AN: Fairy Tail and its characters belong to Hiro Mashima!
So, if you read 'From Amongst the Rafters';
1. 1. Thank you so much! XD
2. 2. This is...very different.
This is what happens when you sit up all night in the middle of the summer holidays reading fanfiction and then sit listening to all of the Nickelback albums all of the next day...you start to get 'ideas' – as in, I listened to a song which made me come up with what sounded like a WILD one-shot drinking session between Cana and Bacchus...somehow this happened...and the original idea was lost completely...and turned into a CanaxBacchus side 'thing', em...sorry? Ok, now I shall shut up and hopefully remember to write less here in future – hope you enjoy my unintentionally dark story! M for language, violence and other dark themes, not sure about the 'Lemon' content...sorry if that's what you were wanting! Oh, there are (will be) several pairings in this, including changing between couples, e.g. both LaxusxCana and BacchusxCana will appear – this fact is not a spoiler!
Chapter One - The Fight
Lucy sat silently in the darkness, waiting on the cold, black leather sofa for her boyfriend to get home. She sat staring into the nothingness around her, thinking. Thinking was dangerous. Thinking would get her into trouble. It was the worst thing that she could possibly do. Dark suspicions crawled through her mind. He should have been home.
She'd gotten home from work at four to an empty bed. She'd checked their bathroom but he wasn't there either. It wasn't hard to check their kitchen and living room since their place was open plan and you walked straight into the living room when you came in through the door. Her boyfriend had been elsewhere when she'd gotten home. Again. He'd done this to her last week as well. He had come in at six, telling her he'd gotten out the taxi at his friend's place and had a few drinks there.
She knew his friend – or at least enough to know to avoid him. Bacchus seriously crept her out. He was always drunk when she seen him, always hitting on her, calling her weird names, almost drooling on her. Since her boyfriend had met him, she'd barely gotten to spend any real time with him, they were always together. She often went to sleep in an empty bed now – but going to sleep in an empty bed at four in the morning? That was taking things a step too far. It was now five in the morning and she'd been sitting alone in the dark for half an hour, thinking.
The door opened.
"Hey Babe, what you still doing up?!" Her boyfriend asked, irritation and surprise in his voice, as he switched the light on and seen Lucy just sitting there.
"Waiting on you. I was a little surprised when I got home from work an hour ago and you weren't here." Lucy stated in a cold-sounding monotone as she stood up to look him in his storm-grey eyes.
"Heh, went to Bacchus' again, Babe. Worried? You better not have been, I'll be pretty damn pissed if you're gonna start you're god damn accusations again!" His voice started to rise near the end as his glare intensified.
"What am I supposed to think, Laxus? You weren't here last Friday either. You haven't been here most nights these last two weeks when I've went to bed – so tell me, what am I supposed to think?!" Irritation crept into Lucy's voice; she couldn't keep it back any longer.
"What?! You gettin' lonely?! Is that what this is about?! It's the god damn end of the year at work – that's why I'm home late every night! Yeah, I'm stayin' out late on Friday nights! I need some time to fuckin' relax, 'cause every time I get back here I've got you yelling at me! Constantly throwing accusations at me! Who the fuck do you think pays for this place?! Huh, Babe?! It sure as hell ain't you!" He yelled at her, shoving her backwards with one hand, causing her to lose her balance and land on the hardwood coffee table.
"Why the hell did you push me?! I've got an audition at ten! I can't go if you start covering me in bruises again!" She yelled at him as she tried to get up, brushing off his comment about 'paying for the place'.
"I'll push you if I want!" He said, shoving her again, "you gonna be on your knees at this audition?! It's the only damn way you're gonna get the part!"
"What did you just say to me?! I'm not the one out 'til five in the morning!" she yelled at him.
"You heard me! It's not as if it's beneath you to go shoving other guys in your mouth! It's all your good at! How'd you feel if I said I was out shagging every girl I seen, is that what you're looking for?! A god damn confession?! So what if I did?! I certainly wouldn't be the first guy to cheat on his gal!" Laxus shoved up her against the dark grey wall, daring her to challenge him.
