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Disclaimer: We don't own MSLN, any song that we've used here belongs to their respected owners, K-ON FOR THE MOTHER FRIGGEN WIN.

Yuki: Hello everyone, I would like to thank all of you who have patiently waited for the release of the first ever Team GEMINI novel, but I want to personally thank those that have helped this novel come to what it is today.

Thank you to my best friend smiggers, without you I would have surely gotten stuck at the scenes that required... your vivid imagination. I also want to thank you for practically writing this novel with me, if you weren't around I would have surely lost all focus and left it uncompleted. So thank you for pulling me through and sticking by my side against all odds. I also have to thank you for always being there to fix my mistakes. I'd be lost without you seriously.

Carmen, when I say I would be lost without you, I mean it. I've never met someone so thoughtful and caring as you are, not even most of the people I know personally would even think twice about all the things that you have done for me. If I could give you anything, I'd give you everything I can, because you deserve it and more. As a writer you are by far more superior than I, so you can only guess how excited I am to have you help me with the novel. Who would have thought that I would get the chance to work with my favorite writer/person? Definitely not me.

So really a gigantic thank you to you!

(Just in case any of you were wondering, yes smiggers has written us some lovely nanofate intimacy scenes.)

Big thanks to my good friend in real life, Usa. You are as brilliant as you are loli. If it wasn't for you, this novel would have stayed a simple one shot revolving around Kelly Clarkson's "My Life Would Suck Without You", honestly... thanks for pushing me to go farther with this idea. However, I do blame you for turning the one shot into this mutated story. It's your fault and you should take responsibility.

I would also like to thank Sensii. When I asked if she would be willing to help me out on the novel, she immediately jumped for the chance and agreed to it. I'm not someone that strongly relies on the help of others, but when it comes to something small like a comma or a semicolon I crumble under the pressure. Whether I used the correct form or not leaves me with many insecurities, so I'm glad I can leave all that with you. Good luck!

Thank you to TruePrime and his wife Grumpo for their help as well. I know you aren't used to working with such a large amount of people and I commend you for taking up the courage to do so. Working with just one person doesn't give you the full spectrum of things, but I sincerely do hope you enjoy working with all of us.

On a more personal level, I really want to thank both of you for all of the effort you two have put into this novel. I haven't known you two for very long, and I feel horribly embarrassed to have asked such a large favor from the both of you. You two have put in somuch effort into this project, I really don't know how to thank you both. Really I honestly don't. Oh and TruePrime, I must say this... Lightning is hawt and so is Riona, I can't doubt you there.

TruePrime: I must say this... Lightning is hawt but holds nothing to Rinoa's almighty beauty.

Yuki: AHA I agree. :3

I also want to thank tAmi-chin and Alex for their constant support. I have always enjoyed Unorthodox Love Story, but I also now enjoy speaking to you both personally. Long live Suuicune!

Special thanks to Hazumu-kun for editing the lyrics we have in this story. If you weren't here the songs we used will probably make as much sense as why the sky isn't hot pink. So thank you very much.

Hm, I can't forget about K. now can I? Thank you for helping Queer Prophet, smiggers, TruePrime, and myself on editing this monstrosity.

Oh and thank you to all of my friends in real life that I have based the character of this novel on. Oh and thank you to Ni-chan for fueling all of the arguments in this novel, I couldn't have done it without you. Literally... we should stop fighting.

R.I.P to all the members of Team GEMINI who dropped out of the project. You guys all missed out big time.

Now on a special note, I, on behalf of all of Team GEMINI would like to thank all of the Team GEMINI fans who have stuck with us through all of the good times and the bad times... and I mean the all of the bad times. I'd name you all here, but... I'd make this note much too long if I did that. So I'll make this brief a brief as I can.

