Authors Notes: FINELY here it is everyone! Here's chapter 8!

Warning adult content in chapter. Warning cold shower content in chapter. Warning girl making love to girl in chapter.

This chapter is rated M for adult content.

Italic = Dreams, Center Italic = Memory's, 'Italic' = Thoughts, "Telepathy" = (people, animals or device)

Disclaimer: I do not own or make money off from the characters of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha the only thing I own are my stories. I only borrowed the characters.

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Lightning Fingers

By

Zona Rose

Chapter 8-Lightning's Protection

Fate's POV

It's been a few weeks since Nanoha has gotten all of her memories back. She sometimes has a hard time staying in the here and now instead of in the past. We went to visit her parents' grave yesterday. It was really hard on her now that she remembered who they were.

Shamal has asked me to keep a close eye on Nanoha. It was a request that wasn't needed as I've been watching her like a hawk since we got her back from J. Scaglietti. I have been noticing little things that have been different. In practice she seems a little bit faster than before, also she seems to be a bit stronger too.

The woman in my arms was ferocious last night. It seemed like she didn't want to stop making love. After five orgasms in a row, I finally had to stop her by clamping my legs around her hand which was still buried inside of me. She finally fell asleep like that, her head resting on my breast for a pillow. She hasn't moved since she fell asleep I can still feel her inside of me.

Her stamina for making love has increased faster than I would have expected. As I rubbed my hand up and down her spine, I can see goose pimples on her arm. I know it's almost time for us to get up for our morning training. I want to wake her up gently to start the day a new. I bent my head down to kiss the top of her head; I could feel her body starting to stir awake.

"Good morning love. How do you feel this morning?"

"Mmmm a little sleepy, but alright. How about you? Did I go too far last night?"

"I'm a little tender but nothing I can't work out later."

"Is it time to get up? Is that why you woke me up?"

"It's almost time. I figured you probably would want to get a shower before breakfast. Then I'll take one just before we leave. Now don't give me that look. If we take one together we'll never make it to practice."

"Nyahaha. You know me too well my love."

I opened my legs to allow her to pull her hand out of me. Her fingers look like severely shriveled prunes. In which she brought them to her mouth and proceeded to clean them off. I gingerly moved off the bed as I was a little bit sorer than I led her to believe. I threw on a robe and headed for the kitchen.

While I was making our breakfast, I could hear Nanoha singing in the shower. It seemed to be some nameless tune that only she knew. Shortly after her shower was over with, breakfast was ready. We were having omelets with cheese and mushrooms and two slices of toast to go with it.

I had finished my breakfast first, so I cleaned my dishes quickly before going into the room, grabbed my clothes and headed in for my shower. By this time, the tenderness of my body had reduced to nothing as I knew it would in just a short amount of time. After all it was only three hours ago that I had to stop Nanoha from giving me my sixth orgasm.

After I was done with my shower I quickly dried off and got dressed. I met Nanoha in the living room and we both headed out to get the training room on time. In front of us we could see Teana and Subaru. They seem to be having a heated conversation. I don't like to ease drop but when I heard Nanoha's name mentioned, my hearing picked up the rest of their conversation.

"I'm telling you Subaru, you need to tell Hayate that Nanoha has been getting a little too rough with you. You can't keep going to the infirmary and having Shamal fix you every time we leave training. This is just stupid. You've got to say something. If you don't I will. I'm sick of seeing you hurt all the time when we leave."

"Tea, its okay. She may not even know that she's hurting us during training. If this keeps up then we'll say something."

"All right, but if she goes too far that's it. I'm going straight to Hayate right in front of everyone."

We caught up with them a few minutes after they finished talking. Tea kept looking over at Nanoha and then the floor. I had a feeling I knew what she was thinking. What had been done to Nanoha to make her this way? I was starting to wonder the very same thing.

After arriving down at the training room, we split up three and three. I was with Signum and Vita, but I couldn't stop looking over to see how Nanoha was doing with the other two.

"Testarossa are you so infatuated with her you can't keep your eyes off her now?"

I turned my head back to reply when I heard a startled cry.

"Tea!"

