Lucy awoke with a start, after having another dream that ended with a certain fire breather destroying her apartment. In turn, it reminded her of the rent due in just a few days. Crap. She had almost forgot about it for once. She needs a job soon. She groggily pulled herself out of bed, glancing at her alarm clock as she did so. It's only seven o' clock. The guild won't even be open for another two hours. With a few moans and groans she managed to roll herself into the shower. Might as well get there early. Then she might actually stand a chance of getting a decent job for rent.

Lucy walked into Fairy Tail at nine, after patiently waiting for Mira Jane to unlock the front doors. Mira stuck around for a few minutes to try for the hundreth time to pry Lucy's love interests out of her. After no luck, she headed back to the bar to set up for the day while Lucy checked for jobs. After finding one that seemed easy enough and took care of rent, she headed for an empty table and sat down. She then pulled a notebook out of her bag and proceeded to work on her novel while things were calm.

After about an hour of peace flew by, the rest of the guild had started to stroll in; starting with team shadow gear. Lucy looked up, allowing herself the luxury of checking Levi out for a few moments. Levi was just too damn cute, and too sweet. This didn't go un-noticed by Mira of course, but Mira says nothing and giggles quietly to herself. After Lucy had dazed off for awhile, she snapped to in time to catch a whiff of pink hair walking in, and black hair in the back of the room. She quickly shoved her notebook back into her bag. She was getting out of there before things got chaotic, as they never failed to do.

Lucy walked down the street towards the location of the job she had selected. All she had to do was help a new local business move some stuff into their shop. Easy; or atleast compared to any job Natsu has managed to drag her on. Two hours pass by, and she was already finished. She happily accepted her pay and left to pay rent. After that was taken care of, she headed home for a hot bath and some work on her novel.

Lucy unlocked the door to her apartment and walked in. She was quite surprised. There was no Natsu there to throw some insane job in her face. No Erza making herself at home, and no Gray prancing around half naked. This was her first peaceful day since she had joined Fairy Tail. Lucy smiled to herself while shutting the door. The second she heard the familiar click of the door closing, she was in her underwear and heading to the bathroom for her well earned bath. She started to turn the handle for the bathroom door, but the next thing she knew her world was spinning and her chest felt heavy, making it difficult to breathe. Lucy lay there a moment before opening her eyes. She looked up, only to see a completely wet and naked Erza laying on top of her, with a towel accidentaly discarded to the floor beside them. Woah. She had knew she had seen Erza naked before.. but she's never been in a situation quite like this. If Erza lay there any longer, Lucy knew her self control would quickly plummet to zero.

"Umm..Erza-chan..can you uhm.. get off.. please..", said the red faced and breathless celestial mage.

"Oh my! Lucy? I'm so sorry! Are you okay!", Erza said as she quickly jumped to her feet, her boobs bouncing in the process.

Yeah, Lucy's will power was dropping digits fast.

"Erza...your uhm.. towel.." With that Erza blushed and hurriedly picked up her towel and threw it around herself.

After everything had calmed down and Lucy and Erza were finally dressed again, Erza began talking. Well, it was more like she was frantically screaming at poor Lucy. As it turns out, Erza had left on a mission forgetting to pay her rent first, and came back to find she had been evicted by her landlord. It was then that she came over to beg Lucy to stay with her. Since Lucy wasn't home at the time, Erza let herself in (as usual) and decided to take a bath and wait for her friend to get home. Then just by luck (for us, and Lucy) she happened to be walking out of the bathroom as Lucy was walking in. She was just surprised as Lucy was when she fell over something, and found herself on top of a half naked Lucy, with her own towel missing. Despite all that had happened, Lucy understood the situation her friend was in and decided to let her stay. Plus Erza was going to help with rent as well, so it's wasn't like she was a problem. She was also a lot calmer and more responsible than Lucy's other friends. As long as what happened earlier doesn't happen again, Lucy would be perfectly fine and would be able to keep her sexuality a secret a bit longer. (She doesn't realize Mira already knows.)

Lucy decided to take a shower while Erza got adjusted and moved her things into the apartment. By the time Lucy was out, Erza had finished and had moved on to a more "interesting" pass-time.

"Lucy-chan, you actually wear these! They're barely a couple of strings!"

"Oh my God!", Lucy mentally screamed, "She's trying on my underwear!"

With that, our heroine got a massive nose-bleed and collapsed.

"Lucy-chan! Lucy! Are you okay?"

What Erza didn't know, was that Lucy would probably never be okay.