Summary: Inspired by an episode of Fuller House. When a thousand roses arrives for a Fairy Tail girl, the girls fight over them and investigate who it could have been that sent them.
Pairings: Jellal/Erza, Happy/Charle, Elfman/Evergreen, Gray/Juvia, Gajeel/Levy, Alzack/Bisca, implied Natsu/Lucy, mentions of one-sided Evergreen/Laxus, implied one-sided Freed/Laxus, implied one-sided Ichiya/Erza, implied on-sided Ichiya/Other Fairy Tail girls, implied Laki/OCs, and lots of Fairy Girl friendship.
Author's Note: OH MY GOD THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR GIVING ME OVER TEN THOUSAND REVIEWS! Seriously, thank you so much! I cannot believe it! I never once thought I would get this many reviews in my life. Thank you all for the encouragement, support, and kind words, and I hope you continue to enjoy this fic.
It started early morning on a rare quiet day in which all the girls in Fairy Hills was actually home. The girls were all gathered in the kitchen sharing a superb breakfast (that was most definitely not cooked by Erza) when there was a loud knock on the door.
"I'll get it!" Wendy chirped as she skipped out of the room. She was gone no more than five minutes when she suddenly slunk back in with an anxious look on her face. "Ano…." She said nervously. "There's a delivery for…well I'm not sure who for."
The girls all shared a concerned look before they all stood up to investigate this delivery. They got no further than walking out into the foyer when all of their jaws dropped open.
"Holy shit!" Laki cried out. "How many roses is that?!"
The entire room was brimming with roses.
There were at least three different shades of red, five different shades of pink, pure white, bright yellow, and some interestingly different ones from the dark, vivid, dyed blue, to the lovely cross-bred red and yellow.
It was simply breath-taking.
"One thousand, Ma'am," the delivery boy panted as he dropped the last, gigantic, vase onto the nearest table which was already overflowing with other vases filled with roses, "there is one thousand roses for the most beautiful girl in Fairy Tail."
"From who?!" Juvia squealed excitedly. "From my Gray-sama?!"
"Erm," the delivery boy said taken back, "I don't know…the card only say 'To the Most Beautiful Girl in Fairy Tail' and nothing else. Please," he whimpered when Juvia's face darkened slightly at that (it was apparent to all who knew her that her mind was jumping from Gray sending her flowers to Gray cheating on her with someone in this very room and sending them flowers instead….but how was the delivery boy to know this?), "don't hurt me!"
"They must be for me!" Evergreen jumped in with a smug, superior, air to her. "From Elf – I mean, Laxus. I am his best girl after all."
"Oh please," Laki snorted as she flipped her hair, "I'm obviously the most beautiful girl in Fairy Tail. After all I have hundreds of admirers."
"You know," Levy's eyes twitched slightly, "they could be for me for all we know."
Laki and Evergreen raked their eyes over Levy's body, deliberating trailing over her chest, before they burst out in high-pitched hysterical laughter. Levy's eye twitched all the more furiously at the deliberate, bitchy, jab at her lack of chest area and reached for her pen, ready to teach them a lesson.
"They could be for anybody," Erza intervened coolly. Her terrifying, cold, glare, silencing everyone and preventing any physical action. "For all we know they could be for Charle or Wendy or for m-m-me," she stuttered over the word, "therefore instead of bickering and making nasty jabs at one another we should band together and investigate this"
The girls all exchanged dubious glances before they all sighed (barring Wendy who blinked innocently and Charle, because she didn't care,) and slumped in surrender.
"All right," Evergreen muttered, "where do we begin?"
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"Oh!" Mirajane gasped, delighted, "How romantic! I wish someone would shower me in roses. It's such a romantic thing to do!"
In hindsight it was probably not the best idea to start their investigation by telling Mira all about the roses. Instead of being any use to them, Mira had just spent the last hour gushing over how romantic having a thousand roses sent to them must be….it was beginning to get very annoying.
"Exactly," Evergreen said impatiently, "it's so romantic that it's not likely to be one of our boys," she hinted heavily, hoping that Mira would let slip that she actually knew something….like say she helped Elfman order the roses for Evergreen, "is it?"
