Summary: Perhaps Elfman should learn to resist a certain Sleeping Beauty….
Pairings: Elfman/Evergreen, Strauss sibling feels, and general friendships within the guild.
Author's Note: Thank you so much for the NINTEEN HUNDRED reviews! I'm so glad everyone is still enjoying this fic!
When Elfman found Evergreen sleeping a table (that she had been dancing on drunkenly the night before thanks to Cana), he couldn't help but softening and stroking her hair out of her face, and then when he saw her beautiful (and usually hard) face look so peaceful and serene, like that time in the infirmary at the Magical Games, he couldn't resist leaning down and kissing her soft thin lips.
In retrospect it was a stupid idea.
But Elfman thought it was MANLY and brave and romantic. After all when a man loves a woman does he not take her into his arms and express that love? And when the woman a man loves is sleeping, unprotected, in a dangerous environment (let's face it the guild building was dangerous to an elephant, everyone was so violent and prone to throwing their magic around….but mainly Natsu and Gray,) would he not wake her up in order to keep her safe? And is it not manly, and romantic, and fairy tale like, to wake the beautiful woman you love with a kiss?
He had tried to tell Ever all of this when she had awoken, and punched him in response to his kiss, but she was too furious to listen.
And trying to kiss her again, by grabbing her arm and pulling her into him, was not the right answer.
That was how he ended up turned into a statue, forced outside, and had a sign stuffed into his hands for all of Magnolia to see.
A sign that simply read; I'm a pervert.
How unmanly!
To add to the humiliation, Natsu had managed to put a bra on Elfman (which later Lucy will shriek and slap Elfman for stealing), the male members of the Thunder God Tribe had thrown rotten eggs at him, and passing mothers have quickly dragged their children away as if he was going to do something (stuck as a statue he might add) incredibly unmanly and disgusting to them.
To make things worse Mira-nee and Lisanna were clinging to one another as they pointed to him and laughed hysterically.
This was so unmanly.