it had always been enough."
There was no shame in Fate's voice. Just raw truth to the person she had come to trust as much as her own sister.
Something Fate had never had thought could have been possible before Nanoha had found her way into her mind, heart and soul… all in one move.
Fate breathed in Nanoha's scent and Nanoha licked her lips, noticing her heartbeat going faster.
Nanoha wondered what Fate meant, that hesitation and why the image of the blonde twins, intertwined in bed in her mind, instead of being an aberration, turned her on so much she felt like wetting herself.
It was a beautiful image both sensual and so preciously intimate in her mind she wondered how she was able to fit between them without feeling like a foreigner invading such bond of carnal loyalty she never would have considered possible.
As she continued, completely enraptured looking at Fate, Nanoha suddenly felt a pair of soft lips nuzzling her neck and she moaned instinctively. Alicia had woken up, or maybe she had just pretended to be asleep all the time as Nanoha talked with Fate.
"Alicia-chan…" she turned to the other blonde who very slowly kissed her way up to Nanoha's lips.
Nanoha parted her lips and softly kissed Alicia, while with her hands slowly traveled through her sides, eagerly embracing Alicia in a deep kiss. After a moment, she looked for Fate's hand with hers. She did not have to worry for long. A second pair of lips were already at her shoulder, and up the curve of her neck where Fate very quickly had found out was one of Nanoha's most erogenous spots.
There was no way Nanoha could tell if there was indeed some supernatural connection between the twins that made them move as if they were clearly communicating with each other, or if it just came naturally to them… and not that Nanoha could care at that moment. Every inch of her skin felt on fire as both pairs of lips claimed her body, obliterating her judgment giving way only to her raw desire. As four hands explored her body with gentleness and desire.
She closed her eyes trying to absorb all the feelings driving her. It was an unfair game, being ravished by two while she was incapable of kissing and touching two at the same time. The blondes didn't seem to mind that at the moment, though
Her breathing escalated and she finally opened her eyes again to find herself completely covered in a soft blanket of golden hair.
Slowly, both twins motioned to make Nanoha move up and sit on her knees in the bed, as they both surrounded her. Bringing their hands up and down her body and covering it in wet, anxious kisses.
For a moment, in her haziness, Nanoha lost track of which blonde was who. Maybe if she saw their eyes...
She let out a long moan in pleasure when she felt one of her nipples being captured by an over-eager mouth. Her breasts, ravished by hands and teeth, had her feeling the excitement building within her womb with wave over wave, again and again
A muffled moan was extinguished as another anxious mouth found its way to her lips into a long mind-interrupting kiss. She kissed back frantically as her hands reached down the legs of the blonde that was kissing her on the mouth.
The sound of Fate's gasp was erotic fuel that led Nanoha's fingers inside her, softly circling her wetness. Fate broke the kiss and, short of breath, looked directly into Nanoha's eyes with absolute devotion.
Nanoha looked at her and a soft moan escaped her lips with Fate's name.
Alicia smiled and slid down Nanoha's legs, leaving a trail of kisses down her belly and to her legs.
Fate squirmed as Nanoha fingered her, trying to stay on her knees while Alicia positioned her head in between Nanoha's legs to eat her out.
Pressing her lips to Nanoha's vulva she swirled her tongue around Nanoha's center as Nanoha reached her mouth onto Fate's breast. Nanoha swayed her hips, thrusting herself onto Alicia's face as she suckled on Fate's breast, fingering her faster every time. Alicia licked her clitoris over and over, feeling the mixture of her saliva building against Nanoha's wetness. Nanoha held one hand out to grip Alicia's hair, keeping her in place while she felt Fate's inner walls throbbing against her two fingers with each thrust inside her.
Fate was moaning so loudly it made Nanoha even more turned on.
Fate repeated Nanoha's name in her ecstasy.
It did not occur to Nanoha in that moment the effect of her saying Fate's name in her orgasms. She had always called Alicia's name to both Fate and Alicia. In bed and out of it. Fate was used to being Alicia. Yet, for Nanoha, Fate's name rolled easy from her lips. As if she had always called her Fate.
Fate never noticed when she was lying on her back, Nanoha with her ragged breath on top of them and Alicia cuddled to her side.
Nanoha flickered her eyes from one blonde to the other and they turned to see themselves.
It was a position they had been like many times. Alicia softly caressed Fate's face before drawing her close to kiss her like they had done so many times before.
It was the same and it also was a new kind of different. Fate tasted Nanoha's sweet intimate flavor in her twin's lips and it was intoxicating.
They both moaned in their kiss as Nanoha rubbed her thumb inside the soft patch of fine blonde hair that became addictive.
Even there, Nanoha found them identical.
"I want you to cum together for me," Nanoha pleaded as she finger fucked both twins rubbing their warm clits with her thumb and feeling the wetness increasing around her fingers.
Fate and Alicia kept squirming and embracing each other as they kissed while keeping their legs spread open for Nanoha to do as she pleased.
They did so, both moaning Nanoha's name to each other's lips.
Nanoha felt the blondes' hands reaching to her body, one hand reaching up to her breast softly squeezing and pressing while another hand reached to her thigh and towards her ass, desperately tugging at her flesh.
She closed her eyes feeling the urge and opened them every so often to catch a glimpse of the beautiful twins wrapped into each other in tender surrender to the pleasure she was bringing them.
She continued, frantically aroused until it was turn to find herself sandwiched between the blonde beauties.
