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If only I did.

Chapter 13

After getting back to Hayate's home, Fate transformed back to her normal form and walked in, sighing heavily as they landed in the front yard. "The only reason I even agreed to this is because I didn't want him to somehow find a way to trick myself, Nanoha or Hayate into his bed."

"Oh, trust me, he wanted more than that." Lilith told her as she stretched. "He wanted to break you, turn the three of you into cock-starved sluts who he'd make his personal baby factories. He had plans that involved you three, Arisa and Suzuka being his personal sex toys."

"...I take back all the reservations I have about you doing what you did to him." Fate said in a monotone voice as her pupils shrank. "He got off lucky."

"Did he?" Lilith giggled at Fate. "I took the time to take away his pride as a male." Fate jerked in surprise and Lilith held her index and thumb four centimeters apart. "His dick is that big now. The only way he's getting pleasure is getting a dick shoved up his ass."

"...Lilith, don't take this wrong way, but I love you." Fate said and Lilith giggled before hugging Fate, pressing their breasts together and kissing the blonde on the lips. "Mmmph!?"

The kiss only lasted for a few moments and Lilith grinned at her. "That's just the down payment." She winked at Fate, who was flustered and sputtering. "Come on, let's go inside."

Fate shook her head to clear away her embarrassment and followed Lilith inside.

...Where they were met by an annoyed looking Nanoha.

"In my defense," Lilith said, "she told me that she loved me for dealing with that jackass for you in a permanent way. I'm not trying to steal your girlfriend, I promise."

Nanoha huffed and nodded. "Fine, I'll forgive you this once. Next time you kiss Fate-chan without my permission, I'll show you all the new beam attacks I've learned since I was eleven."

"...So does that mean if I can talk you two into a lesbian threesome, it's okay?" Lilith gulped as she saw the aura of doom surrounding Nanoha. Despite her massive increase in power after merging with Morrigan, Lilith could still get nervous about justified anger and annoyance sent her way.

Especially when it was from people she liked.

The aura died out and Nanoha smiled sweetly. "Actually, that sounds like fun. You don't mind if the two of us dominate you, do you, Lilith-chan?"

Lilith grinned at her. "Not at all."

"Good," Nanoha nodded as she walked up to Lilith and openly pawed the Succubus's ass before leaning in and whispering. "Because your kiss with Fate-chan made me so wet."

"If you could NOT corrupt Nanoha any more than you already have, that would be great." Arisa grumbled at Lilith, who laughed and looked around in confusion.

"Huh? Where did Signum and Serafall go?"

"Oh, they're just in the kitchen with Shamal." Nanoha told her. "I hope that they don't try to feed her anything Shamal cooks."

"I heard that!" Shamal called out from the kitchen. "And I'm just making some sandwiches! AHHH! WHY IS THE BREAD ON FIRE?!"

Lilith sweat-dropped heavily. "Shamal still sets bowls of ice cream on fire?"

"She's gotten better." Fate spoke up. "She only does that once every five attempts now."

Arisa, who was sitting in the living room stood up and sighed. "I think I'll go home." She shook her head at Nanoha's concerned look. "I'm okay, it's just that with all the magic talk that goes over my head and the fact that our day is completely screwed up, I'll go home." She walked over to the entry way and put her shoes on. "Maybe next week?"

"Arisa-chan..." Nanoha frowned in concern. "Do you want me to walk you home?"

Arisa shook her head. "No, look, if Hayate wakes up and still wants to go shopping before the mall closes, give me a call, okay?"

"Oh jeez..." Lilith scratched her head. "I didn't realize that Master and I crashed your plans today, I'm sorry." Arisa gave her a shocked look, as did Nanoha, Fate and Vita, who was still in the living room. "Yeah, I was a brat last time we saw each other, I've grown up..." She looked down at her boobs. "In more than just my bra size."

Arisa scoffed at her. "You haven't grown up that much if you're still making lewd jokes."

Lilith chuckled and stepped over to Arisa and held out her hand. Arisa frowned in confusion but held out her right hand. A glow covered her wrist and on it was a silver band with a pink jewel in the center. "There. A gift from me to you."

"It's... Pretty." Arisa said as she looked at it. "What's the catch?"

"If you want to call me or Master to warm your bed, just tap the jewel and you can get ahold of us." Lilith winked and Arisa's face turned bright red as she ran out of the door. "Oh dear, I came on too strong."

