A fic for a tumblr Halloween prompt! Dubiously named Orange because... pumpkins.

WARNING. NOT NALU. but Lalu just cause, so enjoy some Laxus and Lucy if you'd like :3


Halloween called for one thing and one thing only: Handcuffs .

'Lucy. Happy Halloween. Your trick is in the bedroom. ;)

Cana.'

I frowned down at the card, confused before putting down my groceries and walking towards the bedroom. The door was slightly open, and I noted that the light had been turned on. The closer I got, the more I could hear the muffled curses.

My frown deepened as I hesitantly entered the room, scanning for anything out of the ordinary. I stopped when I saw the man. Handcuffed to a chair.

He sat a few feet from my bed, and was thrashing rather violently but the handcuffs and the chair stayed put. I blinked once, noticing the blonde hair and spiked headphones around his neck.

"Laxus?" I asked myself in disbelief when his head snapped up and his eyes narrowed. A rag was tied around his mouth, sharp teeth digging into the fabric as he pinned his angry glare on me.

I was too shocked to really get frightened because Laxus was in my bedroom, handcuffed to a chair.

Why was Laxus in my bedroom handcuffed to a chair?

"What are you doing here?" I asked, moving closer hesitantly as he growled, thrashing a little bit more as I realized, he couldn't really answer me.

I took a moment to wonder if he was angry at me, or with the situation. Knowing Laxus, it was probably both.

I reached out cautiously and tugged the rag out of his mouth. I then flinched at his booming voice, "What the fuck is the meaning of this?"

"Don't yell at me!" I replied hastily, "I didn't kidnap you and handcuff you to a chair."

"But I'm in your house which means you have something to do with this shit!"

"Stop swearing." I lightly warned, walking around to finger at the handcuffs only to be zapped slightly.

"Ow! Was that really necessary? I'm trying to get you out of them." I grouched as he snarled, "Try harder."

What a sourpuss.

After close inspection, I found the handcuffs to be the sort that could only be unlocked with a certain phrase. And unfortunately, the phrase was set by a person beforehand, which meant I'd have to figure out Cana's plan before he could leave.

"So I have bad news." I told him, shrugging off my jacket as he growled again, "What?"

"The handcuffs can only be unlocked by saying the 'unlocking words'. It's like a vocal password." I explained, taking out my earrings as Laxus stared at me angrily, "And what are the 'unlocking words' exactly?"

An evil thought appeared in my head, and before I could stop myself — I didn't really want to stop myself — I stated, "Lucy Heartfilia is the goddess among goddesses."

"What the fuck. Are you really expecting me not to believe you are involved with this?"

"Believe what you want, Laxus. But I didn't expect you to be in my house, handcuffed to one of my favourite chairs." I replied back sarcastically, his bad behaviour getting on my nerves.

According to Cana, he was a trick.

I hadn't realised tricks had such horrible attitude.

"Fine!" He snapped, before snarling lowly, "Lucy Heartfilia is the goddess among goddesses."

My lips quirked a little, as he yanked on the handcuffs, only to find them faster secured.

A giggle bubbled up in my throat, "I didn't think you'd actually say it."

I could feel his piercing glare on the back of my head and shook it off, finding it hard to really fear him when he was secured like that. Not that a feared Laxus that much before, but he was an intimidating hot guy who had an anger problem.

And I had seen him single handedly wipe out at least seven people at the same time.

"Lucy." He held a warning tone in his voice, practically simmering with anger as I sighed, "Did Cana leave you with anything? She left me a note that said you were my 'trick'. And that's it. Did she give you any instructions or any sort of clue as to why you are here?"

"In my pants."

I turned to him, confusion plastered on my features, as he stated slowly, "She put something in my pants."

"Oh. Why didn't you say that before?"

"I was hoping I wouldn't have Natsu's best friend going through my junk, looking for a mystical note." He replied boredly and I rolled my eyes, stomping over to him.

"Grow up." I told him smartly, unzipping his pants and reaching down. I kept my eyes off him, searching for a minute before frowning, "I can't find anything."

When I looked at him, I noticed the smug little smile and immediately retracted my hand with a groan, as he stated, "I didn't think you'd actually do it."

Annoyance and humiliation bubbled up in me, but I pushed it aside, using that same hand to flick him on the nose. The smile fell abruptly, into something of shock.

I assumed it was because people like Laxus didn't get reprimanded like a dog usually.

"If we could both flick our adult brains on, we can figure out how to get you out of those handcuffs. Be good or I'll leave you in my bathroom all night." I warned, before noticing a tiny white sheet of paper on the bed.

I moved away from him, noting the way his eyes followed me suspiciously and picked up the paper.

'Hello, my name is Laxus.

I belong to Lucy Heartfilia for a full night.

I must do whatever she says.

The handcuffs will not come off until Lucy says she is pleased with my work.'

I couldn't help but laugh a little as Laxus craned his neck to look at me, "What does it say?"

"You have to be my slave for a full night. Unless I say the magic words."

"Which are?" He promoted as I smiled at him cheekily, "Nice try."

He glared at me, "I'm not a good slave."

"I think you'll be great!" I encouraged, a little interested about how this game worked. From what I could tell, the only things Laxus could do was follow the rules, intimidate me enough to get me to say the words or do nothing until I was bored.

"My first order, is you have to call me Princess for the rest of our time together." I declared and he shook his head, "No way."

