Training

The next morning arrived fast and Lucy was on the run to the Guild. She overslept, well more like, she enjoyed the feeling of not being crushed in her own bed by an oversized, living oven. Still, she had to run to be punctual, and she wanted to be punctual, firstly she feared Laxus´ rage and secondly, she was extremely excited to train with the two elder men.

It was something she noticed after leaving the day before. While at the guild she mostly spent her time with the people closer to her age, the only exception was Mira. Not that it was on purpose, but she guessed that those seven years age difference let her appear more childlike to the Thunder League. Which was not the case, those wars forced everyone to grow up rapidly, even Wendy, and she wanted to show Bixlow and Laxus that she was indeed an adult.

Her bucket list was left at home, hidden between the letters for her late mother. Everyone of her friends knew exactly where those letters were, but they also knew to never touch them. They were precious to the blonde and she hated that all her older letters were destroyed by war. Those memories and adventures she told her mom about were now lost. Nowadays she wrote those memories in her diary as well, but she preferred telling her mom about them than telling them no one in particular. Also, she feared Natsu finding the little book underneath her mattress.

Making her way through the full streets was difficult, but she slipped through small gaps and wormed her way around the people. After a record time of nine minutes Lucy saw the Guild and started hurrying even more. She ran around the building, ignoring the calls from the people at the gift shop and stumbled into the gym.

"You´re late." Laxus commented first thing.

"Good morning to you too Laxus." Lucy smiled at him, while taking of her sweatshirt jacket. It was breezy in the mornings, but the run already made her sweat. Underneath she wore a sports bra and a tight sports shirt, hopefully strong enough to keep her bust in place, as well as some volleyball shorts.

Laxus mustered her outfit openly. "Well, now it´s a good morning." He commented smirking, ignoring Lucy´s attempt to say something he continued.

"Come on, Bixlow´s already on the treadmill!" Lucy hurried after the tall man.

"But I ran here, can´t I skip the running?" Her legs burned from the pace she used to get to the guild. She was used to running, she often ran after her teammates, but she definitely didn't enjoy doing so.

"No!" Was Laxus simple answer, which left no room for arguments.

They entered the area with the treadmills, one was occupied by Bixlow and on another hung a black towel, most likely Laxus´. Lucy waved at the Seith mage, who smiled at her in return, before stepping on the machine between the two men. Starting with a slow and comfortable pace, she noticed Laxus burning gaze. So, with a loud sigh, she went faster until she ran in the same tempo as on her way to the guild.

It didn't take long until she started sweating even heavier, her cheeks were red, and her heart hammered in her chest. She eyed Bixlow and Laxus, both seemed unimpacted by the tempo and that´s when she noticed that she wasn't as fit as she expected.

After 20 fucking minutes Laxus started to slow down, indicating Bixlow and Lucy to do the same. Five minutes after that he jumped of the treadmill, his towel around his neck and grabbed some bottles of water. He threw one at Bixlow, who caught it unfaced and one at Lucy, who melted into a puddle on the floor.

"Oi Blondie, stand up! No time for breaks!" She shot him a glare but did what he told her. Her legs were wobbly, and her hair stuck to her forehead, but the water helped to calm down her heart and pressing the cold bottle to her cheeks and cleavage took away the redness. It also drew some attention to her breasts, but Lucy didn't notice the men´s eyes on her.

"So, what´s next?" She walked over to the men, being significantly shorter than them, she had to look up to see their faces.

"I wanna see what you´ve got into you, so that we can arrange a training regime for you during breakfast." Everything he said, was heard by her perfectly fine, only one thing struck out the most.

"You wanna eat breakfast with me?" It confused her to no limits, the way they looked at her like she was ridiculous and just the whole statement in itself. Why would they want to eat with her, they never ate together? Did the Thunder League even have to eat? They were superior humans in Lucy´s book… ok, now she was acting ridiculous.

"I wanna eat you for breakfast to be honest." Bixlow piped in with a smug smirk on his face. She wanted to hide her embarrassment, yet she felt giddy about the unserious proposal. If Bixlow knew about her list, would he still make such jokes? Maybe he would go further… She didn't plan to tell him about her list, but maybe she could get him on board for some fun later on. All for the prospective of losing her virginity of course.

"Enough of that, let´s get started!" Laxus declared.

Lucy had noticed during training that Laxus was the voice of reason every so often, he took the training very serious and corrected her and Bixlow´s behaviour whenever they were silly or lazy. He was a good trainer, even if he was a little rough sometimes.

Now they sat on the second floor, at their typical table. Virgo brought her some clothes, well more like Virgo brought her lingerie but after some threads the maid also brought her some clothes to cover the lingerie. A white dress with a bare back, so everyone could see the white lace bra underneath. It was short, just to her mid thighs and had a flowy skirt. It was pretty and she liked it, it simply felt wrong to wear. Her father wanted her to wear white for balls and parties, to show the upper class her pureness and now, when she tried to get rid of this fake pureness, she wore white. A farce.

"Good morning everyone." Mira greeted them cheerfully. "I didn't see you come in earlier Lucy, where did you hide?" The tone in her voice made the blonde shudder, it was always the same with her. If someone did something the barmaid didn't notice, they did it secretly on purpose. She didn't hide from her, but Mira wouldn't understand that she would simply hear whatever she wanted to hear.

