"Umm... I can explain."

I looked back at him as he was rubbing his shoulder. "If you could that'd be great."

I winced as I looked away, focusing my magic to change my arm and hands back to how they were. Then went about picking up the pieces of the wooden bat. "What would you like me to start with...?"

He shook his head as he heavily sat on the couch. "How about why people broke into my house and how you know them?"

I swallowed, sitting back as I fidgeted with my hands. "I had a run in with a dark guild... they were trying to rob me, not that I had anything to be robbed of. When I wouldn't give them anything, they nocked me out and dragged me to their guild hall, I woke up tied to a chair. My cloths were torn, I had some cuts but nothing too bad, just enough to scare me. And it did scare me, because with how my cloths were torn... it seemed like they could've..."

I stopped and took a breath. "They didn't, but they made it look like they could've. As soon as I woke up I was smacked. The chair had nearly fallen back from the force, and I just froze because I didn't know what to do. But then I just got scared and furious and I couldn't stop myself. If they could so easily do that to me, what would they do to someone who couldn't have a chance of defending themselves? I called on my true powers and I had beaten down everyone that even looked at me, all while the leader just stood back and watched. Then he thought it'd be a good idea to try to recruit me, I told him not a chance and started toward the door. Him and everyone still standing jumped me, and I damn near destroyed the place and left. I don't even know if I killed anyone, but with the blood it looked like I easily could have. And I just left, hoping they wouldn't find me. That's why I came to Fairy Tail, I knew if anyone would accept me it would be you guys, and I was hoping that I would be able to learn more and maybe control my true powers."

I looked up at him quick before going back to gathering wooden bits. "I'm sorry... I'm rambling..."

He shook his head. "Why are you saying true power?"

"I call my true power what Acnologia taught me, powers of death and destruction from him. That's how I got the claws and scales when I wanted them, it's a form of transformation magic, one of the powers he taught me... I call my magic what I've learned on my own without him."

I heard him sigh. "Come here."

I looked up to see him pat the couch next to him. "But the mess..."

He pat the spot next to him again, and I reluctantly got up. As I was going to sit down in the middle of the open space since he was on one edge, he caught my arm and pulled me over right next to him. "I'll get it later."

I instantly tried getting up, but he just pulled me back down with an arm around my waist and almost pulled me into his lap. "But-"

He growled as I squirmed, leaning over me to pin me to the couch. Gasping, I noticed the heated look on his face as he watched me with slitted pupils. "Laxus...? What are you-?"

I gasped as suddenly his lips were on mine, my eyes wide as I tried to figure out just what was happening. Laxus is... kissing me?!? He's actually kissing me!

He seemed to suddenly come to and as he started to pull away I growled as I wrapped my hands around the back of his neck and pulled him back down. I could feel the sparks in the kiss as our mouths moved with one another, and I don't know if that was from him or the kiss, but it sent my dragon purring as he tangled a hand in my hair, feeling the need between my legs grow as I moaned into the kiss.

I don't know how long we were kissing, but when he pulled back we were both panting. "If that's what I get for answering a question what else do you wanna know?"

He chuckled, leaning back against the couch as he kept looking at me. "I think the rest can wait till tomorrow."

I nodded, laying my head on his shoulder. I would totally be okay falling asleep like this.

"So... you do realize you lost a button right?"

"Huh?" I looked down, not understanding what he meant until I saw it. The button that I had done between by breasts popped off. I instantly felt my face turn beet red as I clutched at the top of it. He just sat there chuckling as he suddenly picked me up.

I screamed as he scooped me up, one arm under my back the other under my knees, as I clutched his shirt to make sure I stayed covered. "What are you doing!"

He just kept on chuckling. "Going to bed."

I froze thinking he meant his bed, and I could feel my heart about ready to explode in my chest. I don't know how much more I could handle right now and I really need a new pair of panties from my bag.

He walked into my room and set me on the bed. Then he kissed my forehead. "Get some sleep, it's going to be a long day tomorrow."

