What he had never imagined.
Disclaimer: I don't own Fairy Tail. Mashima does.
A/N: Sooooooooo this is chapter 20 ~ read and review please? ^w^ thank youuuuuuu - REVISED/EDITED
"Fate?" she asked him confused.
"Yes? Like how two friends are destined to meet again..." he trailed off wondering what she was thinking about.
"Oh yes! I know." she smiled lightly to him. The two walked together to the hotel while chatting mainly about Gray and Natsu since these two were a subject they could talk about, laugh about and agree upon.
For Lisanna, this was one of the few times that the subject about Natsu didn't make her feel sad inside. If anything she was enjoying the conversation with the handsome ice mage. And the ice mage had to admit, her hair color matched his own perfectly. Lisanna was pretty, why didn't he even notice her before? That question crept in the back of his mine like poison leading him to lose control of his own emotions.
After Mavis visit to Makarov came to an end, Laxus offered to walk Mavis home, even if Mavis was a powerful mage, he knew that she had various things that she was scared of. Like ghosts, and he was well aware of how reckless she was for someone of her age.
"You didn't have to accompany me at the dorm. I can go alone. I'm not a kid."
"I know. But you're reckless."
"I can't go against that. But you shouldn't worry so much about me." she said feeling rather warm inside that he cared so much.
"I do." he stated simply. There was no need for more words. He cared and he was worried, he started caring more than he could ever admit to her and the fact that she was so sweet and nice to him, only made things worse for his confused emotions. He didn't like having to deal with feelings. Whatever those feelings were he didn't know how to deal with them and he was sure that Freed and Bickslow would not be much of help. In the past he'd never worry. But the guild had changed him so much compared to how he was.
"Fine then. You can worry, when your hair turn white like the 6th;s and your hair start falling don't blame it on me."
Laxus was scared there for a moment at what she said. His hair was still on his head so he didn't have a problem but one day his beautiful hair would fall like his old man's? Would he end up being short like his grandpa too? What if that was the fate of their genes?! For a moment there he froze and stopped walking, the image of his future self hunting his brain.
"Laxus! What are you imagining? Hurry up." she went to grab his hand and pulled him with her making him come out of his senses.
"Mavis...what if I really become like my grandpa?!" he asked her narrowing his eyes.
"Eh? Is this what is making you worried now?" she laughed loudly leaning back. "Don't worry. You'll still be cute." she teased.
"I won't! I'll be...like grandpa!" he shouted at her.
"You're embarrassing yourself. Listen, I think you will most likely take after your mother. You certainly didn't take after Ivan. So you are safe. Don't worry." she smiled deciding it wouldn't be wise to keep teasing him.
"You think? My mother was beautiful."
"And you are very handsome. " she started walking once again and a flustered Laxus suddenly picked Mavis up when he noticed that she was about to step on poop.
"What happened?" she looked at him strangely as she had already wrapped her arms around his neck.
Laxus looked inside her eyes and then his gaze pointed at the ground were the poop was. As soon as Mavis saw it she made a face of disgust.
"Thank you ." her grimace was one of a kind. So unique that even Laxus started laughing.
"Put me down idiot. Don't laugh. I hate poop so much. Especially the stench. Quickly take me away from here." she shouted and Laxus quickly followed the wishes of Mavis and ran away from that spot. He then put Mavis down and once again they started talking.
"Ne tomorrow I'm going to go on a job alone." she pouted.
"Why? I thought we were a team now?" he asked surprised.
"I'm thinking maybe it's about time that I go do a job on my own. Because you work with the raijin team and I don't know sometimes I think that it's better if I do something on my own. I'm not saying I'll disband the team. Just this once I'll go on my own." she said smiling hoping that he would not take it the wrong way.
"Fine." There was no way he was going to really agree to this but it was best not to fight about it and act later.
The next morning at the guild Mavis had already picked one of the posters. The fairy tactician picked a rather simple job because she didn't feel like doing anything complicated. The job was to find and arrest a certain thief. Called 'Lupin'. Lupin was a very fast mage. The talk with the client didn't take too long , after all her client was none other than Captain Commander Jeronimo. He was asked by the magic council to have someone do the job because apparently everyone else was incompetent. Hence why he picked fairytail. Although he told Mavis that he expected someone stronger to take the job which didn't sit well with her.
"Excuse me? Stronger?" she narrowed her eyes and huffed. "You're looking at the first Master of Fairytail. I will take this job and I will succeed. I will hand you the criminal but my reward will be that you will stop going after Jellal. He played a big role to saving your asses and if it wasn't for him many of you would not be here. Tell to the magic council that I Mavis Vermillion take full responsibility if something goes wrong. But I believe in him, and nothing will go wrong. Now Jeronimo-san hurry up and go. So I can go back to my job of catching that thief you can't catch. I don't even know why you can't catch him in the first place."
"He is strong, and he is wanted because he has certain information that shouldn't come to light. That is all. Wait here I'll be back."
And with that Mavis waited. When the man came back the council said that if Mavis indeed brought him back they would indeed agree to set Jellal free.
Meanwhile Laxus was in a carriage with the Raijin shuu pretending that he didn't have motion sickness.
"So we came here to follow the first but what if she finds out?" Freed asked him.
"We'll... pretend." he tried to stop his vomitting.
"Forget I asked. Tell me when we are not in the car." he rolled his eyes.
"It seems like our Laxus-chan is growing up" Evergreen said using her fan to hide her smirk.
"You're one to talk. Haven't you been lovey dovey with Elfman?" Bickslow grinned.
"Haaaaaaaaaaah? Who would. Nonsense!" she punched him and then looked over at Freed. "No comment." she took a dark expression and Freed didn't sat anything else.
When Mavis left the building she quickly started checking the documents they had about that thief. She was walking while reading carefully every detail. Her mind was already coming up with a plan to catch that thief.
She stopped walking and then spoke loudly.
"Laxus, Freed, Evergreen and Bickslow...I know you're following me." she said in a serious tone.
The four froze and started pretending to look around lazily without any real purpose.
"You think I wouldn't notice? Now how about you come here and help anyway. This job is more confusing than I thought it would be." she whined with her soft voice and the four immediately went to stand by her side.
Mavis looked at Laxus smiling warmly. She felt happy that he came after her. It showed that he truly cared and that care he was giving to her, she wasn't going to throw it away. She held his hand while Freed and the other were reading the papers and they weren't looking.
"Thank you." she squeezed it. "I appreciate our relationship a lot." she grinned at him.
He blushed and nodded. It was the only answer he could possibly give her. Their friendship was still new, and probably not exactly the pure kind, but it was something that Laxus would never let go of. Mavis was giving a new dimension to his personality, she was bringing out qualities he never thought that he had. He owed her a lot, and he would rather turn blind than disappoint her.
"Laxus..." Freed teared up, once again being proud. "A man should take care of their woman. Then me too one day I'll take care of a woman."
"Like Cana?" Bickslow asked.
"What are you saying? Of course not."
"Yeah, I think it's Cana."
"No idiot. A woman like that I'm not good with women like Cana. They are too wild for me."
"Maybe that kind of wild is that you need in your life." Evergreen said nudging him.
"I think so too. You're too stiff sometimes." Bickslow added.
"Leave me alone!" Freed shouted.
"What are you doing being all lovey dovey you three? Did you read it? Now let's all listen to the plan." Laxus said.
Mavis smiled sweetly. "So the plan is...
TBC
A/N: I know I saw I would add some drendy but I decided not to. Next chapter will have a bit but it wil be mostly Laxus and Mavis again.