#grimm war

Recruit Corporal Hannah England isn't quite sure what to make of Atsuko Kagari or their complicated relationship. Not enemies, but not exactly friends as well. That really wasn't all that much of a surprise, though. After all, Kagari is nauseatingly good whereas Hannah...well, she'd have to be an absolute idiot not to realize that she wasn't a really nice person, not at all. Anyone who did what she had done wasn't a good person. Rather the extreme opposite, in fact. So then, why the hell did Kagari forgive her so easily? It didn't make any damned sense!

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Diana wasn't prepared for this. She had no idea how realizing her feelings for Akko would impact her life upon their return to Luna Nova.

Great. Just one more thing to have to add to the wonders other students being twits, pending exams, the stress of being the leading cadet in their year group, and their looming leadership assignments over the incoming Term I students...

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Their leave is very quickly coming to an end, and with it, a flurry of activity as Diana sees to her duties as the Heiress of the Cavendish Family. Unfortunately for Akko, there is precious little that she can do to actually help Diana is getting those duties done, and so she finds herself with a lot of time on her hands and not much at all to do while the rest of the Manor begins preparations for the pending evacuation...

Oh. This...this wasn't been what Akko had been expecting. It simply never occurred to her that Diana could get the same urges that she could. So for her to walk in on Diana while she was...

She needed to leave. She needed some space and time to think and process all of this. And so, fairly panicking, she fled her and Diana's room, leaving a mortified Diana behind her as she ran away to the very first place that she had found camaraderie and friendship at Luna Nova: the Red Team dorm room.

And all the while, the same shocked reaction kept bouncing in her head: "Oh."

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AKA the chapter wherein I write the word ‘oh’ as many times as possible...

After Christmas Day, the rest of their two week leave block seems to pass by in a flash, especially since, in Diana's opinion at least, Christmas felt like the last day really worth celebrating. With how 2020 passed and with what the future was looking like, what was there really to look forward to in the New Year? How was 2021 going to be any better than 2020?

Luckily for Diana, she has Akko to help her find the answer to those questions...

The day after the formal dinner marks the beginning of the holiday leave in earnest, even if it seems like Diana is just as busy with work as ever. But there are some things that only she can do, and she would be remiss if she ignored them in favor of relaxing. And if she works hard enough, she'll be able to truly relax and enjoy Christmas, which is very rapidly approaching.