Hello all! Thanks for all of the reviews.

Here is a request/suggestion from RikaAltraz from forever ago (I work on the requests, but just so slowly! Forgive me!).

So this just happened: I am staying in a hotel in the city where my college is for my final semester (I know, horrible, but it is less expensive than renting quite a few people in my position are doing it as well) but the people that are right next to me just had a brutal break up. Like I could hear it over my music (wish isn't the quietest during the day). But the girl kicked the guy out calling him a loser because he got the room with her money without telling her. She came in and kicked him out of the room. And that is enough drama from the hotel for this week.

The Reason by Hoobastank

Featuring the near-future powerhouse couple of Mira and Laxus

Rated: T

I'm not a perfect person. I can admit that. Now, I want to make it right.

I know, I know, I have said that before, but this time I mean it. And I think that I know how to this time.

I look to the cots around me, everyone in the medical bay is covered in bruises, cuts and most are still unconscious. This was the price of the war with Tartarus.

I was drifting in and out of consciousness between the time I was healed and began fighting in the war then getting knocked out and now. Each time, I searched out a single person, making sure that they are still okay.

I have come to think of them as my protector, and also someone that I need to protect more than anyone else. Mutual protection in a sense.

The one person that I am looking for isn't in the med bay anymore.

I huff at the IV and slide it out of my arm. I rigidly get out of the cot and stumble towards the wall closest to the door. I slam into the wall, not having that much muscle control from countless time in the cot.

I need to make sure that they are okay.

I open the door and use it as support as I ungracefully fall into the hallway.

I growl lightly at the wall that I slam into, but I walk towards the main hall. They would definitely be there if they weren't in the med bay.

I get there to see that only a few of the lights are on, enough to fill the hall with a very dull glow.

"Laxus! You need to rest," I hear her exclaim from to my right.

Just who I am looking for.

I look over to see that she still has a bulky cast on her left arm and bandages across her face.

I laugh, making my entire body hurt, "Look who is talking."

She pouts ad crosses her arms as best she can with the cast, making it obvious that she didn't approve of my humor. I take a step towards her, leaving the support of the wall.

I stay standing for a moment before my knees give out under me and I fall towards the ground.

Like lightning, Mira is by my side before I hit the ground. She must have moved just as fast as I can while I am my element. She has to use her entire body to stop my momentum. She huffs silently and guides me to the closest chair. She makes me sit down and runs and grabs a glass of water for me.

"Since you are obviously not going back to your bed, do you need anything else?" She asks with an accepting, but irritated smile. She puts up with so many stubborn people she knows when arguing is futile.

This is one of those times.

I am not going back into the med bay without talking to her.

She dropped her arms as much as her cast would allow, "What is it?"

I sheepishly smile, a very uncharacteristic expression, I know, but I have been meaning to have this conversation with her and it is a few years overdue.

"I am sorry that you hurt you," I mutter out, deliberately not meeting her large blue eyes.

"Wha-," She pauses before she indignantly huffs, "This isn't about the Magnolia Festival is it? That was ages ago!"

I nod once, dismissing her statement, "I shouldn't have done any of that."

"Laxus, you should know that nobody holds that against you. You were there for us when we really needed you!" Mira glares to try to force me see her point, "You were there for us on Tenrou, at the Grand Magic Games, during the war!"

"I ended up hurting all of the people that I found that I couldn't live without," I was going to continue talking, but I abruptly shut my mouth. I didn't want to tell her like this.

"You are part of the guild. We forgive each other," Mira puts her hand on my shoulder to steady me.

"The guild isn't what made me stay," I say before thinking about it.

She tilts her head to the side, obviously confused.

I inhale deeply, "There is a different reason that I have for staying in the guild."

"What?" she is still as confused, if not more, than before.

"And it is a reason for me to actually want to start over new, in the guild," I had this planned out so eloquently in my mind before I ended up in a hospital bed for so long. I think it might have been song lyrics at one point. Now, I don't blame her for not following me. That is what so many medications and time spent unconscious does.

"You need to go lay down, Laxus," She smiles and grabs my forearm to help me stand up so she could lead me back to my cot. She confirmed my suspicion that she thinks I am muttering intoxicated nonsense.

I lightly pull my arm away from her and grab her chin, "the reason is you, MiraJane Strauss."

She blinks owlishly, "Laxus?"

"I don't want to hurt anyone anymore. Mostly, I never want to hurt you again. I want to be the one that stops you from crying," I pull her chin closer, intending to show her what I mean.

I am a hair's breath away from kissing her when she pushes me back suddenly, pulling on my

"I have never seen you like this, you need to sleep off some more of the medications and then we can have this conversation again," Mira successfully gets me to stand up and supports my weight.

"I found a reason to show a side of me you didn't know. I need you to know how much I care for you," What made me say that?

Mira giggles at my confession.

"I didn't want you to find out this way," Realizing that I am, in fact, not in a proper state of mind. I am in a hospital gown for crying out loud! It is the middle of the night, in a dark guild hall and I am pretty sure my speech has been slurring this entire time.

Mira gets me to start walking towards the med bay. I continue to try to rectify my embarrassing confession, "Can I try this again later?"

Mira opens the door and guides me to my cot, "I would very much like that, Laxus."

I feel a grin stretch on my face. I lean back on the cot and she makes sure that my IV is replaced in one of my veins.

She makes sure that everything is in order before she places a hand on my chest, "You hurry up and get better."

Then she did something that I wouldn't expect her to do after my embarrassing mumblings. She leans down and kisses me softly.

As quickly as it happened, she retreated and walked out the door. She secured the door closed before I realized what happened.

Elfman grunts loudly from the cot to my left, "Don't you dare hurt my sister."

"I don't intend to," I grin into the dark room and go back to sleep.

Now I will impatiently be wanting to get better.

I think Mira is slowly becoming my favorite character. Between all of these one shots and my other story (blatant self promotion: Little Drop of Poison), I am finding myself loving her more and more.

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-Amber