Vita snorted. "Even if you've gotten bigger, you're still a brat." She narrowed her eyes at Lilith. "And how the hell did you grow boobs so big?!"

Lilith chuckled as she walked to the middle of the room and grabbed her breasts and hefted them up. "Puberty hit me like a freight train."

"Just so you know," Asmodeus, who was sitting on the corner table with Reinforce Zwei, both holding playing cards as tall as they were. "You only got that big because you think that's the ideal female form." Lilith jerked and looked at her in shock. "What? Succubi hit maturity at ten years old and Incubi hit it at six. Some of them choose to stay petite and small, most become super sexy bombshells though."

"I thought you didn't know what a succubus was?" Lilith asked her and Asmodeus rolled her eyes.

"My memories are still kind of swirled together, so sometimes I need to be reminded about stuff, but once I know what memories to look up, I know exactly what I'm talking about." Asmodeus nodded and puffed her chest out.

"...So basically everything is soup in your brain until you get told what to look for?" Lilith asked her mother.

"Basically." Asmodeus said in agreement. "Anyway, I'm sure that as more time passes my memories will clear up. Or not, who knows?"

There was a crunching sound and Lilith looked and stared in shock as Serafall was eating the crispy burned sandwich. "...You can eat that?"

"It's as good as So-tan's cooking." Serafall said with a smile and happily munched on the food, much to everyone's shock and surprise.

Lilith was about to say something about Sona's cooking skills, but held her mouth shut as she saw the absolutely delighted look on Shamal's face. "Well, that's nice, but make sure that you eat other people's food as well."

"Of course." Serafall said as she munched on the sandwich.

Vita stared in shock and couldn't keep her mouth quiet. "How the hell can you eat thammmmph?!" She didn't realize that Lilith had developed teleportation powers and had ended up next to her, putting her hand over Vita's mouth.

"Don't say anything, okay?" Lilith whispered to Vita. "She'll take it as an insult to her sister and it's worse than how you react when you think someone insulted Hayate."

Vita was suddenly reminded about the display of power in the front yard and nodded into Lilith's hand.

Serafall simply hummed to herself as she took a sip of water.

Suddenly Lilith staggered, her eyes going wide. She looked at Serafall, who was looking at her in confusion. "Serafall, can you take over for Master? He's needed."

"What happened?" Serafall asked as Lilith suddenly got behind her and pushed her towards Hayate's room.

"No time! Master!" Lilith screamed down the hallway. "MASTER! Hurry up! Something bad happened to Arisa!"

Nanoha didn't even need to wait, she was already rushing out the door to find her friend.

(-)

One minute later...

Nanoha, Lilith, Ranma and Fate quickly found where Arisa was. It was hard not to see where she was as she was in the center of the street, her body bent at various angles that shouldn't have possible, plus blood everywhere.

Nanoha stared with wide eyes as she looked at her friend before running up to her. "Arisa-chan!" Thankfully no one was around to stop her from getting to her friend, who was trembling and shivering. "Hang in there."

Arisa coughed and blood came out of her mouth. "N-nanoha... So-sorry... Didn't s-see..." She raised a hand up and Nanoha grabbed it. "C-cold..."

It didn't take long for Arisa to go limp, much to Nanoha's despair as she called out her friend's name.

Ranma looked at Lilith and Fate. "You two, do a large area memory alteration spell." They nodded and Ranma knelt down next to Arisa and pulled out a pawn piece. "Alright, pawn, do your thing and bring Arisa back to us." Nanoha looked at him, tears falling down her face as the piece glowed and was absorbed into Arisa's body, causing her to glow and crackle with power. "Come on." He said as he picked up Arisa's glowing body. "I'll get her back to Hayate's place, she needs to recover from this."

"I'm going with you." Nanoha said and Ranma nodded, he wasn't going to tell her no.

As they left, Lilith and Fate did their work to ensure that no one who saw what happened remembered anything. "What happened?" Fate whispered as she heard an ambulance coming.

"I can find out." Lilith said as she sank into Fate's shadow and then quickly zipped to the remains of the car before engulfing the driver, who was in real bad shape.

As she got into his mind, Lilith frowned as she saw it starting to crack and splinter. "You're dying." She whispered and found a man in his mid-thirties in a ball, rocking back and forth as waves of guilt and self-loathing came off of him in waves that made Lilith grimace.

