Disclaimer: I don't own Fairy Tail

It was a rare day when Jellal Fernandes would allow himself to celebrate something, and a much rarer when Crime Sorciere was in such a mood that they would drink to something, but today was one of those days. They had managed to take down quite a large dark guild and had decided to that after a long run of good work that they could in fact, mostly due to Ultear and Meredy's urgings, take a short, couple days reprieve from their usually intense schedule. It also may have had to do with the fact that they were also so close to Magnolia and that both of the other members had been begging for an excuse to visit Fairy Tail for a while now.

After only a few rounds of drinks Ultear and Meredy were finally forced to put their fearless leader down early because he had next to no alcohol tolerance. Or at least they thought that was the end of it.

She had to admit that she was surprised when she was awoken by the loud rapping on her apartment door. She was slightly disgruntled by the sight of the bright red 2:30 blinking angrily on the face of her alarm clock. She made her way through the apartment and to the door, staring out the peephole to see who on earthland could possibly feel the need to see her at this hour. She was surprised when she realized that her view was obscured by a blue mass and it took her a moment in her weary state to recognize the familiar shade. She felt her heart skip a beat as she pulled the door open to Jellal, who almost fell to the ground because of how heavily he had been leaning on her door. He shifted back so he was resting against the frame of her doorway.

"Hey! Hey Errrzzaa~!" He hiccupped excitedly.

She instantly could smell the remnants of his escapade from the previous portion of the night. He had a slack grin plastered lazily across his face and his eyes were having trouble staying focused on her face. A light flush of pink was painted across his cheeks. He was missing his long coat and breastplate, which made him look slightly out of place. Her annoyance faded slightly and turned in concern. Why of all places was he here? How on earthland had he even gotten to Magnolia? And where was the rest of his guild? And finally, why was he drunk on her doorstep at 2 in the morning of all things? She decided that she would have to look after Jellal since he looked like he could barely stand, much less walk.

"What are you doing here?" She asked Jellal curiously. He had been giggling and hiccupping all the while that she had been lost collecting her thoughts.

"I wanted to see you, silly." He slurred, lifting a hand and poking her face, causing him to fall into a fit of giggles again. He began to slip and she quickly stepped forwards and wrapped her arms around him torso in order to keep him from falling. Her knees buckled a bit under the extra weight and, though he lifted his arms up around her in return, he made absolutely no effort to support any of his own weight. Instead he just nuzzled his cheek against hers fondly.

She stumbled back a half step before falling backwards completely under his weight. Some how in his drunken state he managed to keep a hold of her and sweep her back onto her feet using the momentum. At least now he was standing on his own, she thought to herself as she regained her own footing. She closed the door behind them lest someone walk by and see the fugitive standing by her door at this hour because he was certainly in no fit shape to be running from any rune knights.

"You ought to be more careful." Jellal commented as he pulled her in to another hug.

Despite wanting to enjoy the moment, there were some things that Erza had to find out for herself first. She wriggled out of his grasp and took a step back so that she could look him in the eye without having to tilt her head so far back.

"Jellal, why on earthland are you here?" She asked again with an exasperated sigh.

"Because you're here." He answered like it was the most obvious fact in the world. "I needed to see you."

"I've got that, but why do you need to see me at-" she glanced over at the clock, "2:42 in the morning? Why not just come by the guild in the morning and see me?"

His face crumpled up as he stared in to the distance, trying to remember what had possessed him to come at such an early hour instead of during the day like she had suggested. After a few more moments his face lit up as the thought came back to him. "Oh yeah! I have no idea." He replied, grinning back down at her.

"So how did you get here?" She fired.

"Meteor." He replied back, lifting a hand and pointing to his forehead. Now in the light of her room, she could see a nasty bruise forming on the spot that he was indicating. "I think I ran into a tree, but I'm not entirely sure."

"How are you not- Never mind. And why on earthlandland are you drunk?" She snapped.

"Well we beat this really powerful dark guild, but I think Ultear and Meredy really just wanted to celebrate because we've decided to take a couple of days to recuperate in the area before moving on and because we were going to visit Fairy Tail." He explained. "Anyways, so we were celebrating and I had like, two glasses of wine. I swear. Even Meredy calls me a lightweight." He explained frantically, as if Erza might not believe him. "So anyways, I kept asking if I could come see you but they told me no and then told me to go to sleep, but I couldn't. So I waited until they were asleep and then I think I used meteor to get here. I'm not sure about that last part though. That part is really hazy," he mumbled to himself.

