#idc if diana making puns is ooc it's happening anyway

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Over the Moon

Fandom: Little Witch Academia Pairing: Diana Cavendish x Akko Kagari

Femslash February 2019 [Index post] Day 6: Moon

approx. 1350 words, rated T

also available on Ao3

In which Diana discovers that Akko has a big, furry problem.

Huge brainstorming credit to @reynicloud for coming up with at least half of this. Love you!

"What might I ask are you doing in the kitchens after curfew?" Diana asked, glaring at the pyjama-clad girl.

"...is that a trick question?" Akko looked down at the considerable amount of food in her arms and back to Diana.

"I'm curious how you're going to attempt to excuse your poor behaviour this time." One would think that after being caught so many times, she would've learned how to lie better.

Akko winced. "I was... um... preparing for a birthday celebration. For one of the goblins. Um, Bartholomew... you're going to tell me you know all the goblin's birthdays, aren't you?"

Diana shook her head.

The star student had been on duty for the night patrol, striding through the hallways lit by the light of the full moon. Not twenty minutes past curfew, she heard a commotion from the direction of the kitchens. Diana hardly needed to catch the culprit in the act to know it was her self-professed rival. She had cut Akko off at the doorway, leading to the present conversation.

"I have not memorized the faerie staff's birthdays, but I question why you would be taking food the goblins made to feed one of said goblins."

"Oh. Right." Akko shifted nervously. "I guess that's not going to fly."

"No, it is not." Diana waved her wand, and with practiced ease, her magic returned the foodstuffs to their proper places in the kitchen stores. If not for Akko's antics, she wouldn't even know where they belonged.

"Fine, fine." Akko bit her lip, eyes darting around behind Diana. "Um, I'll go back to my room on my own and you can keep going on your patrol."

Diana waited for Akko to move. Aside from anxious jitters, she stayed still as a statue.

"If I leave, you're going to steal food again, aren't you?"

"What!? No! I would never?" Akko voice broke no less than five times.

"Your lying is even more obvious than usual," Diana noted. "What's different from usual?" She leaned in close to her friend, inspecting her with uncompromising eyes.

"Diana, please!" Akko shielded her face with her hands. She was practically trembling under Diana's gaze.

"Akko, you can tell me what's wrong."

Akko remained silent.

Diana gently eased Akko's hands away from her face so that she could look her directly in the eyes. "You can trust me. I've earned that, haven't I? Whatever problem you have, it won't be solved by stealing food."

Akko made a strangled noise and let loose what was on her mind. "Look, it's not my fault! It's not like Luna Nova has proper safety measures set up. I guess I'm the first to come to school here. Is it really that hard to just give me enough food so I don't go on a rampage?

"What are you talking about?"

"C'mon! I thought you were smart," Akko said frantically. She flailed her arms upward, pointing at the sky. "Y'know, full moon? I'm a... well, y'know?"

"A... werewolf?"

"Yeah," Akko said, nodding her head vigorously. "If I don't fill myself up before I go all wolfy, I'll run around looking for something to munch on, and sometimes that'll be a person. This is the safest way for me to transform. That's why I've been stealing food from the kitchen!"

"Curious." Diana crossed her arms. "A full moon happens only once a month. Well, it happens twice every once in a full moon." She chuckled at her own joke. "I seem to recall your thefts occurring more often than that."

"Okay," Akko conceded, "but this time it's important!"

Diana wasn't certain that she believed Akko's story. After all, she thought, if Akko were a werewolf, surely it would've come up before now. But even Akko wouldn't have picked such an easily provable lie. If Akko failed to transform into a wolf, Diana would know she was lying. However, if she did transform...

"Very well," Diana said. "I will assist you. But thievery is not the solution to this problem."

"Would you believe I don't remember to tell you until the full moon comes around and I forget once I go wolf?"

"Yes, Akko. I would believe that."

An hour later, Akko found herself seated at Diana's desk. In Dian's bedroom. At the Cavendish Manor. The entire surface of the desk was covered in dishes of food so fancy Akko couldn't recognize them. "Uh, where did all this come from?"

"I cooked it myself," Diana said. "With magical assistance, naturally." Even with magic to explain the volume, the veritable feast was difficult for Akko to process.

"I mean, you didn't have to go to all that trouble," Akko said bashfully. "You could've just given me the raw ingredients. We werewolves aren't picky."

Diana blushed. "Anything worth doing is worth doing right. Now eat up. The moon will be at its height soon and you'll transform."

"Wait, you cooked it yourself?" Akko asked. "Don't you have staff for that?"

"I d-d-didn't want to t-t-trouble them so late at n-n-night," Diana stammered. "Now eat."

Akko didn't press the issue; there was a feast pining for her attention. She dug into her food with even worse manners than her last visit, prioritizing speed over etiquette. Judging by Diana's silence, she understood the urgency. She didn't speak again until Akko was on her last plate.

Diana chuckled. "Ironic that a werewolf would choose to go to Luna Nova academy."

"You're just full of moon jokes, huh?" Akko downed the last scraps of food in a second. "You aren't fazed about the whole 'Akko's a werewolf' thing?"

"Not as phased as the moon." Diana really couldn't help herself.

"You really aren't worried about being around a werewolf?" Akko looked at her with worry in her eyes.

"Of course not," Diana said. "I'm sure I can handle one little werewolf pup."

"Hey! I'm not a pup! I can be pretty ferocious, y'know!"

"Besides, you and I have been through much more than this," Diana continued. "And I know you would never hurt me."

"Well when you put it that way." Akko blushed furiously. "Um, I think I'm going to transform soon. You might, um, want to leave the room."

"I told you, it's—wh-what in the name of decency are you doing!?"

Akko already had her shirt off and was reaching for her tiny, red shorts. "If I don't take my clothes off, I'll rip them when I turn!" Her voice squeaked, like a Chihuahua's yip. "Do you see why I do this alone!?"

"It is blindingly clear!" Diana not only turned away, she threw herself onto her bed and buried her head under her pillows. She remained there throughout the noise of Akko's transformation, emerging only when she felt something cold and wet press against her leg. She sat up to see a large, brown wolf with a rather distinctive half-ponytail.

"Fascinating. It's almost as if you didn't change at all."

Wolf-Akko narrowed her eyes in response. Apparently werewolves were incapable of human speech.

Diana smiled. "I suppose I shouldn't tease you. You might eat me. After all, I hear you can be ferocious."

Akko shook her head and jumped onto the bed and rolled onto her back, exposing her full belly.

"You're too full to eat me? All is well then."

The wolf-girl turned over and crawled closer to Diana, nudging her hand with her nose until the other girl agreed to pet her head.

"I had no idea werewolves were so needy." Diana most certainly didn't mind the attention. She was quite comfortable being affectionate her family's dogs, and found it equally comfortable to do so with Wolf-Akko—much easier than with Akko's human form, to her eternal dismay. As Akko curled up next to her, Diana eased into a state of deep contentment, running her fingers through Akko's fur. Her last thought before falling asleep was that she was thankful for the full moon for affording her this opportunity.

She was slightly less thankful (i.e. morbidly embarrassed) when she woke up the following morning next to a fully naked Akko curled up on her bed.