I sincerely do thank you for all the support you have given me as a writer and as a person as well. I thank those of you who have PM'd me about my errors, things they liked about a story, or just conversation. I really do enjoy everything I hear from readers. Though I will say this, to the people who are ungracious about hearing someone else's honest opinion, I really do feel sorry for you. Sorry because you lack the self confidence to find the wisdom in people's words and use it to better yourselves. I wouldn't be where I am today if it wasn't for those honest opinions, so I would also like to thank those of you who gave me an honest opinion of what I need to work on.

Hm, I will have to make a special note to someone. I want to thank BPHaru, for many things. I wish to thank you for always reviewing to our works even if they were unethically horrid. I also want to thank you for continuously supporting the NanoFate fandom with your site, and giving writers your opinion about their stories. So big round of applause for you.

I believe an overall thank you is needed now. Thank you to my ENTIRE team for putting up with me. I know I'm weird, A.D.D and all that other crap, but I truly am grateful for all the support you have given me. I couldn't have done this without you guys.

smiggers: Hey ya! Well, I don't really know what to say… However, it's really strange how so much can happen in such a short span of time. Initially, when Yuki first contacted me about joining the team after a string of random conversation regarding cars, I was sceptical about the idea. Frankly, I have never been a part of a joint project. A very big thank you to Yuki for this opportunity.

I am really honoured to be a part of this project although I haven't been doing much… Seriously, I didn't do anything that deserves an entire paragraph of thank you notes. However, I have to thank you, Yuki, for inspiring me on several occasions.

I won't continue with the words of gratitude seeing that Yuki already had a very lengthy one. This novel had been one hell of a ride and we are not even done yet! I believe this will be the longest joint collaboration story in the Nanoha section. I have to say, I am really excited about it!

I sincerely hope that readers will stay on throughout the entire journey. You will not regret reading this.

Strap yourselves in, for we are going on a ride!

Yuki: Um... yeah. What she said.

K.: Hi there everyone! I hope you enjoy this novel, because I know for sure everyone on this team worked their little butts off trying to make sure it would be epic! Er, I'm the new kid (literally) on the block in this team, so I'll be really excited to work more with you guys!

TruePrime: I hope people enjoy the story, and that I hope to help the Team out as much as I can.

Sensii: It was a little random when Yuki asked me to help out with Nameless but I'm really glad she did! Team GEMINI is made up of a bunch of really talented folks and I feel very lucky to be working with each and every one of them. As for the readers…you do NOT want to miss out on reading this awesome story! Stick with us and you won't regret it!

PS: Schoolgirl Fate FTW.

Yuki: To officially end this crazy author's note... thank you to all of those who offered to help us out. And yes, semi-colons are the shit yo~

LOL LONGEST A/N EVAR!

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I stood still holding my breath, not sure as to the reason why. Every time our eyes met my mind instantly went blank except for one idea: "this is real". Slowly my heart began to race and my heart spoke before my mind could catch up. "I love you," I confessed. A timid blush appeared when my words reached your heart. You mouthed back your response, causing my heart to flutter. A moment that felt like an eternity passed us by, and in that time I felt myself get anxious. You were so close to me I could touch while barely moving a muscle. Your eyes, your lips, your sexy figure, and the temptation that you brought with you wherever you went drove me to the edge. I wanted to touch you—no, I needed to. I reached out gingerly and I touched your cheek. You jumped back, startled as if my touch had shocked you, but the warm smile that tugged on your tempting lips told me otherwise. You whispered my name in the sweetest of voices, but I didn't know how to respond; instead, I leaned in and kissed you. This physical attraction of ours was a deadly thing, one that I still haven't come to understand. But what is there to understand? I love you, and you love... that's all that I'll ever need to know.

Prologue

To The Farthest End

When we are young we do many crazy things that we think little of. We stepped on the people who cared about us the most just to get ourselves farther ahead on the road of life. We also do many things we will regret later on in life. Cheating on a former lover with someone who could care less about you, finding out you are pregnant after a one night stand, getting a tattoo, and treating love-making like a game meant to be shared with many partners at the same time.

