I'm experimenting this chapter by adding a few more perspectives. Scary Cop Erza is written in Laxus' perspective and I wanted to write Sorano's meeting with Gray from her mind rather than Erik reading her mind. Please tell me if you like the change of perspective or if I should just keep it to Lucy and Erik.

Hiro Mashima owns Fairy Tail

FAMILY DINNER

I couldn't have imagined today being bad, yesterday Lucy and I had finished the interview the afternoon prior, and after a day at the station of sorting through files and doing desk work I had expected to come home to a simple dinner since it was Sorano's night to cook. Instead I came home to Macbeth and Sawyer scrambling to clean up as Sorano yelled at them, catching the jumble between her screeching and their thoughts I gathered that Macbeth had finally gotten the balls to talk to the pink haired demon girl. Meredy and her family were coming over for dinner. "Sorano. Stop shouting, it won't change anything, I'll help you cook." Of the four of us it was only Sorano and I who could cook a decent meal so no wonder they'd picked tonight.

"Erik...I'm going to murder them." Her voice was low, husky, and I glanced over at her. "Don't use your work voice, Sora, we're not paying customers." Her scowl loosened, she allowed the barest of smiles to grace her face, and I decided to give her some more news to smile about. "You missed Dan getting pushed into the canal." Her purple eyes widened slightly and she glanced at me as she worked on the vegetables. "Really? What happened?" He'd been the reason she shut her emotions down, why she closed people out, and any chance at revenge was welcome. "He was trying to flirt with Lucille, when I went to chase her down, and she got mad so she just pushed him clean into the water. Then when he played Mister Try Hard she smashed his nose with a left hook. I think she broke it." Sorano's eyes twinkled with perverse glee, she'd done more than break his nose once I got my own licks in, and a smile formed on her face.

'Thank God I'm not the only girl who thinks he's awful. That fucker deserves more than a broken nose though.' She wasn't thinking of my power, which was okay because I liked that they forgot so easily, and I smirked beside her. "I'll finish up, I know you have a certain decorum for your appearance when we have guests." She nodded and headed up the stairs, she hated people seeing her without makeup or a decent outfit, her ponytail and sweats wouldn't cut it for a dinner with guests. Macbeth entered the room minutes later. "Alright. Living room and dining room are shining, Sawyer is almost done on the bathroom." My eyes shifted to look at him, his hair properly combed and he didn't look too bad in a normal pair of jeans and tee shirt, and I couldn't help but huff slightly. "You owe Sora...big time." Macbeth hung his head. 'Yea I do. Damn, I'm glad she didn't just beat the shit out of me.' I laughed.

"For as cruel as she is...we're family." He blinked and nodded, grabbing plates and dishes, and I noticed the size of the stack. "We're feeding eight?" Macbeth grimaced. "Meredy is the one in charge of cooking for her family...I just invited them all." Sorano returned, taking out glasses from the cabinet, and snorted. "You always do this shit ass backward, huh? You're doing a 'meet the family' and you haven't even asked her on a date." Macbeth's smile faded and I laughed, openly, before setting the finished meal on the table. Baked chicken stuffed with fontina cheese and mushrooms, rice pilaf, and mixed greens was the menu and it looked fantastic. "Sora I'll take your next dinner night." Macbeth offered, earning her surprised look, and a knock sounded on the door. The woman turned to answer it, seeing as she was always the one to greet the guests, and I noticed her mind blank out for a moment.

I wasn't expecting much when I answered the door, truth be told, I just knew that Meredy and her family were coming over. I assumed it would be a father and mother type deal but the group of four in front of me all looked close in age. "Hello, welcome to the Cassava residence. You must be Meredy and her family, please come in." I moved aside to allow them to enter but I'd been frozen when I saw him standing there, royal blue eyes had met my own and an easy going smile had shown on that charming face, and I knew that I needed to get it together. The last time I'd even let someone in that wasn't Erik, Sawyer, or Macbeth...it had been the best and worst experience of my life. I'd thought Dan only saw me, I'd assumed I was the only one with his ridiculously cute displays of affection...but I had been wrong.

