DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN FAIRY TAIL!

This one was a request from ObeliskX. It is a genderbent story line Loke (f), Lucy (m: Lucien).

Lucien waited patiently for Loke to finish her most recent declaration of love. He cared about her sure. But he didn't think he was in love with the lion spirit. Sure he had stood up to the Celestial Spirit King to save her life, but she was friend. Albeit a flirtatious and most intrusive friend. He didn't let his friends just disappear into nothingness. That just wasn't the kind of guy he was.

"Lucien, where did you go just now? Did you hear me," Loke's face was within inches of his own. Her eyes full of disappointment, the first stirrings of tears visible even behind her azure tinted glasses.

He sighed, not wanting to say the wrong thing to upset her. "Loke, I heard you. You were telling me you loved me."

"...but did you hear the last part?"

"Huh? There was more," a confused look crossing his face.

"So you didn't hear me...," her eyes got big, and a few small tears rolled down her cheeks.

"It... Its not that... that I didn't hear you. I just got caught up in a passing thought."

"A... a... passing... thought? Are passing thoughts more important then me," her voice was wavering, little hiccups causing her to pause between words.

Dammit I need to be more careful on how I phrase things... now to do damage control.

He walked up to her and put his arm around her shoulders. "Now you know I didn't mean it like that. My lioness. You know you are more important than just any passing thought. Besides I was thinking about that day. So in all reality I was thinking about you."

"You... you... were," she looked up into his face. Her tears had pretty much stopped, though the hiccups continued to punctuate her words.

"You're kindof hard to forget." Not always by choice though. "So, come on tell me. What was the last part about?"

"Oh, nothing much. Just that we've been invited to attend the cherry blossom viewing festival kick off at the guild hall tonight."

"A festival kick off?"

"Oh, that's right. You haven't been with Fairy Tail very long. Every year, the night before the cherry blossom festival starts Fairy Tail hosts a kick off event. It is mostly an excuse for everyone to get completely drunk, but it is still a lot of fun. Makarov usually has Mira Jane put on various games with different prizes. Kana helps procure some of the best liquors around Fiore and Earthland. And there is tons of delicious foods. Its a lot of fun and I wanted to take you."

"Yeah, I suppose we could go together," Lucien responded, he was always up for some fun and games. Especially when the Fairy Tail ladies and booze were involved. Something always seemed to happen and he was more then willing to take part in those types of shenanigans.

Loke was waiting for Lucien in front of the guild hall gates. She had changed from her normal skirt suit, the form fitted pencil skirt, matching waist coat, red silk neckerchief, and her black pumps. She was wearing a billowy summer dress. An antique gold color, with bead work through the torso. It had Grecian style sleeves, two lengths of material meeting at the nexus of each shoulder, held together with a fat gold bead. The front had a square neckline, cutting off just above her breast bone. The back hung low, the fabric draping to create a dramatic curve at the base of her spine. Baring her back and her lime green guild mark. She was wearing a pair of simple Romanesque style sandals, tied with a length of matching gold ribbon.

She had managed to wrangle her mane of shocking red hair into some semblance of a hairstyle. It had soft waves through the back and was held from her face with a few bobby pins. She was hoping tonight she could finally convince him of her true feelings. That she could get him to understand that it wasn't just grandstanding when she professed her love for him. That she truly wanted him for him. She wanted him to look only at her, see only her, love her in the same way she loved him.

Kana had told her about a special brew she had managed to get her hands on. This one was apparently able to provoke love in the drinker. Loke had spoken with the heavy drinker in depth on how to activate its special powers. The one who wanted to receive the affections had to pour the drink in a clean glass. Then put three of their own hairs, and only three in the brew until it turned a deep royal purple color. At this point the drink was to be given to the intended. It was supposed to invoke even deeply buried affections of the heart about the one whose hair resided in the drink.

She already knew of several other women in the guild planning on using the drink that night. Juvia was going to use it on Gray. Mira Jane on Freed. Evergreen on Elfman. Even Levy was going to try it on Gajeel. This was her opportunity. This was going to be her one chance to get Lucien to acknowledge her love and reciprocate it.

"Hey Loke! Been waiting long," asked Lucien as he came around the corner of a nearby building.

"Not long at all! Are you ready to have some fun?"

"You know it," he said, proffering his arm to her.

"Good. Tonight is going to be wild," she replied, a knowing smile playing across her lips as she took his arm and was led into the guild hall.

Well this is just the beginning! Its going to be a very interesting night for the Fairy Tail guild!