These are the only thoughts that come to my mind when I pictured how my life turned out.

It turned out to be shit.

My heart resounded with a somber tone, its echoes shaking my entire being to the very core. I wanted to slash and wash away all of my regret and bury it six feet under alongside my silly teenage hopes, dreams, conscience, and fantasies. I wanted to bury and hide all that I found to be ugly in my looks and personality; I wanted to purge them. Getting rid of my imperfections would be a way to forgive my many, many sins.

The memories that were replaying in my mind's eye were that of my more troubled days, but that was all that they truly were. Old painful memories—memories so painful I could feel the old scars literally reopening every time I encroached upon them, the blood pouring out with every second that passes during the slow motion replay.

I recalled that during those days I couldn't even bring myself to stop my tears, nor could I subdue the constant trembling. I had felt so alone and yet I had so many people around me, supporting me with everything they had to give. I pretended to care about them, all because the world felt so cold to the touch.

I felt obligated to lie.

I felt obliged to pretend.

I had often wondered if what I was doing was wrong. Like a regular person I wanted the white picket fence, pretty garden, loyal spouse, happy children... I had gotten all of those and so much more. I'm staring at it all right now, but it still felt so hollow.

My hopes, my dreams and my accomplishments.

Since everything I touched felt empty and cold, I began to think oddly of myself. Was I still even alive, and if not was I just standing here as if time had stood still for me while it continued on for others?

I couldn't bear to find the answer to this; I was too scared to.

The flow of time was like a slowly moving river, rushing over us humans like little pebbles on its jagged rock bed. It didn't stop whenever it knocked one of us aside or pushed us out of the way. Time was very busy—it didn't even have the time for just one person. I felt as if I was one of those little pebbles, pushed out of the way and into the dirt. Time was forcing me to watch the lives of everyone around me progress in slow motion while I stood still—motionless, confused... lost.

I had a dream once where I stood tall in the center of the world. Lush green hills rolling on for miles as far as the eye can see; various species of flowers were growing in large patches; the mountains reigned high above my head with the clear blue sky closing in; the water from the lake lapped up against the shore, the sound like a failing heartbeat getting weaker and weaker as the tide rolled in. The trees swayed gently when a warm gentle breeze caressed their leaves and branches but their trunks snapped in half after the breeze moved on. The birds that flew up in the shrinking sky above cried out in human-like screams of anguish before they fell down dead, their beaks open once more in a final cry.

I looked around at the grim scenery around me. My shadow went off into four different directions, spinning around me like the hands of a clock—and suddenly, the sound of a clock striking twelve resounded. It filled the world instantly, its echo shaking the earth beneath me and causing cracks and fissures to open violently. The thousands of crickets hidden in the grass that covered the hills began chirping so loudly it became thunderous and caused me to fall to my knees while covering my ears. I squeezed my eyes shut and waited for it to die down, but the sound wouldn't stop.

Suddenly the shrill noise died, leaving only the sound of a beating heart pounding out its rhythm.

Lub-Dub-Lub-Dub... Lub... Du-

When I reopened my eyes the sky was a sickening shade of red, blue veins ranging from thick and thin pulsating in synchronization to the thundering heartbeat. My eyes darted down to the ground and noted that the once lush green grass was now a dull brown, shrivelled up and breaking into fragments at the lightest of touches. The water that had seemed to go on forever receded until I could barely see it.

Scared out of my wits, I panicked and I shouted out in my loudest voice. As soon as I screamed the imploding world around me stopped moving and exploded into a searing hot white.

Then I was alone—the sounds of the dying world still rang clearly in my ears.

I shouted again and again, but my voice just rang out dully.

Is there anyone here that can even hear me? I'm shouting at the top of my lungs, someone has to be able to hear me... right?

My voice was quickly becoming hoarse. The louder I shouted out the softer my voice got, and the softer my voice got the brighter the world became.

Soon the pain stopped.