"How can you say that...?" Her voice almost dropped to a whisper, the anger draining away as she fought back the tears threatening to leave her soft, brown eyes.
"How?! Trust me Babe, Hell's gonna freeze over before you actually get a job in acting – you're so easy to fucking walk over! Women have to swallow a lot more than their pride to make it in that business. Sorry Babe, but you ain't got what it takes..." His voice grew gentle towards the end as he took half a step back from Lucy and gently applied pressure to her shoulders, making her slide down onto her knees, "you gonna apologise now, Babe? You know I wouldn't cheat on you – nothing gives me more pleasure than the sight of you looking up at me, begging me for more," he added softly, while unzipping his trousers.
Lucy knelt there, stunned. How could he say that? After all this time, how could he just crush her dreams like that? She thought he loved and believed in her...didn't he? He'd never actually said it. Although he had implied it a few times...hadn't he? They'd been together for two years now, and she'd moved in after only six months – he'd been so insistent. He didn't like the idea of his girlfriend 'living in a place on her own'; he'd even glared at every guy she'd spoken to. She looked up at Laxus; he looked back down at her with an expectant lust. Was that all this was? Sex? Was she just his toy?!
"...do you...love me, Laxus...?" She asked hesitantly.
"Huh? Well, you look damn good from this angle! And I have to admit, watching you ignore that pink haired guy at your work that's always all over you?! That makes me feel pretty damn good – and like I said, there ain't a better sight than you looking up at me, begging me for more!" He gloated, "that expression is just so fuckin' addictive!"
Lucy looked back down at the floor. She was nothing to him. She was just his little play-thing. She'd wasted two years of her life on this jerk, and she'd had enough. Lucy stood up slowly, squeezing past Laxus and heading in the direction of the bedroom. She was leaving him. She'd phone Cana, she'd still be up wouldn't she? Lucy didn't want to waste a minute longer here than she had to.
Laxus watched Lucy stand up in silence, slightly confused by her actions. Did she think she was getting a kiss after that?! He watched her squeeze past him and head in the direction of the bedroom. He guessed she was going to go 'freshen up' – she had been at work all night. He moved to sink to grab a glass of water before following. Laxus barely hid his surprise as he almost bumped into her coming back out of the bedroom carrying her suitcase.
"Where the hell are you going?! Its half five in the morning, Babe! Come on, Hon, just unpack your suitcase, we've done this too many times recently. Let's just go to bed and talk about this in the morning, okay?" He ended almost soothingly.
"I'm leaving, Laxus. I don't want to stay here any longer, I'm leaving you." Her words hit Laxus like punch to the gut, anger and hurt welled up inside him.
"Don't you dare walk out on me! You're nothing without me! Without me you're just some useless whore with nowhere to go!" He yelled, smashing his fist through the wall, just above Lucy's head.
Lucy continued towards the door, unfazed. She'd felt that fist before, like she cared if he smashed up a few walls. She was getting out of here before it was her again that his fist met with. The door clicked shut behind her and she could hear the smashing and breaking of their past two years together on the other side of the door as she walked down the hallway towards the elevator, not looking back.
So...well, can I just say: Domestic abuse? It's just wrong, don't do it and please do not let yourself be a victim of it! So, yeah, Lucy just walked out on Laxus – well done if you seen that coming! Laxus is pretty much the 'Laxus' from the Fighting Festival Arc in this chapter ;) I'll try to upload a chapter a day between 12pm and 2pm GMT :) (i.e. my lunchtime ;) )I'll warn you now, this will not be short! Hopefully you can get an idea of what this story will be about after reading the summary and this first chapter, and I promise that I will try not to ramble in the "author's note" parts in future! O:)
P.S. I have no problem with Laxus, *thinks back to the recent fight against Jura and Fangirls slightly*, in fact recently he's seriously grown on me...he'll never be Gajeel though O;) *Fangirls even more over Gajeel's latest form*...I aim for no spoilers at any point, it annoys me when I come across one unexpectedly. Thanks for reading!