Title: for their future
Rating: G
Fandom: Fire Emblem Three Houses
Relationship: Dorothea Arnault/Petra MacNeary
Wordcount: 255
Short summary: Dorothea never thought she’d be learning how to wield a sword with the guidance of the one she loves.
“No, like this.”
“I see.”
Well, Dorothea does see now, because she has to. She never thought this day would come, 5 years ago, when she first enrolled in Garreg Mach Academy. Sure, she figured she would learn to do some fighting, but she was a singer, a performer, a dancer. She figured she would be a mage, cast some spells, and that would be it. But now she is holding a sword, learning how to hold it and wield it properly, with the guidance of the one she loves.
That part she didn’t expect either. Sure, Dorothea wanted to mix in with the elites and possibly land a rich husband to serve as her patron, but a foreign princess was a little… outside of said plans. Not that Dorothea is unhappy with that; actually that might be the only good thing that has come out of all of this. With war there has been so much loss but this love between her and Petra… It did bloom on the battlefield, between trainings, between meals, between forced proximity and not knowing if your next day would be your last…
That’s why they are currently here in the training hall. Dorothea will do anything to survive another day, to be with Petra another day. And Petra feels the same way.
“Yes, like that.”
“Got it.”
Dorothea hopes she won’t have to use this sword. But if she ever needs to, she will wield it with the strength of love: for herself, for Petra…
For their future.