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[Action - mid-afternoon - Ricardo Street

Denizens of 506 Ricardo, you might see an odd sight this afternoon: a vertically-challenged egotist scaling the walls of your house, a megaphone tucked under her arm.

...wait, what?

Yeah no you saw correctly! She's absolutely just impudently scrambling up onto the roof, not even giving a shit that this isn't her house. Why doesn't she just do this at her own house? Damned kids and their horseplay.

Once settled onto the roof, Saber faces the house across the street - 505, her own home - and brings the megaphone to her lips.

Just what could be so important that she's shouting about it from a goddamn rooftop?]

Hakuno Kishinami! There is something I must tell you! Will you listen?

[...oh so she's calling out her derp of a Master, that's cool. Was that it?

...apparently not; she turns towards each end of the street, as she continues.]

Friends! I would have witnesses on this momentous day!

[Goddamn showboating.........]

[ooc: okay so here's the dilly-yo: saber's going to be pouring her heart out to hakuno, and more or less asking her out (although in much more grave and dramatic terms). she's been trying to do this for a while, but hakuno is DUMB AS A BOX OF ROCKS, so... she's finally decided that the proper way is to literally shout her love from the rooftops. make sure to include who your character is talking to - saber, hakuno, or both - in the subject line!]

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[doesnotgetit]

[What

just

wat

This... this can't be good. But she runs outside anyway, at least to get her Servant to stop yelling!]

S-Saber! What are you doing!?

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[Never gonna stop yelling, baybeeeeeeeee]

Taking the final option left to me!

There is something I have been trying to tell you for quite some time. Will you hear it, now, undiluted, and without apology?

[doesnotgetit]

[You'd think she'd be used to having a flamboyant Roman Emperor as a Servant by now

N O P E]

Final option...? [She raises her voice again, so Saber can hear... all the way at the top of the house...] Sure! But why do you have to do this on a roof?!

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[She can't help it, Hakuno. She was Born This Way. She is Beautiful in her way. God didn't make a mistake.]

Tradition! And to be heard, far and wide!

[She closes her eyes for a moment, takes a deep breath, and...]

Before our friends and allies, before our captors, before their puppets, and before the gods above, hear me! With they as my witnesses, I tell you now: Hakuno Kishinami... [She throws one arm theatrically wide. ...I love you!

[There's more, but she's giving it a moment to sink in, so Hakuno's not trying to absorb too much at once... since. that. probably will result in her brain needing a hard restart.]

[doesnotgetit]

[Towards the end of the War, when Saber would talk about her love and how important Hakuno was to her, it... never really clicked. Hakuno didn't think it was love love; she thought it was a devotion kind of thing.

But this. There was no mistaking this kind of declaration of love. "Shouting it from the rooftops" was one of the biggest romantic cliches, wasn't it?

So when the realization hit her, finally hit her, she was speechless.]

... Huh? [A lame response, but you can't really blame her!]

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[Yeah, it WAS a pretty lame response. She's not holding it against you, though, since she hasn't quite finished yet.]

I say it again, and as many times as you like: I love you!

[She takes a few steps forward, until she's on the very edge of the roof.]

I ask you now - not as a devoted Servant, nor a caring partner... but, as a woman in love - [dramatic paaaauuuussssseeeee] be with me!

Be my lover! My empress!

[Annnnd she basically just jumps right the hell off the roof. Which. Would probably be dangerous? Except she's a Servant, and lands like a champ on Remilia's front lawn take that, you whiny little toad. She lets the hand holding the megaphone drop to her side, takes a few steps forward, and holds out her other one to Hakuno.

Her expression is, for once, not showy; it's pleading, desperate. She's laid her heart out, without holding anything back.

Ball's in your court, Kishinami.]

[doesnotgetit]

[For several painful, agonizing seconds, all Hakuno could do was stare at Saber's hand. Her heart was fluttering madly in her chest, like a bird desperately trying to escape its cage.

She had been thinking a lot since Valentine's Day. Even back during the war, the thought of being separated from Saber hurt just as much as the thought of being erased was. And here, after being given a second chance... she still can't picture life without her beloved Servant by her side. It made her happy when Saber was with her, and that's something she never wanted to let go of.

She thought it was just embarrassment that made her heart skip a beat and her face heat up. But... she could never feel that way about such honest feelings. So could this really be love?

Slowly, almost hesitantly... Hakuno took Saber's hand.]

I... I think I love you too, Saber. It took me so long to realize it, but... [Her grip on the Servant's hand tightens, and she smiles.] These feelings can't be anything else.

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[There's no word that adequately describes what Saber's feeling, just now; 'joy', 'elation', 'relief'... yes, all those were technically correct, but none really captured the magnitude of it.

She pulled the taller girl to her, wrapping her up in what she really did intend to just be a hug, but... well, things happened, mistakes were made, and it all turned out for the best.

By that, I of course mean that, when she drew the other girl into her embrace, she also gently smooshed her lips into her dear Master's. It's a surprise to everyone, I assure you.]

[doesnotgetit]

[This is only the second time (as far as she knew) that Hakuno has been kissed. She didn't really think the first time counted; it was a kiss, definitely, but Rani just used it as a way to help. Or something. She was still kind of confused over what that was all about.

EITHER WAY. She is not exactly well-versed in the matter of kissing, so in all honestly... it's not that good. But she tries to respond! Quite clumsily, though. It's... it's nice that she made an effort, right?]

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[Well, the kiss was hardly the demanding, lusty sort; there wasn't much of a response needed! Rather, it felt like it was... not proof, exactly, but ceremony? Perhaps that was it. It was for the two of them, yes; but also for the witnesses. It was the true answer to Saber's confession. Words were all well and good, but this, this... this was something that could be properly witnessed.

...well, "for the witnesses" or not, she's in no hurry to break the kiss. Even a ceremonial kiss is one that involves her Special Lady so that automatically makes it a Good Kiss, and one to be Savoured. ]