'What the hell do I do now.' Cobra panicky thought. He had spent a little bit too much time gazing at the sleeping blonde, her being completely naked was really quite distracting.

Sure the bubbles that were in her bath were sadly covering the most important parts but if he looked really hard he could almost see her-

"Laxus go away, I don't want to train today." Lucy mumbled, causing Cobra a near heart attack, she rolled onto her side in the bath causing one of her large breasts to become uncovered. As the cool air touched her nipple, it soon hardened into a stiff peak.

Unconsciously leaning forward, Cobra parted his lips and was centimeters from making contact with her pebbled flesh, but was struck across the face with a wet limb, causing him to, for the second time in one day, face plant the floor.

His nose struck the tiles and crunched. 'Oh fuck it's broken.' Cobra tried to hold the blood in his hands, she'd caught him, now to let her beat him around a bit.

"Naked wrestling is even better than regular wrestling, let's do this." He croaked out, when she didn't respond he glanced up at her and was floored, she was still asleep, after all that.

'This chick obviously loves to sleep.'

Being a coward was what he was all about right now, as much as he teased her, he didn't want to fight her while she was naked . It probably wouldn't bother her considering how little clothing she wore anyway. She much be fairly comfortable with her body, he didn't want to accidentally do something he'd regret, like cop a feel of those magnificent breasts she was unknowingly teasing him with.

Making sure that her head was safely above the water level, he gently turned her head to face him and studied her slack face, yeah she sure had the looks of angel, but the tongue of Satan. A deadly combination.

All that was on his mind when he was told to capture her by Midnight was who and when, never why. Feeling a pang of guilt wash over him, he quickly rearranged himself in his trousers and made his first good decision of the day and high tailed it out of her apartment, not realizing the blood droplets he had left on her floor.

Lucy woke with a start, the bubbles in her bath were just starting to go up her nose, causing a gentle sneeze to wrack her tired body. 'How long did I sleep for.' She thought as she stood up, feeling like a ten ton whale after being in the bath for so long, her naked body cried at the cold breeze blowing into the room.

'Could've sworn I closed the bathroom door when I came in.'

Stepping onto her tiled floor she winced at the cool surface, glancing down at the offending floor she squeaked.

"Oh my god am I bleeding? I'm not due for another week, I swear if Laxus worked me so had I started early again I will scream."

She checked between her legs but there was nothing. She was clean. Now extremely confused, she pegged it down to a previous injury of hers or Gajeel and Laxus, they were here enough and because of how busy she had been recently she hadn't cleaned as much as she probably should have. Quickly wiping the dried blood off the floor, she chucked away the evidence and thought nothing more of it.

Taking a slow stroll to the guild she summoned Plue for company, he popped out of his gate, landed on the floor and gazed up at his master expectantly. She sighed, smiling at her adorable spirit. "Plue, coming from the celestial world isn't a trick, you can't expect to get a lolly each time you're summoned."

This caused a large pout to form on the the little dog's face "Pun punnn." he said sadly, holding out his arms.

Giving in to his cuteness, she pulled a big red lollipop from behind her back, which caused Plue to squeal in delight and clap his hands together, once the sweet was popped into his mouth he started to dance his way to the guild, Lucy following closely behind him, shaking her head.

She gazed up at the night sky and tried to convince herself that tonight was going to be fun, it was Cana's birthday party, she probably has at least two a month but still.

That girl will use any excuse to drink and get all of us to tag along too. The celestial mage could probably use a stiff drink or two after seeing Cobra today.

'Oh Mavis, I really hope he won't be there. Nobody would have invited him would they? They hate him as much as I do.'

Knowing her luck of course he would be there.

Pushing the guild doors open she was tackled by a heavily armored body, causing her to knock into Plue who disappeared, leaving behind a poof of smoke and a half eaten lolly he would probably still ask for later.

"Lucy I have missed you dearly, come have a drink with me, let us discuss when you will be coming on a mission with me and Jellal."

Looking for anybody to help her, she only managed to catch the eye of a very smug looking amethyst one. She scowled at Cobra as she was dragged across the floor by her friend.

Erza saw Lucy glaring at Cobra and sighed.

"Lucy listen, I'm going to give you a bit of advice, from what I have heard, Cobra has come a very long way from where he once was. Why don't you give him a chance? I mean look at you and Gajeel, he did no worse to you than Cobra did and you guys are best friends now."

Lucy hated how right Erza's words were.

"People deserve second chances. Think about it, you might have more in common then you think."

Later on in the night Lucy had somehow ended up in the middle of a game of never have I ever with some people, including Cobra.

Everyone was laughing and joking with him, after having drunk a fair few of Mira's special blends, she had enough liquid courage going through her system to give her the balls to speak up.