Nanoha caressed Alicia, drawing back her arm to reach, softly calling her name while she felt more little kisses from her shoulder and down to her back.
Fate was snuggling into her chest and Alicia wrapped them both with her arms.
"Call us, Fate, Nanoha. Here in bed…"
Fate did not move from her spot, softly resting her head in Nanoha's breasts even as Nanoha moved to observe Alicia.
"What… I don't…"
"It's such a turn on, your voice is so sexy when aroused, makes us want to feel you more… give you more...and it's only fair," Alicia replied softly brushing her sister's arm, her gaze fixed on Nanoha. "Alicia gets to have all her life outside. In here, Fate exists because of you. We are both Fate and Alicia, inside and outside."
Nanoha nodded, the thought about the outside reminded her of the reality of their lives. They would not be able to enjoy themselves as a normal couple… of three… dating and living a normal life.
It was impossible even for Alicia and Nanoha.
It was beyond impossible for Alicia and Nanoha and Fate.
They still had their very real lives waiting outside of this haven of heated love and mind-blowing sex.
She did not want to think about that.
Traveling her gaze down to Alicia's breasts and lowering her mouth to capture the rosy nipple she suckled earnestly. Gasped, as she felt Fate doing the same on her.
Alicia, delighted, ran her fingers through the copper and golden hair.
Still, Nanoha's thoughts insisted on appearing. They now shared a secret. A twisted secret that entwined them the same as their bodies were currently entwined. Legs brushing against bodies, arms keeping their soft warmth pressed together.
Lips travelling skin from one to another and back. Holding back nothing, giving out everything.
Nanoha moaned Fate's name until they were screams of pleasure.
The night was splashed with moans and gasps from the three. The sweet symphony of lovemaking of one between two. Of one that became two for their love.
They were used to keeping secrets. This secret however, was theirs to keep. To cherish and enjoy, for she was one loving one who happened to be two.
Double pleasure, impossible to stop.
She belonged to them as much as they belonged to her.
It was her Fate after all. Maybe it had always been.
Nanoha woke up tangled in the sheets, a warm body lay next to each of her sides softly sleeping.
A new day had begun and she wondered how often she would be with both again.
She remembered Alicia whispering to her late at night.
"We were whole before you arrived. As Fate and Alicia we were whole. Our world was enough. But you, Nanoha, brought light to our lives. You are essential to us now, in a way we never imagined."
She let her hands softly caress the naked backs of the blondes.
"Alicia-chan, Fate-chan," she muttered to herself, marveling at the peacefulness that invaded her.
After that moment of pleasure, it was time for a kind of logistics she definitely hadn't expected to carry out: How to slide out of bed, without waking her flanking lovers.
When she finally managed, she headed to the kitchen.
A couple of minutes later, Nanoha warmed herself with the cup of tea she had settled in her hands. She bent her leg and rested one of her feet on the edge of her chair and looked at the horizon as she sat in the terrace of the apartment.
Dawn was breaking and the color in the sky hued with a tinted mix of yellows and pinks from the autumn.
Her love, she realized, hadn't been divided in two.
No.
The strength of her feelings came from one source but reached towards two receptors who did not compete with each other.
She hadn't realized she had loved twins as she had fallen in love with one, but it had been almost miraculous.
The irony of destiny… of her Fate…
It was as good as forbidden, she reminded herself, to consider getting romantically involved with anyone… and here she was now, lost forever to not just anyone, but to the two most beautiful women she had ever known.
It sounded like a complication in her life she would have never looked for. It was also a complication that brought a meaning to her life like never before.
The last sip of her tea lingered in her tongue.
One thing she was sure of, she would not change her life for anything else.
Nanoha carefully placed the teacup back on top of its saucer and stood up, advancing towards the railing where she placed her hands, arching her back to let the breeze ruffle her bright auburn hair.
The robe she was wearing slid a bit, exposing her shoulder as a warm body pressed against her back.
"What are you doing out here in the cold?" A soft, gentle voice asked bringing a smile to Nanoha's lips.
Nanoha was tenderly embraced by a pair of steady arms and she carefully glanced to each of her sides.
"Where's your sister?" Nanoha asked with the lowest whisper she could answer.
"Waiting for us inside… it wouldn't be wise to be out here… us all…" the blonde replied, slightly undoing the rest of Nanoha's robe.
It was a top floor overlooking the rest of buildings nearby, but still they had to be careful not to be seen…
There was something exhilarating though, for Nanoha to stand half-naked with the first rays of the sun with one of her lovers claiming her as the swift breeze grazed her skin and hardened her nipples in response to the touch.
The blonde turned Nanoha around, to enjoy and admire her naked frontal figure solely to herself.
Outside, Alicia… Inside, Fate… Nanoha reminded herself as she felt a possessive hand digging through her hair up her neck and pulling her in for a deep kiss.
Nanoha lost herself in the kiss.
Before losing control completely, she wrapped herself around the blonde, keeping her body tightly pressed and slightly biting the lower part of the blonde's neck as her robe flapped like a cape in the wind.
"Take me… take me inside."
The blonde nodded with a and held her fiercely. She couldn't really wait to bring her back to her sister.
Nanoha gasped in delight as the twins drove her to ecstasy again and again.
She was going to be late.
It really didn't matter, they would find a way together.
Maybe it was time to get a long-overdue vacation.
Maybe she was in charge of her fate after all... it was time.