As he started to back up I got up and gave him a peck on his lips, seeming to surprise him until he smiled and left, closing the door behind him. I instantly took a deep breath as I brought my bag onto my bed and flicked on my light. As I looked through it, I found out that I do have pajamas, not that it mattered now, and pulled out a pair of black lace panties. As I looked through the bag, I noticed Virgo kept this theme of black and purple going with everything... including lingerie sets... I just put it back as I shook my head. "Okay then..."

Moving the bag onto the floor, I got back into bed. I don't even know what time it is, but now that I'm awake, I'm awake. I would walk around the house if I didn't feel like it would be weird. So, I pulled out my book and started reading about Ice Make magic.

I woke leaning up against the wall. Rubbing my sore neck, I realized I must have fallen asleep while reading. Slowly getting out of bed, I stretched my back, receiving cracks and sighing in relief as the pain dulled and headed into the bathroom, thinking about soaking in the tub for a little bit. Shutting the door behind me, I pushed the sleeves up as I walked over to the tub, finding various bottles of bubble bath and oils and soaps. As I filled the tub with hot water, adding a few drops of a lavender oil and bubble bath, a thought hit me. "Why does he have all of this stuff? He's a guy."

Is it from other girlfriends? Why else would he have all this? How many girls has he brought home?

I tried to ease my racing heart, taking deep breaths as I shook my head, starting to unbutton the shirt. Who am I to judge his relationships? Its not like I have any right to go assuming anything. He is a really handsome guy after all and I'm sure everyone usually has some sort of flings... am I one of them? I groaned as I rubbed my hands down my face. No. Stop it. This is not okay. Just because I never had a life doesn't mean other people can't.

Sliding off the shirt and panties, I let them fall to the floor as I grabbed one of the fluffy towels from the cabinet and set it on the step. I carefully peeled off the bandages on my cuts, then I eased myself into the water. All I could do was sigh as I let myself relax in the burning water as I started washing myself off. I grabbed the shampoo bottle and noticed it was cherry blossom. "This doesn't seem like something he would choose for a bathroom in his house..."

Once I was clean, washing the make up off my face and grime from under my nails, I let the water drain from the tub as I stepped out, wrapping the towel around me. I looked in the mirror, using a tissue to wipe off any left over make up I didnt get off in the bath. As I reached for the door nob, I heard the door to my room open. "Amy?"

I looked down at myself as I took a step away from the door. "Uh... Just a minute!"

I looked around and saw my cloths from yesterday and dried off quick to get dressed. As soon as I pulled my panties back on I adjusted my dress so the right shoulder fell of to show my guild mark and opened the door. I picked his shirt up off the floor, and threw it over one arm as I started to towel try my hair. I smiled at him. "Hey, I hope you don't mind I took a bath."

He took it as he smirked, shaking his head. "I hope what was in there was alright, Evergreen got them a couple days ago before you came in town when she heard about you."

At hearing that, I couldn't help but relax as I handed him his shirt. "I'll have to thank her next time I see her. I don't know if you want it back since it lost a button."

He smirked as he took it. "We should get going soon. We need to sign out with Mira before we can leave."

I nodded as I looked for where I put my shoes, finding them under the bed and potentially flashing him my panties as I was bent over on the floor to get them. When I adjusted so I could put them on, he had a smirk on his face and an eyebrow raised. Yeah, I'm pretty sure I did. I could feel my cheeks warm as I pulled up the zippers, getting to my feet. Without meeting his eyes, I got my bag and as he tried to take it, I put it over my shoulder. "I'm a big girl. I can carry my own bag."

I walked toward him and pat his arm as I started to walk past. He chuckled at me as he wrapped an arm around my waist and pulled me back, sealing our lips before I could say anything. He pulled back, chuckling. "Well the 'big girl' might not want to wear that if we're going to be fighting a monster."

I just stuttered as I looked at him, not being able to figure out something to say. "I-Well-Um-You- You shouldn't have been looking."

He chuckled as he walked into his room and grabbed a bag of his own. Then I got an idea. "Wait, so you said Evergreen got the soaps a couple days ago when she first heard I was coming... How did you both know I would be staying with you?"

And I got no reaction. "I'm the only one that has spare rooms"

I huffed, watching as he started toward the stairs and I followed. "So why do we need to check out with Mira first?"