"I didn't mean to. I didn't mean to hit that girl. I swear!"

Lilith walked over to him and knelt down. "Hey." She said gently and he looked up at her, tears in his eyes. "Relax, I'm here to help."

"A...are you an angel?"

Lilith was about to shake her head, but decided against it as she formed white feather-like wings on her head and back. "A different kind of Angel, but sure." She smiled at him. "May I please see what happened to you? I can't help you if I don't know what happened." The man nodded and Lilith put her right index finger on his forehead. "Just relax. You won't see anything."

Lilith closed her eyes and when she opened them, she was in a black and white office building where everything around her was shades of gray, black and white. 'Nothing more than a memory.' She thought to herself as she idly listened to what she assumed was the man's boss chewing him out and demanding that he work extra to get those reports done on time. "...Is this a problem in business?" She asked herself, knowing no one could hear her.

She sped up the time through the man's memories as he spent most of the next three days at the office to get the reports done before the day was over.

"I... Done..." The man stretched and shook his head as everything was blurry around him. "I got tomorrow off... I'm going home."

"No..." Lilith gasped as she saw the memories flash in and out, no doubt to his exhaustion and his brain not able to take in new information properly. "Stay in the office and sleep for at least twenty minutes, let your brain rest." She whispered, though she knew that she couldn't stop what was going to happen.

She watched, helplessly, as he got into his car and even though he could barely see, she watched him drive onto the street and swerve before shaking himself awake and hitting the gas pedal so he could get home faster. "Take your time." She whispered.

"Sooner I get home, sooner I can get to sleep." The man said as slumped forward, his head hitting the steering wheel and everything went mostly black, though a honking sound caused him to jerk awake and the last thing he saw was Arisa looking at him with a terrified expression on her face before everything went dark.

"So that's what happened." Lilith whispered as the man sat and sobbed. She smiled at him. "Please, be at ease, that girl will be fine."

"R-really?" The man asked, hope in his voice. "She's not dead?"

Lilith shook her head. "That girl, Arisa Bannings, will survive. She got lucky and mostly had scrapes. The ambulance has already taken her to the hospital and she'll be okay."

"Oh thank you!" The man lunged forward, sobbing into her chest. Lilith smiled and rubbed his back. "I... I was so..."

"It's okay," Lilith whispered to him, "you're tired, so just rest."

"Rest." The man nodded as Lilith pushed him onto his back and closed his eyes. "Sounds good."

Lilith stood up. "Rest well, maybe in your next life, you won't have to work yourself to death like that." She whispered and turned to walk away as his mind crumbled and cracked. "I'm sorry." She said as she disappeared.

Fate was in a nearby alleyway as she saw the mystical shadow come from the remains of the car and connected with her shadow. "What happened?" She asked as Lilith's body formed from the pool of shadow.

"Poor guy was suffering from extreme exhaustion and the only thing he could think of was getting home and getting into his own bed." Lilith shook her head and motioned for Fate to follow after her. "He couldn't see what he was doing and passed out while driving. His foot was slammed into the accelerator and he went in a straight line and straight into Arisa."

"...Could you have saved his life?" Fate asked her.

Lilith was quiet until they got close to Hayate's place. "...I might have been able to, but he didn't ask." Plus with how guilty he felt, she knew that he wouldn't ask her to save him. "The best I could do, was put his mind at ease so he could pass onto the next life without any regrets over what happened. I even told him that Arisa was in the hospital and was going to be fine."

When they got to Hayate's house, they walked inside and saw Nanoha sitting on the couch, rocking back and forth with a haunted look on her face. Fate was next to her in an instant and hugging her.

"What happened?" Shamal asked. While she, Vita, Signum and Zafira all had wanted to go with, they had stayed behind and hoped that things weren't as bad as they feared.

"The driver of the car was extremely exhausted after working several days in a row and just wanted to get home and get some sleep." Lilith shook her head. "Arisa just had bad timing."

"Bad timing..?" Nanoha whispered and Lilith could feel the anger building up in the girl. "Arisa-chan had to die because of bad timing?"

Lilith sighed as Fate hugged Nanoha tighter. "Sometimes, Nanoha, there are bad things that happen to good people. Arisa will be fine."

Nanoha looked up, tears in her eyes as she nodded. Instinctively, she knew that Lilith was right. "I just wish that I had been there with her, I could have gotten us out of the way."

