So... I love playing with Bickslow's babies. They have the potential to be so precious.
Fairy Tail is not mine, but is is awesome.
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Lucy found their arrival in Shirotsume to be positively hilarious. Plue waved goodbye as the train pulled into the station, after asking her to call him again soon so he could spend time with his new playmates. The train hadn't even come to a complete stop when her temporary partner and her new little friends ejected themselves from the car with an enthusiasm that bordered on violence. She smiled sweetly and waved at the wide-eyed stares the noisy little group was drawing.
She would have to try to find some way to wear Bickslow down just a little before the trip home. He had bounced and wiggled and twitched the whole trip. She was used to high energy. Her usual and official partner was fire embodied and never held still accept when sleeping, and when transportation was trying to turn him inside out. Bickslow's hyperactive behavior didn't bother her, but she was sure he would be more comfortable if they could take the edge off next time.
"Dinner or the hotel first, Disco Princess?"
"And here I thought you would insist I at least buy you dinner first before we shacked up."
"Oh good gravy."
"For dinner or on you?"
"Shut the fuck up and be serious for 30 seconds, Bickslow. It's to late to make any progress toward the village this mission is in, so we need to find a hotel. I also happen to be starving because I haven't eaten anything but cookies and ice cream all day, so we need to eat. Of course you can go sleep on a park bench and go hungry it you want, but I just kinda figured you didn't want to play hobo."
"Fine. 30 seconds of serious. Since your spirit has our bags let's eat first. I vote we go with burgers. Good with you?"
"Sure. Sounds like a plan."
"Come on. My team has a favorite place, unless you object."
"Lead the way."
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The little hole in the wall joint was the kind of place where all the staff were either related or best friends with someone who was, and the food was spectacularly greasy. Lucy enjoyed every bite, even though she knew her hips would hate her after the abuse she was barraging them with today. She was sighing around a fried pickle when Bickslow started cackling.
"You keep making noises like that, Cosplayer, you are sure to get lucky." *oooh, lucky noises.
"Bickslow, do the babies hear you like you hear them?" Bickslow suddenly felt lost, and almost as dizzy as he had been when Lucy arrived in the guild earlier that day. How did she keep flipping from topic to topic like that. No matter what he threw at her she always managed to spin him around to slam into one question or other about his magic. There was a reason no-one knew much about him and his babies. Several reasons really. People didn't ask him for starters. He didn't volunteer information either. The big reason was his magic made people really uncomfortable at best and downright freaked them out more often than not.
"Umm. Kinda. I hear everything they say and most of the shit they think. Best I can understand they feel me more than anything unless I'm thinking at them. They have a really simple view of things."
"Is there a reason they were so chattery on the train when they usually just echo pieces of what you say? They are really quiet now too." She looked over at where the babies had stacked themselves in a topless pyramid on the edge of the table. "Are they asleep?"
"Pipi quiet. Sneaky Pipi." Bickslow smiled at them.
"Like she said. They are awake. I just keep them quiet when we are in crowded areas, especially away from Magnolia. A lot of the time I keep them dampened. It's like I wrap them in a big fluffy ball of my magic. Keeps them from wondering off or...bothering people. Makes em sleepy so they don't cause trouble, but it makes our connection stronger so they are more easily influenced by my thoughts and words. The stronger connection is why they echo what causes that repeating thing they usually do. That and basic monkey hear, monkey say type of stuff."
"Awe! The Disco Princess swaddles his babies in magic! So sweet!"
"Oh I'm sweet all right." Bickslow let his tongue hang out and grinned. "I'll let you taste if you want, Cosplayer." Lucy got a wicked look in her eye that made it hard for him to breath.
"Only if you do a really thorough tasting first." She winked. Bickslow swallowed hard. He had not seen that coming. She suddenly pulled an excellent, and very sexy, impression of his tongue exhibiting grin.
"The fuck, Cosplayer!"
"What? You can dish it out but can't handle it if it's served up to you?"
"But... no... it's just... you..."
"Just because I'm Fairy Tail's golden virgin doesn't mean I don't know that a good night requires give and take."
"You're kidding."
Nope. You don't give you won't really get anything."
"Mavis, Cosplayer, I ment the other thing and you know it."
"Erza thinks I am. Whether I am or not she will be protecting my honor with bloody violence, probably till after I'm married with kids."
"But how?"
"With a sword I imagine. It's kinda what she does."
"Again, Cosplayer, the other thing."
"You really want to talk about my slippery kitty don't you?"
"No... I... umm... sorry? It's just... You are hot as hell and I always figured...sorry." Lucy laughed and the babies all started giggling. *Cosplayer silly, dizzy daddy, daddy is a diaper baby, sexy Lucy, kitties!