He shook his head. "So they can keep track of where everyone is if something happens, and so we can figure out which train we're going on."

He sounded less than happy about the train. "Why don't you like trains?"

He stopped at the bottom of the stairs. "You don't get motion sick?"

I shrugged and shook my head. "A little, its on and off."

I looked around. "Do you have a broom? I can clean this up before we go."

He shook his head as he walked over to the kitchen, opening a closet to pull out the broom and a dust pan. I set my bag on the couch and I walked over to take them. I was surprised he didn't fight me as he let me take them. I went to sweep the broken glass from the window in the door first. "So...uh... what exactly did Natsu tell you last night? You said something about it on our walk here."

He chuckled. "Back to this now?"

I bit my lip as I continued my sweeping, watching for any rouge glass in the room. I didn't say anything because I didn't know what to say, so I just nodded.

I glanced over to see him gathering the pieces of the wood bat when he started talking, and he was angled to where I couldn't see his face. "Why do you think I kissed you?"

I stopped sweeping, feeling myself turning red. "So he... he actually told you... that you're... my...?"

He gave a light chuckle. "Mate? Yeah, I'm actually glad he did because I couldn't tell if you were acting like that because of the drinks or because you felt it too. When you threatened the intruders last night about attacking what's yours, that was the give away. He ran into me when he was leaving you and blondie in the hall talking."

I sighed as I went back to sweeping. "That's why he hesitated at the end of the hall."

I looked over to see him nod. "And why I got in front of Gajeel."

I almost laughed. "And I guess why I stopped the table and got in front of Natsu then. It was just reflex. Instinct. I'm glad I know why, but now what?"

I brought the broom and glass filled dust pan over to sweep up the wood as he shrugged, picking up the bigger pieces of the bat as he stood, smirking at me. "I don't know, we'll just see what happens."

I rolled my eyes as I swept up the little wooden bits. As I picked up the dust pan, he took it and went into the kitchen to dump it. I followed and put the broom in the closet, now getting a good look at the kitchen. It was a 'U' shape, dark wood cabinets lining the walls above and below the marble counter, gaping around the stainless steel two door fridge with a bottom drawer freezer and gas stove. There was a microwave in one corner section of the counter and a stand mixer in the other.

Laxus put the dust pan away and came over and put his arm around me. "Ready to go?"

I nodded and we both picked up our bags from where we left them and were on our way.

When we got to the guild, there was Natsu and Gray fighting again, Mira behind the bar, Lucy sitting at a table with a group of people, and what looked like the general norm. We both headed to the bar, and as we waited for Mira, Lucy saw me. When I saw her start our way, I looked at Laxus and he just nodded. I ran over to her, still holding my duffel bag, and she instantly started whispering "How did last night go?"

I bit my lip. "Let me take care of something first, then we can go talk while I find something better to wear for this."

She tilted her head but nodded, and I put my bag on the floor as I started stalking toward Natsu. As soon as Gray saw me he backed off the fight so quick, Natsu was laughing about how he was scared till I gave him a good kick right between his shoulders. He fell flat on his face, and before he got up I shot a shock wave at him, sending him across the floor. Smirking, I walked back over to Lucy and picked up my duffel. She just looked at me. "I don't blame you, but what was that for?"

I shrugged as I led us to the hall. "Telling him what he had no right sharing. I mean, yes it helped, but the point still stands."

She just shook her head as she followed. "Well? What happened last night?"

I just laughed. "Is everyone as nosey as you?"

She scoffed. "They're worse."

I instantly stopped laughing. "Oh no."

She nodded. "Oh yes. So tell me!"

As soon as we were in the bathroom and locked the door behind us, I started looking through the bag. "When he came back down from talking to Gajeel, he said you told him to 'be careful with the tipsy dragon'. Real funny by the way. But as we were leaving he said Natsu told him something. But wouldn't tell me, because I was trying to figure out if he meant him being my mate or something else. He just said 'enough'. The entire walk he wouldn't tell me, and as soon as we got to his house it just dropped as he led me to the room I would be staying in."

I looked at her. "And it's across from his room."

She raised her eyebrows and got a big smile. "Oooooh, then what?"

