Living with Erza Scarlet- this is a collaboration with shadowonthewall6, a most excellent author who helped me with my other fanfic. Hope you enjoy, don't forget to review!

Prologue

'Erza, you'll never guess what I just heard?'

'I'm not interested in what you've heard Laxus,' Erza responded, the red haired knight sinking her fork into the delectable strawberry cake that lay before her.

'I think you might be,' Laxus differed, taking a seat opposite her, 'when you learn who it concerns.' Erza seemed to barely hear what Laxus was saying. Her attention was solely focused on her meal. Laxus noticed her lift a piece of strawberry cake up to her mouth and a sly smile crossed his lips. He waited, quite patiently in fact, until her mouth was full before finishing his sentence, 'Jellal's got a parole hearing tomorrow.'

In any other situation, Erza would have declared it a crime against nature to think about wasting even a mere crumb of strawberry cake. However, in this case, she made an exception, and violently splattered the piece of chewed up goo in her mouth straight into Laxus' face. The Lightning Dragon Slayer didn't even bat an eyelid as the dismembered cake hit its mark. He gave a chuckle.

'Table manners Erza,' he teased. The Queen of the Fairies ignored him.

'What? A parole hearing? Tomorrow?'

'Actually, it's taking place next week but I thought telling you it was tomorrow would calm your nerves a bit.' Erza's nerves were most definitely not calm. Her heart was pounding and her mind felt fuzzy. She hadn't seen Jellal since the whole Oracion Seis affair. She bit her lip as the memories rushed back to her: memories of how her friends had fought tooth and nail to keep Jellal from going to jail.

In the end, it had been her choice to let him go. It was a decision she never regretted despite what her friends argued. Now, the hope that he would be set free had entered her life. It seemed destiny enjoyed taunting her. Before Laxus could react, she reached across the table and grabbed him by the collar.

'Where!? When!?' she snapped. The guild fell silent. The only sound was a throaty chuckle from Makarov's grandson.

'A thank you wouldn't go amiss, it took a lot to get this information.' Her grip tightened.

'Laxus…'

'Fine, chill out,' he replied, forcing her hand off of him. 'I'm not sure of the exact details but maybe someone might know…if you can ask nicely.'

'Who told you?' Erza spat, her rage refusing to dissipate.

'Some friend of a guy of a girl I used to know.'

'Laxus, you know more about this that you're not telling me,' Erza growled, preparing to summon a magic blade to her hand. Sensing the woman's anger and magic power, Laxus lifted his hands into the air dramatically.

'Alright alright, you caught me. It's in Crocus, tomorrow at noon.'

'Tomorrow? But you said it was next week!'

'I lied,' Laxus replied. Erza was two seconds from slashing the disgusting smirk from his face, only for the dragon slayer to point an accusing finger towards her. 'Easy there Titania, you better play nice to me. I'm on your boyfriend's jury.'

'How did you get on the jury?'

'I got called up, how do you think?' Erza sighed.

'So he's going to be released?'

'Possibly,' Laxus concluded with a shrug.

'Then I'm going to go see him,' she announced in return.

'Yeah… I don't care.' And with a flash of sparks, he was gone.