Lullaby

Lily was fast asleep in front of a window in her home. Headphones in her ears, curled up in the afternoon sun, instead of being productive and doing, well, anything but taking a cat nap.

Since Lily was indisposed of at this time, she never heard her door being halfway broken open as a certain titanic dragon slayer, that had gotten slightly worried that she didn't show up at the guild today, decided to pay her a visit.

Laxus only grew more worried as he stormed through the entire upstairs, seeing that the living quarters were empty he came back down the stairs to the shop portion of her home. He almost left until he noticed the door behind the stairwell, almost completely hidden from sight. He went in behind the counter and slowly opened the door.

He was met with a brewing room, where the only source of light was the afternoon sun coming in from the glass back wall that led out to a very zen looking garden. The room itself was fairly clean, everything put away neatly, the only real thing that stuck out was that Lily was stomach down on the floor. Laxus rushed over to her side, and after a quick once over, and noticing that there was a book and a pair of gale-force reading glasses nearby, that she was fine and had just fallen asleep while reading.

Laxus let out a sigh and went to move away until he noticed the orange and black wrap around headphones, he blinked and gave a quick look around to ensure that no one was around, before gently plucking out one of the ear-buds and placed it into his own ear.

It was an absolute shame Lily was asleep, because she missed the most hilarious face that Laxus had ever made. His face screamed 'what the fucking hell' as he stared at the smaller sleeping girl in shock.

Laxus' eyes raked over her body, Lily was wearing a white stretchy headband to keep her shoulder length ginger hair out of her face, a pastel rainbow t-shirt, and a light blue pair of shorts, her toes were painted a mint green with light pink and red hearts doodled on the lacquer in what looked like marker. Her body was in a half ball, her leg resting on the other and splitting at the knee, one leg curling back against her calf while the other went straight out, her arms were both covering her torso, one arm resting at her collarbone, her hand grasping her golden ring that she kept on a chain around her neck. The other arm wrapped itself around her head with her hand tangled in those very ginger locks, halfway pushing off the headband.

In Laxus' eyes, this was the image of innocence and purity. In the guild she sang songs of peace, love, and brotherhood. She was a talented healer and took great pain to ensure her guild mates were well rested and in good health. When the brawls started in the guild she jumped up to the rafters to avoid the flying chairs and tables. The book she was reading had a bunch of children's fairy tale's in it. Her blue eyes often held a sense of wonder, especially when gazing at the night sky or during a thunder storm. The woman was pure, innocent, and damn-near child like!

So why in the hell was she using heavy metal as a lullaby?!