Title: sweet replenishment
Rating: G
Fandom: Fire Emblem Three Houses
Relationship: Annette Fantine Dominic/Lysithea von Ordelia
Wordcount: 569
Short summary: Annette makes cookies and brings them up for her and Lysithea’s tea and cookie break.
The kitchen at Garreg Mach has recently become Annette’s second home, or at least if one were to calculate that by time spent per day. First place is the library, of course. Hours spent researching magic, for the purposes of knowledge if Annette shoves the thought of the war to the back of her mind. Magic for helping others, for protecting others…
And undoing magic that hurts more than it helps.
So far there has been little luck. Even if the person that Annette wants to help the most is looking into it, because Annette has encouraged her to, because Professor Hanneman has encouraged her to, there are only so many hours in a day. Also there is only so much energy one has before that needs replenishing. So that’s why Annette has spent more and more time in the kitchen lately.
Because Lysithea deserves the sweets she desires.
Well, with rationing of most of their foodstuffs, some creativity is required to make delicious sweets, but Annette is not one to be stopped by small hurdles. Annette leans on Mercie for ideas but ultimately Annette is the one who bakes the sweets. Because she’s making sweets for the one she loves. She can’t help but hum while she arranges the cookies she’s baked on a plate to bring to the library along with a teapot so they can have a tea and cookie break. Well, that was what Annette was expecting to do. Instead of finding Lysithea absorbed in a book, Annette finds her sleeping.
“Lysithea?”
Annette sets down the tray of sweets and tea and takes a seat next to the white-haired woman. She places a hand on top of Lysithea’s head, pats it gently a few times. Completely asleep, huh? Annette can’t help but smile slightly as she looks for a blanket. She’d hate to move Lysithea from her spot because Lysithea should rest whenever possible.
“Mmm…”
“Hmm?”
Annette pauses her movement to look back over at Lysithea. She watches as Lysithea’s nose twitches.
“Sweet…”
Annette laughs. “Yes, I made cookies. Want to eat some?”
“Of course!”
Suddenly Lysithea is sitting up straight, wide-awake, and hand reaching out for the cookies. She has almost touched one when she pauses and looks at Annette, like she’s asking Annette for permission. Annette smiles.
“They can all be yours! Although I would like to have some of the tea at least.”
“No, we will share them equally.” Lysithea grabs a cookie and breaks it in half. “For you.”
“As if I didn’t taste test one of them earlier…” Annette mutters to herself. But she knows that while a younger Lysithea would just eagerly take all the sweets offered, this Lysithea will always share. She has recognized Annette as her partner and her equal and stubbornly brings that even to things like sweets…
“Alright.” Annette eats the cookie half offered from Lysithea. Actually she doesn’t mind accepting this, with Lysithea’s fingers briefly touching Annette’s lips in the process. If there were other people around it would be too much, but with just the two of them here, having a little extra “sweetness” to help the cookies taste sweeter isn’t a bad thing. After all, magic costs a lot of energy and any bit of sweetness to replenish it is welcome.
(If it means Lysithea lives on for just that bit longer, until they can find a solution… Annette will take anything.)