Team GEMINI

Nameless: The Physical Attraction

Book 1

When The Unstoppable Force Collides With The Immovable Object

Chapter 3

English Is The Way Of The Jedi Knight

"Yes or no."

The sound of the velvet box closing quietly had told Nanoha the brutal answer; she saw her precious relationship with the teenager going down the toilet faster than Fate's over-grown goldfish Nikku after she overfed it. Nanoha could see it clearly now as if the "rain had gone"—the good times, the bad times and the just plain weird and awkward. The blonde-haired girl that made her life worth living was probably going to say, "I'm not ready for this kind of commitment", or "I didn't think you were taking this relationship that seriously."

She wasn't so sure her heart could take that kind of rejection...

Leaning back into her seat, Nanoha smiled softly as she recalled one of her fondest memories with the blonde to ease the pain of her imminent rejection. It was the third day since they met—it was also their third consecutive date. There was a fireworks display at a nearby park and Fate had dragged her there knowing where they could see the show; it was a small secluded area in a forest clearing on top of a small cliff, hidden by tall trees along with many shrubs and bushes.

Fate had spread out a nice blanket and offered her jacket to Nanoha. It was a chilly night and it was the perfect way to snuggle in close and fall in love; that final bit was just a tad too late to be applied correctly to Nanoha. She was head over heels for the teenager—everything felt right when it came to her.

Drumming her fingers on her dashboard impatiently, Nanoha said, "Hey Fate-chan, I uh, forge-"

"Yes!" Fate shouted in a loud, booming voice.

Startled, Nanoha did a double-take and looked back at her young lover with sigh of relief. Fate had the diamond engagement ring on her finger, and she wore an uncharacteristic smile on her face along with the most adorable blush humanly possible. Nanoha felt like her heart had jumped up and lodged itself into the middle of her throat; she didn't know what to say. What was there to say?

The blush on Fate's face darkened the longer she looked at the ring. "We've only been dating for a little bit over a year, you startled me!"

"Nyahaha, well…" Nanoha scratched her cheek shyly. "When we had that fight, I realized that losing you was the last thing I ever wanted to happen."

"Really?" Fate asked in a quiet voice.

"Yeah," Nanoha confirmed. "I felt so lonely without you with me. You know, I was doing our routine without even knowing it."

"You mean waking up naked after a night full of hot fiery love-love?" Fate added with a snicker.

Nanoha looked at Fate seriously and corrected her by saying, "Yeah, with my new lover the Energizer Bunny. Batteries not included."

"Bunny Boy any good?" Fate asked with a sheepish grin.

"The heavy duty batteries lasted barely two minutes. I actually went through an entire box in the span of half an hour," Nanoha joked, slightly apprehensive. She was being serious and she needed Fate to be the same. "But seriously Fate-chan, I felt like a piece of me was missing. Kind of like how I felt when I thought I lost that sunflower hair clip you gave me."

Fate flashed Nanoha a genuine smile. "Yeah I remember that. You spent almost an entire day looking for it before you realized you were wearing it the whole time."

Nanoha chuckled and nodded her head. She reached out and ran her hand through Fate's hair, her fingers gently caressing the teenager's neck as she pulled away. Taking a moment to gather her thoughts, Nanoha tried to explain herself. "I know it's soon, but I wanted to make sure that everyone knows you belong to me and only me. I know how those girls at your school look at you... and frankly, it makes me feel uncomfortable. I want to make sure that I'm the only one being reflected in those gorgeous eyes of yours."

"Y-Yeah..."

"I'm not going to rush you into marrying me Fate-chan," Nanoha reached out again and placed her hand on Fate's cheek, smiling. "I just want to make sure no one else plans on snatching you up." She thought momentarily of their encounter on the table before. "I guess you can call this my game plan—I've risked it to get the biscuit."

"I guess I can' t blame ya'…this biscuit right here is pretty damn tasty." Fate nuzzled her cheek against Nanoha's palm, looking at her fondly. "You should know that I only have eyes for you Nanoha, and if I could, I would marry you today."

"Nah, no need for that kind of rushing!" the brunette chuckled. "Japanese marriage laws say I need parent approval to marry you... and that's if you're at the minimal age of sixteen..."

"I know, but I said I would if I could. In a heartbeat, Nanoha, I'd marry you in a heartbeat." Fate repeated herself to reaffirm her commitment to the older woman that loved her so. "To think, in just a few more months..." Fate mused as she stared into the ring's diamond, "I'll be Mrs. Takamachi." It was now Nanoha's turn to blush deeply. "You mind if I keep this on?"

"Don't ever take it off."

"Never."

"It looks good on you, Fate-chan," Nanoha complimented eagerly. Fate chose not to reply, her bashfulness getting the better of her.

"Hey, I got a question." Fate murmured quietly as she observed her ring with a smile.

"Hm?"

Fate scratched her cheek and asked, "Is this the reason why we left the apartment so early? We usually leave at like 8:30am, but today we left at 8."

"You caught me?"

"This is surprisingly sweet of you…" Fate whispered with a dreamy look in her eyes, the smile on her face irrefutably beautiful.