"Thanks for inviting us all over. I'm Meredy. This is Ultear, Gray, and Jellal." The pink haired girl spoke with a somewhat high pitched, higher than my natural voice, tone and I couldn't help but follow her motion about the boy with black hair with it's blue hue. Gray. His name is Gray. Erik's eyes hardened and I snapped back into a state of composure, I was really losing it, and Macbeth stepped up. Had to admit that when his jeans didn't have rips, when his band shirt was clean, and he didn't have black lipstick or foundation on he actually looked pretty decent. But he was still my brother, in everything except blood, and I still knew that he was actually an annoying asshole. "This is Erik, Sawyer, and Sorano. We're glad to have you. I'm Macbeth." Everyone shook hands, exchanged nice greetings, and sat down as Erik got everyone drinks.

I mentally applauded, and cursed, Erik's overprotective brother behavior as he situated himself between me and Gray; Macbeth and Sawyer were sitting on either side of Meredy, and the others were just spread around the table. "We really do appreciate the invite, it was nice of you to have us all over, I brought white wine since Macbeth said dinner was a chicken dish." Jellal informed us, splitting the drink after opening the bottle, and I turned my gaze from him to glance at the others. "So, Sorano, what do you do for work?" From the other side of Erik I glanced at Gray, who was leaning forward slightly, and chuckled. "Telecommunications." I replied, not wanting to just blab what the actual job was, last thing I needed to tell them was that I was a phone sex operator. The job itself was boring, actually, I was pretty desensitized to any sort of dirty talk because of it but I got bank from doing it.

"Oh? I work in a bar." My reply was near immediate. "Doing what? Stripping?" He laughed, I hadn't noticed how he was suddenly missing his jacket and the vest he'd worn. "Actually yes. I'm a male stripper." Sawyer choked on his drink, Meredy and Ultear sighed while Jellal simply shook his head, and Erik snorted in amusement before continuing to eat. "Why am I not surprised? Sex sells." His royal blue eyes twinkled and I felt my heart stutter. Dammit. I quickly tamped down on that eagerness, that bubbling in my heart, and my smile became a bit cruel. "But I've seen better." A lie, a total fucking lie, but I would not let anyone break me again. Rather than backing of though...his eyes gleamed with challenge. "Maybe you should come by sometime, it's Fairy Tail." Of course it was, the rowdiest bar in the city, and I rolled my eyes. "I might but I don't want to be let down." His lips formed a smirk that stopped my heart.

Erik tensed beside me, I knew he was ready to jump to my aid if I so much as got uncomfortable, and Gray spoke with a somewhat arrogant voice. "Trust me, Sorano, I'm the best there is." I knew I was trembling, he had spoken those words too, and Erik spoke up before I could get trapped in the memories. "Doubt it, I've heard of Lyon Vastia after all, there are guys with bigger reputations. If nobody's heard of you then you can't be the best." His tone was hostile, tense, and I could feel the others all looking on with confusion and worry. Macbeth and Sawyer caught my eye, I knew when theirs widened that they'd seen the panic, and to his eternal credit it was Sawyer who spoke up with a small laugh. "Seriously dude, besides stripping is stupid, you need a better job. I'm a stunt car driver and Macbeth here is an accountant, better paying than taking your clothes off for a bunch of mid life wives." I was grateful for the attention to be off me, memories of a time in my life when I'd suffered were slowly fading, and Erik's eyes were still on me.

My brothers were the best.

Dinner was over, Meredy and her wacky family were gone, and I turned to Sorano and pulled her into my arms; as the oldest of us I always took care of them, and seeing her remember those painful memories hurt. Back then I hadn't been strong enough to stop her pain but now I would do anything to ease it, she was my sister, and Macbeth looked guilty while Sawyer showed concern. A heavy knock at the door made me cringe and Sawyer went to answer it, Gajeel stomping in with bloodshot eyes, and I knew what happened in that moment. I offered a look of understanding and he noticed Sorano's still slightly trembling form. "You okay Sora?" He had been on friendly terms with them for so long that she was okay with him using her nickname. "Just a little out of sorts tonight, Stud face." He smirked and she walked over and greeted him with a gentle hug, his large arms closing around her, and he shook slightly. "I know, you two split?" Gajeel let out a very heavy sob. "She was cheating on me." Sorano and I both winced, the man had put so much faith in her and now it had been effectively trampled on, and she led him to the sofa.

