Summary: Remember that scrapbook with a list of potential boyfriends Lucy had in episode 2? Well Natsu and Gray find it….uh-oh.
Parings: Implied one-sided Lucy/Gray, implied Loke/Lucy, implied one-sided Lucy/Jellal, implied one-sided Lucy/Laxus, implied Gajeel/Levy, Gray/Juvia, Erza/Jellal, implied one-sided Freed/Laxus, general friendship feels, implied Happy/Charle, and, as always, Natsu/Lucy.
Author's Note: I can't believe this. I honestly can't. I'm sure it had only been a couple days I thank you for giving me over thirteen hundred reviews and now I'm thank you for over FOURTEEN HUNDRED reviews! You guys are so awesome.
It was a lazy afternoon and everyone seemed to be at Lucy's…again. Erza, Wendy, and Charle had popped over for a tea party, and for some reason Gray thought that meant he was invited. Juvia refused to let Gray go anywhere near her Love Rival without her supervision, so she turned up too, and for some reason that meant Gajeel had to come.
Natsu, much to Lucy's embarrassment, had already been there as he decided to curl up in her bed all night and morning despite the amount times she kicked him out.
And then Loke decided it was totally unfair that Natsu, Gray, and Gajeel were hanging out in Lucy's apartment so he appeared and joined them too.
So her apartment was now over-crowded with people as she tried to stop four fucking morons from wrestling, Juvia from sobbing, and save Wendy from being squashed by everyone else. It was when Erza's cake fell to the floor in a loud, sloppy, thump that everything went silent.
"PREPARE TO DIE YOU MURDERERS!"
"AHHHHHHH!"
Lucy grimaced as Erza sent Natsu, Gray, Gajeel, and Loke into her bookcase. All her beautiful books had fallen to the floor….oh her babies! "Ouch!" Natsu groaned as a particularly large hardback hit him on the head. It was a weird black leather one with bits of paper sticking out. "What's this?" he asked as he glowered at it. He had given him a bump on the head after all.
Lucy's eyes widened in horror as she realised just what exactly Natsu was holding.
"NO!" she screamed. "DON'T LOOK AT IT!"
It was too late, Natsu and Gray were already reading the first page. "WHAT THE FUCK, LUCY?!" they both bellowed.
Erza responded to this rudeness on Lucy's behalf by punching the pair of them back into the bookcase (Juvia screamed on Gray's behalf). This time the actual, heavy, bookcase fell on top of the,
"Don't you dare speak to Lucy like that!" she hissed. "I ought to cut your tongues out, you knaves!"
"You would too!" Gray spat out as he crawled out beneath the bookcase. "Look at this crap."
Juvia, Erza, and Wendy peered curiously (Charle didn't care and Happy was too busy trying to get her to accept his fish to care either) at the page that held several photos of Loke and detailing exactly why he would make an excellent boyfriend.
"Oh Lucy, my love!" Loke cried out, flowers and sparkles leaving him, "I know you would see the light and come running into my ar-"
Loke never got to finish his sentence as Natsu decided to punch him into a wall. "She crossed you out, you doofus," Gray informed his unconscious wingman. "She also crossed out the likes of Hibiki, Laxus, a few other notable celebrities, and – hang on!" he cried out indignantly. "Why am I crossed out?!" he yelled indignantly. "I would make an awesome boyfriend!"
"Yeah, right," Natsu snorted.
"What was that, Ash Brain?!"
"You heard me, Snow Fairy!"
"Gray-Sama is in the book?!" Juvia screamed. She whirled round and glowered at Lucy. "Love Rival!" she growled furiously.
"J-J-Juvia!" Lucy stuttered as she staggered back. "You have to realise I added him to the book long before I met-"
"Look at this crap!" Gray interrupted, completely oblivious to the tension growing in the room. "I'm crossed out for two reasons, one Gray's stripping habit is disturbing-"
"Well," Charle muttered darkly over her cup of tea, "she's got a point."
"And two, Gray belongs to Juvia, and I'm not crazy enough to tread on her territory and get drowned," Gray finished reading out loud. "What the fuck, Lucy? What the hell do you mean, I'm Juvia's? What nonsense!"
"Ah!" Juvia gasped. Her personality doing a complete change over as she grabbed Lucy into a smothering and loving hug. "Love Rival is the best friend in the world," she finally let Lucy go, who fell to the floor gasping for breath. Wendy had to heal her throat, Juvia had held so tightly. "Gray-sama!" Juvia sang delightedly as she tackled Gray to the floor.
"Gah!"