This was just a dream, of course.

Just a dream and not reality. Definitely not reality.

Today would be a day I would call perfect. The sun is shining, a cool breeze and no clouds visible in the bright blue sky; but most of all, my family was together. I sat quietly on the porch bench with a good book in hand, yet my eyes neglected my reading and were glued instead to the scene before me. My fiancée and our seven-year-old daughter played on the lush green lawn, grass stains smeared onto their clothes. They didn't care, why should they? For my child, playing was everything. And to my fiancée and I, our child was everything. Nothing was stopping them from enjoying each other's company.

My child laughed happily as she rolled around on the grass with her father right behind her; the two were roughhousing like a bunch of new born puppies nipping at each other's ears. My fiancée lifted our daughter up and threw her in the air, causing the little girl to scream out in glee as she fell back towards the ground and back into the strong and protective embrace. I wanted to play too, but when I stood up I felt myself bound to the bench I was sitting upon. I tried to stand up again, but that same unseen force held me back.

I reached out to my fiancée's distant image and called out desperately, but my voice didn't reach my beloved's ears. It felt as if the love of my life was ignoring me completely, my voice dissipating before even a squeak could sound. A part of me wanted to call out again, yet another part began wondering if the reason why my voice was blocked out was because I wasn't even there. Was my existence forgotten... erased?

My eyes locked with my child's. They were the same in color, except hers were a deeper and richer shade like her father's. I was jealous sometimes but mostly I was thankful. My little girl received my favorite trait from her father; in fact, she was her father's spitting image. A second passed by and her eyes flickered away from mine, almost as if she was looking in my general direction... as if I were transparent.

A playful laugh sounded out as my child wrapped her arms around her father's neck tightly. My fiancée's face came into view and soon our eyes locked too, but I was mistaken. Soft footsteps were heard and another woman stood before the door and next to me, a kind smile on her face as she looked at my fiancée tenderly. She was the one my lover looked at so lovingly.

"It's about time for lunch isn't it?" she asked with a stunning smile.

I stood up to speak with this unknown woman, wanting to ask her why was she in my house only to be pulled down by that same unknown force yet again. Something was binding me to this bench, its hold on me preventing any form of movement. I call out to my fiancée again in the hopes that my voice could reach my knight's ears. I was once again greeted by that same response as before—nothing.

My little girl ran up to the unknown woman and hugged her tightly, the woman's swollen belly quite evident to my eyes now. The large apron she wore hid her enlarged stomach, concealing it to a point where you had to squint or be up close to see it clearly. I glared at her and her unborn child, my teeth digging into my lower lip causing blood to seep out the deeper my teeth sank in. I felt my blood curdle the more I stared at her. That parasite slowly growing within her... did it belong to my fiancée?

A small glitter catches my eye, drawing my attention from her round stomach to her left hand. A beautiful diamond encrusted wedding ring was on her ring finger, matching the band my fiancée had on. My eyes move from that unknown woman's hand to my own and then over to my fiancée's—the ring I had on my hand was different.

My fiancée walks up to the woman, golden hair fluttering by me slowly. They stare at each other fondly, sharing light conversation that was muffled to my ears. My beloved put a hand on the woman's stomach and smiles; I heard the words "You've gotten bigger," which was followed by a shy, but distinct laugh from the woman as she poked my fiancée's arm playfully. The two stare at each other longingly one last time before the woman wordlessly leads my child into the house, the young girl grasping the woman's hand in her smaller ones.

However, my fiancée stood still.

Slowly my beloved turned to me, and even though the eyes I loved so much looked directly at me my image wasn't reflected in those glistening orbs. It was just the bench reflection.

It was then when I finally understood it; when I finally realized time didn't stop for me.

My time itself... had stopped completely.

And just as I had realized that... I was set free.

Team GEMINI

Nameless: The Physical Attraction

Book 1

When The Unstoppable Force Collides With The Immovable Object