Yo! I know a lot of you does not ship or even like Laxus x Erza.

But I actually couldn't care less because I am doing this for myself, to satiate my mind's cravings. Hahahaha. But I do care about my fellow LaxZa lovers. This is for me and for you too. So to haters, shut the fuck up, get out of this story and ship who you want to ship. Because honestly, I never ask or force anyone to like my ships.

Anyway, here it goes!

-Dhime

Prologue: One drunken night

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Work has always been Erza Scarlet's way of escaping and temporarily forgetting about her past. It distracted her. It saves her from the dark memories that forces her to shut herself out from her beloved guild. But now that she has come back from her last job, what would be another way to make her forget everything?

The 19-year old female S-class mage, popularly known as Titania the Queen of Fairies, drags her cart of heavy things, a.k.a wonderful memories, to the nearest pub in Magnolia. It might be better to drown herself with alcohol for one more night before finally facing her friends tomorrow. After leaving the cart at the entrance, she finally sauntered inside ignoring the men and women who stared at her, most of them probably recognized Titania Erza.

"Erza-san! Been a long time since you last dropped by."

"I have been busy with work."

"That's Erza for you." The man behind the bar smiled at her then to another customer beside her to show off that he knows her. "Well, what can I get one of my favorite customers?"

"A bottle of sake. Thanks."

"On it!"

The man merrily went his way to the back to get her bottle of sake as she patiently sit there to wait.

"Look who's here. Not everyday will you see the Great Titania in a pub."

She knew that thunderous voice anywhere. She turned on her back and saw that spiteful lightning boy and the Raijinshuu standing at the doorway, Laxus with a cocky smirk. She turned back around and tried to shut them out too.

"Ignoring us, Erza?"

She didn't even flinch when she felt a ghostly breath right on her ear. Yes, this man could be so cocky but he has the right to be. He didn't earn the title one of the strongest mage of Fairy Tail for nothing. She grumbled lowly when felt a weight on her shoulder. "No. I'm just not in the mood to listen to your nonsensical whims."

He started to laugh in a mocking tone. "You never fail to amuse me. So to what do we owe you the pleasure?"

"Tch." She glared at him so as to convey his unwanted company. "As far as I know, you do not own this place. Don't go around acting like a King, Laxus. You are not even sure if you are the successor to the guild you are trying to own."

He scoffed, evidence that she hit a nerve. Erza smirked patting herself in the back inside her mind. "I'll let that pass. Bix, Ever, Freed."

"Laxus?"

"You can go your own way. I'll accompany our little Titania for awhile."

It's her turn to scoff now. "If you haven't get the signals, I do not want your company, Laxus."

Laxus craned his head back to her, and then smirks. "Hush now, Erza. Let me buy you some sake to ease your tension." Her eyebrows knotted as Laxus talked to the barman so whatever she says will be shut out.

The barman set down two bottles in front of her, the one she ordered and the one Laxus did. Why would this stupid, cocky brat even try to accompany her? She had a strong feeling this has something to do about Fairy Tail.

"So tell me, why is the most uncanny person trying to drown herself to liquor?"

"Give me one good reason why I should tell you."

He chuckled. How the hell did she even end up sitting in a bar with annoying, cocky, mad-brat Laxus? "Hn. Because I know how you are that scaredy little orphan who abandoned her friends to escape the Tower of Heaven." Her eyes widened, everything came to her in a rush. She unsheathed her sword and darted towards Laxus' neck.

The merriment inside the pub stopped, everyone looked at them, the barman scared of even stopping her. "You know nothing about me. Nothing."

Laxus smirk, challenged by her actions, his one hand clamped on her sword that is on his neck.

"Erza-san, Laxus-san, please don't scare our customers."

Erza looked at the barman and then around the pub. She wasn't one who just lose her cool but something about Laxus just tick her. His very presence alone weirded her out. She sheath her sword and bow for apologies, took her bottle of sake, left the one Laxus ordered for her, and then left the pub. So much for drinking her problems away. That guy just made her remember every bit of memories she wish to forget. The female mage drags her cart once again and darted towards the guild building. It is night already and no one will be there. No one is allowed to go up the 2nd floor anyway.

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As soon as she arrived at the guild, she went upstairs leaving her cart to relax her muscles. She sat herself on the floor, leaning against the railings where the ground floor can be seen.

That Laxus. How dare he spoil the night she is intending to spend with herself and the bottle of sake she is holding right now. Instead of dwelling on the cocky blonde, she shook her head and drank her fill. She is not as good as Cana with handling liquor but she doesn't care for she is alone and that's what she preferred right now.

"Some scene you left me in there, Titania."

She growled lowly, trying to hide her surprise that he is, again, sitting next to her. This time on the floor, with his own bottle of liquor.

"Did you not know it's rude to leave a company behind?" He smirked at her in a mocking way. "But I guess you are used to abandoning people right?"

Her patience running thin on him. She has never been alone with this man before so why would he even start now? "What do you want, Laxus?"

"To drink and forget with a sensible person."

"Tch. And your guards cannot suffice?"

"I'm always with them. Same routine is boring me." Laxus finished his bottle and kicked it down to the ground floor making it shatter to pieces.

"You better clean that up before Master and Mira sees it tomorrow."

"Relax, Scarlet. Loosen up for just one night."

"What's it to you anyway? And why are you even here?"

He shrugged like a guy normally would do but no one would believe this is Laxus Dreyar right here. The man who hated her, them, and all of Fairy Tail. Here. Right now. Drinking with her. Who would believe that if she told everyone? So what the hell is Laxus' real reason?

An hour and a half of drinking and conversing, bickering included, later... What happened between Erza Scarlet and Laxus Dreyar inside the room at the guild's 2nd floor should never be known to other Fairy Tail members. The next day a secret gets buried in that room which Erza is not yet aware it can turn her life upside-down.

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There it is! The prologue. Yes! Finally, my own LaxZa. Oh, well. Read it or not, I'm going to continue this multiple-chaptered story.

Btw, can anyone suggest me a better title for the story?

thanks!

-Dhime