A/N: So, just like in my Midlu story I'm letting you all know right now updates may not come daily, but I will have seven chapters and they will all be based on the given themes. I will also have my own character somewhere in here as a side character just like in my fanfiction Stranger Times. The first day for BixLu is "Fix". For a while, I was really stumped on what to write, but eventually this….thing came to life, so, here we are lolz. Also, guys, we're just going to say that for the sake of the plot Lucy and Bix are actually a little friendlier than they are in the anime…like they know each other better. If not then I feel like the relationship between the two of them will have moved way too fast in this short story OTL On a side note, if you read my MidLu story, I was thinking about finishing this before I update that one. This story is going to be so much shorter after all.
Disclaimer: I still do not own Fairy Tail. Seriously, I'm still glad I don't because all you canon shippers would be trying to murder me for making crack ships a thing. Oh boy, if I ever write a famous manga you all will know. Anyways, Fairy Tail belongs to the godly Hiro Mashima! Please, everyone lets go thank him for this glorious piece of work.
Chapter 1: An Unexpected Hero Arrives
"What. The. Literal. Fuck?" Lucy said while looking around her bedroom, twitching lightly in anger as she stared at the two men that had earned her anger. One, was a boy in nothing but, his boxers, a man whom she had dated for a bit, but eventually broken it off with. Two, was her best friend, a man whom she loved as much as boy one, but right now…she wanted to murder the both of them. "Who the hell is going to pay to fix this shit!?" she yelled while throwing her arms out over the expanse of her bedroom. First off, half of it was covered in a thick sheet of ice, the other half was blackened after having met with Natsu's flames. And lastly, there was a gaping hole in the wall across from the door, like literally it could have been a second door if she needed a door that had an immediate drop from her room on the ground level. "I'm going to murder the both of you…slowly, with a god damned fucking rusted butter knife!" Lucy shouted and watched as the two men shrunk further away from her. The two of them backed away from her until the backs of their knees hit her bed which promptly fell apart. The two boys put on a look of horror when they heard Lucy begin screaming at the two of them. They didn't understand much, but they did understand "murder", "fuck you with a spiked dildo", and "my bed". They were just lucky a new crowd had come onto the scene to hold her back before she went through with whatever threat she had just thrown at them. Neither boy wanted to find out what a spiked dildo looked like, much less what it would feel like getting murdered by one.
"Damn blondie, I didn't know you had such a colorful vocabulary," Laxus spoke, blue eyes glancing over at her as his teammate held back the raging blonde.
"Shut up, your blonde too you fucking electrical outlet," was Lucy's quick response as she clawed at the sleeved arms around her waist. It held her a few inches from above the ground and was unfortunately keeping her away from tearing Natsu and Gray a new asshole.
"No need to blame me for the destructive tendencies of your idiot friends," Laxus responded and smirked when she shrieked angrily. He then, triumphantly, he might add, turned to the two trouble makers themselves, but the moment he opened his mouth to speak the back of his head was met with a shoe. A heeled boot to be specific. He turned his head quickly toward Lucy with a glare already set in place. "Get her the fuck out of here before I destroy the rest of her room," Laxus said and watched as his friend quickly carried Lucy out of the room.
Once outside of the room the man carrying her quickly began laughing at the whole scene. He didn't dare laugh in front of Laxus when the man was so noticeably pissed, but damn it all if watching Laxus getting nailed with a boot wasn't the funniest shit he had ever seen.
"Damn cosplayer, I didn't know you had a pair of balls like that," Bickslow spoke, not trying at all to hide his laugh which was only annoying Lucy even further. How could he laugh at a time like this? Her damned apartment was totally destroyed!
"Yeah, I've been hiding them in my damn skirt since day one. Do you wanna see? Just you know, don't get jealous when the dicks bigger than your four inches," she responded with a bit of venom mixing in her tone of voice. Bickslow nearly chocked on his spit when he heard her words, but the key word there was nearly. He continued laughing at the suffering of the blonde as he carried her out of the apartment and away from the voice of Laxus screaming at the two idiots. The two of them had been a thorn in his side ever since he had become guild master and honestly he wondered how his grandfather had managed to handle them.
"Yeah, keep fucking laughing at my expense. I'll just sit here wondering how I'm going to pay for this mess and pray that I can find a place to stay," Lucy said while sighing lightly and looking toward the ground as Bickslow began descending the stairs to her apartment building.
"Chill cosplayer, the guild is going to pay for having thing fixed, which is why Laxus was so pissed and I'm sure one of your girlies will let you stay with them," Bickslow spoke, ignoring his babies as they repeated a few of his words in the background.