"I know." Fate whispered to her. "I could have as well. No one thought that someone would come rushing through so fast that they would hurt Arisa like that."

Lilith walked over and sat down on the couch, hugging Nanoha as well. "She'll be fine."

Nanoha nodded and sniffled. "I...I should call mom and let her know that I'm going to stay at Hayate-chan's place for tonight."

"Might be a good idea." Lilith said as she stood up. "It's going to take a full night for Arisa to fully recover. She'll be awake in the morning."

Fate nodded and stayed with Nanoha. "You couldn't have stopped it, Nanoha, it's not your fault." Seeing her girlfriend's expression, Fate sighed and hugged Nanoha tightly. "Don't. Whatever you're thinking, stop. I don't want to see you crippled again because you pushed yourself too hard."

"What?" Lilith asked, her pupils shrinking. "What happened?"

Nanoha gave a small nod and Fate sighed softly as she looked at Vita, who was looking uncomfortable. "It was a year after you left. Nanoha and Vita were on a mission. But because Nanoha had over-used her magic, her body was extremely worn out and against enemies she should have had no problem with, she faltered and ended up getting stabbed in the stomach and through the spine and was in a wheelchair for several months while she went through physical rehabilitation."

"...Why?" Lilith whispered as she grabbed Nanoha's shoulders. "WHY?! Why would you push yourself so hard?! Master and I push ourselves hard, sure, but we have downtime to rest and recover. Why did you not do that?!"

Nanoha looked away. "I..." Memories of the tree that destroyed a good chunk of the city flashed through her mind. "I..." Memories of the Book of Darkness going out of control flashed through her mind next. "I don't want people to get hurt because I wasn't strong enough."

"And what good would it be if you can't move?!" Lilith yelled at the teenager, who growled and stood up.

"What would you know?!" Nanoha yelled and poked Lilith in the chest. "You're a Demon who has everything come naturally to her. I had to work my ass off to get this strong."

"Bullshit." Lilith shot back. "You have so much magic in you that even with just casual training, you'd be one of the five strongest human mages on this planet." She grabbed Nanoha's hand. "If you're working hard to realize your potential, that's one thing, but if you're working so hard that your body breaks down when you need it most, that's self-destructive. Even the Norse Gods give anyone who trains under them time off to rest and recover. So why?"

"Because if I had been better than..."

"Than what?" Lilith asked her. "Arisa wouldn't have gotten hurt? Unless you have some form of omniscienus, clarvoiyance or precognition, there's no way in all the realms that you would have known that was going to happen." Lilith could see Nanoha's resolve starting to waver and she had to push what she was saying. She knew it was a risk as Nanoha could just blast her and run off, but she had to break her friend of doing something stupid. "A friend of mine, his name is Issei Hyuudou, the current generation Red Dragon Emperor, once had to watch as someone he cared for deeply was damn near killed in front of him and he couldn't stop it. And he's got the power to slay gods." Her gaze softened as Nanoha trembled. "Stop trying to think that you can do everything on your own." She put her hands on Nanoha, who was shaking now. "You're only one person, Nanoha. And sometimes bad things happen that we can't control."

"I..." Nanoha hiccupped and hugged Lilith, crying into her chest. "I failed Arisa-chan."

"No you didn't." Lilith whispered as she patted Nanoha's back. "It just happened. You didn't fail." Nanoha nodded and Lilith sighed. "Besides, the real person at fault is that man's boss."

"What can we do about it?" Fate asked. "Do you even know who the man is or his place of work?"

Lilith giggled and nodded as Nanoha let go of the hug and rubbed her eyes of the tears. "Yeah, I got the information while I was digging around in his head. I was seeing his direct memories, the name of his company and boss came up a few times." She sobered up. "I'm going to need a couple of days to work out a strategy." Nanoha nodded, though she looked troubled. "Don't worry, Nanoha, Arisa will be avenged."

Nanoha just nodded. "Please, Lilith, I..." She paused as Lilith put a finger on her lips and smiled at her.

"I won't ask for anything, Nanoha. Arisa's my friend too. And," her eyes started to glow as she continued to speak, "you can mess with me all you want, but once you mess with my friends and family? That's when it's personal."

Nanoha nodded and went back to the couch and sat down on it, hugging Fate, who smiled and hugged her back.

End Chapter 13

Excuse me while I hide.