I laughed. "He noticed I was just hovering in the doorway, and when he pointed it out, in my state of don't think before you do, I told him how I haven't had a home before because of the dark guild that is trying to kill me. But then-"

Lucy just looked at me. "Wait. What?!"

I sighed and nodded. "Its a long story... The shortened version, they tried to rob me, I had nothing so they kidnapped me. I beat them up and pretty much destroyed their guild hall, when I wouldn't join their guild they tried fighting again and lost, and I left to them swearing they'd kill me if I don't join. That's the summary of it."

She slowly nodded. "Okay..."

I nodded as I pulled out a pair of dark blue shorts and a black tank top. "Anyways, he went and locked up the house and grabbed me one of his shirts because I said I didn't know if I had any on the way there. He went to bed and when I changed, just to help later, I had done the buttons from here-" I pointed to the middle between my breasts. "To here." And pointed to just under my crotch."

She slowly nodded, not understanding. "Okay..."

I put the shorts on under my dress before I took it and the sports bra off and folded it up. "I woke up to glass breaking, and from my past experiences, I tried to jump out of bed... and hit the floor. I'm cursing Mira as I get up because I couldn't even brace myself from hitting the floor. Laxus comes in and checks on me before going downstairs. I hear fighting, so I start heading down. All I see are figures of people going after Laxus. And as his lightning went past one, I saw the insignia on the sleeve of one of the people."

I turned, switching out my white strapless bra for the black lace one I saw yesterday, and started tugging on the tank top, noticing it was a crop top and stopped at the curve of my waist. Lucy leaned against the door. "What was it?"

I looked back at her. "A red serpent."

She pursed her lips, and I continued. "One of them came from behind Laxus and hit him with a bat. I could hear the wood crack, and my mind just instantly cleared, my dragon taking over as I snuck down the rest of the stairs, and turned on the lights. Everyone just stopped. And I had used energy waves to push them all back, and you know what I thought was weird? There were only five of them. They would always send more than that when it was just me. So why send only five when Laxus is there too?"

She seemed just as thrown off about that as I was, and I nodded as I leaned against the counter, switching the boots out for my flats. "Right? But as I walked toward them, I pushed Laxus behind me, and I turned my fingers into claws. Three of them ran, so it was the one with the bat and the other seemed too scared to move. The leader asked what I was and I said I was a pissed off dragon and that he attacked what was mine, and he tried hitting me with the bat, and I brought my arm up, coated in scales. He just froze, so I took the bat, swiped his feet out from under him then broke it over his head and made the one carry him out..."

I grimaced a little, thinking back to that. That was a little over kill, but it made them all leave. "I came to and all I could say was 'I can explain'. Of everything I could say, it was that. And Laxus didn't sound happy when he said to. I told him the story about how I got tangled up with them, and why I came to Fairy Tail..."

I paused to take a breath, and Lucy spoke up. "Why did you come to Fairy Tail?"

I smiled. "So I could have someplace to call safe and home. If anywhere would take me, it'd be you guys, to have a family and maybe learn more magics and maybe learn more about mine. But I knew if anyone would, it'd be Fairy Tail."

I cleared my throat. "Well, after I told him that, he patted the couch next to him. He was on the one side so I went to sit in the middle of the open space, thinking he was still upset, and he pulled me over next to him. Me being me, I tried getting up, and caught me by the waist and almost pulled me in his lap. Then he just looked at me, and I could tell that wasn't completely him because his pupils had slit, it was his dragon."

I looked at her and I could tell she was practically on the edge of her seat as I found a brush and started running it through my still wet hair, following the brush with a heated hand to dry it. "And he kissed me. By the time I got over the shock of it he seemed to have come to and was starting to back off, and I just pulled him back. Then when he pulled back, he asked if I knew I lost a button, which is why where I buttoned his shirt was relevant, because I only had his shirt and panties on."

She went from hearts in her eyes to laughing. "Tell me about the kiss! How was it?"

I smiled as I laughed. "It was... electric. I don't know if it was from him or the kiss, but it left us both gasping."

She started just squeaking "Awwww! And then!"

