AN: My best friend got married 2 weeks ago and before the wedding happened, we were talking about how her marriage wouldn't be official until she changed her relationship status on Facebook. I thought since I had already planned to do a story about Fate making a Facebook account, I could incorporate it into the plot. Hope you enjoy it.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything. Would I be writing fanfiction if I did?

It's Not Official Until It's on Facebook

"Make one."

"No."

"Just do it!"

"No!"

"Why not? All the couples we know have made one."

"And this applies to me because?"

Fate Testarossa Harlaown was busy trying to prepare for her meeting with her superiors when Hayate suddenly came bursting into her office. It was not an uncommon thing since the short brunette girl found that the only way to get Fate to spend time her was to trap the blonde in her office. Honestly, she wasn't asking for much. Just some time with one of her best friends, but the blonde was always so busy! She was gone for weeks or sometimes months at a time! How was Hayate supposed to gather juicy gossip material on her favorite (unofficial) couple if the weaker of the two wasn't around? Hayate shuddered remembering when she tried to pull that stunt on Nanoha. She was lucky to be alive. She did wonder, however, why her friends were so damn secretive about their relationship. It's not like everyone didn't already think they dating.

"Because this would make it official! I mean even Amy and Chrono made one!"

"Chrono does whatever Amy tell him."

"Does that mean the submissive gene runs in the family?"

Fate decided not to grace Hayate with an answer and instead chose to ignore the question.

"Come on Fate! Even Shamal and Signum made one!"

"Signum does whatever Shamal wants."

"Subaru and Teana made one."

"Again, Teana does whatever Subaru wants."

"Nanoha and Vivio-chan made one."

"I know. Doesn't mean I have to."

Fate rolled her eyes at Hayate. Aside from her family, every single couple she'd mention was predictable in how their dynamics worked. One was always submissive to their respective partner. She still wasn't sure why Hayate was pushing this issue so hard. It was like this whenever she happened to be around the base. Fate wasn't completely oblivious to what Hayate was trying to do. It was like this with all their friends. Their attempt to get a definite answer about the status of her and Nanoha's relationship was cute…at first. Now though, she found it highly annoying. They all already thought they were dating so why not just think that? It's not like the fact that they were or were not was going to change anything.

"But Fate-chan! It's only official once it's on Facebook!"

"Who decided that?"

"I did!"

A moment of silence passed.

"You made everyone sign up didn't you?"

"That's beside the point."

Fate sighed. How was it that this woman was her superior?

"Then what is the point?"

"The point is…are you and Nanoha dating?"

It took everything in her not to groan at the age-old question. Seriously, did people have nothing better to do other than speculate about her and Nanoha? There were better things to do with their time. Like making sure there was peace in the universe, protecting innocent people…or forcing a certain short brunette commander to get her paperwork done. These were all infinitely more important things to worry about. The blonde glanced at the clock. She was going to be late if she continued to entertain Hayate. She had two options at this point: satisfy her curiosity and reveal the nature of her relationship or give in to her demands and create an account. She wondered how in the world Facebook managed to make to Mid-Childa. It was like a cancer, it spread without anyone knowing until it was too late.

"Look, I have to get to my meeting. If you're really that determined to make me get an account then I'll make it later."

"No, do it now."

"I have ten minutes before my meeting Hayate. I don't have time right now."

"It takes less than a minutes Fate. Surely you can spare that much?"

Fate rubbed her forehead. There was no winning against this woman. At least she'd dropped the whole her and Nanoha thing. She better just get it over with so she'd be left in peace.

"Fine."

"Yes!"

Hayate pumped her fist in triumph. She'd finally achieved her weeklong goal. Nanoha had been easy enough to take convince thanks to Vivio. That girl could be just manipulative as she was, perhaps even more. It would seem the student surpassed the master. Either way, now that Nanoha had one, all she had to do was somehow get them to change their relationship status to "dating" therefore forcing them to admit they were together! It was a flawless plan! Although she hadn't quite thought out how she was going to achieve it but she did some of her best work on the fly. It was only a matter of time.

"Done. Happy now?"

"Yes, I promise you won't regret this." Hayate smiled.

Upon hearing those words, Fate was already beginning to regret her decision. Shaking off the bad feeling, she gathered her files and made her way to the door. Unlike like a certain commanding officer, she had work to do.

"Well, I have to go to my meeting. I'll talk to you later."

"Bye Fate-chan!"

Hayate waved the blonde off and sighed as she looked over at Fate's desk. Her eye caught sighed of a green blinking green light on the desk. With a sly grin, she took a seat in Fate's chair. Her blonde friend had neglected to turn off her computer. She quickly brought the computer out of sleep mode. Instantly, a holo screen popped up. A manic grin made it's way to her face. Displayed on the holo screen was Fate's newly made Facebook account.

Several TSAB mages working on the same floor of Fate's office were distracted from their work when a sudden maddening laugh rang out. Many Facebook statuses were updated with respect to this odd phenomenon.