"You crash here tonight, Stud Face, and I'll tell Overload that you aren't coming in tomorrow." Her nickname 'Angel' had been started with her obsession with purity and goodness...it stuck because when people were hurting that's what she became. Her method to soothing her own pain was through hiding it and helping others. Something I envied about her. I had an errant thought that she'd be good friends with Lucy if they ever met. Sawyer tossed Gajeel a pillow and blanket, the man catching it, and Macbeth handed him a beer; I watched them go, all of them had to get up early, and Sorano peered into the room. "Overload said that you're good to take off." It wasn't all he said, not that kind of a man was Laxus, but Sorano was shaving off the harsh Chief's words to ease his pain. Gajeel offered a nod of appreciation and watched her go up the stairs.

"Guests tonight?" He asked, sipping from the bottle, and I nodded. "Macbeth finally got the balls to invite the pink haired demon neighbor over, Meredy, and she brought her family. Gray Fullbuster was hitting on Sorano." Gajeel's brow lifted and his frown deepened. "That fucker say something?" He was almost as protective of Sorano as we were, she'd given him a form of salvation from his ex-girlfriend in her neutral opinions and blunt answers, and I sighed. "He made her remember." Gajeel's eyes narrowed further. "Tch. Fucker. I'll make sure Natsu beats his ass." The fun part about our police force was that we knew mostly everyone in the city somehow, either in passing or friend of friends, and Natsu was Gray's rival and best friend. Gajeel would keep good on his word.

Ranting, I was very much busy ranting at Levy while she scanned over the latest manuscript of my novel, I'd had an utter shit of a day after submitting my article to Matsuki-sama. Evidently it was a great article but he was regretting not putting Jason in charge since I had strayed from the listed questions, it would still get published, but I had a second mark on my record and the first one wasn't even my fault. That had been Jenny Realight, Bitchface as I coined her, who had gotten jealous when I was being mentored by Jason rather than her; needless to say she started a war that we'd both nearly gotten fired over. Levy offered a sympathetic smile, Wendy was staying with her friend Chelia tonight so I could rant all I wanted, and her hazel eyes shimmered. "Lu-chan...just relax. It's not like Magnolia Weekly is the only place in town you can work and I know for a fact that you write for that other magazine too." I shushed her, not wanting that secret exposed too, and my blunette friend giggled.

"Seriously, though, you're overreacting. If they don't appreciate your incredible writing talents then they don't deserve you as an employee, it's as simple as that, plus they can't just throw an interview at you with prying questions like that. Those were some pretty in depth things that I'm sure the police department didn't want spread." I was about to reply when a knock sounded on my door, glancing at Levy with a slight tilt of the head, and I went to the door and peered through the peep hole. I wanted to cry out of sheer and utter frustration. "It's Dan." I commented to my best friend, who looked annoyed right away, and she strode to the door and tossed it open. "Look, Dan, I don't give two fucks why you think you and Lu-chan are meant to be together but she doesn't want you. So go the fuck away!" The small girl slammed the door, in his face, and I burst out laughing and hugged her.

But he simply opened the door, seeing as we hadn't slid the deadbolt shut yet, and moved to force his way inside. "No, I'm tired of this, I'm not leaving. Lulu-chama and I are bound by the red string of fate." My eyes narrowed, my cheeks puffing in anger, but before I could swing Levy beat me to the punch. Literally. Her fist flashed out and collided with his jaw, a brilliant right hook just like I'd taught her, and Dan stumbled backward. "Levy call the cops. Tell them if they're not fast they'll be picking up a corpse." The blunette wasn't a fighter, I was, and so I gave her an out. Dan glared, holding his jaw, and I tensed. "You have five fucking minutes to leave my apartment." I threatened, ready to kick, and he lunged to grab me. My leg flashed out, slamming into his ribs, and I saw him hold his torso as he hit the wall; good, the fucker deserved some broken bones, and he wasn't getting up. He'd hit his head, pretty heard actually, and I glanced at Levy as she held her phone.

