Disclaimer: Fairy Tail is not mine. I just use the characters for my own sick pleasure

Pairing: LaLu (Laxus X Lucy)

Summary: They met one night under the light of the moon. Somehow it just kept on happening. Slight AU.

Autumn 1 – part 2

"Are you mad?"

He barely even moves when he hears her voice, barely even acknowledges her when she sits down beside him and swings both of her legs out over the edge of the stone railing.

"Not at you, no," Laxus finally sighs, "I'm mad at Dragneel."

"Natsu? What did he do?"

"He got you on his team, that's what."

She doesn't even know the track-record that the brat has gained over the years, destroying buildings left and right without a second thought to his surroundings.

"You're… worried? For me?"

Well, shit…

"'course I'm not worried, you're old enough to know how to takes care of yourself. Dragneel is who worries me with that track record of his."

"I know he's a bit… loud at times, Laxus. I've been working with him for over a year now."

Laxus snorts, folding his hands in his lap as he looks up at the sky with lazy eyes, "Understatement of the year, Heartfilia."

"Stop calling me that," Lucy bites back and swats at his shoulder, a miffed expression on her face as she glares at him, "I don't want you to call me by my last name, it's weird."

"It's your name."

"Friends shouldn't call each other by their last name, it's not polite."

"We're friends?" he grins despite the insensitive question.

He earns another swat on the shoulder with that comment before her soft laughter fills the otherwise quiet corner of the Guild Hall.

"Idiot," Lucy chuckles and wraps her arms around the closest of Laxus' arms, leaning against it with a large grin on her own face, "But you're my idiot."

"Shut up…" Laxus mutters as he glances down at the girl sitting beside him, pretending to ignore how it feels to have her clutch his arm like that.

They continue to sit like this for what seems like an eternity, at least until someone yells Lucy's name from inside the Guild and her attention is shifted away from this little moment of theirs.

"Hey…" Laxus swallows, embarrassment sitting thick in the middle of his throat as he watches her stand up, "Come back safe from whatever hare-brained scheme that Dragneel has thought of, alright? I'll be mad if you can't join me on that coffee spot."

"Of course, Laxus," Lucy smiles, squeezing his arm one last time before darting inside once more.

Come back safe, you hear?

Posted 19/09/2016
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