"I've got one guys" She said, aiming her stare at the poison slayer "Never have I ever attempted to kill someone in cold blood."

Maintaining eye contact with her, he took a shot of gin. Then stood up and walked outside.

Lucy felt a sharp flare of shame for stooping so low as to embarrass him in front of her guild, thinking back to what Erza had said earlier on she rushed out after him.

Laxus kept his eye on his adoptive sister and followed her to the doors to keep his ear out for any disturbance.

'Those two need to sort this out.' he thought, watching her retreating form. 'Otherwise she'll never fully heal from what happened to her.'

Cobra hadn't felt so embarrassed in a very long time but when that blonde bitch said what she did in front of everyone he almost lost his very short temper. Being the bigger man and walking away was the only option. He didn't want to ruin his one chance of getting out of prison.

Running his hand through his hair he felt someone touch his back, spinning around he flipped them onto their back and held his now clawed hand around their throat, gripping tight.

Wide, hazy brown eyes stared back at him, not scared in the slightest but merely shocked.

"No man has ever had me on my back, it's a nice change of pace."

'Was she implying she was a virgin?' He questioned in his head. 'No way in hell could she be that perfect.'

She giggled nervously "You can let go of my neck anytime now, i'm into rough play but you're taking the piss, I can feel the poison rippling off you."

Releasing his bruising grip on her, he relaxed his fingers and cringed at the light purple tinge he had left on her graceful neck.

Rubbing the back of his neck anxiously, he decided to play the aggressive card, it was hard to know how to act around her, he rarely heard her thoughts but when he did they were only aimed at him. It was like she could shield herself from his magic except when she was thinking about him.

"Don't you know better then to sneak up on a mage? I could've seriously hurt you." He snarled at the blonde causing her to burst out laughing.

"You've already attempted to kill me before, a bruised neck is the least of my worries. I thought you were a dangerous dragon slayer with a magic for reading minds? Couldn't you hear my thoughts when I was walking behind you? Pretty rubbish if you ask me, I was practically stomping to you, you'd be an awful guard." She raised her eyebrows at him, practically begging for him to argue with her.

Cobra scoffed "I was thinking, I don't have to be a dragon slayer all the time, I can just be me. And I don't read minds, souls talk to me."

'Maybe he has changed, maybe he should be given a second chance, he could have a third too for his visually pleasing facial structure. Do you think he'd mind if I licked his cheek bone?'

This peaked Cobras attention, he could hear her soul now. And boy was it singing a sweet song for him.

"How much have you drunk princess? Do you need help getting home?" Cobra said, trying to sound as not creepy as possible, the last thing he wanted was her thinking he was going to try have his way with her. Yes his member was standing to attention from her dirty thoughts but that wasn't his fault, she shouldn't be thinking like that around him, it was dangerous.

"I don't live far from here, you could walk me home and we can talk. I'd like to talk to you cob- oh Mavis on a cracker I cannot call you that ridiculous name, what is your real one?" He was obsessing over how cute she was as she was huffing to catch her breath after talking so quickly that he didn't even think about what he said next.

"It's Erik sweetheart."

For the first time in his life, he wasn't scared, he didn't feel the need to hide behind Cobra and he felt like he could just be Erik, even for just a second, it was nice.

The pair walked to her house in a comfortable silence, he let her lead the way as he couldn't let on that he actually knew where she lived, that wouldn't go down well.

She pointed to her front door "Well this is me, thank you for walking me home, I appreciate it. I'm sorry for being a dick muffin at the guild, alcohol can go one of two ways with me, maybe at Cana's birthday party next week we can try this again?"

This puzzled Cobra "Wasn't it her birthday today?"

"It's always Cana's birthday, she likes to make any excuse for us to party."

He was now 100% certain this guild was certifiably insane and full of drunks.

Lucy gazed up at his nose and saw the slight bruising from his fall in her apartment earlier.

"How did that happen? I hope nobody at the guild did that, I'll kick their ass. You're mine."

He snorted at her remark but ignored the way his heart skipped a beat at her saying he was hers.

"You'll kick their ass, despite the fact you hit me earlier too? No ass kicking is necessary, I fell out of the carriage just as I arrived at the guild and it's obviously only just bruised, I'll survive, I'm a strong independent man don't you know."

Turning to walk back to his new home, conveniently only about five minutes away, she grabbed his arm causing him to cringe and yank his arm away. A pained expression flashed on the celestial mage's flushed face but was quickly covered with a small smile.

"Sorry, I just want to say something before you go, I forgive you, I hope we can be friends, goodnight Erik"

He was left standing on her doorstep, trying to stop his heart from pounding right out of his chest.