As the train came to a stop Warner sighed in relief, he could finally get off of this hunk of junk. He jumped up quickly out of his seat, grabbing his small bag as he exited with Carma in tow.

Leaving the train without a word, he made his way to a smoke shop. It didn't take him long to find his preferred brand. He turned to his partner to find her tapping her foot impatiently.

"Are you done?" She crossed her arms in annoyance, he couldn't help but smirk.

"I just finished, but if you want to stay longer, I can definitely spend some more money." He snarked, finding he enjoyed annoying his companion.

She gave him a nasty look. "Don't waste all of our money."

"Oh it's our money now? I believe all of this money is mine." His smirk grew as he picked out three more packs of cigarettes, much to her dismay.

She put her hands on her hips. "You're going to kill yourself smoking those things."

"And you'll be so sad about that I'm sure." He pocketed his smokes after he paid the man and left. Once outside he felt her pull on his arm.

"You really think I'll be happy with you dead?" She said, a sad look on her face.

"Oh come on it was a joke. I'm not giving up the smokes. I got this one life and I'm going to enjoy it before everything goes to shit." He said opening a pack. He didn't need one now, but it was better to have it ready for later.

Her expression didn't change. She just continued to stare at him as if she was waiting for him to say something else. Instead he turned away from her and began to look around, he had to find a way to fix his communicator.

He could always go to a shop, but he ran the risk of getting caught or worse revealing Raven Tail's location. "I really wish you knew how to fix things."

"Are you just going to ignore what I said?" She said red in the face from anger.

"You said something?" He couldn't help the smile that came to his face, she was furious with him.

"You're the most infuriating man I have ever meet."

His smile faded away. "Well excuse me, miss perfect, but some of us like to live in the moment. I'll worry about dying when I get there." He crossed his arms, feeling a headache coming on. He need a smoke. He pulled his pack from his pocket and lit one getting a good drag off of it before, turning back to his companion. To his surprise she was gone.

He took a second to look around, finding her nowhere in sight. He sighed to himself, now he had done it. He ashed out his cigarette grumbling to himself. He placed the half smoked cigarette back in his pack and began to look for her. As much as he would like to just leave without her, he knew he had to find her. He cursed himself knowing this would cause another delay. He just wanted to go home at this point and between the communicator going down and her antics, he was about to blow a gasket.

As he turned a corner he decided to memorize the layout of the city, it would save him time if he came across a shop that would fit his needs.

He took in the city, thinking over everything he knew about his companion, old habits die hard and if his problem was smoking, hers had to be drinking. Putting the city to memory he quickly found a string of bars. Studying the bars from the outside he know had to figure out which one she went into. One looked like an older tavern and he knew that couldn't be it, she had a thing for newer places, especially if they had music. Looking down the strip he now had two options and one was a strip joint.

He chuckled to himself as he entered the bar and saw her ordering a shot of whiskey. He came up behind her. "You know that's going to kill you someday."

She almost spit out her drink. "How did you find me so fast?"

He smirked. "You're easy to read."

She gave him a dirty look. "Are you a memory mage?"

"Nope."

"Then how can you read me so well?"

"Because unlike you I'm not an idiot."

She wrinkled her nose at him before turning back to the bar. "Can I get one more?" The bartender smiled giving her a new drink and he sighed.

"You know we have to get going." He said. She kept her back to him downing another shot. "Carma…"

She continued to ignore him, ordering another shot downing it in seconds. She had to have had at least 5 or 6 drinks and with her tolerance she wouldn't last much longer. He grumbled to himself as he moved forward, he had to take this into his own hands. He placed both of his arms around her, spinning her away from the bar. He expected her to look up at him in defiance but instead she turned her face down. She was already pretty drunk, her face was red and she had lost her balance.

"Come on, I'll find us a place for you to sober up." He said calmly. She nodded and he grabbed her arm walking her out of the bar. Remembering the streets he had already walked, a small hotel came to mind. As they walked, she tripped over her own feet. Seeing a bench he sat her down. She could barely walk and now that he thought about it, walking into a hotel with an intoxicated female didn't look right. He would get too many questions and that wasn't something he wanted to deal with right now. "What were you thinking?"