If Mira knew something about the roses, then she wasn't telling as she smiled just as sweetly as she always did. The other girls, however, turned to look at the scattered male members of the guild. Makarov was stressing over the paperwork, Marco and Wakaba were leering at Cana, Natsu was being loud and destructive and Romeo was imitating him, Happy was stuffing his mouth with fish, Jet and Droy were bickering, Gray was naked, Loke had made an appearance in order to be a flirtatious letch, Laxus was sulking in a corner, Bickslow was cackling insanely, and the others were being….well boys, apart from Freed.
None of them looked as if they were likely to spend a lot of money on flowers for one girl…..well, apart from Freed who looked as if he was Mr Darcy straight out of the pages of Pride and Prejudice.
"Let's face it," Levy sighed gloomily, "if Freed was going to send a thousand roses, they would be to Laxus, not one of us."
The girls all sighed in agreement.
"I think we can agree that no Fairy Tail boy would be that romantic," Laki said, "which means it has to be someone outside the guild."
The girls all mumbled their agreement to that.
"Which narrows it down a fair bit to who received the flowers," Laki smirked. "I do believe I'm the only one with hundreds and hundreds of admirers outside of the guild."
"Don't be so sure of yourself," Erza said icily, "I also have plenty admirers outside of the guild."
Laki's eyes glimmered nastily. "Ichiya doesn't count Erza," she shot back.
Everyone shuddered at the mention of the Blue Pegasus mage.
"Personally I think you're being a little too hard on the boys," Lucy spoke up, she had been sitting with Mira when the girls came barging in and heard everything that had been going on, "when I was really sick once. Natsu dug up a whole sakura tree and floated it across the canal for me so I could see the rainbow blossoms," she flushed at the memory and smiled fondly down at the wooden bar beneath her arms. "That's actually kinda romantic," she mumbled with embarrassment, "So if Natsu's capable of that sort of thing the others should definitely be able," she concluded with more confidence.
"Lu-Chan is right," Levy said, a warm, soft smile on her face as she glanced over in the boys' direction where Gajeel was munching on another toaster, "if even Natsu can be romantic then there's no reason why any of our boys could also be romantic."
"So…." Evergreen dragged out slowly, "…everyone's a suspect again?"
"Yes," Erza said firmly, "and it also means those roses are once again for anyone."
A terrifying atmosphere suddenly fell over the four girls as they all glared competitively at one another. By the end of the day they were going to find out who those roses belonged to one way or the other….
(Lucy happily decided to sit this on out as did Mira though she wanted details as soon as possible!)
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Meanwhile Wendy and Charle had been keeping out of the drama by spending the day making daisy chains in the park while having a nice, relaxing, drama-free day. This lasted all about twenty minutes before Happy suddenly appeared right in their faces.
"Argh!" Charle screamed as she staggered back. "Don't do that!" she hissed as she clutched a paw to her chest. "You stupid Tom-Cat! You frightened the life out of me."
Happy's grin dropped off of his face. "Sorry Charle," he mumbled, "I only wanted to know if you go my gift."
"Gift?" Charle blinked.
"Yes, gift!" Happy nodded enthusiastically. "I left it in the foyer of Fairy Hills for you so you wouldn't miss it."
"That was you?!"
A thousand roses. A giant, romantic, beautiful gesture…..had been from Happy for Charle….pink splodges appeared on Charle's white furry cheeks as she suddenly felt warm and flustered and something fluttered in her chest.
She didn't know that Happy could be so romantic and sweet. His idea of romance usually consisted of fish.
"Uhuh!"
"Wow…." She murmured. "That's….really nice of you, Happy," she said lamely, unable to find the words to actually show how touched she really was.
"Really?!" Happy's eyes shone brightly with such happiness that it took Charle's breath away. "Then will you go out on a date with me tonight?!"
"Sure," she said calmly, "you can pick me up tonight at seven."
"YES!" Happy whooped. "Wait till I tell Natsu!" he said gleefully. "See you tonight Charle!" he then zoomed as fast as his wings could flap across the park. "CHARLE IS GOING OUT WITH MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" He cheered loudly for people on the other side of the country to hear.
Charle twitched slightly at that. She didn't need the whole world knowing her business! But she didn't dwell on it as Wendy suddenly clutched her paws. "Oh Charle!" she gasped. "How romantic! I hope one day a boy will send me as many flowers as Happy sent you!"
