Yo! Thanks for checkin' out the ElfEver chapter! I love them. I love them so much. As of right now they are my OTP. You should go look up the new picture of them dancing in the anime. So cute :') And sorry it took longer than expected to update, I've been really sick, I have double pink eye and a sinus infection. I'll try to have my updates more frequent! Enjoy :)

She hadn't been eavesdropping, no. She would stoop so low as to eavesdrop. She just happened to.. overhear.. the conversation taking place at the guild's bar that morning.

"So, all the men are home sick today? All of them?" Lucy asked incredulously

"Yeah, isn't it relaxing?" Cana sighed.

Evergreen felt her brow furrow. She knew her fellow Thunder Legion members were out sick, but she hadn't realized the whole male population had been affected. Not that she cared, it was just, unsettling.

"Looks like someone's a little lonely without her man by her side." Evergreen felt herself jump in surprise at the chipper voice in her ear and quickly tried to regain her composure. She turned to scowl at the intrusive presence and was greeted with the youngest take over mage smiling at her.

"I beg your pardon?" Evergreen seethed, preparing herself for the inevitable teasing about to be dished out by Lisanna.

"Oh, nothin'. I just noticed you look pretty worried about something." she sang, careening her body so her head to be level with Evergreen's sitting form.

"I have absolutely no idea what you are implying, Lisanna." Evergreen unconvincingly lied.

"Uh-huh, sure. Here, I brought this for you." She exclaimed as she shoved a piece of paper into the older woman's surprised hands. Before she had a chance to respond, Lisanna had promptly straightened up.

"I have someone to see myself, so I'll be seeing you later! Have fun!" Lisanna shouted over her shoulder as she made her way to the exit.

"What?" Evergreen muttered under her breath, unfolding the slip. Written in girly cursive was an address. Evergreen didn't even have to guess whose house this would lead her to. Elfman. She felt a slight flutter of nervousness in the pit of her stomach as she tried to decide what to do. Now I really have not reason not to go. There's nothing wrong with me checking up on a sick team mate. With a final resolution, she stood up and with stead fast determination, made her way to Elfman's house.

She recognized the street name on the paper and knew it wasn't too far away. Maybe ten minutes on foot, or twenty for Evergreen who constantly stopped to second guess herself. Am I being an inconvenience? Is it weird that I'm going? She shook her head. No. I'm just going to check up on him. After arriving on the street and locating the corresponding house number, she took a quick moment to adjust herself. Once she was satisifed she made her way up the path to the doorway. Before she had a chance to raise her hand to knock the door swung open and she was met with a grinning, pajama-clad, Elfman.

"Hey Ever, what's up?" Elfman asked, his words completely mumbled due to apparent head conjestion.

"Your sister asked me to come check on you." It was sort of true.

"The better question is what are you doing? Have you just been standing at the door waiting for someone to come?" Evergreen teased, cocking an eyebrow. Elfman blushed at her question and raised a hand to scratch the back of his neck in boyish embarrassment.

"I was cooking and I saw you coming up the path." He explained with a chuckle.

"Shouldn't you be resting?" she inquired, trying to suppress a grin at the mental image of the manly Elfman Strauss cooking.

"I was really hungry, oh-here come in." He offered, stepping to the side to let her in.

"Thanks." She stepped into the house and glanced around. It was very...manly, she couldn't help but grin at how Elfman the house was. She glanced out of the corner of her eye and saw what had to be the kitchen. She slipped out of her heels, losing a good six inches off her height, and made her way to the food. When she entered the room she realized referring to it as food was a bit of an overstatement.

"I-Is this soup?" She stuttered turning towards the take over mage who had walked in behind her.

Uh-yeah. My eyes started to itch while I was heating it up and I guess it burned to the side." He mumbled looking down at the charred soup.

"Your eyes itch?" Her full concentration turning to him.

"Just a little bit-" His sentence died off when she took a step closer to him and stood on her tip-toes trying to get a look at his eyes.

"They look really pink and irritated. Have you been rubbing them a lot?" She asked, taking his hand and leading him to the couch, forcing him to sit down so she didn't have to strain to see. Not noticing his growing blush.

"Well, not too bad." He was trying to ignore Evergreen who had taken stance in between his legs, and who's chest was precariously close to his face.

"Stop squirming, let me look." She reprimanded, clutching his face in between both her hands as she leaned down to look at his fighting eyes. She gently placed the pad of her thumb on his upper cheek and slightly pulled down so she revealed more of his eye. It was extremely pink and irritated.

"It looks like you have pink eye. Were you sick before yesterday?" she asked, slightly moving off him so she could bend over the couch's arm and grab something out of her purse. She inadvertently was bent over one of Elfman's legs as well and he gently put a hand on her hip to steady her.

"Just a little bit." He coughed out, trying to take his eyes off the body strewn on him.

"Ah, got it!" She exclaimed coming back up with a odd shaped bottle in her hands.

"What's that?" He said, watching her unscrew the cover to reveal a dropper-like top.

"Bickslow, Freed, and I aren't unfamiliar with pink eye, we get it a lot when we strain our eyes too much while training. This is eye drop medicine." She explained as he continued eyeing the bottle.

"I'm just going to need you to keep your eyes open so I can put a drop in." She informed him, placing her other hand on the cushion by his shoulder to steady herself. She raised the dropper above his eye and he immediately leaned back.

"Don't tell me you're scared of a little medicine." She teased, leaning forward.

"Of course not! I'm a man." He boasted unconvincingly. She moved to do it again and he involuntarily turned his head.

"Don't be a baby." She grabbed the side of his head, but was met with him craning his body away. She slid her legs to rest on either side of his thighs on the couch, straddling him so he was pinned down unable to move his body away.

"It's going to sting." He groaned in an uncharacteristically un-Elfman way, tilting his head backwards.

"No it won't, come on show me what a man you are." She consoled. She leaned her body forward pressing her chest onto his so his torso was pinned to the couch also. She used the hand she had been using to support herself and snaked it around Elfman's neck, pulling him back up so he was face to face with her. She pressed closer to him and gripped his neck harder as she put in the first drop. His hands shot to grab her hips in shock as he rapidly blinked. Once he was done he looked at her grinning face.

"See was that so bad?" She asked. Elfman barely heard her because he had just really taken in what position the were in right now and he could only manage to blush and nod.

"Good let me do the other one." She laughed, he put up no fight this time, instead marveled at how soft she was pressed up against him. He almost groaned in displeasure as she leaned off him slightly to put the cap back on the container.

"Feel any better?" She asked with a smile.

"Much, thank you Ever." he beamed as he wrapped his arms around her, pulling her into a hug.

"Anytime." She smiled, hugging back.

I'm pretty happy with how that turned out! Thanks for reading! PLEASE REVIEW AND TELL ME ANYTHING YOU'D LIKE TO SEE! Love - Nicole