My head whipped around and I was already in movement. Teana had placed herself in between Nanoha and Subaru and was about to take a blow that was meant for Subaru that could probably seriously hurt Teana. Nanoha looked like she was trying to pull it back but was unable to.

I was there in the second and had placed myself in front of Teana and took the full-blow. I could feel bones breaking in my shoulder and collarbone but I stood my ground. The horrified look on Nanoha's face I think hurt more than the damage to my body.

The air itself seemed to stand still as no one moved and then all hell broke loose as my legs gave out underneath me and I fell to my knees. I was having trouble taking in any deep breaths so I concentrated on doing shallow breathing. I closed my eyes so I could concentrate on mending the bones so that there would be no permanent damage.

"What the hell just happened? Nanoha? Teana? Subaru? Someone explain to me why Fate is down and looks like she's about to pass out. I want some answers and I want them now!"

I could hear Nanoha go to her knees in front of me. "I... I."

"I'll tell you what's been happening. Over the past week, we've noticed that Nanoha seems to be getting stronger as well as the fact that she seems to be unaware that she's been hurting Subaru every day at practice. I couldn't take it anymore, so I stepped in front of Subaru to take the blow and then the next thing I knew Fate is was in front of me. We need to get her to the infirmary. I'm quite sure she's got some broken bones."

"Nanoha?"

"I… I don't feel any different. What do you mean I've been hurting Subaru? Is this true Subaru that I've been hurting you every day?"

"Um… Well yes I've had to go to the infirmary and have Shamal fix me up, but I don't think you knew what you were doing. I was going to try and find a way of letting you know without all of this."

"We need to get Testarossa to the infirmary instead of talking about this now. We can do it there."

I could feel someone coming up to me on my uninjured side. I knew I couldn't be moved at least not just yet. Not until I was done fixing the major damage to my shoulder and collarbone. So I did the only thing that I knew would make people back off without losing my concentration. I put up an electrical field around myself to prevent anyone from getting too close and moving me.

After what felt like hours which was probably only minutes, the majority of the damage has been healed. I was able to open my eyes and take in my surroundings. Kneeling in front of me was Nanoha with tears streaming down her face about what she had done to me. I gave her the best smile that I could do at the moment which probably was pretty weak.

I pulled the field back into myself and stretched my hand out to Nanoha's face to wipe away her tears. She grabbed my hand and kissed the palm. I could see that she was sorry but I knew she didn't mean to hurt anyone.

"I'll have to wear a sling for a few days, but I'll be all right. The majority of the damage is healed." I started to get up and Nanoha was next to me assisting me. I looked over at Teana and Subaru and nodded my head at them to let them know everything was going to be all right.

Hayate was looking between the two of us. Her arms crossed over her chest and her brow was frowned. "All right you two. I want you both to go to the infirmary. You two go get checked out to make sure that you're not too badly hurt and you need to find out what's going on with you. I'll tell Shamal to give you a full workup. We've got to find out what he's done to you to make you this way."

We both headed towards the door I could hear Hayate barking orders from behind us. "All right everyone, practice is over for today. You all have free time until tomorrow."

Once we entered the infirmary, Shamal guided me over to the x-ray machine. While she was waiting for that to develop, she took Nanoha over to the side and started drawing blood, then she brought her over to the CAT scan to see if there was anything implanted in Nanoha while she had been away from us.

While we were waiting for the results of Nanoha's tests, my x-rays were done. "So how much of this did you heal before getting to me?"

"Let's just say that you're looking at a quarter of the damage."

"I see. Well you have green line fractures throughout your shoulder and collarbone as well is some tissue and muscle damage. You'll need to wear a sling for at least 24 hours, which means you're going to have to go to bed with that on. Although with you, you probably won't need to leave it on that long. Come back to see me in the morning and I'll reevaluate to see if you need to continue wearing it."

"How's Nanoha doing? She hasn't said a word since all of this happened."

"Honestly I don't know. I'm hoping that the tests come back soon. The CAT scan results should be back by now. Let's take a look."

After she put the sling on me and made sure that my arm was immobile, we moved over to her desk. She pulled up the scans and neither one of us could see anything different that shouldn't already be in her body.