"Hmm!" Charle flushed.
"Oh I can't wait to tell the others we solved the mystery!" Wendy exclaimed excitedly. "….Do you think they'll be able to bear the disappointment that the flowers weren't for them?" she asked anxiously. "Evergreen, Erza, and Laki seemed really set on them being for them."
"Eh," Charle shrugged uncaring, her insides too busy doing weird fluttery sensations and feeling all tingly, for her to be bothered to drum up even scorn for the antics of the other girls, "I'm sure they'll live."
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Evergreen, however, was determined that the flowers were for her.
She was, of course, the Queen of the Fairies, the rightful winner of any beauty competition, Laxus' best girl, and one of the smartest, bravest, strongest, mages around. She ought to have thousands of men drooling on her! But all of that aside, she and Elfman had been conducting a very hot and heavy and secret affair behind everyone's backs, and Elfman is always banging on about how it would be manly of him to take her out properly and woo her like a man.
(These rants often ended with Evergreen throwing something at Elfman's head and screaming that she was a lady thank you very much!)
So a sudden explosion of roses was exactly the sort of thing he would do.
The mere thought of it all made her giddy.
She couldn't wait for Elfman to admit it himself. She was excited, about their relationship, about him, about how he suddenly made her feel, and eager, and she also really wanted to throw it in Laki's face that she's got a man who will send her a thousand roses. This all made her impatient and she found she really couldn't wait for Elfman to admit it himself.
So she was going to force it out of him.
He was sitting in a corner enjoying a lunch when she found him. She immediately threw herself into the chair next to him, scooted up closer, and smiled up warmly at him. "Thank you for the roses," she murmured huskily causing Elfman's eyes to bulge out comically as he choked on his sandwich. "It's so romantic and unexpected."
"What roses?" Elfman coughed out.
Evergreen's smile vanished as she narrowed her eyes dangerously at him. "Are you saying you didn't buy roses for me?!" she growled.
Elfman blanched at that. "No, I did, I did," he said hurriedly, "I as just pulling your leg, Ha…ha…" Elfman laughed weakly. "Yeah….I'm the man!"
Evergreen's face lit up at that. "You certainly are!" she agreed warmly. "Ha!" she barked out triumphantly. "Wait till I tell Laki that those flowers aren't for her!" she said smugly.
"Yeah…" Elfman's laugh was still weak with a hint of terror, but Evergreen was too busy revelling in her victory to notice. "….You can totally do that, I got to go, bye!"
And with that he vanished quickly enough before Evergreen realised he had lied to her.
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Levy, however, had decided she could live without ever knowing who the roses were for. When your dorm mates are Erza and Evergreen, you learn quickly which battles to fight and which you run from out of fear of being skewered to death. This was definitely one to run from. So instead of investigating, Levy had sloped off to the guild's library and was comfortably reading her favourite book of the week when a dark shadow suddenly loomed over her.
"Eek!" She squealed as she clutched her book to her chest. "Gajeel!" she gasped when caught sight of Gajeel's annoyingly smug and amused expression. "You scared me!"
"Gihihihihihihihihihihihihihi," Gajeel snickered as he lazily lounged in the chair across her, "You're so adorable," he said patronisingly, "Shrimp."
Levy felt her cheeks heat up with humiliation. "Oh shut up!" she snapped.
"Heh," Gajeel smirked, "You're so cute when you're trying to be mad." Levy glowered at him, her cheeks puffed out furiously, which only served to amuse Gajeel further. "Did you get my flowers?" he asked abruptly.
Levy's jaw dropped open. She had daydreamed and hoped that the roses could have been for her (and most certainly from Gajeel not some other secret admirer) but with prettier, curvier, girls living in the same building as her, she didn't give it much serious thought. So to find out that they were for her and from Gajeel really surprised her. "You sent them?!" she cried out disbelievingly.
Gajeel's smug face turned uncharacteristically nervous at that. "I know they're not much but-"
"Not much?!" Levy interrupted disbelievingly. Gajeel thought a thousand roses weren't much?! What world did he live in? Seriously?! "They were plenty!"
Gajeel's face lit up endearing at that. "You liked them?" he asked gruffly trying to hide his hopefulness under his tough exterior.
Levy reached out and took his hand. "I loved them!" she reassured him with a comforting squeeze.
