p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="ae001699e7a10d2ec86df599e5290b36"The guildhall was all bustling again, half of the guild had a horrid hangover from the previous night. Bickslow slammed his head on a table and groaned, "Baby, this headache won't go away..." Evergreen rolled her eyes and looked over at Laxus who intently was staring at the door. "Looking for Freed I assume?" Evergreen adjusted her glasses slightly and smiled at him, "Yeah... we made it clear that we'd get a job before the rest of the guild could" Laxus huffed and sat down and continued to stare at the guild doors. Mirajane came over and handed Laxus a cup of coffee, "It's on the house, it's very unlike Freed to be this late... I hope everything is okay." Laxus handed the cup to Bickslow who happily accepted the warm drink and downed it in almost 20 seconds. The doors swung open and Laxus sat up in his chair, only for Natsu and Happy to walk through, Laxus huffed out a breath of annoyance at the fire dragon-slayers arrival, Natsu bolted over and took the highest paying job left on the board slamming it on the table in front of Mirajane, "This one please!". Mirajane nodded her head and gave Laxus a sweet smile before going back to write up the job as "taken" Natsu looked over at the thunder legion members who were present, "You guys good?" he asked a little concern in his voice. "Don't worry about it" Laxus sternly said looking at Natsu, "Freed hasn't come in yet, we're just concerned is all" Evergreen said taking out her fan. Suddenly the doors opened again, Laxus sitting up again hopeful it was Freed, but instead stood Crime Sorcière. Everybody in the guilds eye's widened as they entered the guild hall, Jellal entered first, "Where's Makarov? I need a word with him" the guild remained silent until Mirajane spoke up, "He's upstairs, I can take you there.". Jellal nodded his head and followed Mirajane up the stairs, the rest of Crime Sorcière stepped in and looked around the guild hall, Kinana of course ran into Cobra's arms as soon as he came into view. Meredy was the last to enter and smiled at everybody with a wave, "Hey, I heard your sins have been forgiven by the queen." Gray approaches Meredy with Juvia beside him, "Y-yeah! It was really unexpected on her part- but..." she looks down, "I don't know if I've forgiven myself..." she looks up again nervously laughing. "I think you should forgive yourself, you've done so much to repair your relationship with Fiore from your past crimes" Gray said sincerely, Meredy smiles "I knew you'd say that... everybody here's so kind.." Juvia hugs Meredy, Juvia was abnormally warm. The second floor door opens and Makarov stands on the railing, /p
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