Authoress Note: If you all thought chapter 7 was the last chapter…you were wrong! Ha! It was realy hard to write Fate here, for some reason…sorry, if she sounded out of character.

This one is for Alavon, again!

"Hey, Fate, you're feeling well enough to go out now?" asked Alicia. It had been a week and a half since Fate had first opened her eyes, and she and Alicia had talked a lot since then—both about the future, and what had happened. Fate nodded. "Nanoha-chan and I found a great picnic spot a little ways outside of town, do you wanna go sometime?" Alicia offered.

"Sure," Fate answered warmly. Her smile was sincere as she looked over Alicia's shoulder to look Nanoha in the eyes. Nanoha winked back at her. "When do you want to go?"

"Eh…today?" Alicia asked sheepishly.

"Yeah, that's fine, if…" Fate peeked a glance at one of the nurses, who nodded with a smile. "Yes, I'd like to go,"

"Great! Let's go now! Um…" she blushed, and looked down. "We'd kinda been planning this for a while, so we're all packed and everything…Sorry,"

"Why are you apologizing?" asked Fate, smiling at her sister. "It's great you've been planning for something fun for us all to do together," she made to get out of bed, and Alicia took her hand, helping her up.

"Let's go," Nanoha said, sounding a little bit impatient.

"Okay, okay, Nanoha-chan," Alicia rolled her eyes, earning herself a smile from Fate.

"You two are really close now," Fate observed. "I'm glad you're not fighting anymore,"

"We're not close!" Alicia protested, putting her free hand on her hip as she walked with the two outside, into bright sunlight. "We're not even friends or anything!"

"Mou,I'm hurt, Alicia-chan!" Nanoha teased, holding onto Fate's other side as they walked slowly towards the car Nanoha's mother drove. "Mom's driving us," she informed Fate. "But she's leaving after, so we can have a picnic alone.

Nodding, Fate climbed into the car's backseat after her sister. "This is amazing," she admitted, grinning brightly.

"Hey, you're wearing your hair down!" Alicia noticed. "Why?"
"Oh…I guess I forgot to put it up," Fate answered. "Hm…whoops,"

"You're such an airhead," Alicia said, rolling her eyes. "Here," she pulled the blue ribbons out of her hair and handed them to Fate. "You can put these on,"
"No, I'll take one, you take the other," Fate decided, tying up her hair in a ponytail instead of her usual style. "Here," she handed one ribbon back to her sister.

"You look pretty, Alicia-chan, Fate-chan," commented Nanoha. "Now, I really can't tell you apart," she added, laughing a little.

"Really? Isn't obvious that I'm Fate?" asked one of the twins, opening her eyes wide.

"No," Nanoha rolled her eyes. "It's pretty obvious you're Alicia. Fate isn't as, say, out there, as you are…"

"How mean!" pouted Alicia.

"We're here, everyone!" called Momoko from the front seat.

Alicia threw open the door and dragged Fate outside, while Nanoha grabbed a basket from the floor and followed them.

"Wow, it's so nice here!" exclaimed Fate, staring out at the view with awe in her burgundy eyes. The spot Nanoha had selected was a cliffside that overlooked the town. It was beautiful. "You picked a great spot!"

"Thanks," Nanoha answered, smiling. "Will you help me spread out the blanket?" she asked.

"Sure," Alicia answered, and grabbed one side, Nanoha the other, and laid it out on the grass neatly. "Here, sit," Alicia said, patting the ground next to her.

"Thanks," Fate answered, sitting down next to her with a smile. "What did you bring?"

"Rice balls, sushi, eh…soy sauce, and…" Nanoha pulled out the final plate. "…Cake!" she dug around in the bag for a knife, and produced one, cutting the cake into careful slices. Then, looking back into the bag, she gasped. "I forgot the drinks!" she looked around for the car, but her mother had already left.

Fate and Alicia started to laugh.

"Mou…it's not funny! Well, I'll have to go over to the shop nearby…I hear there is one…" she ran quickly from the area, leaving Fate and Alicia, still giggling.

"Shall we start?" offered one of the girls.

"Sure," answered the other. "Well…actually, maybe we should wait for Nanoha,"

"All right," agreed the first girl, smiling. "What do you want do?"
"Hmm…" the twin thought for a moment. "Um…"

They waited for a little, then started chatting aimlessly; about home, school, Nanoha, eachother, grades…anything.

It wasted time.

Suddenly, one of the twins got up. "I'm gonna go look for Nanoha…she's been gone a long time," she said slowly.

"I'll come," the other girl said. "We'll go different ways, okay? I don't know where Nanoha is…" she looked worried.

"Okay, you go that way," the first twin pointed straight. "And I'll go this way," she pointed to the left.

The second twin nodded. "See you," she said with a smile, and continued straight through the trees, wondering where Nanoha could be.

She wandered, and as she walked, she hummed tunelessly. Her dark eyes searched the trees slowly, but her gaze was a little nervous. Still humming, she continued to walk, and suddenly, her burgundy eyes grew wide.

"No…impossible…" she said slowly, and she choked out clumps of dark liquid… blood. She turned, trying to see the one behind her. "…I…you…died...you killed…"

The woman behind her twisted the knife slowly. One hand was over her chest, holding the blood from her wound inside, the other holding the knife.

The girl screamed, and was left gasping for air, breathing hard. "M…mother…"

The woman's mouth dropped open. "Alicia?" she gasped. "Alicia?"

"M…mother…" the girl gasped.

"Alicia, no!" the woman shrieked, but it was too late.

The blond girl collapsed onto the floor, blood pouring from the wound in her back, and Precia Testarossa stared, horrified, holding a bloody knife, and brought the knife back to the bloody knife in her heart.

She sank to the ground next to her daughter, and gathered the girl into her arms. "I'm so sorry…Alicia…" she breathed. Her eyes stared at nothing, and her breathing stopped, just as her heart did.

Just as her daughter's heart did.

Authoress note: I know it was short, I apologize. I wrote this at 10PM, sorry…I did my best.