"Gihihi," Gajeel smirked, his smugness returned with extra confidence at that, "excellent."
They sat there, content with smiling at one another, until Jet and Droy found them and interrupted them as rudely and loudly as they possibly could.
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Erza was never one to let things lie, and so, with Laki and Juvia's help, she was currently interrogating every male she encountered to find out whether or not they had sent the flowers. To date she had pinned five fisherman, eight market stall holders, the town mayor, three town guards, two bakers, and seven of Laki's so called boyfriends to the wall by the throat as she growled out threats.
So far she had four people confess to petty crime, one to being a mega-pervert, two to having a crush on Mirajane (nothing new there), and one guy just wet himself out of fear.
None of them had confessed to sending flowers to Fairy Hills and there was still no definite answer to who those flowers were for.
She was on her way to interrogate the florist next when someone walked abruptly into her, banging her shoulder hard, before they walked off without even apologising.
She would have normally barked something about manners at her ambusher, but the cloaked man slipped something into her hand, and the usual sparks and tingles she felt whenever her and Jellal's fingers accidentally brushed one another, were set off beneath her skin as she caught the smallest glimpses of Jellal's tattooed eye before he vanished completely from sight.
She was sadly used to this form of communication. Until Jellal was no longer a wanted man on the run from the law, he had to remain hidden from the world, and be covert in his attempts to communicate with her in case it could be intercepted.
So with a little, sorrowful, sigh she opened up the note expecting crucial Intel for Fairy Tail in the general battle against darkness…..what she got, however, made her eyes pop out in surprise.
Is it possible for us to meet up? I need to discuss what I sent to you earlier today – J.
What he sent her earlier today.
What he sent her earlier today.
What he sent her earlier today.
Jellal hadn't sent her anything today. No one got anything today other than the random delivery of a thousand roses that they still hadn't solved….and then realisation suddenly hit her and her cheeks burned with embarrassment and happiness.
"Oh my God!" she gasped to herself as she clutched the note to her chest. Her heart had started to thump really fast as she was beginning to wonder if she was suffering a heart attack. "Jellal sent me a thousand roses! What do I do now?" she asked the sky panicky. "Do I buy him a thousand roses?!"
And with that she goes to the florist to find out exactly how much a thousand roses costs.
(And almost passes out when the figure is read out to her…..Jellal spent how much on her?!)
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The foyer of Fairy Hills was still filled to the brim with roses and unfortunately, much to Wendy's anxiety, the girls were still fighting over them. With Charle convinced that they were from Happy, Levy believing they were from Gajeel, Erza claiming that Jellal sent them, Evergreen shrieking that they were from Elfman, and Laki was still determined that they were for her from one of her many admirers, the fight was on the verge of becoming violent.
Wendy was staying out of it by sitting on the stairs and keeping her mouth shut.
"I'm telling you," Laki hissed furiously, "they're for me! I'm the one that has men falling over themselves not you lot!"
"Get over yourself," Levy said to Laki nastily, "Gajeel told me he sent me flowers. They're obviously from him to me and that is that. The world doesn't revolve round you."
"Oh please!" Laki spat out. "That hunk of metal doesn't have a romantic bone in his body. He was obviously lying."
"Why you little-"
"Now, now," Erza said calmly as she held Levy back from scratching Laki's eyes out, "I'm sure Gajeel did send you flowers Levy," she said soothingly, "but they probably got lost in the middle of all of these…..which are from Jellal," a steely glint entered her eyes and her voice took a icier tone, "to me."
"Now you're being ridiculous," Evergreen snorted, "Jellal is a fugitive, Erza, he could hardly waltz into a flower shop and order a bunch of them without a troop of Rune Soldiers tackling him to the ground. These flowers are for me from Elfman. He said as much!"
"You're all being ridiculous," Charle said firmly, "these are from Happy. He told me."
There was a moment of silence as everyone stared at Charle, and then Evergreen snorted again, and Levy choke on a giggle, and Erza struggled to hide a smile, and Laki outright sniggered, which caused all of the girls to suddenly collapse into a bout of hysterical laughter.
"H-H-Happy?!" Levy spluttered between giggles. "You're kidding right?"