"I got in through the backdoors and went straight to the gym." She answered, knowing instantly that Mira planned something.

"To the gym? With Laxus and Bixlow? Alone?" The white haired asked surprised. In her opinion there was something going on. A love triangle, a secret relationship and a jealous ex-boyfriend, another former relationship she didn't notice, Lucy hid so much from her. Mira got angry and sad, why did the blonde not trust her with her love life? She could have told her about her relationship with Bixlow and now Laxus, or was it the other way around, or both at the same time? She was puzzled.

"Oi Mira, stop it. Nothing´s going on, just get us something to eat!" Laxus had called her name at least four times before the woman noticed him. She was startled but quickly went downstairs, mumbling about babies and betrayal. Laxus knew his grandfather would question him about it.

"That was weird." Bixlow said.

"Have you never been part of her dating schemes?" Lucy asked him perplexed.

"Nooo? You?" Wow, that was unexpected. Everyone in the Guild, or so Lucy thought, had been part of Mira´s schemes. Levy had often complained about the barmaid because she had often tried to pair her off with Jet, while she was secretly dating Gajeel. The Dragon Slayer almost ripped the ginger´s head off when he tried to approach Levy since Mira talked him into it. It was a huge mess and only a few days later the couple made it official. Now they are expecting, and Lucy couldn't be happier for them. They sat in a corner of the main floor, Levy´s baby bump was huge and Gajeel had a protecting hand on it.

She turned her gaze back to Bixlow. "Yeah, a few times to be honest. Almost ruined my friendship with Natsu." The blonde quickly told them the story of how Mira talked her into the illusion that Natsu wanted to date her, but then it turned out he only needed Virgo´s help with some treasure or something similar unimportant.

Shortly after she finished her story Mira came back with drinks and food, she placed it all on the table before she lit a candle for them as well.

"Let´s ignore that." Lucy suggested and took a bite of her toast. Mira got her toast with eggplant cream and a tea, and Laxus and Bixlow had scrambled eggs with bacon and coffee, which was definitely spiced with alcohol.

"Well, where are Evergreen and Freed?" She asked to cover the awkwardness Mira had been creating.

"At Blue Pegasus, visiting some friends. They should be back in two days, why are you asking?" Bixlow took a big drink from his coffee after answering her question.

"Just interested, I guess." It made sense, they had been part of Blue Pegasus for an entire year and friendships were formed, though it was normal for them to meet up with them. Wendy often visited Shelia and Erza visited Mermaid Heel regularly too.

"About your training regime Blondie." During some bites of bacon and a huge gulp of coffee Laxus started talking, not interested that he may have interrupted the former conversation. The blonde in question looked up from her own food.

"You lack stamina, it´s like you have none at all. Which is wild because I´ve seen you chasing Natsu, a lot. Also, you need to train the muscles in your upper body, your kick is good, not perfect but good, your punches are weak." He said it so incidentally that he appeared to be bored.

Lucy wasn't sure what to say to his analysis, he was absolutely right, but she always thought to be at least some kind of fit. She nodded weakly before she started munching on her toast again.

"But" Bixlow started. "With a little help from us you´ll be stronger than ever in no time!" He smiled reassuringly at her. Bixlow knew Laxus´ nature was on the rougher side and he sometimes said something he didn't intend to sound so vile. His blond friend eyed him from the side as he grunted in agreement, as if Bixlow just said what he had tried to say.

After breakfast they went different ways, Laxus needed to do some paperwork gramps had dumped on him, while Bixlow went with Elfman and Nab to play some cards and chat. He asked Lucy to join them, but she wanted to talk with Cana about a girl's night out.

Normally she would have asked Levy first, but since she was only a few weeks away from giving birth Lucy knew her best friend was not interested in such activities, like dancing. She planned to make it up with a movie marathon and greasy food.

When she approached the brunette at the bar Mira eyed her sceptically, as if she could read her mind and Lucy felt extremely uncomfortable.

"Lu! What an honour! I saw you updated the guys you surround yourself with, from boys to men!" Cana exclaimed drunkenly. It was still early in the day, only sometime after 11 but Cana was drunk. Perhaps still from the night before, who knew.

"That´s not what I did." Lucy sweat dropped. "Nevertheless, I wanted to ask you, if you´re down for a girl's night, in a club?" Cana smirked at her friend. That was new for the blonde, she never asked to go out. Never! The brunette couldn't even recall one time where Lucy came with the Fairy Tail girls to any sort of club and now here she was, grown up and ready to mingle.

"Not what I expected today to happen… However, I´m down! Of course, I wanna get drunk and party with my dearest friend!" She threw her arm around the blonde and pressed her into her side. "Mira, two Vodka Daiquiris!" Cana hollered towards the bar maid.

"Tonight Cana, not now!" Lucy tried her best to calm her friend down, but she was so into it, she didn't hear one word the blonde said. So, Lucy was forced to day drink with her friend, which was not planned, however she couldn't say no and perhaps that would loosen her up enough to get some things done from her list.

A/N: Hey guys :) I hope you liked the chapter! Let me know what you think and if you have any wishes of characters Lucy should mingle with let me know in the comments. The next chapter is almost done and includes Lucy ticking of a point on her list!

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