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Prompt: Bloom

Erza sat at the bar, watching as Natsu and Lucy both argued over the new mint plant that Mira had brought in.

The mint was newly planted, thus it was a mere bud. It was figuratively, just a baby.

Natsu had been about to smash it while he fought with Gray.

Lucy, who Mira had entrusted with the plant while she went out to buy some items, quickly stood up to grab the plant and had decided to hide it behind the bar. Natsu had noticed her movement and questioned her.

She said, "You almost smashed the plant that Mira's been taking care of."

He then said, "Oh. So? It's just a plant. Why are you holding it like an injured baby?"

Irritated, she said, "Because Mira said she wanted to plant her own ingredients to put in the drinks and you almost killed it. Why wouldn't I be worried if she got back and she saw it smashed?"

He stupidly replied, "Just plant a new one. She'll never know."

She asked him, "How fast do you think it takes for something like this to grow?"

He replied with, "Droy can make plants grow fast."

"That's because of his magic, Natsu. This is not magic!"

And thus began their fight. Gray got bored of watching them so he instead went over to the other end of the bar where Cana was.

Erza soon got lost in her thoughts as she stared at the two.

They're best friends. Yet Lucy always seems to get irritated with him. With all of us sometimes actually. Erza knew that they sometimes did things that caused the Stellar Mage to want to tear out her pretty blond locks in frustration.

Starting with breaking and entering into her house. Erza smirked as she recalled the instances that usually seemed to happen to her. Then damaging public property, thus our employers having to take out money for repair costs.

No more rent money.

In fact, we seem to smother Lucy a lot.

It's a wonder she hasn't left the team yet.

Erza was glad though. Lucy was her best friend. She'd be very sad if she decided to abandon the team.

And maybe a little angry too.

But she knew Lucy wouldn't do that. She was loyal through and through.

She stayed in the team due to that loyalty and her trust in them.

Even if they had a very bad habit of bringing her on crazy missions consisting of Dukes that had weird taste in women, a waitressing job to help out a retired council member and an illegal S-Class mission that had a very scary demon brute that came along with it.

Cheapest payment or not, it was still an S-Class mission.

But Erza knew the moment she saw Lucy and Natsu and even Gray interact on their first mission together.

She knew they would stick by each other thru and thru.

Whether to find Igneel.

Whether to stay far away from any over controlling father.

Whether to make up for sins that were left unsolved when Ur died.

Because even if they fought the way they did over silly things, they forgave each other in a snap.

Even if they each had a habit of breaking and entering, Lucy let them stay with resignation and a small smile.

And even if they broke things and just generally destroyed, Lucy sighed and knew it was for a good reason.

Hopefully.

If it wasn't, she'd be very pissed.

But she'd forgive them.

And Erza knew that those circumstances applied to her as well. And it gave her a light feeling in her heart.

But staring at the two fighting over a plant, she could see something between the both of them that was different from the others in the team.

Mira saw it too, she knew, as she had caught the bar maid trying over and over again to put them into various scenarios.

It wasn't ready yet. Just like the mint plant wasn't ready yet either.

But with time and Mira's meddling, it would happen soon.

She could feel it.

It was small. But give it time, and Erza had a feeling it would blossom.

DayDreamerJxD- Thank you so much. Happy holidays to you as well. =) Heres the next chapter. I hope you like it. And Thank God. I needed to hear that. I feel like if I wait too long, I might disappoint you guys. I'll try my best to relax about this. =) Thanks so much!

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On a side note...

I like to repeat my words don't I? It's because she"Insert Reason" next paragraph Because she "Insert Reason again" next paragraph, repeat.

... is it annoying?