She was still quite unsure of how to react to her drunk friend and his quest to come and see her. The fact that he had come to see her of all people stirred something in the pool of her stomach, but she pushed the feeling down. She did not have the energy to deal with such thoughts right now. After a few moments of uncomfortable silence Jellal finally spoke again.

"I should probably get going. I dunno. Sorry for waking you up, I just really needed to see you. I've only got one more question." He asked, turning his head slightly so that he could look at her as he made his way towards the door. Erza nodded for him to continue.

"Do you know where I camped? I can't remember." He asked helplessly.

Erza face palmed. "Oh, Jellal." She groaned in frustration.

"Yeah?" He asked excitedly.

There was no way that she could turn him out now. He couldn't remember how to get back and he still was drunk enough so that he had the attention span of a five year old. If she let him leave now then he would either get lost and be captured by ruin knights or probably even walk up to them and ask them for directions and end up having his whole guild captured. And there was no way that Erza Scarlet was going to let that happen to her friend.

"Follow me." She sighed. He grinned happily and turned away from the door to trot after her. Erza led him through the massive armor-filled apartment, trying to figure out a place that where her guest could sleep.

They eventually ended up wandering into the sitting room before stopping in front of her couch. She looked down at the short piece of furniture and sighed. There was no way that someone as tall as Jellal would be able to fall asleep on that. It wasn't even big enough for her to sleep on. She gave up. He followed her like a baby duck as she led him to her room and sat obediently on the edge of the bed as she shuffled around, pulling out an extra pillow and a blanket. He moved to take the items from her, but she shakes her head in response.

"You're my guest: you take the bed."

"No. You're a girl. You sleep on the bed." He argued back.

"Jellal-" She began in a dangerous tone.

"Erza-" He whined back.

She looked him right in the eye. Though it was clear that he was still far from sober, it was also clear in his eyes that he showed no intention of backing down. Then again, neither did she. She was about to speak again when all of a sudden Jellal's expression changed.

"This bed is big enough for two people." He pointed out. Erza's face flushed slightly at the comment, but Jellal didn't seem to notice. Instead he had opted to pout at her and the longer she looked at his face, the more her resolve began to crumble. It only took a few more seconds before she finally gave in.

"Fine." She sighed tiredly, glancing over at the alarm clock.

3:15.

She was too tired to be dealing with this foolishness right now. Jellal, on the other hand, seemed very pleased that he had won and quickly slipped his boots off before sliding under the covers on one side of the bed. He watched her as she walked around to her side of the bed as if to make sure that she was not tricking him and sleeping on the ground.

She slid into the bed on her side and Jellal finally put his head down on a pillow, satisfied with their situation. Perhaps it was just due to her tired state, but she couldn't help but notice how cute Jellal looked with a goofy smile plastered on his face as he snuggled under the covers. It was interesting to her to see her friend that was usually so serious acting so happy and so carefree. She quickly returned to reality. Her stomach felt nervous at the thought of the two of them sharing the bed, but she pushed it down and reached over to turn out the light.

"Good night Erza." Jellal mumbled into his pillow.

"Good night Jellal." She smiled back softly as she flicked the switch.

When Erza awoke she was not entirely sure if what had happened the previous night was real or not. The only thing that she was sure of at the moment was that she had vastly overslept, bright rays of light peeking out from under the curtains in front of her windows and taunting her. In another couple of moments as she began to wake up more and she suddenly tensed. There was something, or rather someone, who was lying right beside her with an arm thrown lazily across her body and his head snuggled into the crook of her neck. She instantly felt her face heat up and tried to wriggle free from Jellal's grasp, but instead his arm only tightened around her, bringing her closer to him as his nose nuzzled against her neck.

"Erza..." he mumbled into her neck, breath tickling her skin, "hmm... smells nice."

She blushes at this comment and starts to try and free herself from his grasp again. She couldn't think when she was trapped against his warm body and she really needed some air.

"Jellal," she groaned, "I need to get up to go to the guild." She demanded, finally managing to slip from his grasp before rolling over the side of the bed to escape.

