OH GAWD. I SHOULD NOT HAVE DONE THIS

Damn the spontaneously spawning and highly distracting plot bunnies.

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FTaBV Omake: He Can Dream

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Raven could not, quite frankly, believe that she'd agreed to this. It had been a spur of the moment, never believed she'd say yes, expected to get hit as punishment type of suggestion.

Maybe it was because he'd had Judith on his side. Yeah, that was probably it.

The gorgeous krytian had a mischievous twinkle in her eye and curl to her lip that showed how very interesting she found this development. She was walking alongside Raven, the two of them following the lead of the brunette on a mission.

Letha threw open another door, poking her head in and quickly inspecting to see if either of her targets was inside. Raven needed only to see the mixed expression of relief and growing frustration to know that neither was. Letha spun away, stalking off down the hall a bit faster than necessary.

"What was that about?" Karol asked, emerging from the room and looking after his guild mate in confusion. Raven caught him up and forced him to join the group rather effectively by the simple act of slinging an arm around the boy's shoulders as he passed by the door.

"Karol, son, ya should come along an' maybe get a life lesson outta this."

"Huh? What do you mean?"

Letha passed by Estelle in the hallway, and the curious princess fell in beside them.

"There's two unsuspecting young men in for quite the surprise," Judith said mildly.

The quartet filed through the door connecting the hall to the inn's front room, where Rita was hunched over a table with diagrams and notes spread everywhere. She barely even glanced up at Letha, who was standing in the center of the room looking around. "Never around when you want them," the older girl was muttering.

As luck would have it, that was precisely the moment the door opened and Yuri walked in with the pooch on his heels. Raven felt the lopsided grin split his face as he sensed the time of mayhem had arrived. "Yuri! Yer just the man we all wanted ta see!"

"He is?" Karol frowned in confusion, but his question went unnoticed by archer and the krytian. They were far more interested in the way Letha's attention snapped to the swordsman at the door, who had yet to notice the extreme tension of her stance.

There was an audible intake of breath, as of someone preparing to take a plunge, and then Letha was purposefully walking towards Yuri. He had just a moment to start saying, "Did you need me for-" and then her hand snaked up to catch the back of his head and pull him down to meet her in a kiss.

Stunned silence. With only the sound of Rita's pen dropping from her fingers to land on a now ink spattered page of scribbled numbers. Raven's only clear thought was, 'Whaddaya know, she went and did it."

Letha dropped down from standing on her toes, pulling away from the kiss with the swordsman. Yuri, for his part, gaped and looked something like he might if he'd just had Clint from the Hunting Blades punch him hard enough to knock the air from his lungs.

"Oh my," Estelle breathed.

And then, in an even more unbelievable display of lucky timing, Chase came in from a back door with a box of supplies, a petite inn maid right behind him and thanking him for his considerate helping hand. "Not a problem," Chase answered. Hearing his voice, Letha spun on her heel and made straight for him as she had but seconds before homed in on Yuri.

The completely oblivious young man had just set his box down on a counter and turned around just in time to realize the girl was standing right behind him. A single second for the surprise to register in his expression, and then she was kissing him.

"What the hell?" Yuri finally managed to articulate, as he saw Letha kissing another man less than a minute after kissing him. Raven snickered to himself. Oh, how he could imagine the conflicting thoughts in the boy's head!

And then Letha had finished her smooch with Chase, and turned back to him and Judith again. Fists on her hips in a challenging and triumphant pose, she declared, "There! I kissed 'em both! Now Raven owes me and Judith cake for a month!"

"Which do you suppose we should ask for first?" Judith serenely asked her partner in crime as the two devious women withdrew, leaving a room of gawkers and Raven very gracefully accepting his loss.

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"'Eeeey, Raven! Wake uuup!" Someone was persistently shaking him. Cracking his eyes open, he stretched his arms out and yawned.

"G'mornin' Letha sweetest." The word 'sweet' made him pause and think, as it tickled something in his mind. Something about cakes... "I think I jus' had the stranges' dream..."

"What about?" her question ended in a yawn. Half mast eyes suggested Letha hadn't been awake all that long either.

"I dunno, I think we had some bet...and then you were goin' aroun' kissin' everybody."

"Pfft!" she gave him a playful shove to the shoulder. "As if I'd do that!"

"Not even fer a month supply of cake?" he grinned, expecting her to laugh and deny the possiblity.

"Hmm..." Letha's mouth pursed slightly as she tapped her lips thoughtfully. "Well...I do love a good chocolate cake...and can't say no to carrot cake..."

He stared at her for a moment. "So, would you-"

"No, I think not after all."

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Where did this come from? The contest ended (poll is up). There was a (unsurprisingly) high frequency of YurixLetha in those one shots, and some ChasexLetha. And when thinking back on them, I realized that NONE of you took advantage of this contest to have Letha actually kiss somebody! Which isn't such a big deal, but then that one thought spawned a plot bunny and a crack omake.

Some of the logic of the bet is kinda weird and a bit OOC to me. But it's a dream, so that doesn't matter as much. Entirely Raven's point of view, without hints of his Schwann persona, since frankly the Knightly side of his personality wouldn't have much to do with this nonsense. And I somehow managed to give the shippers what they want without making any romantic pairings canon. They'll either love me or hate me for teasing.