It was under five minutes later that the screeching of tires sounded, heavy footsteps on the hallway, and I looked at the duo who entered. Laxus, no doubt worried about my corpse threat, and a redheaded woman. The blond police officer looked down at Dan in alarm, glancing at me, and I smirked. "He threatened me in my own home." Levy nodded beside me and her arms crossed. "Plus he forced his way inside after we demanded he leave." The chief held his hands up. "I wasn't accusing you two of anything, you have the right to defend yourselves when someone forces entry, I just need your side of the story. Erza can get him into the car." The redhead nodded, looking down at the man who was now regaining consciousness, and her tense form gave off a very terrifying aura. "Dan Straight you are under arrest for forced entry and battery..." The redhead picked him up by his collar and cuffed him as she recited his miranda rights.

"We were talking, well I was ranting really, and he knocked on the door. Levy-chan opened the door and told him off, since he doesn't seem to take the hint even though I told him to back off yesterday when Erik was right there...but anyway so he forced his way in before we could lock the door and so Levy decked him...and then he went to fight back so I kicked him. In the ribs." Laxus snorted in amusement, a very masculine and sexy sound from him, and shook his head. "We'll fax the paperwork to the court house about the restraining order." I nodded and watched him go before glancing at Levy. "That was the fastest I've seen any cop respond to a call, he has to like you." The blunette was wrong on so many levels, at least I thought so, it was because he knew who I was that he responded that fast. Of course...Levy deserved to know too. "Levy-chan..." Her eyes shifted to mine and I sat her down after dead bolting the door and making sure nobody would be able to listen in on our conversation. I was paranoid but I knew I could trust Levy-chan with my secret.

The drive was anything but silent as Dan mumbled into the gag Erza had put on him, trying to talk despite being unable, and the redheaded woman snorted. "Honestly, what sort of man breaks into a woman's house and doesn't understand when to just back off?" The redhead glared at him in the mirror, making him whimper in fear, and I couldn't help but laugh. "A pathetic one...but Dan's always been a slimeball." Her eyes turned to look at me before a devil's aura settled around her, when she got like this it was easier to divert her anger, and I'd rather her be pissed at him than me. Erza Scarlet was an amazing officer of the law, passionate and just, but she was an absolute devil when it came to the treatment of women; feminist didn't even begin to describe her but thankfully she wasn't the type who cried when she was offended...no she just shattered bones.

"I shall have to investigate his records to see if there are any repeat charges." I nodded absently and thought about the blond woman we'd just left behind. While I couldn't deny that she was sexy as hell, seriously she had a body that women paid millions for, I couldn't shake that something bad was going to happen. After Erik went and blabbed her identity, the one she'd left behind, I had gone and made sure that any and all records of the conversation were tied up nicely. Natsu, Sting, Gajeel, and Rogue knew the consequences if they talked; I'd even made sure the security cameras that were on the street lights of her street were updated, one of them even showed the door to her apartment complex very nicely. I wanted to protect her, she'd run for a reason and while I was no Erik it wasn't hard to see that it was painful, I wouldn't allow anything to happen to her under my jurisdiction. As the Chief of Police I had a duty to serve and protect.

"You are lucky that Lucille called us rather than me handling you off shift, if I had my way I'd rip your penis off and cauterize the wound before making you choke on said severed penis once the flesh started to decay." I glanced at Erza with mild alarm, her threats were getting graphic, and almost wept in joy as the station came into view. A ten minute drive with her was enough to scare even the greatest of men and a large part of me was glad I'd been named Chief instead of her, when the choice had been made, because she was fiercely protective of the female officers and extremely biased against the men. "Move it!" Her barking order to Dan, as we exited the car, prompted him to squeal in terror and fall out of the cruiser. I cringed when I noticed he'd pissed himself.

I love writing a scary Erza, from any POV. Next chapter will include:

- Lucy gets fired (her boss is an utter ass)
- Erik and Gajeel save Lucy and Levy from utter embarrassment (in the form of Bunny Suits)
-We meet the lovely Mirajane Strauss (who avenges Lucy's job being lost)
-Lucy gets a new job at Fairy Tail (seeing as Mirajane can't keep the books and work the bar)
-Lucy meets Sorano (she did NOT come to see Gray strip...okay that's a lie she totally did)