"So I can't be the one to do something nice? Should I just leave the fluffy romantic stuff to my manly boyfriend Fate-kun?"

"Manly boyfriend Fate-kun beats spineless ex-boyfriend limp biscuit-kun."

"Great... now I'll never be able to eat a biscuit without laughing. But that is so true." Nanoha agreed, her body feeling light as a feather after Fate had accepted. "'Kay, let's get you to school."

Nanoha inserted the key into the car's ignition and started up her precious Lexus, pulling back the hardtop roof to change the car from a two-door sedan to an eye-catching, carmine-colored convertible. Nanoha waited patiently for her future wife to buckle her seatbelt; she always found it entertaining to watch the amber-haired girl struggle to keep her hair perfect while putting on the safety device.

"You all set?" Nanoha asked with her foot on the brake pedal. Fate nodded her head and settled into her seat as Nanoha carefully drove out of the underground parking lot.

The drive to Fate's school was a quiet one, the lovers just enjoying the comfortable silence and the feel of the wind blowing through their hair. The radio was on at a respectable volume, just loud enough to slightly drown out the hustle and bustle of the world around them. Nanoha noticed that every now and then Fate would giggle to herself happily, sending a fleeting glance in her direction with a wonderful smile that couldn't be compared to anything else in the world. It was there at that very moment that Nanoha knew she had made the right choice when she claimed the blonde as hers.

"Love knows no boundaries" was finally a quote she could believe in.

"If you keep staring at it like that, you'll be obsessed like that creepy green, hairy thing from the 'Lord of The Lingu' or something like that." Nanoha said jokingly as she slowed down to make a turn.

"Rings, Nanoha. Rings," Fate corrected as she stuck her tongue out playfully. "Practice English you must, young Padowan. Master it—only then will your training be complete, yes."

Nanoha rolled her eyes and scowled at Fate. "Uh... right. Whatever you say Yoda. By the way, wrong creepy green, hairy thing."

The sound of Fate's melodious laugh caused Nanoha's heart to pound; she really was one happy camper today. Even if the economy crashed and she suddenly lost her job, Nanoha wouldn't care. In that moment she knew she had something far more precious than money or worldly possessions—she had Fate, the love of her life.

"Listen, you will," Fate said as she toyed with the ring carefully and smirked. "Or closer to the Dark Side of Engrish, you will become."

"Okay, if Master Jedai Yoda doesn't shut up sometime soon this Jedi-in-training will stop the car right now." Fate knew the threat was all too real; there was a parking space just ahead of them and Nanoha was never one to fake, whether it was in bed or in her words.

The blonde frowned and shivered at the memory of Nanoha kicking her out of the car a few months back. "Flatter yourself, you must not." Fate muttered underneath her breath. "Denial and narcissism is not the path of a Jedi Knight, young Takamachi," she added, using another failed attempt at Yoda's voice.

"I am stopping the car!" Nanoha shouted in a sing-song voice as they neared the stop light.

Fate yelped and held onto her seat, "I'm sorry!"

"Damn right you better be sorry," Nanoha said with a frown. "Watch it…or else Scotty'll have to beam you up from the hospital."

"Okay, now THAT was lame."

"A little too much huh?" Nanoha asked with a blush on her cheeks. "I've never been able to tell the difference between Star Trek or Star Wars... they're just so, I don't know. I've never been able to sit through an episode of Star Trek, let alone survive through a Star Wars movie."

"Captain, that is highly illogical."

Nanoha looked over at Fate strangely with a slightly quirked eyebrow before asking, "How old are you again?"

"Twenty-one," Fate answered with a proud grin.

"Uh-huh... so, if you are as old as you say you are," Nanoha smirked and placed her hand over Fate's thigh. "Tell me why you're wearing a school girl uniform."

Taking this as a challenge, Fate placed her hand over Nanoha's and guided it down onto her inner thigh. A devilish grin appeared on the supposed twenty-one year-old's lips as she replied, "Because my fiancee has a thing for delicious school girls."

Pushing her hand down lower, Nanoha slowly moved her palm to hike up her lover's skirt to allow more visual access to the alabaster white skin that it covered. Road safety was taking a backseat today. Why? Because Fate was looking much too yummy to stay focused on the road. "Well then, your fiancee sounds like a great guy."

"A guy? Oh no, no, no." Fate giggled in a lady-like fashion. "You see Miss, I am someone you would call a lesbian…and frankly, there isn't a man who's man enough to handle all of this."

"Bold one, aren't you?" Nanoha asked her lover with a playful grin, her eyes glued to the road before them.

"I'm not the one with her hand on a minor's thigh." Fate laughed at the flustered look on Nanoha's face, the older woman yanking her hand away faster than she would steal the TV remote away from Fate's hands. "Any higher and we might need a small fifteen minute break behind the bushes."

"Make that an hour or more," Nanoha corrected. "I'm still trying to calm down from earlier this morning."

"Oh my, Nanoha! I didn't think you ever wanted to have sex in the park again!" Fate gasped out, her hand covering her mouth as if she had heard some unspeakable gossip. "I thought that after jumping the gun over there you never wanted to try again. Who's the daring one now, hm?"

