Disclaimer: I do not claim ownership of Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha Series or its Characters.

A/N: This is still a work in progress, I know where the story is going (outlined) but I haven't had the same pull to write as I did a few months ago. Tons of storylines running in my head but none seem to want to go anywhere but still distracting me from this story. Please read and review, hopefully it will help my muse stay on track.

Chapter 1

You are respectfully invited to the Twenty-fifth Anniversary Celebration for Lost Logia ®.

As an original cast member TSAB Films in conjunction with Testarossa Corp would like to celebrate the accomplishments of this now cult classic film with you and its fans. Throughout the month of October we will be planning events and will provide accommodations for you and your families. Please RSVP by July 31st 20XX if you will be attending.

Fate stared at the invitation, it was tempting, she loved the film and her fellow actors from that long ago time. Akko Sanders would be there, she had been her co-star, and this was a chance to recapture some of the better memories of her younger life, incorporate it into her new one. Nanoha looked over her shoulder as she noticed the way Fate had stiffened, reading the invitation she smiled, "You want to go don't you?"

Looking up at her wife of fifteen years she was glad to see the acceptance and approval of such an idea clearly visible on her face. Unable to hold back her own excitement at the idea, "Yes, I want to, badly. This film changed my life, it was during this time I started to realize I could never be happy with Carim even if she ever left Robert. I saw up close for the first time what a real loving relationship was like between women. I was still hung up on her but then the next year I met you and ah you could say my eyes were opened to the fact there was someone much better suited to me."

Fate then swiveled her chair and pulled her wife into her lap, "I love you so much, I want you to meet them. Especially Akko, I haven't seen her in nearly twenty years but I'm sure she'll like you as well as her wife."

Kissing her wife gently the auburn haired woman then pulled back, "So you want me to come with you? What about the children, don't you think being dumped into the spot light at this kind of an event could overwhelm them? I can still remember the media circus that followed us around before our wedding, I don't know if we should bring them?"

The blonde thought about this, "We can leave the little ones with Mom I guess, but I think they are mature enough to handle it, they're pretty use to the media attention they get as the little sisters of Vivio and Einhart."

"Um, it's one thing to be seen as the little sisters of famous actors but they are going to be facing people who are obsessed with you, they'll be seen as the next generation of Testarossas. That might be a bit much?" Nanoha gently explained as she played with the long blonde hair of her wife.

Fate's eyes were beginning to droop with sleepiness as they always did when Nanoha played with her hair, relaxing her as only she could. Sighing, "How about we ask them what they want? Yawn…after a nap."

Fate the stood up and carried her wife to their bedroom, delighted at the warm laughter and arms surrounding her.

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"A month in America? Really? We can come and hang out with all the super famous people you use to work with?" Fia was excited practically bouncing much like her older sister once did at the same age.

Sora was less impressed with the idea, "But we'll be missing school and the rest of our family for that entire time. Besides it's all going to be boring parties and interviews that we won't be able to go to."

Fate loved how practical her youngest daughter was, not quite sure where she got the trait seeing how the rest of them were way too emotionally driven as the girl liked to point out. "That's not completely true, your mother and I will have quite a bit of free time and will be able to take you to see a lot of the sights in LA and the theme parks nearby."

The girl's sapphire eyes widened at this offer, "Can we go see the La Brea tar pits?"

Her older sister gave her a noggie and exclaimed, "You're such a nerd Sora-chan! We can go see Mickey Mouse and ride roller coasters, eat tons of junk food, that's where the real excitement is."

They were about to descend into one of their very loud and sometimes violent arguments, maybe signing them up for jujitsu lessons hadn't been a good idea. Nanoha grabbed Sora and Fate took on Fia and pulled them apart, Nanoha then tried to reason with both of them, "Girls how many times do we have to tell you not to fight, I have no idea where you picked up this bad habit but this is not how families settle their disputes. You're sisters, now we don't expect you always agree but we do expect you to respect each other's opinions and preferences. If we take you, you have to promise no fighting, if either of you tries to instigate a fight we can always send you home, Lindy-obaa is coming with us and she will be happy to escort either of you home singly or as a pair."