"That kitty's idea of romance is a giant fish!" Evergreen shrieked as tears of mirth ran down her cheeks. "He wouldn't know to send flowers even if you told him you wanted him to!"
Charle stared back with an unimpressed expression on her face. "I know full well what Happy is like and therefore I know he can be surprisingly sweet sometimes," there was a fondness in her eyes that quickly went out as she glowered in the girls' directions, "I am not delusional unlike some."
And immediately this caused a sudden blast of insults and cruel words being thrown at one another as everyone screamed at each other. Wendy squeaked fearfully when Levy's pen started to glow, Evergreen whipped off her glasses, Erza summoned a sword, and Laki's hand was beginning to glow as well. She had no idea how the hell she was going to get Charle out of this one without fighting anyone….
Fortunately this was when Happy chose to appear.
"Hello everyone!" he beamed. "I'm here to take Charle on our da – whoa!" his eyes widened in awe as he took in all the roses. "What's with all the flowers?!" he asked.
Immediately the girls put away their magic and straightened themselves up. They were all suddenly calm (albeit shooting smug 'I told you so' looks in Charle's direction) and looked as if they would never get in a fight in their lives let alone had been literally on the verge of an all-out brawl with each other.
"Don't you know? I thought they were from you," Charle flushed bright pink with embarrassment, "Happy."
Happy stared at Charle with confused expression that suggested she was being an idiot. "Why would I buy you lots of dead plants?" he asked bewildered. "That would be so weird and unpractical."
Charle blinked. "But…but…but you said you sent me a gift," she stammered out, flabbergasted.
"Yeah!" Happy chirped cheerfully. "Of a giant fish I caught a couple weeks ago!"
Charle collapsed at that while Evergreen and Laki snorted, Levy smothered her giggles with a hand, and Erza looked unsurprised at all. "Charle never received that," she explained to Happy gently as possible, "we threw it out."
"Why?!" Happy wailed.
"Happy," Erza's eyebrow twitched with annoyance, "it was rotting, and stinking up the place."
"But that was my big romantic gesture!"
"There is nothing romantic about fish, you stupid Tom-Cat!" Charle snarled. "How many times do I have to tell you that?!"
"You're so meeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan to meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"
And with that, Happy flew out of Fairy Hills sobbing. There was a deafening silence as everyone stared at Charle expectantly. "Oh fine!" Charle huffed. "I'll go after him." And then she too flew out of the dormitory.
"So now we have safely ruled out Happy as a suspect," Erza said awkwardly after what felt like a lifetime of silence, "I think we should agree that the flowers were from Jellal."
"Hell no!" Evergreen snapped. "Just because you got the Queen of the Fairies name for your stupid nickname doesn't mean that you get all the flowers too. They're for me, from Elfman."
"Or maybe, just maybe, Elfman was lying," Levy sneered, "and they were actually from Gajeel for me."
"I think Charle was right," Laki said arrogantly, "you're all being delusional. No Fairy Tail boy would do such a romantic gesture. They were for me from one of my many, many, hundreds of admirers."
The other three glared at each other so fiercely that sparks could be seen as they all ignored Laki's ridiculous claims.
"Jellal!" Erza spat out.
"Elfman!" Evergreen retorted.
"Gajeel!" Levy snarled.
"Jellal!"
"Elfman!"
"Gajeel!"
"Jellal!"
"Elfman!"
"Gajeel!"
"Jellal!"
"Elfman!"
"Gajeel!"
"Jellal!"
"Elfman!"
"Gajeel!"
"Jellal!"
"Elfman!"
"Gajeel!"
"Jellal!"
"Elfman!"
"Gajeel!"
"Jellal!"
"Elfman!"
"Gajeel!"
"Jellal!"
"Elfman!"
"Gajeel!"
"JELLAL!"
"ELFMAN!"
"GAJEEL!"
"You rang?" Gajeel said dryly. The three girls had gone from snapping at one another to standing right in each other's spaces and screaming in each other's faces (Wendy could have sworn she saw spit fly) suddenly froze, their eyes popped out surprised, and blushes of shame appeared on their cheeks as they realised how childish they were being and that the three men they were shouting about were standing at the door right there and now. "Bloody hell," Gajeel grumbled as he scanned the room, "What's with the effing roses?"
"Oh," Levy slumped in disappointment, "you mean….these aren't the flowers you sent me?"
