523 West Daisy Street

Lucy looked at the address written down on the slip of paper in her hand, and up at the residence, and back down again. The house was four blocks from the guild in a nice little neighborhood. She pushed open a white gate and found her fiance leaning against a huge, shady maple tree that cast a shadow over the entire yard.

Best thing: it was right next to the lake and nowhere near the 'damn East Forest' as Lucy liked to refer to the enchanted monster-filled forest where Natsu and Laxus lived. She'd tried to find a polite way to tell him, but in the end, she'd just had explain there was no chance in hell she was going to live in a dark, scary forest. She was—and would always be—a city girl with minimal appreciation for peculiar fauna.

"What do you think? The people that built it threw a fit and quit Magnolia over the whole Alvarez thing. No one has ever lived here. As you know, I like to get in where nobody else has been before," he said.

Lucy rolled her eyes. "I remember being a sweet little innocent virgin."

He flashed his most devilish grin. "You're maybe still sweet and you'll always be little, but innocent and virgin? Those things are long gone, Miss Striptease at 6 am."

"I wanted you to up and get out of bed so we could have breakfast, but all you understood was the 'get up' part," she answered.

The dragon slayer gave her a little glance of disbelief. "You took your clothes off to get me out of bed? Can you even blame me for misunderstanding? Besides, I gave you something to eat, didn't I?"

Lucy slapped his arm. "Laxus!"

Delight danced in his eyes as he put his hands on her hips and pulled her close. "Lucy."

"Anyway! Back to what we came here for." The blonde looked up at the two-story white brick house, with its big windows and its cute little yard. "It's kind of big. The front yard is huge."

Laxus smirked. "There is no backyard. But if it's too big, we can just crash at your place."

"We can afford to live here?"

He nodded. "Remember when I puked up blood on your carpet? I had just finished a 100 Year Quest."

She gave him an uneasy look. "We can afford this house because you let somebody stab you in the liver?"

"I really didn't let him, He just kind of did it. Had he asked, I most definitely would have told him 'no.' I'm not really into that kind of thing, unless you want to try it. I always feel like maybe you have sadist hidden inside of you and you're dying to hurt me."

"What? What on earth are you talking about, Laxus?"

"Nothing, babe. Let's get back to the house, okay?"

Accustomed to his nonsense, she refocused herself and looked around. There was something about the way the light filtered through the leaves of the tree that was almost magical, like they were standing at the edge of the future.

He took her by the hand and led her inside through the big red front door.

The entire back side of the house was made of windows that looked out the lake. It was bright, and blue, and filled the open floor plan with glittering sunlight. There was a balcony that wrapped around the front, and stuck out over the water. "Wow..."

Laxus let out a sigh of relief. "I thought you might like this better than a dingy house in the forest. The windows are enchanted. No one can see in from outside."

"This is amazing. You're amazing."

"There are some stairs that go down to a little dock. You could have little canoe or something, if you're into that. And you love transportation more than me." And then as soon as he had the thought, he aborted it. "I will fucking sink your boat. I hate transportation."

Lucy shook her head. "Laxus, I don't even have a boat. You just told me I could have an imaginary canoe, and then you sunk it, and now we're moving on."

"On to what?"

The blonde launched herself at him and he caught her as her legs wrapped around him. "Me showing you how much I love you and this house and how excited I am we're getting married, even though you're kind of a weirdo."

Laxus looked around the furniture-less house and decided the kitchen counter was as good a place as any. When he put Lucy down on the edge, he stood between her parted legs and kissed her deeply. "I'll have you all over this house, Lucy."

Lucy pulled on his collar and bit his bottom lip. "No one can see us?"

"Not a soul."

She slid off the counter onto her knees and unbuckled his belt. "I think you deserve a reward."

He chuckled at her. "You really are perrrrfect," he purred when he felt her mouth.

This act was one that had grown on Lucy over time. For a virgin, there was a certain amount of 'oh my God there's a dick in my mouth' shock, but as sex as a whole had become more familiar, she'd learned that this was simply wonderful because she could cause him to beg, squirm, purr like a cat, curse, growl, and yell, all in rapid turn.

A light scrape of her teeth tore a growl from his lips and he looked down at her as his lips worked him.

"Lucy..."

The knob on the front door turned and the door opened with a squeak.

Lucy let him slide from her lips as the voice of an older woman was heard. She was the real estate agent responsible for selling the house.

"Oh? Mr. Dreyar, was your lovely fiance able to make it down today?" she asked.

Laxus looked at Lucy who was, at that very moment down. "She did. It's wonderful..The house is wonderful, I mean."

As silently as possible, she tucked him back in his boxers, buttoned his pants, and then...caught his dick in the zipper.

He made a high pitched noise that vaguely resembled the sound Raijin the tiger made when Lucy stepped on her tail as he fell to his knees and quickly righted himself, giving her a glare of utter disbelief as he panted in pain, mouth slightly agape.