Both girls were pouting, making it hard for Fate to maintain her serious face, but needs must, "You both need to understand that if you come with us there will a lot of media attention, you will both be watched closely. If you want to make yourselves and us look like all those other crazy celebrity families keep on, the American public will eat it up."

Both girls paled, they had seen the reality TV shows that followed around celebrities and their families and thought they were tacky blowhards. No way did they ever want to be compared to them. Surprisingly it was Fia who made the first move, "I promise I will never do anything to make people think badly of us, our family isn't a circus side show. We love each other and as much as fun as it is to tease Sora I'll never do anything to hurt her."

The little blonde girl smiled and threw herself on her big sister in a tight hug, "I love you too, silly Fia I won't let anyone think badly of us either."

Where a few moments before the sisters had been ready to go to battle they were now once again on good terms with each other. Neither Fate nor Nanoha had ever experienced this type of behavior with their siblings but apparently it was perfectly normal, it reminded Fate vaguely of Chrono and CJ's relationship and Vita and Hayate's growing up.

"Well I guess that settles the young ones, what about asking Ein-chan and Vi-chan to come with us?" Fate asked watching the two girls scamper off to make plans on what they wanted to do during their vacation.

"Oh it would be nice if they could, I know Vi-chan is getting depressed over how rarely she gets to see Ein-chan now. They really could use a vacation and it will help them reconnect." Nanoha agreed happily.

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Vivio was wiping off stage make up from her face, looking in the mirror she scowled, she had tried to call Einhart that morning and hadn't gotten through and her sister hadn't called her back. It had been weeks since they saw each other and nearly four days since they spoke, she only knew she was okay because she had called their parents. Now the blonde young woman was afraid, had she done something to hurt her sister, why was her most important person avoiding her?

Her phone buzzed and the tone told her it was her mother, "Hello Mom."

Nanoha's voice was chipper, "Hi Sweetie, how are you doing?"

"I'm alright, I just finished filming and getting ready to go home. Um mom, have you heard from Ein-chan today?" she had to ask, unable to keep her worry out of her voice.

"I just got off the phone with her, that's why I'm calling. We want both of you to come home tonight for dinner, we have an announcement to make and an offer. I don't want to spoil the surprise so will you come?"

Vivio's heart leaped, "Ein- chan's coming?"

"Yes, and she asked me to apologize to you for not calling you back, apparently she's been very busy and hasn't had time to replace her cell phone, I actually had to hunt her down through her manager."

Relief flooded through the girl, "Oh so that's what was going on, I was worried I upset her somehow. Yeah I'll be home for dinner, in fact I'll head over there straight away, I miss you guys."

"Good, we miss you too, I wish you girls hadn't moved out so soon but I understand you both need your space."

No Vivio thought, that hadn't been why she had moved out, it had been because Einhart had left, it hurt too much to sleep alone in their room. Despite the largeness of their family home they never wanted to have their own rooms, preferring to share, sometimes even sleeping in the same bed.

Blinking back tears and keeping her voice level, "Well I'll be home soon, love you mom, bye."

"Drive safe Sweetie, I love you too, bye," her mother replied then the line clicked off.

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Einhart was sitting on the floor with Sora playing a card game on the coffee table, the two girls were closest in temperament though it was clear to everyone the most popular sister had always been Vivio. Einhart never felt any jealousy over this, she herself felt the pull of the blonde more than anyone else. She lived to see her sister's smile, hear her contagious laughter. It was that pull that had grown from merely simple friendship to sisterhood and then to something very different of late which was why she had to leave home.

Her little sister saw her fidget again, something Einhart almost never did unless she was seriously stressed, prompting her to ask, "Ne Ein-nee is something wrong?"

Einhart frowned, another rarity, and then sighed, "I guess I'm excited is all. I haven't seen Fate-mama this excited in a while, it's contagious."