"Well the last test is the blood work and I should be getting those results in soon."

I nodded my head yes in reply and then looked over at Nanoha; she was lying down on a very familiar bed. I could see her shoulders moving which probably meant that she's been crying. I can feel her pain and fear at what is happening to her. I make my way over towards her. Being careful with my arm, I gently lay myself down next to her and wrapped my other arm around her and pulled her into me.

After a short while, her tears subside and she looks for comfort in my arm and snuggles her face into the crook of my neck. I glanced over to see what Shamal was doing. She didn't seem to be too happy with whatever results she was getting. She even picked up the phone to call someone to probably to verify the results that she was getting. With Nanoha clinging to me, I couldn't go over to find out what the results were.

After a few more minutes, she finally stood up and came over to us with two file folders in her hand. She seemed to try and figure out how she was going to talk to us about this since she kept looking back and forth between the two files opening and closing both of them.

"Fate is there something you want to tell us about like say your condition?" I apparently had a very confused look on my face because she continued after that. "What I mean is this, do you know if your condition is contagious or not? Because if it's not, then I need to know why your blood tests and Nanoha's blood tests are almost exactly the same. In fact Nanoha's is 95% like yours."

As I was trying to wrap my brain around what she had just told me, Hayate came walking in with a very concerned look on her face. I could also feel Nanoha shift next to me and I could feel confusion coming from her.

"As far as I know, I am the only one with this condition. Could he have done this to her while she was with him those few weeks?"

Shamal was shaking her head no with a thoughtful look on her face. "No, but you did say Fate you were giving Nanoha a little bit of your blood when you would feed correct."

Both Nanoha and I blush at this because the only time that I would feed was when we were making love and we've been doing that a lot lately. So I nodded my head just gently to answer her question yes.

"Then the only thing I can think of is that you're slowly turning Nanoha into a vampire like you. Otherwise there is no other reason for her to start to have the same condition that you have.

The blood work states that it is been changing since she's gotten back from being a hostage and the two of you have been sharing blood since then. I have no other logical explanation for this. Nanoha is slowly turning into a vampire."

I was feeling cold inside. I was slowly turning Nanoha into a monster like me. That's the last thing I ever wanted for her. I wanted her to live a long and happy life as a normal human, not like a monster that I was turned into. In my mind I was now no worse than Scaglietti, as I have forced this on Nanoha as he did to me.

I started to move away from her as I figured she probably needed some space to come to grips with what I've done to her. But I wasn't able to go very far her new found strength held me in place.

"Fate don't go, I need you. I know what you're thinking and you're nothing like him. I knew the chances of what might happen to me when I started to drink your blood and I was willing to take those chances just to be closer to you. So please don't take this all onto yourself because it's not just your fault. This rests with both of us."

I turned my head and looked back at Nanoha. I could see the pleading look in her eyes. She was scared but not at what she was becoming, but the fact that she thought that I would leave her.

I put my arm back around Nanoha and she laid her head on my good shoulder. I could still feel the fear from inside her but it was fear of the unknown instead of what has been done to her.

"Well by the sounds of it, I think they all need a break. Shall we make this doctor's orders that everybody gets a day off tomorrow."

"Yes I can make it doctor's orders. What do you have in mind Hayate?"

"A day of playing of course and where would be the best place to play at, but at the amusement and water parks of course."

I've never been to an amusement or water park before, but I could feel Nanoha's mood lightening up at the mention of it and if it can pick up her spirits then I was more than willing to go.

"That sounds like a good plan Hayate. I think everybody could use the break."

"Okay then I'll tell everybody that tomorrow is a play day at the parks and to dress accordingly for hitting the water park too."

A/N: Well there's the end of chapter 8. I hope you all enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed bringing it to you. It was very frustrating to me not being able to get this out to you all much sooner. The next chapter is going to be mostly fluff as Fate has some new experiences in her life. Also some new characters are going to be added into the next chapter. I will be working on chapter 9 very soon.

As you can see the delay for Golden Week was this chapter and I will start working on that as soon as this is posted. I am sorry for the delay and hope to have it posted before May 5th. (Golden Week April 29 through May 5)

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Updated 6/7/2011