"Then I'm not going to release you."

"Lucy, why are you doing this?"

"It's Halloween, Laxus!" I cheered, before winking, "Have some fun with it."

:::

Turns out, Laxus didn't really know how to have fun. But I was definitely enjoying teaching him.

"Four words." He stated, eyebrows furrowed in confusion as I mimed out a battle with my body, wiggling and dashing all over the place.

"Constipated flailing." I giggled at his guess, and continued to fight nothing but air.

"The Chicken Dance." He guessed, as I shook my head, and pretended to have a sword fight with myself.

"Battle…" He murmured as I nodded excitedly, waving my hands about to tell him to continue. He watched me amused, still handcuffed to the chair as he suggested, "Battle… ground…?"

I shook my head, holding up two fingers as he stated slowly, "Battle to…"

I then used my thumb to run against my throats and he frowned, "Dead." I nodded, clicking my fingers wildly.

"Battle to the death?"

"Yes! Woo! You got it!" I shrieked happily as he shook his head, "No thanks to your amazing acting skills, princess."

I reached over and threw a chocolate at his head, "I was great. A+ acting right there."

"Sure." He chuckled and I grinned, pulling out the last piece of paper. I made sure not to look, turning it around to face him so he could read it.

We had been playing charades for the last twenty minutes and so far, I was winning. Laxus didn't know that I had played this game a million times over with Natsu and practically knew all the answers.

I put the paper in the box and sat down on the couch, "Go."

He sighed, blinking twice.

"Two words."

He rolled his neck slowly as I began to guess, "Neck roller, high roller, matchmaker millionaire, sheep fighter - OH. I know!"

He gave me an incredulous stare as I smiled, "Body Building 2000."

He was silent for the longest time before stating, "I think you cheat."

"Nonsense! You are just a great actor." I winked playfully, smiling innocently at him.

"You are a cheater. I don't know how, but you just are."

"Oh whatever." I waved off his accusations before patting my tummy, "I'm hungry. Want to bake some Halloween cookies?"

"Yes. Let me just get my apron on." He replied sarcastically as I chirped, "Don't act like you aren't having fun. How does your tattoo feel?"

"It's a tattoo that you applied with water. You didn't even let me see what you put on my face." He crouched as I smiled patiently, eyeing the smiley face on his cheek. I had dug through my closet to find those non-permanent tattoos and one of my orders had been to let me put one of his face.

He had only conceded if he could choose one for my face. So I now had a snake on my forehead, and he had a smiley face on his cheek.

A little childish, but one Lucy only gets to play with a grumpy Laxus once.

It was like having a doll, that couldn't move from a chair and spent most of the time being sarcastic.

"So, cookies?" I clapped excitedly as he snorted, "How are you going to get me to the kitchen? No offence, but those aren't pythons on your arms."

"Already way ahead of you."

"Right there Taurus, should do. Thanks for the help!" I chirped happily as Taurus placed Laxus in my kitchen, less than gently. Laxus glared at my spirit, "That was the most humiliating thing I've ever had to endure, in my life."

"Oh come on! Taurus loves to show off his muscles."

"That I do, Miss Luuucy! Although, carrying you is waaay lighter." Taurus mooed and I laughed, "No doubt about that."

He left and I was pulling ingredients out of the pantry when a thought occurred to me. I had been with Laxus for a few hours now, and whilst he hadn't been a cheery little cherub, he had been patient and played the game.

I sighed, placing the eggs down before stating loudly, "Oh, by the way, I'm pleased with your work."

I heard this hiss the the handcuffs magically unlocking and turned around to see Laxus slowly standing up, eyeing me suspiciously.

"You played the game and entertained me, you are free to go." I smiled, before adding, "I had fun. You have a pretty cute smile."

Laxus had a pretty cute/hot everything when you thought about it.

"That's it?"

"That's it, you can go enact revenge on Cana now. I'm making cookies." I turned back to the pantry and gathered the rest of the things I needed, judging by the silence that he left.

I turned around and jumped when he was on my side of the counter, eyeing me with that same suspicious look.

"L-Laxus?" I stammered, suddenly remembering Laxus was large and intimidating and not bound.

His eyes softened into something sweet and dare I say, gentle, as he tilted his head.

He took the things from my hands, and leant down, pressing his lips to my cheek. I stilled in shock, struggling not to gape at him as he leaned back, "I'll be back to help with cookies as soon as I shock Cana."

"Oh. Okay?" I squeaked, surprised at the rush of heat that spread through my face. My fingertips tingled, and I watched as he smiled a little, watching my reaction.

"You are pretty cute too." He fingered a lock of my hair as I blinked, "I know."

He chuckled, leaning over to brush his lips against my cheek once more, "Damn right you do."

A surge of bravery rushed through me, prompting to grab his shirt and give it a soft tug. He meant down a little more, letting me brush my lips against his. A jolt of electricity rushed down my spine, totally on purpose but surprisingly not painful.

"Jerk." I stated, a little breathlessly and he smiled again, brushing our lips together in a sweet motion, without the added 'spark'. Heat and affection sung through me and I sighed, leaning up on my tippy toes to reach him better.

He moved back and I frowned, worried I had read the signal wrong for a moment.

"I'll be right back."

Then he left quickly, leaving me breathless and a little confused. But it didn't matter. Something inside me fluttered hopefully and I was wearing a smile and covered in cookie dough when he returned.


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