"No," Gajeel mumbled, his cheeks suddenly bright pink as he focused on a spot on the wall on his left side, allowing him to avoid all eye-contact with anyone, "I just left a couple of sunflowers on your windowsill."
"Oh Gajeel!" Levy gasped. She brightened up immediately and clasped her hands to her chest as she revelled in the romanticism of it all…and then she immediately slumped in disappointment again. "I didn't get them," she muttered apologetically, "the wind must have blown them away."
"See!" Evergreen burst out triumphantly. "I told you that they were from Elfman. Isn't that right, baby?" she purred. "You got these for me, didn't you? Didn't you?"
Elfman was sweating rapidly at this. Everyone turned to face him which seemed to cause his entire body to shake and tremble in fear as more sweat ran down his face. "Erm….well….you see…" he stammered out. "I….err….ah…."
"Yes?" Evergreen prompted.
That seemed to be the last straw for Elfman. "I'M SORRY!" He suddenly bellowed. "I HAVE BEEN UNMANLY CLAIMING CREDIT TO SOMETHING I DIDN'T DO! GOODBYE!"
He then immediately ran out of the nearest exist which happened to be the large, glass, window in the foyer, which he happily dived through leaving an Elfman-shaped hole in the window.
Everyone stared at the hole in shock….apart from Evergreen who was trembling with fury at being humiliated and led on in such a horrible fashion. Her eyes flashed demonically as she snarled wordlessly.
"….Tell Elfman that he can pay for that to be fixed," Erza said slowly when she finally found her voice, "and soon," she added with a dangerous growl.
"Oh I will," Evergreen said darkly, "after I have his guts for garters for being such a lying twat."
"So does that mean," Erza said as she turned to face Jellal, her cheeks were so red that they matched her hair, "that you….?"
Jellal's eyes widened as he cottoned on to her implication. "Erza," he said softly, "I can barely afford to feed myself and my guild, let alone buy flowers."
Erza ducked to look at the floor. "Oh!" she said disappointedly. "Then what did you send…?" she asked helplessly.
"A collection of letters exchanged between a council member and a dark guild," Jellal replied, "we believe there is some embezzlement involved and I had hoped you would pass it on to Master Makarov."
"…Oh," Erza looked almost crippled with disappointment before she coughed and suddenly pulled herself together, "well unfortunately I never received it."
"Don't worry," Gajeel said gruffly, "I think I left it in the bathroom when I needed some reading material. If you get what I mean."
Everyone got what he meant and wished they didn't. A mental image of Gajeel crouched over their toilet with his trousers down was not one anyone particularly wanted….especially Wendy who felt extremely traumatised now.
Erza's eye twitched at that. "What are you doing here anyway?!" she snarled furiously. "NO BOYS ALLOWED!"
And with that Gajeel and Jellal quickly left the building (thankfully through the door this time) with Gajeel loudly grumbling about what a demon Erza was. It took five seconds for Erza to realise that she let her temper slip in front of Jellal and had scared him off. She clung to the wall in depression as clouds of gloom and doom surrounded her.
"JUVIA HAS HAD A TERRIBLE DAY!" Everyone jumped as Juvia burst in sobbing. "GRAY-SAMA DIDN'T SEND HER ANY FLOWERS AND WHAT'S WORSE HE'S GONE TO SPEND THE EVENING WITH LOVE RIVAL CANA! WAH!" she wailed noisily as tears began to pool round everyone's feet. "AT THIS RATE JUVIA IS GOING TO DIE AS AN OLD MAID WHILE GRAY-SAMA CONTINUES TO DATE BEAUTIFUL WOMEN!"
"There, there, Juvia," Levy patted Juvia comfortingly on the back, "it's all right. I'm sure Gray will realise soon enough what a wonderful person you are and then he'll send you flowers."
"Do you really think so?" Juvia sniffled hopefully.
"Of course I do," Levy smiled, "If Gajeel can be unexpectedly romantic then Gray will also unexpectedly wake up and realise you're the one for him and act all romantic towards you."
"But what if Gray-sama wakes up and acts all romantic to a Love Rival like Lucy-san or Cana-san?" Juvia whimpered. "Juvia doesn't think she can cope if Gray-sama does that."
