Looking up at the sky Erza was suddenly interrupted by a clump of spikey blonde hair and two big emerald green eyes peering at her face from high up.
"Huh? What do you want?"
Suddenly the cheekiness was drained out of her eyes and was filled with a firey flame staring straight back into Laxus's green eyes, boring deep into him unafraid.
"Good fight there kid"
Laxus smiled and felt a tiny bit of Erza lighting up. Not much but enough to know he could be in her presence, not that that mattered to him either way.
Laxus walked around her and dropped down next to her pushing his long, lean legs out and eventually collapsing back into the grass beside her. She turned her head towards him just watching.
"You got him good kid, where'd you learn all that stuff?"
Erza looked back at him warily.
"Why?"
"God can't a guild mate try and talk to another guild mate?"
Laxus snapped before remembering his talk with his Grandfather and remembering exactly where she would've learnt it and exactly why she wouldn't want to talk about it.
"So you're just talking to me cause I'm in Fairytail? You've had two years to try that, if you have nothing else to say just leave me alone okay Laxus?"
She turned her face away from him and Laxus felt a kick in the gut as he realised it had been two years and he didn't know anything about this chick until his talk with the Guild Master.
"Listen, I saw you're fight, I was impressed and I reckon you could do with a better sparring partner"
Laxus rolled his head to look at the girl beside him, strangely she looked beautiful up close. Everything about her glowed. Her eyes, her hair, her skin, she just had a burning aura around her that was captivating, she might be young in years (13 Laxus is 17) but he felt she had a lot more knowledge and strength than a lot of people double her age. He watched as her face crinkled up in laughter and felt a warm rush run through him.
"Yeah Gray isn't as strong as I thought hahaha but oh well no one else will fight me and -"
"I will"
Laxus stubbornly butted in.
Erza turned her face to his so they were centimetres apart and looking directly at each other. Erza stared into Laxus's eyes searchingly before turning away as she snorted and starting cackling hysterically.
"Hahaha yeah right Laxus, thanks but no thanks"
Laxus sat up pushed himself up off the ground in a swift movement and was standing above Erza looking down on her.
"I'm serious"
Erza stopped laughing as she turned up from her laughter and saw Laxus standing over her, the picture of seriousness, apart from his ridiculously messed up hair. Pushing herself up to stand in front of him, Erza stood at Laxus's mid chest and had to tilt her head up backwards to see his face.
"Apologise"
Erza's demand slapped Laxus in the face.
"WHAT!?"
"Apologise."
"WHY!? WHAT DID I DO?!"
Erza continued staring at Laxus her eyes dumbing him down for every moment he took to figure out what he did.
"LAXUS! YOUR OFFICIAL CLASSING IS IN AN HOUR YOU NEED TO GET READY!"
A new voice snapped between the two distracting them with Laxus flicking his head towards the voice to see Natsu Dragneel, the new orphan dragon kid yelling at him.
"OH HEY ERZA!"
The pink haired brat yelled out excitedly, he'd always admired her from a distance in fear of her snapping and breaking his arms but from this far away he felt confident.
Another distant voice echoed throughout the guild telling Natsu to hurry Laxus up he needed to get his ass inside now.
Laxus sighed and nodded to Natsu as Erza gave him an awkward smile unsure how to react to the pink kid. She knew him and Gray always fought so maybe he also saw the fight or heard about it from Gray and was suddenly interested in being friends?
"Erza…"
Stunned Erza looked away from Natsu's now dissappearing back as he walked back into the guild hall and back at Laxus who has staring at the ground.
"Um ah… I know who I am… and I don't say stuff… SO LISTEN.. but ah…"
Erza was blindsided and confused staring at Laxus in shock.
Suddenly she was pulled into warm hard muscles and realised Laxus has grabbed her. A memory burnt in her minds eye of the hugs she felt from her friends returning from her torture and suddenly, again, she felt safe in those arms, tears stinging at her eyes as she remembered the hugs and grabbing hands and playing games with all the friends she lost at the tower. Laxus tightened his arms around her.
"Pops talked to me. I'm sorry Erza"
Erza weakened in his arms as she felt the memories and tears take over and she buried her face in Laxus's chest in combined sadness from the memories of her lost friends and the shock that the blonde brat actually had a soul… and called her by name. She couldn't talk and just pushed her face into his chest as she felt him hold her close in silence. She swore no one would ever see her cry and she wanted to kick herself for showing her weakness but relented to the emotions as they strangled what reason and sanity could possibly remain behind all the pain.
Erza felt the arms around her loosen and she pulled away quickly swiping at her eyes with her arms to clear the tears and wipe her face.
"I gotta go…"
Laxus mumbled as he pulled away and without another word ran quickly back into the guild hall as Erza dropped to her knees and stared out into the river shocked by the turn of events before blushing bright red.
THAT WAS LAXUS! BLOOD BRAT LAXUS! BLONDE RAT LAXUS!
Erza was shaking her head trying to deny everything that happened… everything went so quickly from fighting Gray to awkward conversation with Laxus after, to the… moment? What could she even call that? They never talked and now they were… talking? Hugging? Friends? … WHAT JUST HAPPENED!?
As Laxus ran away from Erza he was mentally bashing himself. YOU STUPID F**K! THAT WAS THE RED WITCH! WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU DOING?!
An image of Erza beside him staring into his eyes on the grass before laughing hysterically fluttered through his mind as he desperately tried to swat the memories away. GOD SO STUPID! Why did I hug her? Why did I KEEP hugging her? I mean, I never talked to her before, then I attack her in front of the whole guild and now out of nowhere I'm a freaking pedophile hug rapist?! Laxus quickly shook his head trying to clear his thoughts as he ran to his room to prepare for the official S-class initiation trying to push thoughts of Erza to the back of his mind as she did Laxus with her mind. Obviously neither succeeded.
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