She hiccupped. "I was living in the moment." He didn't know what to say. If he said anything against her it would make him a hypocrite. He sighed pulling out his pack of cigarettes and took out the half smoked one before lighting it. She gave him a shocked look. "What?"

"You stopped smoking that to look for me?" She seemed to be happy about this for some reason. He really didn't understand why. He was going to explain himself when he felt her tug on his shirt, pulling his face down. She was lucky his cigarette had been in his hand.

For the second time, he found her kissing him, but unlike last time he was completely sober. He could smell the alcohol on her breath as she tried to get him to kiss her back. Dropping his cigarette, he grabbed her arms pushing her away. She gave him a look of disappointment.

"You're drunk." She looked away.

"So, that didn't matter last time." She mumbled.

"Last time I was drunk." He leaned back into the bench.

She stared down at her hands. "So you wouldn't touch me unless you're drunk." She sounded like she was going to cry.

He sighed. "That's not it and you know it."

She looked back up at him, grabbing his hand. "Then prove it." He felt her squeeze his hand and he did the same.

"If you stay sober than I'll think about it." She smiled leaning against him, falling asleep on the bench.

Looking away from her, he cursed himself. 'Okay Warner, how do we get out of this one?' Looking up at the afternoon sky, he hoped she would forget this entire conversation.

Makarov cursed from his hiding place, he had followed those two off of the train and so far they had done nothing but argue. He had learned nothing from watching them. Either they had caught on to him, which he thought unlikely, or they were not who he thought they were.

He sighed leaving the two "lovers" alone. He knew it had too good to be true. Warner was a common first name and Peters was a common last name. It wasn't too much of a stretch to say that there could be many people who shared something so common.

Leaving his failure behind, he decided to focus on finding the person he had come here to find in the first place.

He knew he had to go outside of town, Bob's letter said, Jose was on the outskirts, the problem was knowing which way to go.

He should have questioned Gajeel or Juvia before he left the guild, but he was too focused on getting to Bob's. He thought to use the lines, but Bob had said they were looking at them, whoever they was.

He continued to look up to the sky, wondering how he was to find the former wizard saint. He knew nothing about the former master of Phantom Lord, well except the crimes he did against Fairy Tail.

Without knowing an exact location, he would be wondering the outskirts of Hargeon for days if he went the wrong way.

He jumped down from his seat and headed to a nearby inn. He had to have over looked something. Bob must have left more in his note. Something he had yet to find.

Laxus was so happy to be back in Magnolia. They would have stayed, but they all knew that Raven Tail would not show up after Lisanna told them they were there.

Stepping off of the train, he took a deep breathe, breathing in the clean air of the city. Mira giggled at him as they walked out of the station, only to be greeted by Laki, Elfman, and a very unhappy Evergreen.

Laki jumped into Freed's arms making the rune mage blush. Elfman hugged his sister and was about to ask her about her trip, when Evergreen jumped in.

"Where were you?" Her glasses flashed.

Mira just smiled at the woman. "We went after a lead."

Elfman looked down at his sister confused. "Lead?"

"Sir William gave us some information about a certain seith mage." Freed said.

"What? You went without me?" He thought Ever was angry before, he was wrong, now she was angry.

Laxus sent her a smile. "Well it was kind of on impulse. We didn't even think before we left."

The woman didn't say anything she just looked up at him with a furious expression on her face.

"Did you find anything?" Laki said turning away from Freed.

"We found out some information, but none of it was very useful." Laxus sighed.

Evergreen seemed to calm a little at that, he figured it was because she didn't miss out on anything.

He turned to his girlfriend to find a sad look on her face. "Well that's not completely true." She said sadly.

"Sis, what's wrong." Elfman asked and Laxus cursed to himself, he had forgotten about Lisanna.

"There was a snag, Elfman." Mira said. "Why was I so stupid? I didn't even notice it." She broke down into tears. Within seconds he was hugging her.

"Mira?" Elfman looked between her and Laxus, wanting an answer from them.

Freed cleared his throat. "The place we were sent to was the place where Lisanna was stationed."

Evergreen and Laki's eyes grew, Elfman still looked confused.

