Author's Note: Hey guy's this is the first fanfiction I've done in a long time, my last ones… well, I was in middle school when I wrote them so I took them down because even I was cringing rereading them.

This is my first Fairy Tail fanfiction and subsequently my first LaxLu or LaLu. I was listening to Come Clean by Hillary Duff when I thought of this story. I will try and update as often as I can, but I will most likely not has a regular update schedule.

Side note this probably be a changing Point of View (POV) story.

3rd person POV

When the war ended, dynamics changed. People changed, whether good or bad has yet to be determined. Lucy started to notice the changes about 6 months after everything had settled. When the war ended, everyone in the guild was worried. Team Natsu had been chosen to talk Master Makarov off a ledge if he decided he wanted to disband the guild so soon after it had reformed. And when that didn't happen, everyone was relieved, to say the least.

The dynamics in the guild and in teams were changing and that was putting some of the guild members on edge. Some people, being Lucy and Mirajane and Lisanna.

Mira tended to watch the main guildhall like a hawk and when something was different she noticed. Things like Laxus holing himself in his office almost every day, Erza blushing at every text her lacrima phone got. Gray holding Juvia's hand and kissing her temple when he thought no one was paying attention to them. How Levy openly cuddled Gajeel and the smile on his face when she was in his arms. Even Droy was different, he found someone new who caught his eye and was starting to lose weight. He would run off on jobs near the capital when he lost a significantly noticeable amount of weight. Wendy started taking fewer jobs that left town and more in the forest or mainly healing jobs, she wouldn't say why but Mira could guess it had something to do with Chelia and her not having much magic anymore. Mira noticed a lot of things and even though she wanted to say something to Lucy about what she noticed going on with her, Mira kept quiet.

Lucy plopped down on the closest bar stool to the door. She let out a long sad sigh and slumped her body over the bar.

"Everything alright, Lucy?" Mira asked cleaning a mug that Wakaba gave her before he went out.

"Yea… no… not really, Mira." Lucy said, her emotions were worn out from the past few days.

"Do you want to talk about it?"

"Yes and no."

"What do you mean?"

"If I talk about it, it will only mean it's not in my head and I'll feel bad if I'm wrong."

"Tell me please?" Mira saw Lucy hesitate so she added, "Why don't I call over Levy, Erza and Lisanna and we can go up to my office and talk in a private space." Lucy nodded at that and headed to the stairs. Lucy had been up to Mira's office once or twice before when she needed a nap after a mission that left her low on magic.

Mira took out her lacrima phone and texted Erza to hurry to the guild and go to her office as soon as she showed up. Then she went over to where Levy had cuddled up with Gajeel and the two were talking animatedly about something.

"I'm sorry to bother you guys but Lisanna, Levy will you come up to my office with me? There's something a few of us need to talk about."

"Sure," both girls answered.

"Does this have to do with Bunny and Flame?"

"Yes…" Mira sighed. "Lucy finally wants to talk about what's going on it seems."

Meanwhile, upstair Lucy was waiting outside Mira's office as it was locked today. Lucy leaned against the wall next to the door and rubbed her shoulder which was sore from pulling it wrong a couple of days ago. She released a low groan as the door across the hall opened and out came Laxus.

"Oh, hey Blondie, you need something?" He asked her and she stopped mid-massage and looked up at him.

"Hi, Laxus. No, I'm waiting for Mira and the girls, I wanted to talk to them privately about something."

"Is everything okay?"

"Oh, yeah. Just girl talk." she lied, he saw through it, she knows he did but he gave her the courtesy and didn't mention it.

"Is your shoulder okay?"

"Yeah, I pulled it wrong the other day and it's been sore since then."

"Do you want some help?"

"With what?" He gave a look to her hand on her shoulder and she got the picture and a light blush dusted across her cheeks. "Yeah, that'd be great." He motioned for her to get off the wall and turn around. She did and he started to massage her shoulder harder than what she was doing as to get to the root of the discomfort. She winced a bit but as he worked at the knots in her shoulder she released a low moan.

"Better?" he asked, a small smirk dancing on his lips.