"I'll have to thank Laxus later, but until the apartment is fixed I have no "girlies" to crash with," Lucy spoke while going limp in defeat, thankful that Bickslow was carrying her at the moment because she was sure she would have slumped to the ground otherwise.
"Levy?" Bickslow asked.
"She's going through the mating process with Gajeel right now…so, hell no," Lucy said while shuddering lightly in his arms. She still had nightmares of the time she caught the two of them naked in a broom closet.
"Erza?" Bickslow asked.
"She's away on a mission with Wendy and won't be back for another week," Lucy replied while thinking that maybe she should have gone with the two of them.
"Well, that marks off Wendy too. How about Cana?" he asked sighing lightly at the fact that Lucy had just tacked off two people at once.
"Cana would be a great choice, but since the whole fiasco between you two she moved out of Fairy Hills and started more or less shacking up with Bacchus…two drunkards in one house, hell to the no," Lucy said as the two of them finally reached the end of the stair case where Bickslow decided it would be alright to set her down here.
"Ah right, thanks for bringing that one up again," he muttered as the sudden memories of the fights between himself and his Ex came flooding back.
"Oh, sorry about that. I wasn't thinking," Lucy said slowly before taking a seat on the last step of the stair case. She was glad the place was clear of her landlady, but that was only because said landlady had passed out after seeing the destruction to her property.
"Lisanna then?" Bickslow asked again.
"Are you stupid? She's pregnant with Freed's kid. Do you really think I wanna deal with Lisanna and her mood swings and Freed and his…motherliness twenty-four seven?" Lucy barked back looking up toward the man whom stood in front of her.
"Right, totally forgot about that whole baby thing. Hm…how about Mirajane?" Bickslow asked, but immediately regretted his words when he saw Lucy's horror filled face.
"First of all, she's engaged to Gray now. You know, my Ex and one of the two men I currently wanna murder? Not to mention Juvia keeps popping up in their house with Lyon trying to win Gray back through "jealousy". I want no part in that drama," Lucy said visibly shuddering at the thought of being in that house.
"Alright, cosplayer, I'm running out of chicks here. Um…how about those two Saber girls, Aya and Yukino?" he asked and watched as Lucy raised a delicate brow in his direction.
"They leave town the day after tomorrow and I'm not going to be staying in another guild for a week or maybe even more. Besides, Yukino is loud when she's getting laid and Rogue already has his hands full with Aya. Intruding on their homes would just be wrong," Lucy said watching as Bickslow gave an exasperated sigh.
"I'm going to take a guess here and say Ever is a no too?" Bickslow said watching as Lucy shook her head no…as expected he might add.
"She's got Mr. Man in her life and likes forcing Natsu and Laxus out on double dates…they come home drunk sometimes," Lucy said and with that Bickslow was out of women to name, outside of Laki and Kinana whom Lucy didn't know all too well. Not to mention, Lucy was terrified of Laki's room for some reason unknown to Bickslow. This whole conversation felt like it had been fucking pointless, like, the only thing it succeeded in doing was reminding him that he was one of the select few in their group of friends who hadn't shacked up with someone. Not that that was much a surprise since most women didn't care for the look he had going under his helmet.
"I guess…if you need to you can always stay with me. I got an extra room at my place," Bickslow spoke and watched as Lucy's face went from depressed too happy in about 2.2 seconds…and she said Lisanna was the one suffering from mood swings.
"You sure? I mean, you're the best choice out of the few options I have left, but I don't wanna intrude either," Lucy said and Bickslow was unsure if she meant those words as hurtful or not. Either way though, he chose to ignore them and simply nodded his head.
"Yeah sure, just…don't start yelling at my babies, no matter how much they start annoying you," he said while remembering the few times he had previously brought women over. Outside of Cana, most women grew easily annoyed after spending too much time with his babies.
"Hm, well okay. I mean, they haven't really annoyed me yet. I'm pretty good at just tuning them out besides…my celestial spirits can be worst. Do you know how often they just pop into my head? Like seriously, right now Loki is yelling is giving me a lecture about why I shouldn't stay with strange men" she said and watched as the man before her began laughing at whatever image just formed in his head. She found herself happily smiling alongside him.
"Well then, hurry up and go pack you shit up. I was on my way home from the guild when Laxus asked me to come and help out over here," Bickslow said and watched as Lucy began laughing at his words.
"Bix, what shit do I have left? Everything I own was pretty much burned or iced," she said before her laughter began to grow in volume.