Her little sister gave her a look of disbelief, "Really because I think you are stressing out over something, you don't fidget when you're excited."

"Ah…well," she tried to think of another excuse for her unusual behavior but was saved by the door opening and Vivio calling out, "I'm home!"

The little blonde shot up and cannoned into her sister beating her other sister that was barreling down the stairs to greet Vivio with the same gusto. Vivio lifted both the girls in her arms to squeeze them tightly in a hug before releasing them, "Hi Shrimps, you been behaving yourselves?"

Both girls started talking and somehow Vivio was able to understand them both and reply to their rapid fire questions. Einhart had to shake her head at the sheer wonder that was her sister, pressing a hand to her chest willing her heart to calm down so she could at least pretend everything was still the same.

Vivio came into the room with a girl attached to each of her arms but when they saw Einhart stand up to greet Vivio the sisters released her. They knew better then to get between the girls, they had a special connection, and no one wanted to mess with that.

Smiling the signature Testarossa smile at her blonde sister that set the girl's heart pounding before coming over to hug her quickly and pet her face, "You look too pale Vi-chan are you sleeping okay?"

Vivio wanted to cry, she missed her sister so much it hurt. Swallowing her emotions she replied in a faux cheery voice, "We had a few days of night shooting to do and it messed up my sleep cycle, I'm still trying to get back on a regular sleep schedule again. I'm okay, how about you?"

Einhart clenched her fists, she knew Vivio was hurting and it was all her fault, but it was better this way, they were sisters, they couldn't ever be anything else. "I'm good, I'm sorry about not calling you Vi-chan, my entire purse was stolen while on a shoot. I've been so busy replacing all my cards and with work the phone was kind of the last thing on my mind."

Fia jumped in, "You were robbed? How did that happen? I thought all the shoots you did had security and stuff."

"Apparently one of the other girls brought in some guy with her she had met at a club and he ran off with a bunch of stuff while we were busy, she's in trouble with a lot of people right now. I don't really care about anything but the photos on my phone and in my wallet, those were irreplaceable. But this whole thing has been a big pain," she sighed rubbing her forehead.

Nanoha came in to the room from the kitchen smiling at the familial scene before coming over to her first daughter to hug her, "Hi Sweetie, I'm so glad you could make it tonight."

"I wouldn't miss a chance to eat with my entire family, hey where is Fate-mama?"

"She's picking up some things for me at the store, she should be back any minute."

The thrumming of a car engine was heard and Nanoha smiled, "Speak of the devil."

Vivio laughed, "I thought you were the devil in the family mama, Fate-mama is the angel."

"Oh the first time we met she was definitely a devil, she just looks all cute and innocent."

"Ugh gross mom," Fia groaned.

"She's talking about the movie they made doofus, though they can go overboard on the lovey-dovey stuff," Sora pointed out.

Their tall blonde mama came into the house at that and everyone had to smile and roll their eyes at the way the pair of love birds greeted each other. Fate couldn't have been gone more than an hour and they made it seem like it had been a year. When they finally broke off the kissy stuff Fate and Nanoha now once more joined at the hip came over so the blonde could greet their daughters.

After a round of hugs and general questions of well being the family was finally corralled into the dining room and Nanoha brought out the food. It was nice to have everyone together again, the elder pair of sisters sitting next to each other on one side of the table across from their younger siblings. Joking and laughter filled the room and Fate beamed at her children, the two younger children kept the house noisy enough but with her elder children home there was a more lively camaraderie to the group.

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Coming back to the living room the children spread out onto the couches and looked at their mothers expectantly, well the elder ones did, the younger ones were watching for their sisters' reaction to Fate-mama's announcement.

"I have been invited to a month long celebration for a movie I made twenty-five years ago, it'll be in October and the cast is welcome to bring their families with them. It'll be in California and I would like all of us to go together. I've talked to your respective managers and they both agree a little down time is needed for both of you. You two are taking your careers very seriously but we miss having you, all of us want both of you to come with us."