"Then I'll murder him for you," Erza smiled sweetly as she clutched Juvia's other shoulder (poor Juvia almost buckled onto the floor under the sheer agony that Erza's tight squeeze on her shoulder was causing), "brutally," she stressed, "and no one will ever find the body."
Juvia looked utterly terrified at that but before she could protest (because she would never want a hair harmed on her precious Gray-sama) Laki suddenly spoke up. "Ha!" she cried out smugly. "So I think we'll find that all of these," she waved a hand over the roses that surrounded them, "are actually for me after all!"
Everyone (but Wendy who really just wanted this night to be over and done with already) looked constipated at that, and Erza, Evergreen, and Levy all opened their mouths to argue when another voice suddenly chirped;
"There they are!" Everyone turned quickly to find Alzack and Bisca at the door. They both looked at ease and extremely happy with great big grins on their faces and Alzack had an arm casually slung round Bisca's shoulder. "I was beginning to get worried," Alzack continued as he stepped in, "I'm so sorry about the confusion and mess this must have caused girls but the florist accidentally delivered Bisca's anniversary gift here by accident."
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"…..THEY WERE FROM YOU?!" all of the girls screamed. "FOR BISCA?!"
Alzack nodded, obliviously happy, as the other girls all collapsed out of disappointment, shame, and irritation of their own stupidity. Of course it had all been for Bisca, of course it was a mistake that a thousand roses arrived on their doorstep, after all, since when had anyone made such an obvious move of on one of them?
(Ichiya doesn't count.)
Bisca stepped in, her eyes wide with awe and her mouth dropped open in surprise as she took in all of the flowers, she clasped her hands to her chest and twirled round the room, radiant with joy. "They're so beautiful!" she cried out. "Thank you so much!"
"They're not as beautiful as you," Alzack murmured adoringly, "you're the most beautiful girl in Fairy Tail." He pulled Bisca in close and nuzzled her cheek with his nose. "Happy Anniversary Bis-Bis."
"Oh Al-Al!"
And the two met in a sweet, loving, kiss.
"Oh Blergh!" Evergreen gagged.
"Jealous?" Erza raised an eyebrow.
"Very much so," Evergreen admitted unashamedly, "the only Fairy Tail guy to make a grand romantic gesture like this," she gestured to all the roses, "and he's married."
Disappointment was high in Fairy Hills as the girls then had to help Alzack and Bisca move all the roses to their house. All those beautiful, sweet-smelling, flowers of love….and not a single one had been for any of them from their dream man.
"Probably just as well," Evergreen sighed, "I'm too busy being Laxus' best girl to give Elfman any time of my day."
"And I have way too many books to read before I think about romance," Levy said. Though her fond smile as she thought of Gajeel's attempt of being sweet and romantic would suggest otherwise.
"Wah!" Juvia wailed still distressed in general that Gray was spending time with another woman. "Juvia really wishes that Gray-sama had sent her some flowers! Now Juvia is going to have bad dreams about all the other girls Gray-sama will be sending flowers to!"
"Don't worry," Erza patted Juvia on the shoulder, "I will break Gray's legs if he sends flowers to anyone else. My promise to you as a Fairy Tail mage."
"I don't think you should be encouraging her," Wendy sweat-dropped, "that was very romantic of Alzack-san, wasn't it?" she asked hastily changing the subject before Juvia could accuse her of being her new Love Rival. "Ano…." She smile sheepishly as held up a couple, bright yellow, roses. "I kept a couple for myself, do you think they will notice?"
"No," Evergreen reassured her as she held up two white roses from behind her back, "….and so did I."
"Me too," Levy held up a long stemmed, vivid red, rose, "I thought it would look nice pressed in one of my books."
Juvia held up a small hand full of pink flowers that she had in her lap. "Juvia also took some," she admitted shamefully.
"I must confess my sins!" Erza burst out, guilt-ridden, she then held up a three scarlet red roses that she had stuffed under her armour, the petals were now crushed. "I also stole some flowers!"
"I should say that you all ought to be ashamed of yourselves stealing flowers from a fellow sister," Laki smirked, "but I also took a few."
She then picked up a gigantic wooden bucket filled to the brim with different roses. If anyone would have a guess of the number they would say it was a couple hundred.
"A FEW?!" the others cried out, mortified. "LAKI!"