"Makes my life easier then since I don't have to carry anything," he said while shrugging his shoulders and getting ready to leave, but paused to offer her his hand. Lucy looked at the hand her offered her and quickly took it while smiling brightly up toward the man; despite, everything that happened today she was glad someone was still able to make her laugh.
"Before we leave Bix, two things, firs, can you let Laxus and the other two know that I'll be staying with you? And second, can you get my boot back?" she asked before pointing her one bare foot. Bixcklow laughed when he noticed her with only one shoe, but none the less agreed to go back up and retrieve her shoe. After he left, Lucy stood alone wondering if everything was going to be alright staying with Bickslow. She had become pretty good friends with the mage; especially, after Natsu and Laxus became something of a thing…how that relationship worked out she still wasn't quite sure, but as long as they were happy. She supposed staying with Bickslow wouldn't be so bad as long as his house wasn't a mess. She swore if he lived like Natsu did then she was going to head right the fuck back out the front door. The last thing she needed was to have something crawl over her foot again. Lucy was soon pulled from her thoughts though when she saw Bickslow running out of her apartment, her boot in one of his hands, and a fireball flying at his head. He avoided the fireball by turning down the staircase and quickly running down it.
"Cosplayer! Move, now!" he called out toward her once he was half way down the stair case and she did just that; however, it wasn't so much because of him as it was the shout of her two brothers screaming 'Like hell we're going to let Lucy stay with that pervert!'. The two of them didn't stop running until Bickslow made a sudden turn, grabbing Lucy's wrist and pulling her into a building that stood between her home and the guild. She had actually walked passed it several times on her way to the guild. It was a pretty little apartment building, but out of her price range when she had team destructo at her backside.
"Do…do you live here Bickslow?" Lucy asked while looking around the main lobby of the building. It was nothing too special, but it did feel like it had a little cozy touch to it.
"Yeah, you never noticed me come out of here? I mean, I've caught up to you a few times on the way to the guild," Bickslow asked, but only found himself sighing when the young girl simply laughed.
"Ah, sorry, no I haven't. If I had known you were so close I would have visited," she said before raising a hand and pointed at the boot that he was still holding in his right hand. As she pointed at her point Bickslow became quickly aware that the cosplayer had run with one bare foot all the way here.
"Shit, sorry 'bout that cosplayer," he said while handing her the boot. She thanked him before quickly putting her boot on and then chancing a glance outside to see if Natsu or Gray had followed them over here. "If you're looking for fire and ice those two probably didn't make it passed Laxus," Bickslow said with a small shrug of his shoulders as he started walking toward the elevator in the back of the main lobby.
"Yeah, but with Natsu's nose he'll probably follow our scent all the way over here," Lucy replied and quickly followed after Bickslow toward the elevator.
"I wouldn't worry about it. Laxus'll probably cool his head," Bickslow said, but it did little to stop Lucy from checking behind them once or twice. She calmed down a bit more though when the two of them finally stepped into the elevator with Bickslow's babies following behind him. "I think you should be worrying more so about what you're going to wear for the next few days," Bickslow said while looking over her skimpy little outfit. As much as he loved seeing her in the black little mini skirt and pink halter top he doubted she was going to want to wear the same clothes every day for god knew how long. Lucy blanched at the sudden thought of having to do laundry every day just so she could have clean panties to wear. The thought of asking Virgo to bring her clothes did cross her mind, but she didn't want to bother the celestial spirit that much besides she had the money to buy some new clothes. And she would have done so the moment she found out where Bickslow's apartment was, if it wasn't for the fact that today was Sunday and it was already late into the evening, when most stores were already closed or closing.
"I can buy some new clothes tomorrow, but do you think you can let me borrow a pair of your boxers and maybe a shirt for tonight?" she asked while looking over toward her companion on the other side of the elevator.
"Yeah, no problem cosplayer," Bickslow responded and honestly he was surprised that he had been able to keep out any cracks in his voice. The thought of the little blonde parading around in his house wearing nothing but, his boxers and t-shirt, well, it was easy to say his cheeks were dusted a light shade of pink. "But in return I get a photo of it," he added after a moment with a grin spread wide across his lips.
"In your clothes? Deal," Lucy said returning his grin with one of his own, but she had no clue about the turmoil that was going on inside the males head despite the grin he was sporting. He had expected her to say no or call him a pervert or something; honestly, her agreeing to taking photos for him, even if fully dressed, was having him wondering if the world would be ending soon. Of course, he had no idea just how easy it was for Lucy to agree to take photos for him, if anything being fully clothed and taking for photos for one person was a lot easier than parading around in her swimsuit with several people taking photos of her. The elevator soon came to stop, pulling the two people from their thoughts as the doors slid open. Bixslow exited the machine first with Lucy following close behind him. She followed him through the long corridor until he came to a stop at a door marked with the number 341. She made sure to burn the number to her memory since this was going to be her home away from home until her apartment was declared livable again.