Einhart wanted to say yes, a month with her family, with Vivio, but was too scared to speak, what if she did something stupid. It was getting too hard as it was to pretend she wasn't attracted to her sister, did she really want the whole world to know about her perversions? Vivio felt Einhart fidget, 'what the hell does she have to be stressed about? Is it me?' Knowing she was being cruel but needing to know if it really was her, "I'd like to go but only if Ein-chan agrees too. If we're going we should go as a family."

Einhart turned red, as she normally only did when she was reaching a breaking point emotionally, her entire family was suddenly worried. Seeing their concerned faces she took a deep breath, "Yes, I'd like very much to come. I'm afraid I have been out of sorts recently, it will do me some good to be with my family again."

'What the does that mean,' Vivio thought to herself, she reached out for her sister's hand, "Ein you don't have to force yourself, I was being selfish."

Their eyes met and Vivio felt that strange flip flopping feeling in her stomach that was becoming her new reaction to her sister. Breaking eye contact Ein looked down at their hands, smiled weakly, "No Vi, I need a chance to reconnect with everyone, I've been the selfish one. I ran out of the house and haven't been coming around all that much. This will be fun, maybe we can go shopping together and just hang out like we use to."

Feeling better about everything Vivio smiled at her sister, "Of course and if we have time we can go to that killer go cart track and race. I'll beat the pants off all of you."

This remark got the younger girls riled up and soon the entire family was talking of their preferred destinations while in LA.

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The months leading up to the trip overseas were filled with rescheduling, planning, packing and the general chaos that came with trying to get six highly independent females organized for a month long trip. When the morning before the departure came the eldest daughter arrived with her luggage so they could all leave together in the hired cars the next day as a group and not risk anyone getting left behind. Vivio instinctively went to her old room and without thinking opened the door to find her sister was changing. All the blood in her body seemed to flood her face then settle hotly in the pit of her abdomen at the sight of her sister's naked upper torso.

Stammering, "So…sor…sorry," she then stepped back and closed the door.

She pressed a hand to her flushed cheek and began to count prime numbers, something she hadn't had to do to calm herself since she was sixteen. The image of her sister's body seemed to be burned onto her retinas and she didn't know what to do about the growing arousal she was feeling, 'Damn it she's my sister, I've seen her naked hundreds of times why the hell is this affecting me this way?!'

Nanoha coming up the stairs saw her flushed daughter and came over to her to check on her, "Vi what's the matter? You're all flushed," she said as she pressed a cool hand to her cheek.

The door behind her opened and a coolly calm Einhart came out. "I startled her, sorry Vi."

Looking panicked Vivio only nodded then croaked a, "It's alright."

Nanoha looked at her two daughters, neither shared her blood but she loved as if she had given birth to them herself. Something was off, they had never been nervous or edgy around each other and now it looked like they were tiptoeing around each other. Then Fate called to her for help and she just smiled at the young women, "Duty calls, Vi please relax in the meantime, I don't want you getting sick during our trip."

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Entering the room she saw her beloved blonde trying to close an overstuffed suitcase, pushing her aside she opened it and began to refold the garments and ten minutes later the case closed easily.

Fate had sat down watching her wife and when the case closed she pouted, "I spent most of my life packing for trips but for some reason never got the knack. It's unfair that a woman who barely traveled off a single island is better at this than me."

Flicking her wife's nose, "I did just as much traveling as you did big shot I just didn't have to take planes or stay away as long as you have. Besides dad taught me how to pack properly and quickly, it's amazing the things he learned as a bodyguard."

The blonde growled at her wife before pulling her over to her hug around the middle and rubbed her face against her breasts before looking up, "I don't know what I'd do without you. Though I do wonder how much else your father taught you from his bodyguard days and what it'll cost me if I ever get out line."

"You would never get out of line, I haven't had a single reason to use my so called secret training, you are perfect in every way," she then leaned down to kiss her wife.

If the younger children hadn't come in at this moment who knows how much more packing would have been done that day, most likely none, "Ugh guys get a room!"

