Summary: Reedus now paints a picture of Wendy…

Pairings: Romeo/Wendy, brotherly Laxus/Wendy, brotherly Gajeel/Wendy, brotherly Natsu/Romeo, implied sisterly Kinana/Romeo, some brief implied Natsu/Lucy, and Reedus/Romeo friendship.

YouTube Prompt: General crack/tribute to Fairy Tail to the song 'Rockstar' by Nickleback.

"Natsu-nii," Romeo said very quietly (though not too quietly or Reedus would have never heard him to begin with) as he sidled up to his favourite 'older brother'. "I need some advice."

The only reason Reedus kept listening in. on what was obviously going to be a very private heart to heart moment, was because unless it was advice on how to burn something, Natsu was not the best person to ask. At all. Even asking advice on what jumper would be best to wear ended in tears. Reedus had to ensure that an adult was there to keep the guild building standing.

"Sure," Natsu grinned as he finished his drink quickly. "What's up, Romeo?"

"Well…." Romeo turned his gaze to the floor and fumbled with the edge of his waistcoat shyly. "Yesterday I was talking to Wendy….and well, erm, you see…my tummy started doing really weird flippy things."

Reedus knew right there and then that Natsu was going to be useless and he definitely had to keep listening in. he was proven right instantly when Natsu asked, "What did she look like?" talk about talking bullshit. Natsu had literally stolen Lisanna's question and it was obvious he still didn't quite understand why it had been asked in the first place.

Romeo blinked. "Huh?"

"When she made you tummy do weird flippy things, what did she look like?"

"Well she looked really…." Romeo fidgeted and blushed brightly. "Really cute!" he finished quickly rather embarrassed. "She had her hair down, I've never seen her have her hair down, but she just took it out of the ponytail while we were talking and put that white scrunchie thing on her wrist, and she looked really, really, pretty, and she was also wearing this bright pink outfit. I've never seen her in pink before….or well trousers, but they really suited her, and she looked….cute!"

"Oh yeah," Natsu scratched the back of his head, "I remember Lucy taking her shopping for that…they made me carry it all," he sulked childishly.

"Natsu-nii!" Romeo snapped. "I haven't finished yet!"

"Oh! Sorry, Romeo," Natsu laughed, "so she was wearing pink and had her hair down and then what?"

"And then," Romeo's face was almost as red as Erza's hair. How odd that this guild seemed able to imitate that colour so often. "I just saw her laying on my bed and thought-"

"Would you like to repeat that again, punk?"

Romeo stiffened and Reedus froze mid-way painting his picture at the sound of Gajeel's very cross voice. In fact, he sounded nicer when he was the enemy than how he sounded right now.

"Where exactly was Wendy laying on?"

Romeo shuddered as Laxus' voice joined in, just as chilling and cruel as Gajeel's voice had been. And that was when Reedus valued his life over keeping an eye on Romeo's well-being and ran off with his canvas before the fight got out of hand.

Much to Macao distress Romeo ended up in hospital with two broken ribs, a fractured arm, and some severe bruising….but don't worry both Laxus and Gajeel were also in hospital (down the hall somewhere) thanks to the rest of the members who didn't take so kindly to one of their baby members (much to Romeo's indignation to being referred to as a baby) being beaten up. Kinana in particular had been surprisingly vicious in her attack on Gajeel and Laxus.

"Hello Romeo," Reedus smiled as he came in to cheer the young boy up. Unfortunately for him, Wendy had been away on a mission and wasn't due back till tomorrow. Otherwise he would long be out of the hospital. In fact he wouldn't have even been in hospital, Wendy would have healed his wounds straight away. "I have brought you a present."

"It isn't more grapes, is it?" Romeo groused. "Everyone seems to have brought me those."

"They're good for your health," Reedus pointed out, "but no, I haven't brought you something much better than that."

"Not dirty magazines!" Romeo whined causing Reedus to sweat-drop, why would he…? "Dad, Wakaba, and Cana gave me far too many of those."

Oh Christ. Someone really needs to talk to Macao about his parenting skills.

"I didn't buy you dirty magazines," Reedus promised. "Just watch." He propped up his painting and when he was certain that Romeo was watching curiously, he pulled off the white sheet protecting it. "Voila!"

And there, standing proudly against the chair, was Reedus' latest painting of Wendy. She laid on a bed similar to his previous painting of Lucy, only she was wearing a cute pink outfit (he had Lucy describe it to him after Laxus and Gajeel were hospitalised), and her long dark blue locks shone against the white mattress.

Romeo's blush and silence was gratitude enough and Reedus smiled, patted Romeo on the head, and left him in peace with the painting (which he hopes the boy has good sense to hide from the likes of Laxus and Gajeel or he'll be visiting Romeo at the hospital a lot more often than he would like).

Another job, well done.

Reedus sighed when he returned to his studio to find that he was running out of art supplies once again. Perhaps he should start charging these love sick boys of the guild for his paintings.

He would make a fucking fortune.