"...Erza?"

She saw his relaxed face stiffen as his eyes slowly began to open. Well, at least the old Jellal was back. He sat up and blinked blearily a few times. He first looked down at the bed, as if confused with how he had gotten there, and then looked up at her. His eyes shot open in a flash, almost all traces of sleepiness instantly vanishing and she was pretty sure that he had stopped breathing altogether.

"What? How did I? Where? What?"

Erza watched with vague amusement as his face turned bright red and he continued to sputter for a few moments before finally collecting himself enough to make out an actual sentence.

He turned to her with a bewildered look in his eyes. "What happened? How did I get here?" He asked seriously. Despite the look on his face and in his eyes, Erza found it very hard to take him seriously was his hair was still a rumpled mess. She proceeded to explain to him how he had turned up on her doorstep, apparently after using meteor to come see her at some godforsaken hour of the morning and how she had let him stay because she was worried that something would have happened to him. He takes a moment to digest all of the information before he speaks up again, this time a little bit calmer.

"...So what exactly am I like when I'm drunk?"

All of the questions he could have asked, she was not expecting that one. Did he really have no recollection of what had happened?

"I mean, I can never remember what happens and Meredy and Ultear refuse to tell me, but whenever I bring it up they always just laugh. So yeah, I'm just kind of curious." He explained, blushing slightly from embarrassment.

"How do I put this delicately?" She asked herself aloud, watching the look of terror that stuck his face. "You become the emotional equivalent of a five year old." She smirked. His face softened and he let a short chuckle echo from his throat.

"Sorry for waking you up so early in the morning." He apologized, bowing his head. "And for all of the trouble I may caused you."

"It was no problem. Really." She assured him. "Do you want to come down to the guild with me to get some breakfast?"

"I'm feeling much better now, so I should probably return to the rest of my guild before they start to worry to much, but thank you for the offer." He replied, giving her a small smile in return. He slid to the edge of his side of the bed and made a move to stand, but was interrupted by a loud growling noise.

Both he and Erza turned to look down at his stomach, which had just halted him. He stood and turned to look sheepishly back at her.

"We can send a messenger pigeon to Ultear and Meredy to let them know that you're already here and to tell them to just pick you up here since you said that they were planning on stopping by the guild today anyways." Erza suggests to him.

"I guess breakfast couldn't hurt." Jellal relents, smiling in earnest now.

Much to his surprise, Jellal was welcomed warmly down in the guildhall, being bombarded with questions about how he was doing and by requests from Natsu to fight. Erza quickly put an end to the latter, sending the hyper dragon slayer flying across the guild. They went to the bar and ordered food from Mira as well as sent a message to the rest of his guild. Thankfully he could actually remember where they were now. It did not take more than half an hour before Meredy and Ultear arrived. Both of them chastised him for running off before teasing him once they found out that he had run straight to Erza. This caused both the requip mage and the heavenly body mage to blush profusely and sit in awkward silence for a moment. The other two members explain to him that he is always overexcited to go see Erza when he's drunk and pouts when they tell him that he can't. This causes Jellal to blush even deeper as Erza watches on in amusement. Satisfied that their work was done, Ultear and Meredy went to the bar to order themselves some breakfast before spending the day with their other favorite guild.

"Hey Ultear, did you think we did the right thing?" Meredy asked the older woman.

"What do you mean?" Ultear asked, turning her attention away from her breakfast.

"I mean telling Jellal to use meteor before tricking him, knocking him out, and leaving him on Erza's doorstep at who knows what time in the morning?" Meredy clarified.

"Well there was no way that I was going to let that idiot actually use meteor while he was drunk. Not a chance. He would have gotten himself killed." Ultear smirked. "And besides, look at those two," she said, pointing at the figures of Erza and Jellal staring at each other over their own meals. "Tell me they don't look happy."

"So mission accomplished?" The pink-haired girl asked hopefully.

"Mission accomplished."

A/N: So yeah. Apologies, I'm not the best writer. I have the head cannon that when Jellal is drunk he either acts like a child, gets super hyper, and wants to go see Erza (though his despair his guild mates can't let him) or he just starts rambling really fast about all of the things he knows: stars, magic, you name it.