Nanoha pulled away and Fate turned to look at Fia smiling, "This is our room."

"Ha-ha funny mom, really auntie Hayate is right, you guys are rabbits."

Nanoha picked up a pillow and threw it at her daughter who dodged and scampered out with a cheeky grin leaving her younger sister behind.

"I swear I'm never leaving our children alone with Hayate again she is the worst influence on them."

Fate laughed, "Um but life would be so much more boring without her around," then turning to Sora, "what do you need love bug?"

"Why haven't you guys gotten over the honeymoon stage of your marriage, all our friends' parents aren't as lovey-dovey as you," the girl asked seriously, staring at them as if they were experimental lab animals.

"That's because your mother inherited the lovey-dovey gene from her parents and I fear she has infected me with it." Fate replied in a serious tone.

"Sora I know that's not what you came in here to ask, what's going on?" Nanoha said as she tugged her wife's hair in annoyance.

"Oh yeah, Um the suitcases are too heavy for us to carry, can you take them downstairs for us?"

Fate got up and catching her daughter around the middle lifted her up into a fireman's carry, "I got this Nano-love, alright love bug let's go."

Nanoha grabbed their suitcase and took it downstairs where she saw Vivio sitting on the couch still looking dazed and slightly flushed. Reminded of her earlier concerns she placed the suitcase down and came over to her daughter. Playing with her blonde hair that reminded her so much of Fate's, "Sweetie, what's the matter? Please tell me what's bothering you."

Looking up at her mother her forehead crinkled, "How do you know when you're in love?"

Nanoha's brows shot up, she thought the problem was with Einhart not love, "Well, it depends on the person but most people claim to know they're in love when that person's happiness becomes more important to you than your own. You can't stop thinking about them and what you can do to make them happy. Of course there's the physical aspect also, you start thinking about doing things with them, and will have an unconscious responses to them, fluttering in the stomach, blushing when they are near."

"How long did it take you to know you were in love with Fate-mama?" she asked in a quiet voice.

A wide smile broke across her face, "I was pretty sure by the end of the first week of knowing her. I had all the classic signs of attraction right off the bat. I couldn't get enough of being with her. She was so sad inside and I wanted to make her happy from day one."

"Can feelings change? I mean can you go from being a friend to falling in love without realizing it?"

"Yes, that's normally how things progress, my best friends growing up started out as enemies then became friends then some time after puberty they realized they liked each other more than friends."

"You mean Arisa-san and Suzuka-san? I thought they have always been together, they're like you and Fate-mama except Arisa-san is a total tsundere."

Nanoha laughed, "Oh god, don't let her hear you say that or she'll smack you, she doesn't care who she hits when she's pissed off."

"Hmm, I won't say it to her face, she's scary. But do you know how they realized they were in love?"

"Suzuka says she knew for a long time, she felt comfortable with her, she always knew what Arisa was thinking and she absolutely loved it when Arisa would blush when Suzuka teased her, it just made her all the more irresistible. Suzuka is actually the scarier one of the two, even now I think she might be able to take down your Fate-mama in most sports. I remember Fate's face when she lost the first time to this quiet polite girl, it was hilarious."

The younger blonde's eyes widened at that, "Really what sport was is?"

"Dodge ball, your auntie Hayate set up the game. Poor Fate-chan got pounded in the head by the ball and was knocked out. When she woke up she was so embarrassed, no one had ever taken her out like that, Nyahaha."

"Telling tales again I see," a soft alto voice said as Fate dropped onto the couch beside her and grabbed her wife around the waist and began to tickle her.

The pair ended up on the floor tickle fighting which brought the other children down and soon Fia was offering bets on who would give in first. Fate heard this and grabbed the miscreant, pulling Fia into the tickle fight where both mothers began to tickle her. Unable to resist this Sora tried to get in on the tickling of her older sister and was caught by Fate and tickled instead. Einhart watched this smiling, it was good to see some things never change. Vivio looked her sister smiling and felt the flutters again, 'shit, okay so I'm in love with her. What the hell do I do now?'