lady lucky and sir good fortune

Characters: Helena Force, Martin Force

Summary: They are the lucky ones.

He grins as he sees her silhouette behind the reflecting glass. He is supposed to hold a questioning but he cannot help but smirk because he knows the way she looks – smug and a little bit too satisfied with her own work which has been – and that is a fact – the reason that their team has caught another serial killer.

He does not mind her smugness even though he knows that some are bothered by it. He has known her long enough to know that she is a woman who has to be the best at everything she does and this is why she has pursued a career in the department of healing alchemy in first place – there are already too many battle alchemists to win something over there.

The key to her success has been that she has had the option to choose – an option no one else in her family has had. Kay and Nerissa have been both disowned because of their choices and Serena has never been in a position where her choice would have made a difference.

He knows that he has been lucky because he has seen the anger in Charles' eyes when Kay has been broken – seemingly to the point that nothing has reached her. He knows that Philippe surely does not have an easy life with Serena and neither does Lawrence Miles know how to deal with all the little things that make Nerissa the sanest lunatic to walk the world.

His wife is lucky and so is he.

To him and many others, she is a goddess, the goddess of healing – opposed to Kay and Serena who are the goddess of lightening and the princess of eternal winter respectively. He sometimes wonders why he out of all the people he has met is the luckiest – but he is without a doubt. Lynn who is probably someone everyone can get along with – as long as he or she is no serial killer because they tend to curse her when she proves that they are the culprit.

Other than the so-called opponents of their professional life, everyone can and will like her because she is someone who can easily impress even the most ignorant people – neither Jadelina Tempest nor Olivier Armstrong are Lynn's enemies after all and both women could have easily found reasons to hate his wife.

No, they are truly the lucky ones because no matter how dangerous their lives are at times, they have always made it out relatively unharmed. Unlike Philippe, he still has both his hands and unlike Charles, he does not have to deal with a traumatised woman who sometimes flinches back from every human being – her own husband included.

He greatly respects his sisters-in-law but he thinks that he could never be married to one of them because even Serena who seems to be the sanest and least dangerous is still capable of harming the one who matters most which makes him worry about Lynn's safety at times.

Well, Lynn is not entirely harmless either but he can take her on in a fight and so she does not scare him as much as Serena and Nerissa terrify him. (Kay's old fighting spirit has been destroyed in Ishbal and he sometimes wonders whether this might have been something good because her psychological profile does not differ much from her mother's and everyone knows that Reine Hamilton has been a big enough psychopath to rival Kimblee.)

No, there is no one and nothing in the world that can make him doubt that they are the luckiest people on the planet – even if his wife is shot a little bit too often and even though they sometimes hardly see each other because of work schedules.