I shrugged. "He picked me up, and while I was focused on keeping myself covered, he carried me back to my room. This morning I almost went in my room though in just a towel when he came in to see if I was up and ready. As we cleaned up downstairs, I got him to tell me that Natsu did in fact tell him, which is why I kicked him. And also that him knowing that was part of why he kissed me. Because with how I protected him when we got here, how I was last night, and when the goons broke in told him Natsu wasn't lying and that he wasn't going to be rejected. Granted, he couldn't tell if that was just me being a drunken flirt or not, so that wasn't as much a part of it but when he put two and two together..."

She came up and hugged me. "Oh I had a good feeling about you when I saw you with his coat!"

I laughed. "Strange thing is, I think Makarov figured it out before we even left his office... He's the one that brought up how I protected him when I got here."

She shrugged as we left the bathroom. "He is Laxus's grandpa."

I looked at her. "Is that why he calls him old man?"

She nodded. "Go get him, tiger."

I scoffed at the nickname but went with it anyways as I walked to Laxus. "When are we going?"

He smirked as he looked me over. "Now, lets go."

I nodded, and turned to wave to Lucy as he led us out the doors. He was more steering me while I looked around at everything. There are so many shops and restaurants and people. Eventually Laxus's hand moved from my shoulder to my waist as he pulled me closer to him, and I giggled at the motion. "So do you have any ideas what this monster could be?"

He shook his head. "For it to take this long, no. How much experience do you have fighting monsters?"

I let out a breath as I ran a hand through my hair. "Not much..."

He sighed, shaking his head. "And you had to choose this for your first mission."

I looked up at him. "You tempted me. You shouldn't have said I couldn't do it."

He shook his head. "I said you shouldn't."

I crossed my arms. "You said I wouldn't want to, meaning I couldn't. So I'm going to do it."

He looked at me. "You realize this could easily be more than just one monster by now, right? Its been four months."

I shrugged and smiled up at him, using the sweetest voice I could. "Didn't think about that, but that's why you're coming with."

He shook his head and squeezed his hand on my waist. "If you get yourself almost killed you owe me."

I smirked. "And what would I owe you?"

He shrugged. "We'll see if it happens."

I gave him a playful glare, and he squeezed his hand again, only this time he did it to tickle me, and I ended up trying to run from him to make it stop. He grabbed onto me, pulling me close, his mouth by my ear. "You can't get away that easy, sweetheart."

The low tone he used mixed with feeling his breath on my ear sent a shiver down my spine as I took a shaky breath, biting my lip as heat started to pool between my legs. He just smirked at me when I went to give him a hard look, not even bothering to try to hide my blush. "Lets get to the train already."

He chuckled as he straightened out and started walking. "Is something the matter?"

I took a sharp breath, already knowing what he was talking about. Damn it he's a dragon, he can probably smell it. I lightly smacked his stomach. "Shut up!"

I crossed my arms as I huffed at him, looking around to try to distract myself. Then my eyes landed on a shop that had weapons and armor in the window. "Hey, what's that?"

He looked over and shrugged. "A weapons shop. They tend to be kind of cheap from those kinds of shops. You'd want to go to a forger."

I just stared at the shiny silver objects in the window as we walked past, seeing someone walk out admiring a naginata, and slowly nodded. But when I looked at the the man carrying it, he looked familiar. Bruised, like he'd just gotten in a fight, and he had a limp. As he turned to walk the way we had come from, he looked around, and that's when I realized it. "Laxus-!"

I grabbed his arm and pulled him behind a sign. "That guy-with the naginata- he's one of the people that was there last night! The leader!"

He looked around the sign. "How can you be certain?"

I shook my head as I pulled him back, pointing at my left arm by my shoulder. "Look at the insignia! That's the same one as the guild."

He looked, and nodded. "Then where's he going?"

I ran out from behind the sign, and over to a sign that wasn't too far from him, adjusting my hair just enough to hide my eyes from him and acting like I was interested in the information while keeping an eye on him. He looked right at me but didn't realize it as he kept walking. As he went around a corner, I looked back to see Laxus coming after me. "What the hell was that?"

I looked at him. "What?"

He scoffed as he gestured at me and the board. "Running into the open like this knowing he's after you!"

I looked back at the corner. "When you look at me, what about me makes me stick out like a sore thumb?"