"Mr. Dreyar?"

Laxus quickly stood, leaving Lucy still hidden on her knees behind the counter. "Sorry."

"Did you just sneeze?"

"Yes. A sneeze. That was a sneeze."

Laxus took deep, slow breaths. "We'll sign the papers. You want me to come by in the morning?"

"Yes, that's fine. I'll leave you with the keys."

The woman left, and Laxus sank down to the floor next to her.

"I wonder how many times we're going to get caught," he thought out loud.

Lucy shrugged. "We could stop doing it like this, but it's kind of exciting."

He looked over at her. "You have a lot of accidents involving my dick. I'm starting to wonder if you are really into that and I need to prepare for a life of suffering."

"I'm sorry," she whispered as she leaned over and bit his ear. "I love your cock, Laxus."

The dragon slayer trembled and pinned her to the ground, running one hand up her skirt. There were no panties for him to rip off, which made him even hotter because he knew she knew they'd end up doing something crazy like this.

She reached up and ran her hand along his scar. "Pouting time is over?"

"Yes. It's pounding time now, my little minx."

And then they finally got up off the floor and Lucy took a tour of the house. It had four bedrooms, and the master was enormous. There was a huge bathtub and shower that looked out over the lake, and she was so in love with their house she wanted to return to him and pounce anew, but she continued her exploration.

It was all so beautiful.

Laxus put his clothes back on and found her sitting in a window seat in the master bedroom. "Raijin can live with us?"

Lucy had actually come to adore the tiger, who was, as Freed said, quite weak. Raijin was sweet, and cuddly in a funny kind of way. And Raijin and Laxus were so in love with each other it was ridiculous. She couldn't part them any more easily than she could ask Natsu to leave Happy.

"That's fine. She's pretty cool. I think I was just startled when we first met, because you know...someone forgot to tell me she was freakin' tiger."

He sat next to her and when he kissed her, he found her a little pink in the cheeks. "What on earth are you blushing about?" he asked in amusement.

He felt her squirm out of his arms. "It's nothing,"

"Tell me. I thought there was nothing left for us to blush about," he teased.

"No! Leave me alone, Laxus!"

With a snort, he gave her a little tickle. "Never!" He held her from behind with one arm, and tickled her with the other, and she fought him, thrashing around between giggles until they fell on the floor.

When he let her catch her breath, he put one hand flat on her stomach and made his demand. "You will tell me what is on your mind or I promise you I will tickle you until you pass out."

"Fine, fine," she looked away. "I was just thinking about all memories we're going to make here. Being newlyweds and having fights and making up and dancing on the balcony and having babies...stuff like that."

"Babies, huh?"

She saw him turn a little red. "See? You're not that tough."

He looked at her, and then stared up at the ceiling for a minute. There were times that he was so happy that life almost didn't feel real, but no matter what, she was always there. Beautiful, funny, smart, and she challenged the very concept of Laxus Dreyar. She didn't ask him to make a commitment; she made him fall so hard he forgot other women existed.

Lucy was just Lucy, and that was so much more than enough. He'd never been so delighted by anyone ever and honestly believed that she was only one like her in all the world.

For that reason, he felt okay with the rude, boorish way he answered her.

"You want me to put a baby in you, little girl?"

She groaned at him. "Not if you're going to act like that."

He sat up and admitted with a strangely innocent, sheepish grin, "I think you'd look really cute waddling around this house with my kid growing inside of you. Big belly. Craving Spam and banana sandwiches."

Lucy smiled at the thought, but then said, "I'm a little scared of the miracle of life."

"Me too. I'm not one of those guys. I'll wait outside. I think watching a person come out of you would mess up my game for a long time. I was on a train once and they had to deliver his baby. There were so many weird smells, and I'm already nauseated on a train. I have never been drunk enough to vomit more than I did on that day."

"I just don't see you being grossed out by blood."

Laxus tilted his head and looked down at her, "Whether or not blood is gross depends a lot on where it comes from. It is always gross if it involves the genitals or if any other bodily fluid accompanies it."

"So what you're saying is that you, Big Strong and Mighty Laxus Dreyar, would leave me alone for one of the most painful, difficult ordeals of my life because you can't be inconvenienced to comfort me while I have our baby?" she pointedly asked.

He blinked. "Well, when you put it that way...I'm an asshole and I need to grow up."

"Why are we even talking about this anyway?"

Laxus childishly replied, "You can't wait for me to knock you up."

"You are the most ridiculous person in the whole world. I can wait forever if you keep acting like that."

They laid back on the floor and he decided to have one more poke. "You'll probably be laying on your back looking up at this ceiling when I get you pregnant."

Lucy looked into his eyes, "We'll probably conceive our first child in the alley behind the market or the store room at the guild, or that spot by the river, or the bathroom at that restaurant..."

"I'm okay with that."

"Of course you are."

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