"Yea, that feels really good." Lucy smiled as she started to lean into his touch. Her eyes slide shut as his skilful hands worked her shoulder into bliss.

His smirk slowly turned into a smile as she started to relax into the massage.

As he opened his mouth to say something else an, "Oh my," was heard down the hall followed by a small chorus of giggles.

Lucy jumped startled and Laxus removed his hands from her and took a step back.

"Well well well, what do we have here Lu?" Levy asked, a wide mischievous smirk across her face. Lucy looked over at the girls and saw a twin smirk on Lisanna's face.

"Nothing, Laxus was just helping me."

"Yea, she said she pulled her shoulder and it was bugging her."

"Nothing to it." They both said.

"Why didn't you go inside my office already, you've been up here for a bit."

"It's locked," Lucy responded bluntly.

"Oh! I'm sorry about that Lucy, come on let's go inside now and wait for Erza." Mira went and unlocked the office and the girls filed in.

"Thanks again Laxus," Lucy said and backed away into the office. As she closed the door, Lucy missed the look on Laxus' face. A look that Mirajane caught and couldn't quite place, nor could she explain why the look was there.

After a few minutes of waiting, the door to Mira's office opened and revealed Erza with a look of concern, she scanned around the room. Mira was leaning against one edge of her desk, Levy and Lisanna were sitting on the couch near the door and Lucy was curled up one of the singlets in front of the desk.

"So what is going on Mira? Why did you ask me to rush over here?"

"Well, Lucy wants our opinion on something." Mira gave a soft smile to Lucy whose face was still a little red from the teasing the girls did as they waited for Erza.

"Is she okay?"

"Yeah, we were just teasing her about something that happened in the hall a few minutes ago," Levy smirked and Lisanna giggled evilly.

"Sh-shut up! Nothing happened."

"No, nothing. Just Laxus giving you a shoulder massage in the hall and you leaning into his touch." Lisanna teased and laughed at Lucy turning red again.

Erza's jaw dropped slightly at this and then a smile formed seeing Lucy react the way she did. "Lucy, are you sure it meant nothing more than a guildmate helping you?"

"Y-yes!" She stuttered. "Erza please don't start too."

"Alright, what did you need help with Lucy?" Ezra walked over to the desk and leaned against it like Mira.

"Well…" Lucy took a deep breath, "It's Natsu." She said as quietly as she could so no dragon ears would hear, well only the dragon ears they were talking about.

"What about him?" Lisanna asked scooting to the edge of the couch.

"He's been much more overprotective than usual since the war ended."

"I've noticed that too" Mire sighed, "But I didn't want to say anything unless you noticed as well."

"I need space. He's breathing down my neck all the time. I'm surprised I was able to ditch him in town and get her by myself."

DING

"Gajeel said that Natsu's here and he and Gray are going to distract him with a fight."

"Thank you, Gaj," Lucy said towards the floor.

DING

"No problem."

The girls all laughed for a moment, "But seriously Lu, are you going to be okay with this?"

"No. We got into a fight a couple of days ago and I tried to walk away and he pulled my should almost out of place." Levy and Mira gasped while Lisanna covered her mouth.

"What?" One word and anyone would be able to tell Erza was pissed. "What else has happened Lucy?"

"He won't let me do anything by myself. I try to cook dinner and he's there. I burned myself grabbing the tea kettle and he freaked out and said this is why I can't do anything without needing help. Why I need to be protected." Lucy was getting close to tears, over the past six months, Lucy and Natsu had been at each other's throats about Lucy's well being and Natsu's hovering. She was so stressed out at home and at the guild it seemed worse, he didn't want to take missions with fighting or too far from Magnolia.

Lucy slowly explained every little thing that has been going wrong since the war ended. And the girls listened, Levy was close to tears and Laxus across the hall was getting angry than he should be as a being just a guildmate to the blonde girl in the other room.

"She wants space from the flame nuisance than I think I can help her with that." He murmured as he looked at the mess of paperwork scattered around his office.

Well, what did you guys think? Reviews are appreciated and encouraged.