Lucy watched with a curious expression as Bickslow unlocked the door to his apartment and opened it up. He then walked in, letting Lucy walk in behind him and close the door. She slowly looked around the apartment. There was a small kitchen not far from where she stood and a nice little island separated the kitchen from the living room. Two wooden stools sat at the edge of the island that seemed to have a few knick-knacks placed on top of it. She imagined those were all souvenirs from previous missions he had been on. In the living room she found two bookcases also filled with different souvenirs from different missions, a coffee table sat in the middle of the room, with a couch at one side of it pressed against the wall, and a television on the other side of it also pressed against the wall. She then noticed a hallway that had three different doors, one was open and revealing a small section of someone's bed while the other two were closed. She figured that one was a restroom though and the other was the guestroom he had mentioned to her when she first came here. She slowly turned her attention back toward the open door in the hallway when she saw Bickslow exit the room holding some folded clothes of his.
"These should be okay, but they'll probably going to be a bit big," he said while holding out the clothes to the young blonde whom was currently staring rather intently at him. He had removed his helmet and his face was clearly visible to her. His appearance was as crazy as ever, but that didn't stop a certain thought from forming. 'When did Bix become attractive?' was the single thought that formed in her head as she studied his face. "Uh, is there something on my face?" Bix asked when he finally couldn't take the intent stare she kept giving him anymore.
"Huh? Oh, no sorry. I was just thinking about something. Which way to my room?" she said, her cheeks lightly heating up at the fact that she had just been caught more or less "checking him out". Lucy finally took the clothes from his hands and offered him up a bright smile. He responded to her question by simply pointing to the closed door on the right, to which Lucy quickly swung open and peered inside. It was a simple room, a single bed and a dresser, nothing more than that, but she definitely wasn't going to complain since Bickslow was going out of his way to help her out.
"I'm going to go heat up dinner. I have some leftovers Freed and Lisanna brought over the other night," Bickslow said, watching as Lucy wondered into the simple room.
"Oh? I hear Freed is actually really good at cooking. I'm kind of excited to try it out," Lucy said before quietly laughing, ignoring the fact that Bickslow was staring at her in slight amazement. He hadn't ever seen a girl get excited about leftovers. It was definitely an odd sight, but who was he to complain? If it meant that he wasn't going to have to go out to eat somewhere then he would make sure to keep his mouth zipped. He soon moved toward the kitchen, leaving Lucy alone in her "new" room to change her clothes.
She slowly looked down at the clothes he had given her as she moved further into the room. They were black, black boxers, and a plain black t-shirt. Both were going to be a bit big on her, but she supposed it was better than wearing a mini skirt and halter top to bed. She quickly stripped down to nothing but, her panties and threw her clothes onto the bed, picking up the shirt Bickslow had provided her with.
"I forgot to ask do you have any all-," Bickslow said before peeking into the room and spotting the petite blonde woman in nothing but her black thong. Her back was turned toward him, but that didn't stop him from getting a clear view of her ass…not to mention she was slightly bent over. He swallowed hard before quickly ducking out of the room just as Lucy let out something of a shrill screech.
"What the fuck were you doing Bickslow?!" Lucy asked a few minutes later, now fully dressed in his clothes and standing at the entry of the kitchen, watching as the man heated up some leftovers over the stove.
"Are you kidding cosplayer? You're the one who left the door fucking wide open! How the hell was I supposed to know you were changing in there?" he said and watching as Lucy lit up a bright red color before shuffling on her two feet. She muttered out a few incoherent words, but aside from that she didn't say much more. He sighed lightly before turning to fully face her. "Listen, it's not like I saw your lady parts. Fuck, I didn't even see your jugs. All I saw was your ass," Bickslow spoke and Lucy knew that he was trying to cheer her up in his own way, but he was doing a really shitty job at it. Still, it was better than what Natsu had done when he saw her completely in the nude.
"You could at least compliment it to make me feel better," Lucy said while putting on her best "pouty lips".
"Fine, you have an amazing ass. Better?" Bickslow said, grinning over at her when she finally started laughing again. She nodded her head a few times in his direction before walking into the kitchen and looking over what he was cooking. 'Maybe staying with Bix will be a lot more fun than I thought,' Lucy thought to herself, laughing loudly when the man tried to force her to eat a bite of a mushy carrot after she told him she didn't like those things. It was honestly the faces that he was making that got her.