He decided to continue, giving Freed a moment. "The town she was at was getting supplies from Raven Tail, so Bickslow was stopping in there for drops."

"But I don't understand, why are you so sad about that?" Elfman said looking at his sister.

She sighed sadly. "She's gone, Elfman. Lisanna won't be back for the wedding, I don't even know if we'll see her again."

Elfman looked between all three mages, Laki and Evergreen both looked shocked.

"She refused to give us any information about Bickslow when we arrived, then she ran off." Freed continued.

"Why?" Elfman was getting angry. "Why wouldn't she say anything? A real man would have told the truth."

"She's not thinking clearly." Mira said, giving her brother as sad smile. "Nobody thinks clearly when they're in love."

Her brother froze, he wondered what he was thinking.

"In Love?" Ever whispered, confused.

Mira turned with her back facing them. "If she had just told me she liked Bickslow all of this could have been avoided."

He wanted to laugh at both of Elfman and Ever's faces, they looked dumbfounded.

Laki walked over to Mira, hugging her. "Mira, it's not your fault." She chuckled. "Who would have guessed that?"

Suddenly both Evergreen and Elfman hit the ground both of them laughing at the very idea.

He smiled down at them, he knew they would be the ones who would find this information hilarious.

"I hate to be a prude, but we should stop by the guild. The master is not back yet, but we can talk all of this over and get a game plan." Laki said.

They all agreed making their way towards the guild. They laughed and joked as they walked in, the guild hall was back to normal, packed with all of their members. He took a seat at their normal table and watched as Mira and Laki gathered their drinks.

As they talked, Lucy came over to talk to Mira, apparently Natsu and her were having a tiff.

Mira giggled as Lucy went off on a tangent about Natsu accidentally lighting her book on fire. "Is it too much to ask him not to play with fire in the house? You would think he would know better by know."

"Lucy, he was probably bored. You were in the shower."

She pouted. "He didn't leave him alone for that long." She sighed. "How did I even fall in love with him? Heck, I still don't understand how Lisanna fell in love with him."

"I forgot that she liked him." The entire table had turned to stare at Lucy.

"Yeah, but she told me when Natsu and I started dating that she was over him. I didn't understand how she got over him though. I mean the only person she was hanging out with at that time was…" Lucy seemed to freeze up as the idea hit her.

Mira opened her mouth, but no sound came out.

"Who was she spending time with?" Ever asked, crossing her arms and glaring at the celestial mage.

Lucy gulped. "Bickslow, back when you and Elfman were trying to hide your relationship, they were stalking you. How else did they get so much information on you two?"

Ever was red in the face, Elfman was pale.

"Lucy, anything else?" Mira pushed.

She looked up. "Well I did ask her what kind of guys she liked. She just laughed at me, saying that I already knew. I just thought she was saying she liked guys someone who was hot headed, but I guess if it's Bickslow then I would say she likes someone with more of wild side."

His girlfriend seemed aghast, he started to curse himself for not noticing. Well he wasn't one to notice thinks like that to begin with, but this was interesting. His brother had had feelings for Lisanna for a while then.

Mira was starting to cry again causing Lucy to fret over upsetting her. He sighed, wondering why Bickslow and Lisanna had to be so secretive.

"If it makes you feel better, I don't think they were dating." Mira looked at Lucy confused, as did the whole table. "I think that she developed a crush on him, but it was nothing more than that. Remember she started going on a lot of aid missions, she wouldn't stay away from home that long if she was dating someone."

Lucy had a point. If they had been together, Bickslow wouldn't have felt so alone, he wouldn't have been lead away from the guild. He would have been just as crazy as the rest of them.

He sighed looking up at the ceiling. He wondered what he was doing right now. How would it affect them in the future? Would he stay with Raven Tail? Would he get a chance to fix this or would they grow to be enemies?

To Be Continued….

Author's Note

Sorry about this being late. The site was down and I have been working on fixing up some of the older chapters. I'm just fixing some grammar errors and some continuity errors. I'll update this chapter with the next one some time tonight.

So, no Bickslow this chapter. Don't worry he will be back next chapter. Just in time for some teleportation training with Remy and Lisanna. Right now my favorite OC has to be between Warner and Remy.