"I object! It was just that one time!" Nanoha shouted in her defense. "It was my first time with another woman and I got overwhelmed."

"Right... right..." Fate responded with a disbelieving tone of voice. "Do you always say that after you come too quickly? I mean, I can't be the only one that's heard that excuse from you right?"

Byzantium-colored eyes lowered to form a ghastly glare. "I'm normal. One hour is plenty long enough, you just have demonic stamina. I don't know anyone else that can last three fucking hours and still not be tired. You're inhuman!"

"I blame your former partner," Fate mumbled with a light sigh, her gaze shifting away from Nanoha and over to some random pedestrian. "I wouldn't mind skipping school to go play in the park..."

"No, not today Fate-chan." Nanoha said as she returned her focus back to the road.

It was safe to say that the feel-good mood was dead.

Sadly, all good things must eventually come to an end, and so the enjoyable drive to school had to as well. Nanoha stopped a block away from the school to get the convertible's roof back up before heading straight to the learning institute; she didn't want anyone to see who was dropping the "almighty Fate Harlaown" off at school.

Driving through the schoolgirl-ridden street for two to three minutes at a turtle-like speed, Nanoha pulled up to the curb closest to the large open front gates of the T.S.A.B Girl's Academy. She watched as Fate got out of the car, blatantly seeing the disappointed frown on the gorgeous teenager's face. Nanoha was about to say her goodbye before noticing that her fiancee didn't have her side bag. She asked, "No book bag?"

Fate gave Nanoha a questioning look and said in a dull voice, "Nopes, not today. No need for it". Even a person who was both blind and deaf could tell Fate was upset.

"Oh okay," Nanoha mumbled dejectedly as she unbuckled her seatbelt and stretched her hand out to catch Fate's right hand. "I'm sorry about earlier." After hearing Nanoha's apology the blonde quickly crawled back into the car, cupping Nanoha's right cheek as she leaned in to kiss her. The two kissed for a few seconds before the sounds of camera phone shutters began clicking. Nanoha broke the kiss and scanned their surroundings, finding that her 'Nano-mobile' had been caged in by Fate's rabid fangirls. She sent a death-glare at the girls who leaned over the hood of car just to catch a glimpse of Fate. "Did I ever tell you I hate your school?" Nanoha asked with a growl rumbling through her throat.

"Yes you have, many times might I add," Fate replied, sighing at the fact she had been caught kissing someone. "Anyways, you'll pick me up after school right?"

"When have I never?"

"True." Fate shooed the girls leaning on the hood of the car away with her hand. "One more kiss to last me for the rest of the day?" Nanoha listlessly nodded her head and leaned in closer to the blonde, their lips meeting in a deep, passionate kiss.

Click.

"Oh my God, you guys, I just caught Harlaown-sama panty-shotting!" a girl screamed out at the top of her lungs as she ran to her friends happily, the group of girls fleeing the scene before anyone else caught wind of the marvelous snapshot.

"And they're... black!" an extremely loud girl screeched.

Nanoha felt sick to her stomach when she saw the girls run away with her Fate's panties on their phones, the photo probably on their wallpaper settings by now. "I really, REALLY hate your school."

"I do too, but what can I do? I'm on scholarship," Fate chided with a lopsided grin to apologize for the daily ruckus that was the drop-off at school.

Not wanting to waste another precious second, Nanoha pulled Fate in for one last exchange. She kissed the other girl as deeply as their awkward position allowed them to, her tongue grazing Fate's bottom lip in a plea for access. Fate moaned and opened her mouth a little, allowing Nanoha's tongue to slide further into her mouth; their tongues battled for dominance, which Nanoha quickly attained.

"I'll call you okay?" Nanoha panted as she broke away, her still body yearning for more of the teenager.

"Y-Yeah..." Fate replied, as equally out-of-breath as her lover was.

Crawling out of the car and unintentionally giving her rear end more unwanted camera attention, Fate held onto the door of Nanoha's car and blew her fiancee a goodbye kiss before closing it gently. Nanoha revved her engine as her own way of saying goodbye and drove off when Fate stepped away from the car. Barely five meters away from her girlfriend, Nanoha looked up at the rear view mirror and helplessly watched as Fate got surrounded by a jaw-dropping amount of young teenage women. Nanoha couldn't help but giggle at the distraught look on Fate's face when one girl threw herself at her, only to fall face-first onto the ground when Fate got pulled back by another girl.

"Nyahaha, first face plant of the day. I'm content," Nanoha said to herself as she looked away from the mirror and back onto the road.

After leaving Fate's school, Nanoha immediately cranked up the volume on her radio and drove just a bit faster to get to work on time. Everything was going so well, and it all felt so right: she had reaffirmed her relationship with the irresistible teenager she called 'Bumblebee', learned that Fate was an avid Star Wars fan, and saw a fangirl face plant. Now all that was missing was a hot night filled with nothing but fiery love-love with the aforementioned irresistible teenager.

Nothing could ruin Nanoha's good mood today—not even if he made a random appearance in her day.