Kilma's
Cast: (Flora & Felicia)
Prompt: Modern AU where Flora and Felicia work at a diner. Corrin is a regular customer and Flora helps Felicia get their phone number.

Welcome to Kilma's, a small family-owned diner out in the Nohrian countryside. It was a fine establishment. Its position in the middle of nowhere allowed for mostly travelers to dine, but there were some regulars.

Eventually, owner and founder Kilma retired, and passed ownership to his twin daughters. As the more responsible twin, Flora found herself doing more to keep the diner afloat financially, and ran things behind the scenes. Felicia stuck more to waitressing. Horrible as she was, Felicia lived for the smiles on customers' faces when she served them. Flora felt it best to let her keep those moments, away from the stress of managerial work.

"WHAT'S NEW PUSSYCAT? WHOOOOOA!"

Flora yanked the plug from the jukebox, causing a collective sigh from all the patrons. She turned to two teenagers. "Takumi, Laslow, I've told you before to stop playing the same song twenty-one times in a row. You've lost your jukebox privileges."

Laslow and Takumi slouched and went back to their table.

Dusting her hands, Flora walked over and saw a peculiar sight. It was her sister, babbling nervously to a young, white-haired customer. Is Felicia talking to Corrin again? She's usually buzzing about. This is the third time this week I've seen her standing in place for so long.

Trying not to stare, Flora took out a small notebook in order to look busy. In fact, now that I think of it, that's the third time this week Corrin has come here. Hmm…

Flora decided to slowly approach her sister and their regular customer, to get a better understanding of the situation. Indeed, Felicia was talking Corrin's ear off.

"And, uh, so that's when I noticed there was a stain on the plate still, so I had to think of something, but the food was already on the plate, so I-"

Oh gods, she's telling the stained plate story again. Flora had always suspected Felicia had feelings for Corrin. And as the overprotective sister she was, Flora felt she should know what Felicia was doing, especially if it was cutting into work. But not here.

Flora went back to the office and pulled out her phone and texted Felicia. The sister put her phone away and estimated that it would take Felicia about ten seconds to notice the text, three to read it, eight to awkwardly leave Corrin, and ten more to show up.

Felicia arrived twenty-eight seconds later.

"Faster than I thought…" Flora said under her breath. Felicia raised an eyebrow.

"What's up, Flora?"

"Ah, well…" She had to find the right words. "I've… noticed you and Corrin have been talking a lot, lately."

Felicia's face turned red. "Uhh! Well, y'know, I…" She hung her head. "Awww. I'm sorry Flora, it's just… whenever I see Corrin, I just get so excited! Corrin's so nice, and never yells at me when I get the food wrong, and we both agree on so many things, and-"

Flora put a hand on her sister's shoulder. "Hey, hold on. I'm not mad, Felicia. I was just wondering." Flora smiled. "You know, I'm actually glad you've found someone else, ever since Silas didn't work out."

"Aw, c-c'mon, sis…" Felicia insisted. Then she had an idea. "Say… could you… maybe help me?"

"Hm?"

"I… I want to get Corrin's phone number, but I don't know how! I'm not good at hiding my intentions like you are, Flora!"

After years of living with Felicia, Flora knew that her sister meant no harm with that insensitive remark. Instead, she ignored it and nodded.

"All right, Felicia. I'll help you. You just go back to work, and I'll take care of it."

Flora acted when Corrin finished eating and asked for the check. She went to the register and took care of business, then printed the receipt.

Glancing over the room quickly, no one seemed to be paying attention to her. She whipped out a pen and wrote something on the receipt. At the bottom, she wrote Felicia's phone number and signed Felicia's name, with a heart. Living with her long enough, Flora had learned how to forge Felicia's signature.

Normally, she would not just hand out her sister's phone number to strangers. But Corrin was a regular, and Flora had seen enough people at this job to know whether or not someone was trustworthy. Besides, Felicia was pretty tough, she could handle herself if she needed to.

And for good measure, she reduced the price of Corrin's lunch. She could make up the difference out of pocket. It would mean waiting longer until she could afford that new book, but Felicia's happiness was crucial to Flora. It was worth it. She would just tell Corrin that it was a special discount for today.

That night, Flora and Felicia locked up. Flora made her way to the car, and noticed Felicia was already out of uniform and waiting by the entrance.

"Felicia, aren't you coming?"

But her sister just smiled. "Oh, uh, no. A little while after lunch hour, Corrin actually called me! Except, it was while I was washing the dishes…"

That'd explain today's kitchen mess. Flora nodded, prompting Felicia to continue.

"We're gonna see a movie together! The new one, Long Time No See! The one about the two friends and one of them is accused of betraying their country? Corrin's gonna meet me here!"

"Is that so?"

As if to answer Flora on behalf of Felicia, a familiar car pulled up. The driver-side window pulled down and Corrin's head stuck out. "Hey Felicia, hey Ms. Flora!"

Flora nodded. "Good evening."

Felicia ran up to Corrin's car. "Hi Corrin! Oh, uh… Can you hold on a second?"

"Sure."

Felicia ran back over to Flora and gave her a quick hug. "Thank you!"

She ran back to Corrin's car, got in, and they drove off. Flora stood for a moment, outside her own car, a smile on her face.

Worth it.

A/N:

I'll be honest, Flora is my favorite female character in Fates. So I was glad to have a chance to write something about her for once. (Other than a small role in Northern Fortress Training Video.) The requester asked for both sisters to be waitresses, but as I wrote the world-building paragraph, the concept kind of evolved. They seemed to like it though.

Also I kept Corrin gender-neutral in this drabble. No particular reason. The requester didn't care which Corrin it was, so I didn't bother. A bit of a nice challenge to see how long I could go without identifying Corrin. Use your imagination.

Takumi abusing the jukebox is a reference to all those Fates stand-up videos on Youtube. One is a John Mulaney skit where he messed with a diner jukebox. I also reference Nina and Shiro's support conversations by having Felicia and Corrin see a movie adaptation. Lastly the title of that movie "Long Time No See" is an inside joke. It was meant for the other mods to see.