"Oh, Mavis! Babies don't..." Lucy started whispering. "Please don't talk about kitties. I'm sorry. It's a secret." *secret, secret, Cosplayer's secret kitty. "I've polluted them. I created a monster!" Bickslow lost it. Every time he almost sobered one of his babies would start whispering in his head about 'Cosplayer's secret kitty monster'. By the time the wide eyed waiter brought their check he was rolling on the floor in tears. Lucy had to ask his babies for help getting him out of the diner.
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"No!"
"Come on Pipi, don't make me force you, it's time for bed."
"Pipi stay with, Cosplayer!"
"Seriously! You little traitor!" Lucy had her hand over her mouth holding her giggles in. She had called Virgo when they reached their hotel rooms and when it became evident to the babies that Lucy's bags were going in a different room than Bickslow's Pipi had begun throwing a toddler fit right on the spot. She fell to the floor when her daddy went to enter his room and refused to move. When he bent to pick her up and carry her she rolled down the hall, staying just out of his reach. "So help me ,Pipi, I will cut your magic and leave you like that till the sun comes up if you don't get your tiny wooden butt into that room! What has gotten into you!"
"Pipi, sweetie come here." The totem launched herself at Lucy and practically shoved herself down her shirt with her cuddles. "You go with your daddy like a good baby ok? I need lots of rest so I can call Plue out to walk with us tomorrow."
"Play with Plue?"
"Yes. I might even call out another spirit too. Virgo maybe. She says you are adorable and she likes you."
"More friends?"
"Yes but we all have to go to our own rooms to sleep."
"Goodnight Cosplayer!" After all that Pipi was the first one through the doorway.
"Cosplayer, I swear, if this mutiny continues I'm marooning you on a desert island."
"How is this my fault?"
"I don't know yet, but they are all going bonkers and it is definitely linked to you."
"Well I'm not going to stop being nice to them just because someone put a knot in your thong." If Lucy had x-ray vision she would have seen a wide eyed stare turned toward her from under Bickslow's visor.
"No. You don't have to. It's just... They really don't have friends. They don't know how to handle it, but it's not a bad thing and I'm not really upset." He waved his babies ahead of him into the room. "Night, Cosplayer."
"Goodnight Baby Disco Princess." Both doors closed behind the temporary partners for the night.
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'I think i might be a bad influence on her babies.' Bickslow spoke with his babies through their soul link as he got ready for bed.
'I like her.'
"Care to elaborate, Papa?'
'She smiles a lot. Real smiles. And she's sexy.'
'So very sexy.' Popo added.
'No shit old man. Since when do you care about sexy guys? You don't have bodies!'
'You taught us everything we know about being a pervert daddy.'
'Shut up Pepe. You are not helping.'
'He's right.' Pupu said as she set his visor on the table. 'We know she is sexy because you think about how sexy she is all the time.'
'What is sexy daddy?'
'Something only grownups talk about. Which reminds me, remember the secret Cosplayer told you about?'
'The Slippery Monster Kitty Secret?' The babies all snickered aloud.
'Er... Yeah. Don't talk about it. Please. Just don't. At all.'
'Ok daddy.' The babies tucked themselves against him at he stretched out on the bed. 'Goodnight daddy.'
'Goodnight babies.'
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Lucy leaned her head back against the closed door. What had possessed her? Sure she joked with her female friends at home, mostly Cana, but what was wrong with her that she would actually say 'slippery kitty' in front of Bickslow of all people. She had to have lost her ever loving mind. Cana would be proud. She was mortified.
She yanked her pajamas out of her bag forcefully enough that one of the slippers tucked in next to them flew across the room and she had to chase it down. Tomorrow was a walking day. Hopefully she would wear herself out to much to do anything monumentally stupid. Like shove her foot so far down her throat she choked to death. She was brushing her hair when she heard a very faint, high pitched giggle chorus from the wall she knew her room shared with Bickslow's.
The babies. They were so preciously precocious. Pipi, the baby who had so much love to give. Pupu the tattle tale. Pepe always had something snarky to say about everything. Popo who would tell a rock not to move and feel it was his duty to do so. Papa didn't talk much but when he did it was short and very to the point. It saddened her that she had missed so much fun with the little totems just because she hadn't taken the time to notice them. It wouldn't happen again.
Bickslow said they didn't have any other friends. They were such a huge part of his life. If the babies didn't have friends did that mean he didn't? She knew he had his team, and Wendy and the Straus siblings spent time with him. What did that mean? Her last thought before she fell asleep was of Bickslow. She wondered what he was hiding behind that goofy mask of his.
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To be continued