-MGLN-

Fate sighed as she left the meeting room. It had taken most of the day but at least her latest case was officially closed. She was looking forward to her month off. There would be no better way to spend it than with her family. As she fantasized about her soon to be blissful home life, she was rudely brought out of her thoughts when a sudden squeal nearly burst her eardrum.

"Oh my god, Fate-san! We heard the good news!"

"Eh?"

Before Fate knew it, several of her co-workers surrounded her.

"We knew it! We just knew it!"

"There was no way you guys were just friends!"

"Uh, umm…"

"Well congratulations Fate-san! We wish you the best!"

Just as fast as they'd come, they disappeared from sight. Fate was completely and utterly confused. What were they talking about? Had they been speaking the same language as her? She swore that she only heard gibberish from their mouths. Shaking her head of the odd event, Fate continued on her way back to her office. She wanted to put her files away and head home for a relaxing evening. She took the elevator up to her floor, humming a happy tune all the way there. No sooner had the elevator doors opened; loud cheers bombarded her.

"Congratulations Fate-san!"

Fate's eyes widened at all the balloon and confetti that rained down on her. A giant banner was displayed prominently in front of the elevator expressing the happiness everyone seemed to be sharing. Fate was still utterly confused as to what she was being congratulated for. Has she been promoted? No, her superiors would have informed her. Birthday? It wasn't even close. Still confused and slightly scared now, she pushed the down button on the elevator. The doors closed shortly.

'I need to find out what's going on.'

So much for her quiet evening.

-MGLN-

The blonde quickly made her way to the cafeteria. It was close to dinnertime so her friends would more than likely be there. She was going to get to the bottom of everyone's odd behavior. Every single person that she came across gave her knowing grins. Everyone seemed to know what was going on except her. It was beginning to get a bit unnerving and annoying. She was relieved to find Signum, Shamal and Vita in the cafeteria. Perhaps she'd finally get some answers. Before she could even get a word out, those same grins made their way to her friends faces.

"Fate-chan! We heard the great news!" Shamal smiled happily at her.

"It's about damn time. Although I did lose money because of you; I hope you're happy." Vita smirked at her regardless of her supposed loss.

"I must admit, I was surprised that you announced it via such an unconventional method." Signum said as she stood to shake Fate's hand. Fate reluctantly shook back.

"Umm, what are you guys talking about?"

The three women looked at each other confused.

"What do you mean Fate-chan?" Shamal's eyes furrowed.

"Just what it sounds like, I have no idea what you guys are talking about."

"Seriously?" Vita asked.

"Seriously."

"So you didn't change your single status on Facebook to dating Nanoha?" Signum asked the blonde.

"What!"

Figuring it would be easier to show her, Signum brought up her holo screen and clicked on Fate's profile. The blonde's burgundy eye's widened at what she saw. First of all, her profile picture was one of her and Nanoha with a small heart between them. That had not been the picture she'd uploaded before. As a matter of fact, she did not upload any of the pictures that were suddenly in her gallery. The next thing to catch her eyes was the number of friends she had. More than 500 friends? She didn't even know that many people much less being their friend! The final and most shocking thing was her relationship status.

Fate Testarossa went from being "single" to "in a relationship."

The final icing on the cake was located right above her friends list. There, in all it's glory was a picture of Nanoha, but that wasn't what had her stunned. No, it was what was right above the picture that made her eyes widen.

In a relationship with

"W-what is this?"

"You're profile."

"I know that! What I mean is, I didn't post any of this! I created the account but I hadn't done anything except post a profile picture and that's not even the one I used!"

"Oh…"

Vita chuckled.

"Looks to me like someone hacked your account. You might want to take care of that. You're profile's been like that pretty much all day"

Fate groaned and tried to think of how this had happened.

"Fate-chan! I heard the good news!"

Hayate walked happily into the cafeteria followed by Shari and Reinforce. In that moment, Fate realized whom it was she had to thank for this prank. Fate rounded on the girl and glared.

"YOU!"

Hayate held up her hands in defense.

"Now, now Fate-chan. It was just a harmless prank."

"Harmless! Do you realize the trauma you caused me?"

"Oh come on, it wasn't that bad."

"Mou~ Hayate-chan, that wasn't very nice." Fate pouted. "If you're going to mess with my relationship status at least get it right."

"Eh?"

Now it was Hayate's turn to be confused. What exactly did she mean by that?

Instead of answering, Fate brought up her account on her holo-computer. A few keystrokes later Fate waited a moment before smiling at he work.

"There. Much better. Now if you'll excuse me. I need to be getting home. I'm late for dinner."

As Fate walked out of the cafeteria, everyone checked their Facebook news feed. Shocked screams were all around the base.

"WHAT!"

Fate smirked at all the stunned voices ringing through the night. She assumed her dear wife was okay with finally revealed their long hidden relationship since she accepted the change on her end. In case she wasn't however, she was pretty sure she could gain her forgiveness once she got Nanoha alone in their bedroom. A perverted grin made it's way to her face. She could hardly wait to get home. Perhaps Facebook wasn't as bad as she thought. She smiled thinking about her new relationship status.

Married to: Nanoha Takamachi.

AN: Random little one-shot. I was debating making it a two shot. What do you guys think? Reviews and let me know!