He looked at me, looking for what I meant. I smirked, moving my hair and turning back to the board again. "My eyes. Take away those and I look like at least five other girls just on this road. That's why he didn't see me. Stand just right, and I can blend right in."

He took a breath as he shook his head, putting his arm back around me and pulling me along. "We'll talk about this more later. Let's go."

I understand why he's upset with my running into the open like that, especially when its not just a bat he has. But I needed to see where he went. If he went out in the open like that, to that shop, who says he won't go back? Or one of his teammates? "Why are you so upset about this? What if they're planning something? Someone had to have seen my guild mark last night, they could be trying to watch the guild. If they get all their people together, it could be a problem."

He gave me a hard look. "Then they don't know Fairy Tail, and you don't seem to realize you need to think before you go doing shit like that."

I looked at him. "What? You mean try to figure out what people trying to plot shit are doing? They never had weapons before. And they have more targets now. You don't seem to get it, I had to lose control to get all of them to back off when they kidnapped me. They have numbers-"

He shook his head. "And so does Fairy Tail."

I shook my head as I started to freak out some. "What would they say if they found out I was some how connected to a dark guild?"

He stopped us as we got to the station. "Fairy Tail is your family now, everyone will help you if you let us. If the fight comes to us first before you say anything, they will still stand by you. But you can't be going and looking for the fight when you don't know how to."

He took a deep breath. "We'll talk about this later, the train's going to leave soon."

I just sighed as I followed him, letting him do all the talking as he got us on the train and to our seats. As he shut the door behind us I turned to him. "So what the hell did that mean?"

He looked at me as he put his bag up on the shelf, then took mine and put it next to his. "What?"

I rolled my eyes. "Me not knowing how to fight."

He sighed as he sat down with his sound pods in his hands. "I didn't mean it like that."

I scoffed as I went to sit on the booth facing him. "Well that's how it sounded."

He looked at me. "I mean you're inexperienced. You hesitate before you take action and depend on your dragon to get you through it."

"That doesn't mean I don't know how to fight. Could I use some training, yes, but that doesn't mean I don't know how to fight."

He thought about it, nodding. "Then guess what we'll be doing on our walk from Clover Town to the village?"

I just tilted my head at him, watching him smirk as he put his sound pods on and closed his eyes as the train started to move. He just left me to figure it out on my own. He doesn't mean he's going to try training me, right? Couldn't that mess up the 'mating process' with how my powers are?

I shook my head as I got up to get my book from my bag. After yanking it down, thanks to being short and almost hitting myself in the head because of it, I set it on my booth... and realized I left it in my room. Well this is going to be boring. I don't even know how long the ride is supposed to be.

As the train picked up speed, I started to feel motion sickness sink in. I leaned my head back, closing my eyes thinking he was onto something with taking a nap. It only made me feel worse. I sat back up and looked at him. How can he sleep on a train?

I got up, locked the door of our compartment, and moved over to his booth, being careful to be extra slow so I didn't wake him up as I sat down next to him, and laid my head on his shoulder. Instantly, I could feel my motion sickness starting to get better, and I nuzzled my head into his shoulder, taking a deep breath. I don't understand how just being next to him helps, but it does. I wonder if it helps him?

"You comfy?"

I looked up to see him looking at me with a smile. I nodded as I wrapped my arms around his and closed my eyes. He chuckled. "Were you starting to feel sick?"

I nodded, smiling as I felt him rest his head on mine. "Are you feeling better now?"

I nodded. "How are you feeling?"

He chuckled as he pulled his arm from mine and wrapped it around me, pulling me against him. "Surprisingly good."

I smiled as I laid my head on his chest. "Please tell me you aren't planning on trying to train me yourself."

"Why not?"

I sighed as I got comfy, wrapping my arms around his waist and turning so my legs were over his. "If I learn your lightning we won't know then if it claimed me or not."

He chuckled, putting his calloused hand on my thigh. "Who said I'd be using my lightning?"

I looked up at him. "Then how...?"

He smirked. "We'll need to stop for the nights, it will be at least a three day walk if not more, we can use that time to train you some. And if we run into anything, you're going to deal with it as best you can. With your magic."

