How did it come to this?: Valentine Extra

It was finally a whole two months since the making of their pact, since everything that happened...To Emil, it felt like forever ago that all of that happened. Meeting Richter in Palmacosta, visiting the Vanguard base together, camping out, embracing in Flanoir, and forming their pact and saving the world. Emil and Ratatosk couldn't be happier, they loved and enjoyed their time together with Richter and thankfully, the half-elf could say the same.

Currently, the two were camped out at a beautiful hidden pond where Lloyd had once found a Unicorn. Richter was deep in his papers, taking notes, jotting stuff down and reading through the various sheets of paper, leaving Emil to his journal. While writing in his journal, Emil was taking the time to date his current page, when he suddenly realized that Valentine's day was today. Emil quickly sprung to his feet and blushed madly. This was his and Richter's first Valentine's day, so they had to celebrate. Richter looked up at the boy and arched a brow, questioning his sudden motion.

"Emil, what is it?" Richter asked, obviously annoyed, as it was always best not to disturb the half-elf while he's working.

"Richter-san, today is Valentine's day!" He blushed, holding his fists to his chest.

Richter sighed a bit and replied. "Yes, and?"

"Don't you know what that means?" Emil wondered, excited by the idea of him and Richter having their first Valentine's.

Richter held back another sigh. "Valentine's day is when women hand out chocolates to the man they like and white day is when the men return the favor"

"Y-Yeah but that doesn't mean we can't celebrate too" despite both being boys, Emil always thought this day was for any couple, not just boy's and girls but even friends and family too.

"Emil, I have more important things to do than to hand chocolates out to each other, when I could do that at any time" Richter explained, annoyed with Emil's childish desire to celebrate such a useless day of romance.

"B-But..." Emil lowered his head and sat back down, pulling his knees up to his chin. He wanted to spend Valentine's day with Richter...but Richter seemed to not even care or want to celebrate as he was even already deep in his work again, not even noticing how upset Emil was.

Richter-san...Don't you want to spend Valentine's day with me...?

Emil knew he must have been acting childish but he couldn't help it, he wanted to spend a special romantic day with the one he loved...Wait, what if he were to convince Richter to celebrate if he made him special chocolate? It was decided, Emil quickly stood up and headed towards Luin, leaving Richter behind while he went to get the four ingredients for his chocolate. Choco, honey, coconut milk and coconut oil. After trading his Gald for the items, he borrowed the inn's kitchen to begin his baking.

"Once he has a bite of this chocolate, he'll have to do something romantic for me and celebrate" Emil smiled excitedly, his cheeks grazed with a bright pink color. Emil could feel himself become nervous with the thought of Richter's smile as he would say "Emil, your baking is amazing as always. Thank you, Emil" His heart skipped a beat but he quickly shook his head to cease the daydreaming, trying to finish as soon as possible, as he desperately wanted to see that smile.

Richter-san...Richter-san...I want to see Richter-san's smile...to pet me...hold...kiss me...

Emil stopped his thought's just before the next word could reach his mind. His chocolate had already been molded and just needed to be chilled. To make it go faster, Emil had his Fenrir Jord chill the chocolate. Once it was chilled, he started to neatly wrap it and once that was finished, he quickly made his way through the town but came to a halt when he came to the statue of Lloyd the great.

"This...This is where I first met Richter, where he saved me" Emil thought out loud and memories began to flash through his mind.

"I remember...when Richter helped me up, his hand was so strong...so warm" Emil held his own hand, missing...craving for that warmth once more.

Richter closed his book and put away all of his papers, finally finished with his work. He rubbed his eyes for a minute and started to wonder why the boy was so late to come back already and began to start to worry for him, so he quickly made his way to Luin to catch up with Emil. Richter stopped for a moment to close his eyes and looked deeply into his heart...He could feel Emil, Ratatosk's presence thanks to their pact and could almost pinpoint where the boy was in town, so he started his pacing once more and hurried to Luin. Richter did wish he knew how to just summon the boy to his side though, it would make finding him that much easier.

"Emil," Richter called out, watching the boy who was just sitting on the bench in front of Lloyd's statue with a dazed expression. Richter sighed and set beside the boy and only now did Emil realized Richter's presence.

"R-Richter-san?" Emil turned his head towards the man and blushed.

"Emil, what are you doing?" He asked, resting his palms on his knees.

"U-um...I was getting some ingredients" He smiled with his reply.

Richter arched a brow before looking at the sunset. "Does that have something to do with it being Valentine's day?"

"Of course! So...H-Happy valentine's day, Richter-san" Emil blushed a dark red before handing the man a small heart-shaped box. Richter eyed the box for a moment before finally taking it from the boy's hand. Once he opened the box, his eyes caught the sight of cute monster shaped chocolates.

"Emil, thank you" Richter smiled and Emil lit up like fire. Imagining Richter's smile could never compare to the real thing.

"I'm sorry...for not having anything for you and for disregarding your feelings. I should have thought about how much this meant to you" Emil could really see the sincerity in Richter's eyes and leaned against the man's shoulder, smiling.

"It's okay Richter-san, You don't need to apologize, I'm just glad your here," Emil said with a content smile, closing his eyes. Richter smiled down at the peaceful boy before taking a bite of one of the chocolates. His cheeks turning a light pink color at the taste.

"Emil..."

"hmm?" Emil hummed in response, keeping his eyes closed.

"I don't have any chocolates...but I do have at least something," Richter said in a low voice before taking Emil's hand and sending mana to the boy. Emil blushed immediately at this action and held back a moan when the older man sent him a larger mass of his mana.

"R-Richter-san...!" His breathing slowly turning into pants as his chest was slowly beginning to raise up and down faster.

"Emil" Richter leaned over and sealed the boy's lips with his own, slipping his tongue into his mouth, tangling their tongues together, allowing Emil to taste the lingering flavor of chocolate. He could hear the boy muffle moans through the few moments their lips were parted. He wrapped his arms around the boy's frame and dug his fingers into his soft blond hair. He practically smirked when he felt the boy instinctively wrapped his smaller arms around his neck and digging his finger's into his red hair.

"Emil..." Richter broke the kiss and looked the boy in the eyes. Emerald meeting emerald.

"R-Richter-san...?"

"Happy Valentine's day, Emil"