"Oh Jeeze," Gajeel grunted, "I should have stayed with the Shrimp. Her morons aren't annoying as this."
"What the fuck?!" Natsu snarled, he had continued thumbing through the book and had been getting even more pissed off by the second, "why the fuck is Jellal in this?" he growled.
"What?!"
Erza suddenly became more deadly. Everyone edged away nervously as a dark, evil, purple aura leaked from her and suddenly a very large, shiny, sword appeared in her hand. Lucy had very quickly snatched the book from Natsu to show Erza that she was no longer interested in Jellal. Strangely enough the reasons why Jellal was crossed off the list (like he was a smug evil bastard, that he killed people, that he made Erza cry) only increased Erza's ire (despite the fact Lucy was desperately pointing out these reasons where crossed out….actually that may have made it worse, looking back it sounded like Lucy was reconsidering Jellal…..urgh) until the reason 'Jellal belongs to Erza' got read out.
"Oh…erm…I…" Erza blushed brightly. "I'm going to eat more cake!" she said very loudly, and then robotically walked back to the table.
Natsu was still scowling at the book. He flipped a page, and finally, actually it was amazing he held on for so long, he lost all of his patience and temper. "WHY THE FUCK IS LAXUS IN THIS?!" he roared as he chucked the book across the room.
"Laxus-sama is in it?!"
Everyone jumped as they realised Freed, Bickslow, and Laxus were sitting cross-legged by the kitchen. "Why are you three here?!" Lucy wailed, embarrassed, frustrated, and desperately wanting to murder someone (preferably Natsu or Gray at this point). "I'm fairly certain I didn't invite you!"
"Laxus-sama was hungry and smelt cake," Freed said as if that explained everything. Everyone turned to look at Laxus (who was in the middle of helping himself to a slice of cake) questioningly. The eldest, grumpiest, and fiercest of the guild members merely looked back as if they were all morons and grunted at them before he turned back to his cake. "Now tell me," Freed said primly as he shot a dirty look at Lucy, "why do you think you're worthy to even consider Laxus-sama as boyfriend material."
"I wouldn't worry," Bickslow grinned insanely, he was flipping through the scrapbook himself now, "she's crossed him out because, and I quote, 'Laxus belongs to Freed'."
Laxus choked on his cake, Erza spat out her tea, Juvia started muttering about boy love (while she petted Gray's abs, not that he noticed), Wendy looked on curiously, and Natsu looked constipated. "Oh Lucy!" Freed gasped. "Do you really think so?" everyone turned to look at him and he then coughed awkwardly. "Erm, I mean," he said returning to his normal, very formal and stiff, self, "That is highly inappropriate!"
If looks could hurt, Lucy would have been electrocuted into a mess of jelly by Laxus.
"YOU!" Natsu bellowed as he pointed at Lucy. He had apparently decided enough was enough. He was incredibly fed up of hearing how much Lucy liked Loke, and Gray, and Jellal, and Laxus. He will probably find a page for Ichiya next! Urgh! "HAVE TERRIBLE TASTE IN MEN!"
"Definitely," Gajeel agreed in a grunt, he was so bored that he had gone back to reading the scrap book over Bickslow's shoulder. "Look at this crappy page. The only person not crossed out in this book, actually the page has pink love hearts and flowers drawn all around it, urgh, is Salamander. Couldn't you fancy someone with brains, Bunny Girl?!"
Both Natsu and Lucy turned bright pink.
Natsu had a rather pleased, smug, smile on his face at the fact he was the only one not crossed out while Lucy was just incredibly embarrassed. Now everyone knew! Nooooooooooooooooooo! She inwardly screamed as her face went pinker and pinker. She had added that page years and years ago when she had heard about the mysterious, exciting, and very dangerous Salamander, the idea of a powerful Fairy Tail mage appealed to her (which was why Laxus was in there in the first place) but then she met Natsu….and more and more got added to that page until she was cramming teeny tiny handwriting in the very corner.
Yes, he has proved to be her ideal boyfriend but that doesn't mean she wants people to know about it! It certainly doesn't help that Juvia was celebrating Lucy's love for Natsu, Gray, Loke, and Gajeel were loudly complaining about it, Bickslow was laughing, Freed and Erza were discussing what a good couple Natsu and Lucy would make, Laxus looked like he was laughing at them…or he might just be enjoying the cake, it was hard to tell, and Wendy looked embarrassed on Lucy's behalf.
And then finally, of course, Happy had to finally voice his only opinion of it all;
"They liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiike each other!"
That's it! This was the last goddamn time Lucy was hosting a tea party! Ever!
(And she means it this time!)