I swallowed, suddenly not feeling like talking anymore as I looked down at his hand on my thigh, just shaking my head. "You don't know what it can do. My powers are meant to kill people. Not just beat something up."

"I'm not dead, and neither is anyone from that day on Tenrou Island."

I thought about it. "Because you all got lucky. I don't know how you did it, but you got lucky. You'd be wise not to let that luck go to your head."

He tilted my head up. "That's why we're training this way. So long as you're covering yourself, I'll stay behind you. I'll let you know if I jump in."

I shook my head. "Laxus, I don't want to risk hurting you. You don't know-"

He kissed me, shutting me right up. When he pulled away, his lips were still just a hairs breath away. "You won't."

I looked at him. "How do you-"

Sealing out lips again, he chuckled. "You worry too much."

I shook my head at him, laying my head on his shoulder again. "You don't worry enough."

His chest shook from him laughing. "We're going to need to get tents in Clover Town, will you need anything while we're there?"

I looked at my bag as I thought. "Two things, I should probably get a coat, and is there a bookstore?"

"I'm pretty sure there is, why?"

I started pouting to myself as I grumbled "I forgot my book in my room."

He chuckled again. "We can go to the bookstore, don't you worry. Is there anything in particular you wanted to look for?"

I shrugged. "Magic, maybe see if there is anything on Acnologia but I doubt there will be."

He shrugged. "Doesn't hurt to look."

I nodded, nuzzling into the crook of his neck as I sighed. "You don't look like you would be very comfy."

He was quiet for a bit, I'm sure because its a weird thing to say, but its true. He is surprisingly comfortable. When he started purring as I curled into him didn't help me with staying awake at all with the sudden tiredness that came over me.

"...and you will need to find the chief."

I growled at being woken up, trying to curl up more to block out the offending noise, only for my pillow to start shaking as someone started chuckling. "Good morning to you too."

I grunted as I rubbed my eyes, yawning. Mean while, there's some high pitched giggling somewhere, and I looked over to see Mira on his communication lacrima. "Hi."

Looking around, I realized I fell asleep... on Laxus... cuddling up to him... I could feel myself heat up as the realization set in.

Then I saw my bag had fallen off the seat and fallen over. And I don't know if he noticed it, but I could see the lingerie in the pile of clothing. "When did my bag fall?"

He shrugged as Mira said "Well I will let you two go, I need to call the chief so the sleeping arrangements can be sorted out before you get there."

He glared at her. "Don't even think about it, Mira."

She just gave him a smile as the call ended. I started to get up and quickly hid the lingerie as I put everything back in my bag. Though I found a black sweatshirt, which I quickly put on as I continued putting everything away. "What is she thinking about doing?"

He sighed, leaning his head back and closing his eyes. "Anything she can do to try to 'help us'. Damned demon."

I just looked at him, not knowing what to say to that and what he meant by demon. "How much longer till we get to Clover Town?"

"Should be pretty soon here."

I nodded and went back over to sit next to him. "What do you think she'll do?"

He shook his head. "I don't even want to know."

I leaned my head on his shoulder, trying to help with his bad mood. "Come on, how bad could it be?"

He gave a low laugh. "When she wants certain people to hook up, she does everything she can to make it happen. What do you want to bet she'll have them set up one room?"

I looked at him, looking for any signs he was joking. "She wouldn't..."

He just raised an eyebrow at me.

I loled down, suddely feeling concerned. "Hey, Laxus, what are we?"

He looked at me like either he didn't know or was confused. "What do you mean?"

I swallowed. "What are we?"

He sighed, then tilted my head up and gave me s tender kiss. "We're mates, right now I suppose is the dating stage of the mating process."

I smiled as I sighed in releif. Then I saw buildings passing by through the window as the train started slowing down, and as I looked around, I could feel nothing but dread. "I take it we're at Clover Town?"

He looked out the window and nodded. "What's wrong?"

I shook my head as I forced myself to look away from the window. "Didn't know this was Clover Town, that's all."

He nodded. The train came to a stop and we grabbed out bags. "What's wrong?"

I looked at him. "This is where I first ran into the dark guild. Their guild hall was around here somewhere in some woods."